Bulletin of the Rotary Club of Moreland
EDITION 14|2 FEBRUARY 2022
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REFLECT RESPECT CELEBRATE
Dr Claire Kelly helps raise awareness about mental health at our Australia Day community breakfast
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Award of Excellence for Club Bulletin 2018-2019
Moreland Rotary acknowledges the Wurundjeri people of the eastern Kulin Nations on whose unceded lands we conduct our business. Moreland Rotary respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past, present and emerging. Moreland Rotary also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business.
Cover: Dr Claire Kelly addressing our community breakfast on Australia Day (David Redfearn)
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Reflect Respect Celebrate Community Breakfast
On 26 January, Moreland Rotary hosted a Reflect Respect Celebrate Community Breakfast at the Federazione Lucana in Brunswick. The room was full of energy, representing nine Rotary club and another ten known community organisations. Guests arrived to local entertainers performing, and host Rotarians wearing branded Rotary People of Action face masks. Thanks to a National Australia Day grant, we were able to host a free and plentiful cooked breakfast and coffee with tables dressed in native plants with all supplies, services and speaker gifts purchased from local companies. Thank you to: Bond and Wild Co Anna and Cam Duo Bunnings Coburg Coburg Printworks Code Black Coffee Brunswick Federazione Lucana Brunswick Kevin Heinze Grow Peppertree Place Nursery Coburg Mental Health First Aid Parkville Officeworks Coburg Rotary Down Under Sorrento Café Brunswick Southbank Rotary Club Spotlight Essendon Fields As a club, Moreland Rotarians have always seen the importance of Mental Health support in our community. We provide ongoing National Australian Rotary Health program support, particularly for PTSD, Lift the Lid and Australian Rotary Health research scholar funding and over the last five years, our Rotarians have focused on their local Mental Health activation. Since discussions in 2017 with Moreland Council and Moreland Mental Health providers, we have hosted two successful forums in 2018 and 2019 while in 2020 the industry stakeholder monthly forums were taken online during COVID. The inaugural District 9790 Lift the Lid walk we ran in October 2021 raised over $13K. Not a bad effort for a twelve-member club in COVID times! We invite you to join this year's Lift the Lid Walk on Sunday 9 October 2022. At our 26 January event, hosted by MC and Youth Alumnus, Grant Godino, we all enjoyed an opportunity to hear from health professionals. We initially heard from a bubbly Betty Kitchener AM, co-Founder of Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) for which she had received an Australian Rotary Health (ARH) grant. (continued next page) TEXT: EMMA DAVIS| IMAGES: DAVID REDFEARN
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Reflect Respect Celebrate Community Breakfast
Betty's vision in developing MHFA at the turn of the century is a great story. It addressed an untapped need for all in each and every one of our lives, and provided an opportunity to learn the basics: Approach the person, assess and assist with any crisis; Listen and communicate non-judgmentally; Give support and information; Encourage the person to get appropriate professional help and Encourage other supports. Dr Claire Kelly, Director of International Programs, Mental Health First Aid Australia, opened her keynote with a humble statement noting that “…whatever today means to you, I am thankful that I have the opportunity to do something really meaningful today”. Claire has a strong Rotary family background and has many ties to the community work she is drawn to. Involved with MHFA since she attended her first MHFA course in 2001, she knew right away that the program was something she needed to be a part of. She became an instructor in 2003, while completing her doctorate and has since held roles across program development, research, training and International mentorship. Claire has lived experience which has been a driver for much of her work. She was also a recipient of an ARH grant for her work with Teen MHFA. With the event theme of “We are all part of the story”, we then released a special community training program. We announced that Moreland Rotary are proud to be sponsoring at least 30 free positions for Mental Health First Aid for our Community. The first course is scheduled for Sunday 27 March and Sunday 10 April, 2022 with places filling fast and the course fully funded by Moreland Rotary. We are also now in a position to make another generous donation to the ARH Indigenous Scholar Program. Moreland Rotary is a small, diverse, welcoming group of active community professionals. We host Wednesday breakfasts at Sorrento Café on Sydney Road Brunswick. With a punchy program we have a reach from our very local Brunswick backyard gardening farming project to our International partner projects in Nepal. We are community minded, socially and environmentally committed and happily raise money via Bunnings sausage sizzles and other means to commit to our community, youth and International project spend.
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TEXT: EMMA DAVIS| IMAGES: DAVID REDFEARN AND LEE GARWOOD
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Reflect Respect Celebrate Community Breakfast
IMAGES:DAVID REDFEARN
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Moreland goes to Midsumma
(L-R) Grant Godino (LGBT Fellowship President), Past District Governor D9810 Alma Reynolds Trevor Moyle, Perry Reynolds
The Midsumma Festival at the Alexandra Gardens
Moreland Rotarian Trevor Moyle was very pleased to help the Rotary LTBG Fellowship at the Rotary tent at the Midsumma Festival in the Alexandra Gardens on Sunday 23 January. The numbers were well down this year because of COVID and the heat, however Trevor said that they still managed to get the Rotary message out to a number of passers by. Bunnings
It was a warm and humid day but we got out to Bunnings in North Coburg for our regular sausage sizzle. Numbers may have been down a little no doubt due to the heat but our clients were as enthusiastic as ever helping in our mission to raise funds for local projects. Again our thanks to Bunnings for making this possible.
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TEXT: TREVOR MOYLE AND DAVID REDFEARN | IMAGES: TREVOR MOYLE AND DAVID REDFEARN
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About Rotary
District Governor's Newsletter
"Our District, Our Voice" is the monthly newsletter of District Governor Anne Reid in 2021-22. There is a lot of information about the many Rotary projects and events across our District. Simply click here to read the latest edition Members of Rotary are part of a diverse group of community and professional leaders working to address community and international service needs and to promote peace and understanding throughout the world.
Rotary districts are a way of grouping a number of clubs in a particular geographic area. The area covered quite often crosses state and even international boundaries.
Rotary District 9790 encompasses the northern Rotary clubs receive a charter suburbs of Melbourne and from the worldwide organisation - stretches north and north east of Rotary International. Victoria to the Murray River and up into parts of NSW. A Rotarian belongs to a particular Rotary Club often near his/her For more information about home or work or sometimes Rotary District 9790, click here because of the club meeting time. THE MORELANDER
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Rotary Leadership 2021-22 Rotary International: President: Shekha Mehta(Susanne) , Rotary Club of District Governor: Anne Reid , Rotary Club of Alexandra Assistant Governor Group 2: Emma Davis, Rotary Club of Moreland Rotary Club of Moreland President: Emma Davis Club Service Roles 2021-22
President President Elect Secretary Treasurer Community Service Vocational Services Membership, International Service and Assistant Bulletin Editor Rotary Foundation Youth and Assistant Secretary Club Administration and Governance Environment and Bulletin Editor Australian Rotary Health Public Relations Club History Valued members Honorary Members
Emma Davis TBA Rosemary Freeman John Hoffmann Rosemary Freeman Brian Bennett Trevor Moyle Rosemary Freeman Silvana De Pretto Nino Galgano and Lee Garwood David Redfearn OAM Rosemary Freeman Russell Stuckey and Brian Bennett Nino Galgano Elly Gardner, Jo Connellan The Hon. Kelvin Thomson, Helen Bailey, John Awler, Richard McCarthy
District 9790 /Multi District Roles 2021-22
Assistant Governor, Group 2 and Director, 2023 Convention Host Organising Committee District Community Service Chair and Australian Rotary Health District Legal Officer District Bulletin Editor and Peter Toomey Community Police Award Shine On Awards
Emma Davis Rosemary Freeman Nino Galgano David Redfearn OAM Brian Bennett
WHEN AND WHERE WE MEET:
Moreland Rotary Club meets most Wednesdays at 7.30 for a 7.40 am start. We meet at the Sorrento Bar, 801 Sydney Road, Brunswick, 3056 HOW TO GET A COPY OF THE MORELANDER:
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Upcoming events and meetings A standing invitation exists for all readers of The Morelander to attend Moreland Rotary Club meetings and some of our other events. Please let us know if you intend to join us by ringing David Redfearn on 0448 852 747 or emailing on dredfearn@vtown.com.au (click on email address). Upcoming speakers/events
2 February: Operation Cleft, Bruce McEwen, Box Hill Rotary Club 9 February: TBA 16 February: Monthly Board Meeting (Chair: President Emma Davis 23 February: TBA
Our Guest Speakers
Moreland Rotary Club invites speakers to our club both from our local community and further afield. They come from a wide range of backgrounds and are invited because they hopefully inform and stimulate our members and guests. We feel that this is of value in fostering a deeper understanding of our diverse community and even providing guidance as to the types of activites and projects our club may engage in. However the opinions expressed by our speakers do not necessarily reflect any official viewpoint of Moreland Rotary nor those of individual club members. Irrespective of this we always offer a warm Rotary welcome to all of our speakers.
click here @RotaryMoreland
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During the pandemic we met via Zoom on Wednesday mornings from 7.30-8.30 am but we NOW MEET in person at our usual venue (listed on page 7). You should contact us beforehand in case restrictions are in force but you can still join us on Zoom at any time and the link is below.
We always aim to have great guest speakers whether meeting in person or virtually! Why not join us one morning? Simply ring David on 0448 852 747 the day before to RSVP or go to: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/3068589175 just before the meeting to join in.