Madam President
Another productive month for our Club!
 
It was great to see Josie back at the Fellowship dinner last this month, and wonderful to have prospective members attend as well.
The quiz was a great way to learn about Rotary and connect with others. 
 
The Club has various projects coming up in the near future so please be sure you stay connected and put up your hand when we need help. 
Together, we can build a village. 
 
Melina
Rotary International President's Monthly Message
COMING EVENTS:
 
Breakfast meeting: Wednesday 3rd September at Mama Bear 7:45 for an 8am start.
 
Tuesday 9th September Ryda for Buckley Park students, at the Melbourne Greyhounds Centre, Northcorp Blvd Broadmeadows.  9:30am to 2:30pm.     
RSVP to Shraddha.
 
Dinner meeting: Wednesday 17th September at 6pm at The Plough, Barkly Street Footscray in the Victoria Room.    RSVP to Mel
 
Wednesday 24th September: City of Melbourne Community event at North Melbourne Community Centre. 12-5.  This is an opportunity for us to promote Rotary and our club. Please RSVP to Mel if you can be there for a couple of hours.
 
Wednesday 1st October: Djerring Hub Youth Soccer event.  We are running the BBQ 
 11-2 Please liaise with Lesley before 13/9.
 
Saturday 11th October: Flemington Multicultural Festival in Pin Oak Crescent.
We are running a BBQ from 1-5.  Volunteers are needed please.  RSVP to Lesley
 
Wednesday 15 October: Dinner meeting at The Plough Footscray. 6pm
Special Guest Speaker Kerrie Hicks, Rotary Club of Central Melbourne.  Mel
 
Wednesday 5 November: Ryda Rosehill SC at Melbourne Greyhounds Centre,
Northcorp Blvd Broadmeadows.  9:30am to 2:30pm.   Shraddha
 
Monday 24th November: Ryda for Essendon Keilor College at Melbourne Greyhounds Centre, Northcorp Blvd Broadmeadows.  9:30am to 2:30pm.  Shraddha

Wednesday 3 December: breakfast at Mama Bear - collection of goods for "Its in the Bag".  Deb and Fran
 
Wednesday 17 December: District Governor Peter Shepheard to visit our club.
Christmas Party.  Riverside Golf Club, Newsom Street Ascot Vale. 6pm
 
Haruka Tanaka - Global Grant Scholar 2023-2025
Haruka graduated from the Masters in Development Studies course at Melbourne University on 13th August.  Lesley attended and met Haruka's mother who flew in for the ceremony.
 
It was lovely to meet her and see her joy at Haruka's success.  We wish Haruka all the very best for her future as she commences work at a social development organisation.
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Lenka Pocarovska - Rotary Youth Exchange student 2025-2026
Lenka has had a busy few weeks with the Orientation Camp at Beechworth for Inbound and Outbound students.  She met the other students again, some she met at the afternoon tea, but this weekend also included students from District 9790.
Daniel is exchanging to Czechia in January so they were able to have many discussions about the exchange experience and Czechia.
 
 
Orientation Camp
Dinner meeting 20 August
Back at Hardimans Hotel, we had a large attendance with visitors Jean, David and Maria as well as our exchange student Lenka, honorary member Bev Cribb and prospective member John Farmery.
 
Mel spoke of an exciting upcoming project to run a community kitchen in conjunction with Djerring Hub.
More to come ...
 
Lesley gave an overview and refresh on Rotary - including Areas of Focus and our club's achievements.
Then there was a quiz which had the room buzzing as people worked in teams. Congratulations to Chris and Karolina who starred.
 
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RORP NEWS:
In an exciting breakthrough, thanks to Anwar Alishek, an honorary member of our club, we have obtained a storage site for playgrounds in the west.
 
Peter Cribb has been in discussio0ns with Munir Abdulhai at the Mosque in Rockbank and they have agreed to allow us site storage. An MoU is to be established to safeguard all parties and with playground harvests already scheduled for coming months, this is a great outcome.
You will have read of DG Peter's message in Networker, and Peter's article too.
New member John Farmery has offered to take on the role of creating plans and markups for us, and Jean Turnbull has offered her assistance as well.
 
Club trip to Nepal and Sri Lanka:
This week we have been finalising preparations for the trip including collecting a large donation of beanies, socks and warm jackets from DiK.  We are supporting students at 4 rural schools with the Global Grant supported education program, 120 students now.
The teachers have requested warm clothing and stationery so we are collecting and packing.  Each delegate will take some items/or a full case depending on luggage allowances.
 
We haven't forgotten Sputnik in Sri Lanka either.  They have requested pencils, games and puzzles, tshirts and these will be delivered to Kit at Colombo as we stopover.
 
 
Many thanks to Vinh, Rui and Fran for their help packing today.
 
Other club news:
Journalism Scholarships
Rotary Down Under is offering two $10,000 scholarships for budding journalists in the name of RDU founder Paul Henningham and his successor Bob Aitken.
 
Moonee Valley Art Show: Rotary Clubs of Keilor East and Essendon.
  • Saturday 11th of October 2025: 11 am to 6 pm, and
  • Sunday 12th of October 2025: 10am to 4pm.

Admission: $10 Donation per adult, $5 - Full time students and Concession (Health Care Card, Pensioners etc), Free – Children under 12 years, $20 - Family (2 Adults and 2 children under 18 years)

Location: Ukranian Community Centre Hall, 3-11 Russell Street, Essendon 3040

 
Flemington Traders Multicultural Festival:
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We are running a club promotion and sausage sizzle.  Volunteers are needed RSVP to Lesley.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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