The Next Meetings

Hanvorsen Family
Noel Phelan

Monday, 10th September

Joint meeting with Glenhaven Club​

"Vegetable Sheep"
Don Huessler - Captain Cook Historian

Monday 17th September

Dr Noni Lewis
Opthalmologist: laser cataract, corneal and refractive surgeon

​​Monday 24th September

Secrets from the Palace -
the life of a coldstream guard
​Taffy Campbell

Date TBA

​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.

Inside This Issue

​President's Report

    and 2 special reports​​
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​Night Report

​Humour

Club Calendar

Upcoming Events

9th September                Bunnings BBQ - Dural

13th-14th October          Garage Sale  ALL HANDS

The Beecroft Orchestra

Report on our Cows:

Anna reports that Penny, has doubled in value.  Cherry and Brook have tripled in value as they came with a bonus calf

​Days for Girls High Tea

Entrance Club Theatre Night

This years’ theatre fundraising performance, a classic comedy by Woy Woy Little Theatre sponsored by The Entrance Rotary Club (Clive Denmark’s club) is Saturday 20th October.
There is finger food & a free drink & a friendly pre show atmosphere with a chance to catch up & chat and Clive strongly recommends arrival between 7.00 & 7.30.
Seating is being allocated on a 1st come first served basis. Clive has booked one block of 8 for family & Central Coast friends & am happy to book another block for our club members.
There are only some 114 seats and even the ones at the end have good views and are a maximum of 5 rows back!!
Funds raised are for the Aspect Autistic School in Terrigal to purchase two interactive white boards, their application for a $3,000 district matching grant $3000 has been approved.
If you wish to attend (Saturday 20th October) please email Max and make your payment of $40.00 per person into the club’s General Account and identify your payment with your Surname and "Clive".

Grease

Celebrating 40 years of the iconic movie, Grease is still the Word as Berowra Musical Society brings the classic story to the stage. With songs like Summer Nights, Greased Lightning, We Go Together and more, a cast of 40 promises a great night of song, dance, comedy and love.
If you wish to attend on Friday 26th October please email Max and make your payment into the club’s General Account and identify your payment with your Surname and "Grease".

Tarzan

We have the opportunity to see the NSW premiere of Tarzan the Musical presented by Sydney Youth Musical Theatre at Hornsby RSL Club on Friday 23 November at 7:30pm. Tickets $32 (concession-senior). Tarzan features heart-pumping music by rock legend, Phil Collins.
 
Washed up on the shores of West Africa, an infant boy is taken in and raised by gorillas who name him Tarzan. Apart from striving for acceptance from his ape father, Tarzan's life is mostly monkey business until a human expedition treks into his tribe's territory, and he encounters creatures like himself for the first time.

Tarzan struggles to navigate a jungle, thick with emotion, as he discovers his animal upbringing clashing with his human instincts.
 
If you wish to attend on Friday 23rd November please email Max, make your payment ($32.00-Senior or $37.00-Adult) into the club’s General Account and identify your payment with your Surname and "Tarzan".

September is Basic Education and Literacy Month

More than 775 million people over the age of 15 are illiterate. That’s 17 percent of the world’s adult population. 

Our goal is to strengthen the capacity of communities to support basic education and literacy, reduce gender disparity in education, and increase adult literacy. We support education for all children and literacy for children and adults.

How Rotary makes help happen

We take action to empower educators to inspire learning at all ages. 

MENTORING STUDENTS

Rotary club pairs students with celebrity and CEO mentors for success.
Read More

TEACHER TRAINING

We share our knowledge and experience with educators and other professionals who work with vulnerable populations

ADULT LITERACY

Rotary members fight adult illiteracy by working with local advocates to offer community literacy programs.

ROTARY SCHOLARSHIPS

Rotary members invest in the future by giving scholarships to students who have the potential to change our communities

EDUCATING REFUGEES

A university president and Rotary club fight Boko Haram to bring education and food to refugees in Nigeria.
Read More

COACHING TEACHERS

Realizing that getting children into school isn’t enough, Rotary shifts to mentoring and coaching teachers.
Read More

"When you teach somebody how to read, they have that for a lifetime. It ripples through the community, one by one."

Mark Wilson
Rotary Club Member

Wanted - New Members

If 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.​

Significant Club Fundraising Events during the year 

The Book Sale March 2018

As the result of a lot of hard work the April Book Sale was a great success, especially from  the organisers Andrew Little Max Henderson, Neville Hansen and Clive Denmark.  Funds raised were circa $15,000.  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

We have just had our best and most successful Garage Sale on the weekend of 7&8 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 Carol. 
Phone 8850 6515 or email  carol.russell@ybr.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 Elect's Report  3rd September 2018

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Our numbers were down as several members followed pied piper Larissa to Coonabarabran.   So some 23 met at Springfield to attend our Club Meeting.
Tony C was dragooned in the Sergeant role and performed admirably.
Our guest speaker John Waterhouse gave a moving presentation entitled Diabetes Alive about supporting Type 1 diabetic children by supplying funds to purchase a (smart) pump for insulin injection.
John has provided details of a child in our environs that needs assistance.  I will need to scan the documents and provide same to Board members prior to next week’s meeting.
Have an inspirational week.

Keith

Special Trivia Night Report    25 August 2018

Hello fellow members and partners.

Well what a great night last Saturday was.  A fabulous result and wonderful support from the community.  Another well run event by the Trivia masters Andrew and Max.  We had around 240 people present who donated just short of $7000 to help the drought distressed farmers in the Coonabarabran region.  We have taken the decision to send all the night’s takings to the Coonabarabran Rotary club to distribute as they see fit.  The operating costs will be absorbed by the club.  The money will be used to assist with farmer wellbeing and provide them with some life-luxuries that they currently cannot afford.  Anne, I, Rosemary, Rob, Gino, Ros, Andrew, Desley, Peter, Julie and Larissa will make the journey to Coonabarabran on Saturday and return on Tuesday.  We will be hosted by the Coonabarabran Club and attend their club meeting on Monday night.  I am sure we will get more detail about how our money has been used.
 
Thanks to a generous club member we are able to add another $10,000 to our donation which is absolutely wonderful.  If anyone else wishes to make a personal contribution to our clubs drought relief project that will remain running in partnership with the Coonabarabran club and would like a tax deduction receipt I can arrange that.  I am sure that the magnitude of the takings on Saturday were helped by having a good cause to promote.  This is something we should continue for future Trivia nights and even our other fundraising events where it is practical to do so.
 
I also thank the members and partners who donated goods for pamper packs to give to the farming women.  We have 22 of those to take with us and I already know they will be gratefully received.  We will also take the two bales of quality Lucerne hay that were used for props on Saturday  and which will be put to good use.
 
The Coonabarabran Rotary Club is delighted with our support for their community.  I hope this will lead to long term a sister club relationship.
 
I again thank Andrew and Max for running this event and all the people who helped set up and clean up the hall.  I also thank the community members and community organisations who supported us, our sponsors and the raffle prize donors.  Andrew has sent letters of thanks to those organisations.  Julian Lesser has expressed his congratulations for a well run event.

Pres Colin

More Pictures from the Trivia Night

....and the winners were:

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Presidents Report 3rd September     - Special Coonabarabran Trip Edition -

The Coonabarabran visit was and outstanding success and it rained during our stay, not much but every bit helps.  

We were warmly welcomed by the Coonabarabran club who joined us for dinner on Sunday night  We enjoyed their hospitality again on Monday night at their regular club meeting.  They are a club very similar to us – Do good while having fun.  Their club meeting is quite different to ours but it works well.  Club President runs all aspects of the meeting, setting up and packing up the venue and proposing the toast.  They have no fines session or raffle.  They have a door prize that allows the winner to select a playing card from a board showing those previously selected.  If the joker is selected they win the jackpot which increases by $20 if not won.  The meeting venue is as the bowling club and two course dinner is served by club members.  Andrew has lots of photos to share. ​

The club is 69 years old and currently has 26 members.  It provides many outdoor amenities for the town.  Its main fundraising is from a bookshop that operates 4 days a week throughout the year (strategically located next to the supermarket) and from providing a food van at local events such as the Open Day at Siding Spring Observatories, the annual Coonabarabran Cup Race day, and the North West Equestrian Expo. 

At the club meeting we heard from two students about their experience at the Science and Engineering Challenge which the club supports. This national event is run by the University of Newcastle and offers high school students in Years 9 and 10 hands-on experience to show that, in addition to helping to solve real-world problems, science and engineering can be fun and may even offer a potential career choice. Teams of students from different schools compete against each other in a series of eight challenges, including:

• Bridge: students construct a model bridge out of balsa wood and masking tape, which then has to support a railcar carrying increasingly heavy weights as it races across a test rig
• Catapult: after constructing their swing-arm catapult out of dowel, students gain points for length and accuracy of the flight of their projectile
• ElectraCITY: with a powered board, students use cables to connect power to a city's infrastructure at the lowest possible cost
• Helter Skelter Shelter: towers are constructed from common materials and then tested for strength and stability, through the use of weights and a shaking base which simulates an earthquake.

 
We heard from Jarod Lambert (Year 12) about his experience at the London National International version of NYSF (National Youth Science Forum).  Jarod met Erik and formed a strong friendship.  They are somewhat similar in their ability to speak competently and enthusiasm for science.  Jarod also explained that students from Coonabarabran endeavour to seek work experience in Sydney which is where he did his.  Finding companies to participate and accommodation is difficult so perhaps this is something we could explore further. 

The Coonabarabran Club were very appreciative of the $17,050 and the thirty pamper packs donated by our club.  The extra $50 came from a neighbour of Peter Cleary.  The club will decide how to best distribute our money next week.

President Jo and husband Lindsay (also a Rotarian) showed us some of the tourist attractions on Sunday so we all have lots of photos of sandstone caves and some have come home with Australian themed pottery from a local pottery.

Larissa visited the sheep farm of the Club Rotarian who co-ordinates the jumpers for lambs and she enjoyed herself immensely.  

Arrangements are underway for a few days stay at the farm after school closes in Dec.  We discovered that Larissa’s family have a farming background and Coonabarabran has a lot in common with the area where she lives.  The Coonabarabran Club normally hosts an exchange student but are having a year off.  They continue to support the Rotary Australia New Zealand Student Exchange Program (RANZSE).  Our District does not participate in this program. 
Finally our club members Anne & I, Peter, Julie, Gino, Ros, Andrew, Desley, Rosemary, Rob and Larissa enjoyed ourselves immensely and I am sure this will lead to a long-term relationship between the two clubs.  We know at least one Coonabarabran club member will be visiting us before the end of the year.

President Colin

A Report from Mikaela, our Exchange Student in Denmark

​Mikaela's,  latest report of 22/8/2018 from Denmark begins:    "The ​winds of change are upon us      
​
Godaften,

As I write today, I face a startling reality; . . . ."

​Click here to read more. 

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Night Report 3rd September  

Pres Elect Keith took the Chair for the night whilst Pres Col Sharpe and other members where visiting Coonabarabran. Tony Coote was gang pressed to act as Sergeant.

​Reports
Tony Coote– 26 members have completed the survey. Still hoping for more contributions. Perhaps as an early sign of the feedback received, the discretionary showing of the Queens photo resulted in her being left in the cupboard for the night.
Neville Hansen– Looking for members/partners/friends to advise of their availability for the garage sale. Nev sent an update email on this together with a flyer on 3/9/18.
Max Henderson- Thanked everyone for their support for the Trivia Night. 240 attended. He will leave it to Colin Sharpe to give a fuller briefing. A group are going to the Woy Woy Little Theatre to see a comedy play in support of Clive Denmark’s Rotary Club. The funds raised will be for a special needs school at Terrigal. Refer to a flyer in this Bulletin.
Paul Laroumanie- advised we now have a phone credit card processing app/device for processing credit card payments at our Fund raisers.
Janelle Craig- advised Larissa was away at Coonabarabran. Larissa is with the Love’s until 23rd Sept, Bob and Bev’s until 7th Nov, then with her until Larissa returns home.
Kerry Mann- advised we have a Bunning BBQ at Dural this Sunday 9th Sept. Whilst some members volunteered there were quite a few absentees on the Mon night so if anyone can help please contact Kerry.
Peter Stanton- has two international projects under review, Indonesia and Fiji. More information to come.

Guest Speaker
John Woodhouse (St Ives Rotary) was introduced by Tony Makin.
John and his wife Valerie spoke about Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) and presented a case for the Club to provide $3,000 (which will be added to $6,000 from Rotary Foundation/Starlight/Lions Fund) to buy a $9,000 Medronic insulin pump for a 4-year-old child living at Quakers Hill. The insulin pump injects insulin when food is digested and has a Wi-Fi connection to a carers phone to provide external monitoring. (This is as I understand it anyway). The children/young people selected under this scheme are in families where private health insurance is unaffordable and therefore not entitled to a free government one.
Without these pumps the T1D patients need blood testing 6 times a day and insulin shots 3-4 times a day. Death and extreme suffering occur within either hours or days if the insulin shot is not taken. Keith and Tony advised they were supportive and would take it to the Board for a decision.
 
Fines
Actg Sgt Tony fined Tom, Teresa and Neville because they have been away and then everybody who didn’t attend the Trivia Night. Tom was pinged again because he moved mid evening to sit between Carol and Janelle.
 
Heads and Tails
Teressa got up.

Colin McGowan
Night Reporter

 

Night Photos

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This Week's Humour

Flu Resistant

 

Miss Beatrice, the church organist, was in her eighties and had never been married. She was admired for sweetness and kindness to all. One afternoon the pastor came to call on her and she showed him into her quaint sitting room. She invited him to have a seat while she prepared tea.
As he sat facing her old pump organ, the young minister noticed a cut-glass bowl sitting on top of it. The bowl was filled with water. In the water floated, of all things, a condom!
When she returned with tea and scones, they began to chat. The pastor tried to stifle his curiosity about the bowl of water and its strange floater, but soon it got the better of him and he could no longer resist. "Miss Beatrice", he said, "I wonder if you would tell me about this?" pointing to the bowl.
"Oh, yes" she replied, "isn't it wonderful? I was walking through the park a few months ago and I found this little package on the ground. The directions said to place it on the organ, keep it wet and that it would prevent the spread of disease. Do you know I haven't had the flu all winter!"
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The pastor fainted.

Bev

Ball Sports

Amazing fact 

1. The sport of choice for the urban poor is BASKETBALL.
2. The sport of choice for maintenance level employees is BOWLING.
3. The sport of choice for front-line workers is FOOTBALL.
4. The sport of choice for supervisors is TENNIS.
5. The sport of choice for middle management is SNOOKER.

       And;
      6. The sport of choice for corporate executives and officers is GOLF.

​The amazing fact is the higher you go in the corporate structure,
The smaller your balls become.
 
There must be a lot of people in Canberra playing marbles.
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Colin McG

Wiley who?

Will Rogers, who died  in a 1935 crash in Alaska with bush pilot, Wiley Post, is virtually  unknown today but was one of the greatest country sages ever  known.
 Some of his  sayings:
 1    Never slap a man who's chewing tobacco.
 2   Never kick a cow chip on a hot day.
 3   There are two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither  works.
 4   Never miss a good chance to shut up.
 5   Always drink upstream from the herd.
 6   If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.
 7   The quickest way to double your money is to fold it and put it back into your  pocket.
 8   There are three kinds of men: 
           The ones that learn by reading.
           The few who learn by observation.
           The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence and find out for themselves.
 9  Good judgment  comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
10  If you're riding ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure its still there.
 11  Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier'n than puttin' it back  in.
 12.  After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him. - The moral: When  you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut.
  
ABOUT GROWING OLDER 
 First  ~  Eventually you will reach a point when you stop lying  about your age and start bragging about it.
 Second ~ The  older we get, the fewer things seem worth waiting in line for.
 Third ~ Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me. I want  people to know 'why' I look this way. 
​              I've travelled a long way, and  some of the roads weren't paved.
 Fourth ~ When you are dissatisfied and would like to go back to your youth, think of algebra 
 Fifth ~ You know you are getting old when everything either  dries up or leaks.
 Sixth ~ I don't know how I got over the hill without getting  to the top. 
 Seventh ~ One  of the many things no one tells you about aging is that its such a nice change  from being young.
 Eight  ~  One must wait until evening to see how splendid the day has been.
 Ninth ~ Being young is beautiful, but being old is comfortable and relaxed.
 Tenth ~ Long ago, when men cursed and beat the ground with sticks,  it was called witchcraft. Today it's called golf.
 And, finally ~ If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old.

Jim

Joke Bank content is 9 jokes.

Club Calendar

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