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Hi everyone

 

FREEDOM Friday!  Woohoo, it feels great, doesn’t it?  Thanks, Marcus, for sharing your George Michael video clip – I feel so much better now that it is not only me that struggles with uploading sound videos onto zoom. Loved being able to sing and dance around at the start and end of our meeting.

 

I would like to be able to say that we are able to go back to the pub for the next meeting however suspect it will be a couple of weeks before that can happen as the following week, we will be enjoying Cup Day’s Wine and Cheese night at either Emerald Lake Park or the Nobelius Park. I will advise on our return as soon as I know. John Shaw and I are already looking at an upgrade to our Hybrid zoom system for those of you who want to join the meetings that way.

 

Club Assembly night was fairly well attended with nearly 2/3^rd of the members. Whilst we don’t normally have a speaker on these evenings, Tina did talk to us about “Protocol”.  Unless you are informed you don’t understand the workings of Rotary and key events when attendance is expected. Bring your partner along to social gatherings so they become comfortable with everyone and remember to invite our Honorary members and friends of Rotary.

 

We collected $201 in fines for Hat Day /Australian Rotary Health’s “Lift the Lid on Mental illness.”.  Thank you to everyone who donated. For information I have forwarded a photo of us all wearing our hats on zoom to the organisation. And thank you to those members who also made a normal fines deposit. You can do this at any time into Bendigo bank account: BSB: 633 000   Account: 156947988. Reference  - Fines.

 

Whilst the Hills storm seems months ago the recovery and distribution of funds is still continuing. Emma’s Community team have now finalised distribution of the balance of the Club’s Storm relief funds. With a donation of $1,440 to Mt. Dandenong Primary School to run the wellbeing program called “Seasons” for students impacted by storms and the Club is to pay $360 to Gem Signs which covers the signs used at the staging area during the “Help the Hills” storm recovery project. The Cluster group is continuing to meet regularly to address distribution of the RAWC’s funds. It is hoped that DG Daryl Moran can attend the next meeting on 28^th October.

 

Next week we are inducting our 2^nd new member into the Club for the 2021-2022 Rotary Year, so you are encouraged to attend to support Greg Adams.  Greg has a wealth of knowledge and we are looking forward to him becoming a valuable part of our team. We also will be having our two twins Susi Wilson and John Shaw sharing what life has been like growing up as a twin (not each other) – did they wear the same clothes, did they play tricks on people, can they read each other’s minds? – hopefully all will be revealed, Also, Don Borg is going to talk to us about where he was born/grew up. It should be an entertaining evening.

 

It has still to be decided whether we can resume the Trash 2 Treasure Market with effect November. If it is able to proceed it will have been moved to our new monthly date of the 2^nd Saturday of the month ie.13^th November.  Catherine and Emma will advise as soon as they can.  In readiness for all those people who keep telling us “I don’t carry any cash” we now have an EFT machine. I currently hold it however it will be handed over to Lorna our Club Service Chairperson for safekeeping.  For information, the Club phone is currently with Catherine.

 

Look forward to seeing you all on Tuesday in your Halloween gear.

 

Yours in Rotary,         

 

 

Shalini Penny, President