Meeting No 4929 in the Club’s 101st year
Highlights in this bulletin include:
- This Week's Meeting
- Last Week's Meeting
- Upcoming Meetings & Events
- Club News
- District News
- Environmental News
This Week's Meeting
This Week's Meeting Wednesday 23 March
This Week Wednesday 23 March 2022 - Lunch Meeting
Speaker Emma Germano, President, Victorian Farmers' Federation
Topic ‘Rural & Regional Australia After the Pandemic’
Venue No 35 Sofitel & ZOOM Online only
Time: 1230 for 1250 - 2pm
BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL FOR CATERING PURPOSES
Register https://events.humanitix.com/rotary-melb-23-mar
Upcoming Meetings & Events
The following Club meetings will be either at Level 35, Sofitel and/or online. Venue and login details will be circulated in club communications and on the Website. Lunch meetings will be delivered as hybrids, broadcasting via zoom, and meeting in person each meeting. Please ensure if you intend to attend that you have registered on Humanitix as limits apply.
Last Week's Evening Meeting
Last week's evening meeting 16 March 2022
"Investing and Creating Businesses in the Post Pandemic World". Members who missed the evening meeting on 16 March might like to take a look at this lively and informative meeting delivered by the Evening meetings team.
Check it out via this link: https://youtu.be/okI2bxaXJDM
Club News
2023 Melbourne Convention - Your opportunity to host a meal
Rotary International (RI) and the Melbourne Convention Host Organising Committee (HOC) are now seeking members to host a convivial dinner for the Rotary International Convention delegates in May 2023.
Promoting our Club through Social Media - Act Now
Once again we are asking you all to spend some time each week on our club's social media accounts. Let's think of social media as a way to promote the club and its activities, and more importantly as a tool to attract the attention of like minded people and potential new members.
Rotarians And Rotary’s Foundation – Helping Victims of Disaster in our Region
Rotary’s ‘can do’ spirit has been centre stage recently, responding to natural disasters in our area. by Jessie Harman
The Ukraine Crisis
In response to the deepening humanitarian crisis in Ukraine, The Rotary Foundation has created an official channel for donors around the world to contribute funds to support the relief efforts underway by Rotary districts and has designated its Disaster Response Fund as the main avenue for contributions.
Rotary Give Every Child A Future Newsletter March 2022
The latest update on Rotary Give Every Child a Future is available by click here to view the March RGECAF Newsletter on this Rotary Melbourne R100 project. Excellent progress is now being made with this project, despite the pandemic set-backs.
MITS March 22 Newsletter
MITS (Melbourne Indigenous Transition School) has shared their latest newsletter here. Edward Tudor, Executive Director, mentions that 'What a joy it has been to welcome our new MITS Year 7 cohort to Melbourne over the past few weeks! While those first steps of Year 7 are always nerve wracking, this year the Year 7s join a large and welcoming cohort of MITS alumni, providing connection, community and belonging in Melbourne from the very start of the year.'
The *Nile Virus, Type C*
Do you suffer from the Nile virus - type C?
District News
RIMERN Wine Fundraiser
Have you bought your wine supplies for Easter from RIMERN (Rotary Inner Melbourne Emergency Relief Network)?
Rotary District 9800 Conference 2022 - 4 weeks away
It’s not too late to register for the District Conference in Albury. There are currently over 300 registrations. For first time conference attendees the registration cost is $330.
Click here to register.
Environmental News
Environment and Sustainability News
We claim to be “People of Action”, what is your Club going to do in the remain- der of this Rotary year to Protect the Environment? What are you going to do? We know there are still some restrictions, but they are reducing. Let’s concentrate on what we can do, not what we can’t. For the latest District 9800 Enviro News click here.
Member Anniversaries
Sumeer Bhandarkar (1) TODAY!, Peter Berg (8), Rosemary Nixon (5), Richard Parker (14).
 This week to: Jing Ling, Tilman Ruff and Prabal Soans (TODAY!), Amir Dastaviz, Sharann Johnson, Quin Scalzo, Malcolm Simpson.
Guests at Last Meeting
Guest of the Club: Jim Rogers (Speaker).
Visitors: Runcheng Fang, Stephen Turner, Badal Bhatt, Craig Scheef, Eric Chua, Koby Jones, , Coco Ma, Marissa Zhang, Greg Li, Evelyn Goh, Yawen Li, Gerrit de Waal.
Visiting Rotarians: Ian Knight (Werribee), Maria Muzaaki (Uganda).
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