Club Bulletin 15Jun2020

Photo: Cherrybrook metro station by John Cowper

Inside This Issue

President's Report

Night Report

Humour

Club Calendar

Upcoming Events

Club Zoom Meeting

7:15pm for 7:30pm Mon 15 June 2020

The speaker is Janette Etherington – Interplast

The member talk is by Jaswant Thakorlal.

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 Douglas, so he can amend his records.
Also, to avoid being rostered on, please notify Douglas of any upcoming known absences (eg holidays) from meetings in the next twelve months.

Excellent Articles in Dooral Roundup
thanks Carol

Cherrybrook RFS Captain request for help

Gavin Pringle (Cherrybrook RFS Captain) is seeking part time work for his Year 10 (CTHS) son Luke between now and September.

Luke has been successful in gaining one of two available places to attend Space Camp USA. Luke is very excited. He has a scholarship from One Giant Leap Australia which will pay for half the cost. He is looking for work to raise another $3500. Luke is available to work after school and at weekends. If you know of a potential job please contact Colin Sharpe or send a message to colin@sharpe.id.au or wphc.rotary@gmail.com .

Below is an extract from the One Giant Leap Australia press release. In his application, Luke highlighted the issue of interplanetary travel. “My dream is to one day walk on Mars and even though there are many difficult challenges to overcome such as fuel, finances, political issues, propulsion, habitation, sustainability, calculations etc. I believe that no goal is unachievable. Whether it is me or someone else standing on the red planet, I want to know that I have contributed in some way to this milestone in human achievement.”

To gain the scholarship applicants first answered several questions. The answers were scrutinised by the One Giant Leap Australia Foundation Student Ambassadors. They selected the top 10. These
applicants who then had a virtual interview for more than 30 minutes. Contenders were questioned and grilled – answering many different questions and asked about the finer points of their applications. The top 4 were selected and then had a phone interview from which 2 were selected.

Further details of the Space Camp can be found at https://onegiantleapaustralia.com/

2020 Vinnies CEO Homeless sleep out

Cherrybrook resident Sreeni Pillamarri (Founder of SoftLabs – an IT company) is participating in the 2020 Vinnies CEO Homeless sleep out on June 18th at his home. Sreeni is no stranger to participating in fund raising for charity, having organised and participated in a 380 km walk from Sydney to Canberra in 2018 to raise money for drought stricken farmers. He is currently Sponsorship Director for the West Pennant Hills Cherrybrook Cricket Club, President of the United Indian Associations Inc. and Vice President of the Dural based Australian Community Inspired Association Inc.

Sreeni has achieved a lot since he arrived in Australia in 1998 including being Citizen of the Year Finalist for Australia Day, in the City of Parramatta 2018-2019. (https://www.theindiansun.com.au/2019/11/18/want-grow-business-pay-forward/)

If you would like to support Sreeni’s effort - any amount donated will be greatly appreciated. https://www.ceosleepout.org.au/fundraisers/sreenipillamarri/sydney.

A Thank You from Taldumande

Dear Rotary Club of West Pennant Hills and Cherrybrook

As we all celebrate National Volunteer Week mostly from our home offices, Taldumande Youth Services would like to extend a heartfelt thanks to all our volunteers who have helped us support over 600 vulnerable children and young people in our care from all across Sydney, over the past year.

Whether you’ve participated in a corporate backyard blitz, done regular gardening at any of our properties, designed our annual report, raised funds to help us maintain our properties and support our programs, volunteered at a fundraising event or at the young people’s Christmas party, organised donations for our young people or helped us at head office in research or administrative roles, each and everyone of you are so important to us.

Without our volunteers, the success of the provision of our services would be so much harder to achieve. You truly are Changing Communities and Changing Lives and again this year we thank you for generously performing roles that would be extremely costly to our not-for-profit organisation.

Attached is a certificate of appreciation, which is only a small token of our appreciation. If you’d like a hard copy, please email your address and I’ll arrange for a copy to be posted to you.

In the meantime, keep an eye on our Facebook and Instagram pages. We’re posting every day and we’d like you to share and like our posts so our wider community can learn about our treasured volunteers.

Have a wonderful National Volunteer Week and everyone at Taldy hopes to see you soon.

With much gratitude

Liz de Rome
Community and Volunteers Officer
Taldumande Youth Services

passed on by Cawas

Emergency Services Community Awards

The 2020 Rotary Emergency Community Service Awards are designed to recognise our emergency service personnel whom have gone above and beyond their call of duty and reflected the Rotary moto of “Service above Self”.
RESCA is a community nominated Awards, therefore it is based on the reputation of the personnel from their local communities viewpoint.

These awards were developed in 2009 by Rotarians in the Illawarra who recognised the value of not only our paid, but also our volunteer Emergency Services Personnel. The project moved to a State Project in 2015 and national in 2019. The Project has enjoyed Vice Regal Patronage by the Governor of NSW since their inception.
In keeping with the Rotary’s motto of “Service Above Self”, RESCA acknowledges and celebrates the selfless Community Service of Emergency Services Personnel whilst also supporting and funding two important Rotary initiatives:

Australian Rotary Health – PhD Research Scholarship investigating Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in Emergency Services Personnel
Emergency and Disaster Preparedness training by a competitively selected Vocational Training Team connected with a developing country in the Asia/Pacific Region

RESCA is a community-nominated Awards, therefore, it is based on the reputation of the personnel from their local communities’ viewpoint. Up to four (4) Finalists will be selected from each ESA (can be paid or volunteer). One winner per ESA (i.e. Seven (7) Agencies/Category Awards) a total of 28 Finalists and two (2) overall winners (i.e. one (1) Paid and one (1) Volunteer) who are announced at the Awards Dinner.
This year our Club has participated by encouraging the Cherrybrook RFS to nominate one of its members. Nominees are selected on three (3) criteria:

Community Service over and above the normal duties which best exemplifies Rotary’s motto, “Service Above Self’. (i.e.. a community involvement where they are not working in their role)
Personal attributes
Contribution to their organisation.

Should our candidate be successful the award will be made at a ticketed dinner on August 1 at the Bankstown Sports Club in The Grand Ballroom.

Rotary Shipping Container at Galston

We now have two 40 ft High Cube containers on Hornsby Council land at Galston. We thank Councillor Vince Del Gallego for initiating the approval process with Hornsby Council and Perry Spence from the Council for his assistance at the Galston site following approval from his managers. Thank you to Tom, Gino, David and Keith for getting the containers installed. Tom also provided the steel tubes for the footings and arranged for their installation by a concrete contractor. We now just need to install shelving then we can use them to help generate funds. Based on the cost of renting containers of a similar capacity at the next door Hills Storage we recover our storage costs within 15 months.
Galston Containers Club information 2020 05 18

Centurion Program and Centurion Membership application

The end of the financial year is approaching, it is time to consider becoming a Centurion!!!

How you can become a Rotary Foundation Centurion?
Centurion Program Donation Instructions for WPHC Rotary Club - 2020.

2020 Rotary Virtual Convention

20-26 June 2020

For more information:

NTA's COVID-19 Emergency Appeal

NTA (Nusa Tenggara Association) joins the global efforts in the fight against COVID-19 by supporting Government efforts in distributing vital information.
We need your support to lift this effort in Indonesia to produce and distribute key information and provide training for the communities, particularly on hygiene and hand washing.

http://www.nta.org.au/

President's Report 8 June 2020

We actually held a meeting on a Public Holiday. My the world is a changing place. Whatsmore, I think I saw 31 attendees, or rather devices. Plus I did not count Colin S twice.
Our Sergeant was almost unrecognisable – a bearded Max.
I reported that Springfield have stated an ability to hold regular meetings. Feedback on when to return has started.
Edwina’s Member Talk was detailed and interesting. She has not fully dispelled the thought that Ned Kelly was a distant family member.
Denis Carpenter’s presentation on Feed Phuket consolidated our effort to support this project.
Narelle Barker was passionate about School Aid and I suspect convinced those attending of this programs bona fides.
Congratulations to Bernard for his Certificate of Appreciation as recognition of his sustained input into Tree of Joy. I know I am preaching to the converted but this is our most valuable program raising presents worth in excess of $30,000.
At next week’s meeting our Guest Speaker is Janette Etherington talking about Interplast.
Have a safe week.

Rotary Rocks
Keith

Night Report - 8 June 2020

Max called the meeting to order. Andrew proposed a toast to Rotary and all the front-line workers involved with Covid 19.

President Keith welcomed all to the meeting especially our guest speaker Narelle Barker from School Aid and Denis Carpenter from Phuket Rotary. Keith mentioned that Springfield can handle regular meetings now and Keith asked members to give him feedback re that asap. He also mentioned that our Changeover will be via Zoom on Monday 6th July with guests invited. As well, he reminded us that the Rotary International Virtual Convention is from June 20 -26 and to register if interested.

Directors:

Neville thanked Adrian for collecting the remaining Bowel Kits from pharmacies. Wesley Mission sent a letter of thanks for the Tree of Joy gifts and Bernard was given an appreciation certificate for his role in the Tree of Joy.
Keith as Club Service Director for the incoming year thanked Max for his work as Social Director and asked for nominations to fill the void to which Tony Coote and Douglas Lam accepted.
Denis Carpenter spoke of the Feed Phuket program followed by a video of the activities. He thanked us for our club’s involvement.

Member talk: Edwina told us of her family tree and a little about herself with family members being involved with the bank with many family postings, Ned Kelly, cricket, Don Bradman, and athletics. In 1974 Edwina joined RPA, had 22 years continued service working in various depts. She eventually succeeded in getting accepted into a 3-year training course to become a Cardiopulmonary Technician (Cardiac Technician). Edwina transferred to RNS mid 1992 taking up the position as 2nd in charge of their ECG Dept. She was headhunted by The Sutherland Hospital in 1996 to run their ECG Dept which she did till her retirement 10 years later (in Sept 2006 )after having set up her own Mobile Cardiac business (after hours service ). In 1998 whilst at TSH she was fortunate enough to win first prize in the $5 lottery, the sum of $200,000. In 2007 Edwina bought her present home (a Duplex) in WPH and she retired in 2012. Brady was her beautiful black Labrador companion.

Guest Speaker: Colin McGowan introduced our guest speaker Narelle Barker who is also a fellow Rotarian at Epping club. Narelle is a board member of School Aid after having a successful career in education in the Independent system.
SchoolAid’s purpose is to empower young philanthropists by providing in-school support and a crowdfunding platform to enable young people ( in Years 5 and 6) to raise money for charitable causes. Since SchoolAid’s establishment in 1999, over 6500 schools have participated in more than 75 campaigns, raising some $5.5 million for charitable causes, both internationally and in Australia. SchoolAid Trust is registered with the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC). Their patron is His Excellency General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Retd), Governor-General of Australia. Some examples were collecting books for use in Fiji, collecting school items for the children affected by bush fires and meeting in board rooms to plan events.

President Keith thanked all for their attendance especially Narelle, Denis and Edwina, reminding all of a board meeting this Wednesday.

MC Max then informed us of many events from previous June 8th days followed by a very quick heads and tails won by Tony Makin.

Rosemary

Night Photos:

This Week's Humour / Interesting Facts

Quebec Pranks
These are very religious - not!!. (Thanks Stan)
Press this link to watch.

The Midwife: (Thanks, Jim)

I've been teaching now for about fifteen years. I have two kids myself, but the best birth story I know is the one I saw in my own second grade classroom a few years back.

When I was a kid, I loved show-and-tell. So I always have a few sessions with my students. It helps them get over shyness and usually, show-and-tell is pretty tame. Kids bring in pet turtles, model airplanes, pictures of fish they catch, stuff like that. And I never, ever place any boundaries or limitations on them. If they want to lug it in to school and talk about it, they're welcome.

Well, one day this little girl, Erica, a very bright, very outgoing kid,takes her turn and waddles up to the front of the class with a pillow stuffed under her sweater.

She holds up a snapshot of an infant. 'This is Luke, my baby brother, and I'm going to tell you about his birthday.'

'First, Mom and Dad made him as a symbol of their love, and then Dad put a seed in my Mom's stomach, and Luke grew in there. He ate for nine months through an umbrella cord.'

She's standing there with her hands on the pillow, and I'm trying not to laugh and wishing I had my camcorder with me. The kids are watching her in amazement.

'Then, about two Saturdays ago, my Mom starts going, 'Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh!' Erica puts a hand behind her back and groans. 'She walked around the house for, like an hour, 'Oh, oh, oh!' (Now this kid is doing a hysterical duck walk and groaning.)

'My Dad called the middle wife. She delivers babies, but she doesn't have a sign on the car like the Domino's man. They got my Mom to lie down in bed like this.' (Then Erica lies down with her back against the wall.)

'And then, pop! My Mom had this bag of water she kept in there in case he got thirsty, and it just blew up and spilled all over the bed, like psshhheew!' (This kid has her legs spread with her little hands miming water flowing away. It was too much!)'Then the middle wife starts saying 'push, push,' and 'breathe, breathe.

They started counting, but never even got past ten. Then, all of a sudden, out comes my brother. He was covered in yucky stuff that they all said it was from Mom's play-center, so there must be a lot of toys inside there. When he got out, the middle wife spanked him for crawling up in there in the first place.'

Then Erica stood up, took a big theatrical bow and returned to her seat.

I'm sure I applauded the loudest. Ever since then, when it's Show-and-tell day, I bring my camcorder, just in case another 'Middle Wife' comes along.

Club Calendar

Editor's Note: If you wish to download and print the Calendar please click here.

Bulletin Editor - Neville

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.

Significant Club Fundraising Events during the year

The Book Sale March 2020

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 $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

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.

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:-
President Keith (0478 599 155) or Tony (Membership) (0412 812 624)

Club Details:
Rotary Club of West Pennant Hills and Cherrybrook meets every Monday for Dinner at Springfield House
Arrive 6:30pm Start 7:00pm End 9:00pm
245 New Line Rd
Dural NSW 2128 Australia

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