Sunrise Times Wednesday 17th of February, 2021

Next meeting: President’s Report:

February 17th Hi All Meeting Zoom Catch-up Just when we thought we had some clean air from this damn Pandemic back it Meeting comes to stuff up our lives again!! - Golf day updates - Member updates Thanks to “Stapes “last week for sharing his knowledge on one of his passions, Flight,…and in particular his love of Drones, it really made me want to go out and February 24th buy one, but the shops are all closed.!!!. Meeting Thanks also to Warrick for bringing along and introducing Judy Gregory to us. Judy T.B.A. works for the David Scott School for disadvantaged and disengaged kids where they run a VCAL program for approx. 120 kids. Hopefully we can lend some assistance to March 3rd their very worthwhile program. Meeting Mark and Rob M have organized a zoom meeting for us this week which will be a Speaker: fairly informal chatfest so I’ll look forward to seeing as many of your happy smiling Briana Coppard faces as possible. “Web widgets” Chairman: Jason C. Cheers Shane

Board 2019-2020: President: Shane Thomas Past President: Meeting Info: Peter Cracknell Secretary: This week: Zoom meeting: Peter Richards Treasurer: Time: 7:20 for 7:30 Start Greg Sharman Directors: Location: At home (Probably) Community Service: Ross Augustine Finance & Fundraising: David McKenzie Youth, International & Vocational: John Albery Membership: Bob Smith Website: www.rotaryfrankstonsunrise.org.au Club Service: Mark Rees Facebook: www.facebook.com/rotaryfrankstonsunrise Birthdays & Coming Events/Save the Date!: anniversaries this month: Monday, March 15, 2021 7/02/1950 Hank Brakele 71 9/02/1952 Jenny Leckning 12/02/1999 Kiara Engwerda 28/02/1956 Brian Talbot 65

Macca has advised that we have booked our 2021 corporate charity golf day back at Peninsula Kingswood Country Golf Club for Monday, March 15, 2021! Mark it in your diaries! More information to come! Please confirm with either Crackers or Macca your volunteering availability for the day A.S.A.P.

Stay tuned for 2021 date! Children of Ghana Charity Ball Mornington Race Course Tickets: $149 per head Looking for sponsors, donations and full club attendance

Rotary’s 4 Way Test:

1. Is it the TRUTH? 2. Is it FAIR to all concerned?

3. Will it build GOODWILL & BETTER FRIEND- SHIPS?

4. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?

Director’s Reports: Community Service: We have registered for Clean up Australia Day on Sunday 7th March 10am -12 Noon. More info to follow. Proposed dates for Bunnings BBQ for the year are Sunday 18th April, Saturday 21st August and Saturday 20th November. Lyn from Bunnings will confirm these dates closer to the actual day. - Director Rosscoe

On the Lighter side:

What in the World:

Black Mountain at Sunset, Canberra

On this day in… February 17:

Event: 1917 - In Australia, Nationalist Party takes a coalition government. 1969 - Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash record an album; it was never released. 1985 - 1st day/night game at the MCG, Australia v England. 2017 - Discovery of a new mostly underwater continent Zealandia in the South Pacific announced in research journal "GSA Today". 2020 - General Motors announces it is retiring the Holden brand in Australasia. Births: 1848 - Louisa Lawson, Australian suffragist and writer. 1864 - Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson, Australian bush poet (Waltzing Matilda, The Man From Snowy River), born near Orange, . 1888 - Otto Stern, German American physicist (Stern-Gerlach-experiment, Nobel 1943)(The Stern–Gerlach experiment demonstrated that the spatial orientation of angular momentum is quantized. Thus an atomic-scale system was shown to have intrinsically quantum properties). 1916 - Don Tallon, Australian cricketer (perhaps Australia's greatest -keeper), born in Bundaberg. Deaths: 1890 - Christopher Latham Sholes, American newspaper man, politician and inventor of the typewriter. 1958 - Hugh McCrae, Australian writer and poet (Satyrs and Sunlight: Sylvarum Libri). 1982 - Lee Strasberg, Austrian acting coach and actor (The Godfather: Part II, Somewhere in the Night). 1985 - Wanda Perry, actress (Roberta, Death of a Salesman). 2004 - Shirley Strickland, Australian athlete (Olympic gold 80m hurdles 1952, 56; 4 x 100m relay 1956).

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