October is Economic and Community Development Month                                  07 October 2020

CONGRATULATIONS NUNAWADING PDG Shia Smart attended our Zoom meeting last week to congratulate us and present us with the citation above. This award is presented jointly to Rotary and NewGen combined.   CLUB EXECUTIVES   View all at Executives and Directors   https://www.facebook.com/rotaryclubofnunawading/   Visit our website at          https://www.rotarynunawading.com.au/home.htm   CONTACT US at           rotarynunawading@gmail.com   Read more...         Wednesday 7th October on Zoom at 7:00 pm   The zoom room opens at 6:45pm for Fellowship  SPEAKER:                              District Governor Alma Reynolds   Program for 14th October: Fibber McGee & Molly - a radio play   To view program for the  weeks ahead, visit   SPEAKERS     PP Gabby Knaepple, Chair of the Public Image Committee reported that the committee had a productive meeting where they discussed the RC Nunawading website Bulletin Banners Facebook and the production of a brochure Read more... Treasurer Russell advised that all raffle tickets had been sold and paid for. Arrangements need to be made to pick up the stubs from Aurora - possibly by Colin. We are all delighted that the club has  made $ 3,100 from the sale of raffle tickets, which will fund some of our ongoing projects at Aurora Special School Kiel Egging from NewGen  This time last year, NewGen held its hugely successful Parmas for Polio fundraiser at The Coach in Ringwood. It attracted over 100 guests - including plenty of RC Nunawading members - and the group was able to qualify for the district's PolioPlus program and raise more than $13,300 for polio eradication worldwide.   Obviously due to COVID-19 restrictions, the club isn't holding the event in the same timeslot this year. However, NewGen plans to stage Parmas For Polio again sometime this Rotary year, most likely in early 2021.     Read more... THE WHITEHORSE FARMER'S MARKET returns   SUNDAY OCTOBER 11. Thank you to all who have volunteered to staff the gates GRAEME will send out rosters soon         HEPATITIS AWARENESS   Ian Armstrong introduced Kevin Sheehan.  ian had first met Kevin on board a bus in San Francisco in 1976. Since then they have been friends, competitors and even colleagues when they served together on the Board of REIV (The Real Estate Institute of Victoria). Needless to say, they are still friends.  Kevin is the immediate past president of the Rotary Club of Melbourne.   Kevin told us that END HEPATITIS NOW is one of 5 Centenary Projects being implemented by the Rotary Club of Melbourne. The project encompasses an International component as well as a National one The Australasian (international) component involves vaccination of 100,000 children in the Asia Pacific. It will be delivered in cooperation with UNICEF, with funding from Rotary Club of  Melbourne and other Rotary Clubs, together with a Global Grant. This part of the project has experienced significant delays, as many of the recipient countries are COVID free and so have closed borders. The national project involves making Australians aware of this 'Silent Epidemic.' This arm of the project has progressed at a greater rate than expected because Zoom meetings have made it easier to carry the message throughout Australia.   Read more...   SATURDAY OCTOBER 10   Hat Day Australian Rotary Health's annual national mental health research fundraising event is now less than 2 weeks away!        Help  #Liftthelidonmentalillness on   World Mental Health Day - October 10 or anytime during October for Mental Health Month by hosting a Hat Day, participating in an event, or donating to mental health research.    Visit ARH Facebook page at  https://www.facebook.com/AustralianRotaryHealth/       SUNDAY OCTOBER 11   Celebrating the  International Day of the Girl Child Proceeds will be donated to “Days For Girls” More info                       HERE Ticketing:      https://events.humanitix.com/growing-great-girls  Facebook :    https://www.facebook.com/events/3204155193014730 MONDAY OCTOBER 19 The Challenge of COVID Recovery Guest Speaker : John Hewson Registration and details   HERE THURSDAY NOVEMBER 12   ‘No Time to Die’ Presented by the Rotary Club of Wandin Inc.  Proceeds to help fund the Taveuni (Fiji) Eye Surgery project.         Details at                           NO TIME TO DIE  (subject to COVID restrictions)       View our   OCTOBER CELEBRATIONS   HERE HOLY HUMOR from Gabby       A QUIZ  FROM WAYNE   Something for seniors to do to keep those "aging" grey cells active! And for you younger ones, to get them growing!! GIVE IT A GO! Johnny's mother had three children.  The first child was named April. The second child was named May.  What was the third child's name? There is a clerk at the butcher shop, he is five feet ten inches tall and he wears size 13 sneakers. What does he weigh? Before Mt. Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world? How much dirt is there in a hole... that measures two feet by three feet by four feet? What word in the English Language... is always spelled incorrectly? Billy was born on July 28th, yet his birthday is always in the summer.  How is this possible? In California, you cannot take a picture of a man with a wooden leg.  Why not? What was the Prime Minister’s Name...in 1975?  If you were running a race, and you passed the person in 2nd place, what place would you be in now? Which is correct to say, "The yolk of the egg are white" or "The yolk of the egg is white"? If a farmer has 5 haystacks in one field and 4 haystacks in the other field, how many haystacks would he have if he combined them all in another field? FOR ANSWERS Read more...     IS THAT A FACT?   This image has been widely circulated on facebook. The post says that this image is entitled "Life in 2022", and the accompanying information suggests that the illustrator Walter Molino foresaw the Pandemic of 2020 and the social distancing practices that have ensued. I did a fact check and found  It is true that the Walter Molino's illustration was published  on December 16, 1962 on the back cover of the Italian magazine La Domenica del Corriere and was made by the Italian artist. It  is NOT titled "Life in 2022"  It actually is a visualisation of a future motorised method of transport.   Read more     HERE     Read more...   Club members collect a wide variety of items to provide resources in cash or kind for organisations we support.  Read more... Read more...   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:     Read more... The speakers sessions  from this conference can viewed by clicking the link below Rotary Zone 8 Virtual Conference 2020

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