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Please note this week is an EVENING MEETING at Cilanro 6.30pm
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Edition 104
Monday, 28th November 2022
Message from our President
From the Desk of President Margaret
There was a District 9810 DG and Presidents meeting on Zoom on Friday night. The following are items which may be of interest to members.
• DG Ken Miller advised that details, re assisting the areas affected by floods, will be available some time next week.
• There are some areas which required more time with needs assessment because they have been affected by floods the second time.
• Each district has been asked to contribute to the Rotary Peace Bells for the RI Convention. The total amount is $30,000 dollars, which is split between 5 Districts, therefore costing each district $6,000 dollars.
• The District conference in Canberra in March 2023 as well as the RI Convention in Melbourne in May 2023, were promoted. Please note that all members have till 30 November 2022 to register for the District Conference in order to take advantage of the $50.00 per member early
bird discount.
• The RI Convention in Melbourne early bird registration offer will expire on 15 December 2022. The RI Convention organisers are also seeking volunteers for the event. Anyone interested in helping out needs to register to ensure that they will receive training, and also for insurance
purposes. For further information on volunteering, please visit the RI Convention website. You do not need to be registered for the convention to be a volunteer.
• Trish Carr then promoted the SMILE project, which is a RYLA programme on Feb 4th and 5th 2023. It will be held at Deep Creek Golf Club in Pakenham. 2 Members from each club in the district can attend.The cost is $100 for the day. This includes all meals during the day and
dinner at night. Please let me know of you are interested in attending.Trish also made a presentation on how to detect and avoid being scammed in this cyber alert climate.
• Peter Behm then presented the District Projects. One of there is the Incentives Rewards Programme which was discussed at one of our club meetings a couple of months ago. Please let me know if you have registered for the District conference in Canberra and/or the RI Convention in Melbourne, as well as your visits to other club meetings. I will then compile them and forward to the District. I am confident that the club would have accumulated sufficient points to receive a reward.
• The other District project mentioned is advertising the club via business cards. The business card will bear the name of the club, the day, time and venue of meetings and a contact name and number. There will also be a QR code where people can access further information if they are interested in finding out more about Rotary and the club. This will be useful for recruiting new members. The dates, times and venues for the rest of 2022 are in the Bulletin. Please advise Samantha Langridge know if you are planning to attend any of them. This is necessary for catering purposes.
Thank you, and have a nice day.
President Margaret Mason
Speaker info this Week: Professor John Le Marshall
In 2003 Professor John Le Marshall became the first Director of the NASA, NOAA and DoD Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation (JCSDA)
at the World Weather Building in Camp Springs, Maryland, USA.
The Center is responsible for accelerating the operational implementation of satellite data assimilation systems in NOAA,
the National Weather Service, NASA and the Department of Defence, to allow exploitation of current and next generation satellites.
For his work on the assimilation of hyperspectral satellite data at the JCSDA Professor Marshall was awarded in 2006 NASA’s
“Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal”, NASA’s highest scientific award.
Professor Le Marshall returned to the Australian Bureau of Meteorology in 2007 where he worked as a Senior Principal Research Scientist
on planning for and implementation of advanced satellite systems and in the remote sensing research area.
He is currently a visiting scientist at the Bureau of Meteorology.
Professor Le Marshall is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society and a Fellow of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society.
REMEMBER, THIS IS AN EVENING MEETING
Coming Speakers / Meetings
- December 7 Special Morning Meeting at Moorabbin Airport details
Rochester Bikes WorkingBee December 5 2022
Details and link to registration here.
Special Meeting at Moorabbin Airport December 7 2022
Details and link to registration here.
Christmas Fellowship December 10 2022
Details and link to registration here.
District 9810 Conference March 2023
November 30 - last date for Early Bird
Details and link to registration here.
International Convention May 2023 Melbourne
Info and registration here
Latest edition of District Newsletter can be found here
Our Club has undertaken a project to "rescue" push bikes from the now closed Camelot Traffic School in East Bentleigh and deliver them to the good people of Rochester, Victoria.
Larry was our chairperson for today’s club meeting and AGM at Cilantro. Alan performed the invocation and Tim L performed the loyal toast. Charles and Karin joined the meeting via Zoom.
After overcoming some minor issues, we were able to attend the 2022 Bentleigh Festival on Sunday 20th November. People started arriving before 10.00am and we were set up around 10.30am. Thanks to Jo Impey and Helen Nodrum for assisting in taking the Rotary marquee down Centre Road to just outside Aldi. The weather was very pleasant until the first of several rain showers swept in from the west. Nothing seemed to deter the thousands of attendees from enjoying themselves at the multiple food outlets and entertainment/amusement attractions. Obviously, the fact that this was the first Festival since 2019 meant that everyone was keen to be there. Plenty of dry spells during the day meant that the marquee was able to dry out before we packed it away.
Rotary Bentleigh Sunday Market chair, Ron Brownlees recently organised some great advertising for the market.
Two digital signs were set up on the corner Nepean Highway and South Rd Moorabbin , outbound. And another on the corner North and Tucker Rds Ormond-inbound.
They were displayed during the week of November 7th to 13th.
President Margaret outlined the program for the rest of 2022.
Wednesday 23 November – Club AGM
Wednesday 30 November – will be an evening meeting at Cilantro commencing 6.30pm. This is a fellowship meeting and partners and friends are welcome. - we have a special speaker in John Le Marshall who is an eminent meteorologist and has been involved in NASA . An invitation has been sent to all clubs in the District via the Districts Highlights. Please RSVP to Greg O'Shea for catering purposes.
Wednesday 7 December - will be at Flight Deck in Moorabbin airport. Meeting will commence at 7.30am instead of 7am. After the meeting. members are invited to tour the museum.
Sunday 11 December - The end of year get-together will be at Packer Park in Murrumbeena. This will be our last meeting for 2022. Santa Claus will visit us at the picnic so children are most welcome.
After discovering new perspectives and being inspired by new ideas at the 2022 Rotary International Convention, attendees and virtual participants are looking ahead to next year's gathering in Melbourne, the sparkling second city of Australia.
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Team members: Larry Green, Peter and Linda O,Brien. RCM VENU NAIDOO, RUVASHAN AND VIVIAN CHETTY Visiting Rotarians: Charles Rener
. Pedestrian count 1000 approx
Market Report: OVERCAST BUT DRY DAY THAT STARTED SLOWLY BUT BECAME QUITE BUSY LATER IN THE MORNING. A COUPLE OF DOUBLE BOOKINGS CAUSED SOME CONFUSION (57 AND 74) BUT WE WERE ABLE TO ACCOMMODATE THEM AS MARKET NOT FULLY BOOKED OR OCCUPIED. NOTES THAT OSCAR IN STALLS 116-119 IS AWAY ALL OF DECEMBER AND RETURNS LAST SUNDAY IN JANUARY. SUGGEST THAT ALL REFERENCES TO COVID BE REMOVED.
Leader Larry Green
Editor's note: refer separate story from last week, with pics, on the Bentleigh Festival here
Roster for the next 2 weeks
Meeting Chairman refer here for help
Note Market start time is 6.15am
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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.
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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Speaker info this Week: Professor John Le Marshall
