Robyn and Marge are volunteers with St John Ambulance. They spoke to us at our last meeting about the work that they do at sporting events, community functions and anywhere else where first responders are required. Robyn is also engaged in presenting to pre-schoolers on basic First Aid. Marge is currently undertaking a research project on why females are less likely than males to be resuscitated when an AED is available.

They also explained the St John Action Plan shown opposite.

For those of you who shop at Coles, you may know there is a KitchenAid program running at the moment where you can get credits and trade them in for saucepans, frying pans etc.  You can't accumulate credits after 12 May 2026 and have to trade them in by 19 May 2026.

If anyone has credits that they wish to use, and you are happy to donate the items, Eastern Emergency Relief Network would be very grateful for the 2-utensil kitchen packs (pictured). You can get a pack for 20 credits.

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help. 

Gabby

The latest issue of Eastsider News is now on-line. Click on the link to read the May 2026 issue.

Even better, subscribe (it’s free) and you will get automatically notified of each new edition. The more subscribers we have the better the chance of survival of our community newspaper - and the more those subscribers ‘hit’ on Rotary articles and read them the better publicity for Rotary. Send this edition to your friends to read as well.

The contents this time include four articles from us:

History: P4   Excavation of a Time Capsule in Blackburn.

Environment activities: P12  Volunteering at Bungalook

Rotary: 
P21   Hearing and Vision Testing. Check out the delightful children and how Rotary is helping them with this new youth project.

P24  Tom Thorpe OAM JP -what a wonderful man and Rotary star.

Enjoy! 
Glenys

A big thank you to all who assisted and supported our last Bunnings effort. The final profit was - $1,919.61.

I hope we can be as successful in June when the weather might be cooler. It is not just the people who cook  and serve but there are also people who do tasks that assist us.
The onions, cut and ready to caramelise don't just magically appear. Thanks to our onion champs.

The drinks, clean and dry, organised in small car fridges, don't just jump in.. Thanks Janette.

Graeme did a great job creating our roster. Next time, we will add an extra cook to the 10 to 12 shift... We were very busy then.

Bunnings want us to clean off the fat tray and take away the "fat and the "fat sorb". The clean tray can then be refilled with Fat Sorb.

Again, Thanks to all who contributed to our successful day.

Stuart Williams

The next cafe is this Wednesday 13^th May, celebrating Mother's Day.

We still need more food donations for this week and on an ongoing basis. 

Please add your volunteer commitments to the Sign-Up Liat.

Silvana