1 Empowering women through service and advocacy 30/05/2019 Dear Fellow Zontians, Our club has had a busy few weeks with Committee chairperson change- overs and getting to know our new committee members. We have just held a combined club board meeting where we again acknowledged the outgoing members and welcomed our new board. Linda is replacing Diane as secretary, Sarah G replac- ing Raelene in G&F and Kim replac- ing Sarah C in S&A. Rosalie is retir- ing from board as we move to having a Communications committee head- ed up by Sarah C. While fully appreciative of the great work our retiring board members un- dertook, I look forward to the coming 12 months with new and continuing board members and new challenges as they present. Linda and I attended the Building Better Boards workshop in Kyneton which opened with a presentation on Leadership. We then broke into our board roles for more specific training. The Victorian Past Presidents Group sponsored this day, which is also a great fellowship time. We are working towards finalizing our Club Strategic Plan for the com- From our president …….. Editor : Rosalie Lake June 2019 Committees and Board [email protected] Zonta@Bendigo JUNE 2019 Club Dinner Meeting Foundry Hotel Complex High Street Golden Square Tuesday 4th June 6.00pm for 6.30pm MEMBERS PLEASE WEAR YOUR BADGE Apologies & Guests [email protected] ing years and all committee members have had the opportunity to provide some input. We hope to finalize this document at our next dinner meeting. Governance and Finance will also be working on our Budget for the coming 12 months, again with a short timeframe. We have a busy program coming up and I realize that not all members are able to support all events however, I encourage you to share the information with your networks. Please take note of the distrib- uted Flyers and the dates featured in other areas of this newsletter and en- courage support from many community contacts. We will be assembling 2000 birthing kits on 29 th June. Normally we would have assembly support from schools but be- cause of the earlier date and the end of school term, this cannot be arranged at short notice this year. The kit cost in- creases from $3 to $5 each on 1 st July this year, hence our earlier date. When we call out for support in the preparation, e.g. cutting cord or soap, I am sure members will respond when they can. As I complete my major Zonta Interna- tional obligations in June, I look forward to specifically focusing on our club activi- ties. Thanks to all who have supported me during this busy time. Warmest wishes Ann Bendigo Zonta 2019-20 Board President: Ann Horrocks Vice President: Kate Smith Secretary: Linda Marchesani Treasurer: Kathryn Patarica Committee Chairs: Communications: Sarah Cirillo Fundraising: Sally Thomson Governance & Finance: Sarah Gee Membership & Programs: Sue Clarke Service & Advocacy: Kim Stew- art
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1 Empowering women through service and advocacy 30/05/2019
Dear Fellow Zontians, Our club has had a busy few weeks with Committee chairperson change-overs and getting to know our new committee members. We have just held a combined club board meeting where we again acknowledged the outgoing members and welcomed our new board. Linda is replacing Diane as secretary, Sarah G replac-ing Raelene in G&F and Kim replac-ing Sarah C in S&A. Rosalie is retir-ing from board as we move to having a Communications committee head-ed up by Sarah C. While fully appreciative of the great work our retiring board members un-dertook, I look forward to the coming 12 months with new and continuing board members and new challenges as they present. Linda and I attended the Building Better Boards workshop in Kyneton which opened with a presentation on Leadership. We then broke into our board roles for more specific training. The Victorian Past Presidents Group sponsored this day, which is also a great fellowship time. We are working towards finalizing our Club Strategic Plan for the com-
From our president ……..
Editor : Rosalie Lake
June 2019 Committees and Board
Zonta@Bendigo
JUNE 2019
Club Dinner Meeting
Foundry Hotel Complex
High Street
Golden Square
Tuesday 4th June
6.00pm for 6.30pm
MEMBERS PLEASE WEAR YOUR BADGE
Apologies & Guests
ing years and all committee members have had the opportunity to provide some input. We hope to finalize this document at our next dinner meeting. Governance and Finance will also be working on our Budget for the coming 12 months, again with a short timeframe. We have a busy program coming up and I realize that not all members are able to support all events however, I encourage you to share the information with your networks. Please take note of the distrib-uted Flyers and the dates featured in other areas of this newsletter and en-courage support from many community contacts. We will be assembling 2000 birthing kits on 29th June. Normally we would have assembly support from schools but be-cause of the earlier date and the end of school term, this cannot be arranged at short notice this year. The kit cost in-creases from $3 to $5 each on 1st July this year, hence our earlier date. When we call out for support in the preparation, e.g. cutting cord or soap, I am sure members will respond when they can.
As I complete my major Zonta Interna-
tional obligations in June, I look forward
to specifically focusing on our club activi-
ties. Thanks to all who have supported
me during this busy time.
Warmest wishes
Ann
Bendigo Zonta 2019-20 Board President: Ann Horrocks Vice President: Kate Smith Secretary: Linda Marchesani Treasurer: Kathryn Patarica Committee Chairs: Communications: Sarah Cirillo Fundraising: Sally Thomson Governance & Finance: Sarah Gee Membership & Programs: Sue Clarke Service & Advocacy: Kim Stew-art
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Calendar 2019
Zonta@Bendigo
Tuesday 4 June Dinner Meeting, Foundry Hotel 6.00 for 6.30 pm start
Thursday 13 June Star Cinema Fundraiser. Film: Top End Wedding
Sunday 16 June Zonta Geelong’s 40th Birthday Party
Sunday 16 June Bendigo Club Bunnings Sausage Sizzle.
Monday 15 July Fundraising dinner at the Bendigo Club
Sunday 28 July Peter Sheahan's Walk up afternoon. All Seasons Hotel.
September 6-8th 2019 Combined district Conference in Brisbane to celebrate Zonta’s Centenary
September 12 Trivia Night
Saturday 9 November Christmas Market at the Bendigo Club
Governors from District 16, 22, 23, and 24
(Souella Cumming, Sandy Venn-Brown, Jane Adornetto, Sharyl Scott )
Join fellow Bendigo Zontians in attending the Australia and New Zealand Centennial Conference in
Brisbane 6-8th September 2019.
Registration Cost including Opening Ceremony and Cocktail Party:
• Early Bird by 30th June 2019: A$250
• Standard 1 July to 31 July 2019: A$290
• Late 1 August to 31 August: A$320
https://mailchi.mp/7bc6c6998701/zonta-2019-conference-newsletter-3-march-2019-register-now?
100 Years of Empowering Women
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Committee: Chair—Sally Thomson Gay Hanrahan, Annette Mouat, Lyn McNamara, Sunnie Watts, Trish Kerr, Diane Hicks, Lo Kentish, Maggie Burke.
Lots of exciting fundraisers have been set in place for the coming year includ-ing a community lottery which our Club will participate in. Volunteers may be required for ticket sales. Peter Sheahan’s Walk up monthly music afternoons at The All Seasons has allocated Sunday July 28th 1pm-6pm to assist us in raising funds. We
only need to supply a raffle prize on the day. Bunnings BBQ—Sunday June 16th Star Cinema Movie night—Thursday June 13 “Top end wedding” Donations & roster has been circulated. Finalised at the June meeting. Dinner at BENDIGO CLUB- Monday July 15—trying as an alternative to Stadi-um. Trivia night— Date for this event is Thursday Sept 12. Xmas Market—November 9th booked
Tote Bags / Toiletry Bags Please continue to collect donations from family and friends for the Toiletry and/or Tote projects – Sally has kindly offered a drop-off point at the Pottery. A donation flyer is available if you would like to have a collection box at your workplace this may be available to staff only or to the public.
The Club has had some lovely feedback from recipients and Bendigo Health distributers of our Tote bags. One lady
Committee: Chair: Kim Stewart, Sue Brown,
Irene McKinna, Robyne Livingstone, Janet Cobden, Rosalind Deacon., Caralyn Collins, Rhonda Lawson-Street Birthing Kit Assembly Be sure to save the date of June 29th. All hands will be required this year. Please circulate attached flyer. Scholarships Two applications for J.M. Klauseman Women in Business Scholarships are now in and are being evaluated.
Fundraising
Service and Advocacy
Membership and Programs
New members A What is Zonta Event was held on 22nd of May and there are currently sev-en people who have indicated interest in joining our Club.
Hosting D23 Conference 2021. Thanks
to Naidene and her committee for the
proposal and the leadership of this major
initiative. The committee is working on a
presentation to be ready for the Centen-
nial conference in September
June Meeting —induction of Lo Kentish
STARTING TIME FOR CLUB DINNER
MEETINGS
Please note that during the win-
ter—starting in JUNE, our dinner
starting time will come forward by
half an hour: 6:00pm for 6:30.
Committee: Chair: Sue Clarke Naidene Parry, Britnee Hodge, Berna-dette Wood, Linda Marchesani, Marian Holmes, Julie Rivendell.. Please remember : apologies for meetings go to -
Committees and Board [email protected]
from out of town recently had an un-planned overnight stay in hospital with her sick baby. She wrote to the club thanking us for the toiletries which saved her husband a very long round trip to their home and back. Breast Cushions The sewing bee on Fri 24th went very well and we now have stock on hand.
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Members may pay the $32 cost of the dinner
meetings by direct debit prior to the meeting.
Bendigo Bank BSB: 633 000 Account No. 2005817
Please include your Surname & identify the purpose of your deposit: eg Dinner, Toi-
letries, membership dues etc…..
Treasurer Kathryn Patarica
Governance & Finance
Club History: A subcommittee of Maggie Burke, Ann Horrocks, Kim Stewart, & Rosalie Lake is working on club records. Committee members are identifying significant decade projects to incorpo-rate into each decade’s written commen-tary. Zonta Centenary A committee is being formed to develop an appropriate way to celebrate ZI 100 years and our Club’s (in 2020) 40 year birthday. Membership Committee will
Committee: Chair: Sarah Gee. Raelene Schmidt, Kathryn Patarica, Dale Little, Jan
Buckland. Kate Smith.
Strategic Plan: The Goals and Strategic Plan has received some feedback. Finalising it at the moment. Budget Chairs and the incoming Chairs have meet to discuss the budget process and planned budgets have been submitted from all com-mittees.
Committees and Board [email protected]
Recommendations for June- 1. That the treasurer’s report be
accepted and accounts for pay-ment be approved
Kathryn delivered 20 Toiletry bags to the Centre for Non-Violence this past week.
take the running on this. Let Sue Clarke or Ann know if you are inter-ested. Policies and Procedures One of the roles of this committee is to regularly review Club policies and procedures. This will continue throughout the year.
Wanted: Shadow Treasurer As this will be Kathryn’s last year as treasurer, Board discussed the desirability of having a Shadow treasurer to work with Kathryn to facilitate Club succession planning. Please get in touch with Kathryn if you are interested and would like to discuss learning the treasurer’s role
Communications
Committee: Chair—Sarah Cirillo, Rosa-lie Lake, Ashleigh Colquhoun The Comms committee has had its inaugu-ral meeting and set some goals for this year, one of which is to upload more sto-ries about our Club’s work to ZI “share your stories”. We have allocated general responsibilities for elements of communication: Sarah will
oversee the web page, Ashleigh will take on key responsibility for social media—mainly Facebook, and Rosalie will continue to do the newsletter. We have budgeted for a subscrip-tion to the publishing app called CANVA to ensure that our web and social media posts in particular can be appropriately sized, include our
branding and look professional. We will also investigate moving the newsletter to the mail chimp format ( like the Kyneton one) Finally, some very good news is that Board has now agreed on the costings and quotes to upgrade our web page so that individual members will be able to have access to members only information ( like ZI) and things like meeting minutes and photographs.
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Fellowship snippets and club news
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Zonta Bendigo’s Club news
Changeover dinner and Induction of 2019-20 Board and new members
Induction of new members—
Welcome to our Club Melissa and Maggie
Induction of secretary Linda Marchesani
Presentations and thank you to outgoing Board member Rosalie Lake
Recognition of service presentations: Lyn McNamara, Janet Cobden and Robyne Livingston
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Club News
June
5th: Humsha Naidoo
We hope you have a wonderful day.
Club Snippets
• Congratulations to first time grandmother Dale who recently welcomed granddaughter- Agnes Ruth
• Britnee has a placement in Rehab in the Castlemaine Hospital for 3 months and we
congratulate her on the news that there is a baby on the way!
• Marian is enjoying a week away with her daughter in Phuket, prior to undergoing surgery later in the month. • Kathryn is away for 3 weeks on the east coast of the US beginning in NY and then driving to Washington before heading north to Boston. • Janet Cobden is travelling north to Townsville to be at her daughters for the arrival of a new grandchild. She recently had a quick trip up north for her grandson’s 3rd birthday • Sue Clarke is away for 5 weeks travelling in Europe incorporating the Amster dam to Budapest river cruise.
• Bernadette is travelling to the US: Initially for 2 weeks in the East taking in NY, Washington and then on to Boston (retracing Kathryn’s footsteps? Too late to bump into Kathryn as Annette and Sally did recently in Tasmania.) Berna-dette’s next 2 weeks will be driving around the US west coast visiting the Grand Canyon and many other sights.
• Sarah C is spending a week in Sydney • Ann has a few days in Brisbane and then a fortnight later in Sydney all visiting grandchildren. Safe travels to all who are enjoying this special time.
• Thoughts and prayers are with Gay as she under-goes tests and plans treatment for her recovery.
• Julie Rivendell’s last few days in Amsterdam did-
n’t go to plan! She was hoping to spend her final days in the city going to galleries and touring the canals but unfortunately has had a stroke and is in hospital. She underwent emergency brain surgery and the medical team is hoping that they are past the worst of it. She can speak, and the loss of movement on her left side has dramatically im-proved already, but they are expecting a fairly long road to recovery. The Netherlands appears to have excellent multi-disciplinary care, but our best wishes go to Julie for a speedy recovery.
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Club News, information and Invitations
BREAST CUSHION MAKING and FILLING DAY Friday 24th May
Thank you to current Zonta members, plus Anita who attended the working bee on Friday. We had a great day with lots of fellowship once again . We completed 24 breast cushions ,we have 20 sewn cushions ready for filling plus 25 cushions have been taken home to be sewn in the coming weeks. New filling is required to complete the next cushions. Sue is delighted to have stock replenished, so we are organised for the breast care nurses once again.
Calling all green thumbs……... Our Club Christmas market makes a lot of money from our plant stall. The Fundraising com-mittee is requesting members who have gardens to propagate cuttings now so that they will be established ready for sale at the Christmas market on Nov 9th.
WANTED for Toiletry Bags and Tote Bags.
We now need supplies of brushes, combs, hand cream / moisturiser, toothpaste
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Pre-loved Handbag and Garage Sale Report Congratulations to Sally, Trish and the fundraising committee for the successful Garage Sale on Saturday May 18th. This committee was well supported by other members who helped set up, sell and pack up. Treasurer Kathryn has reported that the profit from the day was $823.65, but Sally has sold over $100 worth of left-over books since then. So the total is now closer to $1000. Most left over items have been packed away for a future sale, but some of the unsold handbags will be used for Tote or toiletry bags and some baby clothes were donated to the Sunshine group for distribution to needy families. Special thanks to all members who supported in many ways both before and on the day – a great team effort.
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