Club Bulletin 16th Apr 2018

The Next Meetings

Monday 16th April

Carers and our Society - Adrienne Mclean

Monday 23rd April

ANZAC Meeting with Lions Club - WPH Sports Club
6:30pm for 7:00pm

Guest Speaker - Annette Guterres

Australian Co-ordinator of the International Bomber Command Centre and part of the team of volunteers to interview veterans for the digital archives.

Monday 30th April

The Forgotten Art of Thank You - Amanda Barnes

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 Max, so he can amend his records.

Inside This Issue

Upcoming Events

President's Report
Night Report
Humour

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22nd April

23rd April

29th April

Car Run

ANZAC meeting with Lions Club

District Assembly

Club Calendar

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ANZAC Commemoration Dinner - hosted by Lions Club of West Pennants Hills Cherrybrook

Activity

Location

Date

Time

Cost

ANZAC Commemoration Dinner

WPH Sports Club

Monday, 23rd April

6:30pm for 7:00pm

$50.00 pp

Please make payment - either into Club General Account or at Front Desk by 9th April.
If paying into General Account please identify payment with your Surname and Anzac

Topic is Bomber Command
Speaker is Annette Guterres.

"There is a lot of interest in Bomber Command with the reunion in UK in April & very fortunate to get their top speaker in Annette. " Geoff Irvine

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Cherrybrook Public School Multicultural Food Fair

From: Miezis, Jason
Sent: Tuesday, 3 April 2018 1:57 PM
To: Cawas S
Cc: 'cherrybrookpnc'
Subject: Thank you
Dear friends at Rotary

Thank you for supporting our recent Cherrybrook Public School Multicultural Food Fair.
Your presence was definitely appreciated by the parents.

Please find attached a copy of our recent newsletter which highlights, among other things, the food fair.

All the best and thanks again for your ongoing support.

Jason
Ps My apologies for the delayed email of thanks.
CC Cherrybrook Public School P&C
Jason Miezis
Principal
Cherrybrook Public School

The link to the newsletter is Term 1 Week 7

Message from Sandy

Bulletin Editor Explanations

In Memory of Olive Turnbull
This award is presented in memory of Olive Turnbull (David Turnbull's mother) who was the Matriarch of this Club for many years. It is awarded to a NON MEMBER judged to have been the best contributor to our Club and to Rotary in general during the year earned.
The award is a certificate and fine dining gift voucher for two.

Sandy Burrage is a Past Member of the Club. She is still a tireless worker in support of the Club. Especially in support of the Garage Sale. She has a reputation for growing plants throughout the year and donating same to the Garage Sale.

Bunnings Thornleigh

Keith,
Thought this was a nice Bunnings bbq photo for this week's bulletin.
Janelle

Donations in Kind

On 7th April, bristling with muscles and enthusiasm, a band of our members joined members of a Penrith club at Donations in Kind.

We were there to fill a container with the usual DIK stuff – beds, mattresses, wheelchairs etc. We soon found out that we were to stuff a 40 foot container with hospital beds. We also filled any spaces with boxes of bandages, blankets (lots) and other hospital supplies.

We put 50 hospital beds into the container. Anyone who has been to DIK would know that the beds are so heavy they feel like they are bolted down. However, we soon got into a system and, by the time we passed the 40th bed, we could throw them around with no difficulty.

Here is an action-packed photo of the (full) container, ready for pickup.

A big effort from the team of John, Larissa, Jaswant, Douglas, Anne Sharpe, Pamela, Chloe Inglis and me plus Paul Laroumanie who was drenched with sweat and then set off to assist at the Barbeque.

Thanks team – a job very well done.
Tony M

The Next Big Thing Project - St Gabriel's School

Our current projects at St Gabriel's School at Castle Hill are completed. At the request of St Gabriel's we supplied and erected a storage shed for all their outdoor activities equipment. Through Tom Westcott's company Alfresco we supplied shade sails for their outdoor learning area.

Thanks to Tom's design and creativity, the shade sails look amazing, and have turned a disused outdoor area into a very friendly play area for the children.

We all had a great time working at the school, and Brenden Jones and his team were a pleasure to work with.

We felt a real sense of gratitude from the Staff at St Gabriel's and we will be placing a plaque on each of these projects to advertise our club's contributions. There will be a function arranged at the school shortly to thank all the contributors to this first phase of their project.

I hope we will consider further contributions to the school in the future as part of our "Big Thing" Projects.
Tony C

Car Run - "we are simply going on a leisurely drive in the country"

Country Music Dance

Chicago - Berowra Musical Society

Chicago is a story of murder, greed, corruption, violence, exploitation, adultery, and treachery,all those things we hold near and dear to our heart. Set in the legendary city of Chicago during the roaring “jazz hot” 20s, Chicago tells the story of two rival vaudevillian murderesses locked up in the Cook County Jail. Nightclub star Velma Kelly is serving time for killing her husband and sister after finding the two in bed together. Chorus girl Roxie Hart has been tossed in the joint for shooting her lover who she’s been cheating on her husband with. Not one to rest on her laurels, Velma enlists the help of prison matron Mama Morton and slick lawyer Billy Flynn, who turn Velma’s incarceration into a murder-of-the-week media frenzy, thus preparing the world for a splashy showbiz comeback. But Roxie’s got some of her own tricks up her sleeve…
Berowra Community Centre, The Gully Road, Berowra
Saturday 2nd June 2018, 8pm
Adult: $30
Concession: $25
Family: $90 (2 adults & 2 children)
Extra children: $15 each
We have made this a club social activity for Saturday 2nd June, 8.00pm.
In November 2016 about 20 members and partners attended their production of “Back to the 80’s” which was very well received with requests to support another show.
This production will be cabaret style seating of 8-10 per table.

April is Maternal and Child Health Month

Rotary makes high-quality health care available to vulnerable mothers and children so they can live longer and grow stronger.

We expand access to quality care, so mothers and children everywhere can have the same opportunities for a healthy future. An estimated 5.9 million children under the age of five die each year because of malnutrition, inadequate health care, and poor sanitation — all of which can be prevented

Rotary provides education, immunizations, birth kits, and mobile health clinics. Women are taught how to prevent mother-to-infant HIV transmission, how to breast-feed, and how to protect themselves and their children from disease

TELEMEDICINE

LIFESAVING HOSPITAL EQUIPMENT

HEALING SCARS OF WAR

Through the use of technology, doctors are bringing health care to women and children living in rural Nigeria.

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Clubs in Japan and Brazil used a Rotary Foundation global grant to equip a hospital with lifesaving neonatal equipment.

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In the mountains of Poland, 26 children traumatized by violence get a chance to be kids again at Rotary camp where psychologists mix escape and therapy.
READ MORE

SUSTAINABLE PROGRAMS

CLEAN BIRTHS

KEEPING CHILDREN ALIVE DURING THEIR FIRST YEAR

Rotary programs improve women’s access to skilled health personnel: doctors, nurses, midwives, or community health care workers.

Rotary members distribute clean birth kits and train health workers in safe delivery of babies.

Rotary members teach mothers how to breast-feed, promote immunizations and regular checkups, and distribute insecticide-treated bed nets.

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 Keith.

Click here for a PDF copy of the form to the right, and send or give it to Keith.

Stop Press

Like Tiny Tim - Please can I have more potential members?

Significant Club fundraising events during the year

The Book Sale March 2018. As the result of a lot of hard work the April Book Sale was a great success, especially from the organisers Max Henderson, Andrew Little and Clive Denmark. Funds raised were circa $15,000. Well done.

2017 Trivia Night
The Club held a very successful trivia night on Saturday 26 August 20167at the Cherrybrook Community Centre, raising just over $5,000 towards the charities we support.

The Garage Sale
We have just had our best and most successful Garage Sale on the weekend of 7&8 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 Carol.
Phone 8850 6515 or email carol.russell@ybr.com.au before 11am on the day of the meeting.

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

President's Report 9th April

Thirty members and two guests were welcomed to tonight’s meeting. Our guests were Honorary member Brian and our exchange student Larissa. The travelling members Peter S Peter C, Gino, Ros, Ross and Rosemary were welcomed back from Antarctic, South America, Cuba and Tasmania. We will expect a talk in due course on what you did and saw.

Our best wishes to Rotarian Bob who is in hospital, Col Baxter recuperating from a fall in Tasmania and Charlie who is unwell.

Business

Thank you to all who gave up your time to attend the DIK container packing and the Bunnings BBQ.
The Bunnings BBQ at Thornleigh netted $830, but we still had nearly $400 in expenses even though Janelle has cut costs considerably. Janelle had asked if the Club could be canvased about their support for Bunnings BBQs at the last Club Assembly. However, that did not occur so Janelle will speak to it at the next Board meeting.
A thank you was received from the President of the Rotary Club of Bega Valley for the $2000 we sent to the Bega Shire Mayoral Fund for the Tathra fires.
I attended President Elect Training (PETS) as Charlie was not able too. A great day with as usual lots of advice provided to presidents about how to run an effective club, what the incoming District Governor wants to achieve and what changes to running clubs are coming. Of note:

Rotary International President Barry Rassin’s theme is “Be the Inspiration”.
Some changes are occurring to what clubs have to do so that they remain appropriately insured. Mostly form filling, but also some additional risk assessments.
Some changes around working with children - Additional Rotary International mandated forms that now have to be filled in for members and non-members working in a one-on-one situation with children. Of particular importance to Youth Exchange Host parents, members caring for RYPEN students.
A great video on managing change that was made by Noel Trevaskis was shown. Worthwhile showing at a dinner meeting in lieu of a guest speaker.
Those who attended the Canberra District Conference a couple of years ago will be pleased about the special mention of our fencing effort by John Wakefield, who is managing next year’s District Conference at Newcastle. John said we were a model for what he would like to see at the Newcastle dinner.
Some of next years Presidents meetings will be run using Zoom video conferencing.
Clubs encouraged to appoint a Public Image Officer with a budget of $4000 - $5000 for medium size clubs. We already have that role in place with our Marketing Director. There will be special emphasis on this role at District Assembly.
Foundation will get special attention at District Assembly. The push to support Foundation rather than public charities where Rotary gets no recognition continues. Clubs being asked to have their District Foundation rep speak at a meeting each year. Our representative is Barry Philips from Glenhaven Club.
Push for clubs to have proper planning - goals that are aligned with District’s that are in turn aligned with Rotary International. We already have these, but most clubs do not.
Clubs being encouraged to be speakers at local non-rotary organisations.
Budget for this year tabled. District fee increasing from $100 to $110. Fee still being subsidised by $5/member from District Reserves.