Weekly Bulletin (Oct. 12, 2026)

MORNING MEETING WEDNESDAY at Gilbert's Cafe

We are now meeting at Gilbert's Cafe 7am

282 Centre Road, Bentleigh, 3204

Details here

The Meeting will NOT be available via Zoom this week

Edition 282

Monday, 12th October 2026

Last Wednesday, after our Club meeting the Board held an extraordinary meeting in which we approved a donation of $2,500 to RDA (Riding for the Disabled Moorabbin, also known as Riding Develops Abilities). Refer HERE for details of a planned Club visit to their centre on the 24th of this month.
Last week, our guest speakers were Peter Allen, Principal of Cheltenham Secondary College, and Daniel, a student in year 11 who spoke about the benefits of RYDA (Rotary Youth Driving Awareness) which our Club proudly sponsored (refer story HERE).

This Wednesday morning our guest speaker is Anne Kilpatrick and her talk is titled "Treasures of Bentleigh’s History". Make sure you’ve registered HERE. Anne will be highlighting the stories behind a number of local heritage properties.

Happy birthday to member Larry Green for the 13th.

CREATE LASTING IMPACT

Club President, 2026-27,
Neville Kruss

Editor's Note - Registration for Event

If you ever find that you haven't registered, or declined, for an event and you thought you had, please refer to the help instructions on the process HERE It is most probable that you have neglected a step in the confirmation. You will receive an email immediately following ONLY IF you have been successful. If you don't get an email, please re-check.
Ian Ballantine

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 documents including Board Minutes can gained here.

The last published Board Minutes were the meeting of Wednesday 12th August 2026 - 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 October 14 2026

Chairperson O'Brien, Peter

Meeting Door Host Lynch, Tim

at Gilbert's Cafe this week details HERE

Meeting October 21 2026

Chairperson Oakley, Kirsten

Meeting Door Host Egan, Kevin

Market 18th October 2026

Market Leader Ballantine, Ian

Assistant Nodrum, Helen

Assistant Lucas, Margaret

Market 25th October 2026

Market Leader O'Shea, Greg

Assistant Kane, Terry

Assistant Brownlees, Ron

Assistant Ammendola Santi, Gabriela

This week's speaker / event

MORNING Meeting at Gilbert's

Speaker Anne Kilpatrick
Topic "Treasures of Bentleighs History"

Details and Registration HERE

Please check the upcoming events on the Club website here

REGISTRATION FOR MEETINGS HELP HERE

Please forward any events you want promoted to the Editor.
For all Club events refer Club Calendar HERE

	Holland Foundation Ball October 16 2026 We now have 11 members, partners and friends attending Please check this list to ensure that if you intend coming and wish to be on our table you have your name here Details HERE
	To celebrate WORLD POLIO DAY, the Rotary Club of Noble Park-Dingley is organising a movie fund raiser on Tuesday October 20 at Palace Cinema 26 Church St Brighton Details HERE
Sat 24th October we are planning another visit to Riding for the Disabled in Moorabbin Details and Registration HERE Stories about the Club and RDA HERE
The Rotary Club of Springvale City invites you to a Garden Soirèe celebrating the official launch of Recycled Sound Reimagined Hearing Aid Bank Project Details HERE
	Christmas cakes and puddings: Expression of interest The Community Service Committee is ordering Christmas cakes and puddings to give to local groups, and members can order some too. All details HERE
Member Gabriela Amendola Santi's special event DECEMBER 1 More details to follow - HERE
	SAVE THE DATE Club end of year Christmas function at SYC DECEMBER 12 Details to follow HERE

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Link to photos from 2026 Conference here
Link to photos from District Changeover July 2025 here
Link to photos from 2025 Conference here
Link to photos from 2024 Conference here

Market report for Sunday 11/10/2026.

Leader: Julie Reid
BMC: Peter O’Brien, Linda O’Brien
Moorabbin: Intha Chetty and Anita Bayros
Holland Foundation: Mervin
Other Helpers: Nil
Visitors: Charles Rener, Stewart Reid
Cars in the Queue: 4
Overnight Parkers: 1
Pedestrian Count: 1270
Market Report: Good mild cloudy weather and forecast to be 24 degrees. Sunshine from about 10am.
Good attendance by casual stallholders today. Plenty of customers out early due to good weather conditions. Permanent stallholders were down for October.

Note there is a separate story about the defib at the Market here.

Polio eradication explained

Posted by Ian Ballantine on Oct 11, 2026

Taken from the RI website HERE

Learn how polio spreads, why eradication matters, and how Rotary and its partners are working to end this debilitating disease worldwide.

by Etelka Lehoczky

You’ve likely heard a lot about polio in recent weeks. Rotary members talk about it all year, but never more than in the month leading up to World Polio Day on 24 October. It’s one of the most important days of the year for Rotary — a time to reaffirm our nearly four-decade commitment to eliminating this disease from the world.

Polio eradication may seem complicated, but it’s actually fairly straightforward. If you’ve ever wondered about the science of the disease, the history of Rotary’s fight against it, or the progress of the global eradication effort, find the answers to those questions and more below.
What is polio, and why is it such a threat?

Poliomyelitis, also known as polio, is a highly infectious disease that mainly affects nerves in the spinal cord and brain stem. Most people infected with the virus don’t show any symptoms, but a small number become paralyzed. Polio primarily targets children under age five.

Rotary South Pacific’s membership strategy

Posted by Ian Ballantine

Taken from RDU HERE

Words PDG David Barton. Membership Director. Rotary South Pacific.

The membership team at Rotary South Pacific has developed a strategy for membership growth and retention based on moving away from working in silos and working towards stronger collaboration between districts, Membership Champions, Rotary Community Leaders, all Rotary South Pacific portfolios and Rotary International staff.

World Polio Day: Finishing the fight

Posted by Ian Ballantine on Oct 11, 2026

Taken from RDU HERE

24 October marks World Polio Day, a time to celebrate one of humanity’s greatest public health achievements while recommitting ourselves to a task not yet complete: the global eradication of polio.

Words: Anne Matthews. D9560 Passport Rotary Club, Qld

For Rotarians around the world, the fight against polio is more than a campaign. It is a promise. Since 1988, Rotary has been at the forefront of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), working alongside governments, international agencies, health workers and communities to protect children from a disease that once paralysed hundreds of thousands every year.

Club Meeting Oct 9 2026 Chelt Sec College

Posted by Karin Soster on Oct 07, 2026

Jules Gaddie was our chairperson for this week's club meeting at Gilberts. He opened up with a famous quote from Mahatma Gandhi - "If you want to find yourself, you should lose yourself in the service of others". .

Guests included guest speakers, Peter Allen - Vice Principal of Cheltenham S.C., and student, Daniel, and club member partner, Gary Ramage.

Share a Dream Ball October 3, 2026

Posted by Ian Ballantine on Oct 04, 2026

Once again member Terry Kane as President of the Share a Dream Philippine community organisation, ran her Rio Carnivale Ball on Sat, October 3, 2026 at Melrose Receptions.
In addition to Terry, in attendance were members Linda and Peter O'Brien and Helen Parker and Ian Ballantine.

Congratulations Terry on another successful event.

Rotary received a lot of exposure during the evening with many mentions of our own Club and others in the Philippines. Congratulations Terry on your wonderful work for the people of the Philippines.

There are a few pics following and an album of more HERE.

World Polio Day October 24

Posted by Ian Ballantine on Oct 03, 2026

Every year, the Rotary community mobilizes for World Polio Day to raise awareness about global efforts to end polio for good. If we stay committed, we can make polio the second human disease ever to be eradicated.

World Polio Day (24 October) was established by Rotary International to commemorate the birth of Jonas Salk, who led the first team to develop a vaccine against poliomyelitis. Use of this inactivated poliovirus vaccine and subsequent widespread use of the oral poliovirus vaccine developed by Albert Sabin led to establishment of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) in 1988. Since then, GPEI has reduced polio worldwide by 99 percent.

World Polio Day is an annual observance when members of Rotary International, along with public health advocates and individuals committed to a polio-free world, convene to commemorate their accomplishments in the global campaign against polio. This day also provides a platform for deliberation on the requisite measures to permanently eliminate polio from the face of the Earth.

Picturing polio pioneer Dorothy Horstmann

Posted by Ian Ballantine on Oct 03, 2026

Taken from RI website click HERE

For years, she stood in the shadow of great men like Salk and Sabin. Now she’s ready for her close-up.
by Geoffrey Johnson

“For one often catches a glimpse of them in the lives of
the great, whisking away into the background, concealing,
I sometimes think, a wink, a laugh, perhaps a tear.”
—Virginia Woolf

In the spring of 1944, even as a world war raged in Europe and Asia, a silent and unseen assailant crept into North Carolina’s Catawba County. Its first reported victim was a 17-month-old blond girl from Hickory named Linda Kiser. After falling ill in early June, the girl had been rushed to the hospital in nearby Charlotte by the county’s public health nurse.

Evening Meeting Sep 30 2026 Misha Coleman

Posted by Karin Soster on Sep 30, 2026

Another wonderful evening was enjoyed by all who attended last week's club meeting at Gilberts in Bentleigh. Jo Impey chaired the meeting and welcomed club members and guests Jo Kirk, Dee Mason, Raymond Pepito, Sarah Bennett, Angela Lynch, Tim Kidman, Gary Ramage, and our guest speaker, Misha Colman - CEO Interplast Australia.
CLUB ANNOUNCEMENTS
President Neville reminded club members of "The things we say and do in Rotary, and the Four Way Test",
Birthday Wishes to Vishal Mahajan
District 9815 Rotaract Representative - Lily Setnik, will visit and address our club on Wednesday 9 December 2026.
An album of pics is HERE

Interplast in Samoa

Posted by ball on Sep 27, 2026

This story was taken from the Interplast website dated March 9, 2026

Last year, you may have read about Dr Ben Norris and his fundraising efforts to get a volunteer surgical team to Samoa. Thanks to the support of his generous network of patients, friends, colleagues, and incredible supporters like you, a volunteer Interplast team has returned from a successful surgical program in Apia, Samoa, delivering critical care to many children and adults.

Dr Ben Norris and his fellow volunteers, reconstructive surgeon Associate Professor Damian Marucci, nurse Norma Schwalger, anaesthetist Dr Alan Goodey, theatre nurse M-J Laing, hand therapist Katie Anjou, and anaesthetic nurse Caz McLoughlin, have been visiting Samoa to provide surgeries, post-operative care, and training for local partners and clinicians.

Registering for an Event

Posted by Ian Ballantine on Aug 30, 2024

This article is intended to help members register themselves and/or a guest to a Club event. Note, you are also expected to 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.

Note that you need to be already logged in as a member.
As venues need to be advised of numbers PRIOR to the event, please register by noon on the day prior unless otherwise stated.
If you are not a member, this page will not be of any help. It may still be possible to register for an event as a non member if the event is open to the public.

Please refer to this Help article in full.

Subscribe to Calendar

From the Calendar page here you can subscribe to the Club's event calendar.

This will result in the Club's calendar being added to your existing calendar subscriptions, thus ensuring that as an event is added (or modified) to the Club's calendar, it will appear on your phone, tablet etc.
Calendars supported are Outlook, Google and Apple.

Take the link, Subscribe to Calendar, from the Calendar Page.

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

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MORNING MEETING WEDNESDAY at Gilbert's Cafe

We are now meeting at Gilbert's Cafe 7am

Link to photos from 2026 Conference here Link to photos from District Changeover July 2025 here Link to photos from 2025 Conference here Link to photos from 2024 Conference here

Learn how polio spreads, why eradication matters, and how Rotary and its partners are working to end this debilitating disease worldwide.

Note from the Editor re Images and Events

Link to photos from 2026 Conference here
Link to photos from District Changeover July 2025 here
Link to photos from 2025 Conference here
Link to photos from 2024 Conference here