Club Bulletin 15 Apr 2019

Inside This Issue

President's Report

Night Report

Humour

Club Calendar

Upcoming Events

Next Meetings

Combined Meeting of Hills, Norwest & Upper North Shore Zones

Mon 15th April

Riccaro Bosi to speak about life while serving in the Middle East

The guy has passion, experience & knowledge.
Fantastic, inspirational speaker.
Educational & inspiring.
It would have been great to have a longer session.
Excellent content, great communicator and easy to relate to.

Australian Institute of Management
Young Professionals Group

Easter Monday - No meeting

Monday 22nd April

Jeremy Carter - Building Club Membership

Monday 29th 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

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.

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.

David Turnbull and I will lead the project for our club.

Tony Coote

Completed Events

RunWest

Sunday 31st March

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

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

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.

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.

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 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 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.

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.

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.

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 admin@altitudecapital.com.au before 1pm on the Friday before the meeting.
Please no communication via phone (either verbal or SMS)

If you are expected and do not show you will be required to pay for the meal.