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We normally meet on Wednesday nights over dinner, 6.00 for 6.30, at the Mornington Hotel. Please see our upcoming meeting and event details on the right hand column of this website. Guests are most welcome and should you wish to attend one of our Club Meetings, please contact our Club Secretary, via the Home page link/ tab: "Club Secretary - Jo Davie", located directly under this notice, to book in for dinner or contact her on 0412 235 868 thank you.

President

Pam Hall

Treasurer

President Elect

Secretary

Rotary Foundation

Membership

Community Service

Board Member

International Service

Richard Vautier

Chair Art Show

Richard Vautier

Paul Harris

Ian Horton

Youth & New Generation

Judy Seager

Public Relations

Tanya Chambers

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Mornington Rotary Club

Mornington Rotary Club

Our Club always has local projects and partnerships, and national and international contributions, that might interest you. Our website and facebook page will give you some insights into them.

We meet regularly on Wednesday nights over dinner at the Mornington Hotel. Meetings offer guest speakers, social activities and project and partnership development through our Committees.

Mornington community members are welcome to join us by either participating in a Club Project or coming along to one of our Club Meetings.

Follow us at

https://www.facebook.com/rotaryclubofmorningtonvictoria/

To find out more detailed information about Mornington Rotary, or contact one of our Club Board Members, as listed on the left hand side of this webpage, click on their name this will put you in email contact with them.

And to read about some of our other projects, not on this home page click on Read More

The Mornington Art Show 2024

The Rotary Rotary Club of Mornington's major annual project is our Mornington Art Show. It is normally held in the week leading into Australia Day at the Peninsula Community Theatre.

With over 700 pieces on display, its success is thanks to all our artists, our sponsors, the volunteers who make it happen, and our visitors.

We believe that it is the second largest Art Show in the State and the largest on the Mornington Peninsula. Funds raised enables our Club to undertake our community projects and to support those members of the community in need.

For more information about the Art Show please go to www.morningtonartshow.com.au

and follow it on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/morningtonartshow/.

The Bays Hospital

For over 60 years The Rotary Club of Mornington has supported the Bays Hospital.

Recently we provided a Critical Care Bed in the High Care Unit and a day bed in he new Cancer facility.

Our latest project that Mornington Peninsula residents will benefit from, is having more specialty trained nurses. We have launched of The Bays Nursing and Midwifery Education Fund to support The Bays' nurses to undertake specialised training, which not-for-profit hospitals and nurses struggle to afford. An initial donation of $25,000, has been topped up with a further $15000. Members of the community are welcome to also contribute.

CEO of The Bays Hospital, Jade Phelan, said: “We are thrilled to have had the support of Mornington Rotary Club over many years, and have worked with them over the last year to identify the most worthy project for them to support into the future. Nurse education is certainly that.”

L to R: CEO The Bays Hospital - Jade Phelan, Nurse - Justine Killen & President of Mornington Rotary - Pam Hall

Mornington Community & Support Centre

The Mornington Community Support Centre, located on Main Street, plays a vital role for those in our community in need, whether it be food, housing or advice. Our support has varied from simple items like purchase of a commercial fridge, for their food program to sponsoring a documentary to raise awareness of homelessness on the Mornington Peninsula.

In 2022 it was helping in the establishment of emergency accommodation at the Ranch and in 2023 it was the was The Moondah Project.

The Peninsula Trail

Mornington Rotary Club was one of the eight clubs on the Peninsula that supported the development of Peninsula Trail as an Australian Rotary Centenary Project in 2021 . The project is being led by Council and will connect our communities and visitor destinations with around 170klm of trails, most of which already exists, so we just need the missing links.

In Mornington it will

likely run parallel to the Mornington Tourist Railway line from the end of Peninsula Link at Moorooduc Station, to Mornington Station. It will connect in Civic Reserve, to the Harrap Creek Trail to the Briars and Mt.Martha.

From Mornington Station it will connect into Mornington's main activity centre and the foreshore via the old railway easements. Its part of Rotary's focus on environmental sustainability and health.

For more info see https://www.mornpen.vic.gov.au/About-Us/Advocacy/Peninsula-Trails and

https://www.facebook.com/thepeninsulatrail/ .

The Mornington Rotary Greenway

The Mornington Rotary Greenway

Mornington Rotary Club has won Council permission to start creating a Greenway from the Nepean Highway to the Esplanade, largely along the old railway line easement.

What is a Greenway ? Simply it is open space set aside for recreation and environmental protection. The community can walk within it, amongst trees and nature, either to get to a destination or for the pure pleasure of the experience. It will be a great dog walk.The initial planting of trees, to start to create the Greenway, will be adjacent to the Bays Hospital, between Vale and Elizabeth Streets, in Autumn 2025.

International Projects

International Projects & Contributions

Interplast Along with the other seven Rotary Clubs on the Mornington Peninsula we have funded an Interplast Team to Tonga and continue to support ongoing local training for their medical staff. The Interplast team consists of specialist doctors and nurses who will both conduct and train local doctors in reconstructive surgery. More at https://interplast.org.au/

Disaster Relief We contributed funds to both Flood relief in Australia and the victims of the Ukraine War, via our Rotary District Disaster fund.

Rotary International Foundation Each year we make a significant financial contributions to the Rotary Foundation for the elimination of polio in the world, and its work across its 7 areas of humanitarian support. Since the early 1980 when there were over 300,000 cases of disabling polio disease in the world we are now down to a handful thanks to this Rotary led project.

We also contribute annually to the operational costs of the Rotary Warehouse in Footscray that collects Australian goods suitable for re-use in developing countries. Medical and educational items are especially valued.

In 2024 we also contributed to the purchase of Tablets for a school in Bali.

Australian Rotary Health

Australian Rotary Health

In the early 1980's club member Ian Scott proposed the need for medical research into Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. The club got behind this initiative, and approached other clubs in the district who added to the funding support. Progressively districts and clubs from around Australia came on Board and over $55 million has been raised. Once successful research had been completed into SIDS, other areas of need for medical research were funded. Since the early 2000's the Research emphasis has been towards mental health research, and in the last few years, mental health for children.

ARH also funds scholarships for study and in since 2021 the Rotary Club of Mornington has been supporting an Indigenous Scholarship for Molly King who is undertaking a course at Monash University in Melbourne for a Bachelor of Medicine.

Full details on Australian Rotary Health are available at www.australianrotaryhealth.org.au

Mornington Rotary Stalwarts , Ted Morre & Ian Horton & Ms Molly King

Recognition of Australian Rotary Health

Recognition of Australian Rotary Health

in 2020 the Chair of Australian Rotary Health, Greg Ross visited the club to present recognition to Don Gordon, a past President of the Club in the early 1980's, for his role in leading in the formation of Australian Rotary Health. ARH has subsequently gone on to raise $55 million for medical research, with its emphasis since the early 2000's being mental health. Six members of the club at the time of the formation were present, (photograph L to R) Darryl Chambers, Milton Green, Don Gordon, Ted Moore, Ken Bilham and Ian Prudden.

Full details on Australian Rotary Health are available at www.australianrotaryhealth.org.au

Bulletin, Vol 77, Issue 13

May 13, 2024

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Apr 19, 2024

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Apr 14, 2024

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