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Rotarians and friends

There is plenty of information in this Bulletin:

- News of our recent successful Dinner Dance and auction associated with the Footscray Art Prize.

- Jama Farah has provided a detailed report on the "Horn of Africa" project.

- Maria Silber has reported on the Timor Leste school project initiated by the Rotary Club of Flemington/Kensington but supported by our club.

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Graeme

Editor

President's Report August

The major event for the Club this month has been the Footscray Art Prize Dinner /Dance held at Croatia House on Saturday August 5. The success of this event was due to a big effort by the organisers Phillip Caruso and Suzanne Zammit with valuable assistance from Maria Silber, Stephen Palmer [MC] and Angus Scott – Walker [Auctioneer]. Although financials are still to be finalised we expect the event to be a successful fund raiser for the Club.

Jama Farah [International Committee chair] remains active in acquiring preloved medical equipment for shipment to Ethiopia as part of the Horn of Africa Project. A further container has been loaded in the past couple of weeks for shipment. This project will be the flagship project for our club in this Rotary Year.

Next Meeting
September 7, 2023, 6:30 pm to September 7, 2023, 8:30 pm

Next meeting Thursday September 7th 6.30 at Plough Hotel, 333 Barkly St Footscray.
Speaker:Robert Irvine.

Robert is a member of Friends of Organ Pipes and will talk about the care and maintenance of the park.

RSVP to Maria Silber

Upcoming Meeting
September 21, 2023, 6:30 pm to September 21, 2023, 8:30 pm

Next meeting Thursday September 20th 6.30 at Plough Hotel, 333 Barkly St Footscray.
Speaker:Lloyd O’Brien from “Somebody’s Daughter”.

Somebody's Daughter is a project which has grown from an in-prison activity to improve the self-esteem and vocabulary of female prisoners in Victoria, to one of supporting women on their release from prison and to coaching vulnerable youth in life-skills to try to prevent them falling into crime and the Justice system.

RSVP to Maria Silber

August Speakers

Two interesting presentation at our August meetings. Our fellow Rotarian, PP Jamie Robertson spoke on August 3^rd about his recent trip to Scotland. At the meeting on August 17^th Rotarian Catherine Eagleson spoke about her work as a “wordsmith” creating word puzzles.

Fred Madden

On Sunday 6th August Fred Maddern celebrated the 60th Anniversary of being member of the Footscray Park Bowling Club.
An afternoon tea was attended by friends and fellow club members to mark the occasion. Fred was presented with a blazer to acknowledge his great contribution of 40 years on the committee and 12 years as president. He is a life member and has a bowling green named after him.

Timor Leste School Project - a long journey

Students from Kensington Primary School held fund raisers to buy stationery items for students in a remote area of Timor Leste. The school is Liaruca Elementary and Junior High school. What a journey it has been. Timor Leste is only 686kms from Darwin.The supplies were packaged up before Christmas and dropped off at DIK to be included in the next container going to Dili. The container left Australia on the 28th February and was expected around the 28th March and on the 5th April it was in harbour awaiting release.
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Footscray Art Prize - Dinner Dance/Auction

The Rotary Club of Footscray hosted the 2023 Footscray Art Prize Dinner Dance on August 5^th, at Croatia House following the exhibition of the artists’ entries at Footscray Arts Community and a review of the exhibition by Bernadette Fitzgerald, Senior Producer at Footscray Community Arts. Daniel Santangeli, Artistic Director & Co-CEO was our after dinner speaker

Both of these events were very well attended and the Club should be complemented for hosting to such a high standard during this biannual event.

Apart from the financial return for the club, as facilitator of an important community event the club gains much in the community.

Horn of Africa Project This has been a period full of remarkable efforts and great achievements. We have worked tirelessly to bring to fruition our goal of improving the lives of those in need around the world. In this recent period, the Horn of Africa project has been a major vehicle in delivering our successful results. Read More...

Footscray’s Hidden Hellenism

The Rotary Club of Footscray club is supporting this project, which will involve the installation of a Hellenic themed mural, celebrating the Greek influence in Footscray.

For details of the project click here.

Rotarians are invited to attend the inauguration ceremony at 12.30pm on Sat 9^th September at The Line, Yewers Footscray. Details below.

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