Our newest Rotarian Jacquie Best presented her Who Am I segment at this weeks Rotary Meeting. She has been a carpenter and has produced wooded art pieces one of which will be on display at the Rotary Art Show to be held after Easter on Saturday 23rd April till Sunday 15th May with the Official Opening on Sunday 1st May, she has had a wallpaper business in Murray Bridge, she went to Norseman in Western Australia with her husband Malcolm, worked in Human Resources, and Catering for a couple of the Mining Companies there. She became a JP after training at Curtin University and became part of the Juvenile Court System. In 2007 she was elected to the Norseman Council. She has travelled in New Zealand, UK and more recently to Tasmania with Chairperson and friend Rotarian Margaret Whitehead.
Stephen Walker also presented some further ideas for the "Badging the Bridge Program" including Celebrate Rotary Flags in the Main Street, a variety of Recycling Projects with Bins, Kitchen tidy's, bread tags, blister packs, playground equipment and Rotary Buddy Benches. Stephen also proposed a landing page people of action.org.au to promote our activities further.
By John Scarvelis
Yuntu-Walun Murraylands Multicultural Festival
Lots of Cultural Food and Craft Stalls at the Yuntu-Walun Murraylands Multicultural Festival at the Riverfront Sturt Reserve in Murray Bridge on Sunday March 20th. Mayor of the Rural City of Murray Bridge Brenton Lewis and Australian Migrant Resource Centre CEO Eugenia Tsoulis OAM spoke about the Festival its history and importance and Murraylands Multicultural Network Chair John Scarvelis thanked them both for their input. Bush for Life have been working with the Network and AMRC for 4 years now supporting new settlers, The Black Dog Riders and the Black Dog Institute Mental Heath Team coordinated their Bike Ride to be at the Festival, some 320 of them, part of a National Drive raising hundreds of thousands of $ supporting Mental Health. Also present were Darcy's Animal Farm for the young and young at heart, Michelloon Balloons, Zambezi Crafts from Africa, Boandik Yaluwing Weavers, Philipino Crafts, French sweets and Pasteries, Babs Greek Yiros Van, Local Chinese Food from the Mall, and local Mobile Curbside Eatery now stationed at Sturt Reserve. MC Rotarian Steve Walker did a great job keeping the program moving supported by Stage Managers Merilyn Schultz and Christine Willersdorf whilst must also acknowledge the efforts of Murray Bridge AMRC Manager Heather Muirhead, Bao Luo and members of the MMN Committee as well as the 15 or so Murray Bridge Rotarians that helped. Photography by John Scarvelis and Barry Stacey.
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Some of the Murraylands Multicultural Network Members at the Yuntu-Walun Murraylands Multicultural Festival 2022. Yuntu-Walun in Ngarrindjeri means Coming Together. That is our vision to bring people together regardless of culture or religious beliefs and to continue to develop the Australian identity. Photography Barry Stacey Rotary Club of Mobilong.
Badging The Bridge
In the background of your Club there had been a small group addressing how we can “Badge the Bridge” from a Rotary perspective, when serendipitously a District Grant offer appeared offering the District Clubs monies that were surplus to requirements.
The guidelines were in brief: -
Show how your project will promote the Rotary brand within the Community
How your project will collaborate with other Rotary Clubs and/or other organisations
Supports one or more areas of Rotary’s areas of focus
The “Badge the Bridge” committee (which included reps from the Mobilong Club), morphed in to a group dedicated to developing a plan or project to garnishee this money from the District coffers ($5k plus one third of our own ie $6.6k total per Club or double if combined with Mobilong).
Our recently appointed Club Marketer in Steve Walker was challenged with putting together a presentation to this small group with a view to finding a project that would give us a very real chance of scoring some lazy dollars from District.
Keeping in mind that time is of the essence (the Grant has to be submitted on 31st of March 2022 and finalised by November 2022).
Monday night Steve regaled us with all sorts of ideas and signs and badging which in the end he distilled down to a project which was: -
Badging all the recycling wheelie bins in Murray Bridge with a large sticker which says “Rotary supports recycling” and the badge might contain the Rotary Clubs Logo, it might contain the Rotary website landing page, it might contain in small print the business that printed the stickers etc.
Steve will follow up on the costs, and present that detail together with an abridged version of his presentation to fellow Rotarians tonight with a further outline in two weeks time. This will give you all an idea of where this small committee is heading thus far.
Here’s the rub. We need you, fellow Rotarians, to give us some feedback on what you think of the idea. PLUS if you have a project that might better fill the bill then this will be the time to stand up and give us your idea. Indeed any project that you think might be worthwhile will be considered, if not for this Grant then perhaps later in the year.
Projects are the life blood of Service Clubs like ours.
CALENDAR WINNERS 22nd MARCH 2022
$100
47
Sharyn Webber
Pt. Adelaide
R.C. of Mobilong
$30
346
Aileen Eldridge
Para Hills
Bridge Patches & Quilters
$20
104
Autopro
Murray Bridge
Sponsor
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