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415 Clarendon Street
South Melbourne, VIC 3205
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Mayor
City of Port Phillip’s New Mayor Marcus Pearl
 
 
 
It was a pleasure to attend the offices of the new Mayor of Port Phillip, Marcus Pearl, along with Jason Kelly.  Jason and Marcus know each other through their previous dealings with matters relating to CoPP. 
 
Marcus showed himself to an astute and intelligent person who gets straight to the point.  Marcus raised a few issues relating to Port Phillip Rotary, showing he has a breadth of understanding across the board. 
 
The purpose of the visit by Jason and me, was to introduce ourselves and make it very clear that as a rotary club, we are very interested in partnering with CoPP for the betterment of the community.  The relationships that we develop can not only better the club but also benefit the collaborations we have in various areas.
Pinchapoo
WORLD RECORD ATTEMPT for PINCHAPOO
 
 
 
 
Pinchapoo (slang for Pinch-a-shampoo) is proudly responsible for creating a cheeky hotel toiletry pinchingmovement 12 years ago… and for good reason! Using this world first, modern day Robin Hood concept together with landfill stock rescue programs, Pinchapoo has redistributed more than 8.5 MILLION personal hygiene products to hundreds of thousands of disadvantaged men, women and children nationally each year. Pinchapoo is the biggest national not-for-profit supplier of personal hygiene essentials and works with over 700 + leading organisations, community groups and government institutions as a total hygiene solution, providing a reliable source of customised, culturally appropriate and gender inclusive packs to EVERYBODY in EVERY situation of need.
 
Rotary 9800 sent in a team of 15 people from various clubs to attempt the mighty Guiness Book of Records packing event.  Together we aimed to break the record for the biggest word made out of tables (#HYGIENEPOVERTY) and the most amount of hygiene packs packed in one hour! Thats a whopping 501 tables and 5411 packs! It was buzzing with excitement as everybody got to work in teams to pack, pack, pack.  And the winners were…the recipients of the packs.
 
It was a fun, team effort at the Caulfield Racecourse and wonderful be part of a couple of hundred people who showed up to help others.
Linden
POSTCARD SHOW
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Rotary Melbourne South  was one sponsor of  the Linden Gallery Postcard Show, which is an open entry art prize  supporting living artists by presenting and selling their works as well as acknowledging the diversity and inspirational practices.  With over 1,000 works, the judges certainly had a task to select the finalists.
 
Arts Project Australia artist Anthony Romagnano picked up the Best Portrait in Show for his work titled A Portrait of Warren Ellis, which the judges noted its great use of colour and was both an abstract work and a portrait”.
Anthony is an artist who works with Arts Project Australia and has just received a major commission for the City of Yarra and is included in a show at the Australian Centre For Contemporary Art - called Whos Afraid of Public Space.The Linden Gallery got to announce this on the International Day of People with Disability so it seemed like  everything was aligned.
 
A Portrait of Warren Ellis, 2021
Image courtesy of the artist & Arts Project Australia.
Photograph: Theresa Harrison.  www.lindenarts.org