Next Meeting:
3rd August 2020
We induct Ben Davidson as a member of RC Melbourne South and welcome Kitty O’Connor
transferring to Melbourne South.
17th August 2020
Our speaker will be Nicole Werner, Business Development and Relationship Manager for Empower
Australia. Providing Community Food Pantry on City Road, Southbank.
7th September 2020
We have invited Kamaya Crawford, Community Development Officer for Star Health, Community
Capacity Building Initiative. Working with Emerald Hill and South Melbourne Towers community’s.
What’s happening home and away…
The highlight of the week for me… Friday is my usual day to help Rotary Prahran distribute food
packs to Homeless Shelters in Melbourne. I usually arrive at 12.30pm load up 40+ bags and head to
the city. Susie Cole President of Rotary Club of Prahran phoned me in the morning asking if I could
arrive a little earlier as Chanel Nine we’re going to do a story on the Food sharing service.
Yes I could, apparently only needed a few shots of us packing the food into the bags and then
loading up the vehicles. Not so difficult! In order to give Rotary the best profile during filming we
Rotarians put on our Fluro Yellow vests. My vest went on top of multilayer of warm clothing and
with my hair tied up in a top knot. I suspect I looked more like a masked version of the yellow Teletubbie - Laalaa!
Pam tucked behind Mike Scott 
43 bags, 1 weeks supply of meals for 1 person
43 bags, 1 weeks supply of meals for 1 personThe article will be aired on Tuesday or Wednesday, Chanel Nine.
Earlier in the week Sue Foley and I joined Alan Samuels of Impact Charity and Rotarian from Glen Eira, alongside fellow Glen Eira Rotarian and AG Lili Teichman and other volunteers to help de-tag 9000 new garments donated for free distribution to recipients. 3 boxes of Garments have been selected and boxed for transport to Mildura to help struggling drought stricken Farmers and their families.
Alfred Hospital Mental Health Unit
Donations for MHU delivered from St Vincent’s Foundation
Organising donations for packing into Care Packs
Many contacts have been made when sourcing donations for the Alfred Hospital Mental Health
Unit Care packs. Through Givit we received an offer from Anaconda of 50 mens and women’s good
quality 2nd hand winter coats and Jackets. Not being able to use them in any of our projects. We
contacted RC Central Melbourne, Peter Duras to enquiry if coats could used in a project that they
support, Hosier Lane Youth Services to assist the Homeless. There was no hesitation in accepting the
offer and 3 cartons of coats were dropped at Hosier Lane a few days later. It was during lunch hour,
there was no shortage of appreciative folk to help unload. A further 50 winter jackets will be
collected from Anaconda this week for delivery to Hosier Lane.
Anaconda staff with boxes of Winter coats and Jackets
Many of you will know that Club Member Marg Hamilton took a tumble a few weeks ago, breaking her arm not in one place but had 7 breaks requiring surgery. I am very happy to tell you all that she is making a remarkable recovery. Her cast is off and physiotherapy is underway with the promise of a full recovery.
You may recall at Bronwyn Maddock’s induction, she brought her own entertainment in the form of her ukulele playing 92 year old Mother - Audrey was indeed a talented ukulele player only having taken up the instrument in recent years and running ukulele lesson for the elderly in
Retirement homes. Audrey is also a dedicated Rotarian.
Audrey turned 93 at the start of lockdown number 2. A drive by birthday party was held.
Bronwyn Maddock will share with us the video of the celebration at a meeting in the near future.
A belated happy birthday 🥳 Audrey.
On Friday the 24th July at 2pm, we were invited to join the Rotary eClub of Hawaii’s Pau Hana (after work drinks) which was a fundraiser for World’s Greatest Meal to End Polio.
Martinis, cocktails or the drink of your choice. There might even be some cocktail making demonstrations!
Hawaiian theme so leis, Hawaiian shirts and/or grass skirts. Let your mind go wild lol.
John in full Hawaiian dress...
Our host Susan Szabo main screen, bottom left hand slide Randy from Hawaii, John RCMS, Pete and Meg Brighton North, Sue Foley livening the party with a few Aussie songs. The Aussie and Hawaiian contribution raised over $300 to End Polio fund. Well done John…additional contributions were pledged when John did a hula dance and sang Waltzing Matilda with Sue!