All present at the Presidents’ meeting on Friday stood in silence as a mark of respect for Carol Hedley, President of the Rotary “e” Club of Greater Melbourne who died suddenly on April 27th.
Carol was the wife of Past District Governor Philip Hedley.
A celebration of Life Service will be held on Monday May 16th at Parkdale Uniting Church at 1pm
Members of the Rotary Club of Nunawading extend their sincerest condolences to Philip and family
Blackburn Lake Sanctuary Visitors Centre has had it's façade renovated. RC Nunawading originally donated $50,000 to build the centre. The updated centre was opened on Saturday 30th April by the Mayor Philip Daw. There were representatives from RCs of Box Hill, Box Hill Central, Forest Hill, Mitcham and Nunawading. More information can be found at www.blackburnlakesanctuary.org
The young person from Papua New Guinea who is coming out for more surgery will be here in June/July. Harvey will pick him up from the airport. He will be here for a month. Accommodation is in place for him.
Russell Gurney (partner Shelley) is the incoming District Governor for 2018/2019 year. He is from the RC of Doncaster.
International Women's Day breakfast at the Box Hill Town Hall raised around $10,000
MUNA was attended by Judith and Gabby on Saturday and Judith on Sunday. The team from Blackburn High School won because both team members were strong speakers, they both spoke, listened to all the arguments and formulated responses after the arguments had been presented. They will represent District 9810 at a national MUNA in August 2016
The Medical Imaging Machines in Sri Lanka need attention so Peter will be going over to fix them. Cassette readers have been made available for the machines - we are working with the RC of Bega to transport the cassettes to Footscray.
Don't forget lunch at the Dorset Gardens Hotel on Monday 9th May 2016. Start time is 12.30pm
Former RC Nunawading member and Past President Alan Petitt will be President of the RC of Carlton next year. He had previously been at the RC of North Essendon and was President there as well!!
Wendy O is unwell - the members send best wishes to you Wendy and hope you get better soon
10 people are needed for District Changeover on 25 June 2016. 3 or 4 are needed to assist with parking and 6 for the registration desk. Please let Janette know if you can help out.
Judith read out a thank you note from Sandra (RC of Monash) for all the soap we donated for the Days for Girls Project.
It was great to see Hank G at the meeting - he was looking very well!
Our speaker was from the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria
It is based in Blackburn and was established in 1880
Their patron is Governor of Victoria Linda Dessau AM
Their first meeting was at the Athenaeum in May 1880 and 30 people attended
The club is the first of its kind in Australia
The FNCV has awarded the Australian Natural History Medallion since 1940 and there have been some well known recipients including David Fleay, Vincent Serventy, Bruce Fuhrer and Graham Pizzey
The club is spilt into 8 groups and include the Botany group, the Day Group, Fauna Survey Group, Fungi group, Geology group, Juniors and Terrestrial Invertebrate Group
A invitation from Whitehorse Rotaract to attend their meeting on 11 May 2016
Hi to our sponsor Rotary Clubs :)
John Williams from Rotary Club of Noble Park will be attending our next club meeting to talk about the Dolly Parton's Imagination Library project. This is a project Whitehorse Rotaractors are interested in finding out more information about setting up and running a literacy program.
We would like to extend an invitation to our sponsor Rotary Clubs to attend our meeting if you are interested in hearing John talk about the D9810 pilot program by Noble Park RC.
Just a reminder that the 2016 District Training Assembly will be on Sunday 22 May at 9.00am at the Burwood Campus of Deakin University, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood 3125.
The visit has been arranged for 27 July commencing at 6pm and lasting about 60-70 minutes after which we will adjourn to a restaurant for dinner.
The Institute has advised as follows:-
“Please let me know if there is a particular area of research that you would like to hear about during the tour. The areas of research at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute include cancer, including breast, lung, ovarian, prostate, colon and blood cancers; immune disorders such as diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus and celiac disease; and infectious diseases such as malaria, hepatitis B and HIV. As part of the tour you can meet with a scientist that researches in your area of interest, hear about their research and tour through their laboratory. The tours usually run for approximately one hour, and also include an overview of the history and other research areas at the institute.”
The institute is located at 1G Royal Parade, Parkville (behind the Royal Melbourne Private Hospital). There is limited car parking on their forecourt, and more parking available in the Royal Melbourne Hospital car park beside the institute.
In April I will seek the members views on what areas they have an interest in being covered during the visit.
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All's well with fantastic Arctic scenery, sunshine, calm seas, excellent food and at the highest point of the European mainland , arriving Kirkenes tomorrow morning. For tea tonight- Reindeer stew, cod and Cods tongue, king crab and the best ever chips. I am swapping cooking tips with the Michelin trained Chef
Yours in Comedy
Len
Please save the motel soaps or similar size for the 'Days for Girls' program which is a program for sending sanitation products in a wash bag for teenage girls overseas. Give them to Judith.
Save used stamps with a good deal of the envelope! They pay by weight! - proceeds go to ROMAC
DISTRICT STAMP FUND
Your DSF is under huge pressure to continue raising valuable funds from Philatelic Garbology.
Why not visit your City Council/Hospital/ School or big business and request their envelopes?
$100k is our aim and with $94,000.00 already achieved we haven't far to go.
Please try -it WON'T COST YOU ONE CENT but WILL DO A LOT FOR THOSE LESS FORTUNATE.
Don't forget to save your foreign coins and notes - there is a jar to put them in at the weekly meetings
We were dressed and ready to go out for a dinner and theatre evening. We turned on a 'night light', turned on the answering machine, covered our pet parrot, and put the cat in the backyard.
We phoned the local taxi company and requested a cab. The taxi arrived, and we opened the front door to leave the house.
As we walked out the door, the cat we had put out in the yard scooted back into the house. We didn't want the cat shut in the house because she always tries to get at the parrot.
My wife walked on out to the taxi, while I went back inside to get the cat.
The cat ran upstairs, with me in hot pursuit.
Waiting in the cab, my wife didn't want the driver to know that the house would be empty for the night, so she explained to the taxi driver that I would be out soon. "He's just going upstairs to say good-bye to my mother."
A few minutes later, I got into the cab. "Sorry I took so long,” I said, as we drove away. "That stupid bitch was hiding under the bed and I had to poke her ass with a coat hanger to get her to come out. She tried to take off, so I grabbed her by the neck. Then, I had to wrap her in a blanket to keep her from scratching me. But it worked, so I hauled her downstairs and threw her out into the backyard. She'd better not shit in the vegetable garden again!"
“In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it.”
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