Thanks, to all the helpers on Sunday, for the BBQ at the Bendigo Sustainability Festive held at the Gardens for the Future. Final figures are not in yet but Bruce informs me that we had a good day out financially. Also if anyone has not being out to these gardens/venue very much worth a visit.

 

The Duke night to be held at the Bendigo Cinemas this Tuesday evening 5:30 pm, my understanding from Allie that there is approximately 100 from our cluster going. Well done to all also if anyone wants to go for Tea afterwards Allie has suggested Clogs will be the venue of choice.

 

We have the RECLINK on this Wednesday afternoon please see Bruce if you are able to help, I believe there will be around 100 odd players in attendance.

 

RYPEN camp was this weekend. Our 2 sponsored kids from Weeroona College attended. Seems to have been very well received. See photo. Our 2 kids are the one lying down at the front (Tilda) and the one next to Dale Hoy on his right (Charli).Thanks to Stu for organising and taking the students to and from the camp

Working with children check committee have noted that some member’s registrations have lapsed or are about too. Please check your card

 

The sustainability festival BBQ results

We raised $1036.00 with costs of $346.00

Giving the club a profit of  $690.00

Thanks to everyone involved.

 

Good to see Linda back 

Denis Johanson, Strathfieldsaye & District Community Enterprises (S&DCE)

 

Denis has been a resident of Strathfieldsaye for the past thirty years, and is well known for his work as a legal practitioner. In the early 2000, Strathfieldsaye has no football club because there was no ground for them on which to play. They had identified a block of land where the grounds are currently situated, but they did not know how they were going to raise the funds to acquire this property. Bendigo Bank’s Community Enterprise initiative provided a spark to get this and many other projects underway. The challenge was to get 300 customers of Bendigo Bank to ‘tag their account to Strathfieldsaye Community Enterprises, as a result the Bank pays a ‘dividend’, 1.5% of the account balance to the community enterprise, this not only led to a contribution by the group of $100,000 to the oval, which was then supported by Council and State Government, but over the years the S&DCE has supported the bowls club, kindergarten and community shed. Current projects include the cycling/ walking track around St Francis Church. In collaboration with Fosterrville Mining they are also working on the local creeks to remove noxious vegetation and rejuvenate the water system; it is hoped that maybe platypus can return to these waterways.

 

Dennis knows how to hold a crowd.