Sandown Community Support Fund Awards Night Rotary Youth Driver Awareness (RYDA) Thursday 14 July 2022 | |
On Thursday evening, 14 July, Bob Williams (Forest Hill Rotary) Judith Eadon and Gabby Knaepple attended an Community awards event at Sandown Greyhound Club. The Rotary Youth Driver Awareness program via Road Safety Education Victoria received a grant. This was presented to Anton Hockey, who is the RYDA coordinator for Victoria. Anton spoke at one of our meetings more recently about RYDA. There were 7 grant recipients all up and each recipient had a greyhound race named after them that ran on the night. RYDA was race 5! |  |
It was great to see the area which is used for RYDA program sessions. We enjoyed a very nice smorgasbord main meal, dessert, and ice cream. We met up with several other Rotarians there for other functions so had a great chat to Shia and Duncan Smart and said hello to Ian Ballantine plus a few others. We were invited to witness a traditional smoking ceremony for the unveiling of a new Acknowledgement of Country plaque. We were invited to take part in the ceremony by waving the smoke over ourselves to cleanse the past for a better future. Sandown Park is on the land of the Bunurong people.  Click image above for a look at the complete program for race 5 |