Volume 58, No. 6 11 August 2016 Meets Thursdays 6pm for 6.30pm at the Foundry Hotel

High St, Golden Square.

“Rotary Serving Humanity”

Stop Press: Robert Walls Dinner scheduled for this Wednesday

August 17 has been cancelled due to insufficient support. Regular meeting has been now scheduled for Thursday August 18 at Foundry Arms at the usual time.

President’s weekly message..... At our meeting held on Thursday August 11 we welcomed two guests. Bob Wiseman, a past President and a recent recipient of a Paul Harris Fellow and a member of the Rotary Club of Kangaroo Flat. Bob kindly presented us with a cheque for $250 for a BBQ Gary and I helped them out with at short notice. Jane Robson, a former member of the Rotary Club of Ballarat also was again a welcome visitor. The Business Plan for 2016 – 2017 was presented for the coming Rotary year with each director contributing to the overall presentation. Copies of this plan will soon be available on our website under the member section for those who wish to study it in more detail. We also provided those present with a quick over view of our new website and how to find all the good things it contains. As we are constantly adding to it to make it even more useful please offer us further suggestions of what you would like to see it contain. It is now one of our vital tools of communication, along with the weekly Signpost. The Membership Committee has been working for some time on two main areas. Firstly, a Corporate Model of Club Membership and also a step by step strategy in targeting and recruiting individual members. Our taskforce will soon be making some approaches to up to six local corporations to gauge the interest in taking up the opportunity to become a Corporate member of our club. Secondly, all members will be emailed during this coming week a copy of a working paper outlining our marketing strategy specifically prepared to assist the ongoing recruiting of individual members. This paper has been designed in such a way to encourage further input from all members so please feel free to add your responses where the gaps have been provided. I would then ask you to return it to me via return email. On the last Sunday of this month we have our lunch and guided tour of the Avonmore Winery. This is a great opportunity to bring partners and friends along in a relaxing setting so we all get to

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know each other a little more. Two years ago when we did a member survey there was a recommendation to the board to endeavour to have more social activities that partners could be invited to. The old idea of declaring dinner meetings partners nights no longer seems to work. We have listened to this request but it is now up to members to support these events. Please provide Jenny Hughes and /or Ros Chenery your numbers during the coming week. Also start thinking about the District Conference in Shepparton and take advantage of the early bird discount. See you all this Thursday at the Foundry. Tony Plant.

Club Program for July AUGUST THEME - MEMBERSHIP

Thurs Aug 18 Dinner Meeting – speaker Trevor Phillips Foundry

Thurs Aug 25 No meeting in Lieu of Sunday event

Sun Aug 28 Lunch and tour of a Winery- Members and

Partners

Avonmore Winery –

Goornong

SEPTEMBER THEME - LITERACY

Thurs Sept 1 Dinner meeting – our Japanese Exchange Student,

Tosiya & farewell to Tom Glazebrook

Foundry

Thurs Sept 8 DG visit – Neville John

Foundry

It is important to notify Ros Chenery if you cannot attend a meeting as we need to give accurate numbers for meals with the Foundry or other caterers. We will be charged for all meals ordered.

CLUB DUTY ROSTER

Date Aug 18th Aug 25th 1 Sept 8 Sept

Topic New member talk

No Meeting Avonmore Winery

On Sunday

Farewell Tom and welcome Toshiya

District Governor visit

Guest Speaker Trevor Phillips Pauline Bryans Tom & Toshiya DG Neville John

Chair Tony Plant Clive Hughes Tony Plant Bernie Young

Cashiers

Cora F-Mahnic Graham Neivandt

Ros Chenery

Glenn Madden Jim Rinaldi

Geoff McKinna Ken Briggs

Regalia/Fellowship Anne Peace n/a Ruth O’Connell Ian Ellis

All Rotarians on duty must arrive before 6pm on the night. If you are unable to complete your duty please arrange a substitute.

Attendance Officer: Ros Chenery 0407 802 801 ros.chenery@visionaustralia.org

Visit to Avonmore Estate Winery on Sunday…. Don’t forget our social day out at this well respected winery which is owned by Jennie Hughes’

sister & husband. We are expected at 11.30am for a tour of the Bio Dynamic Farm and cellar area,

followed by a 2 course meal, tea/coffee & glass of wine.

Directions to Avonmore Winery

Drive up Midland Hwy towards Elmore. Pass through Goornong keeping on Midland Hwy drive

past the Rushworth turn off, You will see a sandwich board on LHS saying “Avonmore Estate

Winery 1 Km ahead”.

Turn left into May Reef Avonmore Road, crossing over the rail line. There is a large brown sign,

indicating the winery on a post.

Drive down road for 2km to the Winery gates. It is exactly 40 Km from Bendigo and 5 Km this

side of Elmore.

Bill Ashman present past President Tony Plant with the bound complete Signpost collection for last year.

Cora Fuentes-Mahnic and Merlyn Quaife inspire club members with a little of their life histories with some amusing anecdotes.

Roundup from our Cluster Clubs….. We would like to encourage new members to go to the next Learning and Development program to learn more about Rotary and to hone leadership skills. This program will be held in Bendigo at the Golden Square Primary School on Sunday Aug 14. A Men’s Health Marathon of health events will be run by Bendigo Community Health over 11 days from Aug 27 to Sept 6. This will be supported by Bendigo & Strathdale RC and we will also be contributing to this important health initiative. More information to follow. Bendigo Sandhurst RC will host Anne Carey on Wed 31st at the BRIT restaurant. Anne has been described as the “Medical Warrior” for her work overseas with the Ebola outbreak. Contact Martin Ruffell on 0422 445 604 or http://m.redcross.org.au/content/anne-carey-australian-of-the-year-wa?m=1

The work continues at Camp Getaway,

with club members working hard to update

and improve the quality of the camp

facilities. Here Graham Neivandt, Ken

Briggs, Trevor Phillips & Clive Hughes

drop tools for a quick photo op! Is that Ian

Ellis on the scaffolding?

Anniversaries & Birthdays - August

Happy Birthday to.. Induction Anniversaries

13 Max Ellis 15 Tony Plant 31 Lindsay Jolley

6 Geoff McKinna 6 Glenn Madden

WHO’S WHO?

ROTARY INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENT: John Germ (USA)

RI DISTRICT 9800 GOVERNOR: Neville John

ASSISTANT GOVERNORS (GOLDFIELDS CLUSTER):

Gary McClure (Goldfields South) & Greg Noonan (Goldfields North)

PRESIDENT: Tony Plant

SECRETARY: Ruth O’Connell

TREASURER: Greg Noonan

CLUB PROTECTION OFFICER: Geoff McKinna

MEMBERSHIP DEVELOPMENT/ P.R: Rod Spitty

COMMUNITY SERVICE: Gary Pinner

CLUB SERVICE, SIGNPOST: Ros Chenery

ROTARY FOUNDATION: Merlyn Quaife

YOUTH SERVICES: Glenn Madden

INTERNATIONAL SERVICE: Lindsay Jolley

CLUB COMMUNICATIONS: Matthew Scott

THE OBJECT OF ROTARY The object of Rotary is to encourage and foster

the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise

and, in particular, to encourage and foster:

FIRST.

The development of acquaintance as an

opportunity for service;

SECOND.

High ethical standards in business and

professions; the recognition of the worthiness of

all useful occupations; and the dignifying of

each Rotarian’s occupation as an

opportunity to serve society;

THIRD.

The application of the ideal of service in each

Rotarian’s personal, business, and community

life;

FOURTH.

The advancement of international

understanding, goodwill, and peace through a

world fellowship of business and professional

persons united in the ideal of service.

THE ROTARY CLUB OF BENDIGO SOUTH ATTENDANCE OFFICER

ROS CHENERY ros.chenery@visionaustralia.org

TELEPHONE- 0407 802 801

THE FOUR WAY TEST

1. Is it the TRUTH?

2. Is it FAIR to all concerned?

3. Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER

FRIENDSHIPS?

4. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned

5. ?

ATTENDANCE & MAKE UP

OPPORTUNITIES DISTRICT 9800 GOLDFIELDS CLUSTER ROTARY

CLUB MEETINGS

KANGAROO FLAT: Monday 6pm, Rotary Gateway

Park

BENDIGO: Tuesday 12:45pm, Bendigo Club

BENDIGO STRATHDALE: Tuesday 6:15pm, Nancy

Long Dining Room, La Trobe Uni.

BENDIGO NEXT GENERATION: Wednesday

6:30pm, Shamrock Hotel

ECHUCA MOAMA: Tuesday 6pm, Border Inn,

Moama

BENDIGO SANDHURST: Wednesday 7.30am, BRIT

Restaurant or breakfast at Café alternate weeks.

EAGLEHAWK: Wednesday 6pm, Mechanics Institute

ROCHESTER: Thursday 6pm, The Court House

building, Moore Street (Opp. G. Nelson Motors).