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Monday 3rd October

No meeting - Labour Day

Monday 10th October

No meeting after Garage Sale

Monday 17th October

Crazy Hat Night - Shining a Light on Mental Health

Partners Night

Monday 24th October

Vocational Visit to a Brewery

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​Duty Roster

Duty  ​

Speaker Host
Night Reporter
Front Desk
Front Desk
Steward
Steward
​IT Person
​Photographer
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​Member Talk

Monday 17th October

Howard Fleming
Roslyn Savio
Bob Davison
​Carol Russell
Alan Paynter
David Turnbull
Neville Hansen
Peter Stanton

​Gino Savio
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Monday 24th October

John Tchetchenian
Colin McGowan
Bob Davison
Stan Baseley
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Ross Ballinger

​David Turnbull

Monday 31st October

Colin Sharpe
Janelle Craig
Bob Davison
Brian Furrer
Andrew Little
Tom Westcott
Nick Chuah
Peter Stanton

​Daniel Tan

Inside This Issue

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28th September
29th September
​4th to 7th October

​1st October

​2nd October

​ASAP

​8th & 9th October

​22nd October

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Garage Sale Preparation plus pick ups, drop offs and bric a brac sorting.


​Bunnings BBQ - Dural

​Book Sort for the garage sale

​Clothing Sort for the garage sale.
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​Garage Sale

Chinese Lantern Festival 12noon to 9pm
​Manage information booth plus a BBQ
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Garage Sale Flyer

Garage Sale - Help Needed

Pick Ups, Drop Offs and Bric a Brac

Hi All,  
People who nominated for Tues, wed & Thurs, thank you very much.
Any help would be great.   Even if you can come down and help with the sorting of the Bric a Brac or Toys in the Guide Hall would be great.
Thanks for your help
Neville

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Book Sort

Dear All
 We are having our first major book sort for the Garage Sale at the Uniting Church in New Line Rd next Saturday (1 October) starting at 8am.
 This book sort will be a much simpler sort than we did for the book sale in March with only 4  A to Z categories for fiction and around 5 categories for nonfiction.
 There are also a lot less books to sort……
 If you can come along & help during the morning or early afternoon (we aim to finish between 2pm & 3pm) that would be very much appreciated.
 Andrew

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Clothes Sorting

Fellows,
As you are aware the sorting of clothes for the clothing stall at the garage sale takes place at the Turnbull’s garage.
Everything is set up ready to go with the clothes stands in place and bags of clothes ready to process.
What we need now is helpers to sort and hang the clothes on the racks ready for sale.
The urgent assistance of you and/or your partner is required to get this underway. Please pass this on to your partner.
Jill is home most days, except for Thursday pm and Friday am and is in need of whatever help she can get.
Please call Jill on 0408 424941 or 98753055 and let her know when you will be there.
​David

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Just in from Colin...

​Berowra Musical Society - Back to the 80s

Ryan Henderson  is directing the Berowra Musical Societies show Back to the 80s performing in late Oct at Berowra - see below for details.  The best night for a group booking if there is any interest is the 8 pm performance on Friday 28th Oct.  If there is enough interest I will arrange a group booking.  Please let me if you are interested OR NOT by Oct 30th

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Proudly presented by the Sydney Youth Musical Theatre
​Based on the Academy-Award winning animated feature, the stage version of Disney's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST includes all the wonderful songs written by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman.
​When Maurice becomes lost in the woods on the way to the fair, he seeks shelter in an old castle, but the master of the castle is a horrible beast that takes him captive.  Maurice's daughter, Belle, must then give up her freedom to save his life.  Belle's taming of the unfortunate Beast and his ultimate transformation into a handsome prince enthralled Broadway audiences for over 13 years.
​SYMT is now in its 39th year of staging productions in the Sydney region, and it remains the largest exclusively youth musical society in Australia.  Each year, we stage two productions: one in July for our 14-25 year old members , and one in November  for our 10-18 year old members.

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Hi all.  Sydney Youth Musical Theatre is putting on Beauty and the Beast at Hornsby RSL in Mid Nov.  The most suitable performance for a club group booking is  Friday 18th November, at 7.30pm.  If there is enough interest I will arrange a group booking. .  Please let me if you are interested OR NOT by Oct 10th

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Didi Foundation Update

Just a quick hello from Kathmandu. All of our team has finally made it to Kathmandu and have been really busy touching base with projects and team members. The internet is totally unpredictable and my phone data was not working. Hence the delay in writing
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The children at BFLC have undertaken a huge growth spurt in the last 5 months and how worldly they are becoming. At  the  moment the house is full of  a consistent drone which is the sounds of the kids rote learning for their exams. It sounds like a group of Buddhist monks chanting. Love it.  
Currently, every spare moment, they are studying and must put in at least, 6 hours after each exam and then get up and start studying around 6am for that days exam. Very different culture to my school. We are all so proud of their dedication to their study and what beautiful people they are.
 Exams finish on Friday so we will be having quality time with them.

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Didi Headquarters
I visited the women’s centre yesterday and as always was overwhelmed with the gratitude of the women especially the literacy centre women, as they are so appreciative of the opportunity to learn. ​

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Epping Rotary 2016 Trivia Night- Saturday 12 November

We are aiming to raise $20,000 towards the extremely important counselling work undertaken by CCA in Epping through the Shack for young people with a range of mental health issues.  This services young people in the broader area.
This type of intervention is very expensive and requires considerable resourcing.
I am asking that you form a table of 6-10 people as a team representing your Rotary Club.

It would be great to have your support.

Please contact Ian Bittner for bookings- details on the flyer- or me on 0410685417

​Many thanks for your support
Peter Garrard
President
Epping Rotary

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Rotary Foundation

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More Rotary Graphics

​Thought I might follow a theme.  These images can be downloaded by left clicking and saving.

A way out of poverty is to create sustainable, measurable, and long-term economic improvements in communities and livelihoods by:

• Building the capacity of entrepreneurs, community leaders, local organizations, and community networks to support economic development in impoverished communities
• Developing opportunities for productive work
• Reducing poverty in underserved communities
• Supporting studies for career-minded professionals related to economic and community development

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Rotarians can make a huge impact by empowering local communities to be self-sustainable through economic and community development projects.

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Agricultural programs help families and communities learn practical food-producing skills, thereby directly reducing malnutrition. Improved crops and income bring better health to the farmer, his family and his community

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Significant Club fundraising events during the year 

The Book Sale March 2016.​  As the result of a lot of hard work the March  book fair which was a great success, especially from  the organisers Max Henderson, Andrew Little and Clive Denmark.  Funds raised were $14,000.  Well done.

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The Trivia Night
The Club held a very successful trivia night on Saturday 27 August 2016 at the Cherrybrook Community Centre, raising just over $5,000 towards the charities we support. 

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The Garage Sale
We had a very successful Garage Sale on the weekend of 26/27 September raising over $24k gross. The weather made it hard to set-up in the lead up to the event, but for the sale the wet weather stayed away. ​

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What Are You Doing on the 8th & 9th October?
Garage Sale
If you are a Rotarian we need you to assist.
If you are not a Rotarian we need you to come and purchase something. . 

​Forget Bathurst! 
​We will have lounge chairs to enable you to watch Bathurst on TVs at the Garage Sale.  David will try to sell you the lounge chair and also the TV.  So, come early and come often.  See if you can beat the record (circa 10 visits).

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.. 

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Meetings

:Monday  6:30pm for 7:00pm - Springfield House - 245 New Line Road, Dural.

Apologies

If you are unable to attend or are bringing a guest (even if they are your partner) you must notify Jilda.  Phone 9439 1422 or email accounts@lhogroup.com.au before 11am on the day of the meeting.

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

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President's Report 26th September 2016

How disorganised was Sydney harbour during the Japanese mini submarine attack!!! Thank you to Noel Phelan for enlightening us as to the events leading up to and including that night. 
Can I say our Garage Sale is being meticulously planned – no disorganisation here!!! So many people are getting involved and helping out from collecting items, receiving items, cleaning the grounds, putting up shelves to store “stuff” under the church hall, etc. The list goes on. Please be involved – fun and fellowship go hand in hand with the hard work and you don’t want to miss that. Contact Neville Hansen to tell him when you can help.
The Taldumande team are becoming famous now thanks to all their hard work. Noel was gushing with thanks for all that is being done and I could see many happy faces knowing that some deserving young people were being helped.
When talking to Noel last night he was very impressed to see how busy and involved our club was in all our events. Evidently not many Rotary clubs are as involved as we are, so a huge WELL DONE.
Have fun and fellowship whilst serving humanity!! And go the mighty Swans!!
Rosemary
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Night Report  26th September 2016

President Rosemary welcomed all to the meeting and had lots of announcements/thanks:

• Welcome back Bob Davison (aw that’s who it is - remember the face).
• Reminder that the Garage Sale is the big thing for the next two weeks.
• Thanks to Barry Freeman for the donation of hampers for the Garage Sale raffle.
• Tom & Colin Sharpe had a bad time selecting wine for the club cupboard.
• Well done Charlie for the Facebook stuff – brilliant.
• Thanks to Cawas for Taldumande work.
• Thanks to Uniting Church shelf brigade.

Sarah is now on holiday from school for two weeks; served tea at a Days for Girls stall last Saturday; Bondi (at last??).  Sarah then presented the club with a hand painted gnome (maybe escaped from Zurich).
Tony Coote with his temporary treasurer’s hat on asked if anyone owned a receipt from Flower Power which is unclaimed.
Neville gave a run down of the Garage Sale:
o   Sunday mowing a success.
o   Vanessa from Taldumande has taken heaps of stuff for the house and will come back for more.
o   Ross Ballinger volunteered to take the phone for next week.
o   Cakes needed.
o   Church racking needs some timber tops – Tom has some.
o   Need more help for pickups and drop-offs Tuesday to Thursday this week and 1-5pm on Saturday and Sunday.
o   Made $2,000 so far.
Andrew asked for assistance in sorting books and records – 8.00am to 12.00 noon next Saturday at the Uniting Church Hall.
Barry Freeman is advertising the Sale to other clubs and asked for assistance – Cawas to visit Knightsbridge and Ricardo will visit Norwest Sunrise.
Colin McGowan reported that Graham Cuthbertson is on the road to recovery and is home and walking about.  It is a bit early for visitors (Graham will advise when) but he hopes to attend a club meeting in November.
John advertised the Vocational trip to the Australian Brewery at Rouse Hill (next to Bunnings on Annangrove Road).  6.30 for 7.00pm. Partners welcome, especially if they like driving home.  $30/head plus $10/head for sample beers and a schooner of your choice.  John needs numbers – please email him.
David Turnbull is in need of assistance in sorting clothes for the Sale – any day except Thursday afternoon and Friday morning – suggest you call David or Jill to register your enthusiasm.
Janelle reminded the team there is a Bunnings BBQ this Sunday (2nd October) at Dural.
Ian has advised that Bunnings is right behind the Mad Hat day.  Also, they may have BBQ slots for Anzac Day and Australia Day next year – looks like we could fill these slots.
Colin Sharpe:
o   Tested the water for a round of Friendship Dinners – probably early next year.
o   Advertised the Rotary Leadership course.  All who have attended these courses have found them useful and entertaining.
o   Keep the mad hats for Melbourne Cup night.
Barry Freeman then did his best to destroy the bell but failed.
Steve Baker introduced Noel Phelan from the National Maritime Museum, also PP of Northbridge Club and Director of Taldumande.
Noel reported that the various Taldumande houses are going well with Bunnings supplying lots of paint and several clubs applying it.
The main purpose of his talk, which included a tempting sell of the Museum generally, was the attack by mini-subs on Sydney Harbour on 30th May 1942.
Noel described the mini-subs which are two-man subs with minimum accommodation but very sophisticated.  Japan made over 500 of them and the training to man them was very selective and intensive.  He also described a maxi-sub which most people have not heard of.  This was capable of launching bombers and could carry three planes – a remarkable technical achievement.
Noel’s talk included masses of names, facts and times which are way beyond the scope of this report, however here are a few comments:
o   The show was a complete stuff up on our side – the main players were getting written off at a party and did not show any interest until the port ran out.
o   The boss was an admiral from a place called “Britian” according to the slides – not sure where this is.
o   Reconnaissance flights by the Japanese in February, March and May were noted but were ignored.
o   5 maxi-subs approached Sydney – 3 with subs and 2 with planes.
o   Three subs entered the harbour:
o   One got stuck on a net and was blown up by the crew.
o   One was spotted by the Chicago (US battle ship) but let off two torpedoes, one of which caused a large number of deaths on a ferry parked in the harbour, the other failed to explode.
o   The third entered the harbour twice and finished up off the Northern Beaches.
o   The maxi-sub drivers were a bit miffed at the apparent failure and fired some shells into Sydney and into Newcastle on the way home.
o   The min-sub crew were given a full military funeral by the Aussies.
Rosemary won the raffle and Janelle the heads and tails.
Andrew was fined for doing such a good job on the night report last meeting.  I have made sure this doesn’t happen to me.
Tony Makin

Night Photos 26th September 2016

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Birthdays

Rob Clarke - 27th September
Alan Paynter - 7th October
Pat Baseley - 9th October
​Brian Furrer - 14th October
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Anniversaries

Teresa & Marc Janowski - 15th October

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This Week's Humour

RETIREMENT BONUS..........

If this doesn't make you laugh, you are truly humor impaired!

The Navy found they had too many officers and decided to offer an early retirement bonus. They promised any officer who volunteered for Retirement a bonus of $1,000 for every inch measured in a straight line between any Two points in his body.. The officer got to choose what those two points would be.

The first officer who accepted asked that he be measured from the top of his head to the tip of his toes. He was measured at six feet and walked out with a bonus of $72,000.
The second officer who accepted was a little smarter and asked to be measured from the tip of his outstretched hands to his toes. He walked out with $96,000. 

The third one was a non-commissioned officer, a grizzly old Chief who, when asked where he would like to be measured replied, 
'From the tip of my willie to my testicles.'

It was suggested by the pension man that he might want to reconsider, explaining about the nice big cheques the previous two Officers had received.
But the old Chief insisted and they decided to go along with him providing the measurement was taken by a Medical Officer.

The Medical Officer arrived and instructed the Chief to 'drop 'em,'which he did. The medical officer placed the tape measure on the tip of the Chief's weenie and began to work back. "Dear Lord!", he suddenly exclaimed, 
''Where are your testicles?''
The old Chief calmly replied, '' Vietnam ''. 
  
​Colin McGowan

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