July Theme: Membership and Extension
Month
Lookout
Reserve Maintenance Roster: planning is in progress.
Report
of Meeting: 1/8/2017
Visitors: Marian
Coppins-King.
- Membership fees are due.
$210.00. John Paton or Noel Emselle will accept them happily and with grace.
- Tiffany is with her new host
family. She will travel home on 21st August. Hopefully a farewell
function will be arranged.
President: Ride the Bellarine
will be held again in this Rotary year.
There will be a Rotary
Showcase in the centre of Geelong and an International theme will be featured.
The painting by Dennis Sonogan
that will be the first prize in the Art Show raffle was on display.
Publicity:
There
were two articles concerning Rotary in the Voice this week.
Fundraising: Volunteers are
needed for the manning of the gates at the Geelong and District Finals matches.
This is a good fundraiser for the Club. See Peter Cullen for more information. A
roster was circulated for names to be added.
Market:
The
new venue at the Ocean Grove Park (Ingermells Park) is being promoted as widely
as possible.
Membership: A meeting will be held on
August 2nd targeting people who may be interested in becoming
Rotarians. 18 people are attending so hopefully there will be some new members.
Footy Tipping: Coral Barker won this week.
Geoff Ford remains the leader of the competition.
Community:
-
Lookout Reserve revegitation and general maintenance will be held on Sunday, 10th
September at10am. 40 people attended the gathering for National Tree Day. Members
of the Club provided the BBQ lunch.
Peter Cullen has continued to
collect batteries and he has delivered 2.5 tonnes since the collection
commenced.
Vocational: Two activities are planned and
locked in.
- Driftwood Café on
Tuesday 12th September, 6 for 6.30pm. Ty Symons (owner/manager) will
explain how the café came about and general aspects of café management. This is
a partner’s night and friends and guests are most welcome. Cost for the evening
is $30.00, this includes a wine tasting and a two-course meal. A minimum of 40
people is needed.
- Visit to the
Waltons Piggery on Sunday 12th November. Please see the recent email
for details.
Please
note: The bus will take 57 people plus driver. NO PUBLIC TRANSPORT
CAN BE ALLOWED ON THE FARM.
Please email Martin
with your intentions for both these functions. (He is away for the next two
weeks.)
Social: Several events are
planned including a visit to a drive in movie, progressive dinner and car
rally.
Japan
Trip: Nicole reported that there are 10 people interested and hopes more will
join them when the trip is opened up to other Club members.
Guest
Speaker: Coral Barker described the early day and events of the Art Show. 🎨
The Show is being held for the
8th year this year and while many members have been involved she
stressed that all members need to be involved for this success to continue.
The mounting of the show was
the brain- child of a past member Ian Downing. It took two years to organize,
promote and implement the 1st show. Two local organizations were
selected as the main beneficiaries, Riding Develops Abilities and Disabled
Surfers Association as it was felt that there would be a ‘feel good’ factor
that donors could identify with. There are three categories, painting (all
mediums), printmaking and drawing
The show is different because
there is reasonable prize money awarded to the winning artists and entry fees
whilst reasonably high have resulted in many well-recognized artists to enter. The
Board of Management gave substantial seeding money to the fist show that was
held in the Queenscliff Town Hall. Over 300 works were entered and a somewhat
chaotic hanging session the results of this show at $15,000 encouraged the Club
and the committee to continue in future years. The whole operation is now
smooth and orderly and artists and audience appear to appreciate their efforts.
Judges are preferably not
local artists. The show is now mounted in the Point Lonsdale Primary School, as
there is no other facility that is suitable or has the required attributes on
the Peninsular.
. This year the show is
officially part of the Bellarine Arts Trail, which has been extended to include
Pt. Lonsdale and Queenscliff.
The Club has been able to give
$55,000 since 2011 so please publicize the Art Show and attend when you are
able.
This year the Art Show is on
the evening of 3rd November as well as Saturday 4th and
Sunday 5th November. There have been some entries already!
Thank you.
AG
