March Theme: Water and Sanitation Month
Notice of Meeting for the Rotary Club of Ocean Grove,
18 The Terrace, Ocean Grove, on Tuesday, 5/4/2016, 6.00 for 6.30pm
Speaker: Coral Naylor. "Uniting Care."
Chairman: John Calnin
Greeter and Assistant Sergeant: Hans Franken
Assistant Cashier and Thanker: John Paton
Weekly Raffle: Jim Ricchini
Birthdays and Anniversaries: 8/4 Martin Geerings, 9/4 John Calnin, Gordon King, and Victor Harnath.
Notice of Meeting for the Rotary Club of Ocean Grove,
On Tuesday, 12/4/2016, 6.00 for 6.30pm
Guest Speaker: COGG Library Staff. This is a vocational visit to the new Library.
Meet at the Library before 6.15pm. Partners are welcome.
Dinner will be at La Porcetta, which is close by.
Chairman: Martin Geerings
Greeter and Assistant Sergeant: N/A
Assistant Cashier and Thanker: N/A
Raffle: N/A
Birthdays and Anniversaries: Nil
Notice of the Meeting for the Rotary Club of Ocean Grove,
On Tuesday, 19/4/2016, 6.00 for 6.30pm
Guest Speaker: TBA Anzac Day Remberance
Chairman: Victor Harnath
Greeter and Assistant Sergeant: Gordon King
Assistant Cashier and Thanker: Peter Cullen
Weekly Raffle: Bill Walton
Birthdays and Anniversaries: 19/4 Adrian Schmidt
Lookout Reserve Maintenance Roster: 23/4/2016 – 21/4/2016 Dick Clay, 22/4/2016 – 21/5/2016 Norm Elliott.
Report of Meeting: 29/3/2016.
Visitors: Janos Tibour and Felicity Rousseaux Also prospective members.
Lynne Carlson – prospective member (corporate) from Hello World, and colleague Nicole Rappell, Ted Millear (RC of Ararat), Doug and Gaye Redding.
Phil Edwards: Guest Speaker.
President: Emergency in Fiji – The Board has decided that the Club will donate $3000 to the RAWCs Cyclone Winston relief fund in Fiji.
Thanks were expressed to Martin Geerings for organizing a very successful visit to the Boorai Centre last week.
The visit to Davidson's restaurant has been cancelled.
Ride the Bellarine: 3/4/2016. John Paton reported that there were enough Volunteers and that entries and donations were up from last year.
Secretary Report: Please confirm or update your entry in the membership book.
Treasurer: Social membership of the Bowling Club is due. Please fill in the forms as requested if your details have changed. The Rotary Club will pay the fee.
Administration: Judy Greer (incoming President) reminded the members that the District Assembly would be held at Stawell on 1/5/16. Those who are coming in as Directors should attend if possible.
The District Conference will be held next year at the Barrabool Hills Centre in Highton between March 31st and April 1st.
Community: Please let John Wynn know if you have goods for the DIK collection, which will be after Easter.
Footy Tipping: Judy Greer picked 9 winners this week.
See Alex with your $50 if you have not paid.
Foundation: There will be a Film Night for Polio Plus on 13/4/16. The Film is "Eddie the Eagle" and the cost is $20. 20th Century Fox has donated a door prize of a DVD.
Fundraising: $16100 was raised at the Collendina Resort for the RCH Good Friday Appeal. Well done Bill Steains and crew.
Youth: Two students will attend the RYPEN weekend at Millicent.
International: The next payment to the Solemaid School in Bangladesh is due and will be paid. The sub Committee would like to apply for a matching grant to support an extra teacher and perhaps another grant to purchase shoes as well as books for the children.
Market: The market held on Easter Monday 28/3/2016 was busy with 90 stallholders.
Thanks were expressed to all who helped especially Lynne Carlson and Felicity Rousseau and Janos Tibour.
The BBQ Raffle raised $1870 – the winner was S Crichton. The gold coin donation raised $855 for the Rotary Foundation.
Coral Barker has volunteered to run the Winter Markets and will need help to set up/take down.
Art Show Sub Committee: Neighborhood Center Art Show is being held on 1/4/2016 – 3/4/16 at the Centre.
Guest Speaker: Phil Edwards. "Soldier On."
Phil continues to be very busy and plans to retire again this week. His continuing activity will focus on the charity he and a friend started in 2012. They founded a not for profit organization which assists wounded comrades and their families who have served recently, especially those who have been posted in Afghanistan. There have been 72,000 women and men who have served since 1990. Some of these have been physically and/or mentally affected. The organization helped 200 young veterans in 2012 and 500 in 2015. Currently there are two centers operating as hubs for care. The hope is to increase these centers.
Phil stressed that outcome was most important. They strive to reintegrate the generation of personnel into the community with the focus on the mental and physical health of the veterans, their families and the community they inhabit. Other organizations and industries are encouraged to help. Support staff is usually voluntary and any activity or means is used to assist with the integration.
Phil along with a friend plans to walk 300+ kilometers across England commencing on 22nd May, The walk is planned to take 18 days and will commence at St Bees and finish at Robin Hood Bay. Sponsorship is needed, as the aim is to raise $40,000.
Details can be found through Google walking across the UK soldier on.
Please note it is essential that apologies be recorded by 12noon on Mondays.
Also the Club has to pay for members who have not apologized and not turned up!
In future all members who have not apologized will be sent an invoice.
Phone number is: 0457 315 900
Thank You, AG
