Photo: Cherrybrook ​metro station by John Cowper 

Inside This Issue

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President's Report

Night Report

Humour

Club Calendar

Upcoming Events

Club Zoom Meeting

7:15pm for 7:30pm Mon 1 June 2020

The speaker is Phil Brown – Neighbourhood Watch
The member talk is Roslyn Savio.

​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.

Support for Rotary Club of Patong Beach:
​Feed Phuket - Rotary Covid-19 Project

Hi Rotary Club Members.
At our Zoom Club meeting on the 11 May, we had the benefit of hearing from Denis Carpenter, a past founding member of RCWPH&C
We appreciated listening to his experiences living in Phuket and Bangkok.
The board members were particularly touched about the plight of foreign construction workers
who had no work and no food due to Covid restrictions.
His Rotary club support for these people deserves our club support.
 
Subsequently, at last night’s Board meeting we agreed to contact you, our members, for a brief fund raising campaign.
The money raised would be provided to The Rotary Club of Patong Beach, of which Denis is a member.
 
Request:
We would like you to consider donating the equivalent cost of your Rotary Club meal,
that you would normally spend at Springfield House.
Or whatever amount you think appropriate.
Assistance: Feed Phuket - Rotary Covid-19 Project.
 
Please direct your donation to:
Rotary Club of West Pennant Hills and Cherrybrook
BSB   633000 
Acc   165 073 115
 
Please mark your donation   Your Surname & Phuket
 
The funds collected will be matched by a further $1000 from our club.
 
For Information:
Please visit the Rotary Club of Patong Beach web site. The photos tell the story.
              https://www.rotarypatong.org/    
 
Feed Phuket - Rotary Covid-19 Project
          https://www.rotarypatong.org/photoalbums/corona-projects

Rotary Shipping Container at Galston

We now have two 40 ft High Cube containers on Hornsby Council land at Galston.  We thank Councillor Vince Del Gallego for initiating the approval process with Hornsby Council and Perry Spence from the Council for his assistance at the Galston site following approval from his managers.  Thank you to Tom, Gino, David and Keith for getting the containers installed.  Tom also provided the steel tubes for the footings and arranged for their installation by a concrete contractor.  We now just need to install shelving then we can use them to help generate funds.  Based on the cost of renting containers of a similar capacity at the next door Hills Storage we recover our storage costs within 15 months.
Galston Containers Club information 2020 05 18
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Centurion Program and Centurion Membership application

The end of the financial year is approaching, it is time to consider becoming a Centurion!!!

How you can become a Rotary Foundation Centurion?
Centurion Program Donation Instructions for WPHC Rotary Club - 2020.

2020 Rotary Virtual Convention

20-26 June 2020

For more information:

NTA's COVID-19 Emergency Appeal

NTA (Nusa Tenggara Association) joins the global efforts in the fight against COVID-19 by supporting Government efforts in distributing vital information.
We need your support to lift this effort in Indonesia to produce and distribute key information and provide training for the communities, particularly on hygiene and hand washing.

 http://www.nta.org.au/

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President's Report  25 May 2020

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It was a pleasure to hear Tony Edwards of mindDog tonight.  This charity provides assistance to those that will benefit from the provision of a psychiatric assistance dog.  Tony’s presentation was clear and very moving.

I understand Stacey from Cherrybrook Fire Brigade has a candidate that qualifies for Rotary Celebrates Emergency Services Personnel.

During the past week David, Peter, Rosemary and Self were able to apply for a District Grant from Foundation 9685 in support of Feed Phuket.  I thank Robert Erskine AG for alerting the Club to this possibility.  We applied for $2,000 as we were unsure of the amount to be raised from Members.

Denis Carpenter (Charter Member of RC WPH) now a member of RC Patong Beach introduced us to Feed Phuket which supports foreign workers whose life has been disrupted by Covid19.
If you have not yet contributed the cost of a meal at Springfield to this cause, then Iurge you to do so.

The District Presidents’ Meeting on Saturday was attended by Rotary President Mark Maloney. He discussed various Rotary issues with 9685 Presidents.
Have a safe week.

Rotary Rocks
Keith

Night Report - 25 May 2020

The Sergeant Jim Simpson called the meeting at 7.30 pm .

In attendance President Keith Ball, Ross Ballinger, Colin Baxter, Bernard
Chandra, George Chenouda, Rosemary Clarke, Peter Cleary, Tony Coote, Bob
Davison, Howard Fleming, Neville Hansen, Douglas Lam, Paul Laroumanie,
Andrew Little, Tony Makin, Bill Mann, Kerry Mann, Colin McGowan,Alan
Paynter,Edwina Ruff, Carol Russell, Cawas Sahukar,Gino Savio, Roslyn Savio,
Jim Simpson,Adrian Sonego, Peter Stanton, John Tchetchenian , Jaswant
Thakorlal, David Turnbull, Tom Westcott

The President welcomed the guest speaker Tony Edwards and reminded members
to continue towards Phuket Project. The Rotary Foundation agreed to
contribute $2000 for this project.

Directors Report
Carol Russell mentioned the public image of our Club and several other
Rotary Clubs are reading on several newsletters and Facebook.Quite a number
of weekly newsletters do not exist anymore. Zoom is getting used by quite a
number of Rotary Clubs and some families.

Rosemary Clarke briefed all incoming directors to appoint their committee
members prior to changeover meeting.

Member Talk
A very detailed talk from George Chenouda regarding a multi cultural family
background .George was born Egypt and moved to Australia in 1968 .
Education at school and university in Australia.

Edwina introduced our Guest Speaker Tony Edwards and the focus mindDog.
Tony spoke in detail on mental health, depression and suicide.mindDogs
assist anyone with mental disorders and lives are with anxiety, depression
etc. Tony Edwards mindDogs Buddy is able to accompany him on his train, bus
, shopping places ,hospitals.and fly with him.

Jim Simpson thanked Tony Edwards.
Colin Baxter won a bottle of wine on sergeants questionnaires.

President Keith thanked everyone for Zoom Meeting and closed the meeting at 8.40 pm.

Bernard Chandra

Night Photos:

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This Week's Humour / Interesting Facts

PLACES I'VE NEVER BEEN
I have been in many places, but I've never been in Cahoots. Apparently, you can't go alone. You have to be in Cahoots with someone.

I've also never been in Cognito. I hear no one recognises you there.

I have, however, been in Sane. They don't have an airport; you have to be driven there. I have made several trips there, thanks to my friends, family and work.

I would like to go to Conclusions, but you have to jump, and I'm not too much on physical activity anymore.

I have also been in Doubt. That is a sad place to go, and I try not to visit there too often.

I've been in Flexible but only when it was very important to stand firm.

Sometimes I'm in Capable and I go there more often as I'm getting older.

One of my favourite places to be is in Suspense! It really gets the adrenalin flowing and pumps up the old heart! At my age I need all the stimuli I can get!

I may have been in Continent, and I don't remember what country I was in. It's an age thing.

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A truck loaded with thousands of copies of Roget's Thesaurus crashed yesterday losing its entire load.
Witnesses were stunned, startled, aghast, taken aback, stupefied, confused, shocked, rattled,
paralysed, dazed, bewildered, mixed up, surprised, awed, dumbfounded, nonplussed, flabbergasted,
astounded, amazed, confounded, astonished, overwhelmed, horrified, numbed, speechless, and perplexed.
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My wife said that if I don’t get off the couch and help with the dishes, she’ll slam my head on the keyboard, but I think she’s
jokinsg67sghi3dhgjre7490dndwhk32j4h37shududkIjisd877hr8s33hko20u338jus383gesu83Jjurkzwwq99xlz!!!!!....
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Some more Comedy:

Club Calendar

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

Bulletin Editor - Neville

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.

Significant Club Fundraising Events during the year 

The Book Sale March 2020

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 $15,000.  Well done.

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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. 


                       

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 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.​​

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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.. 

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.

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

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