Club Bulletin 20 March

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Monday 20 March

Monday 27 March

Monday 3rd April

The Forgotten Flotilla - Archeology in Crete

Rescuing Kids at risk in SE Asia-Destiny Rescue -Shelly

Wheel Chairs Overseas - Tony Mylan

Duty Roster

Duty	Monday 20 March 2017	Monday 27 March 2017	Monday 03 April 2017
Speaker Host	Tony Coote	Janelle Craig	Charlotte McCartney
Night Reporter	John Tchetchenian	David Turnbull	Gino Savio
Front Desk	Stan Baseley	Brian Furrer	Peter Cleary
Front Desk	Roslyn Savio	Bernard Chandra	Stan Baseley
Steward	Ricardo Raad	Colin Baxter	Tom Westcott
Steward	Carol Russell	Colin McGowan	Andrew Little
IT Person	Neville Hansen	Neville Hansen	Neville Hansen
Photographer	Peter Stanton	Peter Stanton	Ross Ballinger
Member Talk	Max Henderson	Alan Paynter	Nick Chuah

Inside This Issue

Upcoming Events

President's Report
Night Report
Birthdays and Anniversaries
Humour

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22nd March

25th March

3rd April

7th - 9th April

8th May 2017

TALDUMANDE
2017 Charity Dinner

2nd Major Book Sorting for Book Sale

3rd Major Sorting and Set up Tables

Book Sale

WHP&C Rotary 30th Birthday

Please join us to celebrate another milestone of our Rotary Club
Mark your diary now
Partners Night Of Course

Taldumande 2017 Charity Dinner

To help make this a success, we would be very grateful if you could support us in one or all of the following ways:

Join us at the dinner on Wednesday 22nd March 2017.
Make a tax deductible donation to Taldumande Youth Services at www.taldumande.org.au

Individual tickets are $185 or Table of 10 for $1750. Tickets covers entry to the event, entertainment, full three course meal and all beverages.

To purchase ticket, please go to https://www.taldumande.org.au/news/2017-charity-dinner or alternative, I can produce an invoice for you.

Your support would contribute towards the success of our fundraising dinner and our ability to provide these essential services to vulnerable and homeless young people.

Kind regards,

Kevin Marcus Tran
Fundraising and Events Coordinator

2017 Book Sale

The 2017 book sale is fast approaching and it is time to start preparing! This year the book sale has been postponed by a couple of weeks from the usual timing in late March to Friday 7 (9am to 5pm), Saturday 8 (9am to 5pm) and Sunday 11 (11am to 2pm) of April.

This is due to the fact that some of our key players will be overseas during the lead up to the actual book sale itself. This includes Andrew & Desley (13 Feb to 20 Mar), Bob & Bev (16 Mar to 14 Apr) and Colin & Anne (start Apr to end May).

Whilst we now have some great additional people on our committee (Neville & Heather Hansen & Charlie), we will need all the help we can get from club members & partners to make this year’s book sale a success. This is especially true for the book sort days Saturday 11th, 25th March and Tuesday 4th April) where we really need people to help us for the whole day up to around 3 or 4pm.

One of the most onerous jobs is packing the sorted boxes of books away on the book stands at the end of the sort day. Many times this is left to a small number of very dedicated people. Likewise we need assistance with the set up days Wednesday 5th & Thursday 6th April.

In order to make it easier on our backs, knees, hips, etc, we are ditching the conventional fruit boxes (which are also extremely difficult to source) and are moving to the Lifeline size cardboard box which is about 2/3 the size of the fruit box and will hence will limit the total lifting weight to around 10kg. This is why Lifeline went to this style & size of box in order to comply with OH&S requirements for their ever aging members!

These boxes come flat packed & are taped together as required. At the end of the book sale the tape will be cut & the box flat packed for storage. (See photo on right showing these boxes - note the 10Kg written on the side of the box in the foreground!).

The Church has agreed to let us run the book sale on the Sunday from 11am to 2pm when we will start the usual pack up routine.
This will provide an extra 3 hours on the Saturday and 3 hours on the Sunday, ie a total of 6 extra selling hours.

The 2016 book sale raised around $14,000 and we are aiming to better this in 2017.

To do this, we need help from ALL club members during the book sort days -

Saturday 11 March
Saturday 25 March
Tuesday 4 April

and during the sale itself from - Wednesday 5 to Sunday 9 April

The milestone dates for this year's book sale are as follows:

2017 Book Sale Committee Meetings
First Book Sale Committee Meeting	Thurs 9 Feb 17
Second Book Sale Committee Meeting	Wed 1 Mar 17
Third Book Sale Committee Meeting	Wed 29 Mar 17

2017 Book Sale Schedule
Banners & Flyers out	Sat 25 Feb 17
First Major Sort	Sat 11 Mar 17
Second Major Sort	Sat 25 Mar 17
Third Major Sort & Set Up Table Layout	Tue 4 Apr 17
Continue to set up tables, boxes and signs	Wed 5 Apr 17
Fine Tune Layout, etc	Thur 6 Apr 17
Book Sale	Fri 7 Apr 17
Book Sale	Sat 8 Apr 17
Book Sale & Clean Up	Sun 9 Apr 17
Book Sale Dinner	Sun 9 Apr 17

RYLA 2017 - this is an excerpt from the latest DG's E News & shows why we support RYLA

RYLA 2017 was run and won by 84 new RYLArians. The Organising Committee chaired by David Clark, supported the Facilitators lead by Amanda Firkins together with Mum & Dad (David and Dianne Waterhouse) arranged an excellent program that actively engaged and developed the attendees. The outdoor activities were challenging and the indoor speakers were compelling.

Well Done and Thank you to all who made it happen....and I hope that the experience convinces the new RYLArians to join Rotaract so they can continue to enjoy and enhance the Rotary experience.

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.

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.

The Garage Sale
We have just had a very successful Garage Sale on the weekend of 8/9 October raising a record gross of over $30k. The combination of good planning and benign weather 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 Jilda.
Phone 8484 7106 or email jilda.coles@wge.com.au 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 27th February 2017

Rotary Youth Exchange is such an exciting program which can change a person’s life. Our guest speaker Sonya Ahern showed us the result of this program – confident, ready to embrace change, loving life with wonderful “family” and friends in Iowa. It was a pleasure to listen to Sonya.

At the same time we loved having Poul and Ellen Jenkins from Denmark with us. Poul was the Danish Club counsellor for our exchange student Bethany Ferguson in 2013. It was great to hear how dynamic and outgoing Bethany was and the wonderful ambassador she was for Australia and our club.

The club is busy with the Book Sale coming up soon. I have shared the Facebook site and have some books coming from Newcastle via family! Please spread the word and let’s get behind this fundraiser. As I said on Monday evening, there are so many people who need our assistance and an hour of your help, especially prior to the event, can make all the difference. Contact Andrew Little if in doubt of times or refer to the website.

Please remember this Sunday’s working bee at Graham’s house. Let’s hope the weather is kind!!
Have a great week, stay dry and remember that we are serving humanity.

Rosemary

Night Report 27th February 2017

President Rosemary opened the meeting and welcomed all guests.

Stan B was invited to propose the Toast and Ross B to say Grace.

Rotary Fact was a quote from Sir Clem Renouf who was the Australian RI President in 1978/79 who gave the idea for

End Polio Now:
“Rotary takes ordinary people and gives them extraordinary opportunities to do more with their lives than they ever dreamed possible”.

Polio has only had 3 cases this year in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Nigeria. We are so close to eliminating the disease. What an amazing feat and we will do it by donating through Rotary.

Tonight’s guests included the following:

Paul & Ellen Jensen from Horsens East Denmark, who were Exchange counsellors for Bethany Ferguson
Sonya Ahern (ex-Exchange student) and her husband Eric Junkkari
Paul Laroumanie

President Rosemary thanked the following members:

The Book sale helpers for putting stalls and boxes together on Friday. Apparently they were finished by 1pm so the afternoon shift didn’t get a look in.
Teresa J for organizing the Bowel care kits and sessions at Cherrybrook Village.
John T and his assistant Anna for organizing Pride of Workmanship awards
Ross B for organizing Rotary 101 this Thurs (16th March)
Barry F, Colin S and Sarah Z for accompanying her to the District Conference which was excellent. They had outstanding speakers and it was very motivating and fullof interesting facts about Rotary.

We then had the following reports:

Andrew L - good start to the book sort on the weekend with the Lifeline boxes much easier to handle. The 2nd major book sort is on 25th March. We need to promote the Book sale as it’s been a slow start to receive books this year.
John T – looking at organizing a visit to Careflight on the 5th June. 6.30 pm start at Northmead (near Westmead Children’s Hospital). Cost will be either $30 pp (no dessert) or $36 pp (with dessert).
David T – meet at Cuthbertson’s place this coming Sunday for the working bee (back hoe and all). Also looking at organizing Anzac night with Lions Club of WPH. Guest speaker is Dr Kevin Smith OAM regarding the death march at Sandakan. Date is Monday 24th April at WPH Sports Club.

Update from Sarah Z:

Watched a movie and also went to Crinitis in Parramatta – had a dessert called Bombalini which has Italian donuts with cinnamon sugar, Nutella, Butterscotch sauce and ice cream).
Went to the District Conference – very interesting and discovered that as Rotarians, we love to grill sausages!

Member Talk was from Cawas S:

Born in Mumbai – 1 of 2 kids.
Left home at 22/23 yo and went to the Middle East to work for a company which has approx. 67% of the automotive market there.
Has also worked in Oman, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Canada.
Met Rashna at a club and they have 3 kids – 2 daughters and a son.
Was working for Honda Canada but then moved to Australian where Cawas worked for IBM.
Life is full of coincidences.

Colin S then introduced our guest speaker for the night – Sonya Ahern.

Sonya was born in Gympie (Country Queensland).
In 1986, after a very rigorous selection process, she was selected to go on exchange to Fairfield, Iowa (USA).
In that same year, Ronald Reagan was the US President, the Challenger space shuttle blew up and the Chernobyl nuclear disaster occurred.
Sonya had written in her diary when she got to Des Moine airport in Iowa that it was ‘bloody freezing’ and that she was going to die.
She studied American politics, did drama classes, also art, interior design, maths but where she really excelled was in speech classes.
Sonya went from being a shy, quiet country girl to having the confidence to speak at clubs, schools and entering public speaking competitions.
You could tell by her enthusiasm that Sonya enjoyed her exchange year in Iowa, even though she didn’t get the Scandinavian country that she really, really wanted.