Rotary Club of Melbourne
www.rotaryclubofmelbourne.org.au

Meeting No 4907 in the Club’s 101^st year

Highlights in this bulletin include: 

• This Week's Meeting
• Upcoming Meetings & Events
• Last Week’s Meeting
• Reflection
• Environmental Sustainability Award – Claire Moore
• Silent Auction for the Smith Family
• Member News
• District & Club News 
• Anniversaries
• Birthdays 
• Last Week's Guests

This Week's Meeting

Wednesday 22^nd September – Lunch Meeting

Chairman David Carruthers

Topic Monthly Members Lunch

This meeting is back to its four-part structure and will address:

• Profiling an existing member;
• Feedback from two recent inductees;
• A brief item on Volunteering; and
• Some insights as to what goes on at the Health & Ageing Committee.

Time 12.50 for 1.00 – 2.00pm

Venue ZOOM online only

Registration  https://events.humanitix.com/22nd-sep-rotary-melb-lunch

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.

29 September – Lunch Online TBC- Gerard Mansour - Commissioner for Senior Victorians - Ambassador for Elder Abuse Prevention, Safe Families

29 Sep Lunch - Online - Gerard Mansour - Commissioner for Senior Victorians, Rotary Safe Families

6 October Lunch - Venue TBC - Prof. Anthony Jorm and Betty Kitchener - Mental Health First Aid

13 October Evening - Venue TBC

20 October Lunch - Venue TBC – RCM Vocational Service Award    

27 October Lunch - Venue TBC – Members Lunch

3 November Lunch - Venue TBC - Sir John Reid Community Service Award

10 November Evening - Venue TBC

 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 last weeks meeting guest speaker, Prof John Thwaites AM, delivered a compelling presentation on 'A Progress Report on Australia’s Progress Against UN Sustainability Goals’

Click this link to view the meeting: https://youtu.be/mXtnmmsbqXI                

Reflection 

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

Environmental Sustainability Award – Claire Moore

The recipient of the inaugural Rotary Club of Melbourne Environmental Sustainability Award is Claire Moore.

Claire is the Founder and CEO of Sweet Justice Ltd a Social Enterprise teaching Beekeeping within the Justice System.         

Silent Auction for the Smith Family

Get your bids in for any item by simply nominating the item number and your dollar bid and email to the Silent Auctioneer:

silent.auction@rotarymelbourne.org.au

In support of The Smith Family.  

The view the regularly updated bidding click here   

Member News

Mentor Match are Recruiting Mentors NOW for the International Students Mentoring Program.             

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.     

MITS Executive Director Edward Tudor has provided a term 3 student up-date covering both the Howard Springs and Melbourne campuses. He has also extended an invitation to join the Gala-at-Home dinner in late October so that we can continue the spirit of this annual MITS event held at Albert Park Lake’s Carousel Restaurant until COVID hit.  In the coming weeks Ed will provide further details, but for now you can pencil in the following: Gala-at-Home dinner hampers (delivery on 21, 22 and 23 October) & Online Silent Auction (14-23 October).      

District & Club News

The Concert for Peace is co-presented by D9800 and is a global event supported by clubs around the world.  It is free but well worth attending.  I highly recommend you have a look at 5 min Karim’s video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFDHv5aagVY (3 minutes).      

Following a very successful event in 2020 Rotarians, friends and the community are encouraged once again to take action from October 1st to 31st to raise awareness, funds, and support to end poliomyelitis, a vaccine-preventable disease that still threatens the children of the world today.       

There are lots of job and tasks to be filled to assist RIMERN to sort incoming goods and fills orders for their clients who are so grateful for the goods RIMERN provide.      

You're Invited to a Webinar with Author Maggie Dent and ARH Experts on Thursday 30 September at 7.30pm.

Register here        

Rotary International (RI) and the Melbourne Convention Host Organising Committee (HOC) are now seeking potential sponsors and exhibitors for the Rotary International Convention to be held in May 2023.      

Member Anniversaries 

Ken Badenoch (23), Mary Harney (5), Stephen Lake (21), John Levi (41).

  Ken Badenoch, Carolyn Ballagh, Christina Boys, Peter Clements (TODAY!), Serena Low, Bernie McIntosh, Robin Syme.

Last Week's Guests

Club Guest: Prof. John Thwaites AM (Speaker), Claire Moore.

Visiting Rotarians and Guests: Benjamin Bickford, Neil & Heather Barrett, Virginia Billson, Austin Byard, Fiona Joy, Chambers, Edith Chen, Robert Davies, Teresa Day, David Dippie, Pam Dittmer, Vlad Finn, Samantha Finnegan, Suvam Ganguli, Vic Grosjean, Nesta Hatendi, Alan Hill, Faye Kirkwood, Ian Knight, John Lambert, Donna Martin, Lucy Mayes, Lesley McCarthy, John McCaskill, Clare McCausland, Martin Monk, Brian Negus, Lauren Nelson, Fabienne Nichola, James Nixon, Pam Norton, Andrew Panjkov, Stephen Pennicott, Patricia Pringle, Jamie Robertson, Logan Shield, Sue Smith, Grant Standfield, Doug Stevenson, Wendy Stirling, Carolyn Tan, Karin Traeger, Ted Waghorne, Mel Woods.

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