Grovedale Waurn Ponds Rotary Bulletin 16 Jan 2019 (Jan 18, 2019)

Rotary Leadership

Rotary International President - Barry Rassin
District 9780 Governor - Anthony Ohlsen

Rotary Club of Grovedale Waurn Ponds.

President - Paul Desbrowe Annear
Meeting Number 1969

23 Jan 2019

Rotarian Duties

Chair for Meetings.

30th Jan Jan Gillett

6th Feb (Social Meeting) No Chair Required

13th Feb Lesley Goode

20th Feb John McGibbon

Thurs 28th Feb Highton Rotary Club Chair

20th March Pam Hook

Guests and Upcoming Meetings

30 Jan Guest Speaker Faye Dickinson - 'Don't Stare-- Be Aware'

6 Feb Social Meeting TBC

13 Feb Regular Meeting TBC

20 Feb Visit to Lutheran College - Tour and Dinner - Partners Night

cost: $25.00 with $5.00 going towards Erik's 'Donation in Kind Project'

27 Feb Meeting moved to 28 Feb (see below)

THURSDAY 28th Feb Joint Meeting with Highton Rotary Club @ Rice Village

Guest speaker Mark Balla Project Manager for Operation Toilets Australia

6 March No Meeting

13 March Regular Meeting

20 March German Night Hosted by Erik and helpers

27th March Committee Meetings @ Rice Village

General Update

Committee Reports.

Youth/Vocation Report.

Geelong Lutheran College Visit. Wednesday 20th February. Partner's night. Meet in main carpark- Burvilles Road - 6.15pm. VCAL students are to provide pizzas and salad. BYO drinks. $25 per head. $5 of this to be a fundraiser for Erik's DIK project. Following the meal there will be a tour of the College.
Awards Nights. Bob Arnup attended the Grovedale College Awards Night and presented both academic and citizenship awards. John McGibbon attended the GLC Awards Night to present awards to students. Both nights featured musical interludes from students and reports from staff on the year.
German Night. Wednesday 20th March. Partner's night. Rice Village. 6.15 for 6.30. $25.00 per head. Erik to make a presentation to the Club. Special food and music. Home made biscuits for sale (another DIK fundraiser for Erik who will be making the biscuits for us).
Science and Engineering Challenge. No dates as yet. Will be in April at Deakin University. Club usually is a sponsor and attempts to provide volunteers to assist with the running of the 2-day event.

International Report.

Operation Toilets Austrialia. The International Committee is keen to hear from Mark Balla at our 28th Feb meeting to learn more about the project and our possible engagement.
Lesley Goode will be attending the Grants/Foundation seminar which will be held in Geelong 10 Feb. This will give qualify GWP to apply for grants in the coming year.
House of Angels. The Committee recommends that funds from the Rotary HoA account be paid at the start of each school year for the subsequent 3 years, (approximately $900.00). The money is to be used to support the purchase of uniforms and books for children attending local schools. This commitment is to be reviewed annually by the GWP Board. As such the Board requests that receipts and a financial record be provided annually by the HoA.

Geelong Beer Festival fund raising opportunity.

A volunteering opportunity has been presented to the club by the organising committee of the Geelong Beer Festival. They need 15 volunteers to work for 3-4 hours on Saturday the 15^th of Feb around lunchtime at the beer festival handing out wristbands or glasses and they would donate $500 to the Club. Thanks to all those who have volunteered to date - if anyone else would like to help out - please contact Paul.

Rotary Grants Qualifying Seminar - Geelong Feb 2019

The seminar will be on Sunday 10 February 2019 and hosted by the Rotary Club of Geelong. The venue will be the Geelong RSL, 50 Barwon Heads Road, Belmont and the training will commence at 10 am with a break for lunch and should finish about 3 pm. There is free parking all day.

The registration cost is $25 per Rotarian. There will be Tea/coffee and cake all day. Finger food sandwiches and hot platters for lunch. GWP Rotary Club will refund our members registrations.

Please contact Lesley Goode if you are interested.

This is really important to our club. We need to be more savvy about how to link into the Rotary Grants program. We need members to qualify for the grants to be open to us. No qualified members = No grants. So please consider attending with Lesley in Geelong (easy) 10 Feb.

What's this whoozin????

'whoozin' is an app that enables us to collect RSVP's to events and meetings in a very easy accessible way. It provides a report for simple administration of these events.

Jordy will be sending you whoozin invites via email.

It is important to know that you have to reply to whoozin to be included in the catering numbers for the meeting or event being advertised. You are not automatically counted in - you have to reply. Please respond to whoozin invites as quickly as possible and no later than the Tuesday before the event. If you do not have access to email - please respond to Rice Village in the usual way. If you have any questions about whoozin please discuss with Jordy or Cookie.

Meeting Attendance.

If you are unable to access 'whoozin' please remember to inform RICE VILLAGE by Tuesday prior to the meeting if not attending to stop food waste and the unnecessary effort our volunteers. Check blue book for the number or use the app!