Greetings everyone

Hope your week has been good.

General update

I am very pleased to let you all know that our favorite ophthalmologist, Dr Alex Ioannidis has rejoined the club.

Minutes/committee reports from the August board meeting will be circulated by the end of this week pending acceptance at Wednesdays board meeting.

Dick Tregear audited our accounts and has issued an audit certificate so they are all ready for our AGM in November – thanks Dick!

Meeting on 18 September 2019

Don’t forget to bring your plastic bottle tops to add to our collection for Sean Teer – Sean will be talking to us about making prosthetic hands from recycled bottle tops!

Only those tops with numbers 2 or 4 along with the recycling symbol please.

Meeting on 25 September 2019 – Partners night with dress ups and a very special anniversary celebration!

This will be a bumper meeting:

• Grand Final celebrations so partners welcome and dress up in your club colours – all footy codes welcome!
• We will be celebrating Bob and Bev Hoskin’s 60^th Wedding Anniversary
• The guest speaker will be Syd Sherrin – Syd’s Father, Tom Sherrin, was president of the Collingwood Football Club and his family company made the famous Sherrin footballs.

Syd was involved in the manufacture of footballs and still handmakes them for special occasions.  He has a great story to tell.

Parma’s for Polio Thursday, 3 October 2019

Remember No meeting on Wednesday 2^nd October at Bucatini – instead we will be supporting Newgen on Thursday 3 October at the Coach in Ringwood to raise money for Polio.

Whitehorse Business Group Awards

We have a table of 10 attending the awards night on 4 October 2019 which is great.  It should be a really good night.

John Lynch and I have completed our judging duties and will meet with the wider judging group on Tuesday 17 September. At this meeting we advise the winners in our respective categories and we also collectively select an overall winner.

Whitehorse Spring Festival – Sunday,  20 October 2019 

On Thursday 19 September, I am attending a cluster based meeting to discuss how we will approach the Spring Festival in terms of how we market Rotary.  If you have any ideas/feedback please let me know. If anyone else wishes to attend, it is at the Blackburn Hotel in the bistro commencing at 5.30pm.

International Women’s Day Breakfast – Wednesday, 4 March 2020

On Sunday afternoon I attended a committee meeting for the now cluster based International Women’s Day breakfast.   Planning is well under way.  The venue is almost confirmed (Box Hill Town Hall).  The costing will be $70 per head and there will be a short early bird offer period.  Speakers are still being finalized.

If anyone is able to assist with significant raffle prizes please let me know.   The raffle tickets will be $5 each or 5 for $20.

President Gabby