President
In Pres. Graeme's absence, the evening was chaired by VP Bernie.
Bernie reminded the gathering that this weekend is District Conference. A number of our members expressed their disappointment at being unable to attend due to other commitments.
Some time ago, we were asked to help finance Rotoractors who wished to become Rotarians in Timor Leste. We proposed processes that have been now taken up by other supporting Rotary clubs to help get this project along and the DG in 9550 is now putting this in place.
VP Bernie took the opportunity to inform the club about current status of Polio eradication. This year there have been only 51 reported cases of Polio worldwide and all cases are in Pakistan and Afghanistan. (Bernie would later be fined for an unscheduled 5 minute talk.)
Reports
Cynthia had 'Nix to report'. And Liz followed with 'Nothing to report, except that the BAS will be paid this week'. (Which is actually something!).
Vicki said that next week is a fellowship week and then on the following Tuesday, (Melbourne Cup Day), we will have an interesting speaker. Vicki will send Chris a regular schedule of upcoming events to appear in the Bulletin each week.
Ruth reported for International, saying that Abundant Water are doing a crowd funding exercise to raise funds for Nepal. I offered to put a link to this in the bulletin and on the website. Janine added that she attended the Rotoract Club of UC meeting on Monday and Abundant Water was the guest speaker.
John K advised that the club that the CRFM had donated 5 Cookbooks and 2 x $50 market vouchers to be used as prizes at a trivia night to be run by staff of the Comm. Dept of Agriculture for the benefit of the Australasian Centre for Rural and Remote Mental Health.
Also, we will need some volunteers to assist with a sausage sizzle at Fraser Primary School on Thursday 3 December from 3.00 pm to 7.00 pm. Dennis distributed menus for the Remembrance Day ceremony on 11 November 2015.
CRFM
Peter reported that he was only at the market for a short time and had no idea how it went.
