Our speaker last week was Elaine Castle, the manager of the Community Visitors Scheme. The program is a volunteer scheme to help reduce isolation, loneliness and offer social support within the Aged Care Facilities. There are a lot of elderly people who rarely get visitors. They need interaction with others even if only to talk about the weather or basic conversation. President Janine would love to start a support group within our club and community and encourage anyone who is interested to let her know. This would be a very worthy cause and you would only need an hour or two each week or fortnight.

On Friday the 21st of June the Rotary Club of Sunbury held is annual Presidential Change Over at the Russo Estate Diggers Rest.

On our last normal meeting for the 2018/19 Rotary Year was Megan Newcomb from ScriptWise. She was accompanied by Dr Paul Grinzi. They spoke about about prescription medication dependence. The work that ScriptWise does is very important as at the moment deaths from overdose of prescription medicine is larger than the Road Toll. There will be shortly a system in Australia where the medical profession will be able to share patient information on presription medicine.

Recently our guest speaker was Helen Franks from Punchin Parkos Victoria, a not-for-profit organisation providing non-contact boxing exercise program to people living with Parkinson's Disease.

Last meeting the Guest Speaker was Dora Mansbridge from the Palliative Care Unit at the Sunshine Hospital. Dora spoke on how Palliative Care improves the quality of life of patients and families facing the problems associated with life-threatening illness.