Photo: Cherrybrook ​metro station by Brendan Metcalfe 

 

Welcome to our Bulletin

Upcoming Events

Saturday 12th August
Bunnings Castle Hill BBQ

Monday 14th August
​Vocational Visit: 
Location: 3D Printing Online, 6/7 Salisbury Road, Castle Hill
Time:               6PM
Presentation: Rodney Scheffer - Showcase of 3D printing 
Dinner: 7:15PM at George's Pizzeria (next door to 3D Printing)

Friday 18th August
The Perfect Murder at Woy Woy Little Theatre

Monday 21st August
Guest Speaker - Neil Berry - Bowel Cancer
Last regular night at Springfield

Saturday 26th August
Trivia Night : Cherrybrook Community Centre

Monday 28th August
​Informal Zoom gathering

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 by 6:00pm on the Wednesday prior to a face-to-face meeting. Charges for non-attendance will be incurred unless previously advised.

Note: Meeting Times

Springfield House     6:30 for 7:00pm

 Zoom Meeting    7:15 for 7:30pm​

 

​Duty Roster

• If you are rostered and be unable to attend the meeting, please contact the person doing your role in the following week(s) and arrange a swap. It is strongly advised to inform Anne.
• If you are aware of an absence beyond the time frame of the above then refer to the 26 Week Roster and arrange a swap with another doing your role. Again, please advise Anne of your swaps.
• If you are aware of future absences, beyond the 26 Week Roster, please inform Anne so, she does not roster you during your absence.
• Anne is not an information conduit; you must also message Ros Hogan.

Duty Roster Duties

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President Report
Hi All, this was our first Zoom meeting for the year, and we had to be finished by 8:30pm for the start of the M ...​

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Night Report 
Sergeant John Caruana called the meeting to order and asked Janelle to propose a toast. Janelle toasted ...

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Many thanks to Alex

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Humour
Contributors are Cawas, David and Jim.
​​​Humour Bank balance is​ twenty six. I am always looking for more.

Humour

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New Member Bio's

Monica Sweeney

I’m a Business and Leadership Mentor and Behavioural Profiling Consultant with 30 years of corporate experience in a broad range of sectors.
I have a Bachelor's degree in Social Communication with a major in Marketing, a Master's Degree in Psychology in Education and an Advanced Diploma in Life Coaching.
I’ve been working alongside government departments, public and private companies and their executives, assisting in significant projects that shape their future.
I was married, 2 kids, Caroline is 36, married with no kids and Alex, 29. Both live in Australia since I relocated from Brazil.
I’m also on the Board of Directors of the ABCC - Australia Brazil Chamber of Commerce, supporting government relations and international trade.

I’ve been supporting the International Community, in particular as the Vice-President of the Brazilian Community Council of Australia, BRACCA, where we not only promote the Brazilian culture, but look after the issues the community faces like DV, hardship, hospitalisation, mental health and other needs.
In the past I volunteered for projects with the less fortunate population back in Brazil, creating awareness of the needs for sanitation, clean water and homelessness.
I also have a large experience coordinating co-operation agreements between researchers and the private sector in education and sustainability.
It is an honour to be part of Rotary and I’m looking forward to contribute with Rotary activities in my capabilities and with the projects that can make a difference to people’s lives.
Monica Sweeney

Sandra White

I joined the RC of Lindfield in 2002 when my last child’s school life came to an end, by this time I had been divorced. My ex-husband now has vascular dementia and I help him out weekly.
I worked at Knox Grammar School in Wahroonga for 22 years, firstly managing the Alumni office then later moved to the Archives and Museum. I did not grow up in this area, so when my sons started at Knox, I became very involved, joining various committees to meet people, 30 years on many of us still meet up regularly to maintain the friendships we made long ago. It was an Old Boy of the School suggested I come along to a Rotary meeting, in those days Lindfield met a Killara Bowling Club, as his wife was also a member I went and was so warmly welcomed I continued to attend meetings and decided to join, not thinking I would be there for over twenty years later.
​Lindfield had 50 members back then and I felt like I had 50 new wonderful like-minded friends. It was a wonderfully warm friendly club. We had a member of the RC of Penzance (U.K) he had married an Australian lady and wanted to join a club here, he said he attended many Rotary Clubs until he found us and became a member.

​Back in the day our major fund raiser was a FunRun which I convened a few times, I am a Past President (2010/11) and a Paul Harris Fellow. I am currently Club Service Director for Ku- PO Box 103W, West Pennant Hills, 2125 – District 9685 Club meets Mondays 6:30pm for 7:00pm at Springfield Function Centre, Old Northern Road, Dural ring-gai and the program manager and we also run the Dementia Café at West Pymble, so I’m there every Tuesday, it is most rewarding.
While a member of Lindfield I held the position of Secretary for 4 years, was the Community Service Director a number of times and arrange social events for members and partners.
I have two son’s and a daughter; I have 5 grandchildren and Bob a gentleman friend who lives out of this area.
​Sandra..

END PLASTIC SOUP

See a recording of:
​End Plastic Soup, District 9685 Seminar 1, 27.07.2023:

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RCWPHC would like to thank Marilyn Kenney (d9685) for enabling this presentation.

Shopping for Vegetables

Snow Peas, Beans and Field Mushrooms

Today I did something new.
Usually when buying vegetables (snow peas and beans) I place them in plastic bags at Martelli's, bring them home and decant them into woven mesh bags for storage in the refridgerator.
Today I took these woven bags to Martelli's and filled them directly.
This obviated the threat of plastic refuse being a problem from this particular purchase.
​Keith

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Zone 8 Regionalisation Webinar

Last week, members of the Regionalisation Steering Group hosted a series of webinars to share information about the work currently happening in the Regionalisation Pilot. 
Over 200 people tuned in across the three webinars, with lots of great questions asked about the proposed Regional Council, Community Groups and Leaders, the Specialist Network, and the Pilot more broadly. 

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Watch Recording of the final seminar:

View Seminar

Download Presentation Slides:

Slides

Trivia Night

Rotary Myth Buster Flyer

2024 District Conference
Friday 15th March to Saturday 16th March 2024

d9685 rotary conference 2024 link

 

 

Are You a Centurion?

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

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How to Be a Centurion

To read a digital version of our favourite magazine, click below

Please contact Alex Jugueta if you know of any prospective guest speakers of interest to the club.

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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 Neville (0412 064 336)
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 Janelle to get log on details and join us on Zoom instead

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