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March 23
 
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Our first Bunnings Sausage Sizzle for the year will be Saturday 12th December at Taylors Lakes. Bunnings have advised the club of Covid -19 Safe Work Practices which will be discussed with members at our next club meeting on Tuesday 17th November.
Representatives from our Board plan to meet with Bunnings to diccuss how the BBQ will operate after November 18th
 
The Annual General Meeting will be held on Tuesday November 24th at 6.45pm with a guest speaker after the AGM. So please attend this important meeting and bring along your nomination for the Club Board for the year 2021-2022 year.
Make sure you are financial before the AGM.
 
Fellowship are planning a Christmas function in a park for Tuesday December 8th further details to be advised.
 
Christmas Bags will be packed on Tuesday 15th at the Aberfeldie Bowls Club. This will be the final meeting for 2020.
 
Return to Rotary will be on Tuesday January 19th 2021.  Lets hope 2021 is not impacted by Covid-19 like it has been in 2020
From Collingwood to Hollywood
This was the topic of our presentation at last Tuesday’s Zoom meeting.  The speaker  Rod Hardy had spent his childhood in Collingwood and attended the Collingwood Technical College  (which was also the site of tertiary learning for Ted Cunningham and Kevin Nolan).
 
 We invited Rod to address us at very short notice after our programmed speaker cancelled at the last moment . Rod is the cousin of Pauline Lewi  and we had to thank Pauline for making contact with him and asking him to address us . At the beginning of the Zoom meeting  Pauline introduced Rod to our audience telling us all some of her memories of family events  over the many years.
Then Rod (photo above) told a long and Fascinating story of his professional life . This started in Australia of course. He was a director and producer, known for December Boys (2007)  Rod has over 350 hours of credits directing television drama in his native Australia.
His first feature film, Thirst won Best Picture in its category at the 1980 Asia Pacific Film Festival
Having honed his directing and producing skills in Australia, primarily on the TV series, E Street from 1989 to 1991 of which he was the co-executive producer, Hardy moved to Los Angeles in 1992 to launch his American career. His first assignment was to direct Lies and Lullabies the traumatic life story of pregnant cocaine addicts, starring Susan Dey and Piper Laurie. The movie was awarded the Scott Newman Award (founded by Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward in memory of their son) that is presented annually to the production that best illustrates the degradation of and triumph over drug addiction.
Since his award-winning U.S. directorial debut, he has garnered both Golden Globe and Emmy nominations for movies of the week and mini-series
Hardy is well known in U.S. television circles for shows such as The X-Files, Battlestar Galactica and Leverage.
He was a director and producer, known for December Boys (2007), and Marisa Romanov (2019)
This theatrical feature DECEMBER BOYS was winner of the Giffoni Film Festival Award 2008. Released by Roadshow/Warner Bros, it starred Daniel Radcliffe of Harry Potter fame and Teresa Palmer. 
                                   
In Summary. Rod Hardy is a widely accomplished and talented director who has forged his keen instincts and trademark visual sense of story through extensive experience. His collaborative efforts are but a gleaning of his problem-solving techniques. He has a great ability to bring the best out in people, whether it is an actor’s performance or a DP’s best shot.                                                                                            
We were fascinated by the extent of his professional life and we were very thankful that he agreed to come and address us
An Interesting Fellowship
Beers Rotarians Enjoy Worldwide (BREW) Fellowship
Is one of the newest officially recognized Rotary fellowships. The fellowship was created in California in 2013 for Rotarians around the worlds who love to drink and make beer.
BREW GOALS  - The goal of BREW is to create the largest fellowship in Rotary. An international community of Rotarians who share a love of beer. We also strive to support efforts and projects to bring clean water to those in thirst since water is the primary ingredient in beer.
 
BREW ACTIVITIES
Create the  Fellowship newsletter quarterly. To provide information on a variety of beers around the world. It offers recipes and tips for Home Brewers, keeps members informed of Rotary Club Beer Fests around the globe and activities at the Rotary International Convention. 
              
FOR a MEAL 60,000 meals delivered locally
By Tony Laycock, President, Rotary Club of Canterbury
The FORaMEAL project is an initiative of the Rotary Club of Canterbury. It was originally established to help those across the Asia Pacific region, an area prone to many natural disasters leading to the loss of homes and access to basic necessities including food.
However, in 2017, Dr Douglas Hawley brought to life the idea of creating simple meal packs that could be stored on location and distributed immediately after a disaster occurred. Each pack contains a mixture of rice, oats, lentils, vitamins and minerals, and can feed between five and six people. Because the packs are vegan, people from most cultures can consume them. Designed to be bland in taste, the packs can be modified by the addition of spices, vegetables, meat, fish, fruit and even sugar to accommodate most culturally significant tastes. Each FORaMEAL pack provides a nutritious meal containing the main food groups of carbohydrates, fats, proteins and nutrients.
The FORaMEAL packing project has been a great success across District 9800. Financial and physical support is provided by a number of individuals and organisations including, but not limited to, the District leadership; clubs within the Eastside cluster, particularly Rotary Balwyn and Camberwell; schools in the Boroondara area; and, Swinburne University. Packing events at District conferences have been a great success with up to 40,000 meals produced in a short space of time. Sponsorship of material from suppliers has also meant that a large stockpile of packs is ready for distribution. Originally destined for the Philippines, but held up because of COVID, these packs have been diverted for use in Victoria. 
The global pandemic has had a massive financial and physical impact on those who have lost their jobs within our community, and have been unable to access essential support. Refugee and community organisations in Victoria have been actively helping their constituents by delivering food packs and basic commodities. Rotary Canterbury has been assisting through arranging the distribution of packs across the District. Working with other clubs such as Melton, North Melbourne, Bacchus Marsh, Bendigo Sandhurst, Glen Eira and Glenferrie, along with some twenty community organisations acting as distribution partners, approximately 60,000 meals have been delivered to various organisations across the State.
The demand for the product continues to grow and the Rotary Club of Canterbury stands well prepared to provide ongoing assistance.
For further information about this important project please feel free to visit website: www.forameal.org or contact tony.laycock@canterburyrotary.org                     
What Happened on November 14th
1680 Gottfried Kirch discovers the Great Comet of 1680 (Kirch's Comet/Newton's et).
 
1896 – Power plant at Niagara Falls begins operation.
 
1908 – Albert Einstein presents his quantum theory of light.
 
1970     - Ted and Janice Haydon got married
 
 
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