Copy of Bulletin, November 10 (Nov 10, 2025)

GREETINGS ROTARIANS AND FRIENDS

This week is a Board Meeting event, so club members can enjoy more time for Christmas preparations on Wednesday.

Wednesday,19th November was our Committees Night, another constructive evening of ideas and feedback.

ART COMMITTEE

The Art Show committee have the January event well in hand and our generous sponsors will enable our club to continue to contribute so much to our community.

COMMUNITY

The MCSC special Santa train has all places allocated and the kids and families are bound to have a wonderful outing on this special Mt Eliza/Mornington/Mornington Tourist Railway event.

The Ranch 2.0 project has received wonderful support from Rotarians from many clubs and the first unit looks amazing and is almost ready to become a home for a family in need of crisis accommodation.More units will be vacated soon and working bees begin again from December 8.

As a way of supporting those who have supported us, I recommend that we use our generous partners when we need to make a purchase or need tradespeople for our homes. Copies of the Ranch 2.0 contributors booklet are available from Ross.

Contact Julia if you are able to help on Wednesdays with the summer watering roster of our Greenways trees behind The Bays.

YOUTH

Our local schools are organising their final assemblies and graduation events and we will once again present scholarships and awards at ceremonies for Mornington Secondary College, Moorooduc PS, Mornington PS and Mornington Park PS.

THIS WEEK'S GUEST SPEAKER

Margaret Barry, OAM DSJ, will talk to members at our meeting on December 3. Our club contributed funds to support the purchase of ipads for students.

Margaret explains:

“I started the work in October 2002 after the first Bali Bomb. Witnessing the heroic and successful efforts of volunteers helping the injured, I thought that the synergy of Balinese, expatriates and tourists working together could be directed to a broader purpose. Soon we learned the atrocity was an act of terror originating in a poor community in Java. I knew of several Balinese isolated and impoverished communities that could be potentially radicalised and saw education as a way to elevate these villages. That’s where BCF’s vision of Education to Employment came from,” explains Margaret, who was awarded the Order of Australia Medal for her work in 2018.

The Annual Ride for Medical Research 2026

Contact Eileen to book your seats at the Mornington Rotary Club Christmas celebration.

Dinner, festivities and fun.

Toorak College

Monday, December 8, 6pm.

$70pp.

Our Community Support Centre needs our help. Ben Smith explained that every $1.00 donated can return $4 to the community through the MCSC. It's a particularly good time to dig deep for others.