January is Vocational Service Month                                                                   20 JANUARY 2021

OUR NEXT MEETING   WEDNESDAY JANUARY 20th at Bucatini   TIME 6:00 pm Dinner will be served at 6:30 Zoom link will be opened at 6:50 for those unable to attend in person.   PROGRAM:  Information session on the plans for Australia Day Event as organised by the Whitehorse Council, with particular reference to our own contribution towards these celebrations. Read more... REPORTS AUSTRALIA DAY EVENT     The RC Nunawading Australia Day Committee has now agreed to assist the council at two of the 5 locations in the City of Whitehorse   Halliday Park in Mitcham Surrey Park in Box Hill South   We will assist with  QR codes and wrist bands as well as with barbecuing sausages.    The venues are going to be fenced and only 1,000 people are to be allowed in for a sausage, ice-cream and entertainment.   At the time of our last meeting we still needed a couple of volunteers for the barbecues and to sit at the entry to assist with the QR codes and wrist bands. Two shifts need to be staffed between the hours of 10:30am  to 3:30pm.   If you are able to assist on the day at either venue could you please email Bob Davis with a preference to time and venue-  bob.lyn.davis@gmail.com   This will be an opportunity to showcase Rotary at each of these venues so please wear your Rotary gear. BUNNINGS SAUSAGE SIZZLES    SATURDAY FEBRUARY 7th   Bunnings has provided us with one more day for sizzling sausages. Due to the fact that Sausage sizzles will no longer take place on Thursdays and Fridays, this may well be the last one for a very long time. We still need a couple more volunteers to enable us to staff all positions in keeping with COVID safe practice. Please contact Janette if you can help out   UPDATE FOR TAVENUI PROJECTS   Len forwarded these reports to me with a request that I  publish them in the Bulletin. He also asks if the club would consider making a contribution to to these programs. He and Bruce continue to collect spectacles for our Rotary eye projects.    From Peter Malden   Eye Project   Due to impending changes in the funding of Global Grants, NZ and Boronia hurried through the application to obtain the maximum Foundation match for club donations. I can again confirm that we were successful and the next Eye Project is thus fully funded and even better fully approved by Rotary Foundation, although it is subject to International Travel being resumed. My best guess is we will be conducting the surgery part of the project in May of 2022. Prior to that we will be training the Fiji Society for the Blind screening people and doing the patient testing to get the best candidates for the project. I will be giving a full update in February once more things become clearer. Your funding donation assisted in getting the grant approved – thank you.       School Assistance Project For background information on cyclone Yasa and how it devastated the Taveuni Islands, leaving farming families with no income, please link through to Cyclone Yasa   Find flyer at   HELP NOW   NB. No Rotary Building was damaged during Cyclone Yasa. We are in the process of increasing our normal Taveuni School Assistance Project to try to fund at least double the number of students this calendar year. Should you or your club like to assist us in this International Project all we need is a pledge at this time. Read more... SEEKING PLAYGROUND DESTINATIONS     Would you like to add a playground to your overseas project and receive $500 towards the cost of transport?   The Rotary Overseas Recycled Playgrounds Project (RORP) can help.   RORP, a project of the Rotary Club of Flemington Kensington,  ‘harvests ‘ playgrounds here in Victoria that would otherwise be sent to landfill. Playgrounds have been mainly sent to Sri Lanka through a partnership between the Rotary Clubs of Flemington-Kensington and Colombo. with some being sent to Timor Leste, Tanzania and Papua New Guinea Read more... FARMER'S MARKET REPORT JANUARY 2021  RESULTS Great results for the day with 51 stalls     Stallholders   $3,350.00   Donations $1,240.10   Barbeque $ 427.50         Total  $5,017.60 FORTHCOMING EVENTS TUESDAY 26th JANUARY 2021   Australia Day  Zoom  Event     More information  and Registration  at https://events.humanitix.com/rotarydownunder_100_national_australia_day_event SATURDAY 6th FEBRUARY 2021     CHINESE NEW YEAR Chinese Lunar New Year will fall on Friday the 12th February 2021. This year will be the Year of the Ox.  For more information about the significance of the Year of the Ox click at the link https://chinesenewyear.net/       James Tan has organised our   ANNUAL CHINESE NEW YEAR DINNER at 6:30 pm on Saturday February 6 th  VENUE:     37/39 Brentford Square Forest Hill VIC 3131.    COST:  $40 per person.  Normally corkage charge is $5.00 person but the restaurant has confirmed no corkage charge for the night so BYO.      RSVP:     Friday, 26 January  jamestan@immigrationlawyer.com.au   To check out what promises to be a truly delicious meal Read more... A WORLD OF ROTARY STORIES     As we stand at the threshold of the third decade of the 21st century,   imagine where we’re headed Illustration by Aubrey Pohl   https://www.rotary.org/en/future-what-can-we-expect-when-we-get-there   Featuring in the January Issue of the Rotarian, this links through to 5 more articles on the subjects featured below.       BIRTHDAYS & ANNIVERSARIES     View our      JANUARY   CELEBRATIONS   HERE JUST FOR FUN FROM OUR MEMBERS   Len sent this to me, and I loved it, so I do hope you do too     For tech support response Read more... FARMERS MARKET ROSTER   Farmers Market - 14th February 2021   Volunteers: Please contact Graeme if you are available DATES FOR YOUR DIARY   Read more... COLLECTIONS   Club members collect a wide variety of items to provide resources in cash or kind for organisations we support.  Read more... RI & DISTRICT 9810 LINKS Read more... ARCHIVED BULLETINS Click read more to view archived bulletins from July 2020 onwards Read more... MAGAZINE LINKS   Rotary Districts and Rotary Special interest Groups provide a wide range of informative and engaging on-line magazines and journals. Access some of them from the links provided.   OPEN DOORS      18 January 2020 Read more...

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