Photo: Cherrybrook ​metro station by John Cowper 

Inside This Issue

President's Report

Night Report

Humour

Club Calendar

Upcoming Events

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 07 March 2022
​Guest Speaker: Rob Ashworth - Disaster Aid SkyHydrants
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Mon 14 March 2022
Combine Meeting with Rotary Club Of Pennant Hills
​Pennant Hills Golf Club
​Cnr Copeland Road & Burns Road South Beecroft 2119
Guest Speaker: Janelle Dodd - ‘Days for Girls’ 

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Mon 21 March 2022
Guest Speaker: Neville Hansen - Australian Tour

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​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!  

District Conference 2022

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 - 28th February 2022

 

Members and Partners who attended RC Epping experienced a wonderful night. Epping were very welcoming and made us welcome. I look forward to our Club reciprocating the visit. 
I would like to thank Janelle for the alacrity in which our Club accepted the Epping invitation.
Last night I attended the AGM of the Rotaract Club of Pennant Hills Cherrybrook. They have elected Stephanie King and Elaine Lin as Co-presidents. This is similar to RC Epping, who also have co-presidents.
We have an invitation for RC Pennant Hills visit on 14th March. I agreed to accepting the invitation, despite its late nature. President Kaye tells me that after this meeting they are without a meeting place.
Next week is a Zoom meeting. I have been asked about flood relief by some Members and suggest the following link - RAWCS | Project Details 
Stay Safe and Dry

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 - 28th February 2022

A joint meeting was held with the Rotary Club of Epping on Monday night – thank you to Janelle and the Joint Presidents of Epping (Toula and Narelle)  for making it happen at short notice.  It was interesting to see how they run their meeting in a hotel with meals being ordered individually at the bistro then delivered by hotel staff.  Twenty two including 3 partners attended from our club.  The Epping club is very similar to ours, has 40 members and its primary focus is on youth, very little opportunity to fund raise over the last two years, but did raise $7000 from a virtual walk-a-thon.  They have focused on community service since the start of COVID and raised $30,000 from Federal Government and Rotary grants; and a benefactor  to build a Rotary Garden at the North Epping Primary School.  An opening will occur on April 1st .  They set up a Good Neighbour program where club members visit elderly living alone once per fortnight for 2 hours.  They have a well-supported walking Club one morning per week that is either a bush or historic walk.  Keith and Janelle gave a short overview of our club.

The speaker was Rob Edwards OAM (Wollongong Rotarian) who founded “Its Time Foundation” in 2007. Rob’s inspirational talk explained what the foundation does.  The foundation supports Rotary’s new seventh area of focus “the environment” (https://www.rotary.org/en/supporting-environment-becomes-new-area-focus)  by delivering renewable power solutions for remote Pacific Island schools (currently only in Fiji) with the dual objectives of reducing carbon emissions and enhancing education in the target communities. Its Time also established PlasticFreeOceans and Sustainable Social.  Full details can be found at https://iitime.org/about-us/. 

Rob also explained one of his fund raisers that Rotary Clubs could participate in and gain funds for themselves as well.  Tourist operators in Fiji donate holiday packages and these are raffled in Australia with 50% of the proceeds going to Its Time Foundation and 50% to the club selling the tickets.  One holiday package is made available every 3 months.  Full details can be found here https://iitime.org/raffle-intro-rotary/#:~:text=A%20new%20raffle%20starts%20three,we%20reset%20the%20draw%20dates.
  

 

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​Social Calendar 2022

​Lunch @ Il Lago Norwest - cancelled

Book Sale Dinner - Saturday 14th May 2022

BBQ at Fagan Park - TBA
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​Tony Coote

Social Meeting 7th February 2022

Welfare Report
​Updates

​Please watch this video
 

BUNNINGS SAUSAGE SIZZLE

​Dural
​Saturday 30th April
​Sunday 29th May

Help wanted

If you can assist please advise Kerry Mann
Bunnings have previously advised:
“The NSW government has defined the fundraising sausage sizzle premises as a hospitality venue under the Public Health Order.  As such, vaccination rules apply to all community volunteers operating the sausage sizzle and volunteers are required to be fully (double) vaccinated. “  

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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​Read your digital edition online
​Here

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

 

Answers

​1. O mio babbino caro - Gianni Schicchi - Puccini
2. ​Celeste Aida - Aida - Verdi
3. Voi che sapete che cosa è amor - Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) Mozart 
4. Vesti la giubba - Pagliacci - Leoncavallo
​5. Una furtiva lagrima - L'elisir d'amore (The Elixir of Love) - Donizetti
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Life's like that

What is in a name?

​1.    Lawyer’s daughter SUE. 
2.    Radiologist’s son RAY. 
3.    Surgeon's son NAIF
4.    Ophthalmologist’s daughter IRIS. 
5.    Florist’s daughter ROSE. 
6.    Mechanic’s son JACK. 
7.    Archaeologist’s son DOUG. 
8.    Thief’s son ROB. 
9.    Gymnast’s son JIM. 
10.  Jeweller's twin daughters RUBY & PEARL. 
11.  Ornithologist’s son ROBIN. 
12.  Orthopaedics' son BONEY. 
13.  Barber’s son HARRY. 
14.  Solicitor’s son WILL. 
15.  Accountant’s son BILL. 
16.  Horticulturist’s daughter IVY. 
17.  Gardener’s son PETE. 
18.  Monarch’s son PRINCE. 
19.  Dramatist’s daughter OPRAH. 
20.  Sanitation engineer’s son JOHN. 
21.  Highway engineer’s son MILES. 
22  Dietitian’s daughter OLIVE. 
23.  Actor’s son OSCAR

Part G - Nursing Home Plan 

Say you are an older senior citizen and can no longer take care of yourself and the government says there is no Nursing Home care available for you. 
So, what do you do? You opt for Medicare Part G. 
The plan gives anyone 75 or older a gun (Part "G") and one bullet. You are allowed to shoot one worthless politician. 
This means you will be sent to prison for the rest of your life where you will receive three meals a day, a roof over your head, central heating and air conditioning, cable TV, a library, and all the Health Care you need. 
Need new teeth? Need glasses? Need a hearing aid, new hip, knees, kidney, lungs, sex change, or heart? They are all covered!
No problem. As an added bonus, your kids can come and visit you at least as often as they do now!
And who will be paying for all of this?
The same government that just told you they can't afford for you to go into a nursing home.
And you will get rid of a useless politician while you are at it.
Now, because you are a prisoner, you don't have to pay any more income taxes! Is this a great country or what? 
You have solved your senior financial plan, so enjoy your week!

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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 use the link below.

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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
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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