Photo: Cherrybrook ​metro station by John Cowper 

Inside This Issue

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President's Report

Night Report

Humour

Club Calendar

Upcoming Events

Next Meetings

Dr Tim Wade-Ferrell

Monday 5th August

Dr Tim Wade-Ferrell is an Australian-based health professional.  Tim is trained as a Chiropractor and has a practice located in Carlingford.

Upcoming Events

Renovation of the Public area of the Lakes of Cherrybrook

Please support the Cherrybrook Residents Association project (MCP19-02295) to renovate the public area of the Lakes of Cherrybrook and vote for it here  mycommunityproject.service.nsw.gov.au.  The success of this application to the NSW My Community Project grants program depends on the degree of community support it receives through the project voting system.  Please also encourage your friends and neighbours to vote also.  For more information on how to vote, visit nsw.gov.au/mycommunityproject or please refer to the Fact sheet for voters. 

Galston Rotary Colour and Foam Festival 2019​

11th August 2019

Invite to Event at Beecroft Rotary

12th August 2019

​Trivia Night

Saturday 17th August

Rotary Club of North Ryde

ADS Care Team

​Duty Roster

If you are unable to be at the meeting please contact the person doing your role the following week/s, arrange a swap and advise Douglas, so he can amend his records.
​Also, to avoid being rostered on, please notify Douglas of any upcoming known absences (eg holidays) from meetings in the next twelve months.

St Gabriel's Project - Planting Ceremony and Morning Tea

​Rotary helps children with disabilities

A number of the Club Members visited St Gabriel's School on Friday 26 July to help the children plant some herbs and vegetables into the new garden.  Morning tea was served afterwards.  A very rewarding event for everyone.

Ronald McDonald "Meals from the Heart"

Tuesday 30 July

 Eleven Rotarians did a BBQ lunch for well over 100 residents of Ronald McDonald House at Westmead on Tues 30th. It started with an overview of the house, and a short video that showed how the residents really appreciated the support that they got from the house and those who helped easing their life with events like "Meals from the Heart". 

We prepared and served chicken, beef and vegetarian hamburgers, as well as all the salads that go with them. All of the group was able to go and eat their lunch with residents of the house which is an important part of the day for all parties. We all had a great day as the workload was busy, but we were able to have great fellowship during the preparation and clean
up. We finished well before 2pm.

On the day as well as 8 members of our club we had assistance from Mohita (a neighbour of Ross and Helen) and 2 of her friends Rubani and Anchal. After today's positive experience where they had made a contribution to the Ronald McDonald community, they would like to do another BBQ with their friends. They all took a day of holidays from their work to come and assist.

What it takes to be a Rotarian

There are members of the community who may have some misunderstandings about what it takes to be a Rotarian.
We are always looking for new members and, in fact, it is new people joining that keeps us alive as a Service club.  From time to time I hear people say things that make me think they don't consider joining or even visiting Rotary for all the wrong reasons.
​This article is about the things you don't need to join Rotary, and the things you do, just in case you are not sure.  The other thing you should know is that we are a very friendly bunch of men and women and we have a lot of fun, as well as achieving some pretty good things in the community.

Don't need:

• ​to be invited
• to be of a certain age
• to be male
• to be a business person
• to be retired
• to attend meetings every week
• to be available on weekends.

Must have:

• ​a sense of humour
• a willingness to give back to your community
• a willingness to pitch in when required
• some time available to help out on the occasional weekend event
• an interest in the life of the West Pennant Hills and Cherrybrook communities
• a desire to contribute in some way to the running of the Club.

​If you would like to come along as a guest to see what it is all about just call either:-
President Keith (0478 599 155) or Tony (Membership) (0412 812 624) 

Club Details:
Rotary Club of West Pennant Hills and Cherrybrook meets every Monday for Dinner at Springfield House
Arrive 6:30pm  Start  7:00pm  End  9:00pm
245 New Line Rd
Dural NSW 2128 Australia

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Centurion Program and Centurion Membership application

How you can become a Rotary Foundation Centurion?
Centurion Membership donation form.

Significant Club Fundraising Events during the year 

The Book Sale March 2019

As the result of a lot of hard work the MarchBook Sale was a great success, especially from  the organisers Andrew Little, Max Henderson, Neville Hansen and Rosemary Clarke. Funds raised exceeded $19,000.  Well done.

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2018 Trivia Night

​The Club held a very successful trivia night on Saturday 25 August 2018 at the Cherrybrook Community Centre, raising near $6,250 towards the charities we support. 


                       

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 The Garage Sale 2018

We have just had our best and most successful Garage Sale on the weekend of 13 & 14 October raising a record gross - north of $35k.

​Excellent Project Management and a large number of dedicated volunteers, some putting in hours of effort, in the weeks before the weekend contributed to this result.​​

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Barbecues
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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.. 

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 Julie. 
Email  admin@altitudecapital.com.au before 1pm on the Friday before the meeting.
​Please no communication via phone (either verbal or SMS)

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

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President's Report  29th July

I found the talk by Gary Mangan to be most interesting.  Gary explained the difference between a Bendigo Bank and a Bendigo Community Bank.  The latter has more of the profits returned to its local community.  The Galston Branch, where we bank, is a Community Bank.
Many thanks to Janelle and John for seeing their way clear to attend RLI Course53.

At the Presidents’ Meeting (Sat., 27th July) Foundation pushed four issues

1. Every Club Every Member
2. Ride Like a Girl – 4th September.
3. Ride the Train – 24th October, and
4. Foundation Dinner

I have agreed to pursue “Ride Like a Girl” – an inspirational film about the recent female jockey winner of the Melbourne Cup – with RC Beecroft.  It may not be the 4th September.
Appears to be a reasonable fund raiser.  Typical is pay Cinema $10 per seat and charge $20.

Mark Anderson has since supplied information on Ride the Train, which is in support of End Polio Now.  The District team are looking to arrive at 195 stations in Sydney and have Clubs support this by donating $10 a station.  Also suggesting $1 per station for members.
Last year this event was Sydney only.  This year it will spread to other capital cities and to New Zealand.
We could create an event

• Tin Rattle at the Station
• Paint Pinkie Purple for Polio
• Purple Cupcakes for Polio
• Be photographed handing money certificate to District Train Riders.  Mark has booked space on the following RDU.

I await your feedback.

Next week our Guest Speaker is Dr Tim Wade-Ferral.  Tim operates as a Chiropractor in Carlingford.

Rotary Rocks
Keith

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Night Report 29th July

​Opening
 Actg Sgt John Tchetchenian opened the meeting and welcomed our guest speaker Gary Mangan and a guest/prospective member, Ramesh Swaminathan.  

President’s Report
President Keith Ball thanked all in attendance. His full report is contained in this bulletin.

Director’s Reports 
Carol (Marketing)
Update on the marketing for the Trivia Night including the local neighbourhood newspapers, Hills Shire Council Website and a neighbourhood social website, Nextdoor
 
Neville (Community Service)
Working Bee this Sat at RFS. 8 people so far attending. Main objective is to label and record everything in the containers then tidy up our area under the Church.
Bunnings BBQ Sat 10th. The team numbers are ok
WPH Public School BBQ on Sun 11th Aug. 6+ 6 team attending.

Peter (International)
Peter invited interested members in the Flores trip to his place on Thursday (7 for 7.30pm).
Please let Peter know if you are interested in attending.

Max (Social)
Max advised the Trivia Night is only 2.5 weeks away (17th Aug) with 140 likely attendees so far. As was last year, funds will be dedicated to Drought Relief.
 
Guest Speaker
Before Andrew Little introduced our guest speaker, Andrew gave a presentation on the funds raised by the Club and how they were allocated for the benefit of Gary.
Gary Mangan from Bendigo Community Bank then gave his presentation.
Probably the most interesting fact is that the Bendigo Bank at Galston is not Bendigo Bank per se, but a Community Bank operating under a franchise agreement with the Bendigo Bank.
 
This Community Bank started in 2001 when the NAB announced it would be closing its doors at Galston. A group of residents subsequently met with Bendigo Bank to investigate the possibility of setting up a Community Bank.
Following an interest meeting of local residents, Galston Financial Services Limited (GFS) was formed and a franchise agreement was signed with Bendigo Bank.
A local board of 8 volunteers was formed. They initially operated with 2 staff out of a local travel agents office. When the NAB building came up for auction, they bought it with capital subscribed from 290 shareholders. Their staff count now is 7.
Their operating model has emphasis on Community involvement. On the question of how they make money, Bendigo bank provides funds to GFS at wholesale rates and profits (from loans, CMT’s etc) are split 50% to Bendigo Bank and 50% to GFS (aka Bendigo Community Bank).
 
Of GFS’s 50% profit share, after the costs of running their business, 20% of the balance is allocated to their shareholders with the balance to Community projects. In the past 13 years $2.6m has been allocated to the community involving 959 sponsorships. This year 92 sponsorships have been made. Approximately 49% of their annual sponsorships goes to schools with Galston High School receiving the main allocation of $30k every year. The next two largest beneficiaries are Sporting (16%) and Health (10%).
 
 Sergeant at Arm’s
John conducted the fines session. No one was spared.
Heads & Tails won by Tom.

Night Reporter
Colin McGowan

Night Photos

Editor Note:  Click on a photo to see a larger version.

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This Week's Humour

Most of our generation 50+ were HOME SCHOOLED in many ways.

1.  My mother taught me to appreciate a job well done.
"If you're going to kill each other, do it outside.   I just finished
cleaning."

2. My mother taught me RELIGION.
"You better pray that will come out of the carpet."

3. My father taught me about TIME TRAVEL.
"If you don't straighten up, I'm going to knock you into the middle of next
week!"

4. My father taught me LOGIC.
" Because I said so, that's why."

5. My mother taught me MORE LOGIC .
"If you fall out of that swing and break your neck, you're not going to the
store with me."

6. My mother taught me FORESIGHT.
"Make sure you wear clean underwear, in case you're in an accident."

7. My father taught me IRONY.
"Keep crying, and I'll give you something to cry about."

8. My mother taught me about the science of OSMOSIS .
"Shut your mouth and eat your supper."

9. My mother taught me about CONTORTIONISM.
"Just you look at that dirt on the back of your neck?"

10. My mother taught me about STAMINA.
"You'll sit there until all that spinach is gone."

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My first grade daughter and her friend both needed new boots as winter approached. The friend got in the car one morning and finally had gotten her boots.
"Tina," I commented, "I see you got new boots! Where did you get them?"

"At the store," she answered.
"Which one?" I asked.
She began looking at her new boots and after a pause said, "Both of them!"

Jim

Stan

Joke bank is at 5

Club Calendar

Editor's Note:  ​If you wish to download and print the Calendar please click here.

Bulletin Editor - Neville