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At this week’s meeting we were delighted to welcome Shradd Hasharmaa, a prospective member, who made herself known to us at the Bright Lights, Winter Nights event in Pridham Plaza last month. Shradd is from Nepal, and has been in Australia for 15 years. She was a Rotaractor in Nepal and her father is very involved with Rotary Club in Kathmandu. Members will remember that we welcomed Bishnu Hari Dahal, a member of the Rotary Club of Matribhumi Baluwatar in August 2017 and completed a banner exchange with him. Shradd’s father, Santosh Sharma is the chairman of Music Nepal and is a Past President of his Rotary Club. Shradd lives in Langs Road and her daughter attends Ascot Vale West PS. Comparisons:

Members interested in attending Camp Getaway on Sunday for lunch should RSVP to Lesley as soon as possible. Lesley McCarthy President 2018-2020

The Rotary Club of Flemington Inc. Club Number 24401— Chartered 29 April 1987

Nepal Victoria

120 Rotary Clubs District 3292

187 clubs in Districts 9780, 9790, 9800, 9810

Area: 147,181 km2 (65% of Victoria)

227, 416 km2

Population: 30 million 6.5 million

GDP per capita US$ 775.00

A$70.500

Highest point: Mt Everest 8848 metres

Mt Bogong, 1986 metres

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Meeting Report Wednesday August 7th 2019 There was a real ‘buzz’ in the room this week as we welcomed several guests to this first August meeting. Assistant Governor Ian Ada visited and spoke about current District news. We also welcomed Jenny Gallivan, Emma Merritt one of our successful NYSF candidates for 2020, David Heyes and Shradd Hasharmaa, a prospective member. Apologies were received from Len Seddon, Lyn Borghouts, Rachel Sumich and Peter Donnellan. Jenny Gallivan was an inspirational colleague during the Flem-Ken Festival of Arts & Ideas last year. From inception through planning, organising, implementation and with suggestions, connections and effort was a big part of its success. In recognition of her outstanding work, we are presenting her with the 2019 Vance Hilton Community Leadership Award. This award comes with a donation to charity of Jenny’s choice and membership of our club if chosen. Jenny has asked to donate the funds to the MAC students for the Gnurad Gundidj camp.

Chris Brock has already made a large contribution to our club through his work with Cody Bettannin on the youth programs, in particular the Sports Scholarships. He has also helped with the RORP project, designing the new logo. Chris was unable to at-tend the club changeover, so today, with assistance from Assis-tant Governor Ian Ada, I have great pleasure in acknowledging his contributions with a Royce Abbey Award.

Emma Merritt, a Year 11 student from Lowther Hall Girls School has been successful in obtaining a place at National Youth Science Forum in 2020. She has been allocated the Brisbane camp in the second half of January. Emma spoke and told us she is very interested in aviation and perhaps aeronautical engineering. She is a former student at Moonee Ponds West PS and was pleased to renew acquaintance with Chris Brock. I will see Emma on September 8th at the Orientation day at Swinburne University. Kate Stevanovic from Mount Alexander College spoke about a forthcoming student leadership camp which 6 of their students have been successful in applying for. The Gnurad Gundidj School for Student Leadership at Glenormiston from 12th October to 14th December. http://www.gnurad-gundidj.vic.edu.au/ Students are fundraising for the camp fees with a raffle. Kate distributed a raffle book which members contributed to. The club has also donated 2 items for the raffle whach will drawn on August 25th.

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Reports: Anne McMahon—Art Show at Kensington Town Hall October 4th to 6th Anne showed and distributed posters and fliers for the Art Show. The Gallery 247 site is live and entries have started to come in already. Fliers for student art works have been distributed to local schools with positive re-sponses received from St Aloysius and MAC so far. A task list has been prepared and all members are asked to identify where they best fit int the schedule. Set up will take place from Wednesday 2nd to Friday 4th with the Gala Opening on the Friday evening. The Art Show will be open on Saturday 5th from 9am to 9pm and Sunday 6th from 9am to 4pm, Collection of unsold art works is on Monday 9am to 5pm. Sponsorship packages have been prepared and distributed. Several businesses have agreed to sponsorship including Beate McManus from McManus Law, Flemington Traders, the VRC and Nelson Alexander. Additional sponsorships are still being followed up by Allan, Lesley and Anne. All members are also asked to follow up on quality items for the Silent Auction, and to identify and bring along potential attendees at the Gala Opening night. Peter Cribb—Rotary Overseas Recycled Playgrounds Peter was delighted to report that the first playground from the container sent over earlier this year has now been installed and officially opened in Ampara on Monday. Past District Governor Senake Ameresinghe, PP Pubudu de Zoysa and President Sarav Soundr from the Rotary Club of Columbo attended with President Dr Davaratna of the Rotary Club of Ampara as well as a number of Urban Council dignitaries and many Rotarians. This was the playground which was harvested from the Quantin Binnah Park in Werribee by Naturform Playgrounds. The container will be used as a community library after restoration, as was done with the container sent to Sputnik. The container currently storing playgrounds at Donations in Kind has been purchased by us and to reduce ongoing costs to the club, these playgrounds need to be unloaded and repacked into a leased container for shipment. Laurie Fisher has ordered a container so a Working Bee will be held on Saturday August 17th. People will be needed between 10am and 4pm in shifts of abut 2 hours. Due to space limitations, more than 6-8 people at a time is too crowded. Equipment will be unloaded, placed in a named space and marked with additional paint for easy identification in Sri Lanka. When reloaded, playgrounds will be separated by material as much as possible, again for ease of unloading in Sri Lanka. Peter or Sam will send out a roster. Lesley—Website http://www.rotaryflemington.org.au/ The new ClubRunner website is up and running although still in early stages. Calendar events, stories and project information are uploaded and other pages and materials will progressively find a home. Anyone with an interest is encouraged to explore, provide feedback and contribute stories. Your Member Access is YourName14583 Password as given to you by District last year. If you have forgotten, just reset. Western Emergency Relief Network—WERN With this cold weather, WERN are running very short on blankets and quilts. Also Manchester and towels in reasonable condition please.

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Farnham StreetNeighbourhood House

Learning Centreinvites you to celebrate our

on Thursday, 5th September 2019

from 12pm to 2pmat 28 Farnham Street, Flemington

This event will be launched by State MP for Essendon, Danny Pearson.

Come down for food, drinks, displays and programs

Phone: 03 9376 9088

40th Anniversary

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The Flemington-Kensington Rotary Art Show 2019

Friends and Supporters Sponsorship opportunities

A number of sponsorship and support packages are available: .

Platinum Sponsorship - including Art Show naming rights - $5,000

Gold Sponsorship - $1,500

Silver Sponsorship - $1,000

Bronze Sponsorship - $500

Friends and Supporters Sponsorship - $200

Friends and Supporters Sponsorship: As a friend / supporter to the fundraising efforts of the Flemington-Kensington Rotary Art Show your contribu-tion will go to assist in the running of the Art Show. Benefits will include:

• Company name and logo on all print and online promotional material – Posters, Advertising Boards, Cat-alogue, Website and social media. Company highlighted as Friend/supporter of the Rotary Art Show 2019

• Opportunity to sponsor art prize award to the value of sponsorship amount. (Photography – Encourage-

ment Awards in various categories – Student Awards) • Company logo to appear on Sponsorship pages of Gallery 247 website, reaching over 10,000 subscrib-

ers – artists, art lovers and patrons. • Acknowledged as Friend/Supporter in promotional in lead up to and during Art Show, on all social media channels FB and ISG. • Company banners prominently displayed at Arts Hub - Kensington Town Hall for duration of the Art

Show.

• Identified as selected category Award Sponsor on website and social media – and the opportunity to link to the company’s website.

For further information please contact: Anne McMahon Flem-Ken Festival coordinator on: M: 0424 560621 E: flemkenfestival@rotaryflemington.org.au W: http://www.rotaryflemington.org.au/sitepage/2019-art-show/welcome

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Working Bee at Donations in Kind Saturday August 17th. There are 8 sets of equipment in the container. Numbers: 1021—Bryant Reserve, Ivanhoe 1022—Kingston Park Ocean Grove 1023—Lake Reserve Ocean Grove 1025—Mt Eliza 1028—Johnson Reserve 1031—Denzil don 1033—Holy Eucharist 1045—Talaskia Reserve Tasks: Unload playground items from the shipping container and place into piles according to designations. Mark each piece with spray paint according to colour allocated by Peter Cribb. Tie or wrap smaller pieces together in manageable bundles. Reload into leased container separating playgrounds as much as possible with layers of material from the DiK store. Roster: PLEASE ADVISE PETER CRIBB OF YOUR AVAILABILITY FOR A TIME SLOT

10am to 12 noon 12 noon to 2pm 2pm to 4pm

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Are you looking for a role? Do you have 2 hours per week to give? President Elect 2019-2020 International Service Chair BBQ Coordinator

CLUB CALENDAR

DATE EVENT LOCATION CONTACT

AUGUST IS MEMBERSHP & NEW CLUB DEVELOPMENT MONTH IN ROTARY

Sunday 11th August Presentation of the Vance Hilton Memorial Tie to Ken Maxfield 12.15

Camp Getaway 161 Kimbolton-Axedale Rd, Axedale 3551

Lesley 0417 532 259 Allan 0438 557 720

Tuesday 13th August Board Meeting Debney Meadows PS 100 Victoria Street 6pm

Anne Heyes 0407 444 729 Lesley 0417 532 259

Saturday 17th August Working Bee :10-12/12-2/2-4 unload & repack container of playgrounds

Donations in Kind 400 Somerville Rd, West Footscray

Peter Cribb 0410 548 543 Sam Nicol 0487 334 068

Wednesday 21st August Fortnightly Meeting Guest Speaker Louise Larkin—Friend in Me

Crown Street Stables Crown Street, Flemington 7.15 for a 7.30am start

Lesley 0417 532 259 Anne Heyes 0407 444 729

SEPTEMBER IS BASIC EDUCATION AND LITERACY MONTH IN ROTARY

Wednesday 4th September Fortnightly Meeting

Visit from our District Governor Grant Hocking

Crown Street Stables Crown Street, Flemington 7.15 for a 7.30am start

Lesley 0417 532 259 Anne Heyes 0407 444 729

Thursday 5th September Community BBQ 11.30-2.30

Farnham Street Neighbour-hood House Learning Centre

Flemington 40th Anniversary

Allan Bruno 0438 557 720 Ted Frank 0408 755 347

Wednesday 18th September Fortnightly Meeting Guest Speaker Bec Yandell “One Girl”

Crown Street Stables Crown Street, Flemington 7.15 for a 7.30am start

Lesley 0417 532 259 Anne Heyes 0407 444 729

OCTOBER IS ECONOMIC & COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT MONTH IN ROTARY

Wednesday 2nd October Fortnightly Meeting Guest Speaker

Crown Street Stables Crown Street, Flemington 7.15 for a 7.30am start

Lesley 0417 532 259 Anne Heyes 0407 444 729

Friday 4th October Art Show Gala Opening Kensington Town Hall Bellair ave Kensington

Anne McMahon 0424 560 621 Anne Heyes 0407 444 729

Wednesday 16th October Fortnightly Meeting Crown Street Stables Crown Street, Flemington 7.15 for a 7.30am start

Lesley 0417 532 259 Anne Heyes 0407 444 729

Wednesday 30th October BLUE MOON TBC

NOVEMBER IS THE ROTARY FOUNDATION MONTH IN ROTARY

Wednesday 6th November Fortnightly Meeting Guest Speaker

Crown Street Stables Crown Street, Flemington 7.15 for a 7.30am start

Lesley 0417 532 259 Anne Heyes 0407 444 729

Wednesday 20th November Fortnightly Meeting Guest Speaker

Crown Street Stables Crown Street, Flemington 7.15 for a 7.30am start

Lesley 0417 532 259 Anne Heyes 0407 444 729

Saturday November 23rd Fundraising BBQ 10am—4pm

Bunnings Maribyrnong Cnr Wests Rd & Rosamond Ave Maribyrnong

Lesley 0417 532 259 Peter Donnellan

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The Rotary Club of Flemington meets for breakfast on a Wednesday morning, 7.15am for a 7.30 start. Meetings conclude by 8.45am. Link to Google Map We meet at the Crown Street Stables, 40 Crown Street, just off Racecourse Road near the roundabout at Epsom and Ascot Vale Roads.

Rotary International President Mark Daniel Maloney, Rotary Club of Decatur, Alabama, USA Rotary International Zone 8 Director, Rafael Garcia, Rotary Club of Pasig, Philippines

Rotary District 9800 Governor Grant Hocking, OAM Rotary Club of Woodend

Assistant Governor Ian Ada, Rotary Club of Carlton

Contact us at:

rotaryflemington.org.au/ Flemington Opportunity Shop —444 Racecourse Road, Flemington. Manager: Sam Nicol 0475 866 086 Werribee Fit4 Use Store —2/135 Railway Ave, Werribee. Manager—Lorry Rowe 0403 323 512 Secretary@rotaryflemington.org.au Facebook https://www.facebook.com/rotaryflemington