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PRESIDENT'S POST

Firstly thank you to all the members who attended the MHU Care Packs session at Notting Hill earlier today.

I believe we packed close to 200 Care Packs in the two hour session and were joined by 4 members from the Rotary Club of Port Philip.

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Marine Mammal Foundation

As part the Vocational Service Enterprise Forum, Ian Bentley introduced Dr Kate Robb, the Founding Director and Head of Research at the Marine Mammal Foundation.

Her research led to the formal description and naming of a new Australian species of dolphin, the Burrunan Dolphin, Tursiops Australis.

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What’s New in My Vocation - School Teaching in 2024

This is one of a series of articles focussed on how vocations have changed in our contemporary world. The Vocational Service Committee is sponsoring the series.

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WHAT IS CIRCULATING VACCINE DERIVED POLIO?

Over the past 40 years, Rotary and its partners in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative have reduced the incidence of poliomyelitis by 99%. Thanks to our eradication efforts more than 20 million children have avoided the devastating effects of polio.
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The Bookworms

The Bookworms discussed “The Silkworm” by Zoom on Monday. 
Private investigator Cormoran Strike returned in a new mystery, “The Silkworm” by Robert Galbraith, author of the #1 international bestseller The Cuckoo's Calling. (Robert Galbraith is a pseudonym for J.K. Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter series)
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Hot Cross Buns

Hot Cross Buns!  Hot Cross Buns! 

One and penny, two a penny, Hot Cross Buns! 

If you haven’t got a daughter,  give them to your sons. 

One a penny, two a penny Hot Cross Buns!

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ROUNDABOUT ROTARY

What's new in Rotary? The best way to find out, is to come along and swap lies with your mates. They may or may not know what's the news.
Otherwise, read stuff here.
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Jest for a laugh

Readers enjoyed last week's "Jesters" where we reproduced the Washington Post's Mensa Invitational ​​​​
The Washington Post has also published the winning submissions to its yearly contest in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for common words. 
The Jesters hope you like them.
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UPCOMING SPEAKERS

Keep up to date, or as the kids say: "Get with the program!"
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FORTHCOMING  EVENTS

Leonardo da Vinci Exhibition  13 March to 30th April

Remembering Margaret Sutherland  -  14th April.

Bunnings Barbecue - 20th April

Women in Parliament - 16th April

Schedule of Club Meetings and Events

District 9800 Conference   12-14th April, 2024

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CLUB ROSTER

CLUB MEETING DUTIES      
If you cannot perform your duty, please find a replacement or contact Richard Logan.

 

   April 2nd 
April 9th
 
April 16th

   April 23rd

 Venue    

No Meeting​      Kooyong LTC  Zoom MeetingKooyong LTC

  Theme

 

Easter Tuesday

UNICEF

Three Sheets to the Wind.

Anzac Theme

  Front Desk

 
 
 
 
 

 Set Up

Clear Up  

         

 

 

 

 MC       

 D McLean

D Rush

D Rush

 

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