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Good Evening Rotarians and Friends of Rotary.
Tonight's meeting was a joint meeting with Rye/Rosebud, there was a great attendance by both clubs at this time of the year when a lot of people are away. President Rob opened the meeting. Chairman for the night was Chris Booth Secretary Bob, spoke about a shire letter regarding a community information meeting, regarding limitless heights for building, in confined areas, it will open the gates for developers to go bigger. Dromana Primary school sent a certificate of appreciation for our involvement with the art show,for over 20 year involvement with them, and may be hard to get them involved again, due to on line buying of art. invitation from Peninsula Health, possibly in response to Peter and Mary's fundraiser dinner in May, there is a breakfast on 14th August 9.30 to 10.30. other literature from Dromana football club. He spoke about comedy for a course, they have raised almost 1 million dollars, its an evening event. He spoke about walk in the park, its for Parkinson disease, there are 27,000 people with the disease, Bob said 20% of the people diagnosed were working age people, not just retired people, the walk has been going for 7 years, it stars in Federation square , you pay to enter and its a fundraiser, its 2 to 4 km long,starts at 9am with entertainment on the way, sausage sizzles etc, activities are free, Sunday 27th August. information can be obtained from Judy from Rye/Rosebud Rotary or Secretary Bob from Dromana Rotary. President Neil from Rye/Rosebud had a few words. He thanked all his members for coming to our club, he said because they had a good relationship with our club, exchange student, Peter and Mary's fundraiser and Pats fundraiser. he also mentioned RYPEN and working together with that. Chris mentioned our next exchange student arrives next Tuesday night, her name is Anuke from China, we are all looking forward to her arrival. Member Greg mentioned, trying to organise a tree planting from the district Governor, planting at Hillview reserve as well as devil bend reservoir. Member Geoff, mentioned the BBQ structure at the community garden, the cement was poured and , structure to go up soon and then the roof, looking for help on thee 29th July. 8am start. Our guest speaker was Rick Plumber from the men's shed in Dromana Rick is the President of the men's shed, Rick Spoke about how the building went in constructing with the shire, they are in and operating, they are near the bocce courts, the nearest neighbour joined the shed, they have had all there stuff stored at Mew civil in a container donated to them for over 2 years, Rick said when they went and opened it ,it was like Christmas, he said they spent a lot of time going to council meeting, the had done things for the shire and they kept adding things to the list , the end Rick said to the shire man, give us a complete list and we will do the lot, they also mentioned a wall that was for there meetings, the room was not soundproof, so Rick said what if we remove the wall and make it all open, that was fine by the shire and saved the shed thousands of dollars. the shed cost around $170,000, Feb 16th was when they started, it took 12 months from start to finish, great job in that time. Men's shed's actually started in Australia, there are 1,000 Australia wide, there are over 30,000 would wide, and Scotland is the fastest growing. They have a great variety of tools, they even have a gantry, they have 3 phase power. it was a great talk. Our guest speaker, Daniel Randazzo, from Chisholm TAFE, next week is an expert on internet security. So bring along you partners or any friends that want to learn how better to protect themselves from this ever present criminal space. So it is an ideal partners' night, so please let Elaine no if your bringing a guest, your wife, someone elses
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