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Upcoming Events
Club Changeover Night
Jun 30, 2021
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
 
Board Meeting
Jul 07, 2021
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
 
Bunnings BBQ
Jul 25, 2021
8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
 
Bunnings BBQ
Aug 07, 2021
8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
 
Australian Rotary Health 40th Anniversary Dinner
Aug 20, 2021
6:00 PM – 10:30 PM
 
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Meeting Responsibilities
Club Meeting Duty Member
Bilham, Ken
 
Reception / Cash Desk
Prudden, Eileen
 
Birthdays & Anniversaries
Member Birthdays
Peter Jay
June 14
 
Judy Seager
June 18
 
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The Four Way Test
 
 
 
ClubRunner Mobile
16th Dec 2020, Volume No 74,  Issue No 25
 
 
Stories
From the Editor

A good evening to my fellow Mornington Rotarians, partners and friends. I hope all is well and both you and your families are going along OK. Not a great deal to report on from the editor's desk this week, its sort of like all quite on the Rotary Front. With the return of Bunnings BBQ's (coming out of another Lockdown ) there has been a bit of movement and it appears that we may be "in line" to pick up a few BBQ's over the coming months, so look out for some news in the next week or so in this area. As most of us are only to painfully aware by now of the very, very sad news coming out of Afghanistan that we have lost a number of volunteers to a deadly attack . It really saddens me and I can certainly speak on behalf of all Rotarians that there are some truly wonderful people in our International Community doing amazing things to help out those not so fortunate as us, and to have this terrible incident occur is so wrong. 

 

Last Week -  A Social Outing

Last Wednesday evening there was a small social get together planned as we came out of another Mini Lockdown. About ten members and partners gathered at the Uthong Thai Resturant in Main Street for a quite evening of refreshments and some very , very yummy this cuisine. I must say both the quality and quantity of the food was amazing. We decided to take on the banquet meal and it certainly did not let us down, more food than you possibly eat and the flavour and presentation was fabulous. Unfortunately there were no pics from the night as the Photographer had a night off. One couple who had a great night was Dennis and Betty. It was great to see this beautiful couple out and about and with some pretty testing times over the past few months it was very pleasing to see them really enjoying themselves. Betty provided us with some very amusing and colourful stories about Captain Dennis and his seamanship skills, so next time your looking for an exciting and a " different " seagoing experience look up Dennis or maybe stay ashore, !!!!

 

This Weeks Club Meeting - Wed 21st June " A Night Off "

This week we will not be undertaking our usual weekly Club Meeting, due to there still being a number of cavets on the Mornington Hotel density seating guidelines that see us unable to utilise the Stratton Room. So with the " I'm all ZOOMED out " feeling, its a night off this coming week, chill out , get the fire stoked up and a glass or two of red on standby.

Hopefully we get some good news, this week in regards to further easing of Covid Hospitality regulations and we can still go ahead with our much anticipated Changeover Night. As soon as either Brian and/or Eileen get the latest lowdown on this ( hopefull this comingWednesday) an all points Bulletin will be sent out to all members, partners and guests.

 

 

 

Australian Rotary Health - 40th Anniversary Celebration Dinner

This year will see a very special event within Rotary and especially one that has a very, very significant focus within our own club, and that being the 40th Anniversary Birthday Celebration of Australian Rotary Health. Over the past few months plans have been undertaken to celebrate this special event and a date and venue has now been set. Friday the 20th August 2021 will see an evening Dinner accompanied by a number of Guest Speakers. The evening will be held at The Mornington Golf Course, so if you are free please " pencil in this date to your diaries". Specific details accompanied with an invitation will be coming to you in the next few weeks.

 

Presidents Report - 21st June 2021
 
This week - NO meeting …as we are still not able to hold our normal meeting at the Hotel’s Stratton Room, and more than one member has said to me that they are Zoomed out, we have cancelled it. 
We have deferred Peter McGinley of ADFA to August. 
Hopefully we will be back at the Hotel for Changeover night ….but we really need to wait until any changes to COVID Restrictions are announced later this week. 
 
Induction of Marilyn and Jeff, is just another thing we need to hold over until a face to face meeting. 
 
Molly King Report Here’s an update from Molly King, our sponsored Indigenous Scholarship student,  that I spotted in a recent copy of ARH Board Minutes 
 
“Some areas which I initially struggled with included cranial nerves. I was quite astonished to learn how extremely complex the nerves and vessels in the head are. Learning about this did allow me to appreciate how truly magnificent the body is and how it works to allow us to conduct basic everyday functions that I so often take for granted. To help me with my initial struggle of learning about these concepts, I gathered resources from PSPs (study groups run by previous years to highlight important concepts to understand). These study sessions really helped me and helped decrease the enormous overload of content that was sometimes given. 
At the end of this semester, we had two exams. One was on first semester content and the other was on second semester content. Prior to sitting these exams, I was quite overwhelmed by the content (including a lot of complex anatomy) I was required to remember. During swotvac I ensured I followed a timetable so that I was able to get through what I needed before the exams. Being at home and having my Mum around to cook meals and talk through things really helped. The exams themselves were quite difficult and it was an adjustment getting use to using an online platform for sitting the exams. However, I applied the knowledge that I learnt and overall was happy with my results considering the strange year that had occurred.” 
 
Club Runner As many of you know we use Club Runner for much of our admin, including the Bulletin, website, membership records, emails etc. I am going to run an intro / overview session on how this all works, for any interested members, at my place at 10.30am  Tuesday 29 th June. (assuming we can) Please let me know if you are interested. We have 6 so far.
 
Youth Update – Model United Nations Assembly Pleasingly John R reports that Mornington Secondary College have nominated a team to participate in this years on line event. 
 
Youth Update – Mornington Secondary College – State Schools Spectacular. MSS have asked both us and Mt.Martha Rotary Club if we can contribute $500 ea to assist members of their team who could not otherwise afford to participate. The Board recommends this, to members, and in the absence of a meeting to approve it, we will proceed unless we hear to the contrary from any member. 
 
Polio tragedy I just received this email advising of a further tragedy involving Polio volunteer workers in Afghanistan. “Rotary International’s PolioPlus Chair/RI Past Vice Chair Mike McGovern reports that six Polio workers were killed in Afghanistan on Tuesday and a further four injured. Past Vice President Mike said the situation in Afghanistan will become very tenuous in the months ahead.  He said there is an ongoing civil war between the Taliban and Isis/Isil  groups and the government has little control of the situation. These people are truly unsung heroes and the situation emphasises the extreme importance of our end of year Polio fund raising to ensure the program continues and is completed as soon as possible.”
 
Bunnings BBQ’s  After approaching Bunnings I am pleased to advise that we have been offered some potential BBQ dates, and David is just finalising them. 
 
 
 

Regards

Ross

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