Bulletin – Bayside Bits

Bayside’s Bits

Vol. 5 No. 22 – 17th June 2009

Rotary Club of Bayside

The “Young Generation”

President Claire Parsons 2007-2009, District 9810

Wednesday Nights 6.45pm for 7pm

Apologies to Claire Parsons by Monday 6pm

Dates for the Diary:

17/6/09: Feelix Books Meeting

27/6/09: District Changeover

1/7/09: Bayside Rotary Club Meeting

6-11/7/09: RYLA

15/7/09: Rotary Club of Bayside Changeover

16/8/09: PRLS Seminar From the President: Hi Everyone, Thanks for a great birthday last week, it was lovely to catch up with you all. We have decided to bank the donation from the Bayside Council and investigate further ‘grass roots’ projects in King Lake through contacts we have in the club. Also our newest member, David, has decided to attend RYLA. So we are very happy to help him develop his leadership skills. We are looking forward to making our donation to the Feelix Library this week and hope that many of you will be able to join us. See you Wednesday, Claire Club News: Happy Birthday Dani! (26th June) We celebrated our Club’s fifth birthday at the Sandringham Yacht Club with a social gathering and one of Hilary’s gorgeous cakes. Thanks, Hilary! We also had a brunch get-together on Sunday morning where we had the chance to catch up with Clare and Stephen and see how quickly Lachlan is growing up. Rotary Around The World: For people in Australia who have lost limbs, they are carefully measured for replacements and taught how best to work with them. People in Africa who have suffered similar injuries are sometimes forced to beg on the side of the road in order to survive. However the charity Crutches 4 Africa aims to help these people by collecting and distributing thousands of canes, pairs of crutches and wheelchairs to those in need. So far the group, begun by Rotarian David Talbot of the Rotary Club of Mountain Foothills of Evergreen, Colorado, USA, has distributed 6,000 mobility devices. They aim to have 1 million units among those people who need them within 10 years. Conservative estimates suggest that there are more than 15 million people in Africa in need of mobility devices of some form.