Rotary Club of Melbourne
www.rotaryclubofmelbourne.org.au

Meeting No 4905 in the Club’s 101^st year

Spring Edition

Highlights in this bulletin include: 

• This Week's Meeting
• Upcoming Meetings & Events
• Last Week’s Meeting
• Reflection
• Next Evening Meeting
• Member News
• District & Club News (action packed again this week)
• Birthdays 
• Last Week's Guests

This Week's Meeting

Upcoming Meetings & Events

The following Club meetings will be either at Level 35, Sofitel or online depending on COVID restrictions. Login details will be circulated in club communications and on the Website.

8 Sep EVENING Meeting -Mary Jensen, CEO M Power – Online via ZOOM (see below)

15 Sep LUNCH - John Thwaites AM - Venue TBC

Save The Date

• NGV Winter Masterpieces - Friday 17 September 
• Around the Bay - Sunday 3 October

Postponed Events

• A reception with, Chief R100 Ambassadors, His Excellency, General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Retd) and Her Excellency Mrs Linda Hurley TBA
• Australian Rotary Health Gala Charity Dinner - TBA

Last Week's Meeting

At this week’s meeting, member Nick Pelham spoke about his Rotary journey.

Last week's meeting was a member's meeting focusing on The Smith Family and the Around the Bay event.

Don't forget to buy your RAFFLE - WIN A $2000 BIKE VOUCHER!

Around the Bay Raffle will be drawn on Wed 1^st Sep

Tickets: $20

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Reflection

Thank you to Ross Scholes-Robertson for last week's thanks.

Next Evening Meeting

Guest Speaker Mary Jensen, CEO, M Power

Topic ‘The Power of Positive Thinking’ 

Time 17.50 for 18.00-19.00

Venue Online only via ZOOM

https://events.humanitix.com/rotary-melbourne-evening-meeting-8sep

Member News

John Saunders was inducted as a new Member of Rotary Melbourne at our meeting on 25 August 21. John is a member of the Toorak 1 group. Welcome John. 

The Legacy bears are going on a Teddy bear picnic and you’re invited!  There are a few members in our Club and their families that have benefited from the community work of Legacy for service families.

Rotary Melbourne members will be saddened to learn that David Frieze passed away on Saturday 28 August at the age of 97. He was a long-standing member of over 46 years with the Club and really enjoyed the fellowship with other members, especially during Covid. Our heartfelt thoughts are with his family on the loss of this remarkable community minded person. Funeral details will be provided to members when known. Jo also has contact details for his daughter Sally.

Vale Colin Teese

Sadly we have news that Colin Teese, husband of past member Jane Munro, has passed away after a battle with cancer.  Jane a former head of International House resigned from the Club last year to move to the QLD coast to be closer to family. A memorial service will be held in Southport on the 30th August. Pres Reg has  passed on our condolences.

 Jo in the Rotary office can provide contact details.

Rotary Melbourne has organised a lecture and visit to the NGV 2021 Melbourne Winter Masterpieces on Friday 17th September. French Impressionism: From the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 

District & Club News

One of the Club's Annual Awards is the Service to Seniors Award made to a person whose outstanding service for seniors in a voluntary capacity is judged to have made a positive difference to the lives of seniors.

Rotary Melbourne together with Rotary Central Melbourne and a range of other Victorian Clubs have provided experienced Mentors each year to Victoria Police.  The programme has been highly successful. Both mentors and mentees have enjoyed the exchange of experience and insights gained. Mentoring contact is approximately one to two hours per month.     

Bruce Davidson has done a wonderful job in a very difficult season - keeping up with the AFL fixture for 2021.

In May, RC Central Melbourne signed on as a foundation member of the multi-club, Centenary of Rotary in Australia Community Service project, RIMERN (Rotary Inner Melbourne Emergency Relief Network).

Members and government health officials use boats to reach villages deep in the rainforest

Members of the Rotary Club of Demerara, Guyana, are using their decades of experience in fighting disease while delivering COVID-19 vaccines and aid to a remote region of the South American country. The Indigenous communities there would not otherwise have access to the vaccine and would remain vulnerable to the virus.

For more on this article visit https://www.rotary.org/en/guyana-rotary-club-brings-covid-19-vaccines-remote-communities

Click here to read the August Trachoma eBulletin which features the Interactive Water Trailer in action with Katherine West Health Board. The project is a collaboration between Rotary Melbourne and our Corporate Members Monash University & GHD, and is a R100 project.

Ed Tudor, Executive Director of MITS (Melbourne Indigenous Transition School) has shared their latest newsletter here. Their Year 7 and alumni students continue to do themselves and their families proud in spite of the ongoing challenges presented by COVID-19.  These remarkable young people are showing extraordinary courage and resilience, working as a team and growing together here in Melbourne.       

Member Anniversaries 

  Richard Fowler, Yidan Xi.

Last Week's Guests

Club Guest: John Saunders (Inductee) Kate Williams, Smeeta Singh & Jarrod Younger (Speakers), Cassie Wright.

Visiting Rotarians and Guests: Ian Knight

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