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MEETING 450- 16
September 2008
This week's meeting of the Rotary Club of Southbank will be held at :
Drawing Room, Level 3
Crown Towers Hotel
Whiteman Street,
Southbank
Meeting time: 6 pm for 6:30 pm start
To book or record an
apology, please contact Bobbi
via
email before
10 am Monday.
PROGRAM
Guest Speaker:
Andrew Copley, Media Officer
The Greyhound Adoption Program, or GAP, is an initiative of
Greyhound Racing Victoria dedicated to finding homes for greyhounds
that are no longer suitable for racing.
Find more details on their website
http://gap.grv.org.au/
Next Week's meeting
Guest Speaker:
 Margaret
Smith
Adult Multicultural Education Services
Adult Multicultural
Education Services (AMES) is Australia's largest provider of
specialist, multicultural language, employment and settlement
services.
UPCOMING ROSTER
If you are unable to
attend a meeting for which you are rostered, please arrange for a
swap with someone and let
Carl know.
Scribes
- please send your scribe notes by 5pm
Friday to
the Bulletin Editor
to ensure your notes are included in the next
Bulletin.
Click here for
Scribe Notes Template
All rostered responsibilities are important to the success and
professionalism of our weekly meetings. Thank you for your
ongoing enthusiasm in fulfilling your rostered roles.
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Date |
Chair |
Scribe / Greeter |
Corporal |
Members' Moment |
Attendance |
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16.09.2008 |
Bettina |
Mandy |
Wendy |
Stuart |
Richard |
|
23.09.2008 |
Leigh |
Stuart |
Michael F |
Mandy |
Mandy |
|
30.09.2008 |
Gordon |
Dianne |
Lyn |
Chris |
Richard |
|
07.10.2008 |
Stuart |
Michael F |
Michael G |
Philip |
Nick |
|
14.10.2008 |
Rhys |
Lyn |
Bettina |
Wendy |
Chris |
|
21.10.2008 |
Richard |
Michael G |
Leigh |
Tracey |
Barbara |
|
28.10.2008 |
Rhys |
Bettina |
Mandy |
Dianne |
Philip |
|
11.11.2008 |
Chris |
Leigh |
Philip |
Richard |
Bettina |
|
18.11.2008 |
Barbara |
Gordon |
Jenny |
Rhys |
Michael F |
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23.11.2008 |
Philip |
Nick |
Stuart |
Lyn |
Dianne |
Last Week's
Meeting
Well, we have done it again
… two weeks ago we were buying saws and screwdrivers and at this
week’s meeting we had wine, chocolates and
 lemons
on offer! Looks
like we will have to re-badge ourselves as the Southbank Farmers’
Market!
One wonders what will be ‘on the menu’ next week … .....
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President
Gabe's Message
At
last week’s meeting, I introduced “Southbank Stars”. The idea came
about because there are many members doing a lot of good work and
other members rarely know about it. You could say it is a sort of
recognition but it is much more than that. It is an opportunity to
share what individual members are doing “behind the scenes”.
Sometimes, members wonder what the club is doing and this is a
question of effective communication (or the lack of it).....
(Full
President's Message here)
Young Achievement Australia 2008
 ....a
few words about the YAA “company” that RC Southbank sponsors along
with the RC Melbourne this year.
Established in Australia in 1977, Young Achievement Australia is a
dynamic, innovative, non-government, not for profit charitable
institution that is committed to developing the boundless
potential of young Australians.
In Victoria two Rotary Clubs, RC Southbank and RC Melbourne
participate in this incredible Program sharing the costs equally
of approximately $ 5,000.00.
This year the students have named their company Hard Yards.
(It is a YAA requirement that all company names must have the
letters YA in their name in that order.)
As well as sponsoring Hard Yards the two Rotary Clubs provide
mentors to coach the members with business skills. Southbank's
Member Gordon Hastie is one of these mentors........
click here
to find out more about this great program
RC Southbank
Special Book Sale
 Those
of you who have read the article about our successful event at
Club 3004 a couple of weeks ago will remember that we had some
very special Children's Books, Aussie Bush Buddies by Maxine
Philp-Wright, for sale.
Christmas is getting closer and we thought that you might want to
have a chance to by some of these books for your children,
grandchildren, nephews, nieces, friend's children, neighbour's
children.......
click here for
Brochure and Order sheet
 Royce
Abbey Award Celebration
The inaugural dinner will be a celebration of
enthusiasm and commitment to the ideals of Rotary. All clubs are
encouraged to nominate a member or members to receive their Royce
Abbey Award, who will be presented with the award by Rotary
International Past President Royce Abbey on the night.
Wednesday 3 December 2008
Moonee Valley Racecourse
Key note speaker & special guest:
Past President Rotary International
Mr. Bill Boyd
Starting time, price information and payment terms will be forwarded
shortly.
The Rotary Club of Essendon
PO Box 161
Essendon VIC 3040
www.rcessendon.com.au
please click here to read
Royce Abbey's letter
or here for
Royce Abbey Award Application Form
Dinner with Hon Peter Costello MP
RC Toorak
Tuesday 30th Sept.
7 pm for 7:30
Peter Costello will
personally sign The Costello Memoirs!
For more information and bookings please click here
Currently, Rotary District 9800 has four pilot Partnerships
Advancing Community Engagement (PACE)
projects up and running in four areas of Melbourne.
Rotary Club of Southbank and Rotary Club
of Melbourne are specifically engaged in one of these projects
supporting the Street Socceroos and the upcoming Homeless World
Cup.
Find out more about the Homeless World Cup and
how you can contribute to tacking homelessness. See the
attached
information and
volunteer form,
and
summary.
What do you know about the
Street Socceroos? Test your knowledge and win a prize.
Click here for the Homeless World Cup Quiz
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 Rotary
Foundation
District 9800 GSE Program 2008/2009
This Year's Group Study
Exchange Program addresses two Countries in Europe:
Sweden (District 2380) and Turkey (District 2420)
Please find more
information about the Program here:
Rotary Foundation
Melbourne Fringe Festival
William Shakespeare’s Cymbeline with Chris Bunworth
This “swiftly moving,
action-packed fairytale spun by an ensemble of only five actors”
features Chris Bunworth, a fine actor known to a number of us.
Sunday, 12th October 2008 at 5 pm
FortyFiveDownstairs, 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
Tickets are $27 or $20 for groups (10)
Chris may be joining us for a drink after the performance
If you would like
to join us for an entertaining Fellowship Event please contact Bobbi
via email
or phone (0410 105 360) before Monday 22nd September.
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Fellowship Dinner
On Tuesday,
14th October we will be having our meeting at the
ITALIAN
WAITERS CLUB
20 Meyers Place
(03) 9650 1508.
6pm for 6.30 pm
As most of you
will remember we had a Fellowship dinner there last year and it was
most enjoyable.
As is customary for our Fellowship events, friends and family are
invited, but we have a cap of 25 guests due to the seating capacity
of the restaurant so first in, first dressed -- or as we say in the
States, first come, first served.
Please RSVP your ACCEPTANCE OR APOLOGY by COB on Friday, 3rd
October via email to
meetings@rotary.to.
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DG Jim Studebaker's Weekly Message
(Issue 11, 8 September 2008)
September is
New Generations Month
"More than an Acronym"
I defy any
organisation to outdo Rotary in producing acronyms, we are
undoubtedly world leaders in this most necessary pursuit.
But are the Rotary whiz kids and ‘think tankers’ going too far?
You know… when you think of it… we could even have one for our own
District. How about “9800 Is The Way Inspiration Translates” or
NITWIT? I jest, of course, but alluding to acronyms gives me a
perfect ‘lead in’ for one this District’s great statements of
Rotary contribution. I speak, of course, of the confronting ‘never
forgotten’ acronym ‘DIK’.
DIK stands for Donations In Kind and....
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