You and your family and friends are invited to participate in the Rotary Club of Hawthorn’s Melbourne Cup Sweep.

Tickets are $5 each and, as required by Victorian law, all proceeds of the sweep will be distributed to holders of winning tickets.

To minimise the cost of processing payments, tickets may only be purchased by direct deposit to the following Rotary Club of Hawthorn bank account:

BSB:               083166

Account No:     53 254 5861

Please include your name and the reference ‘Sweep’. 

After your payment has been received you will be sent a ticket number for each of the tickets you have purchased.

Bank transfers must be made no later than 12:00PM on Thursday 29 October to allow time for funds to be credited to the Club’s bank account and ticket numbers to be allocated prior to Cup Day.

Example

Say you want to purchase 10 tickets for family and friends.

1. Transfer $50 to the Club’s bank account no later than 29 October.
2. After funds arrive in the Club’s account you will be emailed 10 ticket numbers.
3. It is your responsibility to allocate the tickets among those family members and friends who are participating in the sweep.

The draw will be conducted via Zoom on Cup Day morning by the Treasurer and Club Service director with members of the Special Events team acting as scrutineers.

Horses that are scratched prior to the draw on Cup Day morning will be removed from the draw, but holders of tickets for horses scratched after the draw will not be entitled to a refund.

Immediately following the draw, participating Club members will be informed by email of the horses drawn on the tickets they have purchased.  It is the responsibility of Club members to inform family members and friends of the horses drawn on their tickets.

Prizes

The prize pools shared by those drawing the first three placed horses in the race will be the following percentages of the total value of tickets sold.

First place            60%

Second place       30%

Third                    10%

Winnings will be paid by direct deposit to the bank accounts of the Club members who purchased the winning tickets.

Club members who purchased winning tickets will need to provide the Treasurer with their bank account details for this purpose.  Club members will be responsible for distributing winnings to family or friends holding winning tickets.

If you have any questions about the sweep please contact me on andpam@bigpond.com or mobile 0411 297 873.

Andrew Crockett

for Rotary Club of Hawthorn

From 1st to 31st October , Walk With Us for those who can’t. (or ride or swim)

Global virus pandemics are not new. Before vaccines were developed for polio in the 1950s, parents were gripped by terror: over 1,000 children were dying or being paralysed each day.

Now, polio is a distant memory in most countries, but it persists in a few. The problem is that until we completely eradicate the poliovirus, children everywhere remain at risk.

What’s the challenge?  Go for a walk!

(actually, a walk, a run or a ride or even a swim—your choice)

You can do this!  Even those of us in lockdown can do this. So what’s involved?

1. Registrations are open. You can participate as an individual but even better Join our Team https://www.rotarywalkwithus.org/fundraiser/rotaryhawthorn
2. Register your target (say 10km, 20km, 50km or whatever distance suits) during the month of October
3. Get friends, family, colleagues and local businesses to sponsor you
4. Record your activity, monitor the leaderboards, track your results.

What will you achieve?

• Save children now in polio hotspots like Pakistan and Afghanistan
• Help develop innovative new vaccination programs
• Help plan the polio endgame, including repurposing the polio network for other health needs
• Deliver a polio-free world.

In the process, stay fit and healthy and achieve more together!

| #WalkWithUs | #EndPolio | #RotaryResponds | #PeopleOfAction 

Melbourne Cup Day is Australia’s best known horse racing event. Since 1861 it has been held on the first Tuesday of November at Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne. It is an annual public holiday in the state of Victoria. This event, popularly dubbed as “the race that stops the nation”, is a 3,200 metre race for three-year-olds and over, is said to be the richest ‘two-mile’ handicap in the world and is one of the richest turf races.  More than 100,000 people usually attend Flemington Racecourse, and the race is televised live to an audience of about 650 million people worldwide'.

Did you know? The 1875 winner, Wollomai, came from Phillip Island?, (which is located around 135 kilometres south-east of Melbourne and is better known for its penguin colonies). In earlier days, prior to a ferry service between Phillip Island and San Remo, animals were swum across to the Narrows.

It was thought that Wollomai had very little chance of winning, but jockey Bob Batty rode the horse to success, in a time of three minutes and thirty eight seconds, before a crowd of 70,000 people.

The owner, John Cleeland, returned to Cape Woolomai  with £22,000 pounds, having given the jockey and trainer £500 each.

Norm is the Darwin Military Museum Director.

The Museum has been described as 'a powerful, interactive, immersive experience.'

It tells the fascinating history of Darwin's war time involvement during WW2.

Do you know the truth of the 64 Japanese raids that took place on Darwin over almost 2 years?

Discover how these raids were kept a secret from the Australian population and have now been made public. 

Did you know that 188 aircraft were deployed to attack Darwin dropping 681 bombs on the city?

The Darwin Military Museum has celebrated its 50th anniversary. They are looking forward to another 50 years of telling the story of the Territory’s rich military history.

Photo: Darwin Military Museum

Ken Piesse saw his first game of VFL football at old Glenferrie in 1963.

His Dad went to Scotch and barracked for Hawthorn and the ground became a second home for young Ken growing up.

In time he played a game of cricket there, for the Prahran second XI against Hawthorn East Melbourne and as the youngest in the team (16 turning 17)  his job was to fetch the  straight hit balls onto the railway tracks.

He still loves Hawthorn and many of his 80 books have been written on behalf of past Hawk giants from Dermie and Dunstall to the Rat, the Big Fish and Dipper.

Ken is a master storyteller and is Australian sports most published living author with a rare passion for cricket and football.
He will again be working  for P & O cruise lines as a guest speaker, when cruising resumes.

Ken has been the President of the Australian Cricket Society for 15 years

He is a member of the Melbourne Cricket Club Media Hall of Fame and the Australian Football Media Hall of Fame.

Cricket Victoria awarded him its Major Media Award for the third time in 2015 for Cricket’s Cinderella Story, Chris Rogers’ extraordinary comeback, published in the ACS’s ‘Pavilion’ magazine.

There is no more published living sports author in Australasia.

You will have the opportunity of buying a signed copy of his two new books Favorite Football Yarns and Favorite Cricket Yards via Ken’s website: cricketbooks.com.au

Photo: Ken Piesse website

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