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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 11 April 2022
Visitors Night -- Membership Drive
​Guest Speaker: TBA

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Mon 18 April 2022
Social BBQ Lunch -- Heritage Park Castle Hill

Mon 25 April 2022
​No Meeting ANZAC DAY
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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!  

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 - 04 April 2022

Best wishes to Mayor Peter Gangemi, and his wife. The couple are near term with a baby, and we missed out on a visit as mum-to-be was not well.
Janelle was brilliant in organising a political Who Am I. Gino had a great time as Neville Wran.
The Book Sale preparations start this week. In addition to the Saturday Preparation, Max has asked for an early start on Friday. If you are available, please liaise with Neville.
I am looking forward to next week’s Bring a Friend at Springfield House.
Yours in Rotary

Keith
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Centurion Program and Centurion Membership application

Please consider renewing your Centurion membership, or if not already a member, why not make this the year to become a Centurion!!!

How to Access MyRotary

Know Your Members
Edwina Ruff

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​Born in Launceston Tasmania youngest of 3, only daughter, father was a Commonwealth
Bank Manager, we got transferred around to many country towns our final transfer was to Paddington.

I loved athletics at school & represented them in inter school Athletics,& while at Paddo I joined the Woman’s Amateur Athletics Association representing Eastern Suburbs, competing at that time against an unknown Raelene Boyle...

My working career was spent in  Sydney’s 2 Major Hospitals for over 33 years holding several position, the last 25 years in Cardiology Department Labs as a Cardiopulmonary Technician before retiring in 2006 & starting my own after hours Cardiac Service. I retired fully in 2012, joined Gordon Golf Club playing in their Competitions...

I moved from Beecroft to West Pennant Hills 15 years ago, love gardening, relaxing with friends, and when possible play golf..  I am a dog lover, owned a Black Labrador for 12 years  and in June last year I was matched up with my new beautiful 6 1/2 y.o Chocolate Brown Rescue Lab, who has more rights than myself!  She loves company,  meeting and greeting people & car rides. Lots of cuddles “a must”. I dog-mind friends dogs and my place is their home away from home.

I joined West Pennant Hills & Cherrybrook Rotary Club in 2019  to help make a difference, meet new people in the Community, take on new challenges through our projects, my fellow Rotarians are sincere, friendly, welcoming and hard working dedicated people, a sense of humour “a must have” around this group!!

In 2020 our club recognised all businesses and their staff who worked at the coal face during the Covid 19 lockdown with a Special Certificate of Recognition & Appreciation, we had over 90 very deserving recipients.

Last year we held our Pride of Workmanship Awards dinner, a Plaque & Certificate is presented to businesses in the district recognised as going above & beyond their duty, we had 2 worthy recipients. Being the Clubs Vocational Services Director is an absolute Honour & Privilege, I enjoy and love being a West Pennant Hills & Cherrybrook Rotarian...

Edwina Ruff
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 - 04 April 2022

Sargent Roslyn Savio opened the meeting at 7:05pm and welcomed everyone.
Cawas Sahukar proposed the toast to Rotary and Ukraine.
President Keith also welcomed everyone and mentioned we did not have a Guest speaker, talked about his visit to Brisbane visiting family.
Tony Coote:  Treasurer - thanked Bob Davidson for all his support while he has been addressing medical issues.
  • There is no meeting 18th April, but we are having an Easter BBQ at Heritage Park – partners & friends welcome.
  • Wednesday 20th April is a special ANZAC meeting with Lions at WPH Sports Club – details in Bulletin.
  • Peter will cover the NTA dinner, but please pay your $50 per head into the Club account (“<name> NTA”)
Peter Stanton:   NTA (Nusa Tanggara Assoc.) is having a fundraising dinner Mon 9th May (in place of our regular meeting) at Lane Cove Golf Club. Cost is $50 for a traditional Indonesian meal (BYO) and entertainment. Bring money for a silent auction and raffle tickets – Peter is hoping for good club support.
Carol Russell:  Visitor Night next meeting, 11 Apr 2022.  Please consider bringing one of your friends, neighbours, business partners or trades people.  Ideally would like everyone to bring at least one person along with them.
Max Henderson:  
  • Two Bunning BBQs coming up - Sat 30th Apr and Sun 29th May.  Still looking for members, pls contact Kerry
  • Book Sale on 13, 14, 15 May.   Book sorts on 9 Apr, 23 Apr and 7 May.   Working bee at Cherrybrook Uniting Church at 1pm Fri 8th April.   Pls let Neville Know if you can attend
Rosemary Clarke:  Thanked all who attended the Youth Night last week.   Back off on Exchange Student in 2023 due to restrictions and try again in 2024.
Janelle Craig:   Janelle thanked Ros Hogan for her efforts in co-ordinating the Attendance sheet.  Janelle also pushed the Visitors Night and the NTA dinner.
Jim Simpson:  Jim communicated that Bernard Chandra has been diagnosed with Oesophageal Cancer and is completing further tests.  Jaswant Thakortlal will come home from rehab on Thursday 7th April.

Tony Makin gave a member talk on the importance of synchronising of clocks for all types of communication and how time is used for GPS positioning.

As we did not have a Guest Speaker Janelle organised Celebrity Heads.   We played Federal, State and Local politicians.  A lot of fun.
 
Heads and Tails, won by Stan
Raffle won by George

Roslyn & Keith closed the meeting at 8:50pm.

Night Reporter:  Neville

Neville's Trip
Download the pdf from bottom left corner link 

Welfare Report
​Updates

​I’m sorry to advise members that Bernard Chandra has been diagnosed with oesophageal cancer located in the lower stomach. He is undergoing further tests Tuesday 5th April and will meet with his specialist on Friday 8th to discuss on-going treatment. He was in good spirits when I spoke to him and I will keep members informed regarding his progress.
Jaswant Thakorlal will be discharged from rehab on Thursday 7th April. Everything has gone well and he will commence physiotherapy next week. He indicated he may be able to attend our meeting on the 11th.

​Social Calendar 2022

Heritage Park Social BBQ Lunch - Monday 18th April 2022

ANZAC Dinner with Lions Club - Wednesday 20th April 2022
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Book Sale Dinner - Saturday 14th May 2022

Bushwalk and Lunch - Sunday 5th June 2022

Friendship Lunches/Dinner Second Round - Commence Sunday 12th June 2022

​Tony Coote

​ANZAC Commemoration Dinner Wednesday 20th April 2022

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Download pdf here if required
Fellow Members and Partners
As we have done for many years, we are invited to join the Lions Club of West Pennant Hills and Cherrybrook for an ANZAC Commemoration Dinner.
The dinner will be held at West Pennant Hills Sports Club. 6.00PM for 6.30PM on Wednesday 20th April. Full details are included in the flyer. (Below)
To join the event, please deposit $50 per head to our club’s General Account and we will make a group booking.
Do not pay direct to Lions Club
BSB 633 000
Account 165 073 016
Identify as your surname and ANZAC
Please ensure payment by Tuesday 12th April to our account.

​​​Fundraising Dinner for NTA
Please Note Venue Change
Download Menu here 
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​Please watch this video
 

Looking for Work for our Barbecue Trailer

Hi Fellow Members. Here is our new flyer to help us find work for our renovated BBQ trailer.
Please pass it on to those who may be interested - schools, clubs, charities, etc. Electronic or hard copies available.
Tony Coote and Douglas Lam

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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Club Calendar

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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.
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. 


                       
 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.​​
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.
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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

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