Hello everyone
Hope you had a good week so far.
Thank you to everyone who attended last Wednesday night for the Membership survey outcomes and gave further ideas about how you think the club should look moving forward.
Harvey’s screen show and notes taken at the meeting by Rob J will be circulated to all members in the next few days.
We received news that very sadly, Anthony Aulsebrook Past President from the Rotary Club of Baywater, has passed away after a year long illness.
Cluster Presidents meeting and 2021 Rotary birthday celebrations – Thursday 13 February 2020
The Cluster Presidents meeting will be held this Thursday along with discussion about the 100th Birthday celebrations in 2021. The President Elects will also attend.
If you have any ideas for the Birthday celebrations or anything you want brought up at the Presidents meeting please let me know.
2020 District Conference – Echuca/Moama – 20 to 22 March
If you are attending, please make sure you have booked for conference.
Friday night’s dinner venue is being arranged. The theme for the Gala Dinner on Saturday night is “Masquerade”.
Do you have any stories??
A Book, History of Rotary in Australia 1921-2021 is being written, and they are asking for articles from Districts covering the last 25 years in Rotary. If you have a story you would like to tell, please email details and pictures to Judith Eadon (District Secretary) so that they can be passed on, by Friday 1st April.
Rotary Overseas Recycled Playgrounds Project – in partnership with the Rotary Club of Flemington Kensington
This is an update on the project. Janette started the ball rolling earlier last year after the Multi District Conference where we first found out about the project.
Ben Stennett has spent a lot of time with the City of Whitehorse to get the project approved and supported by council so I thank Ben for his efforts. This process had to occur before we could move forward.
We now have 3 playgrounds within the City of Whitehorse that are due to be removed and are suitable for recycling/reinstallation overseas in Countries such as Sri Lanka and Fiji. Not all playgrounds can be recycled – if they are wooden or cannot be easily reassembled overseas, then we can’t use them.
Our role is to firstly take photos of the playground and send them to stakeholders. The photos are coded. We use these codes to mark all the playground parts so it can be reassembled correctly overseas. We do not disassemble the playgrounds. The City of Whitehorse use contractors to do this. We then need to transport the parts to Donations In Kind for storage and final transportation.
Rotary Club of Box Hill will now be known as RC Box Hill Burwood. They have officially changed their name with Rotary International.
Gabby
