WELCOME TO ROTARY MELBOURNE

 

NEWS for FEBRUARY, 2021

 

YOU CAN JOIN US ONLINE ON A WEDNESDAY - SIMPLY REGISTER

for the Speaker of your choice:   Upcoming Rotary Melbourne Speakers

WHAT'S COMING

10 February:  Evening Meeting, Mark Balla, President Rotary Box Hill Central, Philanthropist, TED Speaker,Author. "The Journey to the Toilet: How Mark Balla is getting girls to school by solving a problem no one else saw."

https://events.humanitix.com/rotary-melbourne-weekly-meeting-10thfeb 

17 February:  Lunch Meeting Andrew Crisp, Emergency Management Commissioner – Victoria, ‘Black Summer Bushfires - One year on - Partnering with East Gippsland Rotary Clubs’

24 February:  Monthly Members Lunch  

Wednesday, 3 February - LUNCH MEETING

Guest Speaker: Dr Tania Militec, Assistant Director, Centre for Peace Building, University of Melbourne

Topic ‘Australia’s Role in Peace and Conflict Resolution’

Chairman: Richard Dent

Time: 1-2pm

Venue: ZOOM Online only

Meeting Registration: https://events.humanitix.com/rotary-melbourne-lunch-meeting-3rd-feb

ROTARY NEWS

GLOBAL SCHOLARSHIP INVITATION

Congratulations are offered to our Members for their Australia Day Honours: Alistair Urquhart OAM; Susan Davis AO; John Levi AC and congratulations to Stephen Mandie's wife, Amanda Mandie OAM.

Following the NITV screening, the you can watch Homeland Story on SBS On Demand until 16 Febuary. 

See:  https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/1839692867831/homeland-story

The Communications Team would like to remind Members that most weekly meetings are recorded and may be found on the front page of our website: Meetings/Events - You Tube. This is the link for the meeting of Wednesday, 20 January, featuring Tim Stone's fascinating presentation:   https://youtu.be/hFMGj9x_tZU 

Second part of last week's meeting was a truly amazing presentation by Tim Stone, journalist and documentary filmmaker: "Through Samurai Eyes".  Tim was introduced by Kazuyoshi Matsunaga, former Consulate-General Japan, Victoria.

In this item from Peter Berg and the Rotary Environment and Sustainability team, we are reminded of how to -

Be a friend to the environment - it helps make the world a healthier and safer place

Mark Pinoli, Director of International Services has shared how our International Program Committee recently responded to an urgent request from the Rotary Club of Kathmandu to help establish a COVID testing lab at the Paropakar Hospital for Women and Children in Kathmandu, Nepal. This is the first testing facility in the country that focuses on servicing women and children affected by COVID. Photo shows the official opening of this facility.

Please continue into the "Read More" for a fascinating item around bees and their "Amegilla bubbling"!

Ruth Carlos Martinez (seen here accepting Award for Humanitarian of the Year, Zone 8 from PP Robert Fisher, 2018) has written a note of appreciation to Bob Glindemann re. typhoon donations to the Philippines.  Terrific work yet again from Ruth and DIK.

MAYBE A SMILE?

We have Ted Garland to thank for these little gems displaying what a generation gap looks like!  Read more if you like what you see!

Check out Rotary Melbourne website for Past Speakers

www.rotaryclubofmelbourne.org.au

 Meetings/Events/Past Events or YouTube videos

  Celebrating 100 years of service in 2021