Upcoming Events
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 12noon on the Thursday prior to a face-to-face meeting. Charges for non-attendance will be incurred unless previously advised.
Note: Meeting Times
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Springfield House 6:30 for 7:00pm
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Zoom Meeting 7:15 for 7:30pm
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Duty Roster
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President Report
Greetings all. I hope this bulletin edition finds you well and enjoying a week free from a formal Clu ... |
Night Report
No Night Report as Club attended RC Carlingford's 50th Anniversary celebrations |
Photos and more ...
Toys transfer to Terry the Toy Man, and photos of Carlingford's 50th Anniversary. |
Humour
Have used contributions from Max, Tony C & Neville. Many Thanks Humour Bank balance is Three. Need help raising this balance. |
Notice of Annual General Meeting received 6 November
Members are advised that the Annual General Meeting of the Rotary Club of West Pennant Hills and Cherrybrook Inc. will be held on 5th December 2022 by ZOOM at 7.30pm.
Business to be conducted includes acceptance of minutes from the previous AGM, presentation and acceptance of the annual financial statements for 2021/2022, confirmation of auditor for 2022/23 and election of office bearers for 2023/24.
Copies of financial statements and Auditor’s Report are attached.
Members wishing to nominate for board positions should contact Secretary Tony Makin or President Janelle Craig for information. A nomination form is attached.
Regards
Tony Makin
Secretary
Business to be conducted includes acceptance of minutes from the previous AGM, presentation and acceptance of the annual financial statements for 2021/2022, confirmation of auditor for 2022/23 and election of office bearers for 2023/24.
Copies of financial statements and Auditor’s Report are attached.
Members wishing to nominate for board positions should contact Secretary Tony Makin or President Janelle Craig for information. A nomination form is attached.
Regards
Tony Makin
Secretary
Grace's Place - Saturday - Briefing email |
Dear all,
Thank you so much for your commitment to be at Grace’s Place this weekend to assist with the preparation of the centre for the Government unveiling ceremony taking place Monday 14 November. We appreciate your help so much.
We are expecting to host between 50 – 60 volunteers, staff and contractors at the working bee. Tim Carrick our Project Manager and Sam Robinson our Interior Decorator will be onsite from 07:00. We expect that our volunteers will come and go during the day to suit their own schedules.
Please note that the site is still in construction phase and therefore care will need to be taken in and around the building. We request that at a minimum closed in shoes be worn during the day. Works will be predominantly focussed on outdoor/gardening activities (planting, pruning, mulching, watering) please also bring hats and sunscreen. If you have tools readily available we would also appreciate you bring them with you (basic gardening tools, brooms, etc.)
Some indoor activities will also be scheduled in the Program Arm of the centre. These include, assembling flat pack furniture, styling rooms, packing items for storage and cleaning. For those who will be assisting indoors, old towels, stanley knives, stick vacuums etc might be needed on the day.
Refreshments and lunch will be provided for all 😊
Date: Saturday 12 November
Time: 07:00 – 15:00
Address: 38 Doonside Road, Doonside Google Maps
Thank you again for your ongoing commitment to Grace’s Place. I am very much looking forward to meeting you all there.
Best regards,
Paula McKain
Logistics Team Co-ordinator | Grace’s Place
Thank you so much for your commitment to be at Grace’s Place this weekend to assist with the preparation of the centre for the Government unveiling ceremony taking place Monday 14 November. We appreciate your help so much.
We are expecting to host between 50 – 60 volunteers, staff and contractors at the working bee. Tim Carrick our Project Manager and Sam Robinson our Interior Decorator will be onsite from 07:00. We expect that our volunteers will come and go during the day to suit their own schedules.
Please note that the site is still in construction phase and therefore care will need to be taken in and around the building. We request that at a minimum closed in shoes be worn during the day. Works will be predominantly focussed on outdoor/gardening activities (planting, pruning, mulching, watering) please also bring hats and sunscreen. If you have tools readily available we would also appreciate you bring them with you (basic gardening tools, brooms, etc.)
Some indoor activities will also be scheduled in the Program Arm of the centre. These include, assembling flat pack furniture, styling rooms, packing items for storage and cleaning. For those who will be assisting indoors, old towels, stanley knives, stick vacuums etc might be needed on the day.
Refreshments and lunch will be provided for all 😊
Date: Saturday 12 November
Time: 07:00 – 15:00
Address: 38 Doonside Road, Doonside Google Maps
Thank you again for your ongoing commitment to Grace’s Place. I am very much looking forward to meeting you all there.
Best regards,
Paula McKain
Logistics Team Co-ordinator | Grace’s Place
Background photo: Sod Turning Ceremony Sep 2019
From: Claire Thorpe
To: Tony Coote
Hi Tony,
Thank you so much for calling and speaking to Sana yesterday and my apologies for the delay in contacting you. I have been working very limited hours post event, as well as taking time off whilst my mum is visiting from the UK. I am in today and wanted to contact to say a HUGE thank you to you, Janelle and everyone at West Pennant Hills and Cherrybrook Rotary for the incredible efforts, time and delicious food at my event in Metcalfe Park a week last Sunday. It was a wonderful and amazing day and to have you and your members come along and be a part of it really helped to make the event the success that it was. I am so very grateful and truthfully could not do these events without people and organisations like you.
I estimate that we had 1,200 people attend. The exact figure is tough to know as not everyone checked in at the registration. This is something we’re now reflecting on improving next year. We couldn’t do QR code check in due to some website platform limitations making it more difficult than we’d have liked, but we did a rough count on the day we think this figure is about right.
I have also attached our banking information as requested by Janelle. She mentioned that you would like to make a donation which is so incredibly generous. I appreciate this so much. Does this have everything you need?
Thank you once again for the wonderful work on the day. People loved the food and I had so many wonderful comments about you all after the event. It was such a joy to meet you all and thank you once again for your amazing contribution.
Thanks so much and do let me know if you have any questions.
To: Tony Coote
Hi Tony,
Thank you so much for calling and speaking to Sana yesterday and my apologies for the delay in contacting you. I have been working very limited hours post event, as well as taking time off whilst my mum is visiting from the UK. I am in today and wanted to contact to say a HUGE thank you to you, Janelle and everyone at West Pennant Hills and Cherrybrook Rotary for the incredible efforts, time and delicious food at my event in Metcalfe Park a week last Sunday. It was a wonderful and amazing day and to have you and your members come along and be a part of it really helped to make the event the success that it was. I am so very grateful and truthfully could not do these events without people and organisations like you.
I estimate that we had 1,200 people attend. The exact figure is tough to know as not everyone checked in at the registration. This is something we’re now reflecting on improving next year. We couldn’t do QR code check in due to some website platform limitations making it more difficult than we’d have liked, but we did a rough count on the day we think this figure is about right.
I have also attached our banking information as requested by Janelle. She mentioned that you would like to make a donation which is so incredibly generous. I appreciate this so much. Does this have everything you need?
Thank you once again for the wonderful work on the day. People loved the food and I had so many wonderful comments about you all after the event. It was such a joy to meet you all and thank you once again for your amazing contribution.
Thanks so much and do let me know if you have any questions.
Claire Thorpe
Fundraising Events Manager Black Dog Institute Hospital Road, Randwick NSW 2031 |
Pavillion Theatre - Wednesday 16 November
A gentle reminder that we need numbers for the next theatre night by next Thursday 10th November 2022.
We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
To friends of the Rotary Club of North Rocks
The Rotary Club of North Rocks is pleased to announce our next theatre night..............
Castle Hill Players are pleased to return with a great theatre for all to enjoy at:
Pavilion Theatre,
Castle Hill Showground,
10 Doran Drive,
Castle Hill.
This comedy is on Wednesday 16th November 2022. The Rotary Club of North Rocks looks forward to seeing you for a night of excellent theatre at the cost of $30 per person. Cash payments will be collected on the night.
The Rotary Club of North Rocks is pleased to announce our next theatre night..............
Castle Hill Players are pleased to return with a great theatre for all to enjoy at:
Pavilion Theatre,
Castle Hill Showground,
10 Doran Drive,
Castle Hill.
This comedy is on Wednesday 16th November 2022. The Rotary Club of North Rocks looks forward to seeing you for a night of excellent theatre at the cost of $30 per person. Cash payments will be collected on the night.
Picasso at the Lapin Agile
By Steve Martin
Albert Einstein meets Pablo Picasso in a Parisian cafe in 1904, just before Einstein transformed physics and Picasso set the art world on fire. These two geniuses banter and muse on the century passed and the century yet to come with infectious dizziness.
Montmartre locals, including the bartender and his mistress, Picasso’s agent and his date, an elderly philosopher, a Countess, and an idiot inventor round out the ensemble and stamp their own indelible mark on proceedings. The final surprise patron to join the merriment at the Lapin Agile is a charismatic, dark haired, time traveller with blue suede shoes.
Renaissance man Steve Martin’s first play, Picasso at the Lapin Agile is wildly inventive, revelling in ribaldry, witty wordplay, and a healthy sense of the absurd.
By Arrangement with ORiGiNTM Theatrical On Behalf of Samuel French, a Concord Theatricals Company.
We will be serving cheese and wine in the foyer before the play, as approved by the Board of the Pavilion Theatre.
The doors will be open from 7:30pm, with the play starting at 8:00pm. As those who have attended previously will know, parking is extremely easy. For those who are uncertain about directions, the theatre is in the Castle Hill Showground precinct, off Showground Road at Castle Hill.
Can you please let us know how many of you and your friends are coming by Thursday 10th November 2022?
We look forward to seeing you there!
**The Pavilion Theatre is a registered COVID Safe venue with the NSW Government. We have enhanced health and hygiene measures in place to keep our visitors to the theatre safe. We will be operating in line with the NSW Public Health orders in place at the time of reopening. These include wearing a facemask in the theatre.
The 2023 season has not yet been announced - however a sneak preview has let us know that the first play in 2023 will probably be 'A Few Good Men'
Kind regards
Fay Kitto
Rotary Club of North Rocks
By Steve Martin
Albert Einstein meets Pablo Picasso in a Parisian cafe in 1904, just before Einstein transformed physics and Picasso set the art world on fire. These two geniuses banter and muse on the century passed and the century yet to come with infectious dizziness.
Montmartre locals, including the bartender and his mistress, Picasso’s agent and his date, an elderly philosopher, a Countess, and an idiot inventor round out the ensemble and stamp their own indelible mark on proceedings. The final surprise patron to join the merriment at the Lapin Agile is a charismatic, dark haired, time traveller with blue suede shoes.
Renaissance man Steve Martin’s first play, Picasso at the Lapin Agile is wildly inventive, revelling in ribaldry, witty wordplay, and a healthy sense of the absurd.
By Arrangement with ORiGiNTM Theatrical On Behalf of Samuel French, a Concord Theatricals Company.
We will be serving cheese and wine in the foyer before the play, as approved by the Board of the Pavilion Theatre.
The doors will be open from 7:30pm, with the play starting at 8:00pm. As those who have attended previously will know, parking is extremely easy. For those who are uncertain about directions, the theatre is in the Castle Hill Showground precinct, off Showground Road at Castle Hill.
Can you please let us know how many of you and your friends are coming by Thursday 10th November 2022?
We look forward to seeing you there!
**The Pavilion Theatre is a registered COVID Safe venue with the NSW Government. We have enhanced health and hygiene measures in place to keep our visitors to the theatre safe. We will be operating in line with the NSW Public Health orders in place at the time of reopening. These include wearing a facemask in the theatre.
The 2023 season has not yet been announced - however a sneak preview has let us know that the first play in 2023 will probably be 'A Few Good Men'
Kind regards
Fay Kitto
Rotary Club of North Rocks
Picasso at the Lapin Agile's director Dave Went talks about why he got involved in this production.…
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Christmas Puddings (rotary fundraiser)
From: kaye carter
Date: October 24 To: Janelle Craig Subject: Fwd: Puddings rotary fundraiser Hi Janelle I bought some puddings last year. I still have one so I'm not buying any this year. Maybe our members may be interested? Best wishes Kaye |
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From: Bob Selinger Date: Mon, 24 Oct Subject: Puddings To: Peter Nathan The good news - final date for pudding orders has been extended to Friday 25th November. Delivery should happen in the first week of December. Updated order form and price list attached. You may be interested to know that the two most popular puddings so far are Round Classic 1 kg and Chocolate Rum and Raisin Log 500gm. Best regards Bob Selinger Rotary Club of North Ryde On Wallumattagal Country |
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Christmas Market - Stalls available
The Flyer for the Christmas Market was released in late October.
Despite an initial rush of applications from stallholders, there are still stall sites available. If you know of a potential stallholder, can you please contact John Caruana or Neville Hansen. In addition, you could supply the potential stallholder this link: http://www.wphcrotary.org/2022-christmas-market.html |
CUC Community Chat
Cherrybrook Uniting Church has started an externally focused midweek activity. This is called CUC Community Chat.
- CUC Community Chat provides an opportunity for people within our community to meet and engage in discussion on social justice, current affairs and important topics.
- CUC Community Chat is broadly defined as: Meet, Listen, Respect and Share as we understand everyone has different views.
- CUC Community Chat is held on 1st and 3rd Tuesday of every month. It runs from 8pm to 9:30pm in the Bethlehem Hall at Cherrybrook Uniting Church (134 New Line Road, Cherrybrook)
- Tea and coffee is available or you can BYO if preferred. You can also bring beer/wine and nibbles if you so desire.
- Politics: Monarchy versus Republic.
- Is it time Australia released the shackles of the Monarchy?
- Family & Relationships: Impact of working from home on family life.
- Apart from the simple logistics of it, what impact is this having on the structure of the family
Japanese Gardens, Cowra courtesy Dave MAY 2021
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.
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.