Photo: Cherrybrook ​metro station by John Cowper 

Inside This Issue

President's Report

Night Report

Humour

Club Calendar

Upcoming Events

AGM
6th December 2021
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Nomination Form​

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​2021 AGM Documents -- Members Only Access 

We are back having meetings in Springfield House. However, due to availability of the venue. The alternate week arrangement with Zoom may not be strictly adhered to. Some meetings may occur on other weekdays instead of customary Mondays. Please consult your calendar for changes.
Ros Hogan is the Attendance Officer for face-to-face meetings at Springfield.  If bringing a partner or not able to attend, please notify Ros via email Ros Hogan hoganros@gmail.com by 12noon on the Thursday prior to a face-to-face meeting. Charges for non-attendance will be incurred unless previously advised.

Club Zoom Meetings
Alternate week
Springfield House

7:15pm for 7:30pm 

6:30pm for 7:00 pm

Mon 06 December 2021
AGM 7:15 PM
Guest Speaker: Dame Barbara Abley
Order of St John of Jerusalem Knights Hospitaller in Australia

​Tuesday 14 December 2021
Kris Kringle Dinner

Mon 31 January 2022
Guest Speaker: TBA

Venue: TBA

​Duty Roster

With COVID lockdowns now ending and even more restrictions being eased, effective 08/11/2021, we appreciate that many Club members may be eager to get out and about and take the chance to have a holiday. So, if you are going to be absent from meetings and events in the months up until July next year, please notify Janelle via email.
Equally now that we are back to face-to-face meetings at Springfield it’s important that we get back into the swing of advising Frank of numbers attending by the Thursday prior to Monday meetings. As per our existing RSVP procedures, if you are not attending you need to advise Ros Hogan otherwise you will be charged the cost of the meal. 
Thanks for your patience and understanding with these matters – it’s all part of adjusting to life post COVID!  

Do Browse Through This Website

This website is not just the bulletin. There are many useful information within. Please use the heading buttons at the top to the right of the Club's Rotary Logo and dropdown menus to navigate to other areas of interests. Just be aware that some information may not be up-to-date but come back often. It is a dynamic site and will be updated periodically.

​President Keith's Report 29 November 2021

 

Kishaya, Sasha and Harishan were like a breath of fresh air. Their enthusiasm, in pursuing futures pertinent to each of them, was wonderful to see and feel.

Amanda Barnes’ PowerPoint presentation brought back memories of a time I mixed with Youth Workers.  As government employees, they were stressed by the needs of their “customers”, and the inability to sate these needs.

I attended the Presidents Meeting at Hornsby, last Saturday. The standout for me was DGE Mina Howard. In a world of hyper competitiveness Mina presented as a normal human being.

Next week is our AGM. Dame Barbara Abley will be our Guest Speaker immediately after this AGM.

Don’t forget to support the BBQ on Saturday at Coonara Ave.
Stay Safe

Keith

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Learning And Development Officer

How to Access MyRotary

Petition for Guest Speaker recommendations
Please contact John Caruana if you know of any prospective guest speakers of interest to the club
johncaruana500@gmail.com       Mob: 0417 394 854

 Night Report - 29 November 2021

 

Janelle Craig in the role Sergeant opened the meeting at 7.34 pm. Stan Baseley was invited to give the toast- to Rotary, Australia and to all the youth programs and students the Club supports.

Presidents Report:
President Keith welcomed everyone to tonight’s Youth Night. He welcomed Amanda Barnes who Rosemary will introduce you more formally later. Also big welcome to Kishaya Lye and Sasha Varman RYLA candidates and Harishan Nirumalan NYSF candidate.
Keith reminded members of the AGM next Monday 6 December 2021.

Directors Reports:
Because we have a busy program tonight, Directors reports were limited to those with matters needing immediate attention only.
Douglas reminded members of the online AGM 06/12/2021 and the earlier start time of 7.15pm; papers for which will distributed shortly. Thanks to Paul Laroumani and Felicity Donneley for Financial and Audit reports.In Max’s absence he also discussed the SYMT production of “The Addams Family” playing at Hornsby RSL on 28/01/2022.
In Cawas’ absence, the Trees of Joy, at Cherrybrook and Westleigh were mentioned, both of which are going well. David Turnbull requested that he be provided with the list of charities we are working with, and Colin Baxter undertook to get this information to him.  
Colin Sharpe discussed the upcoming Coonabarabran trip (10-12/12/2021) and of the opportunity to take around 5000 books with us that will be given over to the “Books for the Outback” program.  
Peter Stanton advised of the Election Day BBQ on Saturday 04/12/2021.The first shift is oversubscribed, and he will be in touch with members on that shift to see if anyone is able to swap to the Bunnings BBQ the week after on 12/12/2021.

Upcoming 2022 Youth programs:
Rosemary Clark, our Youth Director welcomed back Harishan Nirumalan who is the Club’s sponsored candidate to the 2022 National Youth Science Forum (NYSF). Harishan was our previous RYPEN so it’s great to see a continuing relationship between he and his family and our club. Harishan explained that he is truly passionate about science and its ability to explain the world around us. He is excited and somewhat overwhelmed by the range of activities on offer through NYSF which includes visits to universities, genetics labs, exposure to robotics and supercomputers and roughly 100 different events. Harishan expressed his appreciation to the club for supporting his attendance at NYSF which he hopes will help him to focus on an avenue in science that he will pursue at university and in his future career.   
 
Rosemary then introduced Kishaya Lye and Sasha Varman, who are the Club sponsored candidates to the 2022 Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA) which will be held from 9- 15 January 2022. RYLA is a transformational 7-day program facilitated by Rotary and open to young people with leadership potential based in N/NW Sydney through to the Central Coast. RYLA aims to empower Australia's next generation of superstars, to develop skills through challenges and activities designed to put their leadership into practice, in a supportive and encouraging environment.
 
Sasha comes to us as a member of the Rotaract Club of Pennant Hills and Cherrybrook. She is currently studying Mechatronic Engineering and Computer Science at UNSW. Sasha is passionate about robotics and computer vision where she is able to express her creative and technical skills. Sasha believes attending RYLA will help her explore her leadership style and learn further how to develop talent in others. She is hoping to become more confident in leadership spaces so that she can expand her passions and those of the teams she works with in order to drive group goals and support their learning and development.       
 
Kishaya is currently an Arts and Social Science student majoring in Political Science and International Relations at ANU. She has a passion for social justice and lead events and initiatives in this area whilst at high school. Kishaya is hoping that RYLA will allow her to develop her leadership and communication skills, as well as providing opportunities to meet like-minded people and learn from them. By participating in the program she anticipates that she’ll gain a better understanding of how to be a good leader, will strengthen her teamwork abilities, and develop a stronger appreciation for knowledge and learning.  
 
Guest Speaker
Rosemary welcomed Amanda Barnes as our guest speaker tonight. It’s very timely to have Amanda with us tonight because she is with us to talk about working with youth.  Amanda has been a member of Rotary International since 2005 serving many roles at club, district, national, zone and international levels, she also volunteers with Red Cross Emergency Services and has done since 2009. Amanda has had over a decade working in the Youth Community Services sector and 5 years working as a consultant, facilitator, coach and healer and spoke to us about her experience in working with Youth.
Amanda spoke about her career working with youth in a range of different organisations providing both crisis care and early intervention programs. She highlighted youth homelessness, which is a more common occurrence than people imagine, even in affluent suburbs. As a snapshot:

• 24% of young people aged 15-24 years make up the homeless population (ABS, 2016) because of reasons such as:
  • Housing crisis 37%
  • Domestic and family violence 25%
  • Inadequate/inappropriate dwelling conditions 15%
  • Relationship/family breakdowns 13%
  • Financial difficulties 11%    

Amanda also played a powerful YouTube video from Josh Shipp entitled “The Power of One Adult Caring” which served to reinforce the impact adults and organisations like Rotary can have on a child’s life when they see opportunities rather than problems.  She commended the Club on its efforts in relation to our commitment to, and involvement with, a full range of Rotary Youth Programs. She also encouraged us to look towards work with youth who are left behind and overlooked, and she talked briefly about a newer program called Rotary Safe Families.   Amanda’s talk gave much food for thought in how we all have responsibility to foster the next generation of youth.
 
Sergeant Session:
Janelle ran an entertaining youth themed trivia session which was won unsurprisingly, by our RYLA candidate Sasha.
Closing remarks from the President:

• Thanks to Amanda Barnes for being Guest Speaker tonight, and best wishes to our youth candidates, Kishaya, Sasha and Harishan as they embark on their Rotary Youth programs – we look forward to hearing n=back from you in Feb/March 2022 to hear how things went.
• Next week is a Zoom meeting – it is AGM and we will start at 7.15pm; following this Dame Barbara Abley will be our guest speaker.
• Don’t forget the election BBQ on Saturday 04/12/2021

Janelle Craig
Night Reporter

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​Social Calendar 2021-2022

Kris Kringle - 14th December Springfield House
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​President’s Lunch - Saturday 22nd January at Vanilla Cream at Amaroo Park

Lunch @ Il Lago Norwest - Wednesday 2nd March 2022

Book Sale Dinner - Saturday 12th March at WPH Sports Club

BBQ at Fagan Park - Monday 21st March
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​Tony Coote

THE GREAT ESCAPE
SUNDAY 21st November 2021

Thank you Alan and Lyn Paynter for organising this

Friendship Meals

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​A relaxing afternoon. Anna and Sandor turned on a very Tasty Hungarian feast.
A great way to get back to normal after lockdown!

Hosted by Alan and Lyn Paynter. It was a glorious afternoon catching up with Peter and Julianne Stanton, David and Jill Turnbull and ourselves.


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Hosted by Rashna & Cawas - Guests were Bev & Bob Davison, Gwen & Colin Baxter, President Keith and Bob Whyms

Hosted by Ros & Gino - Guests were ​Rosemary & Rob Clarke, Lynne & Max Henderson, Carol Russell

Welfare Report

  

  

​Please watch this video
 

BUNNINGS SAUSAGE SIZZLE

12 December 2021
​Dural
​Calling for Volunteers

​Calling for Volunteers

Please contact Peter Stanton 0408 691 723

TREE OF JOY

​Tree Of Joy at  Westleigh

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What's included in the kit? Kits include: Gingerbread house, icing, cake board, limited lollies for decorations,
​and packaging (so you can take your creations home!). 
Extra lollies will be available for purchase on the day. BYO lollies and decorations are encouraged!

​Ticketing: Each ticket includes ONE gingerbread house kit.
​Pricing is dependent on the number of people (max 4) who will be working on the one kit. 

Pre-order Prices:
Ticket price for 1-2 people: $25
Ticket price for 3 people: $30
Ticket price for 4 people: $35
To pre-order, please visit: https://events.humanitix.com/gingerbread-decorating
At-door Prices (while stocks last):
Ticket price for 1-2 people: $30
Ticket price for 3 people: $35
Ticket price for 4 people: $40
Have questions, want to get in touch or know more about what we do?
Email us at info@phcrotaract.org.au or give us a ring at 0468 302 202.
Check out our website for more about what we do!
https://www.phcrotaract.org.au

Street Libraries Update

​You may have noticed that street libraries are springing up in peoples’ gardens, especially if you have been doing a lot of walking as we have during the lockdown. It seems that the Board noticed too. They decided that it would be nice to have one, two, three - make it four at various locations. 
A suitable design was sourced – like the one at the end of New Line Road but taller to accommodate a shelf.
Cawas provided some marine ply courtesy of mates’ rates at Bunnings and I went to Bunnings and Mitre10 about a dozen times to purchase the other bits.
So with the help of Peter and Tony we assembled the structures, I painted them and Colin Sharpe provided some polycarbonate for the windows. It took a while but they came together well.
Now we needed a post to fix them to. Bunnings had some woofy posts designed for post boxes but Mitre10 came up with galvanised beasts suitable as a foundation for a tower block.
An erection team was organised of David, George, Keith, Bob and me and we burst into action like a well oiled machine – well actually more like a council work gang with one person doing all the work and rest watching. We decided that Bev’s place was a good place to start since it is a relatively quiet street.
Bob came up with a crowbar the size of a tooth pick and we set about digging a hole in the incredibly hard ground. At about 400mm we decided to stop before we encountered a 33kV cable and set up the post in lots of rapid setting concrete.
Bev provided an excellent morning tea while we waited for the concrete to go hard.
Finally we lugged the box into place and bolted it down.
The only thing missing is the Rotary sign.  This has been ordered and will be fixed later. It is large enough for the Amazon astronauts to read it on their next trip.
Colin Sharpe did a nice job of fixing his to his letter box and even painted the inside (they had already had two coats of lacquer but the paint is a nice touch and we fully expect Anne to install curtains).
Next week the council work gang is reassembling to install Carol’s library.
Thanks to the team and thanks to Bev, Carol and Colin Sharpe for providing the locations. The fourth will be fixed at the Uniting Church when Neville returns from wherever he is this week.

Tony Makin 

​The team continued their exploits 
​Erection of Street Library at Carol Russell's Business Premises

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Recent articles in Dooral Roundup by Carol Russell
Keep up the good work Carol

​Email From NTA

rom: phil2dom@gmail.com [mailto:phil2dom@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, 25 October 2021 9:08 AM
To: 'Peter Stanton'
Cc: 'Stephanie Heighes'; 'Keith Ball '; 'Tony Coote'
Subject: Thanks from the NTA

 
​Dear Peter and the Rotary Club of West Pennant Hills and Cherrybrook
Many thanks for your support for the NTA. Your donation helps to make a big difference to the lives of poor farming communities living in south east Indonesia.
 
The last 2 years have been particularly challenging for everyone. While it has been tough for our recipient communities we can take stock in the things we have been able to achieve:

• We have just celebrated our 30th birthday. We have been successfully implementing programs in Indonesia for 3 decades.
• Our COVID and cyclone appeals have been our most successful appeals ever, raising collectively some $25 000. This has allowed us to quickly and easily roll out COVID messaging and prevention measures including hand washing stations, soap, posters and banners into all of our schools and communities. We are currently working with communities and local governments to help NTA supported schools severely impacted by the Cyclone Sejora to bounce back to full capacity.
• We held our most successful fund raising dinner ever with 122 attendees and we raised $8000.
• Our peak partner, NTA Indonesia, has shown great capacity and resourcefulness to maintain our activities around the COVID restrictions and while NTA is unable to visit Indonesia.
• Our new program to promote traditional ikat weaving continues to expand and to attract high interest. This is aimed directly at improving livelihoods for women. We provide sewing machines and run training to diversify products, and improve quality and marketing.
• Our management systems continue to improve through the development of our computerised database systems. NTA Indonesia now uses tablets to record activity progress and photographs and to record answers to questions. This information is uploaded to the cloud providing real time information flow to NTA in Australia.
• We work to continuously improve our efforts to protect vulnerable people and to focus greater effort on those in need. We have developed improved systems and are providing training and guidance to our Indonesian counterparts.  
• COVID has re energised and accelerated our efforts in health and sanitation. These are preventative measures not just for COVID but also for a host of other diseases and health issues prevalent in the region.
• WE will report our efforts for 2020-21 in our annual report which should be available in December.

Please do not hesitate to contact  us if you would like any further information or clarification.
Once again many thanks for your support
Regards
Phil

Westmead Institute of Medical Research
“COVID -19 Variants and Vaccines, the Lockdown update”
COVID-19: Variants & Vaccines, the Lockdown Update - YouTube      

The presentation was accurate as of 9th July 2021. Some widening of the age group acceptability for the AstraZeneca vaccine have been made since that presentation date.
The 2 main speakers were Internationally renowned experts in immunology and vaccine development, Professor Tony Cunningham and Professor Sarah Palmer.
I have attached a link to that presentation. It is well worth watching.
I also took some Notes and attach for those who only wish to get a quick grab - but the notes don’t do the presentation justice.

Kind Regards
Colin McGowan

​Fun With
​Culture Corner

 

10 classical pieces that you have all heard.
How many did you manage to identify and name the composer?
Answers:
1. Flight Of The Bumblebee -- Rimsky-Korsakov
2. Für Elise -- Beethoven
3. Eine kleine Nachtmusik -- Mozart
4. Wedding March -- Mendelssohn
5. Marche Funèbre -- Chopin
6. Clair de Lune (Suite Bergamasque 3rd Mvnt) -- Debussy
7. Moonlight Sonata (Piano Sonata #14 1st Mvnt) --  Beethoven
8. Frühlingsstimmen (Voices Of Spring) -- Strauss II
9. Piano Sonata #16 (1st Mvnt) -- Mozart
10. Hungarian Dances #5 -- Brahms

10 more this week. Answers in a fortnight.​​
Too easy? Too hard? More? Less?
​Suggestions welcome -- please send comments to rcwphc.bulletin@gmail.com

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Covid Safe food handling

Training is on-line and takes about 20 minutes – so a few could do it
https://www.foodauthority.nsw.gov.au/covid-19-awareness-food-service-training
 
The training has been developed for anyone working in NSW food retail and food service businesses and covers key measures recommended for COVID-19 control. Key topics addressed:

• COVID-19 Introduction and background
• Infection, signs and symptoms
• Self-protective measures
• Protective measures for premises and personal hygiene
• Cleaning and sanitation practices
• Social distancing measures
• Record keeping.

The course is self-guided and will take participants approximately 20 minutes to complete.
There is a 20 question multiple-choice quiz at the end.
A ‘COVID-19 awareness for food service’ acknowledgement certificate will be emailed to all participants who complete the quiz.

... and We Should be Covid Safe at Our Activities

Centurion Program and Centurion Membership application

We are now in a new Rotary Year. Please consider renewing your Centurion membership, or if not already a member, why not make this the year to become a Centurion!!!

How you can become a Rotary Foundation Centurion?
Centurion Program Donation Instructions for WPHC Rotary Club - 2020.

Club Calendar

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

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Bulletin Editor - Douglas

Meetings

​Monday  6:30pm for 7:00pm - Springfield House - 245 New Line Road, Dural 2158
and Zoom Monday 7:15 for 7:30pm - on alternate weeks 
​- see Club Program for details.

Apologies

For Springfield meetings, If you are unable to attend or are bringing a guest (even if they are your partner) you must notify Ros. Email: hoganros@gmail.com before 1pm on the Thursday before the meeting.

For Springfield House meetings - if you are expected and do not show you will be required to pay for the meal.

Significant Club Fundraising Events during the year
TO BE UPDATED POST COVID LOCK DOWN

The Book Sale March 2020

As the result of a lot of hard work the March Book Sale was a great success, especially from  the organisers Andrew Little, Max Henderson, Neville Hansen and Rosemary Clarke. Funds raised exceeded $15,000.  Well done.

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2019 Trivia Night

​The Club held a very successful trivia night on Saturday 17 August 2019 at the Cherrybrook Community Centre, raising near $6,600 all of which will go to assist drought relief. Click this link to read more. 


                       

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 The Garage Sale 2019

We have just had our best and most successful Garage Sale on the weekend of 12 & 13 October raising a 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.. 

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:-
Carol Russell (0418 431 157) or President Keith (0478 599 155)

Club Details:
Rotary Club of West Pennant Hills and Cherrybrook meets every other Monday for Dinner at Springfield House (Suspended until further notice due to Covid)
Arrive 6:30pm  Start  7:00pm  End  9:00pm
245 New Line Rd
Dural NSW 2128 Australia

Welcome to call Carol or Keith to get log on details and join us on Zoom instead

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