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Empowering women through service and advocacy

Hello Members A quick report to end my first year. I have been busy writing the Annual Report which I will share with you at the AGM, but I have been astonished at the variety and quantity of achievements these past twelve months. Our Board meeting the other night was overflowing with thoughts for new projects, fund rais-ing and various advocacy ideas so I am anticipating another busy year and also a small influx of new members to build our numbers again. It is also a time to reflect on the mem-bers we are losing. Regretfully Anita Lowe and Pam Vine are not renewing their memberships for the coming year. Both have clearly stated their intentions to continue to support and to continue their great interest in our Club. It is time-ly to thank both Pam and Anita for their

support, contributions and fellowship over the years and I know we will all be sorry to see them leave the Club. Anita is keen to continue her involvement in our history pro-ject. The AGM will be a great opportunity to cele-brate our achievements, recognition and awards for various members. I will be sorry to lose Raelene, Maggie and Larrie from the Board. Each has contributed so much during their time of office. Thank you all. However, I look forward to welcom-ing the new Board members and moving forward into an exciting year. Hope to see you at the AGM In Zonta fellowship, Jan

From our president ……..

Editor : Rosalie Lake

May 2017 Committees and Board [email protected]

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MAY 2017

AGM and Changeover Dinner meeting

Tuesday 2nd May

The Green Olive Warehouse

(Eve Court,

Deborah Triangle) $ 32 / 6.30 for 7.00pm

APOLOGIES & RSVP of GUESTS

Sue Hinton

Phone: 0401 810 393

E: [email protected]

by 12 noon , Monday May 1st

Antiques and Collectables Valuation Day. $395 dollars raised. 35 people had 76 items valued in 4 hrs!

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Calendar 2017

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Saturday 29th April Zonta Area 1 & Area 4 Combined Meeting (see invite P 10 for details)

Tuesday 2 May AGM and changeover dinner Green Olive Warehouse.

Saturday June 3 Building better Boards Workshops Recommended for Committee chairs and Board members ( invitation P9)

1-3 September 2017 “Leading the Way” D23 conference Mercure Hotel Geelong. Save the date. Bendigo Club will be responsible for credentials

Sunday 29 October Proposed Open gardens from 1.00 p.m. until 5.00 p.m.

Saturday 18 November Christmas Market at the Bendigo Club

bring your spare 5cent pieces to the meeting for donation to

“Love your SiSter” campaign

Samuel Johnson won the Gold Logie recently and he highlighted this Charity which was set up for his sister Connie. "Connie is vibrant, loving, compassionate, tough and inspiring. She's a mother of two beautiful boys. She's 37 years old. And she's dying of Breast Cancer. This is her third battle with cancer. At the age 11 Connie, with the help of early detection and chemotherapy, fought off a very rare and aggres-sive bone tumour in her leg. At 22, she overcame a tumour in her womb, again with the help of early detection and treatment. This time Connie has Breast Cancer and it’s terminal. It has spread to her lungs, liver, pelvis, spine and knee—her life expectancy is 6-12 mo." The goal is to raise $10M toward Breast Cancer and they are asking people to donate their spare change. Naidene will collect our donations

Still seeking Gardens to Open

Fundraising will hold an Open gardens on Sunday October 29th. Gay has kindly agreed to coordi-nate the event, but still needs a couple more suitably located gardens to stage the event. Please use your contacts and let Gay know of any possibilities ASAP.

Thank you The Zonta Club of Bendigo thanks our four outgoing members for their wonderful service to our Club over many years. We look for ward to continuing our association through the History project, events and fundraisers, and trust that you keep in touch with us through the past members lunches etc. Thank you for your service to Zonta Bendigo and Zonta International Pamela, Anita, Flo and Phillipa.


Committee: Chair—Lyn McNamara Rosalind Deacon, Gay Hanrahan, Berna-dette Wood, Sally Thomson, Annette Mouat, Flo Pitson, Marian Holmes, Ann Horrocks, Ember Chittenden, Joan Hoop-er.

Antiques & Collectables Valuation Dr Harry Glenn was fully booked for a very successful day. See P 1. Christmas Market— November 18th The Bendigo Club has been booked for Saturday Nov 18th—the Swap meet weekend. Lyn and Bernadette are re-viewing feedback from 2016 and Sally

has taken on Bernadette’s coordinating role for 2017. Board recommends that funds go to Birthing Kits. Open gardens - 29th October Still seeking more ideas for gardens to showcase for this event. Please con-tact Gay with any ideas. Mandy’s Kitchen Xmas puddings will run again this year. Details to come.

ning for 2018 should let Kathy know of their attendance by Monday 15 May. Tote Bags The Doxa school has shown enthusias-tic support for financial backing, design-ing the bags and deciding on contents. Sue Clarke currently has sufficient sup-plies for 50 bags and there is a working bee at Sue’s place, 20 Chelsea Blvd, on Tuesday 9 May at 10 am to assemble them. Sue will supply morning tea.

Committee: Chair: Kathy Wilton, Sue Brown, Irene McKinna, Sunnie Watts, Sue Clarke, Robyne Living-stone, Deb Armstrong, Diane Hicks, Christine Thorne, Lisa Chesters International Women’s Day dinner review is scheduled for Wed 17 May at 6pm. Location TBC depending on numbers. Interested members who have new ideas, useful feedback and who would like to be involved in plan-

Fundraising

Service and Advocacy

Membership and Programs

We look forward to the induction of some new members at our June meeting. Please note that Nell Ryan won’t be inducted until June . Remember that you are encouraged to invite a friend to come along to our dinner meetings, but please let me know by midday on the Monday be-fore our meeting.

Committee: Chair: Sue Hinton, Naidene Parry, Janet Cobden, Linda Marchesani, Dale Little, Larrie Win-zar We were fortunate to welcome some prospective members to our last dinner meeting and hope that they will come along to some more Zonta events in the future, and even con-sider joining our club.

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Breast Cushions Sue Brown has an order for 30 more cushions. A sewing bee has been arranged for May 5. An email was sent to all members . Also see adver-tisement on P 5 of this newsletter. Women from the Karen and Afghani communities will be attending to see where they may get involved. Former Zonta member, Val Pratt who has led “Valkyrie” is winding up the organisation and has contacted Zon-ta with the offer of some of their ma-terials.

THE SLATE 2017-18 The Nominating Committee has pro-posed the following: Board Members continuing: Jan Buckland (president) Kathryn Patarica (Treasurer) Kathy Wilton (Service & Advocacy), Sue Hinton (Membership & Programs) New Nominations Cheryl Axell (VP and chair Governance & Finance – 1 year), Lyn McNamara (Fundraising – 2 years) Diane Hicks (Secretary – 2 years) Nominating Committee: Linda Marche-sani (Chair), Janet Cobden, Bernadette Woods. Sunnie called for further nominations from the floor at the April meeting but none were received.


Thank you to each & every member for your continued generosity, in supporting our amazing fundraising over the past year and for prompt renewal of membership dues.

The Audit for AGM has been completed and approved, with only 3 questions needing a response.

A basket of fruit and chocolate will be deliv-ered as a thank you gift to ASF for pro bono auditing of our accounts.

Recommendation:- 1. That the accounts for Payment as re-ported and the Treasure’s report be ap-proved.

Treasurer

Governance & Finance We need to organise electronic backing up the history documents, films and visuals from Maggies iPad in order to guard against mishaps.

Application for funding of scholar-ships from Discovery Science & Technology centre.

Board recommended that we support the application from the Science & Discovery Centre for girls in science prizes for ten Year 6 girls, and that we put the $1290 re-quested into the 2017-18 Fundraising budg-et.

Committee: Chair: Raelene Schmidt, Cheryl Axell, Anita Lowe, Kathryn Patarica, Maggie Burke.

Club history - Maggie and Anita did an interview with Anne Young, which went well but may need to be re-peated. This was the first official interview and we learned some things about film making and generally "getting the hang" of the process. We were grateful to Anne for her tolerance and will-ingness to be interviewed.

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Congratulations to the Fundraising Committee and those who came to provide assistance for both the Stadi-um dinner and Valuations day fundrais-ers.

Also a big thank you To Larrie for such a wonderful contribution. Larrie's Gar-age sale made $1140 . The new Zonta financial Year start-ed on March 16 and we have made a great start to our fundraising

PLEASE KEEP THE DONATIONS COMING IN FOR OUR

FOR OUR TOILETRY PACKS .

NEED a Bendigo Zonta T-Shirt? New orders can be made at the meeting …. $27.50.


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Fellowship snippets and club news

BREAST CUSHION MAKING and FILLING DAY

Friday 5th May 10 am - 3pm

ST VINCENT DE PAUL HALL. Cnr of St Aidan's Rd and Crook St.

A plate of finger food to share.

It would be great if you could join us for all or some of the day.

SEWING MACHINES WILL BE REQUIRED.

Please let Sue know of your ability to join in this event at the next meeting.

Or phone Sue Brown Ph 54 373 258 / 040 919 8974

MAY

Sue Brown 16th

Get well Joan We hear that Joan Hooper has been ill, so we send you our best wishes for a speedy recovery Joan.


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Fellowship snippets and club news

WANTED

Members to start propagating plants for the Christmas Market and Open Gardens

Take the pressure off Gay and Annette Stock our plant stalls with a great variety of plants from many members’ gardens

Zonta Club of Mitchell Charter Presentation Dinner - April 8.

Bernadette and I attended the inauguration dinner for The Zonta club of Mitchell held in the old Kilmore town hall which is now occupied by a restaurant called Penny's. Drinks and canapés were served downstairs for half an hour then dinner upstairs.

We sat with two of the Club’s new members , a potential member and one representative from Ballarat and an-other from Geelong club. There were lots of speeches in between courses by Zonta luminaries and 2 Federal members - one was Fiona Nash the female Deputy head of the National party.

The new club's Board was introduced and the President spoke with gratitude for the help they had received from members of the Kyneton and another club. The evening concluded with a slice of a fabulous cake made by the treasurer. It had turned into a wet and windy night and we were glad to arrived home safely. Maggie Left to right: Lyn Symons, Area 4 Director Maggie Bourke Bernadette Wood Judy Gorton, D23 Governor Jane Adornetto, D23 Lt. Governor Trish Bulluss, Zonta Club of Mitcham President


Antiques and Collectables Valuation Day April 22 2017

A special thank you to Sally and Bendigo Pottery Staff for the use of the venue and their helpfulness in direct-ing potential customers to the Zonta table. Special thanks also to Dr Harry Glenn who gave his time freely in such an informative and diplomatic way. For the casual observer (Jan) it was great to see a couple of faces light up in a shiny way when the valua-ble really did prove to be VERY valuable. and… one mindful lady I spoke to said she was pleased she would not need to be heartbroken if the much loved vase she kept on display was accidentally broken or chipped… how was that for positivity!! A great day overall. Thanks everyone. Congratulations Lyn, Sally and the Fundraising committee.


Zonta International News

ZI Annual report: “I am proud of the work we achieved last year, and I am looking forward to what we will achieve in the 2016-2018 Biennium," said International President Sonja Hönig Schough. "Through our partnerships with United Nations agencies, we are contin-uing to reduce early marriage and early pregnancy in Niger and are contributing to the elimination of obstetric fistula and the reduction of maternal mortality, morbidity and sexual violence in Liberia. We are also working to create opportunities for vul-nerable and excluded girls to realize their rights to an education in a secure and protective environment in Madagascar and to create sustainable foundations for addressing the link between human trafficking and foreign labor migration of women and girls in Nepal." ZONTA INTERNATIONAL SUPPORTS UNFPA….. Statement from Zonta International President Sonja Honig Schough and Past International President and International Advocacy Chairman Maria Jose Landeira Oestergaard

“Zonta International is dismayed to learn of the United States’ decision to withdraw funding for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), a decision that will ultimately have devastating consequences for women and girls world-wide.

For more than 10 years, Zonta International has proudly partnered with UNFPA to deliver critical lifechanging and life-saving programs for the most vulnerable women and girls, improving health, eradicating violence against women and ending all forms of harmful practices. In Liberia, Zonta International has partnered with UNFPA to treat and prevent obstetric fistula by providing surgical treatment for women and girls living with this condition and reintegrating them back into their communities, equipped with the knowledge and skills to lead full and productive lives. Fistula is a devastating but preventable childbirth injury usually caused by pro-longed, obstructed labor without timely medical intervention. In most cases, the baby is stillborn; and often the mother is left paralyzed. In addition to the devastating physical consequences, women suffering from fistula are stigmatized and abandoned by their families and marginalized by their communities. In Niger, Zonta International has partnered with UNFPA to reduce child marriage, and to help adolescent girls in Niger develop their health, social and economic assets, know their rights and be in a strong position to defend them and be safer and have protection against violence. Child marriage is a form of sexual and gender-based violence with harmful physical, social and economic effects including the detrimental impact in the societies of early pregnancies. Niger has the highest child marriage rate in the world with 77 percent of girls married by age 18 and 30 percent married by age 15. Forty-two percent (42%) of ado-lescent girls in Niger give birth before the age of 17, a high proportion of school-aged girls are not in school and 73 percent of

adolescent girls, ages 15-19, cannot read or write. These programs are examples of UNFPA’s work in making a difference for thousands of women and girls worldwide. Today UNPFA works in more than 150 countries and terri-tories covering more than 80 percent of the world’s popula-tion. Thanks to partnerships with organizations like Zonta International and the critical support of governments, UN-FPA was able in 2016 to save the lives of more than 2,300 women from dying during pregnancy and childbirth and to ensure more than 1,250 fistula surgeries, among many other achievements. Today and every day, Zonta International stands in support of UNFPA and its work to promote and protect the rights of


Invitations

ZONTA PAST PRESIDENTS GROUP – VICTORIA Dear Zonta Colleagues Please find below details of the 2017 Building Better Boards Workshop.

Please forward to all your members and in particular to your current and incoming 2017/2018 Boards and Committee Chairs. We have changed our format this year so as to focus on Board and Committee training. We are hoping that by shortening the length of the day we are making it more convenient for members to attend.

Kind regards Debbie Schmidt President VPPG Email: [email protected]

Date: Saturday 3 June, 2017 At: Soroptimist House, 383 Toorak Road, South Yarra

Time: 1.00pm – 4pm (PPG Meeting to be held prior)

Sessions Available President Jasmine Koch and Lyn Symons Secretary Stella Coffey Treasurer Trish McLean Nominating Committee Ann Horrocks Committee Chair Kay Stewart

Registration Details will be available during May, 2017

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Invitations

Area 1 & Area 4 Combined Meeting

Empowering Ourselves, Empowering Others

Hosted by the Zonta Club of Melbourne on Yarra

with Area 1 Director Jasmine Koch & Area 4 Director Lyn Symons

Saturday 29th April 2017

9.45am to 5pm

@ Eltham College,

1660 Main Road Research

Meeting price: $30 Includes lunch, morning and afternoon tea

Optional extra

Fellowship dinner at Small Plates Tapas & Wine, 9A Arthur Street, Eltham

For information on the program or registration, please contact:

Jasmine Koch 0409 162 477 or Lyn Symons 0409 189 018

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