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Upcoming Events
Next Meetings
Club Assembly |
Monday 8th April |
Combined Meeting of Hills, Norwest & Upper North Shore Zones |
Monday 15th April |
Riccaro Bosi to speak about life while serving in the Middle East
Young Professionals Group |
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Easter Monday - No meeting |
Monday 22nd April |
Upcoming Events
Combined Meeting - Hills and Norwest Zones |
Monday 15th April 2019 |
There is a Rotary combined meeting scheduled for Monday April 15th at Springfield and Partners are welcome. The speaker will be; Riccardo Bosi – Riccardo is a former member of the National Speakers Association of Australia, having achieved in his first year of professional public speaking, the award of Best New Speaker for 2007 by The Executive Connection. Riccardo will speak about life while serving in the Middle East. See below.
Riccardo Bosi's Afghan Adventures
Riccardo Bosi's Afghan Adventures
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ANZAC Commemoration Dinner 2019 |
Tuesday 23rd April 2019 |
Our Guest Speakers this year will be Vin and Nancy Cosgrove. Vin was conscripted for his military service in Vietnam during 1966 and served as a M60 machine gunner. They will talk to us about Australia's Involvement In The Vietnam War, which will include an excellent audio visual presentation.
Both Vin & Nancy are professional speakers on the Vietnam conflict. They have delivered over 800 presentations throughout Australia to schools, service organisations, community groups and war veterans over the past 24 years.
We have been very fortunate to get Vin & Nancy for our dinner and this will be an excellent opportunity to see, hear and experience these engaging speakers.
The history of Australia's involvement in the decade long Vietnam War has created much interest over recent years.
Australia's initial defence commitment involved sending 30 military advisors in 1962 and this subsequently grew to a maximum of 7,672 men and women who served in our Army, Navy and Air Force during the course of the campaign.
All told around 61,000 Australian military personnel served in the Vietnam conflict in terms of the regular rotational arrangements required to relieve the various service units.
The war was a costly one too. 521 of our military personnel were killed and over 3000 were wounded. The war was estimated to have cost our government about $218 million - over $33 billon in today's $$'s.
Both Vin & Nancy are professional speakers on the Vietnam conflict. They have delivered over 800 presentations throughout Australia to schools, service organisations, community groups and war veterans over the past 24 years.
We have been very fortunate to get Vin & Nancy for our dinner and this will be an excellent opportunity to see, hear and experience these engaging speakers.
The history of Australia's involvement in the decade long Vietnam War has created much interest over recent years.
Australia's initial defence commitment involved sending 30 military advisors in 1962 and this subsequently grew to a maximum of 7,672 men and women who served in our Army, Navy and Air Force during the course of the campaign.
All told around 61,000 Australian military personnel served in the Vietnam conflict in terms of the regular rotational arrangements required to relieve the various service units.
The war was a costly one too. 521 of our military personnel were killed and over 3000 were wounded. The war was estimated to have cost our government about $218 million - over $33 billon in today's $$'s.
We will have an attendance sheet available at our meetings on 1st and 8th April, alternatively if absent please advise Max via email if you wish to attend. Payment $50.00pp may be made at these meetings or alternatively online to our club’s General Account. Please identify your payment with your surname and ANZAC.
St Gabriel’s School Castle Hill – Another Project for Us.
Following on from our successful funding and installation of a Sporting Equipment Shed and Shade Sails installed by Tom Westcott for St Gabriel’s in 2018, we asked if our club could support a new project this year.
The Board believes that St Gabriel’s is our best local community Service Opportunity and fits well with the criteria we developed for the “Next Big Thing” project.
At the board meeting on 13th March, the Board decided to go ahead. With this commitment in place, work will take place during the second school term and we will be looking for volunteers to assist.
Details from St Gabriel’s are below.
Sustainability is a focus for the school this year and one of the projects we want to get off the ground and particularly involve the new year 7 seven students is a school community vegetable garden. Part of the new year 7 curriculum in Food Technology is a focus on Life Skills (home cooking). We think having a vegetable garden in this area will be a very good way to teach the life skills cooking program from a wholistic approach.
We’ve had some meetings with our Deputy Head and the year 7 teacher and drawn up a concept of what we would like to do and how we would like to organise it. The area we are looking at is next to the new modular classrooms (see Vege Bed Area pic attached). Attached is a scale plan and a breakdown of elements and costings for the project.
We’d like to make the area self-contained, so that everything we need is right there and can also be packed away. So we’d start with a small storage shed for tools, we can harvest water from the classroom roofs into a tank, we could compost. Teachers could also use an outdoor blackboard to plan lessons in the area. We’d have a range of bed heights for our students to access as well as colourful beds and a welcoming sign for the area that maybe our art department can help out with.
In terms of a project cost, we estimate that it would be in the range of 4-5K to purchase everything but there would also a few man-power days in erecting the timber shed, setting up and filling the beds, setting up the water tank and reworking the gutter, so it is definitely a project that you can get your hands dirty on.
Neville Hansen and I will lead the project for our club.
Tony Coote
Completed Events
2019 Giant Book Sale
The West Pennant Hills & Cherrybrook Rotary Club had a very successful 2019 Giant Book Sale on Friday 22nd, Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th March raising over $16,000 for our charities – Angel Flight, SOKS (Save Our Kids Suicide Prevention), Operation Hope and Rotary Projects Helping People plus our work supporting the drought relief in the Coonabarabran area.
We would like to thank everyone that either came along to help during our book sort days, the lead up preparation to the Book Sale, or during the sale itself, including members, sons & daughters, Probus club members, students and other friends of Rotary as well as community members.
Many customers commented on the high quality of the books, including how well organised the overall layout was with fiction books sorted by author surname and non-fiction sorted into 34 main categories, which allowed them to easily find what they were looking for. Children’s books were very popular, with many parents buying up big on Friday.
The Sunday clearance sale, where customers could buy good quality books by the bag, records, DVDs and CDs all at half price, proved to be extremely popular.
Thanks also to the Cherrybrook Uniting Church for use of their premises and support for the Book Sale.
The West Pennant Hills & Cherrybrook Rotary Club would like to thank all those who generously donated books, records, DVDs and CDs. Without your kind generosity, the Book Sale would not have been the success that it was.
Thank you all so much.
We would like to thank everyone that either came along to help during our book sort days, the lead up preparation to the Book Sale, or during the sale itself, including members, sons & daughters, Probus club members, students and other friends of Rotary as well as community members.
Many customers commented on the high quality of the books, including how well organised the overall layout was with fiction books sorted by author surname and non-fiction sorted into 34 main categories, which allowed them to easily find what they were looking for. Children’s books were very popular, with many parents buying up big on Friday.
The Sunday clearance sale, where customers could buy good quality books by the bag, records, DVDs and CDs all at half price, proved to be extremely popular.
Thanks also to the Cherrybrook Uniting Church for use of their premises and support for the Book Sale.
The West Pennant Hills & Cherrybrook Rotary Club would like to thank all those who generously donated books, records, DVDs and CDs. Without your kind generosity, the Book Sale would not have been the success that it was.
Thank you all so much.
RunWest |
Sunday 31st March |
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Hi all,
The those involved in the RunWest Festival a big Thank You. Looks like a Gross revenue of $5,181 which includes the Donation Jars. By the number of bread roles left we did some 1,050 burgers which is fantastic. It is a pity Ronald McDonald next door was giving drinks away as we sold very few drinks. Again, thank you to all involved, a great day. Neville |
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Neville,
A huge thank you to you, and in particular to Douglas for all the behind the scenes effort you two put in to make yesterday the success it was. I am sure you had plenty of backup and then the team on the day!!! The four hours between 9am and 1pm were a lot of fun, a lot of calling out for more eggs, more bacon, more sausages, and Helen, we need more bread! The camaraderie and the teamwork were fantastic. Thanks for letting me be part of it, and thanks TEAM!!! Helen Ballinger |
Thanks for the accolade.
So much work behind the scene that Neville, Tom and Andrew did for the past 6+ weeks to get this event successfully executed.
Neville thought of all the minute details and the meticulous plan was flawless bar the going-ons that are out of our control.
I have learned a lot and no doubt if we get to do this again, it will be even better.
Douglas
So much work behind the scene that Neville, Tom and Andrew did for the past 6+ weeks to get this event successfully executed.
Neville thought of all the minute details and the meticulous plan was flawless bar the going-ons that are out of our control.
I have learned a lot and no doubt if we get to do this again, it will be even better.
Douglas
More Photos Courtesy of Ross
District Conference |
29th to 31st March |
G'day,
I am your Gnome.
I came from some distant place in the Blue Mountains...
I was not alone as I had several brothers.
Some 80 of us were distributed around the District by Susan Wakefield.
A fella called Colin received me from Susan and gave me to David.
I decided that David was nocturnal.
Very often, in the middle of the night, my cupboard door was flung open....
There was David, in his alltogethers, often muttering "What am I going to do with you?"
Eventually a great change occurred.
David removed the mushroom on which I rested.
Then he took my hat.
Colin filled me with a fondue.
Anne dressed me in an apron and rotary cap.
I became a Rotarian, doing good in the world!
Bob and Bev took me to a place called Newcastle, where I met all my brothers.
A couple had joined rock bands, another covered himself in sweets, and yet another, a cowboy, but rode a plane rather than a horse.
The humans held a competition about which of us gnomes impressed them the most.
I think they exhibited refined taste as they chose ME
Our Club now has a Paul Harris Award that we can give to a Community member.
I am your Gnome.
I came from some distant place in the Blue Mountains...
I was not alone as I had several brothers.
Some 80 of us were distributed around the District by Susan Wakefield.
A fella called Colin received me from Susan and gave me to David.
I decided that David was nocturnal.
Very often, in the middle of the night, my cupboard door was flung open....
There was David, in his alltogethers, often muttering "What am I going to do with you?"
Eventually a great change occurred.
David removed the mushroom on which I rested.
Then he took my hat.
Colin filled me with a fondue.
Anne dressed me in an apron and rotary cap.
I became a Rotarian, doing good in the world!
Bob and Bev took me to a place called Newcastle, where I met all my brothers.
A couple had joined rock bands, another covered himself in sweets, and yet another, a cowboy, but rode a plane rather than a horse.
The humans held a competition about which of us gnomes impressed them the most.
I think they exhibited refined taste as they chose ME
Our Club now has a Paul Harris Award that we can give to a Community member.
Photos Courtesy of District
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 Keith, so he can amend his records.
Also, to avoid being rostered on, please notify Keith of any upcoming known absences (eg holidays) from meetings in the next twelve months.
Also, to avoid being rostered on, please notify Keith of any upcoming known absences (eg holidays) from meetings in the next twelve months.
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Rotary makes amazing things happen, like:
Mobile Prenatal Clinics
Haiti has the highest maternal and infant mortality rate of any country in the western hemisphere. Rotary provided a fully equipped medical Jeep to volunteers and midwives to reach mothers and children in remote areas.
Cancer Screening
Rotarians provided a mobile cancer screening unit and awareness trainings around Chennai, India, where there is a high mortality rate of women with breast and cervical cancer due to late diagnosis.
Preventing Injuries and Deaths
Rotary members launched a $3 million, five-year pilot to save lives of mothers and children during home deliveries in Nigeria. Since 2005, they’ve also repaired 1,500 obstetric fistulas — 500 more than their initial goal — restoring dignity and hope to vulnerable mothers.
Wanted - New MembersIf you know of someone who would benefit from Rotary, or, from whom Rotary would benefit if they were a member, then contact Tony C.
Click here for a PDF copy of the form to the right, and send or give it to Tony C. |
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Significant Club Fundraising Events during the year
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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
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 [email protected] before 1pm on the Friday before the meeting. Please no communication via phone (either verbal or SMS) |
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If you are expected and do not show you will be required to pay for the meal.
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President's Report 1st April
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Many things have happened since our last meeting.
We held our most successful Book Sale. This may be judged by the monies. However, more importantly I believe the success can be judged by the high level of participation of Members, Partners and Friends of Rotary in the Sorting and Set Up activities, as well as the actual Sale days. I congratulate Rosemary and her extended team. We operated a BBQ at the inaugural RunWest event. The buzz from the people that participated is loud. The planning by Neville is/was detailed, and again a high level of participation by Members and Partners is apparent. A skinny contingent (5 persons) attended District Conference in Newcastle. Each Speaker seemed better than the last. Colin S, David, Anne and anyone I missed are to be congratulated for the input into our Club Gnome. We now have a PHF to give to a member of the community, courtesy of the District. I enjoyed the Roach Buster talk by Ravi – it was both entertaining and educational. Next week is a Club Forum. Keith |
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Night Report 1st April
A/Sergeant Janelle introduced A/President Keith who opened the meeting by thanking everyone for their efforts over a busy week end.
Brian brought us up to date with Heathers current condition.
Andrew reported on our most successful book sale netting $18500.
Tony M contributed a hollowed out Bryce Courtney full of lollies for the raffle.
Peter S updated us on our Indonesian project, draft programme out now, those who would like to participate please contact Peter.
Ross covered the Run West BBQ in Neville’s absence, we sold over 1000 burgers, grossing $5300, thanks to the organizing committee it all ran seamlessly.
Tony C advised of a potential project for St Gabrielle’s school comprising building a garden bed, shed, watering system. He will be looking for helpers over the next few months.
John T reminded us of the club commitment to the Centurion Programme.
David T reported on conference, our “Gnome” judged best keeping up the WPHC tradition. Overall a good couple of days with interesting speakers including Senior Detective Deb Wallace about her experiences in the force. Entertainment by “Enormous Horns”.
Pres Keith reminded us of the forthcoming combined meeting on 15th April with Glenhaven,Pennant Hills, Castle Hill, DGElect and others.
Roslyn introduced Ravi Singh owner of Roach Busters, which he started in 2000 after becoming disenchanted with his job as a chemist. This allowed him to become more involved with native animal rescue.
Ravi explained the current state of development of non toxic pest repellants and ingenious ways to keep your home free of the unwanted kreepys. He gave a most interesting, informative and amusing talk.
Heads and tails won by Alan and Paul won the lollies.
See you next week
Peter Cleary
Night Reporter
Brian brought us up to date with Heathers current condition.
Andrew reported on our most successful book sale netting $18500.
Tony M contributed a hollowed out Bryce Courtney full of lollies for the raffle.
Peter S updated us on our Indonesian project, draft programme out now, those who would like to participate please contact Peter.
Ross covered the Run West BBQ in Neville’s absence, we sold over 1000 burgers, grossing $5300, thanks to the organizing committee it all ran seamlessly.
Tony C advised of a potential project for St Gabrielle’s school comprising building a garden bed, shed, watering system. He will be looking for helpers over the next few months.
John T reminded us of the club commitment to the Centurion Programme.
David T reported on conference, our “Gnome” judged best keeping up the WPHC tradition. Overall a good couple of days with interesting speakers including Senior Detective Deb Wallace about her experiences in the force. Entertainment by “Enormous Horns”.
Pres Keith reminded us of the forthcoming combined meeting on 15th April with Glenhaven,Pennant Hills, Castle Hill, DGElect and others.
Roslyn introduced Ravi Singh owner of Roach Busters, which he started in 2000 after becoming disenchanted with his job as a chemist. This allowed him to become more involved with native animal rescue.
Ravi explained the current state of development of non toxic pest repellants and ingenious ways to keep your home free of the unwanted kreepys. He gave a most interesting, informative and amusing talk.
Heads and tails won by Alan and Paul won the lollies.
See you next week
Peter Cleary
Night Reporter
Night Photos
Editor Note: Click on a photo to see a larger version.
This Week's Humour
Technology, How True
Stan
JESUS AND THE LABOR SUPPORTER"
I hope you get a smile out of this one. (I don't care what party you like, this one's funny!!)
A 'liberal', in a wheelchair, entered a restaurant one afternoon and asked the waitress for a cup of coffee. The 'Liberal looked across the restaurant and asked, "Is that Jesus sitting over there?"
The waitress nodded "yes," so the 'Liberal' requested that she give Jesus a cup of hot chocolate, on him.
The next patron to come in was a 'Bob Katter' supporter, with a hunched back. He shuffled over to a booth, painfully sat down, and asked the waitress for a cup of hot tea. He also glanced across the restaurant and asked, "Is that Jesus, over there?"
The waitress nodded, so the 'Bob Katter' supporter asked her to give Jesus a cup of hot tea, "my treat."
The third patron to come into the restaurant was a 'Labor' supporter on crutches. He hobbled over to a booth, sat down and hollered, "Hey there honey! How's about getting me a cold XXXX beer?" He too looked across the restaurant and asked, "Isn't that God's boy over there?"
The waitress nodded, so the 'Labor' supporter directed her to give Jesus a cold beer "On my bill," he said loudly.
As Jesus got up to leave, he passed by the 'Liberal, touched him and said, "For your kindness, you are healed." The 'Liberal' felt the strength come back into his legs, got up, and danced a jig out the door.
Jesus passed by the 'Bob Katter' supporter, touched him and said, "For your kindness, you are healed." The 'Katter' supporter felt his back straightening up and he raised his hands, praised the Lord, and did a series of back flips out the door.
Then, Jesus walked towards the 'Labor' supporter, just smiling. The 'Labor' supporter jumped up and yelled, "Don't touch me .... I'm on a disability pension."
I hope you get a smile out of this one. (I don't care what party you like, this one's funny!!)
A 'liberal', in a wheelchair, entered a restaurant one afternoon and asked the waitress for a cup of coffee. The 'Liberal looked across the restaurant and asked, "Is that Jesus sitting over there?"
The waitress nodded "yes," so the 'Liberal' requested that she give Jesus a cup of hot chocolate, on him.
The next patron to come in was a 'Bob Katter' supporter, with a hunched back. He shuffled over to a booth, painfully sat down, and asked the waitress for a cup of hot tea. He also glanced across the restaurant and asked, "Is that Jesus, over there?"
The waitress nodded, so the 'Bob Katter' supporter asked her to give Jesus a cup of hot tea, "my treat."
The third patron to come into the restaurant was a 'Labor' supporter on crutches. He hobbled over to a booth, sat down and hollered, "Hey there honey! How's about getting me a cold XXXX beer?" He too looked across the restaurant and asked, "Isn't that God's boy over there?"
The waitress nodded, so the 'Labor' supporter directed her to give Jesus a cold beer "On my bill," he said loudly.
As Jesus got up to leave, he passed by the 'Liberal, touched him and said, "For your kindness, you are healed." The 'Liberal' felt the strength come back into his legs, got up, and danced a jig out the door.
Jesus passed by the 'Bob Katter' supporter, touched him and said, "For your kindness, you are healed." The 'Katter' supporter felt his back straightening up and he raised his hands, praised the Lord, and did a series of back flips out the door.
Then, Jesus walked towards the 'Labor' supporter, just smiling. The 'Labor' supporter jumped up and yelled, "Don't touch me .... I'm on a disability pension."
Barry F
Joke Bank content is 5.
Club Calendar
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Bulletin Editor - Mighty Duo of Neville & Keith
