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Website - https://rotaryoch.org.au/home 2 nd March 2020 Page 1 of 14 Volume 1, Number 31 ROTARY CLUB of OCH Inc. District 9810 Victoria, Australia Weekly Bulletin 2019-2020 Meets every Wednesday from 7:00pm at The Clayton Hotel 319 Clayton Road, Clayton (Melways 79C2) (No meeting on public holidays) 2nd March 2020 Volume 1, Number 31 In This Issue Upcoming Club Program - (pg1) Last Meeting & Notes (pg1) Foundation Facts (pg3) Upcoming Dates (pg2) Club Positions for 2019/20 (pg3) District 9810 News (pg3) Rotaract Club of Monash (pg4) Where other clubs meet (pg5) Reminders (pg5) Joke of the Week (pg5) Rotary International News (pg6) Upcoming Club Program Last Meeting & Notes Last Meeting (26th February): Apologies = David Whiting, David Park, Jackie Gleeson & Michael Ellinger. Make Ups = Jackie Gleeson. Leave of Absence = None. Visitors = None. Please Note: During the month of March the club will trial having meetings at the Clayton Hotel on Monday instead of Wednesday Nights. This week we held our Board Meeting. Feedback from this meeting will be presented to the members of the club over the following weeks and at the committee meetings. Date Speaker Chairperson 2 nd March Speaker: Linda Black Thriving at any agePeter Webb 9 th March Labour Day No Meeting 16 th March Members behind the Badge Danny Petrie & John Barnes David Park 23 rd March Board Meeting David Park 30 th March 5 th Monday - Fellowship Meeting at Vietlicious, 1901 Malvern Rd, Malvern East. Cost $32 pp. Bronwen Lamond 8 th April Youth Programs. National Youth Science Forum (NYSF) Melanie Noonan & PNG Immersion Program - Patrick Stanhope John Bethune 15 th April Open Forum & General Discussion Committee Chairs 22 nd April Members behind the Badge Greg Telley & Lesley Zuccaro David Park 29 th April Board Meeting David Park 6 th May TBA 13 th May Open Forum & General Discussion Committee Chairs

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ROTARY CLUB of OCH Inc.

District 9810 Victoria, Australia

Weekly Bulletin 2019-2020

Meets every Wednesday from 7:00pm at The Clayton Hotel 319 Clayton Road, Clayton (Melways 79C2)

(No meeting on public holidays)

2nd March 2020 Volume 1, Number 31

In This Issue

• Upcoming Club Program - (pg1)

• Last Meeting & Notes –

(pg1)

• Foundation Facts – (pg3)

• Upcoming Dates – (pg2)

• Club Positions for 2019/20 – (pg3)

• District 9810 News – (pg3)

• Rotaract Club of Monash – (pg4)

• Where other clubs meet – (pg5)

• Reminders – (pg5)

• Joke of the Week – (pg5)

• Rotary International News – (pg6)

Upcoming Club Program

Last Meeting & Notes

Last Meeting (26th February): Apologies = David Whiting, David Park, Jackie Gleeson & Michael Ellinger. Make Ups = Jackie Gleeson. Leave of Absence = None. Visitors = None. Please Note: During the month of March the club will trial having meetings at the Clayton Hotel on Monday instead of Wednesday Nights. This week we held our Board Meeting. Feedback from this meeting will be presented to the members of the club over the following weeks and at the committee meetings.

Date Speaker Chairperson

2nd March Speaker: Linda Black – “Thriving at any age” Peter Webb

9th March Labour Day – No Meeting

16th March Members behind the Badge – Danny Petrie & John Barnes

David Park

23rd March Board Meeting David Park

30th March 5th Monday - Fellowship Meeting at Vietlicious, 1901 Malvern Rd, Malvern East. Cost $32 pp.

Bronwen Lamond

8th April Youth Programs. National Youth Science Forum (NYSF) – Melanie Noonan & PNG Immersion Program - Patrick Stanhope

John Bethune

15th April Open Forum & General Discussion Committee Chairs

22nd April Members behind the Badge – Greg Telley & Lesley Zuccaro

David Park

29th April Board Meeting David Park

6th May TBA

13th May Open Forum & General Discussion Committee Chairs

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Rotary Four Way Test

"Of the things we think, say or do: 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?"

Meeting Notes:

• Peter Webb informed the members about the Oakleigh Cricket Club - Wine Drive Fundraiser. There is a selection of wine for everyone from Reds, Whites, Rose's and Sparkling's. Take your pick, if you can't decide dip into a mixed case! McPhersons Wines are a sponsor of ours through The Wine Company P/L. They offer great wines at very affordable prices. To order your wine click here

• Bronwen Lamond as advised the club that venue location for the 5th Monday in March will be at Vietlicious, 1901 Malvern Rd, Malvern East. The cost will be $32 per person. Bronwen has also asked that if you will be attending to let her know by Monday 23rd March. https://www.facebook.com/vietlicious.restaurant/

Foundation Facts

THE ROTARY FOUNDATION WEEKLY MESSAGES (By Rotarians for Rotarians) LAST WEEK I TOLD YOU WHAT SHARE WAS; NOW I’LL TELL YOU WHY IT IS CALLED SHARE. The Rotary Foundation’s funding system is called SHARE because the name defines what the system does: (1) Rotarians SHARE their resources with their fellow Rotarians around the world; (2) The Rotary Foundation Trustees SHARE some of their decision-making responsibilities with the 540 Rotary Districts; and

(3) Rotarians SHARE Rotary with the world through their Rotary Foundation.

Upcoming Dates Thursday 19th March 2020 – Foodbank pickup/delivery for Dixon House Saturday 21st March to Sunday 22nd March 2020 – Rotary D9810 2020 Conference in the historic Echuca/Moama areal. For more information and bookings click here Thursday 16th April 2020 – Foodbank pickup/delivery for Dixon House Thursday 21st May 2020 – Foodbank pickup/delivery for Dixon House Sunday 24th May 2020 – Rotary District 9810 Training Assembly Monday 25th May 2020 – Charity Golf Day at Huntingdale Golf Club (click here) Thursday 18th June 2020 – Foodbank pickup/delivery for Dixon House Thursday 16th July 2020 – Foodbank pickup/delivery for Dixon House Thursday 20th August 2020 – Foodbank pickup/delivery for Dixon House Thursday 12th September 2020 – Spring Charity Garden Auction Thursday 17th September 2020 – Foodbank pickup/delivery for Dixon House Thursday 15th October 2020 – Foodbank pickup/delivery for Dixon House Thursday 19th November 2020 – Foodbank pickup/delivery for Dixon House Thursday 3rd December 2020 – Foodbank pickup/delivery for Dixon House

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The Object of

Rotary 1. The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service; 2. 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; 3. The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian's personal, business, and community life; 4. The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.

Club Positions for 2019/20 President David Park Board Secretary David Whiting Board Treasurer Warren Fricke Board President Elect TBA Board Community Felicity Smith Board International Ian Phelan Board Youth John Bethune Board Vocational Peter Webb Foundation John Barnes Board Club Protection Officer John Jarvis Membership Steven Hill PR / Marketing Wayne Milner Programme Bronwen Lamond On to Conference Peter Child Board Also, on the Board are Jon Breisch, Anne Mooney and Cess Hodges.

District 9810 News

Rotary Club of MASH and Whitehorse Rotaract

Sunday 19th April 2020

For more information click here

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Club Vision OCH Rotary is an energetic, fun-loving, forward-thinking Rotary Club that wishes to continue to grow strategically and provide all its members with opportunities to serve while undertaking worthwhile and sustainable projects locally, nationally and globally.

Rotaract Club of Monash

Club Meeting Details: The Club meets on the 1st and 3rd Monday of the Month at 7:30pm for a 7:45pm start (Optional social dinner at 6:30, please order your meal by 7pm to ensure you can be there for the start of the meeting) at Waverley RSL (Upstairs in the Sunset Room) 161 Coleman Parade, Glen Waverley.

Upcoming Rotaract Events:

• 13th March – 10th Year Birthday Celebration. $45 pp or $40 for a table of 10

Monash Rotaract would like to invite the members of Oakleigh Clayton Huntingdale Rotary Club to join us in celebrating our 10 year anniversary at a sit down dinner on March 13 at the Mulgrave Country Club. The celebrations will start at 7pm with a complimentary welcome drink, followed by a 2 course dinner and some birthday cake afterwards. The theme is Hollywood Glamour so we would love to see you dressed to the nines! Tickets are available now at bit.ly/thestoryofmonash ($45pp or $40pp for a table of 10) - we hope you can join us in celebration on this exciting night.

Rotaract Roster:

Date Rotarian to Visit

2nd March Doug Bowden

16th March Jon Breisch

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Quick Links

If you cannot attend on the night you are rostered, please organise a replacement to take your place. Please note that Monash Rotaract now meet on a Monday Night instead of a Wednesday Night.

Where other Clubs Meet A Rotarian can attend the weekly meeting of any Rotary club around the world. This is a “make-up” and counts as attendance credit when you are not able to attend a meeting of your own club. Details for all District 9810 clubs can be obtained in the district directory or website www.9810rotary.org.au Details for clubs around the world are available in the RI Directory (held by the club secretary) and on the RI website (www.rotary.org)

Reminders Please ensure that the club is aware if you will be missing a meeting. Contact Barry Cronan at [email protected] or mob: 0421 417 428 the day before the meeting, if you are not going to be present. Contributions for inclusion into the Bulletin should be passed to [email protected] by Monday evening of each week. Please remember if you cannot perform your rostered job, it is your duty to find a replacement to take your place.

Visit our new Facebook page at @Rotaryoch9810 or click

Joke of the Week I urgently needed a few days off work, but I knew the boss would not allow me to take leave. I thought that maybe if I acted crazy, he would tell me to take a few days off. So, I hung upside down from the ceiling and made funny noises. My co-worker (who’s blonde) asked me what I was doing. I told her that I was pretending to be a light bulb, so that the boss might think I’m crazy and give me a few days off. A few minutes later the boss came into the office and asked, “what in the name of good God are you doing?” I told him I was a light bulb. He said, “You are clearly stressed out. Go home and recuperate for a couple of days.” I jumped down and walked out of the office. When my co-worker (the blonde) followed me, the boss asked her where she thought she was going. “I’m going home too,” she said, “you can’t possibly expect me to work in the dark.”

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Special Announcements

19th March – David

Whiting Birthday

Rotary International News

Exodus by Vanessa Glavinskas

Since 2015, more than 4 million people have fled an economically devastated Venezuela. Tracking the stories of three who left puts faces on that staggering statistic Héctor Herrera was driving his father to José Tadeo Monagas International Airport in northeastern Venezuela when they approached a government food stand. Even at 5 a.m., the line was long. “I never thought I’d live in this misery,” Herrera’s father said. Suddenly a fight spilled out into the street in front of them as two men wrestled over a frozen chicken. “At that moment, my father said to me: ‘Son, if you have the opportunity to leave, go,’” recalls Herrera. “‘I will miss you, and it will be difficult, but this is already as low as a person can live.’” That was in the summer of 2015. A teacher, Herrera was 28 years old and a member of the Rotaract Club of Maturín Juanico. A city that boomed in the 1980s as the oil capital of eastern Venezuela, Maturín is now crippled by the country’s collapse — an economic meltdown that, for the people living there, is worse than the Great Depression. According to a survey released in 2018, 9 out of 10 Venezuelans did not earn enough to buy food, and more than 17 million had fallen into extreme poverty. The BBC reported that desperate parents have been giving away their children rather than watch them starve. Those conditions are fuelling the biggest migration in the history of Latin America as more than 4 million people flee Venezuela. Economists say the country’s collapse is the worst outside of war in at least 45 years, while the Brookings Institution predicts that Venezuela’s refugee crisis will become “the largest and most underfunded in modern history.” From a distance, those facts and statistics can be mind-numbing, obscuring the individuals caught up in this social and economic catastrophe. But the stark reality comes into focus in the stories of three people who fled. Eduardo José Campechano Escalona, a Rotarian from Barquisimeto, fled to Peru after being targeted for speaking out against government policies. A onetime Rotary Youth Exchange student, Victoria Garcia Baffigo returned to the United States after her former host family grew concerned about her safety and her future in Venezuela. And taking his father’s advice, Héctor Herrera left for Mexico with only $200 and the promise of a place to stay. Each of them had ties to Rotary, which in the end would be their hope and, to an extent, their salvation. On 10 November 2015, the day Herrera left Venezuela, he took a photo of himself to remember the moment. “When I look at that picture now, I see fear, uncertainty, and sadness,” he says. Fortunately, he knew Ferdinando Esquivel through Rotaract. Herrera had met Esquivel, now a member of the Rotary Club of Zinacatepec, on a trip to Mexico in 2013. The two men became close friends, and Esquivel offered to help Herrera if he ever decided to leave Venezuela. At the time, Herrera thought things would improve in his native country. But two years later, life was much worse. “The stores had nothing,” he says. “Not even toilet paper.” He had a passport, but without access to dollars, he couldn’t buy a plane ticket. So, Esquivel bought it for him and invited Herrera to stay with him in a small town near Toluca. After

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two weeks, Herrera thanked his friend and boarded a bus for the 40-mile ride to Mexico City, where he hoped to find a job that would give him a work visa. When he got off the bus in Mexico City, Herrera started to panic. “Left? Right? I didn’t know where to go,” he recalls. “It felt like there was no floor beneath my feet.” He found a place to sit and pulled out his cell phone to text Alonso Macedo, a friend he had met at a Rotary event in Mexico. Macedo had agreed to pick him up and let him stay with him for a few days. But what if he didn’t come? Herrera thought. Where will I sleep tonight? And then, Macedo appeared. “After that I looked for work every day — anything that would give me papers,” Herrera says. “I couldn’t sleep, so I’d get on the computer at night and search for jobs.” Finally, a school run by Venezuelans that taught English asked him to come in for an interview, but the school was located four hours from Mexico City. Then another problem arose: He had nowhere to stay. His host was leaving on a trip. “That night, it was storming,” Herrera says. “I walked to a restaurant, opened my laptop, and started to send messages to people in Rotary and Rotaract whom I didn’t know personally, but whom I had a connection with through Facebook.” He had no choice but to ask strangers if they would be willing to take him in for the night. He finally got a response from Laura Martínez Montiel. They didn’t know each other, but they had several mutual friends on social media through Rotaract. She gave him her address and told him to take a taxi. Herrera wrote back and explained he didn’t have enough money, so they agreed to meet in a closer neighbourhood where Martínez was heading to a Christmas party. “I was in such a bad state,” Herrera remembers. “I was all wet, and my clothes were dirty.” He worried that Martínez would take one look at him and change her mind about hosting him. Instead, she took him back to her home and introduced him to her mother, who washed his clothes and fixed him something to eat. He explained that he had a job interview the next day, and together they mapped out how to get there on public transportation. At 6 a.m., Martínez gave him a ride to the metro. When Herrera arrived for the interview, he saw a familiar face. It turned out he had reviewed the interviewer’s thesis a few years earlier. After talking awhile, the interviewer asked if Herrera could start on Monday. “No,” he replied, “I want to start today.” Herrera’s job was to make hundreds of calls looking for clients for the school; if someone signed up, Herrera was paid a commission. He stayed with Martínez and her mother for another week and commuted four hours each way until he asked for an advance on his salary so he could rent an apartment closer to his job. “On 15 January, I got my first commission,” he says. “It was a relief, because as of the 14th, I only had $2.” By April, Herrera was promoted to advertising manager, and in July, he finally received a work permit. Two years later, he found a job that better suited his teaching skills, working as a

trainer for a company that advises businesses on streamlining their processes. “I started giving lectures around this beautiful country,” Herrera says. “But on 3 December 2018, I received an email from the national migration authority saying I had to leave Mexico in 20 days.” A migratory alert had been issued for him after immigration authorities visited his previous employer, the English school. When they rang the bell, no one answered the door, so they flagged it as a fake company. “I could not believe it,” Herrera says. “I was doing well, but now it was worse than the beginning because I no longer had papers. I had to start over.” For the past year, Herrera has been fighting the alert with the help of a public defender. Each day that it remains unresolved, he’s at risk of being deported. He’s seeking asylum to be able to stay,

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but with Venezuela’s crisis worsening, his claim is one of thousands. “Mexico is now returning Venezuelans immediately when they arrive at the airport,” Herrera says. Still, he says he will not give up. “Until I have my dream of a visa, I will not rest.” Eduardo José Campechano Escalona started having anxiety attacks in 2015. “There were constant riots in my city,” says Campechano, a former member of the Rotary Club of Barquisimeto, Venezuela’s fourth-largest city. “My children could not attend school or go out. They had to live literally locked up in our apartment.” Though he and his wife were university professors, their income no longer covered basic necessities. At the time, hyperinflation was 181 percent. (At the end of 2019, the International Monetary Fund estimated that the annual inflation rate was 200,000 percent.) What’s more, several incidents led Campechano to believe the government was targeting him. “I had questioned government policies,” he explains. “[Government-issued] textbooks omitted parts of Venezuelan history and only highlighted facts related to the government of Hugo Chávez,” the country’s president from 1999 to 2013. After speaking out publicly about the inaccuracies and biases in the mandated textbooks, Campechano says that he started being denied access to grant funding. When he and his family decided to leave for Peru, Campechano went to a state-run bank to get a credit card so he could access dollars for a plane ticket. Again, he was denied. “It was a way to intimidate me,” he says. When he posted about it on social media, he received a threatening email. Running out of options, Campechano asked a friend living abroad if he would be willing to buy him a plane ticket to Lima. Campechano had secured a position at Universidad César Vallejo in Trujillo, a city in northern Peru that he had often visited as a guest lecturer and where he had a work visa lined up. Campechano moved to Peru in March 2017. Four months later, he brought his wife, their two adolescent children, and his mother-in-law, who was sick with cancer, to Peru. “During those first months, my family was the Rotary E-Club of Fusión Latina Distrito 4465,” says Campechano. When his mother-in-law died, their Rotary family consoled and supported them. Campechano remains connected to the members of his former club in Barquisimeto, and he says they are still engaging in service, despite the hard conditions. “There is no Youth Exchange program anymore,” he says. “They are just trying to get basics, like food and medicine, to people.” Alberto Avelino Camacaro Zerpa, a former governor of District 4380 in western Venezuela, estimates that 20 to 30 percent of the country’s Rotary members and nearly 40 percent of its Rotaract members have left Venezuela. Yet many clubs continue to meet when members aren’t limited by access to gasoline and electricity. “It was painful to leave,” Campechano says, “but we are very grateful for the opportunity in this country. Now we feel safe.” “I think everyone who returns home after studying abroad gets reverse culture shock,” says Victoria Garcia Baffigo. “I had that, but worse.” After spending the 2015-16 school year living as a Rotary Youth Exchange student with Dave Siegfried and his family in Aurora, Illinois, Garcia went home to the rapidly deteriorating situation in Venezuela. “Some days we didn’t have power for 10 hours,” she says. Hyperinflation had gotten so bad that her family could afford very little at the supermarket. One day the phone rang. The caller told them they had her brother and demanded money for his release. Thankfully, they didn’t really have him, she says. Still, the call rattled the family. Chris Olson, a member of the Rotary Club of Aurora Sunrise, had been monitoring the situation in Venezuela from Illinois. “Chris told us Victoria had gotten back to Venezuela and found things had

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changed dramatically from when she left,” says Charlie Schmalz, who, like Olson and Siegfried, is a member of the Aurora Sunrise club. “She had spent all that time studying here, and now her whole future was destroyed. It was a terrible thing. So, a group of us got together and said we should do something.” “The first call that Chris made was to my mom, and then my mom talked to me about going back to the United States,” Garcia says. “I didn’t ever think about staying in the U.S. because my parents couldn’t afford for me to get an education there, and I wanted to get my college degree.” Now Garcia had the opportunity to get her degree in the United States, fully paid through a fund the Aurora Sunrise club set up for her. “It’s still hard for me to understand,” she says. “I can’t believe that people who are not family are doing this for me.” It took more than a year to make the arrangements. Much of that time was spent waiting to get a student visa. “Airlines started pulling out of Venezuela,” says Schmalz’s wife, Mary. “We were so close to Victoria getting the last papers, so Dave bought a seat on the chance that she could come. He bought the seat, and the day before the flight left, Victoria got her visa. It was a miracle.” Garcia is now in her third year of college, at Aurora University, majoring in biology and health science with a minor in biotechnology. She’s the first person in her family to go to college. Though the original plan was to rotate host families, she has stayed with Charlie and Mary Schmalz for more than two years now. “We’ve bonded over board games and watching TV,” Garcia says. Adds Mary: “She meshes so easily into our lifestyle. She’s like a grandchild to us.” Still, the couple knows Garcia misses her family, so one Christmas, they surprised her with a ticket to visit her mother, who had recently migrated to Peru. When Garcia and her mother lived in Venezuela, they shared an apartment with her grandmother, who remains there. “Every evening, we used to sit on my grandmother’s bed, and my mom, my grandma, and I would talk about our day,” recalls Garcia. “Then I’d do homework and my mom would make dinner. My grandma and I used to read the same books and talk about them.” Garcia is concerned about her grandmother’s health, but her uncle, a member of the Rotary Club of Valencia, has been crossing into Colombia to get her medications. “My grandmother worries about getting food,” Garcia says. “She worries a lot about money and if she’ll have enough. It’s really hard.” Garcia hopes to see her grandmother again one day in Venezuela after she finishes college. Until then, she’s focused on her studies and talking to local Rotary clubs about her experience in the United States and the crisis in Venezuela, raising awareness about the people suffering in the country she loves. “At the beginning, Victoria was often sad,” Mary Schmalz says. “She’d say, ‘There’s no way I can ever pay all of you back for this.’ I told her, ‘We don’t need to be paid back. What you need to do is, when you’re in a position to help someone, you do.’” My father died in August,” says Herrera. “I feel 1 percent pain and 99 percent gratitude. I’m grateful for his love and that he was always there for us.” Herrera was unable to return to Venezuela when his father died; had he travelled there, he would have been denied re-entry into Mexico. He takes solace in knowing that his father would want him to continue trying to build a life in his new home. “My plan is to get my family out,” he says. “I don’t have any hope that things are going to change in Venezuela. The damage to the country has been huge.” The Brookings Institution estimates that the number of Venezuelan migrants could eventually rise to 8 million, even more than the 6 million who have fled Syria — yet Venezuelans have received less than 10 percent of the international aid committed for Syrian refugees. “The hardest part of migrating is changing your heart,” Herrera says. “When I encounter Venezuelans in Mexico, the first thing they talk about is the bad things happening in Venezuela.” Instead, Herrera has chosen to honour his father by working toward his dream of success. He even started an Instagram page called “Migrating to Success”; he uses it to share inspirational quotes with his 4,000 followers. “Having to start over isn’t all bad,” read a recent post. “It’s shown me that anything is possible.”

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MARKET ROSTER 8th/Mar/2020 – 28th/Jun/2020 ------------------------------------------------------------

Duty 1 = 6.00 am - 10.30 am Duty 2 = 9.30 am - 1.30 pm

MT WAVERLEY (RCMW) WILL SUPPLY ONE PERSON PER DUTY EACH WEEK EXCEPT THE SECOND SUNDAY IN THE MONTH. ON THE SECOND SUNDAY OCH WILL SUPPLY 2 PEOPLE PER DUTY

Special request: PLEASE WEAR YOUR ROTARY APPAREL

IF THESE DATES AND TIMES DO NOT SUIT, PLEASE ARRANGE A SWAP WITH ANOTHER MEMBER, AND INFORM PETER WEBB OF THE CHANGE OVER THIS 3 MONTH PERIOD.

MOUNT WAVERLEY CONTACT – ANDREW SENDECYJ – 0412 434 727

Date Duty 1 Duty 1 Duty 2 Duty 2 Collection Duty

8th March P. CHILD B. CRONAN J. GLEESON S. ODDO D. PARK

15th March D. PETRIE RCMW A. MOONEY RCMW M. ROBERTSON

22nd March R. ZUCCARO RCMW W. MILNER RCMW D. PETRIE

29th March D. PARK RCMW T. ELMS RCMW F. SMITH

5th April J. LAZOGAS RCMW J. BREISCH RCMW D. PARK

12th April T. BUZZA F. SMITH L. ZUCCARO P. HOLDENSON M. ROBERTSON

19th April P. WEBB RCMW S. HILL RCMW D. PETRIE

26th April B. LAMMOND RCMW C. DENT RCMW F. SMITH

3rd May G. TELLEY RCMW D. WHITING RCMW D. PARK

10th May M. ROBERTSON M. ELLINGER P. NORMAN W. FRICKE D. PETRIE

17th May D. PETRIE RCMW I. PHELAN RCMW M. ROBERTSON

24th May P. CHILD RCMW B. CRONAN RCMW F. SMITH

31st May T. HOGG RCMW J. BETHUNE RCMW D. PARK

7th June P. CHILD B. CRONAN J. GLEESON L. ZUCCARO D. PETRIE

14th June J. JARVIS RCMW F. SMITH RCMW M. ROBERTSON

21st June R. ZUCCARO RCMW W. MILNER RCMW F. SMITH

28th June D. PARK RCMW T. ELMS RCMW D. PETRIE

CHANGES TO MARKET BANKING There is now a change to the market banking procedure, whereby one person will be allocated each week to collect the money at the end of the market. Refer to the attached roster under the column “Collection Duty”. Market takings for the 23rd February was $2,455.00

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