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Upcoming Events

We are back having meetings in Springfield House. However, due to availability of the venue. The alternate week arrangement with Zoom may not be strictly adhered to. Some meetings may occur on other weekdays instead of customary Mondays. Please consult your calendar for changes.
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

7:15pm for 7:30pm 

6:30pm for 7:00 pm

Mon 18 April 2022
Social BBQ Lunch -- Heritage Park Castle Hill

Mon 25 April 2022
​No Meeting ANZAC DAY
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Mon 2 May 2022
​Guest Speaker: TBA
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​Duty Roster

With COVID lockdowns now ending and even more restrictions being eased, effective 08/11/2021, we appreciate that many Club members may be eager to get out and about and take the chance to have a holiday. So, if you are going to be absent from meetings and events in the months up until July next year, please notify Janelle via email.
Equally now that we are back to face-to-face meetings at Springfield it’s important that we get back into the swing of advising Frank of numbers attending by the Thursday prior to Monday meetings. As per our existing RSVP procedures, if you are not attending you need to advise Ros Hogan otherwise you will be charged the cost of the meal. 
Thanks for your patience and understanding with these matters – it’s all part of adjusting to life post COVID!  

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.

​President Keith's Report - 11 April 2022

Our “Bring a Friend” evening was a great event.  We had some 10 visitors who listened to a well-crafted presentation developed by Carol and Janelle. I repeat a brilliant night.

The Club is mid-discussion with Cherrybrook Village Shopping Centre. The aim is to understand what each party can do to maximise alignment of and achieve mutual goals. The centre changed hands late last year and we met with the Manager. The centre is expecting a Publicity Officer to start in the next few weeks. We suggested a delay in discussions until this appointment is embedded.

Here hoping the weather is good next Monday afternoon when we will have a social picnic at Heritage Park (12:30pm).

On Wednesday 20th we have a combined Anzac Meeting with the Lions Club at WPH Sports Club.

Yours in Rotary
Keith
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Centurion Program and Centurion Membership application

Please consider renewing your Centurion membership, or if not already a member, why not make this the year to become a Centurion!!!

How to Access MyRotary

Know Your Members
Edwina Ruff

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​Born in Launceston Tasmania youngest of 3, only daughter, father was a Commonwealth
Bank Manager, we got transferred around to many country towns our final transfer was to Paddington.

I loved athletics at school & represented them in inter school Athletics,& while at Paddo I joined the Woman’s Amateur Athletics Association representing Eastern Suburbs, competing at that time against an unknown Raelene Boyle...

My working career was spent in  Sydney’s 2 Major Hospitals for over 33 years holding several position, the last 25 years in Cardiology Department Labs as a Cardiopulmonary Technician before retiring in 2006 & starting my own after hours Cardiac Service. I retired fully in 2012, joined Gordon Golf Club playing in their Competitions...

I moved from Beecroft to West Pennant Hills 15 years ago, love gardening, relaxing with friends, and when possible play golf..  I am a dog lover, owned a Black Labrador for 12 years  and in June last year I was matched up with my new beautiful 6 1/2 y.o Chocolate Brown Rescue Lab, who has more rights than myself!  She loves company,  meeting and greeting people & car rides. Lots of cuddles “a must”. I dog-mind friends dogs and my place is their home away from home.

I joined West Pennant Hills & Cherrybrook Rotary Club in 2019  to help make a difference, meet new people in the Community, take on new challenges through our projects, my fellow Rotarians are sincere, friendly, welcoming and hard working dedicated people, a sense of humour “a must have” around this group!!

In 2020 our club recognised all businesses and their staff who worked at the coal face during the Covid 19 lockdown with a Special Certificate of Recognition & Appreciation, we had over 90 very deserving recipients.

Last year we held our Pride of Workmanship Awards dinner, a Plaque & Certificate is presented to businesses in the district recognised as going above & beyond their duty, we had 2 worthy recipients. Being the Clubs Vocational Services Director is an absolute Honour & Privilege, I enjoy and love being a West Pennant Hills & Cherrybrook Rotarian...

Edwina Ruff
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

Night Report - 11 April 2022

Sergeant Jim Simpson opened the meeting.

Barry Freeman proposed the toast to Rotary, Australia and enduring health.

President Keith welcomed everyone, including our guests Cathy, John, Sunesh, Shalini,  Peter, Roman, Vince and Maria.
With the focus on Rotary there were no guest speaker and director’s reports.

Janelle and Carol then provided a revealing insight into Rotary that addressed:
•      Busting Rotary Myths 
•      About Rotary and our Club
•      Allow you the opportunity to get to know us
•      Most importantly…….have some fun!

Then the perceptions of Rotary (Myths) were addressed:
•      “Rotarians don’t like Catholics”
•      “Rotary’s just for old, retired people”
•      “Hey they don’t let women into Rotary”
•      “You can’t join Rotary because you work part-time”
•      “Don’t you have to be in business to become a member?”
•      “I used to think Rotary was full of liberal voting white males!”
•      “I can’t make it every week”

Followed by five of the clubs directors providing an informative insight of their respective portfolios:
  • Fund Raising - Max
  • Vocational – Peter
  • Community – Cawas
  • Youth Exchange – Rosemary
  • Social - Douglas

Followed by an overview of the clubs objectives by Janelle

We then “had some fun” when Carol introduced to the gathering a fun session where people had to go find a match to the playing card they were given when they arrived…. Everyone had 10’ to find their match and find out all about that persons last/next holiday. 
To say the room sounded much like the proverbial chook yard was an understatement!!!
 
Sergeant at Arms; Jim then extracted a few dollars from a rare fine session.
  • Raffle won by John
  • We then had a variation of Heads & Tails with multiple choice trivia questions, based on federal politics, won by Janelle
 
Keith wrapped up and closed the meeting, including reminders:
  • BBQ at Heritage Park Easter Monday 18 April, 12.30.
  • Lions Club, Commemorative ANZAC dinner at WPH Sport Club, Wed 20 April, 6.30 for 7.00pm

​Night Reporter:  Max

Neville's Trip
Download the pdf from bottom left corner link 

Welfare Report
​Updates

​Social Calendar 2022

Heritage Park Social BBQ Lunch - Monday 18th April 2022

ANZAC Dinner with Lions Club - Wednesday 20th April 2022
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Book Sale Dinner - Saturday 14th May 2022

Bushwalk and Lunch - Sunday 5th June 2022

Friendship Lunches/Dinner Second Round - Commence Sunday 12th June 2022

​Tony Coote

​ANZAC Commemoration Dinner Wednesday 20th April 2022

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Fellow Members and Partners
As we have done for many years, we are invited to join the Lions Club of West Pennant Hills and Cherrybrook for an ANZAC Commemoration Dinner.
The dinner will be held at West Pennant Hills Sports Club. 6.00PM for 6.30PM on Wednesday 20th April. Full details are included in the flyer. (Below)
To join the event, please deposit $50 per head to our club’s General Account and we will make a group booking.
Do not pay direct to Lions Club
BSB 633 000
Account 165 073 016
Identify as your surname and ANZAC
Please ensure payment by Tuesday 12th April to our account.

​​​Fundraising Dinner for NTA
Please Note Venue Change
Download Menu here 
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​Please watch this video
 

Looking for Work for our Barbecue Trailer

Hi Fellow Members. Here is our new flyer to help us find work for our renovated BBQ trailer.
Please pass it on to those who may be interested - schools, clubs, charities, etc. Electronic or hard copies available.
Tony Coote and Douglas Lam

BUNNINGS SAUSAGE SIZZLE

​Dural
​Saturday 30th April
​Sunday 29th May

Help wanted

If you can assist please advise Kerry Mann
Bunnings have previously advised:
“The NSW government has defined the fundraising sausage sizzle premises as a hospitality venue under the Public Health Order.  As such, vaccination rules apply to all community volunteers operating the sausage sizzle and volunteers are required to be fully (double) vaccinated. “  

Street Libraries Update

​You may have noticed that street libraries are springing up in peoples’ gardens, especially if you have been doing a lot of walking as we have during the lockdown. It seems that the Board noticed too. They decided that it would be nice to have one, two, three - make it four at various locations. 
A suitable design was sourced – like the one at the end of New Line Road but taller to accommodate a shelf.
Cawas provided some marine ply courtesy of mates’ rates at Bunnings and I went to Bunnings and Mitre10 about a dozen times to purchase the other bits.
So with the help of Peter and Tony we assembled the structures, I painted them and Colin Sharpe provided some polycarbonate for the windows. It took a while but they came together well.
Now we needed a post to fix them to. Bunnings had some woofy posts designed for post boxes but Mitre10 came up with galvanised beasts suitable as a foundation for a tower block.
An erection team was organised of David, George, Keith, Bob and me and we burst into action like a well oiled machine – well actually more like a council work gang with one person doing all the work and rest watching. We decided that Bev’s place was a good place to start since it is a relatively quiet street.
Bob came up with a crowbar the size of a tooth pick and we set about digging a hole in the incredibly hard ground. At about 400mm we decided to stop before we encountered a 33kV cable and set up the post in lots of rapid setting concrete.
Bev provided an excellent morning tea while we waited for the concrete to go hard.
Finally we lugged the box into place and bolted it down.
The only thing missing is the Rotary sign.  This has been ordered and will be fixed later. It is large enough for the Amazon astronauts to read it on their next trip.
Colin Sharpe did a nice job of fixing his to his letter box and even painted the inside (they had already had two coats of lacquer but the paint is a nice touch and we fully expect Anne to install curtains).
Next week the council work gang is reassembling to install Carol’s library.
Thanks to the team and thanks to Bev, Carol and Colin Sharpe for providing the locations. The fourth will be fixed at the Uniting Church when Neville returns from wherever he is this week.

Tony Makin 
​The team continued their exploits 
​Erection of Street Library at Carol Russell's Business Premises

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​Fun With ​Culture
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Taking a Break

Hmmmm! 

A fleeing Taliban terrorist, desperate for water, was plodding through the Afghan desert when he saw something far off in the distance. Hoping to find water, he hurried toward the mirage, only to find a very frail, little old Jewish man standing at a small makeshift display rack - selling COVID protection masks.
The Taliban terrorist asked, "Do you have water?" The Jewish man replied, "I have no water. Would you like to buy a  mask? They are only $5."
The Taliban shouted hysterically, "Idiot Infidel! I do not need such an over-priced western adornment. I spit on your masks. I need water!”
"Sorry, I have none, just masks - and only $5."
"Pahh! A curse on your masks!  I should wrap one around your scrawny little neck and choke the life out of you but .  . . I must conserve my energy and find water!"
"Okay," said the little old Jewish man. “It does not matter that you do not want to buy a mask from me, or that you hate me, threaten my life and call me infidel. I will show you that I am bigger than any of that. If you continue over that hill to the east for about two miles, you will find a restaurant It has the finest food and all the ice-cold water you need. Go In Peace."
Cursing him again, the desperate Taliban staggered away, over the hill.
Several hours later, he crawled back, almost dead, and gasped, "They won't let me in without a mask!

Club Calendar

Editor's Note:  ​If you wish to download and print the Calendar please use the link below.
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Bulletin Editor - Douglas

Meetings
​Mondays  6:30pm for 7:00pm - Springfield House - 245 New Line Road, Dural 2158
and Zoom Mondays 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.
For Springfield House meetings - 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
Gggggrrrrraaaaaddddduuuuuaaaaalllllllllllly!!!

The Book Sale May 2022 - Watch this Space
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.
2022 Trivia Night -- 20th August - To Be Updated

​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 -- TBC
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.​​
BBQs
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​The club runs fund raising barbecues throughout the year, mainly at Bunnings  (Dural and Thornleigh) 
We are also present at elections (pictured at Eurambie Park Child Care during 2021 Hills Shire local elections), local public school fêtes, fun runs, to name a few. We have a trailer that can be hired for events. For details, please click HERE.

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:-
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
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

Meetings

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