Serving the Community since 1985

In Gear 2017—2018

ROTARY CLUB OF BEAUMARIS WEEKLY BULLETIN Number 42 14 May 2018

Presidents Report Next Meetings

Happily the weather for our Farmers Market on Saturday THURSDAY 17 MAY
turned out to be better than we feared. The rain kept away ‘till FELLOWSHIP
the very end, it must have been something to do with Heather STRICTLY BALLROOM
being back from holiday. Gate and BBQ receipts were re- THE NATIONAL THEATRE MELBOURNE
spectable, and the Kindergarten team were delighted to raise 20 CARLISLE ST, ST KILDA
just under $600 in the raffle. 8:00 PM
Heather D’Arcy’s End Trachoma 2020 fundraising afternoon at
Huntingdale Golf Club went well and raised $1,500 for the ap- THURSDAY 24 MAY
peal. Thanks to all the Rotary ladies and friends who support- SPEAKER: DUSH DEDIC
ed the afternoon. We have now made a second payment of TOPIC: ST JOHNS AMBULANCE
$3,500 to the End Trachoma 2020 foundation which means CHAIR: KERRIE GEARD
that that the club has raised and donated $5,000 this Rotary AV: DAVID HONE
year. CASH DESK: MARY CUNNINGTON & MEGAN GLENWRIGHT

We held a board meeting on Tuesday evening. We reviewed THURSDAY 31 MAY

our likely project support and spending through to the year-end SPEAKER HEATHER CHISOLM
and authorised budgeted payments to Australian Rotary Health TOPIC: MY ROTARY YEAR
and The Rotary Foundation for the End Polio now campaign. CHAIR: PETER FLUDE
The budgeting process is currently underway for the 2018 – AV: GREG EVERY
2019 year. If the Bayside Charity Golf Day performs as ex- CASH DESK: CLEM QUICK & ROY SEAGER
pected we should have more funding available in 18/19 than
we have had this year. I hope that the community team’s THURSDAY 7 JUNE
Lightbulb initiative will continue to be supported and that the SPEAKER: REV. BRUCE CORBEN
excellent projects identified this year will receive appropriate TOPIC: GRACE HEART CHURCH
support in the future. The Youth and International teams will CHAIR: CHRIS WERNER
also be critically assessing potential projects for us to support. AV: KEN MIRAMS
We are looking at possibly becoming involved in the running of CASH DESK: LYNDA DOUTCH & TRISH SMYTH
the Bayside Business Awards program with other Bayside Ro-
tary Clubs. We will have a team look at this to see if it makes
sense for us and whether we can add value to the program.
Unless stated otherwise venue is
We are in the process of finally clarifying the best and most Victoria Golf Club 6.30 for 7.00
sustainable route to make personal donations to the Rotary
Foundation. It is worth noting that we have punched above our Contents
weight this year in obtaining District Grants which are funded 1 Presidents Report
by money from the Rotary Foundation. We have applied for 2 Notices / Photos
and been awarded grants for Family Life’s Community Advo- 3/4 This Week’s Speaker
cate Program, Beaumaris Life Saving Club Nippers clothing, 5 International Service Team Update
400+ Mosquito Nets for Sabu and The Melbourne Indigenous 6 Prostate Cancer Information Night
7 Charity Golf Day RC of Clayton & Glen Waverley
Transition School’s summer camp. 8 Club Structure / Photo of Week
David Lea is progressively updating the Community, Interna-
tional and Youth Pages on our website to remove the out of
date material and make the pages easier to update. Have a
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look, I am sure you will be happy with the result. Remem-

ber that the website is still the main platform for us to tell
the outside world about Beaumaris Rotary and what we
do.
Thanks to everybody who came along on Thursday even-
ing to listen to The Mayor of Bayside Councillor Laurence
Evans. Laurie has confirmed that he will be joining us on
28th June, our changeover night. We also said goodbye –
for now – to Liz Millman our visitor from the Rotary Club of
Bangor in North Wales. We should see Liz again in Octo-
ber.
Please note International Service Team update on page 5.
Enjoy your week, if you are coming to the theatre, I will 237 Bay Road,
see you on Thursday in St Kilda. Cheltenham VIC 3192
03 8535 7980

Yours in Rotary
Chris

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This Week’s Speaker: Bayside Mayor Laurie
Evans
Councillor Laurie Evans is the Mayor of the City of Bay-
side. He is an architect by profession,
Laurie was elected to Bayside City Council in November
2012 and was Mayor in 2013. He was re-elected in No-
vember 2016. He was also previously Mayor of the City
of Sandringham (1990-91).
Laurie is from a fourth generation Sandringham family
and is married to Jenny, has three children and seven
grandchildren.
He has a long-held passion and concern for our foreshore
and the natural and built environment and a strong com-
mitment to the community of Bayside.
Here are the main points of his talk:
Draft budget – Debt free
 This is a watershed moment for Council as we pre-
sent our first annual budget, free of historic debt.
 Next year we will invest a record $52 million next
year to deliver on its promise to build a better Bay-
side through an accelerated program of infrastruc-
ture upgrades.
 This budget will deliver new sporting facilities, sig-
nificant upgrades to community facilities and major
capital improvements to our city’s streets, roads
and drains.
 It also delivers improvements to Beaumaris Con-
course and Sandringham Village to make these
shopping villages a nicer place to shop, meet and
visit
 We want to make Bayside a better place; to make it
easier to get around, equipped with high quality
sporting infrastructure, home to vibrant shopping
villages, a great place for children to play and grow,
and home to parks and a foreshore that cater to a
broad range of needs and activities.
 The largest single item in the 2018/19 budget is $9
million to purchase land for the establishment of a
new library and community facility in Highett on the
former CSIRO site.
 This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to build
community facilities that will serve generations to
come.
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Increased waste charges
 A key challenge for Council is the cost impact of
the global recycling crisis on the delivery of waste
and recycling services in Bayside. Over 2017/18
and 2018/19 this will result in a $3 million impact on
the Council budget, through lost revenue and in-
creased service costs
 These impacts will result in an increase of $92.75
in the Bayside waste service charge in 2018/19.
 Council will implement a range of programs to sup-
port residents to reduce their household waste and
take the pressure off the cost of waste charges,
including the opportunity to ‘shrink your bin’ and
reduce your waste charge by $78.
Other budget items include
 $8.4 million to redevelop seven accessible, female-
friendly sporting pavilions at Cheltenham Park,
Castlefield Reserve, Chisholm Reserve, William
Street Reserve, Destructor Reserve, AW Oliver
Pavilion and Elsternwick Park Oval 2.
 $1.03 million to double the number of courts at the
Tulip Street basketball stadium.
 Planning for new netball facilities in Sandringham
to meet the current and future needs of Bayside’s
netballers.
 Upgrades to the Recycling and Waste Transfer
Station in Talinga Road to improve operational effi-
ciency and improve amenity for surrounding resi-
dents
 $8.5 million in road, footpaths and cyclist/
pedestrian path upgrades to make it safer and eas-
ier to get around Bayside.
Masonic lodge
Council recently purchased the former Masonic Lodge in
Sandringham, on behalf of the community. Council is cur-
rently working through heritage elements of the building to
enable this to become a valuable community facility and
to serve our city into the future.
Playgrounds
Bayside City Council has commenced updating a number
of our playgrounds and has committed $10.3 million over
10 years to upgrade all 61 playgrounds in Bayside. We’re
currently seeking feedback on designs for five of these
playgrounds, so if you’d like to have an input into the de-
signs, jump on our website. We would love to hear your
constructive ideas.
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National Heritage List Nomination for Beaumaris Bay We are taking a leadership role in reducing our emissions
In December and January, we heard from 223 partici- and encourage residents to do their part so that collec-
pants that submitted an online survey, with 88 per cent of tively we can reduce our carbon footprint.
participants in support of Beaumaris Bay being nominated
to the National Heritage List. At its February meeting,
Council agreed to lend its support to a nomination for Na-
tional Heritage status for Beaumaris Bay. The nomination
was put to the Federal Government by the Beaumaris
Bay Consortium, a coalition of local community groups. If
accepted, the Department will initiate community consul-
tation based on the nomination received and examine the
evidence provided in the nomination.
Renewed focus on carbon neutrality
Council has renewed its commitment to become carbon
neutral by 2020.
Residents have expressed a strong desire for Council to
take a leadership position in environmental sustainability.
To achieve this, Council is making its infrastructure more
sustainable and efficient, switching to renewable energy
sources and offsetting residual emissions.
Since the introduction of new street lighting in the
Above: Newest member Chris Mara with
2012/2013 year, Council has seen a 60 per cent reduction
elder statesman, Honorary Member David
in its greenhouse gas emissions. Greenall.
We’re spending $2.4 million to achieve this goal, with
funds mainly used for energy efficiency upgrades and the Below: President Chris, Mayor Laurie Evans
installation of solar panels on Council buildings, such as and visiting Rotarian Liz Millman.
the Beaumaris Library and Corporate Centre.

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International Service Team Update
Following the In Gear review Members requested more
ng agreed the proposal from the
updates from Service teams. This is the second follow-
onal Team that the budgeted A$2,000 for
ing the Community Team update earlier. (Delay in pub-
lishing is my fault Ed.)
Water Tanks project, Sabu Island, Indonesia
Three of the four clubs which have re-committed their Solar
Panels project donations to the Water Tanks project are RC
Feldbach Austria, RC North Brighton and RC Doncaster (and
on of the
we have their money in our account. The fourth Club, RC Cam-
es), the A$1,500 budgeted for this by
berwell, agreed to re-commit their donation but asked RCOB to
onal team was not spent. However, follow-
formally request them to forward to us their funds (which had
onal address to our club on
been returned to them when the Solar Panels project was can-
on, the Interna
onal
celled). This request has been made to RC Camberwell and
we await their response, and money!
on should be donated to the
Including funds lodged with RAWCS by private donors (all of
on. This has been done by Treasurer
whom are reported to have agreed for their donated funds to
be included in the project funds for the Water Tanks project),
and the awaited funds from RC Camberwell, the project has
just over A$31,000 in hand for its implementation.
on carries out its work. We have succeeded in mak-
The registered name of the project with RAWCS has been
changed to the “Water Tanks Project on Sabu”.
on has been sig-
John Manks has asked Pastor Franz to confirm that the pro-
posed “scoping” of the project is satisfactory but no response
has yet been received because Pastor Franz is unwell (with a
recurrence of malaria). John has agreed to follow up with Tar-
sie, Pastor Franz’s assistant.
on (say the remaining A$500 from the Tibetan
When the scoping of the project, within the funds in hand, has
been completed, the Board will be asked to formally approve
on to
the disbursement of the project funds.
Sabu Mosquito control
Ross Phillips has been in contact with the Jakarta-based
supplier of the nets and has advised him that we have
US$4,375 (=A$6,000) for purchase and shipment to Sa-
bu of as many as possible insec
cide impregnated nets. dren on Tonga. DG has agreed to manage this project on
Because of the lack of cost precision, associated with
currency conversion, local sales taxes and shipping
costs, the exact number of nets our dona
on will pro- a full proposal, with all details and cos
ngs, will be re-
vide is not yet known. It should be somewhat more than
400 family-size nets which Pastor Franz will allocate on
the basis of the greatest need. These nets will make an
appreciable difference to the health and welfare of
Sabu’s families.
Treasurer Richard has transferred the funds to the net supplier
ng had been damaged and, indeed, whether over-
– the same person with whom we dealt satisfactorily on a pre-
es there
vious shipment of nets.
on of our dona
on.
A$3,000 of the A$6,000 our Club has commiGed to this
project is a District Matching Grant but we can only”
reclaim” this District Grant when we are able to submit
the purchase and delivery paperwork, i.e aHer the
event. In the mean
me, we have “borrowed” from should consider whether it would be prepared to alter the target
RCOB the A$3,000 District grant, which we will later re-
claim from District.
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ROMAC, Interplast
The March Board mee
Interna
ROMAC and A$500 for Interplast be paid out immedi-
ately. Treasurer Richard has confirmed that this has now
been done.
Papua New Guinea
Because the “Tibetan Village” project of the RC North
Brighton had to be cancelled (due to interven
Chinese authori
the Interna
ing Marie Treloar’s inspira
the work of her Highlands Founda
Team and President Chris agreed that A$1,000 of this
unspent budget alloca
Highlands Founda
Richard and President Chris.
Recently there have been a number of serious earth-
quakes in the region of PNG where the Highlands Foun-
da
ing contact with Marie and can confirm that she is safe
but the work of the Highlands Founda
nificantly disrupted and she is having problems clearing
donated goods from the port at Lae. Marie advises that
she needs to find around A$10,000 to overcome these
problems and, even though that is beyond the scope of
our budget, the Board may wish to make some further
dona
Village project) to assist the Highlands Founda
regain the momentum of its important work.
Tonga
The Board agreed in principle to donate the sum of A$
5,000 to a project proposed by PP David Greenall (DG)
to upgrade the playground of a school for disabled chil-
behalf of RCOB and has been advised that the approval
by the Board is “in principle” only at this stage and that
quired from the project officers inTonga before the
Board can give final approval to the project.
Since the Board’s approval in principle, a cyclone has hit
Tonga and done significant damage. A message was sent
to DG asking whether the school our project would be
assis
all damage to Tonga might change the priori
for the applica
It seems that the school was not damaged and that the dam-
age to Tonga overall was less than had been initially feared, so
there is no change to the use of the requested donation. It is
possible, however that this might change, and the Board
for our donation if DG should recommend it.
John Sime (Current as at early April)
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RCOB Club Structure 2017 - 2018 Club Service & Administration.

RCOB Board. Attendance & Dining. Heather Chisholm
President. Chris D’Arcy Foundation. John Manks
President Elect. Heather Chisholm Program. Lynda Doutch
Hon Secretary. James Glenwright Membership. Adrian Culshaw
Hon Treasurer. Richard Jones Fellowship. Megan Glenwright
Projects Director. Roy Seager Auditor. Tony Phillips
Immediate PP. Malcolm Sawle Club Protection Officer. Ken Mirams
Independent Director. Vivienne Zoppolato Communications. David Lea
Social Media. Kerry, Lynda & Trish
International. John Sime (Chair) Archivist. John Beaty
Fred Hofmann John Manks Almoners. Lois Lindsay, Charmaine Jansz
Ken Mirams Ross Philips Marketing & PR Peter Flude
Robert McArthur Clem Quick Club Photographer. Max Darby
Youth. Chris Martin (Chair) Community. Chris Werner (Chair)
Jan Cooper Lois Lindsay Mary Cunnington Max Darby
Tony McKenna David Rushworth Martin Fothergill Kerry Geard
Vivienne Zoppolato Bridget Hage Tony Phillips Roy Downes
Event Management. Mary Sealey John Beaty
Jim O’Brien Martin Fothergill Richard Shermon Chris Mara
Robert McArthur Geoff Stringer Market Management.
Antony Nixon Vivienne Zoppolato (co-ordinator)
District Service. Heather Chisolm Ken Mirams
Youth Services. Tony McKenna Greg Every Peter Flude
Membership. Trish Smyth Indigenous.
Assistant Governor. Ken Mirams David Hone (Chair)
Heather D’Arcy (Trachoma)
BREAKING
TRADITION
Breaking with tradition,
widows participate in
the colourful and joyful
celebration of Holi in
Vrindāvan, India. Su-
perstition has long
taught that widows
would bring bad luck
to the other cele-
brants, but at this par-
ticular festival, more
than 800 widows
danced anyway.
Photo by Sabbyy Sg,
National Geographic
Your Shot

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