1. Guest Speaker 28th October
2. Duty Roster 28th October
3. Busy Bees
4. Thirsty to Socialise?
5. Paul Harris Breakfast 2014
6. Garden DesignFest
7. Notice of Annual General Meeting 
8. Vocational Service Invigorated 
9. Meeting Report 21st October
10. Gallery

Russell Rolls

Victoria’s energy opportunity

Victoria has one of the largest undeveloped deposits of lignite (brown coal) in the world. There is also significant evidence to suggest that there is the possibility to develop a large-scale coal seam gas (CSG) industry utilising the deeper, un-mineable lignite seams. The challenge for Victoria is to identify and commercialise the technologies that will allow these resource developments to proceed. 

Russell is a Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical), has an MBA and is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, Australia. After an initial career in the aircraft industry, he has spent the past 35 years associated with the international resources engineering industry. He is currently involved with the development of the on-shore Gippsland Basin lignite and CSG resources.

Organised by the Rotary Club of Kew in conjunction with the Rotary Clubs of Brighton North and Central Melbourne - Sunrise this event aims to firstly raise much needed funds for its selected charities and secondly to encourage creative, bold, innovative, versatile, practical and responsible gardening in our Australian gardens.

This year the our club will be manning the four large scale gardens open for the first time in the Euroa area, on Sunday 16th November between 10am and 5pm

Full information and ticket sales available at www.gardendesignfest.com.au

CLICK HERE FOR EUROA GARDEN MAP

CLICK HERE FOR EUROA GARDEN FLYER

“Find out what else is on around Euroa this weekend?”

http://www.ruffycommunity.com.au/ruffy-artfest

http://euroa.org.au/honouring-our-heroes

• Anne King: On2Conference reminder, Hobart 12-14 March 2015.  Advise Anne once you have registered for Cluster Dinner arrangements.
• John Ilott: Passed on Sherene Hassan’s message of apology for her performance as guest speaker last week due to illness.  She ended up in hospital with a bout of pneumonia later that day! Imagine how inspiring she would be then when at the “top of her game”.  John will reply to her again passing on our sincere appreciation for her insightful talk and we all wish her a very speedy recovery.
• Tom Callander: An update on Sonny Forsythe’s work on “Abundant Water” project in Laos. $3K needed to provide filtered water to 100 villages in Laos. An email will come out inviting members to contribute..
• Neil Salvano: Community Village update. 24 of the 48 Volunteer slots are filled. Please get you available dates in to Neil before he goes away at the end of this week.

• The President Elect Committee has met and a nomination has been accepted by the nominee.  Will be presented by the Board in October for approval prior to formal announcement. 
• Attended the Batman Cluster meeting and was inspired by the eClub’s participation by Skype from New Zealand. 
• Rotary Clubs can at times struggle with the notion of change, as RC Melbourne is recognising in the recent move from The Windsor to Zinc.
• Attended the Valedictory Dinner at International House. The Fraternitas awardee was Cohuna Darcy will attend a Breakfast in due course.

• Anniversaries; Marjorie Gerlinger for her Birthday and wedding anniversary (guess that’s for Bernie too), Justine Murphy for seven years at RCCMS.
• Sergeant Bernie Gerlinger challenged us all again with Rotary and global political knowledge. IPDG, RIP, SAR. Australian and American Senate Numbers and GDP comparisons.  As usual the bucket filled rapidly with the poor answers.  Marjorie being the only correct answer that SAR stands for Semi Annual Report.  We suspect some “pillow talk” at play here!!!!!
• Confucius said something however due to the heckling from Table 3 the poor old Reporter didn’t hear it…

• Overview of the Vocational Framework and Strategic Plan developed by her D9800 Vocational Service team including Anne King & Alan Seale of RCCMS.
• Challenge by those involved in Vocational is defining the role.
• Vocational is the Point of Difference for Rotary as a Community Organisation. [Editor –refer last week’s Bulletin for District Governors words on this fact]
• The strategy is shifting focus from a program management to resource support to other Avenues of Service
• The doing element will be the “Thought Leadership Series”

- Peter McTiernan, Director of Food Water Shelter ['FWS'] and Snr. Analyst at JB Were & Co in his ‘spare time’.   

• Family: Built on the “Attachment Theory” – being care for by family. The “World’s Best Mum” program where orphaned children who cannot say “I love my Mum” are placed into a family with a single mother and her children at the FWS home.  The story of Gladness and her two children Rashidi and Miriam came to live at Kesho Leo where Deaf & Dumb boy Salim joined her family.  There are now 9 Mothers and 29 children living in Kesho Leo.
• Health: Established a clinic now with 400 people attending annually
• Education: 80 x children at morning kindergarten and 40 x youngsters at afternoon school
• Employment: 20 Local personnel now in the organisation
• Industry: locals participating in a Permaculture Design Course in farm production