BULLETINVOLUME 16 ISSUE 7, 12 August 2015

Yarra Bend

YARRA BEND

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Yarra Bend Executive

President Justin Wibrow

Vice President Tony Boyd

Secretary David Shave

Treasurer John Pocock

President Elect Clinton Sceney

Rotary International President

K. R. (Ravi) Ravindran

District Governor

Julie Mason

Assistant Governor

Gabe Hau

Club Avenues of Service

Community Bob Lambert

Club Service Darren Grevis-James

Foundation Clinton Sceney

International Isabel Armer

Vocational Matt Pollard

Youth Anne Brown

Club Protection and Privacy Officer

John Orr

MESSAGEPRESIDENT’S

Wow! Bulletin 3.0 has arrived and I’m sure you will agree Darren and Charles have taken our weekly digest to yet another level. I encourage you to proudly forward to this anyone and everyone!

To complement our existing Facebook page Yarra Bend Rotary is now on Twitter. You can locate and follow us by searching @yarrabendrotary when on www.twitter.com. If you have a twitter account please login and follow us.

To complete the final stage of our social media rollout Yarra Bend Rotary is in the process of designing a LinkedIn page. It would be great to ascertain from members how many have an existing LinkedIn personal account as we require at least 5 people to state in their profile they are ‘connected’ to Yarra Bend Rotary for the page to go live.

As always this week’s meeting was lively with our Rotaractors delivering an impressive presentation on their plans for this year and their involvement with this September’s Youth Humanitarian Festival.

As shared on Wednesday, we have seized the opportunity to tour to the new Melbourne Markets at Epping that are due to open at the end of this month. This means our program changes a little with the tour happening next week, Wednesday 19 August. Friends,

partners and family members are most welcome, please remember to dress very warm!

I look forward to seeing you at Epping on Wednesday, I hear the tour guide taking us around is quite good!

Justin WibrowWPresident Yarra Bend Rotary Club

Rotary 2015 - 2016

Club Business & InformationUp and coming Speakers

19-Aug Vocational visit to Melbourne Fruit and Vegetable Market (See page 10 for details)

26-Aug Eb Friedrich, “An interesting life”. 33 years a paramedic and more. Member of our sister club Woodend

2-Sep Edda Williams, Member behind the badge.

9-Sep Marcus Powe, Entrepreneur in Residence

16-Sep Des O’Shanassy and Doug Greig, RC Wyndham, Rotary Public

23-Sep Ian Penrose, 2015 Boroondara Citizen of the Year, Retired Keeper of the Yarra River.

Up and coming events 28-Aug Rotary Club of Caroline Springs will be chartered (See page 3 for details)

30–Aug Woodend Fundraiser

23-Oct The annual Rotary Club of North Balwyn Charity Golf Day

28-Oct Boroondara Emergency Services Awards

25-Nov District Governor Visit

16-Dec Christmas Party

Meeting Duty RosterChair & Gong Thought Member’s Moment Set Up/Pack Up Bulletin Notes

26-Aug Bill Chow Jane Stott Jane Stott John Orr Anne Brown

2-Sep Bob Lambert Matt Pollard MattPollard William Liew Charle Tutchan

9-Sep Irene Leung Clint Sceney Clint Sceney Jane Stott Mark Miller

Camberwell Sunday Market 16-Aug Bill Chow / John Pocock

23-Aug David Chivers

30-Aug Darren G-James

6-Sep Matt Pollard

13-Sep TBA

26-Sep David Shave

SPECIAL EVENT

The new Rotary Club of Caroline Springs will be chartered on 28th August 2015. All District 9800 members are encouraged to attend and support the newest Rotary Club in the world.

Your attendance will provide a great deal of satisfaction to the Club members who have worked extremely hard over the past 3 months to deliver District 9800’s 70th Club in 2015 - 2016 so we too can be ‘A Gift to the World’.

PDG Ross ButterworthRotary International District 9800District Governor 2013-2014

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Swinburne

2015 -2016

CLUB PLAN

YOUTHHUMANITARIAN FESTIVAL

Jordan Boyle is the President this year and he spoke about Swinburne’s plans for this year and how Yarra Bend Club could assist Swinburne which has 10 members...

Jordan outlined the achievements of last year being: Mentoring pilot, Gombe Vocational Education Centre, BBQs and support of Rotary projects and attendance at RYLA.

This year Swinburne Rotaract objectives are to:

• Support more Rotary Projects,

• Initiate some smaller projects like BBQs and Trivia nights,

• Establish a “token” project (signature),

• Continue the mentoring project,

• Establish a general interest public lecture,

• Attract guest speakers to club meetings,

• Introduce a member’s moment,

• Support RYLA and Interact,

• Increase interaction with other Rotaractors, and

• Attend a Rotaract conference and training session.

What is the Youth Humanitarian Festival?

The Youth Humanitarian Festival is an event that provides the opportunity to learn more about social and humanitarian issues in a relaxed yet engaging atmosphere.

This year’s theme of EMPOWERMENT THROUGH ACTION will be explored with speakers, workshops and stalls all working in various areas related to these issues.

Whether you are looking for inspiration on how to contribute to a better future, want to take your passion to the next level or just want to connect with like-minded people, the 2015 Youth Humanitarian Festival is meant for you.

This years Youth Humanitarian Festival will be on Saturday 12th September 2015 - 9am-4:30pm at Swinburne University, Hawthorn.

Standard tickets $15 per person, group tickets $10 per person when 5+ purchased together$15 per person.

Tickets include attendance to speaker sessions, workshops and social event, lunch, The opportunity to meet people working with humanitarian and social justice organisations and others interested in these areas.

The Youth Humanitarian Festival is a 100% Not-for-Profit event organised by student volunteers.

All proceeds from ticket sales will be donated to the speakers not for profit organisations.

What did Liz, Brendon and Krishna have to say?

Liz outlined the planned Youth Humanitarian Festival, a two-day event with speakers and stalls promoting volunteering opportunities and selling charitable goods. Last year this raised $2000 for Mayibuye Cambodia and $200 for a cause in PNG.

Brendon said they were looking for powerful and inspiring speakers and already had speakers from One Girl, Hager and Seven Women. The objective of YHF is to promote Rotary offerings, deliver sustainable growth to Swinburne Rotaract and build connections with Swinburne University.

Krishna explained how much he had got out of Rotaract involvement in the year past and his hopes for YHF to further boost youth involvement with Rotaract. The event is a month away but planning is on-track. He said sponsorship of the social event by RC Glenferrie and RC Yarra Bend would greatly assist.

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JOHN ORR’s BIG ADVENTURES

BRUGE, BELGIUM

John spoke about his recent visit to Bruges, Belgium with his family. One of the highlights of the visit was seeing the Madonna and Child sculpture.

The sculpture was a central part of the story in the movie “Monuments Men” and has been twice stolen, once by Napoleon and later by Hitler. John said Bruges is a very attractive medieval city and highly recommends it as an interesting travel destination.

If you set out to design a fairy-tale medieval town it would be hard to improve on central Bruges (Brugge in Dutch). Picturesque cobbled lanes and dreamy canals link exceptionally photogenic market squares lined with soaring towers, historic churches and old whitewashed almshouses. And there’s plenty of it. The only downside is that everyone knows. That means that there’s an almost constant crush of tourists, especially through the summer

months. So to really enjoy Bruges stay overnight (day trippers miss the fabulous evening floodlighting) and try to visit midweek (avoiding floods of British weekenders).

There’s a special charm in spring when daffodils carpet the tranquil begijnhof or in winter (except Christmas) when you can have the magnificent, if icy, town almost to yourself.

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VOCATIONAL VISIT 19 AUGUST

Yarra Bend Rotary Club will conduct a vocational visit to Melbourne Fruit and Vegetable Market at Epping. All members, family and friends are invited to attend this unique pre-opening inspection. Location is Produce Drive, Epping. See map for details. This visit will be in lieu of our Wednesday night meeting at Amora. Members advised to dress in warm clothes.

Yarra Bend

Golf DayThe annual Rotary Club of North Balwyn Charity Golf Day will be held on Friday 23rd October 2015 at Kew Golf Club - 120 Belford Rd East Kew. Contact Greg Matthews 0419 597 780 or email :- greg1144@bigpond.net.au

Proceeds from the day will go to RC North Balwyn – Men’s Shed Project.

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Rotary Club of Yarra BendABN 97 325 138 640Chartered 16th June 1986 District 9800

PO Box 271Kew East, Vic 3102Australia

yarrabend@rotarydistrict9800.org.auwww.yarrabendrotary.com.au

Yarra Bend

K.R. Ravindran2015-16 President Rotary International

Rotary International2015-16 President’s Theme

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