Photo: Cherrybrook ​metro station by John Cowper 

Inside This Issue

President's Report

Night Report

Humour

Club Calendar

Upcoming Events

(NB: Due to the evolving and unpredictable situation with COVID and the extension of lockdowns announced 14/07/2021, a decision has been made by Board to take August meetings to Zoom format. We will review this should lockdowns ease. This decision has helped to provide some certainty for meetings as we move forward).
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
Suspended until further notice

7:15pm for 7:30pm 

6:30pm for 7:00 pm

Mon 16 August 2021
​Guest Speaker: Paul Mandeno
Master Storyteller

​Mon 23 August 2021
Guest Speaker: Ida Shi
Life as an International Student

Mon 30 August 2021
​Guest Speaker: Steve Paterson
Nature Photographer

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

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.

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

Pop-Up Book Sale
No dates until further notice

​Social Calendar 2021

Friendship Lunches/Dinners -- The next round of Friendship Lunches/Dinners is postponed to W/E of 18th September.
Please notify Tony Coote if you would like to be a host or a guest.
​Pizza Night at a local restaurant​ -- Friday 22nd October
Day Trip by Car -- Sunday 21st November

Tony Coote

President Keith's Report 09 August 2021

I estimate some 55+ were enthralled by the presentation from Pastor David.  In addition to our members, there were representatives of RC Pennant Hills and RC Coonabarabran.  The Coona mob held a special FtoF meeting to join in.  Additionally members of Uniting Church from Cherrybrook and Coonabarabran also attended.

I congratulate Janelle on a fantastic meeting.

We now have two members enrolled in Rotary Learning Institute, with a third expressing interest.  I urge any member to consider this wonderful course.  The Club will pay the tuition fees. 

Sticking to Learning and Development, My Rotary has access to several courses related to Rotary, and also Toastmasters.  Enrolment is free, so if you are bored during the Covid19 lockdown, why not do some surfing.       Home | Rotary International

​Stay Safe
Keith
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​2020-21 A Year To Remember
Contributed by President Keith

 Night Report - 09 August 2021

Our Zoom meeting held on Monday 9 August 2021 was attended by 40 people.

Sergeant Tony informed us that Friday 13 August was International Left-Handed Day. He gave virtues of being left-handed. There appeared to be no left-handed members of the Club although Edwina Ruff claimed to play golf left-handed. Sergeant Tony made a toast to Australian Rotary, Freedom from Covid and left-handers.
 
President Keith welcomed Alex Jugueta, Mr Grant, guest speaker Pastor David Shrimpton, Joe and Lindsay from Coonabarabran Rotary Club, Narelle Pfifer, Deborah Debono and Carolyn Woods from Uniting Church Cherrybrook, Howard and Megan and David Firth from Pennant Hills Rotary Club.
 
Members enjoyed the Changeover held on Zoom on 2 August 2021 and Keith thanked Rosemary for the work she did for the Changeover.
 
Directors’ Reports:
 
Foundation – David Turnbull had nothing to report.
 
Membership – Carol Russell advised first meeting under her directorship has been held. She will discuss outcome of that meeting at Board meeting on Wednesday night. Dooral Roundup will be out in the next few days.  Nothing in the Hills Independent yet.
 
Fundraising – Max Henderson advised they have heard back from our Silver sponsor who is renewing and waiting to hear from our Gold. Unfortunately due to Covid the Trivia night on 18 September has been cancelled and the Pop-Up Book Sale in September has been cancelled.
 
Community Service – Cawas Sahukar advised the first meeting will be held this Thursday 12 August.
 
International – Peter Stanton advised there is no further update. There are 600 unsold recyclable, reusable face masks in the Club. He is currently investigating freight costs to people in West Timor and Flores.
 
Youth – Rosemary Clarke advised that due to Covid not a lot had been happening. Hoping GPs in Schools programme will commence at Cherrybrook Technology School in Term 4.
 
Club Services – Janelle Craig advised Zoom meetings were working well. A decision had been made to continue Zoom meetings into September. John Caruana is back with the Club and his role is to source speakers. A more detailed Club calendar up to December, including social activities, will be in next bulletin
 
Treasurer’s Report – Tony Coote advised 90% of members have paid their annual dues and thanked them.
 
Social report - Tony Coote advised friendship lunches/dinners will hopefully be taking place in September. Jim Simpson is planning a pizza and red wine night at a restaurant. Tony thanked all social committee members for their input.
 
Vocational Services – Edwina Ruff is coming after all members to give talks. New members are on notice. Talks will be commencing in September.
 
Sergeant Tony handed over to Janelle to introduce our guest speaker to the Club.
 
Janelle introduces Pastor David Shrimpton from Broken Hill Rotary Club.
 
Pastor David Shrimpton is a Uniting Church minister, and currently in placement as ‘Flying Padre’ for the Broken Hill Flying Patrol, New South Wales. He has been in this role since March 2014 and enjoys engaging with people of all ages from all walks of life.
 
Prior to 2014, David and his wife Jennie were in full time ministry as officers with The Salvation Army. Together David and Jennie served for five years as church pastors / officers in Port Pirie and Golden Grove, South Australia, before relocating to the Northern Territory in 2003. 
 
In 2003 David commenced ministry in a chaplaincy role as Flying Padre with The Salvation Army. It was during these 11 years of ministry in the Northern Territory that David flourished in his passion for meeting people where they are, and communicating genuine faith through serving others. The additional training he received as Military Chaplain for the NORFORCE unit in Darwin also cemented his skills as a practical and professional chaplain.
 
David has a strong connection with the Broken Hill School of the Air, is currently Police Chaplain for the Broken Hill Local Area Command, a Disaster Recovery Chaplaincy Network chaplain and member of Broken Hill Rotary Club. He has been married to Jennie for 28 years and spends his downtime cooking, gardening, woodworking and camping.
 
After a very interesting talk by Pastor Shrimpton, Sergeant Tony advised we would forego the usual Sergeant Session and handed back to President Keith to close the meeting.
 
President Keith thanked Alex Jugueta for attending. He advised there was a Board meeting on Wednesday night. Paul Mandeno, Master Story Teller, will be presenting next week.
  
Night Reporter – Ros Hogan

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R100 Garden

Three months have passed  since the formal “opening “ of our R100 garden at the RFS/Girl Guide site. With some tender love from Anne and Tim Sharpe who covered the garden with leaf mulch and Rosemary who often weeds it on her local walks, it is flourishing.
Every plant is doing well, the DG’s plant is flowering along with several others. When you are in the area pop in to check up on it. It adds to the attractiveness of Cherrybrook.

Westmead Institute of Medical Research
“COVID -19 Variants and Vaccines, the Lockdown update”
COVID-19: Variants & Vaccines, the Lockdown Update - YouTube      

The presentation was accurate as of 9th July 2021. Some widening of the age group acceptability for the AstraZeneca vaccine have been made since that presentation date.
The 2 main speakers were Internationally renowned experts in immunology and vaccine development, Professor Tony Cunningham and Professor Sarah Palmer.
I have attached a link to that presentation. It is well worth watching.
I also took some Notes and attach for those who only wish to get a quick grab - but the notes don’t do the presentation justice.

Kind Regards
Colin McGowan

Welfare Report

Peter Stanton's surgery went very well and his recovery is progressing.

Humour of the week

GOLF IN HEAVEN
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Don’t hit any ducks!!!
Three golfing partners died in a car wreck and went to heaven...
Upon arrival, they discover the most beautiful golf course they have ever seen.
St. Peter tells them that they are all welcome to play the course, but he cautions them that there is only one rule:  "Don't hit the ducks during your first three months here."
The men all have blank expressions, and finally one of them asks, "The ducks?”
"Yes," St. Peter replies, "There are thousands of ducks walking around the course, and if one gets hit, he quacks, then the one next to him quacks and soon they're all quacking to beat the band.  It really breaks the tranquility all over heaven, and if you hit one of the ducks, you'll be punished.  Otherwise, everything is yours to enjoy.”
Upon entering the course, the men noted that there were indeed large numbers of ducks everywhere.  Within fifteen minutes, one of the guys hit a duck.  The duck quacks, the one next to it quacked and soon here was a deafening roar of duck quacks.
St. Peter walked up with an extremely homely woman in tow and asks, "Who hit the duck?”  The guy who had done it admitted, "I did.”  St. Peter immediately pulled out a pair of handcuffs and cuffed the man's right hand to the homely woman's left hand.  "I told you not to hit the ducks," he said, “Now you'll be handcuffed together for eternity.”
The other two men were very cautious not to hit any ducks, but a couple of weeks later, one of them accidentally did.  The quacks were as deafening as before, and within minutes St. Peter walked up with an even uglier woman.
He cuffed the man's right hand to the homely woman's left hand. "I told you not to hit the ducks," he said; "Now you'll be handcuffed together for eternity.”
The third man was extremely careful. Some days he wouldn't even play for fear of even nudging a duck. After three months, he still hadn't hit a duck.
St. Peter walked up to the man at the end of the three months, and had with him a knock-out, gorgeous woman - the most beautiful woman the man had ever seen.  St. Peter smiled at the man and then, without a word, handcuffed him to the beautiful woman and walked off.
The man, knowing that he would be handcuffed to this woman for eternity, let out a contented sigh and said aloud, "I wonder what I did to deserve this?”
The woman responds, "I don't know about you, but I hit a duck." 
​Jim Simpson

Rotaract - Pennant Hills and Cherrybrook Club
​Newsletter 30th March 2021

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Covid Safe food handling

Training is on-line and takes about 20 minutes – so a few could do it
https://www.foodauthority.nsw.gov.au/covid-19-awareness-food-service-training
 
The training has been developed for anyone working in NSW food retail and food service businesses and covers key measures recommended for COVID-19 control. Key topics addressed:

• COVID-19 Introduction and background
• Infection, signs and symptoms
• Self-protective measures
• Protective measures for premises and personal hygiene
• Cleaning and sanitation practices
• Social distancing measures
• Record keeping.

The course is self-guided and will take participants approximately 20 minutes to complete.
There is a 20 question multiple-choice quiz at the end.
A ‘COVID-19 awareness for food service’ acknowledgement certificate will be emailed to all participants who complete the quiz.

... and We Should be Covid Safe at Our Activities

Centurion Program and Centurion Membership application

We are now in a new Rotary Year. Please consider renewing your Centurion membership, or if not already a member, why not make this the year to become a Centurion!!!

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

Club Calendar

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

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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.

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.

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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. 


                       

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 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.​​

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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.

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 (Suspended until further notice due to Covid)
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

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