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Monday 06 March
Murrin Bridge Farm Project -Steve Mansur
Monday 13 March
Memories Of a Ex-exchange Student - Sonya
Monday 20 March
The Forgotten Flotilla - Archeology in Crete

​Duty Roster

Duty  Monday 06 March 2017 Monday 13 March 2017 Monday 20 March 2017
Speaker Host Colin McGowan Howard Fleming Tony Coote
Night Reporter Charlotte McCartney Peter Cleary John Tchetchenian
Front Desk Bob Davison Bob Davison Bob Davison
Front Desk Bernard Chandra Brian Furrer Roslyn Savio
Steward Alan Paynter Nick Chuah Ricardo Raad
Steward Tom Westcott Gino Savio Carol Russell
​IT Person Neville Hansen Neville Hansen Neville Hansen
​Photographer​ Ross Ballinger Peter Stanton Ross Ballinger
​Member Talk Howard Fleming Cawas Sahukar Max Henderson

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11th & 25th March
22nd March


7th - 9th April



8th May 2017
Major Book Sortings for Book Sale
TALDUMANDE
2017 Charity Dinner

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

District Conference

The District Conference will be held at the Penrith Panthers on Saturday 11th of March 2017.

 Registrations at conferene2017.rotarydistrict9685.org.au

For a video on the District Conference at the Penrith Panthers click the video arrow below

New School Initiative by Operation Food For Life at village of Kivoro-Poe
DENNIS PERRY -President Operation Food for Life 18th FEB., 2017

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Accessible only by helicopter or 4 wheel drive vehicle KIVORI - POE village is located in a very remote area of Papua New Guinea. Over three hours west of Port Moresby the nation’s capital. The village is one of many along the coastline. It is estimated some 6000 families live in the area.
Operation Food for Life identified an urgent need for a Christian Early Learning School to serve the villages of the area, aware that at least 60 children, most who had no education, would immediately benefit from the school plant.
With a temporary “bush school” build, two qualified teachers ready to commence, all was in readiness to welcome students for the first term.
With Jim Hawkins, our Vice President, Phillip and Maureen Vaki (who are our incredible PNG Directors for our humanitarian work and ministry in the country,) travelled to the school for the memorable opening ceremony. We were totally overwhelmed when enrolments reached 120 children. ...and still counting as this goes to press.
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Education is free for the children who live in very poor communities.
The local village Chief stated "he had been praying for a long time for a Christian school to educate the children, paying tribute to Operation Food for Life’s commitment to Christian education to educate children who live in poor communities. You are also giving these children hope in Christ filled classrooms. Thank you. Thank you" the chief said.
During this year Operation Food for Life will build a permanent two classroom facility with an additional first aid room to serve the school and the community. Jim Hawkins is managing this project. This will be Jims second build for Operation Food for Life having managed the construction for our Born Free Sanctuary which is providing 24/7 care for many children at risk and less fortunate. Thank you Jim for transforming so many lives you touch through Operation Food for Life.
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The new school is another welcomed addition to all our humanitarian programs and projects in Papua New Guinea. This includes our first three teacher Operation Food for Life Rob and Jan Patterson Christian Literacy School in Wildlife Port Moresby which has 120 children enrolled this year.
We praise God for his leading and abundant blessings upon our hands and feet, as all our volunteers give ourselves away above self-interest to serve others of less fortunate circumstances.
Excerpt from Cherrybrook Public School Newsletter regarding our  "Tree Of Joy" programme.
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Taldumande 2017 Charity Dinner
 
To help make this a success, we would be very grateful if you could support us in one or all of the following ways:

  • Join us at the dinner on Wednesday 22nd March 2017.  
  • Make a tax deductible donation to Taldumande Youth Services at www.taldumande.org.au
 
Individual tickets are $185 or Table of 10 for $1750. Tickets covers entry to the event, entertainment, full three course meal and all beverages.


To purchase ticket, please go to https://www.taldumande.org.au/news/2017-charity-dinner or alternative, I can produce an invoice for you.
 
Your support would contribute towards the success of our fundraising dinner and our ability to provide these essential services to vulnerable and homeless young people.

Kind regards,

Kevin Marcus Tran
Fundraising and Events Coordinator

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

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.

Significant Club fundraising events during the year 

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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.. 

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.

President's Report 27th February 2017

What a difference one amazing person can make to lighten the lives of others! Monday evening was a lesson in humility and kindness by Anna our guest speaker who helps under privileged families and children in Vietnam. Let’s work to help her in her quest.

Rotary is in full swing again as the committees get busy planning for the remainder of our year. Please notify Colin S of your availability for our 30th birthday celebration on May 8th. Our District Governor Bruce will be attending.

On Monday, Steve Mansur is travelling from Lake Cargelligo to inform us of the Murrin Bridge Farm Project in which we are involved. Come and hear how the project is progressing.

The Book Sale will soon be upon us. Please print out flyers to put in your work place, tell friends and use Facebook to spread the word. We have charities to support and places where extra money can go. Please commit to dates for helping. I’m just sad that I’m working and can only help on the weekends.

As the information becomes available for inbound Exchange students, consider being involved with hosting in one of the best programs Rotary has to offer. Our club is a better one when we are involved!! We would love to hear from you.

Have a great week and stay dry!!


Rosemary

Night Report 27th February 2017

NIGHT REPORT 27/02/2017
 
Sergeant Barry Freeman called the meeting to order and President Rosemary Clarke opened the meeting thanking all the guests.  President Rosemary also sent out thank you emails to all the speakers at the last week’s youth meeting and shared the reply received from Ashley Eaton’s mum “Thank you for your kind words. The RYPEN camp certainly had a huge impact on Ash. It was interesting to see his demeanour when I dropped him off on Friday and the change when I picked him up on Sunday. Please send our thanks to all the Rotarians and again thank you for sponsoring Ash and thank you for a very inspiring evening.”

She also thanked Tony Coote for organising to have our BBQ trailer housed at Hills Self Storage at Galston. They have kindly agreed to store at no charge and the club has agreed to make them Silver sponsors.
 
Rotary Fact: On 23rd February Rotary celebrated its 112 birthday with the formation of Rotary Club of Chicago. Quote from Paul Harris – “Whatever Rotary may mean to us, to the world it will be measured by the results it achieves”.
 
Director’s Report:
 
Member Talk:
 
  • Roslyn Savio born in Paddington and went to the local school.
  • Always wanted to travel so left school to join Qantas but it was not to be so clearly she had no regrets.
  • Joined a travel agency in Kings Cross “Australia Overseas Travel” worked very hard as in those days there were no computers and everything had to be done manually.
  • Joined American Express and exceled herself winning a trip overseas.  
  • Moved to Philippines with her then husband and their beautiful daughter Marika was born there.
  • Marriage did not work out and Roslyn moved back to Sydney and joined National Australia Bank Travel Division looking after corporate and retail sector customers.
  • On 7th January 1992 she started her very own business and from a humble beginning she now employs a total of 8 staff.
  • Met dashing Gino 11 years ago fell in love and decided to get married.
  • Been in the travel industry for over 47 years and all she ever wanted to do for a living was to sell travel and today she has a long list of prestigious corporate and high-worth clients whom she helps in turning their travel dreams into a reality. For your next travel adventure contact Roslyn and you won’t be disappointed.

Guest Speaker

Colin Sharpe introduced the guest speaker Anna Papoosakis an early childhood educator for the last 17 years. Currently teaching the Bachelor of Early Childhood and completing her Masters in Educational Leadership.
Anna has been volunteering in Vietnam Orphanages for over 7 years now and has been serving the same 3 orphanages and loves her work. Two of the orphanages have children from birth until 16 years and one is a disability shelter where all the residents have been affected by Agent Orange – the chemical dropped by US during the Vietnam war.

When people ask her does she have children and she always says yes 134 of them. These children have captured her heart and over the last 7 years she has visited Vietnam more than 23 times.

Over the years she has exceeded all her expectations and have achieved much more than she could ever dream of. In 2012 she started a blog which helped to raise donations. She has learnt that you cannot help everyone though most of the residents in the rural area are so poor at times not even enough food yet they are always smiling and mange to see the good in the world.

One of her current project is to buy a cow and that cow has babies and provides an income for the family. A cow
costs $750/-. They can sell the calf and earn equivalent of 9 months’ salary with the money thereby regaining their dignity.

To date she has raised just over $75,000/- this has helped a boarding school in the mountains to get clear water. Sewers have been fixed so that do not overflow and contaminate the water. 45 orphans are provided with annual dental and optical check-ups, also provided 16 wheel chairs and 6 walkers, planted over 100 fruit trees and vegetable garden to make them self-sustainable. Started an incense making business, 5 agent orange victims have been sent for computer training courses, 60 highly disabled residents at Peace Village have an extra career. Donations have also supported salaries of physiotherapists, 33 children have remained in school because of the bicycles provided. 100 orphan kids saw the beach for the first time. 44 orphans have been provided with school uniforms every year. In conjunction with Rotary we have recently began a vaccination program after 3 children died from mumps. Rotary has also helped in building toilets and showers improving living standards and hygiene. The list goes on for more details please visit my blog www.missionnampossible.blogspot.com.au

Your club’s contribution in cash or kind will go a long way – we can’t fix everything everywhere, but we could surly make it better.         
 
Winners:
 
Ross Ballinger won the Raffle, Heads & Tails won by Bernard Chandra.
 
Next Week:
Steve from Murrin Bridge project that we have sponsored will give the club an update.
 
Jilda’s email jilda.coles@wge.com.au If you don’t inform Jilda remember - YOU WILL HAVE TO PAY NO IFS NO BUTS
 
Night Report: Cawas Sahukar

Night Photos - Peter Stanton

Birthdays

Bernard Chandra 12th March

Anniversaries

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This Week's Humour

God loves drunk people too

A man and his wife were awakened at 3:00 am by a loud pounding on the door.
The man gets up and goes to the door where a drunken stranger, standing in the pouring rain, is asking for a push.
"Not a chance," says the husband, "it is 3:00 in the morning!"
He slams the door and returns to bed.
"Who was that?" asked his wife... "Just some drunk guy asking for a push," he answers.
"Did you help him?" she asks
"No, I did not, it's 3am in the morning and it's bloomin' well pouring with rain out there!"
"Well, you have a short memory," says his wife. "Can't you remember about three months ago when we broke down, and those two guys helped us?
I think you should help him, and you should be ashamed of yourself! "God loves drunk people too you know."
The man does as he is told, gets dressed, and goes out into the pounding rain.
He calls out into the dark, "Hello, are you still there?"
"Yes," comes back the answer.
"Do you still need a push?" calls out the husband.
"Yes, please!" comes the reply from the dark.
"Where are you?" asks the husband.
"Over here... on the swing," replied the drunk.

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There were four churches and a synagogue in a small town:
a Presbyterian church, a Baptist church, a Methodist church,
a Catholic church and a Jewish synagogue.  Each church
and the synagogue had a problem with squirrels.

The Presbyterian church called a meeting to decide what to
do about their squirrels.  After much prayer and consideration
they determined the squirrels were predestined to be there
and they shouldn't interfere with God's divine will.

At the Baptist church the squirrels had taken an interest in the
baptistery.  The deacons met and decided to put a water slide
on the baptistery & let the squirrels slide in & drown themselves.
The squirrels liked the slide &, unfortunately, knew instinctively
how to swim so twice as many squirrels showed up the following week.

The Methodist church decided that they were not in a position to
harm any of God's creatures.  So, they humanely trapped their
squirrels and set them free near the Baptist Church. Two weeks
later the squirrels were back when the Baptists took down the
water slide.

But the Catholic Church came up with a very creative strategy.
They baptized all the squirrels & consecrated them as members
of the church.  Now they only see them on Christmas and Easter.

Not much was heard from the Jewish synagogue, they took one
squirrel and circumcised him.  They haven't seen a squirrel since.

-- Jim Simpson

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Bulletin Editor - Douglas Lam

Meetings

The Club alternates meetings:
Generally, one "Face to Face" one Monday and a Zoom meeting the next Monday.
Face to Face
Meet at Springfield House
Arrive 6:30pm, Start 7:00pm, End 9:00pm
245 New Line Rd
Dural NSW 2128 Australia
​Zoom
Arrive 7:15pm Start 7:30pm End 8:30pm