Wednesday 18th March 2026 (Mar. 14, 2026)

Volume 44, Edition 11 Wednesday 18th March 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 had our March Board meeting, and we discussed projects coming up in the next few months.

One of the resolutions that the Board agreed to, was a donation to the Southern Cross Yarra Valley Camps.

We had a presentation a few weeks ago from Tim and Jacinta who gave a good insight into the positive results from young people who are going through difficult circumstances. The club will donate $1000 to enable 2 young people to attend the Oasis camp in Mt Evelyn.

This week we will be having our last car show for the season and we look forward to another successful event.

As a reminder to all club members and friends of Rotary, the car how is our biggest fund raiser, with around $20,000 being donated to the RCH each year.

Accordingly, we need as much support as we can to run the event, especially with setup from 2pm and cleanup at around 7.30, 8pm.

On the 25th of March, we will be presenting Vocational Service awards to 8 deserving members of the local community. This will be held at Warratina Lavender Farm Tea rooms.

Have a good week everyone.

Yours in Rotary
President Peter

Important Notice

if anyone has any equipment or items belonging to the club or used by the club that is being stored on your personal property please contact

Tim Manders 0417 972 200

To Give Details we are just taking inventory and want to know everything we have

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

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