On the third Sunday of March each year the Black Dog Foundation holds "1 Dayer" rides in every state and territory across Australia, ensuring mental health and suicide prevention is spoken about right across the country. By 2018 this national awareness raising activity mobilised over 6,500 people in 40 different regions.
Our Club will again be supporting this event on Sunday 16th of March with a BBQ and Auctions to raise money for mental health awareness at Wyndham Harbour. Club members please let TJ know if you can help out on the day. Email us if youd like to be involved.
guest speaker - leading senior constable dominic alderman
Our guest speaker at our last meeting was Leading Senior Constable Dom Alderman of the Altona Police Station. Dom was introduced and organised by long time member and supporter of Rotary Loretta Cormack JP. Dom gave us an update on what was happening around town and gave advice on how to prevent the theft of your vehicle and thefts from your vehicle. He is also very keen to start up a Neighbourhood Watch area locally and would love to hear from you to get that going. He also told us how valuable a tool to prevent crime was closed circuit tv, door bell cameras and the like and as such has set up a register to record where CCTV may be in a particular street. If you register your devices you may be able to help the police solve a crime. CCTV is an excellent crime fighting tool. Below is a link to his email if you'd like to be involved
Long time club stalwarts Jan and Barry Douglas are soon moving to a retirement village and so a few of their duties will need to be picked up by club members. The roles we require asap are:
Dinner Order Coordinator (for each meeting)
Raffle Coordinator (for each meeting)
Assistant Treasurer
These are vital roles within the club which in themselves are not onerous. Contact Jan to assist in these roles.
Morgan and Heath Hurley were our guest speakers at a recent meeting. With our club’s assistance they were both able to attend a Defying the Drift 3 Day residential program organised by Rotary District 9780. This program is designed to empower young people to identify and explore agriculture and agribusiness career opportunities. Both students spoke extremely well of all aspects of their learnings from this program. We wish them the best of luck in all future studies.
Your assistance is really needed to make this event succesful.
The BBQs are our major fund raising activity which allows us to continue our important work.
Please contact Lenore on lenore.rotary@gmail.com to volunteer for a shift. If you have volunteered for a shift, please ensure you attend to your rostered shift.
At the Australia Day Celebrations the millenium time capsule messages were displayed and over 40 people were reunited with their messages. It is intended to further display the capsule project at upcoming Hobsons Bay Community Events. We will advise you of those events.
Combined Altona and Altona City Christmas Party 2024
VALE MANDY (Shalita) DAYAL
It is with deep regret we advise that club member Mandy Dayal passed away on the 16th of December last year suddenly after a cardiac arrest. True to her devotion to community service, two days prior she had been helping at one of our sausage sizzles when she complained of tiredness.
Mandy had in total 12 years of service to rotary with six of those with Brimbank and the remainder with Altona City. Our thought are with her children and extended family at this time. She will be missed by the club.
DISTRICT GOVERNOR MICHAEL LAPINa - OFFICIAL club VISIT
Michael Lapina the District Governor paid us an official visit at our last meeting where he outlined his vision and the International President's Stephanie Urchick's vision for Rotary going forward under our current Theme : The Magic of Rotary.
The presentation was very well accepted and informative and Michael took the opportunity to present President Lenore and the club with official recognition of our clubs commitment to The Rotary Foundation.
Our club was the Third Highest Contributor to the Rotary Foundation. Given that there are over 60 clubs in the District, thats a mightly effort for a club that often punches well above its own weight.
Well done to all club members.
Thanks Michael and son Alex for your informative visit.
In now its 7th year, the Hobsons Bay Education Awards were held on Tuesday the 15th of October at the Kooringal Golf Course. In all, four schools were represented in three different categories.
There was a total of 20 nominations with the profiles of the winners read out. It was absolutely amazing to hear the work and dedication shown by these educators who are making a difference and enhancing our children's and loved ones education.
The key note speaker was Lucienne Heyworth who spoke of her passion in providing educational opportunties for children in war torn and troubled areas of the world.
She was truly inspirational and easily held the room with her passion and inspiration.
The awards are the brain child of Past District Governor Julie Mason who also handed out awards on the night. The categories were:
An Encouragement award for early career stage teachers.
An Achievement award for more experienced teachers.
Rhett Dadswell (Altona P-12)
Greta Aranha (Emmanuel College- Notre Dame Campus)
Marc Nicols (Emmanuel College- St Paul’s Campus)
A Team Award where a group of Teachers or Education Support Staff have collaborated effectively to address an important challenge or new development for a school.
Bayside College: Sam Levy, Suzanne Towe, Darren Sutcliffe, Angela North, Camilla Bishop
Emmanuel College: Keenan Gatens, Sian O’Neale, Michael Green
Williamstown HS: Alice Reid, Soula Sapounakis, Marnie Van Luinen.
It was a great night and congratulations to award winners and the organising committee, particularly Bryan Goodwin for pulling this event together.
WERN UPDATE
Saturday 5 October, saw 7 volunteers from our Club help out at the Western Emergency Relief Network at Ravenhall.
We spent the time creating crockery and cutlery packs for 4, sorting donated goods, and restacking shelves of kitchenware and other useful items.
It was a rewarding experience and enjoyable as well. I hope we can do more volunteering there in the future. The need is enormous and the volunteers hard to find.
Our Lift the Lid event was a great success and very well attended. Rotarians, families and friends all got together wearing silly and colourful hats on the night and raffles and blind auctions helping raise money for the Australian Rotary Health Foundation.
Guest speaker Dr Lachlan Kent from Prevention United gave an informative and interesting presentation on mental health and ways we can assist ourselves and others in tackling this issue.
Prizes were awarded for the most colourful and interesting hats. President Lenore wishes to thank all those who attended and contributed to this important fundraising event.
Members from local clubs were in attendance and an intrepid crew from Preston Rotary also joined us making the night a speical one.
