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Monday 3rd April

Monday 10th April

Monday 17th April

Wheel Chairs Overseas - Tony Mylan

No Meeting After Book Sale

No Meeting Easter Public Holiday

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​Duty Roster

Duty	Monday 03 April 2017	Monday 10 April 2017	Monday 17 April 2017
Speaker Host	Charlotte McCartney
Night Reporter	Gino Savio
Front Desk	Peter Cleary
Front Desk	Stan Baseley	No Meeting	No Meeting
Steward	Tom Westcott
Steward	Andrew Little
​IT Person	Neville Hansen
​Photographer​	Ross Ballinger
​Member Talk	Nick Chuah

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Inside This Issue

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President's Report
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Birthdays and Anniversaries
Humour

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25th March

4th April

7th - 9th April

8th May 2017

2nd Major Book Sorting for Book Sale

3rd Major Sorting and Set up Tables

Book Sale

WHP&C Rotary 30th Birthday

Please join us to celebrate another milestone of our Rotary Club
Mark your diary now
Partners Night Of Course

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Cyclone Debbie Donation Appeal

 

On March 28, Cyclone Debbie a category 4 cyclone devastated areas from Bowen South to Mackay region, these communities which are located in Rotary D9550 and Rotary D9570 need assistance.   

 

On behalf of DG Craig from D9570 and I, we have set up an appeal to assist those in need following the aftermath of the cyclone. Please see below details below with links to the RAWCS website for clubs or individuals wanting to make tax deductible donations.  If you could distribute through to your clubs and your contacts, this would be greatly appreciated.  

 

Rotary Down under will also be sending out a newsletter with this information. 

Thank you Debbie and the crew for your follow up on this and thank you Michael Willis from RAWCS in making it happen so quickly.  

 

Project Cyclone Debbie Rotary Appeal D9550 and 9570 (DCDF) with number 66-2016-17 on the RAWCS National website.

Please use this number on all documentation to your Regional Coordinators, Regional Treasurers or National Treasurer.

• The specifics of the project can be found here.
• The RAWCS website is located at www.rawcs.org.au.

ATO rulings applying to Deductible Gifts Recipients (refer - Income tax: tax deductible gifts - what is a gift - TR 2005/13).

 

The sponsoring Club is Rotary Club of District 9550 and 9570 This is a National Region project registered for project funding.

 

Tax deductibility is granted through "Rotary Australia Disaster Funding Appeals" – ABN 54 563 288 318.

 

If you have a website for your Club or District you can insert the hyperlink below. This will take donors directly to our secure donations page.

https://donations.rawcs.com.au/Default.aspx?ProjectNo=66&YearRegistered=2016-17.

 

Thank you and should you require further information please do not hesitate to contact me on the details below or Rotary D9550 Disaster Management Co-ordinator PP Bruce Scott mobile 0481055753 Email brucescott@tmrc.com.au

 

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 Ronald McDonald House Westmead Fund Raising Event
Please support and
Laugh For The House!!

Tickets $50 from riversideparramatta.com.au

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2017 Book Sale

The 2017 book sale is fast approaching and it is time to start preparing! This year the book sale has been postponed by a couple of weeks from the usual timing in late March to Friday 7 (9am to 5pm), Saturday 8 (9am to 5pm) and Sunday 11 (11am to 2pm) of April.

This is due to the fact that some of our key players will be overseas during the lead up to the actual book sale itself. This includes Andrew & Desley (13 Feb to 20 Mar), Bob & Bev (16 Mar to 14 Apr) and Colin & Anne (start Apr to end May).

Whilst we now have some great additional people on our committee (Neville & Heather Hansen & Charlie), we will need all the help we can get from club members & partners to make this year’s book sale a success. This is especially true for the book sort days Saturday 11th, 25th March and Tuesday 4th April) where we really need people to help us for the whole day up to around 3 or 4pm.

One of the most onerous jobs is packing the sorted boxes of books away on the book stands at the end of the sort day. Many times this is left to a small number of very dedicated people. Likewise we need assistance with the set up days Wednesday 5th & Thursday 6th April.

In order to make it easier on our backs, knees, hips, etc, we are ditching the conventional fruit boxes (which are also extremely difficult to source) and are moving to the Lifeline size cardboard box which is about 2/3 the size of the fruit box and will hence will limit the total lifting weight to around 10kg.  This is why Lifeline went to this style & size of box in order to comply with OH&S requirements for their ever aging members!

These boxes come flat packed & are taped together as required.  At the end of the book sale the tape will be cut & the box flat packed for storage. (See photo on right showing these boxes - note the 10Kg written on the side of the box in the foreground!).

The Church has agreed to let us run the book sale on the Sunday from 11am to 2pm when we will start the usual pack up routine.
This will provide an extra 3 hours on the Saturday and 3 hours on the Sunday, ie a total of 6 extra selling hours.

The 2016 book sale raised around $14,000 and we are aiming to better this in 2017.

To do this, we need help from ALL club members during the book sort days -

Saturday 11 March
Saturday 25 March
Tuesday 4 April

and during the sale itself from - Wednesday 5 to Sunday 9 April

The milestone dates for this year's book sale are as follows:

2017 Book Sale Committee Meetings
First Book Sale Committee Meeting	Thurs 9 Feb 17
Second Book Sale Committee Meeting	Wed 1 Mar 17
Third Book Sale Committee Meeting	Wed 29 Mar 17
2017 Book Sale Schedule
Banners & Flyers out	Sat 25 Feb 17
First Major Sort	Sat 11 Mar 17
Second Major Sort	Sat 25 Mar 17
Third Major Sort & Set Up Table Layout	Tue 4 Apr 17
Continue to set up tables, boxes and signs	Wed 5 Apr 17
Fine Tune Layout, etc	Thur 6 Apr 17
Book Sale	Fri 7 Apr 17
Book Sale	Sat 8 Apr 17
Book Sale & Clean Up	Sun 9 Apr 17
Book Sale Dinner	Sun 9 Apr 17

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RYLA 2017 - this is an excerpt from the latest DG's E News & shows why we support RYLA

RYLA 2017 was run and won by 84 new RYLArians. The Organising Committee chaired by David Clark, supported the Facilitators lead by Amanda Firkins together with Mum & Dad (David and Dianne Waterhouse) arranged an excellent program that actively engaged and developed the attendees. The outdoor activities were challenging and the indoor speakers were compelling.

Well Done and Thank you to all who made it happen....and I hope that the experience convinces the new RYLArians to join Rotaract so they can continue to enjoy and enhance the Rotary experience.

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Significant Club fundraising events during the year 

The Book Sale March 2016.​  As the result of a lot of hard work the March  book fair which was a great success, especially from  the organisers Max Henderson, Andrew Little and Clive Denmark.  Funds raised were $14,000.  Well done.

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The Trivia Night
The Club held a very successful trivia night on Saturday 27 August 2016 at the Cherrybrook Community Centre, raising just over $5,000 towards the charities we support. 

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The Garage Sale
We have just had a very successful Garage Sale on the weekend of 8/9 October raising a record gross of over $30k. The combination of good planning and benign weather contributed to this result.​

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Barbecues
The club runs fund raising barbecues throughout the year, mainly at Bunnings  (both Dural and Thornleigh)  Here are Barry, Tony, Nick and David hard at work. at Thornleigh.. 

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Meetings

Monday  6:30pm for 7:00pm - Springfield House - 245 New Line Road, Dural 2158

Apologies

If you are unable to attend or are bringing a guest (even if they are your partner) you must notify Jilda. 
Phone 8484 7106 or email  jilda.coles@wge.com.au before 11am on the day of the meeting.

If you are expected and do not show you will be required to pay for the meal.

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President's Report 27th February 2017

Another interesting guest speaker where we learnt about Destiny Rescue through the eyes of Shelley Whittington. What some children in the world have to endure is ghastly. Thank goodness there are good people around who are making a difference in these children’s lives.

The Book Sale is looming closer. A huge thank you to the committee and all the helpers who are making it happen. Please try to get there to help out on any of the days. We pride ourselves on being a “doing” club so let’s make this the best book sale yet.

If you are able to take a community work day please consider Tuesday 4th , Wednesday 5th or Thursday 6th  April as these are the really important days where we have our last book sort and then set up. Also pass the word to your friends and neighbours – it’s amazing how the word spreads.

Enjoy the week and let’s have fun and fellowship whilst serving humanity!



Rosemary

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Night Report 27th February 2017

Sergeant Barry opened the meeting, requesting Riccardo to lead us in Grace and Keith to propose the Toast.
President Rosemary was finally presented with her name plate on the chain of office, much to the embarrassment of the past president, who was fined appropriately.

Rosemary’s Rotary fact was that we are in the world of Rotary ,in Zone 8 and our local director is from Bega Club.
Andrew updated us on the details of the Book Sale, things are going well, good attendance on Saturday for the sort. Work continues next Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday prior to the Sale on Friday, Saturday and Sunday next week.
Notice in local paper and details on Facebook have increased our collections, good work all.

Colin S. updated us on Club Service and Social.

Bowelscan is on currently and we have a stall at Cherrybrook this Saturday. Cawas to be contacted in regard to details, volunteers required to man the stall.

RYPEN, the Club has selected an out of area student to attend.

Youth Exchange, the Club will not have an in-bound student for 18/18 due to lack of potential host parents and a certain lack of enthusiasm from CTHS.
Sarah is currently on Year 11 camp and then goes on Safari, she is currently at the Coote’s place.
Members should attempt to have Sarah accompany them on outings if possible.

If you wish to attend Vivid on 4 June please contact Ros Savio.

If you wish to participate in Friendship Dinners, please contact Ross Ballinger.

Peter Stanton advised that the meeting with Hills Shire Council went very well and we are considering various ideas for a future project.

Janelle advised that a Bunning’s BBQ will be held at Dural on Saturday 15 April and at Thornleigh on Sunday 7 May, volunteers required.

Janelle then introduced the speaker for the night, Shelley Whittington from Destiny Rescue.

They attempt to extract girls in particular from the underage sex trade in various south east Asian countries.
They then re-educate them as far as possible and find them jobs, house them temporarily and give them an opportunity over a six month period, to stay clear of their previous life.

Every 26 seconds a child somewhere in the world is trafficked into the sex trade.
Their funding comes from individuals and corporations in Australia, New Zealand and the USA.

Barry then extracted money from most of us on some dubious pretense.
Shelley our speaker won the raffle and Tina a guest won the heads and tails.

 
-- Notes taken by David Turnbull

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Night Photos - Peter Stanton

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Birthdays

Helen Ballinger - 8th April
Neville Hansen - 9th April
Colin Sharpe - 9th April

Anniversaries

BAKERS - 9th April

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This Week's Humour

He finally decided to tie the knot with his longtime girlfriend.

One evening, after their honeymoon, he was welding some stuff in the garage, just for fun.

His new wife was standing there at the bench watching him.

After a long period of silence she finally spoke.................

"Honey, I've just been thinking, now that we are married, maybe it's time you quit spending all your time out here in the shop.

You probably should just consider selling all your welders along with your gun collection and that stupid vintage Harley.”

Tom got a horrified look on his face.

She said, "Darling, what's wrong?"

He replied, "There for a minute you were starting to sound like my ex-wife."

"Ex-wife!" she screamed, "YOU NEVER TOLD ME YOU WERE MARRIED BEFORE!"

Tom replied: “I wasn't."

-- Stan Baseley





Mexicans were asked what they thought of Trump's proposed wall.
They replied, "We are very upset .....but we'll get over it.""

-- Jim Simpson




JEWISH  MOTHER
 
The year is 2021 and the United States has elected the first woman as well is the first Jewish president, Susan Goldstein.
She calls up her mother a few weeks after Election Day and says,
"So, Mom, assume you'll be coming to my inauguration?"
"I don't think so. It's a ten hour drive, your father isn't as young as he used to be, and my arthritis is acting up  again."
"Don't worry about it Mom, I'll send Air  Force One to pick you up and take you home.
And a limousine will pick you  up at your door."
"I don't know. Everybody will be so  fancy-schmantzy, what on earth would I wear?"
Susan replies, "I'll make sure you have a  wonderful gown custom-made by the best designer in New York "
"Honey," Mom complains, "you know I can't  eat those rich foods you and your friends like to eat."
The  President-to-be responds, "Don't worry Mom. The entire affair is going to  be handled by the best caterer in New York; Kosher all the way. Mom, I really want you to come."
So Mom reluctantly agrees and on January 20, 2021, Susan Goldstein is being sworn in as President of the United States.  In the front row sits the new President’s mother, who leans over to a senator sitting next to her and says, "You see that woman over there with her hand on the Torah, becoming President of the United States?"
The  Senator whispers back, "Yes, I do."
Mom says proudly, "Her brother is a doctor."
 
ITALIAN  MOTHER
 
Giuseppe excitedly tells his mother he's fallen in  love and that he is going to get married.
He says, "Just for fun, Mama,  I'm going to bring over three women and you try and guess which one I'm  going to marry." The mother agrees.
The next day, he brings three beautiful  women into the house, sits them down on the couch & they chat for a  while.  He then says, "Okay, Mama, guess which one I'm going to  marry?"
Mama says immediately, "The one on the  right."
"That's amazing, Mama. You're right. How did you know?"
Mama replies: "I don't like her."

 
IRISH FATHER’S FIRST DRINK WITH HIS  SON.
 
I was reading an article last night about fathers and sons, and memories came flooding back of the time I took my son out for his first drink. Off we went to our local bar, which is only two blocks from the house.  
I got him a Guinness Stout.  He didn't like it – so I drank it.
Then I got him an Old Style, he didn't like it either, so I drank it.
It was the same with the Coors and the Bud.
By the time we got down to the Irish whiskey,
I could hardly push the stroller back home.

-- Jim Simpson

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