Not much Club news this week except for a couple of items from Jo Kwok which you will find below. Thank you Jo for providing these.
Reminder that at this week's meeting on Thursday 19 September we will hear from Andrew Monotti who is the Chairman of the Brighton Beach Bathing Box Association. Andrew has been a Partner at King & Wood Mallinsons for many years. He will be known to number of our members who have or have had bathing boxes. Don't forget to book for this meeting by 6pm tomorrow.
Also don't forget to book for the Akaba Japanese Restaurant Fellowship Dinner which is coming up on Monday 23 September.
Bookings close on Friday 20 September.
Numbers are building well so don't miss out.
See booking details below.
President Donna Wright
2024 Science & Engineering Challenge
The Victorian final for the 2024 Science and Engineering Challenge was held at Deakin Geelong on September 5. Earlier this year in June, Deakin Burwood hosted a 2 day event with the new Rotary Club of Brighton initiative Science and Engineering Challenge which had 12 high schools competing with a number of activities which saw Koonung Secondary College and Auburn High School as winners of these heat days. Winners from the state finals will now go onto compete inthe 2024 National Final which will be held in Townsville, QLD on Friday 25 October.
St Leonards 2025 School Captain announced
Congratulations to Amelie Taylor (third from the left), who has been appointed as the 2025 St Leonard’s College School Captain! Amelie was the Vice President of the St Leonard’s College Interact Club. This Club was chartered by the Rotary Club of Brighton in 2022 and young people are mentored by Rotarians to develop a range of leadership and fundraising/project management skills. Amelie was earlier this year awarded as the 2024 Young Bayside Citizen of the Year, continues to play an active role as a Bayside
Youth Ambassador and has been very active in the Bayside and school community for a number of years.
Amelie is the daughter of Jo Kwok and husband Shaun.
The Rotary Club of Brighton proudly supports young people to develop their leadership potential with a range of youth and vocational services projects. We will be supporting a number of high school students in Rotary programs coming up: during the September School holidays some Brighton Secondary College students will be part of the Rotary Youth Sailing Challenge and in October a number will participate in the RYPEN Camp (Rotary Youth Program of Enrichment).
Sergeant's Session this week
PP Julie Avery will be sergeant at this week's meeting
and she advises you to bring your coins
to make the boxes rattle.
Rotary Club of Brighton Tipping Comp 2024
The Rotary Club of Brighton” Home and Away” Footy Tipping Competition with 39 tippers for 2024 is now complete.
The winner ladder is below and the winners are -
Alan Jarrott 1st place $1100.00
PP Julie Avery 2nd place $500.00
Deirdre Anderson 3rd place $250.00
Lone 9 Winner Dave Jarrott $240.00
Tipping for the Finals is now underway.
Alan Jarrott has been running our footy competition for many years now and this is the first time he has managed to win one. Congratulations Alan and congratulations PP Julie Avery, Deirdre Anderson, and Dave Jarrott.
On behalf of all at the Rotary Club of Brighton a big thank you to Alan Jarrott for the great work he puts in to running the competition for us. Alan’s review each week is something we all look forward to. Congratulations again and thank you Alan. And now for the finals.
Pat Kearns.
Footy Tipping Ladder - Round 24:
Nominating Committee Results 2024
Sec Anthony Langley has given us an update on the recent ballot
for the Nominating Committee 2024.
The results are in and the elected members include,
John Schmoll, Anne Holland, PP Keiran Cromie and PP Anthony Langley
They will join,
President Donna Wright, PP Arthur Hubbard and PE Colleen d'Offay
to form the 2024 Nominating Committee to
select the Club President Nominee for 2026/27.
Anthony thanked all those members that put nominations
forward and to those that agreed to be nominees.
