Rotary Melbourne started collecting product from the Prahran Market for SecondBite more than 10+ years ago. This is not an onerous task and volunteers have come and gone over that time. We have some of the original group still collecting. We ask for your assistance now to join our roster and volunteer with us.
Our Director of Communications and Marketing, Kerry Kornhauser has provided a terrific article about Rotary branding and the importance of continuity.
Thank you Reg for your Reflection delivered at last week's meeting. This can be read in full over page ...
What a breath of fresh air was zoomed to those who attended last week's Evening Meeting. Cassandra Goodman intrigued and challenged us in her presentation: ‘How connection and the practice of self-fidelity can improve individual and community wellbeing’.
By the time that you receive this Bulletin we will be preparing for DG Philip Archer’s grand Australia Day event. It will have some excellent entertainment in Marina Prior, Mike Brady, Josh Piterman and John Foreman. I do hope you are able to attend. Philip is also using this as an opportunity to profile many R100 projects, including our own, as we move into the anniversary part of the year.
Marvellous update from PP Robert Fisher this week as he and Myra visited the Dandenong based Afri Aus-Care. Every inch of their gardens are planted out with vegetables, even the fence is sprouting edibles.
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!
The 3rd Annual Rotary Art Show is happening again - Save the Date - March 26-28. Rotary Flemington-Kensington invites us all to enjoy the Flemington Art Show.
03 February: Lunch Meeting, To be advised.
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."
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Our Director of Corporate Issues, Peter Davis has provided the following details of the General Meeting to be held during the Members Lunch Meeting, Wednesday, 27 January, 2021.
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
Lunch Meeting: Wednesday, 27 January
Topic: Members Lunch & Vocational Services Panel ‘How did Covid-19 affect your business and how you see the future post Covid-19?’ with panellists: Sarah Macleod-Bourke, Richard Skinner, Catherine Baxter, Philip Endersbee, Sandra Hills and Mary Barry.
Time: 1-2pm
Venue: ZOOM Online
Meeting Registration:
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The Rotary Leadership Institute is again offering Members the opportunity to understand our history, current and new initiatives in Rotary. Many of our Members have participated and all have responded with positive experience.
Our Members lunch meeting, Wednesday 27 January is a Vocational Services Committee Panel Discussion and your questions are needed prior to this meeting. This is how it will work .....
Thank you Barbara Yerondais for sharing your beautiful Reflection from last week's meeting.
"In 1921, the Club purchased a piano and invited Mr Cyril Mee as a visitor to lead the first club singing. Alberto Zelman, the conductor of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra was appointed musical director. He invited select members to form a choir to lead the singing. Within two years, the singing had a fixed place on the luncheon agenda. “Will the choir please assemble” was greeted with more enthusiasm than accepting first-name acquaintance!"
EVENING MEETING
Speaker Cassandra Goodman, Thrive Global Facilitator, Coach and Author
Topic ‘How connection and the practice of self-fidelity can improve individual and community wellbeing’
Time 6-7pm
Venue ZOOM Online
Meeting Registration https://events.humanitix.com/rotary-melbourne-evening-meeting-20-january-2021
Kazuyoshi Matsunaga, Consulate-General of Japan and Rotary Melbourne Honorary Member, farewelled us at last week's meeting via video, before introducing us to Tim Stone. (see item below)
PP Bob Glindemann has advised that Second Bite has invited us to return now that it is safer, to help them with collection of food on a Sunday afternoon for a mere 2 hours every few weeks at the Prahran Market. Pic shows Zoe Mavros collecting.
The following story "Road to Tabuk" is written by Rotary Melbourne Club "Champion" Ruth Carlos Martinez who is an inspirational supporter with the The Rotary Foundation in providing significant water, sanitation and hygiene to the northern Philippines.
Thanks Bob Fels for providing members with a marvellous letter from Global Peace Scholar Peter Pal.
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.
Our MUNA (Model United Nations Assembly) Team of Manik and Samartha were announced as the winning team recently at Assembly. Neville Page, District 9800 MUNA Committee Chairperson and Christina Boys introduced the two inspirational young men at last week's meeting.
27 Janunary: Lunch Meeting at 1.00 pm Zoom online. Member's Lunch. Vocational Services Panel discussion: “How did Covid-19 affect your business and how you see the future post Covid-19?”
03 February: Lunch Meeting, Greg Moriarty, Secretary of Defence, Department of Defence Australia, Australia's Former Ambassador for Republics to Indonesia and Iran. "Australia's Strategic Defence Update"
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."
