Sophia, a student at Footscray High School and the Rotary Foundation Scholarship recipient for 2023-24 who recently attended one of our meetings has written to Maria Silber with good news.

Exciting news! Registration for the Multi District Impact Summit are now LIVE, and you won’t want to miss out! This event is set to be an inspiring gathering of Rotary minds, all coming together to make a greater impact.

The Annual General meeting of FRACS was conducted prior to the regular meeting on December 19th. This fund which resulted from a merger of Western Region Aged Care and the Rotary Community Service Fund with a charter to support charities, with deductible gift recipient (DGR) status, working in Footscray and the inner West.

At our Christmas meeting Eloise, our outgoing Exchange Student spoke to us briefly about her year ahead in the Czech Republic/Czechia, and included a brief message in Czech. Eloise has had a number of “ups and downs” finding a county to host her exchange and after offers from France, Switzerland and Austria didn’t eventuate a host club was secured in Czechia.

District Governor's visit

At this meeting we were honoured to welcome DG Michael Lapina for his visit to our club. He complemented the club for the impact it has had locally and internationally.

He then spoke to the annual theme “The Magic of Rotary”...

Nina Fromhold, from Memory Lane - Life Stories was our speaker on November 7th.

Discovering a recorded message of her “Nan” 4 weeks after she passed away made Nina realise the value of such a recording as it included important content of the family history in her grandmother’s voice.

Such recordings provide an understanding of a person across subsequent generations and avoids their story being lost.