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Vocational award for postie Stephen Dwyer
Posted by Harry Bracegirdle on Jul 18, 2023
Local postie - Stephen Dwyer - was awarded a "Pride of Workmanship" award by the Rotary Club of Port Fairy at its meeting on 17th July 2023.
 
 The award recognises Stephen's exceptional vocational service in delivering mail in Port Fairy and surrounds for many years.
 
 Pride of Workmanship awards have occasionally been bestowed on local identities by the Rotary Club but only around five have been awarded in the past twenty five years.
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Rotary Club of Port Fairy Changeover Dinner 2023
 
 
The Rotary Club of Port Fairy held its 2023 Changeover Dinner on Monday 26th June at The Sentinel Restaurant in Port Fairy.
 
Rotarians, partners and special guests made up the 48 people attending the dinner which honoured the out-going President, Graeme Cox, who passes on the reins to the new - and joint Presidents - Jed Macartney and Andrew Long.
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Rotary wants you!  Student Exchange programme
Posted by Harry Bracegirdle on Mar 30, 2023
Rotary wants you! Student Exchange programme
Rotary Wants You! The Rotary Club of Port Fairy is seeking interested students from Years 9, 10 and 11.
 
The Rotary Youth Exchange Programme seeks students who are interested in paricipating in a live and study abroad opportunity.
 
As part of this programme, the Rotary Club of Port Fairy has, in recent years, sponsored two students on an out-bound Youth Exchange programme and is now looking for potential, new particpants in Rotary year 23/24.
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RYLA 2023
Posted by Harry Bracegirdle on Dec 14, 2022
Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA)
 
The Rotary Club of Port Fairy is seeking to sponsor young people in the age bracket 18 to 25 years for RYLA. The next RYLA seminar is scheduled for 16th-21st April 2023 (see details below).
 
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Guest speaker Joan Hose updates Rotary on Meals on Wheels
Posted by Harry Bracegirdle on Mar 21, 2023
Guest speaker Joan Hose updates Rotary on Meals on Wheels
The Rotary Club's Guest Speaker at its meeting on 20th March was Joan Hose from Moyne Health Services (MHS).
 
Joan recently took over the administration of the Meals on Wheels (MOWs) program and gave an insight into the  program and the valuable work that all volunteers undertake for MHS.
 
Rotarian are regularly rostered onto the MOWs calendar taking a week-ling booking every second month.
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Tony Murray - a new addition to the Rotary Club
Posted by Harry Bracegirdle on Mar 08, 2023
Tony Murray - a new addition to the Rotary Club
At its meeting on 6th March 2023 the Rotary Club of Port Fairy was excited to induct two new members - greatly enhancing the ranks of the Club.
 
Apart from the induction of Ashley King as a Corporate Member (see separate story) it was a pleasure to formally induct Tony Murray who has transferred from the Rotary Club of Doncaster to our club when he retired to Port Fairy in 2022.
 
Tony is an experienced Rotarian and has already proven to be a great benefit to our club by engaging with numerous volunteering activities in cluding our summer raffle at the market,selling Car Raffle tickets in Sackville Street, manning gates at the Port Fairy Folk Festival, catering at the Port Fairy Marathon and registering to be a regular volunteer for Meals on Wheels.
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Rotary Club inducts its first Corporate member
Posted on Mar 08, 2023
Rotary Club inducts its first Corporate member
The Rotary Club meeting held on 6th March 2023 was a milestone event in the life of the Club when it inducted its first ever Corporate Member.
 
Recognising the growing importance that Australian businesses place on corporate social responsibility, the Rotary Club of Port Fairy has created a Corporate Membership option, to provide businesses with the opportunity to participate in Rotary's established community service projects.  Employees of local businesses that partner with Rotary in Corporate Membership are invited to participate in all Rotary activities without committing personally to the obligations expected of regular individual members. Additionally, participation in Rotary provides employees with personal development opportunities potentially through project leadership and public speaking.
 
After creating the Corporate Membership class, the Rotary Club of Port Fairy then engaged with the Community Bank of Port Fairy & District to take up the corporate membership option.  
 
Ashley King, as the Bank's Company Secretary, was chosen to represent the Bank and be inducted as a Corporate member into the Rotary Club with a short ceremony conducted by Club President, Graeme Cox.
 
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Rotarians cook up a "marathon" breakfast
Posted by Harry Bracegirdle on Feb 21, 2023
Around a dozen Rotarians held a "marathon" cooking event when they catered for spectators at the 2023 Port Fairy Marathon on 19th February.
 
The setup crew worked in the early morning dark -starting around 6:15am - to setup the gazebo and BBQ before cooking got underway around 7am.
 
All up, over 120 egg and bacon rolls were cooked and sold out by 11am.
 
It was a great community event, the second time the Marathon has been run in Port Fairy, with over 1300 entrants running over various distances from the full 42km marathon race to shorter distances for school children and supporting parents.
 
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Vale Rotarian Geoff Coxall
Posted by Harry Bracegirdle on Feb 09, 2023
It is with a sad note that we report the passing of Rotarian Geoff Coxall. Geoff was a long-standing member of the Rotary Club of Port Fairy.  
 
In recent years Geoff has fought bravely to recover firstly from a stroke and then a debillitating illness to which he finally succumbed.
 
His presence at Rotary has been greatly missing of late and it is sad news that he lost his fight for life this week.  He will be fondly remembered within the Club.
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Port Fairy Rotarians lend a hand!
Posted by Harry Bracegirdle on Dec 08, 2022
Members of the Rotary Club of Port Fairy spent an hour or so helping fellow Rotarian, Barb Eldridge and her husband, Ken, by cleaning up and weeding their garden in Campbell Street, Port Fairy today.
 
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Business Break-through
Posted by Michael Crowe on Nov 12, 2022
Business Break-through
Local business development has received a boost with the establishment of Commerce Moyne.  Speaking at a recent Port Fairy Rotary meeting, Ashley King outlined progress on the establishment of the organisation which has been kicked off by the Community Bank and the Moyne Shire. 
Commerce Moyne will be a co-ordinating point for local businesses and an advocate for grants and projects. 
The first initiative has been to create a paid Program Director for the Moyneyana Festival which should ensure a bigger and better event over the up-coming holiday season.
 
 
Great Garden Gallop
Posted by Michael Crowe and Mllee Cox on Nov 14, 2022
Great Garden Gallop
The rain held off and Port Fairy Rotary's annual Open Gardens day took place on Sunday 30 October with five great gardens on display.  The event was a fundraiser for Australians 4 Women's Health, this being President Graeme Cox's major charity for 2022/23.  Nearly six thousand dollars was raised for this cause by ticket sales on the day and by the associated raffle.  The Club would like to thank the owners who made their gardens available and put in the work to have them in tip-top condition for the day.
Special thanks also go to main organiser Jill Gleeson and her assistants, including the Friends of Rotary.  Thanks also to Maureen Beatty and her helpers who organised the morning and afternoon teas and served them on the day.
 
 
 
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Volunteering Venture
Posted by Michael Crowe on Nov 12, 2022
Volunteering Venture
Local identity Nicole Dwyer was the guest speaker at a recent meeting of the Rotary Club of Port Fairy.  Nicole has established Belfast Volunteering, a new not-for-profit group aimed at connecting volunteers with groups and clubs in Port Fairy and the surrounding district.  This is a most welcomed initiative given the difficulty faced by all groups in recruiting volunteers and the importance of voluntary work in our community.
If you are an individual looking for volunteering opportunities or a group looking for volunteers, you can register with Belfast Volunteering by emailing info@belfastvolunteering.com
 
 
 
Recycling Guide Goes Live
Posted by Michael Crowe on Nov 01, 2022
Recycling Guide Goes Live
Port Fairy Rotary has released a guide to all things recycling, re-homing and re-using for Port Fairy and district.  The Guide was put together by local resident Fiona Phillips and covers 39 categories of household goods with everything from bicycles to garden tools to video games. The Guide also provides detailed information on what you can put into the familiar yellow, purple, green and red bins collected by Moyne Shire each week.
You can download a copy of the Guide from the Home Page.
 
 
Centenary Salute 
Posted by Michael Crowe on Oct 17, 2022
Centenary Salute
Port Fairy Rotary's tribute to the Centenary of the operation of Rotary in Australia has been unveiled.  On a recent sunny morning District Governor Kathy Rivett cut the ribbon on our Centenary project, a 300 tree plantation on the Port Fairy to Warrnambool Rail Trail.   DG Kathy cut the ribbon on a sign and a seat that mark the location and significance of the project.
The trees for the project were purchased with the aid of a grant from the Moyne Shire Community Carbon Offset Program.  Port Fairy Rotary is grateful to the Rail Trail Committee on Management for providing access to the site and to the Rail Trail volunteers who assisted with site preparation and the tree planting.  Rotarian Tony Bawden was the driving force behind behind the project, showing great persistence through the tribulations of COVID. Thanks to all.
 
 
 
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Salvos Support
Posted by Mllee Cox and Michael Crowe on Sep 08, 2022
Salvos Support
Salvation Army member Barry Clarke was a recent guest speaker at the Port Fairy Rotary.  Barry is the Southwest Team Leader, Homelessness and heads up a team who deliver the Homelessness Program.  The program assists an average of 45 people per month and over past 12 months there have been 518 households  present for assistance.
 
 
Barry Clarke with President Graeme Cox
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Rotarians Dig In!
Posted by Harry Bracegirdle on Aug 30, 2022
  A small, but intrepid group of Rotarians spent an hour or so this morning on the Port Fairy to Warrnambool Rail Trail Bicycle path.
 
  This was to help the Rail Trail committee volunteers plant over 200 trees along the stretch of the trail near Sun Pharma on the Princes Highway.
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Tandem Team Tumble Weeds
Posted by Michael Crowe on Jul 21, 2022
Tandem Team Tumble Weeds
In trying conditions the weed team, Port Fairy Rotarians Bill Moore and Michael Crowe, set to work weeding the Barclay Street garden beds.  Two big bags of weeds later the job was done.
With the blessing of the Moyne Shire Port Fairy Rotary has volunteered to keep the weeds at bay at this prominent site.  These garden beds were established by the Shire as part of the recent upgrade of the church end of Barclay Street.
 
 
New battery recycling facility launched in Port Fairy
Posted by Harry Bracegirdle on Jul 14, 2022
The Rotary Club of Port Fairy was keen to promote a battery disposal facility in Port Fairy and, as part of its research, we discovered that a company called EcoBatt, were already in the process of installing disposal centres in various IGAs and Home Hardware shops in south west Victoria.
 
The Rotary Club is therefore pleased that our town's first recycling box has now been installed in Brookes Hardware store in Sackville Street.
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Drinking Fountain Feature
Posted by Michael Crowe on Mar 22, 2022
Drinking Fountain Feature
In recognition of the Centenary of Rotary in Australia and the Port Fairy Rotary Club's 60th anniversary, a new drinking fountain has been installed in Rotary Park (Charles Mills Reserve) on the eastern bank of the Moyne River. The Club appreciates Moyne Shire Council's support on this project. Later this year the Council will construct a new path along the river bank, adjacent to the fountain. 
 
Rotarian Tony Bawden was the driving force behind the drinking fountain project, with Milee Cox contributing the artwork for the fountain signage.
 
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Sea Scouts Cleanup
Posted by Michael Crowe on Dec 13, 2021
Sea Scouts Cleanup
The Rotary Club of Port Fairy recently undertook a cleanup of the back yard of the Port Fairy Sea Scout's hall in Bank Street.  The first job was to remove the old ute that has been parked in the yard for a number of years.  On 5 December the team of Adrian, Graeme, Milee, Jill, Peter, Bill, Reg and Michael moved in with brush cutters to tackle the long grass and remove some large items of rubbish.  The job was finished off the following week with the removal of some rocks and other small items so that the grass can be safely mowed in future.
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Welcome to the Rotary Club of  Port Fairy
Port Fairy
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Star of the West Hotel
76 Sackville Street
Port Fairy, VIC 3284
Australia
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RC of Port Fairy
(Joint Presidents 23-24)
Andrew Long and Jed Macartney

  

Port Fairy is a historic, intimate harbour village in the south west region of Victoria in Australia.  The town is famous for its annual Folk Music Festival, held in March each year, which has been running for over 40 years and has expanded to include not just folk music but blues and roots music to suit all ages. It also has a Winter Weekends Festival running on specific weekends from June to July.

Port Fairy is a friendly town that relies greatly on tourism and therefore welcomes visitors from all parts of the globe.  

Therefore, if you are visiting Port Fairy, then we invite you to join us at our Rotary Club Dinner meeting held on the first and third Mondays of the month (6:00pm for 6:300pm start).  Details on meeting times and venue are on the Home page

About our Club. 

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Speakers
Past Speakers
District Governor - Kathy Rivett
Oct 17, 2022 6:30 PM
An introduction to the DG's plans for 2022-23
Mark Powell (Operations Manager - WRAD)
Oct 03, 2022 6:30 PM
An overview of WRAD services
Barry Clarke
Sep 05, 2022 6:30 PM
Role of Salvation Army in SW Victoria
Nina Fitzsimmons (NYSF candidate)
Jun 06, 2022
My experience at the National Youth Science Forum - January 2022
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Club Directors
President-1
Jed Macartney
President-2
Andrew Long
Immediate Past President
Graeme Cox
Rotary Foundation
Graeme Cox
International Service
Graeme Cox
Secretary
Tony Murray
Treasurer
Jeffrey McLean
Membership
Bill Moore
Club Service
Michael Crowe
Youth Service
Sue Robertson
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