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2018—2019

ROTARY CLUB OF BEAUMARIS WEEKLY BULLETIN Number 30 10 February 2020

President Report Next Meetings

Last Thursday we had a good joint meeting with North Brighton Ro- THURSDAY 13 FEBRUARY
tary at the Brighton Yacht Club where the topic, Bayside Fossils, SPEAKER: DEBBY CHAVES
was not about us but about the amazing fossil finds on the Beaumar- TOPIC: SCHOOL DROP OUT LAUNCH
is foreshore. The night was well attended by both clubs and a full CHAIR: BRIDGET HAGE
report is included in this edition of In Gear. AV SUPPORT: JOHN MANKS
CASH DESK: CHARMAINE JANSZ, MEGAN GLENWRIGHT
The Beaumaris Market was once again blessed with good weather. HOST: JOHN SIME
See full report. We have sent the money raised at the two January
Markets to the East Gippsland and North East Murray Rotary Bush THURSDAY 20 FEBRUARY
fire funds. Rosemary Freeman, District 9790 Community Service FILM NIGHT: “1917”
Chair of the Bushfire Recovery Working Group, responded: “It’s
wonderfully generous of your club and members and it’s great to PALACE DENDY THEATRE
have such support from the wider Family of Rotary. We will certainly 26 CHURCH STREET, BRIGHTON
keep you informed of progress of the District 9790 Bushfire and new
BETWEEN 6.30 AND 7.00 PM TBC
projects as they are introduced.” COST: $22 PP WHICH INCLUDES
Edward Tudor the CEO of the Melbourne Indigenous School, of TICKET AND A DRINK ON ARRIVAL
which we are a major supporter, sent me an email letting us know
how they went in 2019. The email is included in this In Gear with a
link to an excellent detailed illustrated report on the year which
shows what a great and successful institution they continue to be.
Once again, we are invited to the Sandringham Hospital’s annual
fundraising Lunch on Friday 13 March, 12.00 to 2.30 at Sandring- THURSDAY 27 FEBRUARY
SPEAKER - KYLIE STANLEY
ham Yacht Club. The special guest speaker is Jo Stanley - Comedi-
HIGHLANDS FOUNDATION
an, author, and speaker. As a major supporter of the Hospital it CHAIR: HEATHER CHISHOLM
would great if we could make up a table. Tickets are $130 each. AV SUPPORT: KEN MIRAMS
See page 3 for details. If anyone is interested in forming a table, CASH DESK: ROSS PHILLIPS AND BOB MCARTHUR
please contact me. HOST: TRISH SMYTH
Forward notice that your President will be in Hobart from Thursday
20th February until Monday 24th February visiting family. I will
therefore not be at the film night nor the Black Rock Market.
This week we are back at VGC when we will be launching The Zero
School Dropout project which Bridget Hage is leading. Beaumaris Generally you can find out more about our upcoming
Secondary College is to be the first school involved so their Princi- speakers, including Bios, in the Club Calendar
on our website.
pal, Debbie Chaves, and their welfare officer will be attending and
speaking about the project. Hopefully, our club will be making histo- Unless stated otherwise venue is
ry on Thursday night with the start of a Rotary attack on this serious Victoria Golf Club 6.30 for 7.00
Australian educational and social problem. So don’t miss out!
Contents
David Hone
1 Presidents Report
2/5 Notices
6/7 This Week’s Speakers
8/9 Club Sponsors
10 Club Structure / Photo of Week
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MITS Update Email to President David Farmers Market Report

Now the holiday period is over, normal Saturday routines
are re-asserting themselves. Possibly after a well de-
served sleep-in market patrons took advantage of a pleas-
antly cool, clear morning to turn out in force. In addition,
RFM were able to provide 62 stalls in total on Saturday,
which I think may be a record. All the well known crowd
favourites were there, including "Green Eggs" under new
management. With this number of stalls, the market was
set fairly wide on the site, making it a little difficult to guess
visitor attendance numbers. Those stall holders I spoke to
seemed very happy with their outcome for the day.
As you will see from the attached figures, our BBQ teams
were kept very busy and there was very little in the way of
leftovers at the end of the market. Save for a slight lull
Dear David, around 10 am there seemed to be a constant crowd
I am delighted to share with you our 2019 Full-Year Up- around our BBQ stall.
date, please click here. The regular buskers were away this month, but a young
acoustic guitarist proved a worthy replacement.
https://api.mits.vic.edu.au/media/2020/02/01/
End_Year_Update_2019_-_FINAL.pdf Raffle guests Neighbourhood Watch reported a successful
morning's fund raising. Neighbourhood Watch like us dedi-
Last year was an extraordinary year for MITS and our stu- cated fund raising in January towards bushfire relief. The
dents. We continued to see strong growth in each one of money raised via their raffle on Saturday will go towards
them individually, as well as a rapidly growing MITS fami- their long sought-after graffiti-removal trailer. We received
ly. We celebrated over 50 students either graduating from a letter of appreciation from Geoff of Neighbourhood
MITS, or completing successful years at one of our Partner Watch after the market on Saturday.
Schools because of MITS. Our students also achieved As temperatures rose during the morning so did a warm
another milestone worth celebrating: 2019 marked the first gusty wind, which meant that extra care was required
time that all 22 of our commencing Year 7 students com- when disassembling our marquees.
pleted their year with MITS. This is a testament to the
As always, my thanks go to those Beaumaris Rotarians
courage and determination of our students, and the incred-
who gave their time on Saturday to support one of the key
ible support of their families back home.
activities that fund our services to the community. If you
Things at MITS continue apace in 2020, with the opening
haven't been able to lend a hand lately for one reason or
of our Girls Alumni Boarding House on Richmond
another, at either Beaumaris or Black Rock it would be
Hill. This boarding house will allow 18 MITS alumni
good to see you again soon. The gate to our farmers mar-
girls (from Years 8 onwards) to attend MITS Partner
Schools during the day, while returning to the warmth and kets is always open.
cultural strength of a MITS-run boarding house each even- Attached below are our results for the day prepared by
ing. Lynda and Bridget.
I do hope you enjoy reading our 2019 update. Thank you
for enabling a bright future for our students. Mark Perelaer
Best regards, Farmers Market Co-ordinator
Ed
Edward Tudor | Executive Director
Melbourne Indigenous Transition School

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What makes Ricketts Point so special?

Beaumaris Rotary has joined forces with the Marine Education Science and Community Centre (MESAC) to organise
an event celebrating the unique aspects of the Ricketts Point area.
This event will form part of the 2020 Australian Heritage Festival, a month long national festival coordinated by the
National Trust. Its aim is to encourage interest in and provide information on our natural, historic and indigenous her-
itage places.
MESAC will be providing the speakers and tour leaders. Our role will be to provide help on the day with registration,
visitor marshalling, setting up of displays and providing refreshments.
More details nearer the event but members are encouraged to search this website. Members interested in helping
should contact Malcolm Sawle.
https://www.nationaltrust.org.au/ahf/vic/
Australian Heritage Festival (Victoria) 2020
The National Trust Heritage Festival is Australia’s biggest and most diverse community driven Heritage Festival!
From 18 April to 19 May 2020 National Trust properties and Branches, community groups, local councils, individuals
and other organisations will come together to celebrate our rich Aboriginal cultural heritage, historic buildings and
places, natural and cultural landscapes, stories and oral histories, and the objects and ‘things’ that we treasure as a
society.
The 2020 Australian Heritage Festival theme is Our heritage for the future. We invite organisations and individuals to
register events that celebrate the places, practices, and traditions that enrich our daily lives. The Festival is an oppor-
tunity to foster an understanding of our shared cultural heritage, but also a reminder that it must be lived and celebrat-
ed in the present to ensure its preservation into the future.
In 2019, the Australian Heritage Festival in Victoria included;
290 events across metro and regional Victoria 140,000+ event attendees
20,000 printed programs distributed 40,000+ e news subscribers
10million+ media reach 29 Partners and Friends of the Festival

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Speakers: Professor Vicky Karalis, AM and

Ben Franciscelli
Topic: Bayside Fossils
A/Professor Vicki Karalis (nee Kotsirilos) is a respected
Specialist GP with over 30 years of clinical experience.
She has an interest in lifestyle, nutrition, environmental &
preventive medicine. Dr Vicki holds Professorial positions
with Western Sydney University & La Trobe University,
Department of Nutrition; and formerly with Monash Univer-
sity. Dr Vicki is passionate about health & the environ-
ment. Vicki enjoys her ongoing clinical practice work with
her patients & caring for her environment through her vol-
untary services with experts, providing walks & talks on
the Bayside coastal processes, fossils & rock geology. Dr
Vicki's passion is driven in helping to create a healthy
community and preserving our natural environment. She
is the President, Sandringham Foreshore Association.

Melbourne’s Bayside suburbs are home to the most im-

portant urban fossil sites in Australia. Extraordinary fossils
of prehistoric sharks, whales and other sea creatures pro-
vide a unique window on Australia’s oceans from 5 million
years ago.
Vicki and Ben showed us many of the amazing fossil finds
found at the original Beaumaris Bay fossil site (Site A).

Ben Franciscelli is a Vertebrate Palaeontologist from Mu-

seums Victoria, where he has been exploring the southern
coastline of prehistoric Australia for ancient marine organ-
isms. His work has a focus on whales, but he’ll pretty
much work on anything that has a backbone and exists
within the marine environment. Ben has been on numer-
ous paleontological digs and has found evidence of new
species of mega-toothed sharks, the largest birds that took
to the sky and crazy weird whales unknown to science.

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Ben then showed us some of the finds from the new and
as yet undisclosed Site B. Many of these finds are of
global significance and have not yet been formally pub-
lished (and hence cannot be shown here).

Readers can find out more by joining the "Lost World of

Bayside" on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/BaysideFossils/

and on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/lostworldofbayside/
as well!

Sandybeach Centre’s
Community Garden
Last year Beaumaris Rotary
contributed $2,200 to the
renovation of the
Sandybeach Centre’s Com-
munity Garden. The money
was used to clear and level
the garden site and provide a
new brick pathway. Bun-
nings at Mentone provided
new planter boxes, soil, gar-
den tools and labour to put
everything together. The
photo shows the garden as it
is now, looking magnifi-
cent. It is in use by a num-
ber of groups who attend
Sandybeach including their
students with learning diffi-
culties.

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RCOB Board Membership, Marketing & Media - Chair James Glenwright

President David Hone Peter Flude Megan Glenwright
Secretary Trish Smyth Greg Every Mark Perelaer
Treasurer Lynda Doutch Mary Sealy Malcolm Sawle
Club Service & President Elect Adrian Culshaw Martin Fothergill
Adrian Culshaw Max Darby
Past President Heather Chisholm Club Service & Administration
Community Roy Downes Almoner Mary Sealy
International Fred Hofmann Archivist Roy Seager, David Lea
Youth Vivienne Zoppolato Attendance, dining & duties roster Adrian Culshaw
Indigenous Chris Mara Reviewer—Financial Statements Tony Phillips
Club Photographers Max Darby, Chris Mara
Community- Chair Roy Downes Club Protection Officer Ken Mirams
John Beaty Max Darby Newsletter, Web site, Facebook David Lea
Mary Cunnington Martin Fothergill Fellowship & Vocational Richard Jones
Kerrie Geard Chris Mara Foundation John Beaty
Robert McArthur Mary Sealy On to Conference Heather Chisholm
Tony Phillips Chris D'Arcy Social Media Officer Mark Perelaer
Chris Werner John Turner Speaker Program Administrator Gail Anderson
Bridget Hage Jude Kavanagh Speaker Program Assistants Kerrie Geard, Richard Potter

International - Chair Fred Hofmann

John Manks Geoff Stockdale District Officers
Ken Mirams John Sime Assistant Governor for Monash A Cluster Chris D'Arcy
Ross Phillips Clem Quick District Compliance Officer Ken Mirams
Richard Potter Simon Kavanagh District Community Chair Trish Smyth
District Indigenous Support Committee David Hone (Chair) Chris Mara
Youth – Chair Vivienne Zoppolato
Jan Cooper Tony Phillips Club Fundraising
Tony McKenna David Rushworth
Antony Nixon Lois Lindsay Bayside Charity Golf Day - Chair James Glenwright
Malcolm Sawle Chris Martin Peter Flude
Richard Jones Jim O’Brien
Lynda Doutch Tony Phillips
Indigenous - Chair Chris Mara
David Hone Fred Hofmann Farmers Market – Co-ordinator Mark Perelaer
Robert McArthur Chris Werner Peter Flude
Chris Mara Charmaine Jansz
Pending Liz Tanzimat Geoff Stringer Ken Mirams
Jeanette Limbach Vivienne Zoppolato Bridget Hage
Heather Chisholm

THE EYES HAVE IT

The eye of a hump-
back whale is sur-
prisngly small given
the size of the rest of
the animal—roughly
the same size as a
cow's eye. They
were once almost
extinct, but protec-
tions have brought
them back to "least
concern" status.
PHOTOGRAPH BY
FLIP NICKLIN, NAT
GEO IMAGE COL-
LECTION

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