Wednesday 1st April 2026 (Mar. 29, 2026)

Volume 44, Edition 13 Wednesday 1st April 2026

RI International President 25/26 – Francesco Arezzo

District Governor 9815 – Peter Behm

Regional Community Group Four Leader – Gus Rozycki

President	Peter Johnson
President Elect & Club Service
Vice President	Paul Martin
Secretary	Ben Vallence
Treasurer	Ray Barrett
Attendance	Tim Manders 0417 972 200
Membership	Paul Martin, Peter Johnson
Program	Jeanette Jensen
On to Conference	Paul Martin
Youth Protection	Ben Vallence
Club Bulletin	Bailey Hodgson jkrakowski007@gmail.com
Photography	Garry Byrne
Fellowship	Max McWilliam

Board Members

Youth: - Jeanette Jensen (Chair)

Vocation - Anita Wood (Chair)

International - Paul Martin (Chair)

Community - Tim Manders (Chair)

Car Show - Brian Hodgson (Chair) Ray Barrett, Peter Johnson, Garry Byrne,

Alan Henderson, John Hasan, Max McWilliam,

Tim Manders, Anita Wood

Appointed as Life Members: Alan Sharp and Peter Manders

Appointed as Honorary members:

Fred Hadley, John Moody, Kevin Parker, Pam Sharp, Neil Tassell and Anne Wettenall

Current Honorary Members:

Warwick Bisley, David Gamble, Cliff Riseborough and Les Sharp

Calendar

WANDIN CUSTOM CAR & BIKE SHOW

!! SPONSOR OF THE WEEK !!

HI, All,

Last Wednesday, we presented Vocational Service awards to deserving members of the local community, held at Warratina Lavender Farm Tea rooms.

There was a good crowd in and a lot of
chat amongst the members, partners and guests.

We heard a very interesting talk from Seville pharmacist, Caleb Armstrong on his time in his profession and also the 22 years he has been operating in Seville.

Thanks again to Jeanette and Doreen for doing the catering, especially with the challenges of a different kitchen to work in.

Special thanks also go to Annemarie for making the tea rooms available, setting up and helping on the night.

On Tuesday night, 5 Rotary members and 2 partners will be joining, Lilydale, Upper Yarra and Healesville for croquet and pizza at the Lilydale Club.

Wednesday night is planned as an informal dinner at the Chinaman for a bit of a chat, food, wine and fellowship. Please let Tim know of your attendance beforehand.

On Thursday morning / lunchtime, our club will be providing a sausage sizzle for a Wheelchair for Kids fundraising event at
Wandin North Primary School.

Paul is coordinating this and we need 2 or 3 more helpers to attend.

We have 350 sausages in bread to cook and handout and the same events last year at Coldstream and Wandin North were very successful.

I hope everyone has a great week and a Happy Easter.

Yours in Rotary
President Peter

Editors Note

Hey everyone since not all the vocational service awards were presented it has been decided to hold off on showing the photos and appearing them in the bulletin until after easter once all have been presented and photographed until them appearing this week is the short vocational trip the members Paul Martin, Tim Manders, Ray Barret and his wife (not shown), Anita wood and her husband (not shown), Bailey Hodgson And Garry Brynes (not shown)

We were delited to be in appearance at the awarding of the 2 paul harris fellows presented to kayleen coleman and spiro

Handsome gentlemen enjoying the lovely evening

Lovely Photo of the Evening glow

The Groups favourite wine of the night the fortified wine Topaque

ROMAC

Can you begin to comprehend what Antonious’s life must have been like for his 14 years?
ROMAC is working on bringing him to Melbourne from Timor Leste, for treatment which will likely take 6 months.
The surgeon has agreed to take the case pro bono and we are waiting for the quote from the hospital.
As you can imagine, this will be an expensive exercise to give Antonious a chance at a normal life.
Might be time to think about another ROMAC fundraiser? To donate directly, go to the ROMAC website www.romac.life

Special Notice

Hi all i was informed about this from Diane MCintyre about a Situation that i think is worthy of attention please read this article it explains it better then i ever will i will make a note to bring this up at the next board meeting if their is something as a club we can do to maybe assist

Read The Full Story

Artisan Event Info

To all Wandin Rotary Members

I thought to get an online booking service so stall holders can apply. I thought to get this happening asap so we can get about 16 stall holders booked in for the first event being May 31^st Sunday 10am to 4pm.

So far I have created this. https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1554791

I am sending it to you all so you have some knowledge of how this will all work for us.

Tomorrow I will be asking all the schools to come along to our first event, then they can take pictures of the Huge Yarra Valley EEL and go back and think of a name to enter into the name competition.

So in May they can come and see the EEL and Nominate a Name. With 10 local schools each nominating a Name thereafter people can come along and bid on the name (put money in a jar at the event (I will set up an online bidding donation service) . https://www.trybooking.com/online-giving this can go viral.

The name with the most donations wins.

All Donations go to Wandin Rotary for ??????? Maybe the school who wins gets Something Special ???????

It would be nice to have a list of what the money goes to - so people will know what they are supporting.

Next job is to set up the "Wandin Rotary - Community Connections - Creative Artisans Village" committee & program which I will do when I get back from Yamba 24^th March.

Meanwhile, I will grow the eel, create a website / booking service / bidding service - for the WRCCCAV put the online activities into place so we can do some marketing and bring in people to help us with this event.

I have 2 hours Wed/Thur to work on this.

Best Regards

Jeanette Jensen

Wandin Rotary

0432 106 101