Photo: Cherrybrook ​metro station by John Cowper 

Inside This Issue
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Upcoming Events

Next Meetings

  Camp Quality   
Monday 17 Feb 2020

Youth Night &
Partners Night

Monday 24 Feb 2020

Upcoming Events

Glenhaven have provided ongoing support for our Trivia Nights for at least six years and generally take two to three tables.  This is an opportunity for us to reciprocate.
Please see Andrew or Max if interested.


​Assistance for Bushfire Victims and Firefighters

The Rotary Club of West Pennant Hills and Cherrybrook have discussed a number of options to assist our Bushfire victims and Firefighters. The NSW and VIC Governments are indicating they do not want any more physical donations of goods as they are overwhelmed and are recommending donating cash.
If you would like to donate, attached is the link to the RAWCS (Rotary Australia World Community Service) page where you can donate through Rotary and as always, what you give is what will be delivered. No overheads.
https://rawcs.org.au/
If you would like to donate through other organisations, then the Sydney Morning Herald had an article on Sunday 5th Jan, with a number of reputable organisations.
https://www.smh.com.au/…/here-s-how-you-can-help-australia-…
As always, thank you for your support, Happy New Year and give generously.

Events of Interest by other Clubs

OPERA IN THE ARBORETUM - ROTARY CLUB OF WOY WOY - 28 Mar​
Rotary Zone 8 Public Image Newsletter - January 2020
Rotary Club of Brisbane Water - Titanic Dinner - 18 Apr
​The BOBO - Bobin Head Cycle Classic - 29 Mar

Coonabarabran is hosting:
"The Dark Sky Awakens Festival - 8-10 May 2020
A Celebration of everything Star Wars"
If interested please contact Max Henderson, looks like we could make this a great weekend away. Once we have numbers we can look at accommodation options etc.​

​Dark Sky Awakens Festival The Science Of Starwars - Coonabarabran - 8 to 10 May
Have a look at the Program for the Weekend​

Recent Club Activities:
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Garage Sale 2019
12-13 October

We had a very successful Garage Sale.
This .pdf file attached contains some 90 photos of the event.
WARNING:  it is 9Mb in size
rotary_garage_sale_october_2019.pdf
File Size: 9039 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File

​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.

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.
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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

Centurion Program and Centurion Membership application

How you can become a Rotary Foundation Centurion?
Centurion Membership donation form.

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.
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
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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.. 

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.

President's Report  10 Feb 2020

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Hi all, 
Rosemary has requested we devote the entire meeting of the 27th April to the Garage Sale.  Essentially we need to find a project manager and a committee to support this manager.

Tonight we held a Club Assembly.  I hope that members enjoyed my approach of an open and frank assembly.
We covered topics such as:
  • Jokes in the Bulletin (Peter S)
  • SOKS (Janelle), and
  • A widening of the pools from which to draw meeting roles. (Self)
I will refer you to the Night Report for information on the above.
Despite pushing fast through the abovementioned, we went overtime in opening the assembly, to allow members to raise matters important to them.  Inter alia, the issue that reverberated was, that we devote too much time to fundraising, and too little time to doing things for the community.
I agree with the sentiment, and mentioned same to the assembly.  I will re-double efforts to have “doing things” in the calendar.
Coonabarabran
I sow the following thought.
A phalanx of Jedi Knights from RCWPHC perform a recognisance tour of Coonabarabran.  Ostensibly this tour is for recreation and to attend “Dark Sky Awakens Festival Coonabarabran | A festival of all things Star Wars, May 8-10 2020, Coonabarabran, NSW.”
Here is a link       https://darkskyawakensfestival.com.au/ 
Click “About” once you have opened to learn more.
The other purpose is to find other means to support Drought Relief, in this town.

Rotary Rocks
Keith

Night Report -  10 Feb 2020

Sgt Tony opened the meeting welcoming President Keith.

President Keith’s welcomed all.
For Presidents Report please refer to the bulletin.

Director’s Report
Message from Rosemary 27th April meeting on Garage Sale.
Neville Hansen Community Service report
Cherrybrook Primary School BBQ between 5:00 to 7:30pm
Cherrybrook Village 30th Anniversary somewhere in late March date has yet not been finalised.
Planning another lunch BBQ for Ronald McDonald House sometime later in the year.
Andrew - Glennhaven Trivia night on Saturday 29 February at Castle Hill Bowling Club looking for one couple to join.
Rosemary- First Book sorting on Saturday 15th February from 09:00am to 1:00pm.
Colin Sharpe planning a weekend to Coonabera on Saturday 11th May there is a Star Wars festival looking for expressions of interest at this stage.
Janelle - Youth meeting details see bulletin
Bill: BBQ on Saturday at Dural
Tony- Membership meeting on Thursday 20th February at Coote residence at 7:30pm.

Member talk Bob Davison spoke about his visit to Norfolk Island.

CLUB ASSEMBLY

Topics for discussion
Jokes
SOKS
Personal Pool for Roster
Others

Peter Stanton - Jokes in the Bulletin are inappropriate and not in good taste and offensive to some partners.
Debate for and against
Bulletin editor to use his/her discretion.

Janelle - SOKS something the board to look into it’s a long term project with a lot of commitment and has to be sustainable and will need people with passion and apathy.

Colin S reminded all that it was a project run by Lifeline to be funded by the club.

Overall everyone felt that we needed more information before taking any decision

It was decided to organise a soft committee to scope the project and explore it further and to put it at the next Club Assembly.

Keith - Personal Pool 1) IT Groups 2) Night Photographer. We need more volunteers for the above roles happy to offer training as it is becoming onerous for a few volunteers to continue doing the above roles.

We also need every member to be actively involved within various committees.

OTHERS - Edwina members should pay for the food & coffee consumed at the Garage Sale/Book Fair.

David we need more hands on Community Service projects for currently we are spending more time doing fund raising. Maybe look at a happy medium.

Adrian - club should consider having a Service membership so that those members who are only interested in doing projects do not have to attend all the meetings.

Heads & Tails won by Jaywant

Raffle win by your scribe yours truly.

Cawas

Night Photos

This Week's Humour

Club Calendar

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

Bulletin Editor - Neville

Meetings

The Club alternates meetings:
Generally, one "Face to Face" one Monday and a Zoom meeting the next Monday.
Face to Face
Meet at The Vicar
Arrive 6:30pm, Start 7:00pm, End 9:00pm
271 New Line Rd
Dural NSW 2128 Australia
​Zoom
Arrive 7:15pm Start 7:30pm End 8:30pm