Events

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Guest Speaker Jeremy Forbes

Bella Fresca Pixxeria are opening up their licensed café exclusively for Rotary over two sittings. Partners are most welcome to come and enjoy this social evening where we can promote the presence of Rotary in the community and give our support to a local business. Order drinks and food (inc Gluten friendly pizza) from the menu and pay for yourself.

6.00pm and 7.30pm sittings (approx 20 persons each sitting) @ Bella Fresca, 219 Barker Street Castlemaine

Bella Fresca Pixxeria are opening up their licensed café exclusively for Rotary over two sittings. Partners are most welcome to come and enjoy this social evening where we can promote the presence of Rotary in the community and give our support to a local business. Order drinks and food (inc Gluten friendly pizza) from the menu and pay for yourself.

6.00pm and 7.30pm sittings (approx 20 persons each sitting) @ Bella Fresca, 219 Barker Street Castlemaine

Carolyn Neilson (My Home Network) and Di Cox (HomeShare Program) are our guests. Carolyn will update us on local initiatives to address homelessness and the housing crisis in Mount Alexander Shire.

Special Guest speaker will be Peter Bottomley who wears many hats in our community — family historian, owner of Run Rabbit Run, My Kitchen Rules competitor, coordinator of the Salvation Army and, more recently, MAWS Op Shops.

Castlemaine Rotary Club has a display Booth at the District Conference Showcase over the weekend of April 13th & 14th at the Bendigo Secondary Collage. We are showcasing our local program with the Loddon prison Read Along Dads.

To support our involvement volunteers are sought to help man our Booth. Volunteering at our Booth will also provide the opportunity to view other Clubs & Groups projects and events that will provide valuable connections and information for our Club.

A very special FFF with a parting gift to Rotary Castlemaine from Scott Buchanan. Scott and partner are soon moving to coastal NSW.

In the delightful ambience of the McClure household in Castlemaine’s northern reaches, this month’s FFF will be serenaded by Scott Buchanan’s Piano Bar presence. Relax and chat over a plate of lasagna and salad, with BYO drinks, with Scott tinkling the ivories in the background.

It all sounds perfectly sophisticated and hedonistic!

The evening will also support Winters Flat Primary School music program.

Vegetarian and gluten-free options available.

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Provide BBQ for Falcons womens football team training night as part of reconciliation week.

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We are supporting Nation Tree Day 2024 by providing a BBQ at the Langslow Street School site for the tree planting volunteers

Next Wednesday, the fun continues with our first Speed Dating Club Night — a serious, but fun, opportunity to get a better understanding of how this Club works.

Sometimes it seems like there's a big black box and things appear magically from it, but the truth is that there's plenty of preparation and planning behind the scenes. It is really important that we have as many members as possible come along and join in and perhaps discover new ways they can help out! 

This session is not just for newer members! Members can tend to be pigeon-holed into certain roles, which can become boring and repetitive over time. This is a chance for long-time members to investigate new roles within your Club.

If you're unfamiliar with how speed dating works, you get to spend a short time — about 10 minutes — with a Club leader to talk about their role in the Club. Then you move onto another Club leader to talk about their role, and so on.

You will have the opportunity to rotate through two panels of four Club leaders across two speed dating sessions, with delicious Chinese food in between.

We are meeting at Castlemaine Bowling Club, Berkeley St Castlemaine — a much better venue to conduct multiple conversations! Normal dinner fee applies, drinks from the bar.

Two speakers will join us — Jeremy Furze, Town Folk Festival director, and Azzy Jay, director of the Fringle Festival. Both will talk to us about these upcoming festivals being held in Castlemaine.