Automated Vehicles - Are We There Yet?
A recent presentation on the state of automated vehicles by one of our members, Brian Negus. Brian is also the Ambassador and Past President of Intelligent Transport Systems Australia, and Chair of the CICA Group. Presented at our Club video meeting of May 7th, 2020
President's message: 1 May 2020
It is now 5 weeks in lock down and 6 weeks since our last person to person Rotary meeting at the Manningham club.
It does seem longer than 6 weeks, but probably because life has slowed down with home isolation.
The toilet rolls and other essentials to life are starting to come back onto supermarket shelves. The number of new COVID 19 cases are slowing down and there is hope now for an easing of restrictions. But hate to add that winter is still coming.
So even though we are controlling the spread of the virus through social distancing, we still have to be vigilant with what we do, and to not lose the advantages that we have gained.
We are now using zoom for our meetings at club level as well as for our committee meetings.
Keeping a local ANZAC Day tradition going
For the past 29 years, the Rotary Club of Templestowe has conducted a Schools Anzac Service involving up to 32 schools from within the Manningham City area. This has now grown to include up to 800 students and teachers.
Due to Covid-19, the Schools Anzac Service scheduled to be held on Thursday 23rd April '20 was cancelled. The solitary figure in the photo is a student from East Doncaster Secondary College who placed a wreath at the Templestowe Memorial Park on behalf of the College.
No Schools Anzac Commemoration Service this year
On the eve of ANZAC Day, we are saddened that for the first time in almost 30 years, we are unable to conduct this remembrance service at the Templestowe Memorial Park.
The Schools ANZAC Service has been run by the Rotary Club of Templestowe since 1990. About 800 children from a range of local Primary and Secondary schools normally participate in the event this year where wreaths are placed on the memorial.
Join us at our regular Weds meeting
We're now in full swing with our regular meetings, with 23 participants last Wednesday. As usual, we started off with a toast to Rotary International and the People of Australia, and almost everyone came prepared with their favourite beverage!
