President's Report
Hi all,
We had our first night back at The Vicar on Monday and we had some 40 people attend. Happy Valentines Day for everyone on Wed 14th Feb.
James Allen was our Guest Speaker and is the Project Director of Rotary “Give Every Child A Future”, the major international project to celebrate the Centenary of Rotary Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific. The project is a major public health initiative across nine Pacific Island countries to introduce three new vaccines preventing deadly rotavirus, pneumococcal and cervical cancer. The countries involved are the Cook Islands, Kiribati, Nauru, Niue, Samoa, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu. An estimated 100,000 children and adolescent girls will be reached. It was good to see everyone and a good night.
Updates from past week:
We had our first night back at The Vicar on Monday and we had some 40 people attend. Happy Valentines Day for everyone on Wed 14th Feb.
James Allen was our Guest Speaker and is the Project Director of Rotary “Give Every Child A Future”, the major international project to celebrate the Centenary of Rotary Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific. The project is a major public health initiative across nine Pacific Island countries to introduce three new vaccines preventing deadly rotavirus, pneumococcal and cervical cancer. The countries involved are the Cook Islands, Kiribati, Nauru, Niue, Samoa, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu. An estimated 100,000 children and adolescent girls will be reached. It was good to see everyone and a good night.
Updates from past week:
- Visioning: We have had only 21 entries to the Visioning. Thank you everyone who replied. I have received the results from the Visioning. This will be presented to the Board at the February Board meeting and then shared with the Club.
- Wesley Mission Morning Tea: Colin Baxter and I visited the Wesley Mission Morning tea thank you last Wednesday. There were some 100 people there from all across Sydney. Great to catch up with other Donors : Elevation Church Hills, Castle Hill, Nth Sydney Rotary, Hills Song Church, Men’s Shed Sephton Road. A great morning.
- Regionalisation: Applications are now open for two exciting new roles being introduced to Zone 8: the Rotary Specialist and Regional Council Portfolio Committee Member. Everyone should have received an email on this. There is a Webinar this Sat at 2pm and Nominations close Thurs 29 Feb. Please have a read.
- Regionalisation: District 9685 was allocated 5 (five) Regional Community Groups (RCGs) that in general fitted quite well with our existing clusters. Please see the attached final groups for the entire District. There are between 12 and 15 clubs per RCG. As yet, it is unclear how the RCGs will be named. In the near future there will be Establishment Meetings convened separately for each RCG (2 representatives per club, suggest President and President Elect) to discuss several issues including: What do you wish to work on together?
- How will you work together?
- When and how often will you meet? F2F or by Zoom?
- Who might nominate for the Rotary Community Leader (RCL) of your RCG. Nominations will be called for soon.
- District DG Christine Owen meeting – 10 Feb 2024
- Qld Floods Jasper – Consider giving to RAWCS – Qld gave to NSW when in need.
- RYDA – John Elliott talked about RYDA.
- Domestic & Family Voilence is gaining traction and next two DGs have committed to continue the program.
- District Conference – Need to get our act together, there is a challenge out to bet us. District Conference: The District 9685 Conference is on Friday, Sat 15-16 March at Terrigal and the theme is “Beach Party”. Friday is now full but there is plenty of availability on the Saturday Plenary Sessions for $120. It is always a very good event so would be good to see more people attending. We have 16 people attending to date.
- We have our Annual Giant Book Sale coming up on 8, 9, 10th March at Cherrybrook Uniting Church, and had our first Book Sort is on Saturday at the Church. Second sort is on this Sat 17 Feb. Thank you to all who volunteered to be on the House Drop Off and Phone roster
- International Night on Monday 26 Feb where Janelle and Andrew will talk about their Trip to Flores in October 2023 and Peter will give an overall update on the Project. We are planning to invite a number of external guests and Donor Clubs.
- International Student Commitment. Please remember this is a commitment by the Club. We all need to get involved and help the Host families. If you are going somewhere pls ask the Host Family if you can take Iisa. Multiple benefits, Good for you, good for Iisa, respite for the Host family
- Rotary Leadership Institute Courses (RLI): RLI is a training course offered to Rotarians to develop their skills in leadership and management within Clubs to improve performance, knowledge and enjoyment in leading or helping to lead Clubs in the District. Carol has now been moved to the next course. Run via Zoom and starts on Friday night. Future dates are: 23-24-25 Feb 2024, 17-18-19 May 2024..
- Hornsby Council has asked the Club to remove the shipping containers from Galston by the end of April 2024. We are currently organising meeting with Councils and private organisations etc to consider our options.
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That’s it for the week so Let’s look after each other, stay safe and let’s do it.
Remember to check “What’s On” for what’s on. Yours in Rotary Neville Hansen |
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Night Report |
12 February 2024 |
Night Report
Opening: Ros Savio opened the meeting
Bob Davison proposed a toast to Rotary and World Peace
Welcome to guest speaker James Allen, partners and visitors.
President’s Report
Refer President’s report in bulletin.
Director’s Reports (as applicable)
Fund Raising: Janelle
Guest Speaker: Introduced by Andrew Little
James Allen (Project Director for Rotary Give Every Child a Future ) spoke about the program with UNICEF to introduce 3 vaccinations into 9 Pacific Island countries using local health organisations. The program has been 6 years in the planning, involved 23 global grants and hopes to reach 34,000 children. The program is close to the end.
Sergeant at Arm’s
Heads & Tails won by: Pat Baseley
Raffle won by: Neville, our President
Opening: Ros Savio opened the meeting
Bob Davison proposed a toast to Rotary and World Peace
Welcome to guest speaker James Allen, partners and visitors.
President’s Report
Refer President’s report in bulletin.
Director’s Reports (as applicable)
Fund Raising: Janelle
- Book Sale 2nd sorting this Saturday 17th Feb from 8:00am to about 2:00pm.
- Please refer to details in the website and spread the word to family, friends, etc.
- 15 walks occurred in the district. There is a walk at the conference starting at 2:30pm on the Friday $20 pp – aiming towards scholarships for victims of DV and their children.
- Iisa is having a great time in NZ.
- Georgia is settling well into Santiago in Chile.
- a successful review of plans for the Global grant. 1st tranche has been received by NTA in Flores via R C of Bali Seminyak - $20,000 = 200 m rupees!!
- Teacher in a Box has downloaded audio and textbooks. Tim Sharpe is helping, by streamlining the process.
- Carol Morgan visited us tonight
- Nicole Ryman will do the bulletin while Keith is away in April. Bob D will have a refresher course, Ros Hogan will chase up reports!
- 13 people will visit the new International Airport next Monday. Meet at WPH Sports club at 1:30pm if you need a lift.
- Kem Pea attended RYLA,
- Talia Sinami and Maddi Phegan will attend RYPEN is coming weekend.
- Friendship dinners on 23/24 March weekend.
- Pavilion Theatre has “Caravan” in March
- Bob and Bev, Keith and Pamela offered to put raffle butt information from the Christmas market into a spreadsheet for future events.
Guest Speaker: Introduced by Andrew Little
James Allen (Project Director for Rotary Give Every Child a Future ) spoke about the program with UNICEF to introduce 3 vaccinations into 9 Pacific Island countries using local health organisations. The program has been 6 years in the planning, involved 23 global grants and hopes to reach 34,000 children. The program is close to the end.
Sergeant at Arm’s
Heads & Tails won by: Pat Baseley
Raffle won by: Neville, our President
Humour
Funny Ones... contributed by Ross
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Whiskey with Soda ... contributed by Cawas
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Teacher... contributed by Cawas
Excellent Puns... contributed by Cawas
How does a lawyer sleep? First, he lies on one side, then he lies on the other.
There was a kidnapping at school yesterday. Don’t worry, though - he woke up.
He wasn’t originally going to get a brain transplant, but then he changed his mind.
Which country’s capital has the fastest-growing population? - Ireland. It’s Dublin every day.
I saw a supercilious crook going downstairs. I couldn't say for sure if he was condescending.
Jill broke her finger today, but on the other hand, she was completely fine.
England doesn't have a kidney bank, but it does have a Liverpool.
I tried to sue the airline for losing my luggage. I lost my case.
I went to buy some camouflage trousers yesterday but couldn't find any.
I can’t believe I got fired from the calendar factory. All I did was take a day off.
The man who survived pepper spray and mustard gas is now a seasoned veteran.
Will glass coffins be a success? Remains to be seen.
‘I have a split personality’ said Tom, being Frank.
What did one flag say to the other? Nothing, it just waved.🙂
There was a kidnapping at school yesterday. Don’t worry, though - he woke up.
He wasn’t originally going to get a brain transplant, but then he changed his mind.
Which country’s capital has the fastest-growing population? - Ireland. It’s Dublin every day.
I saw a supercilious crook going downstairs. I couldn't say for sure if he was condescending.
Jill broke her finger today, but on the other hand, she was completely fine.
England doesn't have a kidney bank, but it does have a Liverpool.
I tried to sue the airline for losing my luggage. I lost my case.
I went to buy some camouflage trousers yesterday but couldn't find any.
I can’t believe I got fired from the calendar factory. All I did was take a day off.
The man who survived pepper spray and mustard gas is now a seasoned veteran.
Will glass coffins be a success? Remains to be seen.
‘I have a split personality’ said Tom, being Frank.
What did one flag say to the other? Nothing, it just waved.🙂
