Please note this week is an EVENING MEETING at Sandringham Yacht Club For full event and location details, please refer here.
The meeting will NOT BE available on Zoom
Edition 210
Monday, 14th April 2025
Message from our President - Tim's Tattles .
Last Wednesday we met at Ailo in Highett Rd. This is a lovely cafe with excellent service and great food A very convivial meeting where we approved the $10,000 for Interplast. We acknowledged Ron's acquisition of the heart defibrillator which will be kept at the market office if one of the attendees at the market has a heart attack.
Jules visited our meeting again which was very good to see.
Next week is an evening meeting where we will meet at Sandringham Yacht Club. The details of which will appear in this bulletin. The food and service is terrific here so it will be a good meeting.
Yours in Rotary ‘The Magic of Rotary’
President Tim Lynch
BOARD MINUTES
A reminder to members that Board Minutes are available for viewing from the Club's website. Note that you must be logged in as a Member in order to gain access.
Access to all docments including Board Minutes can gained here.
The last published Board Minutes were the meeting of March 17, 2025 - here.
Ian Ballantine
Roster for the next 2 weeks
Note Market start time is 6.15am
Click on See all Rosters at right for future weeks. Members click here to see your own roster.
Meetings
Meeting April 16th , 2025
Chairperson Kruss, Neville
Cashier / Regalia Oakley, Kirsten
Cashier Oliver, Barry
Regalia Green, Larry
Meeting April 23rd, 2025
Chairperson Magee, James
Cashier Impey, Jo
Cashier Perry, Grant
Regalia d'Unienville, Bert
Market April 20th 2025
Market leader Ballantine, Ian
Assistant Egan, Kevin
Assistant - Stone, Jennifer
Market April 27th, 2025
market leader Kruss, Neville
Assistant Carruthers, Kellie
Assistant - Stahel, Warren
Assistant - Stahel, Glenda
This week's speaker / event
Club Meeting April 16 - No speaker this week as we are at Sandringham Yacht Club. Details and Booking here
It is absolutely essential that you register so your names and address can be "pre-prepared" to facilitate entry to the Club.
Next week we are back at Cilantro and our speaker will be Bert d'Unienville - member behind the badge.
Please check the upcoming events on the Club website here
REGISTRATION FOR MEETINGS All meetings will now utilise the Registration facility. asking members to register their attendance, or non-attendance, at Club meetings. Note that it is equally important that guests are registered as well.
Members can either register as soon as the event appears in the calendar or respond to the invitation(s) via email to members in the week prior to the meeting. This email will contain a direct link to the event registration page. Here, we ask that you either accept or decline the invitation. You will also have the opportunity to add any guests. Once registered for the event, you will no longer receive an email for that event.
If you choose not to register either your intention to attend or not, it will be assumed you are not attending.
A reminder that instructions for Registration are here.
Ian Ballantine
Please forward any events you want promoted to the Editor.
Sir Emeka Offor commits US$5 million to Rotary’s maternal and child health program in Nigeria
EVANSTON, Ill., USA (10 Apr. 2025) — Nigerian Rotary member and philanthropist Sir Emeka Offor has committed US$5 million through the Sir Emeka Offor Foundation (SEOF) to The Rotary Foundation to expand and strengthen its initiative aimed at reducing maternal and neonatal mortality in high-need areas of Nigeria.
“Helping mothers and babies survive and thrive is among the greatest investments we can make in Nigeria’s future,” said Sir Emeka Offor, founder of the SEOF and a member of the Rotary Club of Oraifite, District 9142, Nigeria. “We have seen a unique opportunity to build upon a Rotary-led program to further turn the tide on maternal and child mortality by working together. This partnership marks a powerful step forward for the health and wellbeing of families across Nigeria.”
President Tim chaired this week's very informal club breakfast meeting at Aila Cafe in Highett - during this first week of school holidays. It was a lovely breakfast enjoyed by all who attended that included guests Bronwyn, Gary, and Jules. Thank you Linda for arranging the booking, and tending to the registration and breakfast orders. As always, everything went very smoothly.
President Tim chaired this week's very informal club breakfast meeting at Aila Cafe in Highett - during this first week of school holidays. It was a lovely breakfast enjoyed by all who attended that included guests Bronwyn, Gary, and Jules. Thank you Linda for arranging the booking, and tending to the registration and breakfast orders. As always, everything went very smoothly.
Members will recall that two weeks ago we had a joint Zoom meeting with the St Marylebone Rotary Club in the UK. Joint President Carole Harris has kindly sent through their latest Club Bulletin which includes reference to this meeting.
This story is taken from the Rotary International website here.
One of Rotary’s earliest service projects helped to bring public toilets to Chicago, the quickly growing industrial city in the Midwest of the United States where Rotary began in 1905. Club members didn’t construct the restrooms themselves, as they sometimes do today. But just as they do today, they worked with other local groups to raise awareness of the need for sanitation in this urban area and advocated to get the project funded.
These public toilets, then known as “comfort stations,” were typically underground structures at busy sites such as parks and public squares. Civic leaders and reformers in several American cities were noting a need for them, and Rotary members in Chicago were part of the movement.
At right - Entrances to public toilets at LaSalle and Washington Streets in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Before February 1955. These entrances no longer exist.
Our own PDG Ian Ballanine was chairperson for today's club meeting at Cilantro. Charles joined the meeting via Zoom.
Ian received feedback from Co-President Carole Harris at the R.C. of St Marylebone following our joint meeting in the week prior - and who was delighted with the story in our bulletin. She and her club were pleased with the joint meeting and having connected with a club in this manner, and they look forward to more joint meetings in the future.
Before the Club membership is a motion to support INTERPLAST to the tune of AUD$10,000. Our Club has a fine record of supporting INTERPLAST .
I thought it would be timely to summarise a little of what INTERPLAST does. For more information, please refer their website here.
Interplast, a not-for-profit organization, provides free reconstructive surgery and medical training to people in the Asia-Pacific region who otherwise lack access to these services.
Their mission is to 'repair bodies and rebuild lives' and they do this through providing surgical services to those who could not otherwise afford or access these, and by building the capacity of local medical systems through our training and mentoring programs.
Interplast was founded in 1969 by Dr. Donald R. Laub of Stanford University, who believed that reconstructive plastic surgery could transform lives. Rotary Connection: Interplast was founded through the partnership of Rotary and The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1983.
This is just a brief report regarding the District Conference held this past weekend in Bendigo.
It was attended by members President Tim, (with Angela), Karin Soster (with Gary), Peter and Linda O'Brien, Ian Ballantine and Helen Parker and Bert d'Unienville.
A summary of speakers and other activities can be found on the Conference website here.
Also included on this page is a link to all conference photographs here.
PDG Ian Ballantine was chairperson for today's special joint club meeting with the Rotary Club of St Marylebone in London UK. Charles joined the meeting via Zoom, as did Co-Presidents Carole Harris and Steve Rhodes and all the members from St Marylebone, whilst our club members convened in Cilantro. This special meeting was instigated by Carole who had travelled to Australia and visited our club on previous occasions, and suggested a joint club meeting for a connection and sharing of Rotary minds.
This article is intended to help members register themselves and/or a guest to a Club event. Note, your can also register your intention NOT to attend.
If an event is inviting members to register there will be a button with the word: "Members" below "Online Registration". refer image at left.
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Team members: Paul Ferguson, Linda OB, Peter OB. Jenny and Jothie Moorabbin, Ash & Nick from Hollands Other helpers and visitors: Jenny S, Larry, Charles, Helen
Waiting in queue: 0. O Night parkers : 1 Pedestrian count 1245 Market Report: Good market - most stalls sold on line in advance. Orderly queue first thing. Warmish weather. school holidays meant average foot traffic. Feedback from public they are short on $$ but have lots of surplus goods to sell at home & using market to supplement their income. 3 barstools appeared in office - no note on ownership - unless someone owns same they could be sold next Sunday.
Leader, Paul Ferguson
Note from the Editor re Images and Events
A point regarding the submission of images for the Bulletin and Website: Members are reminded that images have to meet a minimum size requirement, as has been specified for some time in the section at the bottom of this Bulletin. 820 pixels is the minimum size required with larger being better as this allows for cropping. The submission of images via MMS is NOT preferred as they are too small and of inferior quality. Email or Whatsapp is far superior.
Would any member like to take responsibility for the updating of the Club's Event Calendar? I have created a page of instructions here so it is very easy to take over.
Thank you, Ian Ballantine
I remind members that you are responsible for the information contained in the Club's database. This includes, birthdays, phone numbers, addresses etc etc. Even your own photo. You maintain this via this link.
Additionally, member's birthdays and anniversaries will no longer be listed in the Club Bulletin. This is to protect the privacy of members. This information is still available to members here.
Ian Ballantine
A reminder to members to keep checking the calendar of upcoming events for evening and perhaps, one day, daytime events.
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REGISTRATION FOR MEETINGS
EVANSTON, Ill., USA (10 Apr. 2025) — Nigerian Rotary member and philanthropist Sir Emeka Offor has committed US$5 million through the Sir Emeka Offor Foundation (SEOF) to The Rotary Foundation to expand and strengthen its initiative aimed at reducing maternal and neonatal mortality in high-need areas of Nigeria.
President Tim chaired this week's very informal club breakfast meeting at Aila Cafe in Highett - during this first week of school holidays. It was a lovely breakfast enjoyed by all who attended that included guests Bronwyn, Gary, and Jules. Thank you Linda for arranging the booking, and tending to the registration and breakfast orders. As always, everything went very smoothly. 
This is just a brief report regarding the District Conference held this past weekend in Bendigo.
PDG Ian Ballantine was chairperson for today's special joint club meeting with the Rotary Club of St Marylebone in London UK. Charles joined the meeting via Zoom, as did Co-Presidents Carole Harris and Steve Rhodes and all the members from St Marylebone, whilst our club members convened in Cilantro. This special meeting was instigated by Carole who had travelled to Australia and visited our club on previous occasions, and suggested a joint club meeting for a connection and sharing of Rotary minds. 
