Photo: Cherrybrook ​metro station by John Cowper 

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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 2 May 2022
​Guest Speaker: TBA
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Mon 9 May 2022
NTA Fundraising Dinner
Lane Cove Golf Club - 180 River Road Northwood 2066

Mon 16 May 2022
Social Meeting - Post Giant Book Sale 
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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 - 25 April 2022

Four members attended the meeting. We held a social talk and retired early.
Club Assembly takes place this coming Sunday.
PP Niranjan Deodhar (Beecroft) has been elected to DGE 2024-25. Congratulations to Niranjan.
We are holding a Bunning BBQ this coming Saturday.
David has secured permission from West Pennant Hills Public School for the Club to hold an election day BBQ with our trailer.
The books are rolling in for the Giant Book Sale. We saw a giant book last Saturday.
John Caruana will talk on Malta and Australia this coming Monday.
The funeral for Stan is on Friday at 3:30pm. I have emailed details to members, partners and select FOR.
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
Douglas Lam

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I migrated to Australia in 1985. I am married to Kaija for 45 years and have 2 adult children. There are no grandchildren yet but we have “2 grand-dogs”. 2 lovely Maltese/Poodle mix which are more than a handful.
I have worked in Broadcasting for 45 years specialising in Major Sporting Events such as the Olympic Games, Asian and Commonwealth Games, Soccer and Rugby World Cups, Motor Racing, Tennis and Cricket to name a few. Suffice to say that I was following these circuses for many years cumulating in my absence from home for more than 6 months in a year. Suffice to say, I am not really keen in flying and living in hotels weeks on end.
In my retired days, I am pursuing the knowledge of roasting coffee and wine appreciation. I have recently embarked on making wine vinegar out of surplus (not left-over) wine stock. Apart from that if you ask nicely, I also provide recommendations to setting up Audio & Visual Systems and Internet Optimisation.

​We moved to WPH in 1991 and joined Rotary in 1994/5. Our Club is the most active and progressive club in this region and I have totally enjoyed all these years providing services to the community and raising funds for other charities. The sausage sizzle activities would almost always have my presence. A rough estimate, I would have probably sizzled some 100,000 snags and uncounted kgs of onions, eggs and bacon. I hope I can continue contributing as time passed.
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 - 25 April 2022

​No report this week.

Welfare Report
​Updates

From Ross Ballinger:
Howard Fleming is starting Chemo on Tues for a Kidney Cancer. A 5-week course. Apparently an operation is not an option.
VALE - Stan Baseley
Our deepest sorrow in the tragic loss of Stan on 21st April 2022.
A true gentleman and a great Rotarian.
We will miss you and all the jokes you shared with us.
Farewell Stan.
Funeral Service
Friday, 29th April at 3:30pm
Northern Suburbs Memorial Gardens and Crematorium
199 Delhi Rd North Ryde NSW 2113

​Social Calendar 2022

Book Sale Dinner - Saturday 14th May 2022

Bush Walk and Lunch - Sunday 5th June 2022

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

​Tony Coote

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

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PRIDE OF WORKMANSHIP 2022
​Hi fellow Rotarians,
It is time for you all to  put your thinking caps on and nominate someone who you think would
be a worthy recipient this year for our
PRIDE OF WORKMANSHIP AWARD
which will be held in first week of July. The Nominees this YEAR DO NOT  have to be actual business owners. They can be the little people who work in businesses; they can be a person who volunteers their time doing good in the Community!!!   Please submit nominations to myself or any member of the Vocational Services Committee (Keith, Rosemary, Douglas, George, Bernard, Cawas for this year) so that an awardee/s can be chosen. 

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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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 13th May 2022 - Watch this Space
May Giant Book Sale -- Report pending
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 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