We have
a very busy couple of months ahead of us and it would be great to
see our Members and Friends of the Rotary Club of Southbank attend
“Breakfast with the Pres”. If you are interested, it will be this
Thursday at 7 am for 7.15 am start at the Observatory Cafe,
Botanical Gardens. We seem to get a lot done at these breakfasts
in resourcing projects and this coming week we will talk about
work in progress on the website, the establishment of the Rotaract
Club of Melbourne, the upcoming Community Service Excellence
Awards, the business breakfasts, and other initiatives in
Community and International Service. Your input would be valued!
We also
have “Rotary in Concert” coming up. Chris Trueman will be sending
out an invitation flyer to our Members as well as to Clubs around
us, but in the meantime, here are a few of the details:
Date: Tuesday
4th May 2010
Time: 6.00 pm
for 6.30 pm start, finishing about 8.30 pm.
Venue: River
Room, Crown Towers Hotel
Event: “Rotary
in Concert”, a magical musical evening with the internationally
acclaimed duo, Mundy Turner, who will tell/sing their
singer-songwriter story in a cabaret style concert performance.
Benefit event
for: Susubeen East Timor
Cost: $40
per head for buffet dinner (including wine) and concert
performance.
Please
support this wonderful event, and bring friends along too!
Have a
great week in Rotary.
President Philip
(Thanks to Stuart McArthur for
the timely scribe notes)
Meeting 518 Scribe Notes
Scribe notes
for the meeting 518 on 23/02/2010 by Stuart McArthur
President
welcomed 17 members and 1 visitor
Melbourne
Summer Cycle - Troy
Troy spoke on
a successful day for the Melbourne Summer Cycle to raise money for
MS Society. Over 5000 people participated in the 40 km cycle
including the opportunity to ride over the Westgate bridge.
6 members of
RC Southbank participated and between them raised over $3100 (Philip
over $1700!) The entire event raised more than $590,000. Well done
all!
International / Community - Clinton
Upcoming
events – please contact people below for more information
16-18/04 –
Street Soccer – Training camp at Lansfield – Camp Weekaway – Tracey
20/05 –
Community Service Awards – Stephen McInnes
Hanover –
still looking for volunteers – Barbara
RAWCS stickers
are available for your car – only $5 – Clinton
Community
Service Awards – Steven
Special event
planned for 20th May
Jonathan Walsh
has been secured as the key headline act.
Lord Mayors
Charitable Foundation is the key sponsor of the event and will help
promote the event among 50 key community groups. Nominations for
the awards in 7 categories will be received and winners in each
category will win $20,000 (each award to be sponsored by
companies). Sponsorships for the individual categories are still
available.
Tables of 10
will cost $1500 and we are expecting to fill 35 tables of 10.
Special thanks
to Chris, Stuart, Gordon, Clinton & Barbara so far for assistance in
organising this event. Website design and support is also being
provided by Disegno.
David de
Kretser, A.C., Governor of Victoria will also be the patron for the
event.
Stuart
spoke on the upcoming website.
Please refer
attached
PowerPoint presentation for more information.
Upcoming
Meeting Programme – Gordon Hastie
2/3 Speaker –
Darren Williams – conversion of 1920’s electrical substation into
arts complex at Newport
9/3 Bare foot
bowling at Middle Park Bowling Club
16/3 Board
Reports / Joint meeting with Rotary Club of Docklands / Friends of
Rotary
30/3 TBA
Youth
New Rotaract
Club of Melbourne City is being proposed – ages 18-30 – Stuart
Cardell / Narina and others are working on this project and visits
are being made to tertiary institutions to encourage support.
RYLA / YAA –
both projects of our club next year. Volunteers will be required
for the RYLA camp – more details to come…
Friends of
Rotary – Troy
A successful
night was held last week for the launch of this program. 25-30
potential friends attended with 4-5 so far committing to become a
friend of Rotary. The next meeting will be on 16/03. Cost is $50 /
year to join (free for partners of Rotarians.)
Xanana
Vocational Education Trust
Chris has
recently spoken to the Rotary Club of Bentleigh Moorabbin who is a
big supporter of this program about the Susubeen program.
Members
Moment – Judy Parslow.
Judy has been
travelling yet again – Malaysia / Singapore / India / Sri Lanka /
Philippines / etc. More clubs, district conferences, and welcoming
friends made this yet another great Rotary journey for Judy.
