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Empowering women through service and advocacy
The Ann Horrocks Science & Technology Award has been signed off by your Board and the application process will kick off in the middle of August…. On the awards front I had the pleasure of attending the Latrobe University (Bendigo campus) Awards Ceremony with Sue Clarke & Kathy Wilton last week present-ing our Jane M Klausman & Heather Winderlich scholarships. We will acknowledge all our scholarship winners with an award ceremony later in the year. Can I ask that you please take note of the club calendar…. The next few months will be busy and we will require lots of help with rosters etc. As always I will close with an some words of wisdom – “Advocacy:- to change “What is” into “What should be”…… Anon
In Zonta fellowship…
Kathryn
Hello every-one…. ADVOCACY....... It’s an important part of what we do as Zontians. What is advocacy? Advocacy is the expression of support for, or opposition to, a cause, argument or proposal. Advocacy actions may include influencing laws, legislation or attitudes. What is Zonta advocacy? Zonta advocacy is an action taken in “the public interest” or for “the greater good” with respect to empowering women and girls and their human rights. With these things in mind as the Zonta year progresses we will aim to not only continue, but build upon our Advocacy efforts. Our Service and Advocacy com-mittee is hard at work, with lots of new ideas and possible opportunities to partner with other like minded organisations in Bendigo. We aim to Celebrate & Acknowledge Women, participate in the White Ribbon & Gender Equality Days.
From Kathryn’s desk……..
Editor : Rosalie Lake
August 2015 Committees and Board [email protected]
Zonta@Bendigo
Talent Spotting: Can you sing? Dance? Play a musical instrument? Recite a poem? Do stand-up comedy? The M&P committee is keen to use the talents of various mem-bers to entertain us at our December meeting. We know that there are some members who sing and or play/are learning to play a musical instrument for instance. Please contact Anita or another of the M&P committee soon if you'd like to participate in our end of year celebration.
August
Dinner meeting
Tuesday 4 August
The Green Olive Warehouse (Eve Court,
Deborah Triangle)
$ 32 / 6.30 for 7.00pm
APOLOGIES & RSVP of GUESTS Anita P: 0417 528 416 [email protected]
by midday, Monday
July 6
Remember it is your responsibility to apologise or pay!
Please email apologies rather than
providing verbally at meetings
https://www.facebook.com/BendigoZonta
Empowering women through service and advocacy
JMK Women in Business and Heather Winderlich scholarship presentations LTUB
Calendar 2015
Zonta@Bendigo
Tuesday August 4 Dinner meeting
Thursday 27 August Film night “Ricky and the Flash” starring Merryl Streep $20
Saturday 5 September Tentative date for Birthing Kit Assembly Day @ BSSC
Fri—Sun 16-18 October District 23 Conference Adelaide - save the date
Monday 19 October beStella event “Courage or Confidence?— a conversation with Fabi-an Dattner supporting Sophia cadetship. @ Ulumbarra theatre
Sunday 25 October Open Gardens
Saturday 31 October Tentative date for Bunnings sausage sizzle @ Epsom.
Saturday November 28 Christmas market
Empowering women through service and advocacy
Stadium Dinner: raised approx. $250 Blue Illusion - raffle and 15% of sales raised approx. $700 WELL DONE EVERYONE Upcoming events: Film Night: Ricki and the Flash Thursday 27 August
Bunnings Sausage Sizzle : possi-ble date: Saturday Oct 31 Christmas Pudding Drive: being organised Christmas Market: 28 November Entry to be a gold coin donation—no drink on arrival. Raffle to continue and a silent auction of donated items.
Open Gardens : 25 October x� Craft & produce trading
table x� Plant stall x� Afternoon tea—2 loca-
tions The Seed Company: Z logo on seed Packets . Decided to order 50 packs.
Kate
Scholarships: Board endorsed the final documentation for the Ann Horrocks science & technol-ogy scholarship Gwen Symons scholarship be contin-ued to Teesha Smedley JMK and Heather Winderlich schol-arships presented at LTUB awards afternoon by Kathryn Bedding for Annie North has been purchased and will be presented asap.
Birthing kits: Possible date - September 5th Planning to assemble 2000 more kits later in the year Festival of Women : ZCB will join-with Rotary to organise a joint event in May 2016 around women artisans/exhibition” White Ribbon Day: Zonta will be a partner in the WRD and the gender equity events in No-vember with a contribution of $2000. Our club will have a greater profile this year.
Fundraising
Service and Advocacy
Membership and Programs
New Badges: Since the re-branding of the Zonta logo and message earlier this year, new badges have been ordered and will be available at the August meet-ing. I am indebted to Ina at Langwar-rin Trophies for her willingness to spend as much time as necessary via phone calls and emails to get the colour, font, size, etc just right and to send through numerous samples to me to make the final decision easi-er. Wear them with pride!
CORRECTION - to information in last newsletter re changing your contact de-tails with Zonta International. Here's what you need to do if your ad-dress, phone number, etc is changed: Notify the Chair of the Membership com-mittee - currently myself - then you need to log onto the ZI website and change your own details. If you have any problems logging on to the site, please contact me or else a Board member with access to the ZI Bendigo database.
Anita
Membership and Programs has been busy this month:
x� This month's committee meet-ing focused on the Membership sec-tion of the Draft Strategic Plan for our Club x� Other matters concerning this year's meeting calendar were re-viewed xWe look forward to welcoming Phillipa Chantry as a member a our meeting next week.
Committees and Board [email protected]
2016 IWD To be held on the SECOND Tuesday in March (8th) which is the actual day of International women’s day. Guest speaker: Dannielle Miller
Sue
Empowering women through service and advocacy
A reminder the $32 fee for dinner may be direct debited into Zonta Club of Bendi-go bank account prior to the meeting. Alternatively you can bring the cash on the night preferably in an envelope marked with your name. You may also like to make a donation for the Toiletry Bags as a Direct Debit ra-ther than donate on the night. Bank details are: Bendigo Bank BSB: 633 000 Account Number: 2005817. Please provide your name and state “dinner” and/or “Toiletry bags” Please remember to advise Anita if you will be an apology. You will note on the Treasurer's Report that we paid for 30 dinners at the last meeting but only 26 people paid. This was due to some people not advising they were an apolo-gising and therefore having to pay for the numbers given to the Green Olive.
Naidene
Treasurer… finance
Governance
Club History Ann and Cheryl will up-date the current history for the 35th anniversary, as part of a more compre-hensive history to be pre-pared for the 40th anniver-sary. This work will com-mence in August
Cheryl
x� Zonta Strategic Plan: Draft document completed awaiting Committee feedback
x� Financial statements reviewed x� Media Relations/ Social Media
Policy completed
Committees and Board [email protected]
HELP NEEDED Due to the ongoing demand for
our toiletry bags, Please consider a monetary
donation or bring suitable items to the meeting
37 BREAST CUSHIONS MADE !!
Thank you to the Zontians who were able to attend the breast making day on Saturday July 11th. We had a very successful day achieving 37 breast cushions. A great effort from the small band of workers able to attend. A big thank you to Rosalie’s students Shuming & Jingfeng as they were a wonderful help as well. Sue would also like to thank Ann and those who worked behind the scene in readiness for the sewing bee, it was much appreciated.
Empowering women through service and advocacy
Fellowship snippets and club news
Thinking of Marian as she
endures the tough days of her treatment. Pleasing to hear
that the treatment is reducing pain. Keeping you in our
thoughts Marian.
Many members sent their condo-lences to Anita on the recent death of her sister Margaret. Anita says” Thank you to members for your condolences. Your thoughtfulness is appreciated.
Many of our members have been, or are, travelling at the moment.
x� Annette & Crawford are in FNQLD enjoying the northern Australian winter warmth.
x� Kathryn has recently been on a family trip to NZ x� Bernadette & Richard are off to Uluru & Alice Springs—hope the
nights are not too cold! x� Sue Hinton is in York, visiting family and being introduced to her new
grandson, Finley James. She finished her beautiful hand knitted blan-ket that many of us saw at a breast cushion workshop
x� Gay writes from Paris: We left our luggage in Paris and took a fast
train trip to Lyon (where our granddaughter attended school for six weeks last year) and then onto Annecy. We spent a night in each city before returning to Paris. Lyon was interesting but when you come to Nice next year - you must stay in Annecy for a short break. It is so beautiful. I have attached some photos of Annecy. We leave here for Copenhagen where we start our Baltic Cruise to St. Petersburg. Then on to Bergen to see the Fiords in Norway before returning home via London.
x� Dale had a fantastic trip to Maubisse in East Timor sharing many ‘arty
projects’ with the local school children x� Naidene is off to sunny Perth where she will also catch up with San-
dra. x� Ann has spent a few days in Brisbane as she was suffering ‘Grandma
withdrawal symptoms’.
Gay In Annecy
Raelene 6 Joan 23
August
Condolences
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Invitations and club news
Worried about
parking at dinner
Empowering women through service and advocacy
Each month we will feature one of the Zonta International service projects for members information
Read more. go to http://www.zonta.org/WhatWeDo/InternationalPrograms/InternationalServiceProgram.aspx
ZI Service Projects
