Thank you Frank and Pauline for being the Bunnings Collingwood Champions and particularly for covering all the bases for so long. Time to share the load a bit more. Frank will continue regular liaison with David Major, Activities Manager at Bunnings Collingwood
2023 Rotary International Convention - Volunteer Opportunities
In less than 12 months, Melbourne will be hosting Rotarians from across the world! Our Club has an opportunity to help showcase our town, whilst extending our hospitality to fellow Rotarians during their visit. Here are the details of the Volunteer Opportunities for events occurring as part of the 2023 Rotary International Melbourne Convention, but outside the Convention location and times. These city locations should be of interest to members of the Batman Cluster Clubs.
The opportunities are as follows:
Melbourne Museum: Held at the Melbourne Museum on May 27th. Two shifts of volunteers required: 5:30pm - 8:00pm for 24 volunteers and 8pm - 10pm for 8 volunteers. All volunteers shall be able to have a complimentary beverage at the museum as a thank you. Volunteers shall meet at the main Museum entrance and then be allocated a task. They shall be assisting with directing delegates from the bus drop-off points in Rathdowne and Nicholson Streets to the main entrance before and after the event as well as directing delegates into and around the museum.
South Wharf - Food of Melbourne: situated at the west end of South Wharf. Two shifts of volunteers are required, one on May 29th and the second on May 30th, 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm both nights for 10 volunteers each shift. They shall meet at the Promenade exit at MCEC and be placed along South Wharf directing delegates towards the food venues along Dukes Walk up to the Showtime Events Centre.
Flemington Melbourne Cup Event 30 May: Volunteers are required to meet at Southern Cross Station and direct delegates to the correct dedicated platform for train departure to Flemington Race Course. One shift for 10 volunteers from 5:30pm - 6.30pm.
All volunteers need to first register at http://www.rotarymebourne2023.org, and this can be done now. Once registered, and after September, volunteers can go online and choose their event and shift.
For more information, contact Stephen Lamont PDG, Host Organising Committee Director - Services and Volunteers, mobile: 0412 152 933, e: stephenlamont9780@gmail.com
After a two-year COVID imposed break we are resuming where we left off with the New Generations Service Exchange program. You might remember Lotta Rink, the talented young Bassoonist who had to go home early thanks to the pandemic.
Nevertheless, in July this year two young Australian opera singers, Louise Keast and Michael Dimovski, will be heading off to Bavaria where they will be hosted by German Rotary families for around 6 weeks. They will be participating in the Bayreuth Young Artist’s Festival, attending master classes, and in Michael’s case, performing at the D1950 District Conf.
Australian Rotary Health – the greatest Australian Rotary project
Since Greg joined Rotary in Berwick 46 years ago, aged 28, it has been a large part of his life. A Rotarian with North Balwyn since 1986, Greg served as District 9800 Governor in 1991-92. He has worked as a literacy volunteer in Thailand, helped build an eye clinic in Vanuatu and led a GSE team to California. He has been MC at Rotary Conventions in Taipei and Melbourne, at the International Assembly and many district conferences, and has been RI President’s Special Rep many times in Australia and NZ.
Greg served on the Board of Australian Rotary Health for seven years, including as Chairman for three. In 2016, he created Lift the Lid on Mental Illness, a national campaign to reduce mental illness through prevention research.
Best known to older Australian audiences as Tony Benjamin, one of the cops in the long running television series Cop Shop, Greg has been a professional actor and singer since graduating from NIDA in 1967. Over the past 15 years, he has also conducted over 1,200 services as a funeral celebrant. He has just completed his first novel, a crime thriller, and intends writing much more in the coming decade.
