Welcome to the Rotary Club of Bayside Geelong!

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Bayside Geelong

Caring for our Community 

We meet In Person
Tuesdays at 7:30 PM
Naval Association
90 Skene Street,
Newtown, VIC 3220
Australia
Rotary Club of Bayside Geelong Inc [50412] 1st Tuesday Board only Zoom 2nd & 4th Tuesday 7 for 7.15pm Naval Association 90-92 Skene St Newtown http://www.rotarybaysidegeelong.org/
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Insurance Night
It was a small but very enthusiastic group of members at the last meeting night at the Naval club.

Chairperson Telsa introduced our guest speaker for the night, Insurance District Chair & president of the Rotary club of Geelong Central, Don Shields. Telsa thanked Don for taking the time out of his very busy life to spend a few hours with us and take us through the Insurance Guidebook.
 
Seems, we as a club do ok in this area, as we do the right thing regarding club insurance and information that needs to be delt with quickly. I think we have Telsa, Peter K, Dan and Daryll to thank for that. Well done guys.
Trivia Challenge Night
Trivia Challenge Night

Our amazing, Miss Judy and Friends of Bayside, Anne & David Cotsell were in fine form, producing a fun packed evening.

With a wonderful selection of questions that David organized, and with a fabulous amount of silent auction items that is Anne’s domain, we were set for a great night raising funds for our community.
 
We have to thank our supporter for the evening, making for a very interesting auction, plus a big thank you to PDG Stephen Lamont for taking on the job of Auctioneer this year, he kept the bids rolling in and also kept us all laughing, even our Man of the Moment, question man David.
Remembrance Day
This week’s meeting was all about remembering, as Remembrance Day is this week, and we wanted to mark the occasion by sharing stories, and I have to say we heard some wonderful stories of loved ones past and some still with us.
        
 
We traveled across the world from PNG to Borneo and then to Egypt France and Normandy, and not forgetting Hungary Italy & Darwin.
 
          
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Dept of Justice and Community Safety
This week we had the pleasure of listenint to: 
Madonna Morton, Acting Deputy Secretary, Corporate Governance and Support.
Michelle Wood Executive Director of the West Area
Paul Fitzpatrick, the Assistant Deputy Secretary of Justice Service in Victoria.
 
The Topic was  “Issues on Housing for People leaving prison”

Justice Services is the part of the Department of Justice and Community Safety that looks after people who have left prison.
 
There are 11 Public Prisons and one transition centre; 3 Private Prisons in Victoria, with 6,600 people currently in prison consisting of 6,300 men (95%) and 300 (5%) women (at a peak there is around 8,200 people in prison)
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Story Dogs
Story Dogs
Our Guest Speakers Karen and Vanessa from Story Dogs. The ladies joined us with the beautiful little King Charles Spaniels Poppy and Libby.
 
The Story Dogs Mission is to make reading fun for children, so they become confident lifelong readers.
 
No child should be left behind in literacy.
 
Formed in 2009 in northern NSW, Story Dogs has expanded to now be operating in six Australian states, partnering with 224 schools, with 374 volunteer Dog Teams helping over 1880 children every week.
 
Their purpose is to help primary school children (aged 7 - 10) learn to read.
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Another Bunnings BBQ
Another Bunnings BBQ
Although very wet and windy the Bunnings BBQ went ahead as planned.
 
Not too many people around in the morning but the happy band of campers kept it all going well with a welcoming smile to those that did venture out.
 
I heard BB decided to go for a walk and fix the problem that is always there on a wet day, the gap between the to gazebos.
 
Coming back with his purchases of a roll of plastic and fixings, went to work to make it a dryer environment for all. I heard it worked well.
 
Then Aileen decided she had stood in water far too long, so another trip inside returning with a mat to stand on, well done team.
 
The sun came out in the afternoon and the PM team reported that it was slow but constant, but on a positive note, gave a little extra time for cleaning.
 
Not too sure that is a good idea Ian with shoulder surgery coming up again on Thursday, but I’m sure the next team will appreciate the shinning surfaces.
Visit to Transfer Station
Visit to Transfer Station
Well as they say a change is as good as a holiday, so this week our 6.45pm mix & mingle prestart to our meeting, was replaced with a 9.30 am start at the Transfer Station in Druro St North Geelong, better known as The Tip.
 
We were all there bright and early including past member Robin Hunt, and friend of the club Bev Burch.
 
All in our very attractive, high vis jackets ready to meet our tour guide, Greg Price.
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Rationalisation - Leslie Shedden
Rationalisation - Leslie Shedden
What is Regionalization?
 
Lesley answered the question for us.  It is about a restructure to better inform people what we do in the community.
 
How interesting it is that we all seem to be on the same page.
 
We all understand that people (the community) just don’t seem to get who we are. Ask the question who or what is Rotary and even today people will answer the question. It’s a men’s club for older wealthy business owners. It is not!
 
Although everyone will see a group of men and women of all different ages cooking sausages at Bunnings to raise funds for their community every weekend.  
 
It is a lot more. 
 
Look at this website.
   Look at Shelterbox
   Look at Days for Girls
   Look at our Annual Reports
   Look at the Stories Menu item
 
Lesley’s presentation was easy to follow, and most members had comment of agreement not too many questions, as all was explained well. Thank you, Lesley.
 
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