MAY 2019 (May 20, 2019)

Changeover

President Zilis Hardiman &

The Rotary Club of Greensborough

Cordially invites you

To the Rotary Club of Greensborough’s

Changeover Evening

Monday 24^th June 2019

RSL Club Greensborough

111 Main Road Greensborough

6.30pm for a 7pm Start

Meals and Drinks at bar prices

(Orders to be placed before the meeting at the bar)

RSVP: 17^th June 2019 John Hardiman email: johnhardiman@bigpond.com

Mobile: 0428 533 432

Hearing and Vision Tests

2019 Hearing and Eye Testing

The Rotary Club of Greensborough organised a team from the University of Melbourne’s School of Audiology to conduct hearing tests for children aged between 3 ½ and 5 ½ years on Saturday 11^th May 2019. These tests were conducted at the Kalparrin Centre, 1 Kalparrin Avenue, Greensborough.

Free eye testing for children of the same age group were conducted at the same time and location. Optometrists from Leverett and Kindler Greensborough carried out these test.

All together some 80 tests were undertaken on 50 children.

A huge thank you to all who volunteered their time for this worthwhile project and special thanks to Kalparrin for the use of their premises .

Update on Breakaway Youth

Members were given a moving update about the work of Breakaway Youth by Director Paul Coleman on Monday the 20th May.

Breakaway provides a program of outdoor recreation for disadvantaged young people, primarily 10-16 year olds, for the purpose of improving their lifestyle by providing alternatives, which will give them a sense of achievement and self-esteem. To achieve these aims in an atmosphere of support within a non-threatening environment.

Paul was presented with a cheque for contribution to the Child Safe programme.

Pride of Workmanship Award

Posted by Bill Carter

Monday Night, 29^th April saw up to 60 Rotarians, Teachers, Students from Greensborough and Montmorency Secondary Colleges, and friends attend the Greensborough RSL for the presentation of the Pride of Workmanship Award.

The evening commenced with showcasing the Greensborough Rotary Clubs involvement with youth in our area.

Past president Joy Ferguson introduced our Junior Rotarians of the Month, Abbie Harper and Alex Mitchel andpresented them with their certificates of attendance.

P.P. Joy then introduced our RYLEN attendees, Emily Beasley and Bentley Butler, who both gave a short summary of their experiences at Lake Nillahcootie and thanked the Rotary Club for their involvement in making their experiences possible.

President Zilis was then invited to call Mr Jaden Stenton, Department of Education-Local Information Technology Technician,

from the Montmorency Secondary College, to present him with his Pride of Workmanship Award Shield and Certificate.

Principal of the Montmorency Secondary College, Mr Allan Robinson was presented with a pride of Workmanship Certificate

for display at the College.

Our Guest Speaker for the evening, Dr Nitin Shukla, a Psychiatrist & Psychotherapist, was introduced by Vice President Nalin Perera,

who gave a very enlightening talk on Youth and Addiction and the way the brain interprets various signals and feelings present

ed by taking foreign substances and compounds. All of those in attendance were impressed with the way Dr Shukla made his presentation of a very difficult topic to an audience of mainly lay people.

Interact at Greensborough College

Posted by Joy Ferguson

This fledgling club has just celebrated it’s first year of endeavour under the leadership of their facilitator Heather Dear.

During the year they have been involved in organising a Krispie Kreme donut fundraising drive, participated in Relay for Life.

They also attended a Ten Pin Bowling night, arranged by the Rotaractors for the 4 Interact clubs in our district. This was attended and thoroughly enjoyed by 30+ students , supervising Rotaractors and 3 Rotarians together with District Youth Committee Chair Gordon Hastie, who traveled from Kilmore for the occasion.

Most of the 12 Interactors have been on a visit to DIK - Donations in Kind with their teacher and with Pres Zilis Hardiman on one occasion.

Many of our Rotarians have yet to visit DIK, myself included and I plan to assist with the next group of students. Why not join us?

Our club has sponsored, 2 groups of 2, Junior Rotarians of the Month, 2 year 10 students to RYPEN weekend

1 successful now year 12 interact student to Canberra for the National Youth Science Forum

Their new leadership team has been announced, President Alex Mitchel Vice President Abbi Harper

Secretary Jack Commendaur - one of our first Jnr Rotarians Treasurer Ebony Stewart

Last meeting on 2nd May saw the Interactors involved in packing water purification tablets ready to be added to the Aqua Boxes for Eltham’s Project.

Some basic leadership training is being planned, and a variety of guest speakers will be invited.

They plan to meet every 2 weeks on Wednesday.

Tomorrow’s Young leaders of our community in the making!

Thank you to those who have supported this endeavour.

Rotaract Changeover

Live link for Tickets: https://www.trybooking.com/BCTHS

President

Ravi Corea

Vice President

Nalin Perera

Secretary

David Ling

Treasurer

David Ling

Rotary Foundation

Jerome Winston

Membership

Ravi Corea

Director

Frank Donegan

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2019 Hearing and Eye Testing

All together some 80 tests were undertaken on 50 children.

Monday Night, 29th April saw up to 60 Rotarians, Teachers, Students from Greensborough and Montmorency Secondary Colleges, and friends attend the Greensborough RSL for the presentation of the Pride of Workmanship Award.

Monday Night, 29^th April saw up to 60 Rotarians, Teachers, Students from Greensborough and Montmorency Secondary Colleges, and friends attend the Greensborough RSL for the presentation of the Pride of Workmanship Award.