Photo: Cherrybrook ​metro station by John Cowper 

Inside This Issue

President's Report

Night Report

Humour

Club Calendar

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 21 February 2022
Guest Speaker: TBA

Mon 28 February 2022
Combine Meeting with Rotary Club Of Epping
Epping Hotel: 58 Beecroft Road Epping 2121
Guest Speaker: Rob Edwards - Rotarian and Founder Of the "Its Time Foundation"

Mon 07 March 2022
​Guest Speaker: Rob Ashworth - Disaster Aid SkyHydrants
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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!  

District Conference 2022

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 - 14th February 2022

 

​Some 35 attendees enjoyed our first F-to-F at Springfield House this calendar year.  We had a wonderful Valentine’s Day.  Thanks to Janelle for arranging the heart chocolates.
We also had Tashi Lama and his partner, Dolma, come and check us out.
Carol let us in on the secrets of her second job - Marriage Celebrant. 
I have learnt that KT, (daughter), is coming to Qld in April.  She is London based.  Cooper, my grandson, is also coming.  Things are looking up.
Janelle has just informed me that we will accept an invitation to visit RC Epping on 28th February.
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Stay Safe
Keith

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Learning And Development Officer

How to Access MyRotary

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 - 14th February 2022

John Tchetchenian in the role Sergeant opened the meeting at 7.04pm. Bob Whyms was invited to give the toast.
Presidents Report:
President Keith welcomed everyone to our first Face-to-Face meeting at Springfield for 2022 and wished all a wonderful Valentine’s Day.
He acknowledged apologies from Tony Coote, Douglas Lam, and Rosemary Clarke.
He welcomed partners: Beverly, Gwen, Jill, Jocelyn, Julianne, Rashna and Rita.
He also welcomed Tashi Lama and his partner Dolma who is here checking out the Club tonight.
Keith provided Gino Savio an opportunity to speak to the Club on behalf of his friend and colleague, Trevor Perrin who will be undertaking the Beyond Blue “Beyond Bitumen Rally” taking place in the Southern Highlands and South Coast from 25-28 March 2022.  This event aims to raise funds for mental health and Trevor is looking for sponsorship to support this worthy cause.  Gino left promotional material on each table if members wanted to donate as individuals.  Keith advised that the Club would donate $500 (+ expenses for production of a banner) to Trevor’s fundraising efforts and ideally would like to take up his offer to place a banner on his car showing the Club’s sponsorship of the event.     
Directors Reports:
Max Henderson, on behalf of Tony Coote for Social, reminder members of the social lunch that Bernard Chandra has organised for Wednesday 2 March at Il Lago restaurant at Norwest.  Its not too late to join in this event – so please contact Bernard if you’d like to attend.  Max then handed over to Andrew Little to talk about the Annual Giant Book Sale, 13-15 May 2022.  Andrew advised he, Max and Neville would be leading this event and they are hoping to put together the organising committee shortly.  Andrew then detailed the dates for the event, which are listed in full in the Club calendar and weekly bulletin.  He particularly encouraged members to participate in the preparation days as this is where the bulk of time and energy is needed, plus to advise if their residence can be used as a book drop-off location.  
Carol Russell on Membership reported that the face-to-face meeting on 11 April is being planned/themed as a Visitor Night, where all members are encouraged to bring along a potential/new member, whether this be a friend, work colleague, neighbour or someone they know who has expressed interest in Rotary.  It’s a good opportunity to promote Rotary and our club, to share fellowship with them and potentially generate interest in membership.
Edwina Ruff advised that the Vocational portfolio is keen to revitalise member talks and for the remainder of this Rotary year, will be encouraging members to undertake a brief talk on themselves – their interests, passions, likes, dislikes or whatever takes their fancy!! Edwina advised all members to be warned – she’s on the lookout for speakers!
Peter Stanton reported on International advising that following his visit to the Rotary Club of Coonabarabran and subsequent follow-up zoom link up to a Club meeting, their Club has made the decision to donate $1000 to NTA ideally for use in the purchase of water tanks. Peter also pre-empted a possible fNorth Sydney Sunrise Club, Lane Cove, Northbridge and Chatswood.
Cawas Sahukar, Community Services Director advised that the Club will have a crew working for Clean Up Australia on Sunday 6 March 2022, which will be conducted in the vicinity of Cherrybrook Community Centre. He is still looking for more volunteers from members and partners, so please get in touch with him if able to participate.  
Janelle Craig from Club Services reported on the work of the Assets/Storage Working Party. This group was established following discussion at the November Board Meeting of the need to have a better idea of the Club’s overall storage facilities, and the intended usage and storage capacity (i.e. items/materials stored) of each storage asset. The Working Party have developed a detailed spreadsheet which indicates the resources that should ideally be housed at the storage assets relevant to each major Club activity. Moving forward from this point the Working Party will be forming some teams to work to clean up these storage locations and thereafter take on the ongoing role of monitoring and managing these assets.
So, tonight’s meeting is a good opportunity not only to bring this work to the attention of all Club members but ask for their assistance in advising if they are holding onto any Club resources that need to be accounted for and for these to make their way back to their intended storage location. Please contact Janelle or Keith if this is the case.
 
Welfare Update:
Jim Simpson reported that he had recent contact with Sheila Turner. As we are aware Ian passed away in September 2021. Sheila is now living in Sydney having moved back from Tasmania. However, she is not well.  She still receives Club bulletins and, as advised by Jim, would welcome members getting in touch with her.  Keith suggested we help facilitate this by inviting Sheila to a face-to-face meeting at Springfield as a guest of the Club.
Tony Makin also gave an update on the memorial service for past member Colin Gage.  Colin passed away in July 2021, but COVID meant a formal ceremony was unable to occur until now.
Guest speaker segment:
Continuing on the valentine’s day theme, we heard from Club member Carol Russell.  While most of us know Carol in her role as mortgage broker and principal of Yellow Brick Road Castle Hill, she also has an alternate life as a Marriage Celebrant.  
 
Carol opened her member talk with a summary of the preparation that does into a marriage ceremony and then the events of the day and how it all comes together.
Celebrants are authorised by law to solemnise marriage ceremonies according to the law in Australia.  A Celebrant can craft ceremonies for Baby namings, Commitment ceremonies, Renewal of Vows Ceremonies and any other ceremony a couple might ask for. 
The Marriage Act of 1961 dictate what must be included in the ceremony to ensure it is legal and complies with the many, many amendments since that time, the most recent of course being the same sex marriage laws that came into being recently. 
 
The Marriage Ceremony begins some 30+ days before the actual day of the ceremony.  There are formalities which need to be adhered too, paperwork to be completed and supplied to the celebrant.   The marriage ceremony cannot go ahead until all is completed and required documentation supplied.
 
In terms of the ceremony, the minimum number required at a ceremony is 5, the bride and groom, 2 witnesses and myself. This often occurs when a couple have been together for a long time, and just didn’t get around to being married, the house, the kids all that just came first, or second marriages, or the couple are older but wish to marry, or maybe one of the couple is seriously ill but wish to formalise their relationship before the one passes.
A celebrant normally provides services outside of a place of worship, ie in a park, on a boat, at a home, in the bush…. or anywhere the couple wishes….in a hot-air balloon even! 
They need to provide Identification and make declarations on the paperwork that they are indeed free to marry. If not they have to provide reasons why they think they are free to marry,  and provide evidence to confirm that… ie Divorce papers,  birth certificates,  and it must be interpreted by a registered Interpreter, etc into English if not.
Carol noted that Celebrants do not carry out “surprise weddings” - the 30 days prior to the ceremony is set in stone, is mandatory and essentially both persons must present themselves to me at that time. 
 
The Practice session for the ceremony mostly to ensure all are on the same page with what the couple have in mind, its too late to change anything when the bride is walking down the isle!!!  
This applies to Outdoor weddings particularly, 

• where will the sun be at the time? 
• whose face will it be shining into?
• will my microphone work in that place?
• Familiarise the couple with speaking into the microphone;
• what’s the weather forecast for the day;  
• will the seating be arranged so everyone can hear me - more than 30 guests and I must use a microphone;  
• and in theory everyone in the bridal party has to be at the practice - if this doesn’t happen it can lead to disappointment on the day that it is not all the bridal couple envisaged;
• how do they want to stand at the front?
• who says what, the poems for example, and we practice these;
• who looks after the music, and when is it required;
• who do I call on during the service if something goes askew eg. If the tablecloth blows off the table, where they are to sign the documents?
• what is Plan B if it rains on the day, or just before, the ceremony, if it is really windy, or as in one case, there is a flood and the venue for the wedding and the reception was washed out a few days before the wedding!!!  

 
So once all the preconditions have been met the ceremony can proceed.   On the day the celebrant can call the whole ceremony off just prior to the ceremony beginning, if anyone in the wedding party has over imbibed (perhaps the bucks night was the night before), or if the bride is really, really late - often a Celebrant will have another commitment on the same day, and it’s not acceptable for the celebrant to be late to arrive prior to the next ceremony
Carol explained the basics of the Ceremony itself.

1. The welcome to guests and introduction of the Celebrant.
2. Who gives the bride away - usually Dad/Brother/ friend.
3. The bulk of the ceremony - the words about what is a marriage, etc etc…..  then leading into ….
4. The Vows - this is the commitment to each other.
5. Exchange of Rings - this is also a part of the ceremony where certain words must be used and then 
6. The Pronouncement - The celebrant pronounces the couple Husband and wife.

Carol then invited all the Grooms in the room - “You May Kiss your Bride!”
Member Talk:
Tonight’s Member Talk was given by David, and Jill, Turnbull. This talk ran a little differently from most but with good reason since it celebrated valentine’s day and their enduring love – 50 years married and going strong!  Sergeant John ran this session (complete with wig and channelling the energy of  past TV quiz host Tony Barber) as “how well do I know my partner”.  Both David and Jill were given a number of statements to which they had to respond, based on how they thought their partner would answer – hence how well do I really know them!!  Unsurprisingly Jill nailed her responses; surprisingly David also did well – demonstrating what an attentive (and well-trained husband) he really is!! This member talk brought great hilarity and fun to our meeting, and we thank David and Jill for being such good sports.
 
Sergeant Session:
In lieu of a fines session, John managed to wrangle $5 from each member to build up Club coffers. Heads & Tails which was won by Tony Makin, while Gino won the guessing competition.
Closing remarks from President:

• Thanks to Carol for being Guest Speaker tonight.
• Thanks to Tashi and Dolma for attending – we hope to see you again.
• Next week is a Zoom meeting.

 
Janelle Craig
Night Reporter

 

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​Social Calendar 2022

​Lunch @ Il Lago Norwest - Wednesday 2nd March 2022

Book Sale Dinner - Saturday 14th May 2022

BBQ at Fagan Park - TBA
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​Tony Coote

Don't forget to join us for lunch
Wednesday 2nd March
​@ IL Lago

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Social Meeting 7th February 2022

Welfare Report
​Updates

​Please watch this video
 

BUNNINGS SAUSAGE SIZZLE

TBA
​Dural

 TREE OF JOY
Report

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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​Here

Westmead Institute of Medical Research
“COVID -19 Variants and Vaccines, the Lockdown update”
COVID-19: Variants & Vaccines, the Lockdown Update - YouTube      

The presentation was accurate as of 9th July 2021. Some widening of the age group acceptability for the AstraZeneca vaccine have been made since that presentation date.
The 2 main speakers were Internationally renowned experts in immunology and vaccine development, Professor Tony Cunningham and Professor Sarah Palmer.
I have attached a link to that presentation. It is well worth watching.
I also took some Notes and attach for those who only wish to get a quick grab - but the notes don’t do the presentation justice.

Kind Regards
Colin McGowan

​Fun With ​Culture
Corner

 

1. E lucevan le stelle - Tosca - Puccini
​2. Belle nuit, ô nuit d'amour - Les contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales Of Hoffmann) - Offenbach
3. Der Hölle Rache - Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) - Mozart
​4. Che gelida manina -  La bohème - Puccini
​5. Un bel dì, vedremo - Madama Butterfly - Puccini

I know you are hankering for more - here goes!

Humour

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Covid Safe food handling

Training is on-line and takes about 20 minutes – so a few could do it
https://www.foodauthority.nsw.gov.au/covid-19-awareness-food-service-training
 
The training has been developed for anyone working in NSW food retail and food service businesses and covers key measures recommended for COVID-19 control. Key topics addressed:

• COVID-19 Introduction and background
• Infection, signs and symptoms
• Self-protective measures
• Protective measures for premises and personal hygiene
• Cleaning and sanitation practices
• Social distancing measures
• Record keeping.

The course is self-guided and will take participants approximately 20 minutes to complete.
There is a 20 question multiple-choice quiz at the end.
A ‘COVID-19 awareness for food service’ acknowledgement certificate will be emailed to all participants who complete the quiz.

... and We Should be Covid Safe at Our Activities

Centurion Program and Centurion Membership application

We are now in a new Rotary Year. Please consider renewing your Centurion membership, or if not already a member, why not make this the year to become a Centurion!!!

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

Club Calendar

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Bulletin Editor - Douglas

Meetings

​Monday  6:30pm for 7:00pm - Springfield House - 245 New Line Road, Dural 2158
and Zoom Monday 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

The Book Sale March 2020

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.

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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:-
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

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