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President – Jenny Foster 2017/18

January 16th 2018

Volume 83, Issue 25

Secretary@RCE.org.au Chartered 27th March 1935 www.RCE.org.au

Jenny Foster

23rd Jan 2018 Club meeting – Fellowship The Anglers Tavern 12.30pm to 2pm

30th Jan 2018 Committee Director’s Vision for 2018 Computer Teaching Session

The Anglers Tavern 12.30pm to 2pm

MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT:

Dear Fellow Rotarians & Friends Welcome to the New Year! I hope that everyone is enjoying a relaxing start to what I hope will be an exciting year ahead. Rotary Club of Essendon…..Year of Action! Can we do that…yes we can! Next Tuesday, 23 January, we will gather together for the first official lunch-time meeting of the year. This will be a time of fellowship but also a time of talking about what the Club has planned for this year. Please join us to talk together, share ideas together & work out how we can all together make a Difference in 2018. May I encourage you all to take a moment to read the following article written by Paul A Netzel – Foundation Trustee Chair. It will certainly make you proud that you call yourselves Rotarians or are our Friends to help us achieve all that we do. https://rotarynewsonline.org/we-are-people-of-action/ We have lots to look forward to this year, including but not limited to: The Moonee Valley Festival, Moonee Valley Art Show (need lots & lots of Volunteers to make this event a huge success for our Community…Friends of Rotary please let us know if you can also assist), District Conference, Relay For Life with Brumby Babes, Foundation Dinner (please note date change from 20 Feb to Tuesday, 10 April), Charter Night & the launch of the Rotary Club of Essendon’s History Book together with lots of excellent guest speakers & fantastic work continuing at Donations In Kind, Strathmore Men’s Shed & Days For Girls. Be Excited…it’s a great time to be a member of the Rotary Club of Essendon. Invite family & friends to join us…they will thank you for giving them the opportunity to help our local community & the world together. Have a happy, healthy & fun-filled year ahead. Kind Regards President Jenny

Check the link to see RI President 2018-19 Barry Rassin’s message

https://www.rotary.org/en/rotary-international-president-rassin-theme-2018

Last night 12 Rotary Club of Essendon members & partners joined with the members of the Rotary Club of Keilor East for a

night of fellowship at the Moonee Valley Legends Bistro. It was a lovely night for eating out with wonderful views of the city

skyline over the Moonee Valley Racecourse. PP Lisa passed a vote of thanks to the RCKeilor East for arranging the joint meeting.

We return to Angler’s next week for our regular lunch time meeting.

Thoughts to keep in mind

Another year has started and we will no doubt have happy and joyful moments and pleasant

surprises, but we will also have sad and unpleasant moments and times. Through it all we journey

through life.

Some will find it hard to get through the hard times and the disappointments but get through we

must.

Life is a journey and as we travel along beautiful roads with lovely scenery, we also have to

endure bad weather and bumpy roads, the one thing we need to do is to keep the vehicle in good

trim!

Keep healthy and look after yourself during the year for if not your health what have you got?

23 – 25 MARCH 2018

SPONSORS – CAN YOU HELP?

The Art Show committee has decided that for the 2018 show 5 prizes will be awarded. These will be

the previous four awards, best in Show, Best Oil / Acrylic, Best Watercolour, Best Pastel or Drawing,

and a new Best Youth Artist (under 25) award to encourage local young artists to enter, and to bring

their families along to the Art Show.

We would love to increase the value of our 5 prizes. This will help attract new entrants, continue to

improve the quality of the art for sale, and bring more people through the gate. To do this the

committee is currently focused on increasing the number of sponsors. We are particularly keen to

increase monetary sponsors, rather than in-kind. If you or anyone you know might be a potential

sponsor, the Art Show committee members would love to hear from you.

FACEBOOK

We have also recently commenced a facebook campaign. At the moment there are occasional posts,

but in January these will become much more frequent. If you use Facebook we would appreciate if

could you please search for the Moonee Valley Art Show (MVAS) Facebook page, and like and share

any posts you see. The more we can market the Art Show, the more attendance we will get, and the

more money we will raise for our projects.

VOLUNTEERS

Later on we will also be looking for volunteers to help out at the Show. So please have a think about

how you might be able to contribute some of your time.

FUNDS

As per last year, funds raised from the Art Show will be allocated to the club's general

projects fund for the Board to use as it sees fit. So please get behind this major local

community event.

QUESTIONS?

Don't hesitate to ask Veronica O'Sullivan, Steve Chandler or Grant Sheldon.

Help yourself and help the Club by banking with Strathmore Community Bank. For example, take out a home loan

and the club will receive up to $500. Take out a 3 month fixed term deposit and the club will receive up to $50.

For more details drop into the branch at 337 Napier St or call branch Manager David Porter on 9374-2607.

EVENTS CALENDAR DATE SPEAKER/EVENT VENUE

23rd Jan 2018 Club fellowship lunch – no speaker The Anglers Tavern 12.30 pm for 1pm to 2pm

30th Jan 2018 Committee’s vision for 2018 – Committee Directors

Computer Teaching class

The Anglers Tavern 12.30 pm for 1pm to 2pm

4th Feb 2018 Australia day BBQ – Home of Boris & Ineke Struk – 8 Hull Court Greenvale

8 Hull Court Greenvale

6th Feb 2018 TBA The Anglers Tavern 12.30 pm for 1pm to 2pm

13th Feb 2017 RCE Fellowship Lunch – No Guest Speaker The Anglers Tavern 12.30 pm for 1pm to 2pm

20th Feb 2018 TBA The Anglers Tavern 12.30 pm for 1pm to 2pm

27th Feb 2018 TBA

13th March 2018 Possible speaker booked – Tree planting

20th March 2018 Dinner meeting The Anglers Tavern

27th March 2018 No Meeting – Art Show

3rd April 2018 Brumby Babes Talk – Gaye Cariss & Maria Kouppas

The Anglers Tavern- Time TBA

10th April 2018 Speakers- Lien Trinh- Project Manager “End Trachoma 2020 (Rotary Scholar)

Murray Verso – Foundation David Abbey – Royce & Jean Abbey

Foundation

Venue TBA

17th April 2018 David Sullivan – Lawyer Crownbet The Anglers Tavern 6pm to 7.30pm

15th May 2018 Charter Night TBA

15th June 2018 President changeover dinner TBA

Have you taken any photos on your iphone, or camera in

this past Rotary Year?

Can I please have them forwarded to:

M.Kouppas@hotmail.com

Many of these photos will form a special memento of this

past year, and I would like to use them as part of the

year in summary.

I appreciate your help with this. Remember any Rotary

function or event….

Thanking you in anticipation

Maria