NORMAL MORNING MEETING THIS WEEK
Meeting This Week - we are at Cilantro 7am for 7.10am start
For full location details, please refer here.
The meeting will also be available on Zoom - details here
Edition 244
Monday, 8th December2025
This is our final meeting for this calendar year and will a fellowship meeting. The first meeting for next year will be on the 21st of January and as Cilantro will be closed we will be meeting elsewhere, though the venue is yet to be decided. For the following meeting on the 28th of January this could be an evening meeting, though not at Cilantro – further details will follow.
Last Wednesday was International Day of People With Disability and Glen Eira Council provided a barbecue for visitors to GESAC (Glen Eira Sports and Aquatic Centre). A number of our members volunteered to run the BBQ, this was organised by the community committee. We have received a thank-you email from Glen Eira which is reproduced below:
Just a quick follow-up from the BBQ at GESAC to say thank you to you all for your time, support, and coordination of the BBQ. It’s a big day at GESAC with many moving parts, and to have you on the tools creating a happy, safe, and friendly environment for all is very much appreciated.
Have a happy, healthy Christmas and New Year.
Regards
Jeremy O'Halloran (PLY)
PLY Post-Nominal Title
Community Disability and Inclusion Officer
As we will not have any meetings for the next five weeks it is essential that everyone checks their market commitments as the market will continue to operate through the Christmas/New Year period.
Finally, I would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas, or substitute a festival of your choice and a Happy New Year.
Club President, 2025-26,
Grant Perry
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 October 6, 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 December 10 2025
Chairperson Green, Larry
Cashier Kruss, Neville
Cashier Oakley, Kirsten
Meeting January 21 2026
Chairperson Soster, Karin
Cashier Kempton, Alan
Cashier Lucas, Margaret
Market December 14th 2025
Market Leader Moran, Tim
Assistant Kruss, Neville
Assistant Impey, Jo
Market December 21st 2025
Market Leader O'Shea, Greg
Assistant Burrows, Chris
Assistant Carruthers, Kellie
This week's speaker / event
This week's meeting.
Special morning of fellowship as we celebrate the holiday season
Wheelchairs for Kids always need blankets/rugs to give away with their wheelchairs.
Member Linda O'Brien is inviting any members or friends of our Club who would like to help in this project.
Please contact Linda for more information.
Alannah & Madeline Foundation
Looking for support to provide Buddy Bags for children who have experienced extreme violence 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 07/12/2025.
Leader: Geoff Gledhill
BMC: Barry O, Kirsten O,
Moorabbin: Marg M, Venu N,
Holland Foundation: Bryan and Farisa
Other Helpers: Geoff Gartly
Visitors: Charles R, Larry Green, Karin Soster and Gary
Cars in the Queue: Nil
Overnight Parkers: 1
Pedestrian Count: 1180
Market Report: Fresh, sunny and dry.
A very pleasant morning with a steady flow of shoppers. A few regular stall holders were absent however we had some excellent casual bookings that hopefully will come again. Great to have Santa along also.
Important message to Market Leaders: New Computer
The iPad is NO LONGER. Entry of Market Report and Try Booking access is now done via new computer in the office. The procedure for its use is in the office.
Note there is a separate story about the defib at the Market here.
People involved were employees, Mark and Ben from GESAC, that set everything up, including the marque, BBQ's (by three), food (gluten free sausages, gluten free vegetable hamburgers), bread (white and whole meal), fresh fruit, trestle tables, eskies ( variety of fruit juices), water for RCBMC and rubbish bags - fantastic.
Whilst from serving of the cook items, that were sausages in bread or hamburgers, along with fresh fruit and or a juice, were club members James Magee, Jenny Stone, Margaret Lucas, Margaret Toya, Karin Soster, and of course Gary, and followed by a teacher from St Joseph Primary as he needed to cook 50 sausages for students from his school.
PDG Ian was our chairperson for today's club meeting at Cilantro. Charles joined the meeting via Zoom, and guests included Mark Davies, Gary Ramage, and Bruno Santi.
CLUB ANNOUNCEMENTS - President Grant and others:
Monday 8 December - BMC Board meeting will be held in the boardroom of Neville's office. Board reports required by Secretary Karin by Friday 5/12 - please.
Wednesday 10 December - will be our last club meeting for this year at Cilantro
A number of members visited the Donations in Kind (website HERE) warehouse in Footscray to collect 3 pallets of Lego for re distribution to some worthy causes.
They were Peter and Linda O'Brien, President Grant Perry and Ian Ballantine.
Recipients were Scouts (Geoff Gartly), Vietnam Womens Assoc (Nicky Chung) and a range of local groups including Emerge, Family Life and Glen Eira Support Services.
It should be noted, of course that the Scouts and Vietnam Womens Association paid for their share but at a fraction of retail value thanks to the Club's membership of DIK.
It was a most rewarding day and we are grateful to Colleen D'Offay of DIK for arranging the pick up. Special thanks to Grant as well for providing his truck!
Rotary Passport Melbourne is helping deliver vital aid and hope to Cambodian families displaced by the border conflict.
WORDS. Maria Hicks OAM. Vice President, Rotary Passport Melbourne, Vic
Rotary Passport Melbourne has been supporting the Rotaract Club of Siem Reap (RACSR) in its collaboration with the Cambodia Rural Students Trust (CRST) to provide humanitarian relief to hundreds of Cambodian families recently displaced by clashes along the Cambodia–Thailand border.
Across Cambodia, thousands of families have been displaced from their homes, left without land, food or access to even the most basic necessities. These are people caught in a cycle of hardship, often overlooked and underserved.
The Rotary Club of Liverpool West and FlyPink joined forces to raise nearly $150,000 for breast cancer research through a record-breaking Pink October Gala fundraiser.
A partnership between the Rotary Club of Liverpool West, NSW, and aviation charity FlyPink has provided a boost for breast cancer research, raising nearly $150,000 for the National Breast Cancer Foundation (NBCF).
Larry Green chaired this week's club meeting at Cilantro, and which was also our club's Annual General Meeting. Ian and Helen joined via Zoom, as did former club member, Sue Loeliger. Committees also provided updates on activities within their committee.
CLUB ANNOUNCEMENTS
President's Meeting Fri 21/11 - President Grant and Ron attended the President's Meeting which also included the District AGM. Emma Clark was confirmed as the incoming DG for D9815 for 2026-2027, and Murray Wilson as the DG Nominee for the year 2027-2028. Shalini Penny was confirmed as the District Secretary for 2026-2027.
Other topics covered during the President's Meeting included a project for Men's Health, Marketing, and a Film Night at the Dendy theatre in Brighton.
Riding for the Disabled Club Visit - Sat 22/11. Jo Impey attended the RDA in Moorabbin with a few other club members, and had the opportunity to see the horse that was partly funded by BMC. A lovely time was had by all. It is expected that all going well, the horse should provide a further 15 years of service for RDA.
Last Saturday morning, members were treated to a visit to Riding for the Disabled in Moorabbin. Our party was Grant Perry, Nicky Chung, Peter O’Brien with Georgia, myself and Tim Lynch.
We were warmly greeted by their past president Jane Baker, and current president, Kate Stankovich and were introduced to Remi, their newest horse, mostly funded by a $5000 donation by our club.
Taken from RDU HERE (Note Timau isa port city in the southern Canterbury Region of New Zealand, located 157 km (98 mi) southwest of Christchurch and about 196 km (122 mi) northeast of Dunedin)
Predator Free Timaru takes possession of AI cameras in fight to bring back native birds
The Rotary Club of Timaru has boosted local conservation efforts with the donation of six high-tech AI cameras to help Predator Free Timaru track and eradicate invasive species threatening native birdlife.
WORDS: Rachael Comer. The Timaru Herald.
Members of a group working to bring native birds back to Timaru, NZ, now have more tools under their belt, with a donation of AI cameras to detect and identify invading predators.
On 26 June, the Rotary Club of Timaru handed over six cameras and batteries, worth more than $10,000, to Predator Free Timaru to help in its eradication of possums, stoats, rats and hedgehogs from green areas such as the Scenic Reserve and the Highfield Golf Course.
Rotary Action Groups have a lot to teach about volunteer organizing
When Rotary club members thousands of miles apart decide to collaborate, something has to bind them together. For Marion Bunch and Stephen Mwanje, it was a shared awareness of the devastation of AIDS.
Bunch, a member of the Rotary Club of Dunwoody, Georgia, USA, experienced that devastation when her son died from an AIDS-related illness. Mwanje, a member of the Rotary Club of Mukono, Kampala, Uganda, had seen how the disease ravaged his country. The two met when Bunch visited Uganda, and they began talking about the complexities of fighting AIDS in Africa.frican National AIDS Council, one of the action group’s partners.
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Market report for Sunday 07/12/2025.
This week we had a very important visitor to the Bentleigh Market.
volved were employees, Mark and Ben from GESAC, that set everything up, including the marque, BBQ's (by three), food (gluten free sausages, gluten free vegetable hamburgers), bread (white and whole meal), fresh fruit, trestle tables, eskies ( variety of fruit juices), water for RCBMC and rubbish bags - fantastic.
PDG Ian was our chairperson for today's club meeting at Cilantro. Charles joined the meeting via Zoom, and guests included Mark Davies, Gary Ramage, and Bruno Santi.
A number of members supported Gabriela's Christmas Ball.
Taken from Rotary Down Under 
Taken from Rotary Down Under 
Larry Green chaired this week's club meeting at Cilantro, and which was also our club's Annual General Meeting. Ian and Helen joined via Zoom, as did former club member, Sue Loeliger. Committees also provided updates on activities within their committee. 
Last Saturday morning, members were treated to a visit to Riding for the Disabled in Moorabbin. Our party was Grant Perry, Nicky Chung, Peter O’Brien with Georgia, myself and Tim Lynch. 
Taken from RDU 
Taken from the RI website 
As Editor of the Bulletin and responsible for the Club's website I am asking members to please consider sending me any news about events they may have attended on behalf of the Club or any project that is being undertaken by the Club.
