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Empowering women through service and advocacy

Hello Members No time for words of wisdom or tell-ing statistics this month. On Thurs-day I will head down to Geelong for the District 23 Conference. I am delighted that we are able to have eleven representatives attending from our Club and look forward to gaining new knowledge about Zon-ta, sharing experiences and enjoy-ing fellowship over the three days with other Zontians. Next Tuesday, with some assis-tance perhaps, I will share the expe-rience with you at our supper meet-ing.

In Zonta fellowship,

Jan

Congratulations to Irene and club helpers who again ran a hugely successful Birthing Kit Assem-bly on August 19th. WIN news ran a super coverage of the project and inter-viewed several attendees.

From our president ……..

Editor : Rosalie Lake

September 2017 Committees and Board

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Zonta@Bendigo

September 2017

Supper meeting

Tuesday 5th September

The Foundry Hotel

(High Street

Golden Square)

6:30pm for 7:00pm start

APOLOGIES & RSVP of

GUESTS

Sue Hinton

Phone: 0401 810 393

E: [email protected]

by 12 noon , Monday September 4th

Welcome to Britnee Swan At our August meeting our Club warmly welcomed Brit-nee Swan. We look forward to sharing Zonta service, ad-vocacy and fellowship with Britnee and all our recently inducted members.

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Calendar 2017

Zonta@Bendigo

Friday 1 Sept— 3 Sept

“Leading the Way” D23 conference ,Rydges Hotel Geelong. Bendigo Club is responsible for credentials, and a market stall . 11 Bendigo Club Zontians attending—Fantastic.

Tuesday 5th September Supper meeting Foundry Hotel - 6:30 for 7pm. $15 for nibbles.

Tuesday 3 October Dinner Meeting Kimberley Furness “Write Style Communications” speak-ing on social media and privacy. Bring your devices ( phones / iPads)

Thursday 12 October Stadium dinner Fundraiser

Sunday 29 October Open Gardens from 1.00 p.m. until 5.00 p.m.

Tuesday 7th November Dinner Meeting—Di Dempsey “The Fallen Girls” & Melbourne Cup call.

Saturday 18 November Christmas Market at the Bendigo Club

Tuesday 5 December Christmas dinner— Balgownie Wines estate $32—$35 per head

WANTED

Members to start propagating plants for the Christmas Market and Open Gardens

Take the pressure off Gay and Annette Stock our plant stalls with a great variety of plants from many

members’ gardens. Please label all plants you bring.

BIRTHING KIT ASSEMBLY A RESOUNDING SUCCESS: 2000 Birthing kits assembled Thanks to almost 100 members of the public plus students from local schools who supported our Club we were able to produce 2000 birthing kits by the end of Saturday August 19th. We must also thank our local media for helping us to promote this event, without the help of the ABC radio, the Bendigo Weekly and the Bendigo Ad-vertiser the public wouldn't know of this opportunity to volunteer to help save mums' and babies' lives. A record 104 people ( including members) tuned up to help, which meant we completed all the kits by just after lunch. We had to apologise to those who came in the early afternoon by which time we had already completed all the kits we had materials for. Some helpers stayed on to help thread cord in toiletry bags. A huge thanks to Irene who coordinated the ordering, collection and distribution of the materials to the schools and the assembly day. Kathy and helpers Rosalie, Sue H. Irene, Jan, Ann and Nell attended at least 5 sessions at schools. On the Assembly day, Kathryn brought the signage and manned the welcome desk, and many club members brought food, helped set up and clean up, as well as helped the public assemble our kits on the day. A big thank you to everyone who helped in any way at all. This is the event for which Zonta gains huge Kudos in the public eye. ...especially after the significant coverage on WIN news.


Committee: Chair—Lyn McNamara Gay Hanrahan, Bernadette Wood, Sally Thomson, Annette Mouat, Marian Holmes, Ember Chittenden, Joan Hoop-er, Larrie Winzar, Lisa Chesters, Diane Hicks.

Christmas Market— November 18th

The Bendigo Club has been booked for

Saturday Nov 18th—the Swap meet

weekend. Only 2 tables left to fill.

Larrie and Lyn will meet with Nicholas

Truscott to choose the artwork for the

first prize for the raffle and Joan will

donate a hamper for second prize.

Open Gardens - 29th October We

have four gardens for this event now:

Keogh Drive, Mills St and Jobs Gully Rd..

Decision regarding the project to receive

funds raised still to be made. Please pot

up cuttings and label them to sell on the

day. Raffle prizes in hand.

Stadium Dinners—One more booking

for 2017 Thurs 12 October .

Mandy’s Kitchen Xmas puddings will

run again this year. Details to come soon

Planning a trivia evening for 2018

“Trivia with a twist” Allan Peach. Possi-

bly to be held at the Pottery in April or

May

Produce trading tables February & April

Breast Cushions The women from the Karen and Afghani communities have already completed 20 breast cushions for us as a commu-nity engagement activity. They are also looking at sewing some Tote bags. Birthing kit assembly day. Thank you to all the members who helped Irene bring this assembly of 2000 bags together. And a SPECIAL thanks to Irene for all the behind the

Committee: Chair: Kathy Wilton, Sue Brown, Irene McKinna, Rosalind Deacon, Sunnie Watts, Sue Clarke, Robyne Livingstone, Deb Armstrong, Christine Thorne. Tote Bags and Toiletry bags Keep your donations rolling in for our Tote Bag and toiletries projects. Re-quests for these bags have been made from Bendigo Health. Bendigo South east students will help assem-ble bags in September.

Fundraising

Service and Advocacy

Membership and Programs

• Reminder Meeting Quiz Send a fact about yourself that nobody else in Zonta would know to Naidene ([email protected]) by Monday 4th

• Also a reminder to let me know if you have guests or are going to be an apology. Late apol-ogies will incur a cost

UN LITERACY WEEK

YOU ARE INVITED TO BRING A CHILD”S BOOK TO THE MEETING TO

DONATE

Committee: Chair: Sue Hinton, Naidene Parry, Janet Cobden, Dale Little, Ann Horrocks, Jan Buckland

• September meeting is a supper meeting at the Foundry, $15 per head, 6:30 for a 7pm start.. • Prospective membership questionnaire is being revised

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scenes work she does to get this organised. Scholarships Women of Achievement will be ad-vertised in November, and after the D23 conference Ann and Kathy will work on revisions to the STEM schol-arship. Our current recipient Bree Millberg will be our IWD speaker in 2018. and the committee is putting a sponsorship package together for this event. White Ribbon Day Zonta reps are attending the organis-ing committee meetings.


Board Recommendations:-

1. That the accounts for Payment as

reported and the Treasure’s report be approved. 2. That the re-imbursement of funds for the delegates at the District 23 conference be shared equally between Jan, Cheryl & Irene I have purchased an External hard drive to provide portable storage of Zonta records. If members have documents/ photos to be included please contact Kathryn.

Treasurer

Governance & Finance

not be known until October. In the mean-time Cameron from Spikscapes com-menced videoing materials for inclusion. First event was the birthing kit assembly with interviews of Irene, Ann, Kathy and Rosalie for possible inclusion in the his-tory video. Cameron will produce a 2 min sample for us to preview the quality of his work before proceeding. Policies The committee has commenced the review of policies. So far the Media Relations/Social media policy has been

Committee: Chair: Cheryl Axell

Raelene Schmidt, Kathryn Patarica, Maggie Burke, Linda Marchesani, Rosalie Lake,

Jan Buckland.

Budget: Waiting on the October outcome of application for COGB Community Grant

for history project

Club history - We have applied to the COGB for a digital technologies grant to as-sist us to record our history. The outcome will

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A reminder to members that they may pay the cost of supper ... $15.00. by direct

debit prior to the meeting

Bendigo Bank

BSB: 633 000

Account No. 2005817

Please include your Surname & iden-tify the purpose of the deposit: eg

Supper , Dinner, Toiletries

PLEASE KEEP THE DONATIONS

COMING IN FOR OUR FOR OUR TOILETRY PACKS and

TOTE BAGS.

NEED a Bendigo

Zonta T-Shirt?

New orders can be made at the meeting

…. $27.50.

reviewed and found that it is still current. However, some changes and refinements are required for Mermbership Leave, and Non-Apology and Attendance at meet-ings policies. Recommendations will be brought to members for discussion. It was also felt that some items called “policies” are actually pro-cedures, and some reclassifica-tion is necessary.


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Fellowship snippets and club news

Annette and Crawford recently did a road trip to the Wimmera to see the painted silos. Here are two of the silos they visited—the Rupanyup and Patchewollock silos

SEPTEMBER

Linda Marchesani 17th

We have changed our Facebook name

You can now find our club by searching for Zonta Bendigo But our address is still:

https://www.facebook.com/BendigoZonta/


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Fellowship snippets and club news— Birthing Kit Assembly


Birthing Kit Assembly

BENDIGO ZONTA CLUB BIRTHING KIT ASSEMBLY HISTORY Since we first started planning the assembly of birthing kits under Annie Young's presidency in 2001-2, our club has assembled 34,200 kits . Congratulations, to all members and friends of Zonta who have been involved over the years—this is an amazing total and represents thousands of dollars in funds raised.

Org AD Kits

Zonta Club of Bendigo Inc 2003 1000




Zonta Club of Bendigo Inc 19-Oct-07 3000

Zonta Club of Bendigo Inc 05-Sep-08 4000





Zonta Club of Bendigo Inc 31-May-14 2400

Zonta Club of Bendigo Inc 02-May-15 2000



Zonta Club of Bendigo Inc 19-Aug-17 2000

TOTAL 34200


Invitations

Please note : The Friends of the Art Gallery are strong supporters of Zonta and our events. This valuation day is a nice op-portunity to return their support. Friends of the Art Gallery have recently delivered the 742nd toilet bag to Christine’s place—a great effort towards our toiletry bag project. Apparently they did not start counting for a while so the total they have made for us could well be higher!

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