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Chair: Gerard Hogan.
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Juanita Fewkes, our Rotary Youth Leadership Award (RYLA) candidate.
Introduction:
Juanita explained she was a student in physiology, Monash Uni, Clayton, and she hopes to study medicine. She does a lot of voluntary work and works part-time at Westfield Knox. She is devoted to helping others towards a better life.
Club Service Report:
Neville John described the membership drive strategy begun last year. We now have a club brochure and a coffee-table book Humanity in Motion about Rotary projects across all Australian districts. This club has innate attractions to recruits including good venue, speakers, and age, quality and diversity of members. But membership has fallen to 44, the lowest for many years, partly through retirement of charter members.
Members need to constantly be checking at work, socially and at recreation for potential members. Start the process with engagement with Rotary activities, leaving ‘recruitment sell’ to later. An instance was his table at the Paul Harris breakfast including five non-members. The club has 18 potential members in the pipeline.
The Business Leader breakfast in March with Qantas chair Leigh Clifford as speaker is a chance for more such networking.
We need to hose down people’s concerns about time-demands placed by Rotary. It’s up to individuals. Members are not expected to attend every week’s meeting and the 50% -of-meetings goal is just a rule of thumb. The key is fellowship and engagement with projects.
Announcements:
- Roger Thornton distributed red and green hamper bags for the Dec. 16 Christmas party for Steps and refugees. Contact Marg Thomas margthomas6@gmail.com to order a spice pack for refugee bags at heavily discounted prices. Members need to book for the Christmas Party, not just show up. RSVP by 10th December to Roger - CLICK HERE
- Anne King said 22-23 pax have already signed on for Rotary Convention Hobart, a 'bit of a record'. Early bird fee rates close December 15. A great dinner is booked for the Friday night at Salamanca Place.
- The Garden DesignFest was a huge success raising $135,000 overall of which just under $24,000 came from our Euroa day. Funds will be allocated among participating clubs.
- The Paul Harris Breakfast was another outstanding success, raising $8745 net.
- Welcomed home Kevin and Veronica Love from Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, where they attended the opening of our project-built Laos school.
Sergeant’s Session:
Bernie presented George Mackey with a ‘Caution - Emus!’ sign for his 4WD’s bull-bars, a tribute to George’s slaughter of an emu pedestrian in the country somewhere the other week.
Guest Speaker:
John Doherty, 'Inside Police Forensic Services.'
John described the structure of VicPol forensics, with 250 unsworn staff, 100 sworn staff in crime scene/ballistics/fingerprints etc, and 40 support staff, and 330 regional crime scene officers dealing with ‘bulk’ crimes like burglaries and car theft.
He outlined the organisation structure covering everything from drug analysis to handwriting and CCT video enhancement.
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Anne Mitchell 58, has run a service for young homeless people in Melbourne for seven years without any government funding. She has worked for the homeless for the last 13 years..png)
As in past years we have a Christmas Hamper project, to provide useful food items to people in our community less fortunate than ourselves.
