Club Bulletin
Volume 32, Issue No. 12 - 24th September 2018
The Next Meetings |
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Dr Noni Lewis
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Monday 24th September |
No Meeting - Public Holiday |
Monday 1st October
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Rosie May Foundation
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Monday 8th October
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No Meeting - After Garage Sale |
Monday 15th October
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Inside This Issue |
Upcoming Events13th-14th October Garage Sale ALL HANDS
30th November Ronald McDonald House - meal from the heart 6th December Anglicare BBQ |
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It is with great sadness that I advise of the death of Jim Kehoe.
Jim was a long time member of our Rotary Club, and was president in 2000-2001. Jim joined IBM in February 1967 as a Systems Engineer and retired in 1995. Recently, Jim and Muriel moved to Port Macquarie and intended to travel a little. Enjoying their travelling, they were walking on the beach in Noumea when he slipped and broke his hip. Surgery was performed but post-surgery Jim contracted an infection and sadly he succumbed to pneumonia. Click hereto view the death notice in the SMH. |
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This years’ theatre fundraising performance, a classic comedy by Woy Woy Little Theatre sponsored by The Entrance Rotary Club (Clive Denmark’s club) is Saturday 20th October.
There is finger food & a free drink & a friendly pre show atmosphere with a chance to catch up & chat and Clive strongly recommends arrival between 7.00 & 7.30. Seating is being allocated on a 1st come first served basis. Clive has booked one block of 8 for family & Central Coast friends & am happy to book another block for our club members. There are only some 114 seats and even the ones at the end have good views and are a maximum of 5 rows back!! Funds raised are for the Aspect Autistic School in Terrigal to purchase two interactive white boards, their application for a $3,000 district matching grant $3000 has been approved. If you wish to attend (Saturday 20th October) please email Max and make your payment of $40.00 per person into the club’s General Account and identify your payment with your Surname and "Clive". |
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Celebrating 40 years of the iconic movie, Grease is still the Word as Berowra Musical Society brings the classic story to the stage. With songs like Summer Nights, Greased Lightning, We Go Together and more, a cast of 40 promises a great night of song, dance, comedy and love.
If you wish to attend on Friday 26th October please email Max and make your payment into the club’s General Account and identify your payment with your Surname and "Grease". |
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We have the opportunity to see the NSW premiere of Tarzan the Musical presented by Sydney Youth Musical Theatre at Hornsby RSL Club on Friday 23 November at 7:30pm. Tickets $32 (concession-senior). Tarzan features heart-pumping music by rock legend, Phil Collins.
Washed up on the shores of West Africa, an infant boy is taken in and raised by gorillas who name him Tarzan. Apart from striving for acceptance from his ape father, Tarzan's life is mostly monkey business until a human expedition treks into his tribe's territory, and he encounters creatures like himself for the first time. |
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More than 775 million people over the age of 15 are illiterate. That’s 17 percent of the world’s adult population.
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MENTORING STUDENTS
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TEACHER TRAINING
We share our knowledge and experience with educators and other professionals who work with vulnerable populations
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ADULT LITERACY
Rotary members fight adult illiteracy by working with local advocates to offer community literacy programs.
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ROTARY SCHOLARSHIPS
Rotary members invest in the future by giving scholarships to students who have the potential to change our communities
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EDUCATING REFUGEES
A university president and Rotary club fight Boko Haram to bring education and food to refugees in Nigeria.
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COACHING TEACHERS
Realizing that getting children into school isn’t enough, Rotary shifts to mentoring and coaching teachers.
Read More |
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"When you teach somebody how to read, they have that for a lifetime. It ripples through the community, one by one."
Mark Wilson
Rotary Club Member |
Wanted - New MembersIf you know of someone who would benefit from Rotary, or, from whom Rotary would benefit if they were a member, then contact Tony C.
Click here for a PDF copy of the form to the right, and send or give it to Tony C. |
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The Book Sale March 2018
As the result of a lot of hard work the April Book Sale was a great success, especially from the organisers Andrew Little Max Henderson, Neville Hansen and Clive Denmark. Funds raised were circa $15,000. Well done.
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2018 Trivia Night
The Club held a very successful trivia night on Saturday 25 August 2018 at the Cherrybrook Community Centre, raising near $6,250 towards the charities we support. |
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The Garage Sale
We have just had our best and most successful Garage Sale on the weekend of 7&8 October raising a record 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
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 Carol.
Phone 8850 6515 or email carol.russell@ybr.com.au before 11am on the day of the meeting. |
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If you are expected and do not show you will be required to pay for the meal.
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President Colin welcomed 31 members and guests tonight which is an improvement on past weeks. Don Heussler is our guest speaker, Don and I are work colleagues from a few years back. Col Baxter was welcomed back from an extended holiday. I apologise to Jim for not recognising his return from holiday.
Guests Welcome to Robin Robertson and Edward Reppert who are from South Africa and here tonight as guests of Ros. Edward is a member of the George Rotary Club in South Africa. Jim Kehoe Vale. Jim was a past member of this club and past president in 2000-2001. In 2008 Jim and Muriel moved to Port Macquarie and intended to travel a little. Some highlights from Jim’s year as president. An extract from his Presidents report has elements of deja vue:. The Youth program, including the arrival of our Exchange Students from Brazil and New Zealand, continued to involve members of the Club with our youth. The new State Government legislation has been causing some concern but the Risk Management plans proposed by District look as though they will help in this area. The year saw quite a large number of people away for quite some considerable amounts of time which meant that some of the Club meetings attracted a much smaller attendance than usual. During the year we commenced the task of getting the records of the Club membership into a computer based system. |
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We were warmly welcomed by the Coonabarabran club who joined us for dinner on Sunday night We enjoyed their hospitality again on Monday night at their regular club meeting. They are a club very similar to us – Do good while having fun. Their club meeting is quite different to ours but it works well. Club President runs all aspects of the meeting, setting up and packing up the venue and proposing the toast. They have no fines session or raffle. They have a door prize that allows the winner to select a playing card from a board showing those previously selected. If the joker is selected they win the jackpot which increases by $20 if not won. The meeting venue is as the bowling club and two course dinner is served by club members. Andrew has lots of photos to share.
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The Coonabarabran Club were very appreciative of the $17,050 and the thirty pamper packs donated by our club. The extra $50 came from a neighbour of Peter Cleary. The club will decide how to best distribute our money next week.
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President Jo and husband Lindsay (also a Rotarian) showed us some of the tourist attractions on Sunday so we all have lots of photos of sandstone caves and some have come home with Australian themed pottery from a local pottery.
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This is a very abridged update of our trip so far. Nearly 4 weeks into our trip which has been very eventful so far. It took about a week to get to our meeting point of a sheep station 40k to the west of Port Augusta. Here we met up with the rest in the group 22 a lot of whom we have known from previous Tag Along’s. At dinner that night the owner of the 15000 hectares talked about successful farming in an area with little rain fall. We set off across the Nullarbor via Ceduna. We had the Honour of carrying Flynn, the royal Flying Doctors mascot with us and taking appropriate photos to add to the trips Facebook page.
Out of Ceduna I has a warning light come on about the engine and on advice from the SA Aust. NRMA man that it probably wasn’t serious. He reset the computers and we carried on. we had strong head winds , the light came on again so we took it easy. Stopped at The Nullarbor Road house in time to see the 20 odd trucks of hay going from WA to NSW. Also saw several whales at the head of the Bight, very close to the shore. On to Cockabiddy where they had 2 Wedge Tail Eagles in a large enclosure along with live rabbits for them to feed on (which they did while we were watching much to the horror of several of the ladies). On to Fraser Range for the next stop . A cattle ranch where the lessee talked to us over dinner. Of course, Flynn had to have his Photos taken with the resident baby camels. They are usually shot on site. Next day Friday early we left for Kalgoorlie to met the local Jeep Dealer. After a several days/weeks of to and fro between Jeep and the dealer my warranty company, we are in the process replacing the transmission. Hopefully the parts will be here this Monday. The rest of the group left 10 days ago to wend their way to port Hedland and back down the west coast. Our plan is to catch up with them somewhere along the coast. We had a pleasant surprise when Tim and Alison Bowland called in to our caravan park and spent 3 days with us. It was good to catch up with them. They are nearly 6 months into their Lap Around Australia. Alison does a weekly blog in Facebook which we joined as to follow their trip. Tim didn’t re his membership of his club as they are going to be travelling in their caravan a lot. If anyone wants to see lots of pictures by a lot of the participants look the trip up on Facebook. eclub tagalong . Or click here |
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Last Wednesday a passenger in a taxi heading for Midway airport, leaned over to ask her driver a question and gently tapped him on the shoulder to get his attention.
The driver screamed, lost control of the cab, nearly hit a bus, drove up over the curb and stopped just inches from a large plate window. For a few moments everything was silent in the cab. Then, the shaking driver said “Are you OK? I’m so sorry but you scared the daylights out of me.” The badly shaken passenger apologised to the driver and said “I didn’t realise that a mere tap on the shoulder would startle you so badly.” The driver replied, “No, no, I’m the one who is sorry, it’s entirely my fault. Today is my very first day driving a cab. I’ve been driving a hearse for 25 years.” |
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The wedding ceremony came to the point where the Minister asked if anyone had anything to say concerning the union of the bride and groom. It was their time to stand up and talk, or forever hold their peace.
The moment of utter silence was broken by a young beautiful woman carrying a child. She stood up and started walking slowly towards the pastor. The congregation was aghast as the penny dropped. The Groom's jaw dropped as he stared disbelievingly at the approaching young woman and child. Chaos ensued. The bride threw the bouquet in the air and burst out crying. Then the groom's mother fainted. The Best men started giving each other looks and wondering how best to help save the situation. The Minister asked the woman, "Can you tell us, why you came forward? What do you have to say? There was absolute silence in the church. The woman replied, "We can't hear at the back." |
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An Irish woman of advanced age visited her physician to ask his advice on reviving her husband's libido.
"What about trying Viagra?" asked the doctor. "Not a chance" she replied. "He won't even take an aspirin". "Not a problem," said the doctor. "Give him an Irish Viagra.” "What on Earth is Irish Viagra?" she asked. "It's Viagra dissolved in his morning cup of coffee. He won't even taste it. Let me know how it goes," he said. She called the doctor the very next afternoon. "How did it go?" he asked. "Oh faith, bejaysus and begorrah, doctor, it was terrible. Just horrid, I tell ya! I'm beside meself!" "Oh, no! What in the world happened?" "Well, I did the deed, Doctor, just as you advised. I put the Viagra in his morning coffee, and he drank it. Well, you know, it took effect almost immediately, and he jumped straight up out of his chair with a smile on his face, a twinkle in his eye, and his pants a-bulging. Then, with one fierce swoop of his arm, he sent the cups, saucers, and everything else that was on the table flying across the room, ripped me clothes to tatters and passionately took me then and there, right on top of the table. T’was a nightmare, I tell ya, an absolute nightmare!" “Why so terrible?" asked the doctor. "Wasn't the sex good?" "Freakin' jaysus, it was the best sex I've had in me last 25 years, but sure as I'm sittin here, doctor, *I'll never be able to show me face in Starbucks again*!" Cawas
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