34th Yea Rotary Art & Craft Show
Australia Day Weekend
January 2019
Opening 7.30pm Thursday 24 th January
Closing 3pm Monday 28 th January
Entries close: 6.00pm Friday 4th January 2019
Artshow Director
Carol Hogg
On Dec. 7th. The club Hosted the Annual Senior Citizens Dinner for 100+ Seniors at the Shire Hall.
School Bursaries: The first student up to accept their bursary was Bethany Fulford from Yea Primary School. Debbie George spoke fondly of Bethany, and the reasons she was selected for the bursary kindly donated by Rotary. Bethany gratefully accepted before having to rush off for a Scouting event.
Flowerdale Primary Students Abigail De Veer and Kayla Sweeney were the next students to accept their award, introduced by their Principal, Sandra Horwood. Last but not least, Alison Penhalen spoke about their recipient, Noah Harry. All students were grateful for the bursary and looking forward to using the money towards their further education
Social Evening
As today was the fifth Thursday of the month the club, instead of the regular meeting, had a partners social evening at the Killingworth Whisky Bar.
Guest Speaker: Geoff Heath Converting Plastic to Diesel
Jeff has an extensive record of service to community, and has owned, bought and sold a few businesses in his time. His current business venture sees an innovation in recycling where waste plastics are converted to diesel. (A reverse process). The original company went into liquidation and so he bought it and floated it on the exchange. The company is now called Future Energy.Guest Speaker: Molly Connor (Outbound Exchange)
Molly, from Winton, is the Rotary Youth Exchange student that our club is sponsoring in 2019. During her talk Molly talked about her life with her family of five, going to school in Wangaratta and her exchange next year to the Bordeaux region of France. Molly spoke well and gave a very confident presentation.
Kimberley (our exchange students from Switzerland) thanking Molly for her talk.
Molly and her mother Sophie
Induction of a new member: Tony Jacobs
For the second week running, the club has inducted a new member—this time Tony Jacobs from Murrindindi, put forward by Paul Kellett. Paul has known Tony for about 25 years and said that he will be a great asset to the club. He has a background in accounting, and since being in the area, has been involved on the boards of both the Yea and Alexandra hospitals and involved in the charity Blue Dragon, to support street kids in Hanoi. Tony was then inducted and will have the classification of Finance and is to be on the International Committee. Welcome to the club Tony. We all hope you enjoy the journey!!Guest Speaker: Di Welsh: The Person Behind The Badge
A member now for a whole week, Di gave her story behind the badge.Guest Speaker: Jo Pride: Topic: Human Trafficking.
Jo Pride works for Hagar Australia. She gave a presentation about ‘Modern Slavery’ and gave some shocking facts and details about how prevalent slavery is in this modern time. There are 15,000 enslaved in our own country. Two thirds of slavery is prevalent in the Asia Pacific region today. She told a story of a lad in Cambodia who was enslaved at the tender age of 12 and finally managed to return home when he was 30 years old. A ‘Modern Slavery Act’ is desperately needed and currently on the agenda to be debated this month.| Club Meeting | Guest Speaker |
| 25_10_18 | David Anderson - Polio Update |
| 18_10_18 | Michael Tehan. (Rotary Club of Euroa) - My Life in the Law |
| 11_10_18 | The District Governor's Visit |
| 4_10_18 | David Anderson - The REAL Project |
| 27_9_18 | Julie Griffith Ned Kelly Centre, Presidential Citation Presentation |
| 20_9_18 | Jeff Swain President, President Alexandra/Yea/Mansfield Legacy group |
| Mariam Baker, President RC of Seymour | |
Thomas Nyawir - Mirror of Hope Project | |
| 16_8_18 | Kimberley Bay - Rotary Youth Exchange Student |
Cycle Dindi 18
We, in conjunction with The Rotary Club of Alexandra, have just run our third Cycle Dindi event on the GVRT, and 80 plus riders thoroughly enjoyed the experience. This year riders were given a choice of long (109 or 97 Kms) or short (47 or 54Kms) rides, starting either from Yarck, Yea or Trawool, traversing through the shires of Murrindindi and Mitchell Shires. To enhance the experience, riders had to opportunity to enjoy the Yea Market before setting off.
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