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ROTARY CLUB OF BEAUMARIS WEEKLY BULLETIN Number 41 13 May 2019

President’s Report Next Meetings

Small business owners Jodie and Marta from Black Rock came THURSDAY 16 MAY
along on Thursday night laden with gifts. They told us how their SPEAKER: HEATHER BARTON
thriving businesses have developed. TOPIC: THE WORK OFTHE SMITH FAMILY
CHAIR : CHRIS MARTIN
AV SUPPORT: ADRIAN CULSHAW
CASH DESK: LOIS LINDSAY & FRED HOFMANN

FRIDAY 17 MAY
SCRABBLE AFTERNOON
1:30 - 4:00
UNIT 1 60 RESERVE ROAD
SEE DETAILS ON PAGE 3

THURSDAY 23 MAY
CLUB FORUM
CHAIR: RICHARD POTTER
AV SUPPORT: BRIDGET HAGE
CASH DESK: MARK PERELAER & CHRIS MARA

THURSDAY 30 MAY
SPEAKER: MARK PERELAER
Given the wintery weather conditions on Saturday, we had a reason- TOPIC; NEW MEMBER TALK
ably good day at the Farmers Market. The Beaumaris North Primary CHAIR: FRED HOFMANN
school robotic team broke the raffle record and raised a good sum to AV SUPPORT: CHRIS D'ARCY
fund their project. Thanks to all the members and partners who CASH DESK: CHARMAINE JANSZ & MEGAN GLENWRIGHT
braved the early morning cold start, cooked the BBQ food, and wel-
comed market goers at the gates. THURSDAY 6 JUNE
SPEAKER: SIMON CUNNINGTON
Dates for your diaries: TOPIC; YACHTING
 Our Board members will be meeting this Tuesday evening14th May. CHAIR: MARY SEALY
AV SUPPORT: KEN MIRAMS
 Joy Lea will be hosting a Scrabble afternoon this Friday 17th May
CASH DESK: TRISH SMYTH & ROY SEAGER
from 1.30pm – 4.00pm, in support of the Highlands Foundation. A
few places are still available at Joy’s table.
 8 members will be representing RCOB at the District Assembly this
Sunday19th May
A Club Forum will be held at our meeting on Thursday 23rd May. Our Board
of Directors will be reporting on the club’s activities throughout the past year
and they will be happy to answer all your questions. It would be helpful if
Unless stated otherwise venue is
questions can be emailed in advance to Secretary Roy Seager. Victoria Golf Club 6.30 for 7.00
Our Speaker on Thursday is Heather Barton AM. She will be talking about
the work of the Smith Family and ways in which groups and individuals can Contents
be involved. See Chris D’Arcy’s email for further information, and make
sure you invite your partners. 1 Presidents Report
2/5 Notices
6 This Week’s Speakers
7/8 Club Sponsors
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Farmers Market Report noon. Warm food vendors and coffee did really well. Also
did well were organic meats, Little Jem's Cup Cakes, L'Ar-
Beaumaris North Primary School (BNPS) robotic team led tisan French Pâté, Anslee Rawsmith slices, Honey for
by teacher Meredith Graham did a wonder for our market Health, Gippsland Cheeses, Gourmet Pies, Homemade
today! BNPS students set up robotic demonstration mats Gnocchi. We also welcome a new stallholder - free range
on the ground close to both entrances. The robotic poultry, chickens, ducks, turkeys, quails. The music team
demonstrations were controlled from a iPad game con- was unwell today - we missed them.
sole. Some robots were built using Legos. The rolling/
crawling robots with flashing lights drew a bit of crowd, fun Finally, thank you all for helping out today. It has been a
and attention. Meredith said that students were a bit shy reasonably good day, given the weather condition that we
in the beginning. As more crowd showing interest in their were in. We thank teacher Meredith Graham and her stu-
robotic demonstrations, students opened up and gained dents at BNPS for adding so much vibes of youth innova-
confidence in selling raffle tickets. It has been a wonderful tions to our market today.
social and marketing experience for these talented youths.
They broke our raffle record (excluding Christmas) raising
Bridget
a good sum of fund and will come back later this year.

The weather was below par, with glimpses of most wanted

sunlight. This naturally deterred some market goers.
However, this did not translate badly with our stallholders
at all. We had about 50 stallholders today. All strawber-
ries for sale in the market today were sold out! Star stall-
holders such as Bromley's bread, green eggs, and the
small vegetable stall on the north side, sold out before 12

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Speakers: Marta & Jodie velopment and marketing of the business which now oper-
ates in four locations across Melbourne.
Topic; Black Rock Traders
Marta is Director, Principal Naturopath, Herbalist, Nutri-
tionist, Massage therapist at Shine Health and Wellbeing.
Marta Dunin-Labedzki and Jodie Madden are both traders
in the Black Rock shopping precinct. They have both She spoke about three key aspects of wellbeing: Reducing
worked with Beaumaris Rotary’s own Kerrie Geard who inflammation, Gut Health and Healthy sleeping.
has worked tirelessly to reinvigorate the Black Rock Trad-
ers Association over the last few years. This has culmi-
nated in the successful Christmas carnivals.
Jodie was bought up in Black Rock and is the co-founder
of Powder Laundry – Australia’s first coin-free laundromat.
Jodie spoke briefly about the evolution of the concept, de-

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For details about the latest travel deals follow this link: https://destinationhq.com.au/luxury/

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Special Notice From Destination HQ

1.5% of any travel bookings from Beaumaris Rotary Club Members,

family and friends at Destination HQ Beaumaris will be returned to the
Beaumaris Rotary Club at the end of the year.

PLEASE make the consultant aware that you’re from the Rotary Club at
the beginning of the booking. This ensures that the booking is tracked
and
reported back to their admin at the time.

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RCOB Club Structure 2018 – 2019

RCOB Board Club Service & Administration

President Heather Chisholm Almoners Jan Cooper/Roy Downes
Secretary Roy Seager Archivist TBA
Treasurer Lynda Doutch Arts Community Liaison Max Darby
President Elect David Hone Assistant Treasurer James Glenwright
Past President Chris D’Arcy Attendance & Dining David Hone
Community Chris Werner Auditor Tony Phillips
International John Sime Club Photographer Max Darby
Youth Chris Martin Club Protection Officer Ken Mirams
Communications David Lea/Adrian Culshaw
Community – Chris Werner Chair Fellowship & Vocational Trish/Kerrie/Mary Cunnington
John Beaty Adrian Culshaw Foundation John Beaty
Mary Cunnington Max Darby Light Bulb Moment Martin Fothergill
Roy Downes Martin Fothergill Marketing & PR Peter Flude/Greg Every
Kerrie Geard Chris Mara Membership Tony Phillips/Megan Glenwright
Tony Phillips Mary Sealy On to Conference Chris D’Arcy
Program Kerrie Geard/Adrian Culshaw
International – John Sime Chair Social Media Adrian Culshaw/Mary Sealy
Fred Hofmann John Manks
Ken Mirams Robert McArthur Bayside Charity Golf Day - Martin Fothergill Chair
Ross Phillips Clem Quick Peter Flude James Glenwright
Richard Potter Gail Anderson Richard Jones Jim O’Brien
Youth – Chris Martin Chair Tony Phillips Lynda Doutch
Jan Cooper Bridget Hage
Lois Lindsay Tony McKenna District Service – Trish Smyth Chair
Antony Nixon David Rushworth District Compliance Officer Ken Mirams
Malcolm Sawle Vivienne Zoppolato District Membership Trish Smyth

Indigenous – David Hone Chair Farmers Market – Bridget Hage Co-ordinator

Adrian Culshaw Lynda Doutch Greg Every Peter Flude
Martin Fothergill Chris Mara Wolf Fritze Charmaine Jansz
Robert McArthur (Trachoma) Chris Mara Ken Mirams
Geoff Stringer Vivienne Zoppolato

The Human Touch:

Human/Nature Winner.
It’s no exaggeration to
say that André Bauma,
the head caretaker at the
Senkwekwe Center for
orphaned gorillas in Vi-
runga National Park,
risks his life daily for the
animals in his care. In
recent decades, more
than 170 rangers have
been killed in the park,
and the Senkwekwe
Center has been overrun
by rebels on multiple
occasions. Even in these
moments, Bauma has
never abandoned the
center’s gorillas. "Gorilla
caretakers with those
gorilla orphans? We are
the same family," he
says. "They know we are
their mums."

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