Club Bulletin 17Sep2018

The Next Meetings

"Vegetable Sheep"
Don Huessler - Captain Cook Historian

Monday 17th September

Dr Noni Lewis
Opthalmologist: laser cataract, corneal and refractive surgeon

Monday 24th September

No Meeting - Public Holiday

Monday 1st October

Rosie May Foundation
Jenny and Dan Murray

Monday 8th October

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.

Inside This Issue

President's Report

Night Report

Humour

Club Calendar

Upcoming Events

13th-14th October Garage Sale ALL HANDS

Vale - Jim Kehoe

It is with great sadness that I advise of the death of Jim Kehoe.

Jim was a long time member of our Rotary Club, and was president in 2000-2001.
Jim joined IBM in February 1967 as a Systems Engineer and retired in 1995.
Recently, Jim and Muriel moved to Port Macquarie and intended to travel a little.
Enjoying their travelling, they were walking on the beach in Noumea when he slipped and broke his hip. Surgery was performed but post-surgery Jim contracted an infection and sadly he succumbed to pneumonia.

Click hereto view the death notice in the SMH.

Entrance Club Theatre Night

This years’ theatre fundraising performance, a classic comedy by Woy Woy Little Theatre sponsored by The Entrance Rotary Club (Clive Denmark’s club) is Saturday 20th October.
There is finger food & a free drink & a friendly pre show atmosphere with a chance to catch up & chat and Clive strongly recommends arrival between 7.00 & 7.30.
Seating is being allocated on a 1st come first served basis. Clive has booked one block of 8 for family & Central Coast friends & am happy to book another block for our club members.
There are only some 114 seats and even the ones at the end have good views and are a maximum of 5 rows back!!
Funds raised are for the Aspect Autistic School in Terrigal to purchase two interactive white boards, their application for a $3,000 district matching grant $3000 has been approved.
If you wish to attend (Saturday 20th October) please email Max and make your payment of $40.00 per person into the club’s General Account and identify your payment with your Surname and "Clive".

Grease

Celebrating 40 years of the iconic movie, Grease is still the Word as Berowra Musical Society brings the classic story to the stage. With songs like Summer Nights, Greased Lightning, We Go Together and more, a cast of 40 promises a great night of song, dance, comedy and love.
If you wish to attend on Friday 26th October please email Max and make your payment into the club’s General Account and identify your payment with your Surname and "Grease".

Tarzan

We have the opportunity to see the NSW premiere of Tarzan the Musical presented by Sydney Youth Musical Theatre at Hornsby RSL Club on Friday 23 November at 7:30pm. Tickets $32 (concession-senior). Tarzan features heart-pumping music by rock legend, Phil Collins.

Washed up on the shores of West Africa, an infant boy is taken in and raised by gorillas who name him Tarzan. Apart from striving for acceptance from his ape father, Tarzan's life is mostly monkey business until a human expedition treks into his tribe's territory, and he encounters creatures like himself for the first time.

Tarzan struggles to navigate a jungle, thick with emotion, as he discovers his animal upbringing clashing with his human instincts.

If you wish to attend on Friday 23rd November please email Max, make your payment ($32.00-Senior or $37.00-Adult) into the club’s General Account and identify your payment with your Surname and "Tarzan".

September is Basic Education and Literacy Month

More than 775 million people over the age of 15 are illiterate. That’s 17 percent of the world’s adult population.

Our goal is to strengthen the capacity of communities to support basic education and literacy, reduce gender disparity in education, and increase adult literacy. We support education for all children and literacy for children and adults.

How Rotary makes help happen

We take action to empower educators to inspire learning at all ages.

MENTORING STUDENTS

Rotary club pairs students with celebrity and CEO mentors for success.
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TEACHER TRAINING

We share our knowledge and experience with educators and other professionals who work with vulnerable populations

ADULT LITERACY

Rotary members fight adult illiteracy by working with local advocates to offer community literacy programs.

ROTARY SCHOLARSHIPS

Rotary members invest in the future by giving scholarships to students who have the potential to change our communities

EDUCATING REFUGEES

A university president and Rotary club fight Boko Haram to bring education and food to refugees in Nigeria.
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COACHING TEACHERS

Realizing that getting children into school isn’t enough, Rotary shifts to mentoring and coaching teachers.
Read More

"When you teach somebody how to read, they have that for a lifetime. It ripples through the community, one by one."

Mark Wilson
Rotary Club Member

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 2018

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

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 [email protected] 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 10th September 2018

Tonight was a combined meeting with the Glenhaven Club. Both Colin and Mentie welcomed their members, partners and guests. A total of 38 sat down to another great Springfield House meal. Both clubs are low on numbers due to a high number of members away on holidays
The West Pennant Hills and Cherrybrook Guests, Partners attending were: Anne, Pamela, Rob, Julie, Rebecca, Roma and Indira.
Noel Phelan was thanked for stepping in at short notice and giving a talk on the Halvorsen family – more about this in the Night Report.

Business for this week.
Bunnings BBQ. Thank you to Janelle, Bill, Kerry and Peter for leading the impromptu BBQ at Dural. Thank you also to the support team Paul, Angelo, Tony Coote, Keith, Bob and Neville. Another $200 donated specifically for drought relief and $560 for our fundraising account.
Trivia night money. $17,000 and 30 ladies pamper packs have been given to Coonabarabran Rotary Club by the group of club members/partners (Peter, Julie, Andrew, Desley, Rosemary, Rob, Gino, Ros, Larissa) who travelled to Coonabarabran last weekend. Meeting with the Coonabarabran Club was awesome. We were made extremely welcome and this will be the start of a long-lasting relationship.

Garage sale preparation is under way. Please watch your emails/SMSs for help requests from Neville.
Mums and Co. Those who have children’s books to sell at the Mums and Co reading on Sept 16th please drop them off at my place.
Board Meeting. This Wednesday 7.30 pm at Janelle’s place

Until we meet here again on Monday September 17th to hear about vegetable sheep and for more fun and fellowship, have a great week.
President Colin

Special Trivia Night Report 25 August 2018

Hello fellow members and partners.

Well what a great night last Saturday was. A fabulous result and wonderful support from the community. Another well run event by the Trivia masters Andrew and Max. We had around 240 people present who donated just short of $7000 to help the drought distressed farmers in the Coonabarabran region. We have taken the decision to send all the night’s takings to the Coonabarabran Rotary club to distribute as they see fit. The operating costs will be absorbed by the club. The money will be used to assist with farmer wellbeing and provide them with some life-luxuries that they currently cannot afford. Anne, I, Rosemary, Rob, Gino, Ros, Andrew, Desley, Peter, Julie and Larissa will make the journey to Coonabarabran on Saturday and return on Tuesday. We will be hosted by the Coonabarabran Club and attend their club meeting on Monday night. I am sure we will get more detail about how our money has been used.

Thanks to a generous club member we are able to add another $10,000 to our donation which is absolutely wonderful. If anyone else wishes to make a personal contribution to our clubs drought relief project that will remain running in partnership with the Coonabarabran club and would like a tax deduction receipt I can arrange that. I am sure that the magnitude of the takings on Saturday were helped by having a good cause to promote. This is something we should continue for future Trivia nights and even our other fundraising events where it is practical to do so.

I also thank the members and partners who donated goods for pamper packs to give to the farming women. We have 22 of those to take with us and I already know they will be gratefully received. We will also take the two bales of quality Lucerne hay that were used for props on Saturday and which will be put to good use.

The Coonabarabran Rotary Club is delighted with our support for their community. I hope this will lead to long term a sister club relationship.

I again thank Andrew and Max for running this event and all the people who helped set up and clean up the hall. I also thank the community members and community organisations who supported us, our sponsors and the raffle prize donors. Andrew has sent letters of thanks to those organisations. Julian Lesser has expressed his congratulations for a well run event.

Pres Colin

More Pictures from the Trivia Night

....and the winners were:

Presidents Report 3rd September - Special Coonabarabran Trip Edition -

The Coonabarabran visit was and outstanding success and it rained during our stay, not much but every bit helps.

We were warmly welcomed by the Coonabarabran club who joined us for dinner on Sunday night We enjoyed their hospitality again on Monday night at their regular club meeting. They are a club very similar to us – Do good while having fun. Their club meeting is quite different to ours but it works well. Club President runs all aspects of the meeting, setting up and packing up the venue and proposing the toast. They have no fines session or raffle. They have a door prize that allows the winner to select a playing card from a board showing those previously selected. If the joker is selected they win the jackpot which increases by $20 if not won. The meeting venue is as the bowling club and two course dinner is served by club members. Andrew has lots of photos to share.

The club is 69 years old and currently has 26 members. It provides many outdoor amenities for the town. Its main fundraising is from a bookshop that operates 4 days a week throughout the year (strategically located next to the supermarket) and from providing a food van at local events such as the Open Day at Siding Spring Observatories, the annual Coonabarabran Cup Race day, and the North West Equestrian Expo.

At the club meeting we heard from two students about their experience at the Science and Engineering Challenge which the club supports. This national event is run by the University of Newcastle and offers high school students in Years 9 and 10 hands-on experience to show that, in addition to helping to solve real-world problems, science and engineering can be fun and may even offer a potential career choice. Teams of students from different schools compete against each other in a series of eight challenges, including:

Bridge: students construct a model bridge out of balsa wood and masking tape, which then has to support a railcar carrying increasingly heavy weights as it races across a test rig
Catapult: after constructing their swing-arm catapult out of dowel, students gain points for length and accuracy of the flight of their projectile
ElectraCITY: with a powered board, students use cables to connect power to a city's infrastructure at the lowest possible cost
Helter Skelter Shelter: towers are constructed from common materials and then tested for strength and stability, through the use of weights and a shaking base which simulates an earthquake.

We heard from Jarod Lambert (Year 12) about his experience at the London National International version of NYSF (National Youth Science Forum). Jarod met Erik and formed a strong friendship. They are somewhat similar in their ability to speak competently and enthusiasm for science. Jarod also explained that students from Coonabarabran endeavour to seek work experience in Sydney which is where he did his. Finding companies to participate and accommodation is difficult so perhaps this is something we could explore further.