District Conference

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FRIDAY APRIL 19, 2024

We have exiting activities planned for you including, Golf, Bowls, Shepparton Art Museum tour, Motor Museum tour, Fish Hatchery tour, Cultural walk, Cycling, Botanical Gardens, Painting/photography.

FRIDAY APRIL 19, OPENING NIGHT Make sure you book for our opening night, we have a local opera singer to do the national anthem and possibly another song!

SATURDAY NIGHT, APRIL 20 is a ‘must do’

Our Dinner Dance with be great fun “Classic 60’s, 70’s, and 80’s, many of us remember those times!

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

• SHANE JACOBSON – well known comedian, Star of the movie Kenny, in the current IGA TV advertisement;
  • Author of “the long road to overnight success” and Drive
  • Charities include: Fight Parkinson and the “Mirabel Foundation (addresses the needs of children who have been orphaned or abandoned due to parental drug use)
• AUNTY PAM PEDERSEN –
  • Born in Shepparton, a Yorta Yorta Elder, and Aboriginal community leader
  • an advocate in the Koorie Court System,
  • an accomplished sports person. Swimming, half marathons, triatholons, and yachting.
  • Involved with the AFL Sir Doug Nicholls Indigenous Round and an WAFL honoree.
• MATT BOWTELL
  • 2018 Victorian Local Hero
  • Engineer and Prosthetic limb innovator
  • 3D prints prosthetic hands, as a charity, rather than licence his designs for profit, Mat has made them freely available online
• DON ELGIN
  • Australian Paralympic amputee track and field athlete who won four medals at three Paralympics
  • He was born without a left leg and left thumb, with small toes, and webbed fingers on both hands
  • Grew up in Tocumwal and competed in athletics and swimming
  • Founded and manages StarAmp Global, specializing in managing and supporting paralympic competitors

OUR EXCITING PROGRAM ALSO INCLUDES

 presentations covering a wide variety of topics, including:

• Responses to Natural Disasters from a RAWKS and a more localized perspective
• Robotics in Orchard management
• Arcadia Fish research program
• Canine Support Program in Courts
• Community Policing in a multicultural environment
• Safe Families Rotary Project
• Plus the continuing Rotary initiatives: Rotary Exchange Students, Rotaract, Foundation awards, Peter Twoomey Police Awards, Ride to Conference and Rotary Health.

VOLUNTEERS

The conference committee will be seeking help from fellow Rotarians closer to the conference date. After Easter and the school holidays and before Anzac Day.

Please let Belinda know if you are able and willing to help in any of the following areas.

• Friday setting up and filling welcome bags
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  • Registration desk
  • Help with catering and washing up
  • Other things as needed
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  • Catering and Kitchen help
  • Looking after the speakers
  • Other things as needed

Belinda Liggins,  Conference Chair,  bmliggins@gmail.com