Club Bulletin 24Sep2018

The Next Meetings

Dr Noni Lewis
Opthalmologist: laser cataract, corneal and refractive surgeon

Monday 24th September

No Meeting - Public Holiday

Monday 1st October

Rosie May Foundation
Jenny and Dan Murray

Monday 8th October

No Meeting - After Garage Sale

Monday 15th October

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 Keith, so he can amend his records.
Also, to avoid being rostered on, please notify Keith of any upcoming known absences (eg holidays) from meetings in the next twelve months.

Inside This Issue

President's Report

Night Report

Humour

Club Calendar

Upcoming Events

13th-14th October Garage Sale ALL HANDS

30th November Ronald McDonald House - meal from the heart

6th December Anglicare BBQ

Vale - Jim Kehoe

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.

Do you have a spare Surf Board that Vilde can borrow?

Vilde Sollien, who we hosted from Norway some 5 years ago, is back in Australia studying at University of NSW.
She is hoping to do a bit of surfing before she goes home (in Jan2019).
Do you know of a surfboard she might be able to borrow. If so, contact her on 0478 156055.

Entrance Club Theatre Night

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".

- TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE -

Grease

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".

Tarzan

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.

Tarzan struggles to navigate a jungle, thick with emotion, as he discovers his animal upbringing clashing with his human instincts.

If you wish to attend on Friday 23rd November please email Max, make your payment ($32.00-Senior or $37.00-Adult) into the club’s General Account and identify your payment with your Surname and "Tarzan".

September is Basic Education and Literacy Month

More than 775 million people over the age of 15 are illiterate. That’s 17 percent of the world’s adult population.

Our goal is to strengthen the capacity of communities to support basic education and literacy, reduce gender disparity in education, and increase adult literacy. We support education for all children and literacy for children and adults.

How Rotary makes help happen

We take action to empower educators to inspire learning at all ages.

MENTORING STUDENTS

Rotary club pairs students with celebrity and CEO mentors for success.
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TEACHER TRAINING

We share our knowledge and experience with educators and other professionals who work with vulnerable populations

ADULT LITERACY

Rotary members fight adult illiteracy by working with local advocates to offer community literacy programs.

ROTARY SCHOLARSHIPS

Rotary members invest in the future by giving scholarships to students who have the potential to change our communities

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

"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 Members

If 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.

Significant Club Fundraising Events during the year

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.

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.

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.

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 [email protected] 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 17th September 2018

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.

Jim returned to the Club in March 2013 to give a talk about a book he wrote. Jim researched and authored the book From Whites to Muddies: a History of Rugby Union in the RAN, which chronicled the rich history of Navy rugby to commemorate the centenary of RAN Rugby Union in 2012. Jim and Muriel enjoyed their travelling, they were walking on the beach in Noumea when Jim slipped and broke his hip. Surgery was performed but post surgery he contracted an infection and sadly he succumbed to pneumonia.
Jim Simpson also spoke. Tony Makin reported that the club sent flowers to Muriel. A minutes silence was observed in memory of Jim.

Thank you to Neville, Tony Coote, Max and Tom who along with myself moved the contents for Janelle’s Dural garage to her Pennant Hills garage. Janelle has graciously lent her Dural Garage to the garage sale cause.

Club dues. There are still some members who have not paid the first instalment for this year. Could they please ensure that they do so as soon as possible. Rotary International is imposing penalties on late payment of dues by Clubs.

Charlie. Charlie has advised that she is currently in the Southern Pacific Private Clinic and hopes to be out on Sept 25 th .

Garage sale: Please watch your emails for garage sale notices

Mums and Co: Rosemary will be reading to the children at Mums & Co at Cherrybrook shopping village on Tuesday. Jaswant will also be present to sell some books for our Drought Relief project that is in partnership with the Coonabarabran Rotary Club. You are welcome to visit and watch Rotary at work.

Until we meet here again on Monday September 17 th to hear from Dr Noni Lewis about looking after our eyesight and for more fun and fellowship, have a great week.

President Colin

Presidents Report 3rd September - Special Coonabarabran Trip Edition -

The Coonabarabran visit was and outstanding success and it rained during our stay, not much but every bit helps.

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.

The club is 69 years old and currently has 26 members. It provides many outdoor amenities for the town. Its main fundraising is from a bookshop that operates 4 days a week throughout the year (strategically located next to the supermarket) and from providing a food van at local events such as the Open Day at Siding Spring Observatories, the annual Coonabarabran Cup Race day, and the North West Equestrian Expo.

At the club meeting we heard from two students about their experience at the Science and Engineering Challenge which the club supports. This national event is run by the University of Newcastle and offers high school students in Years 9 and 10 hands-on experience to show that, in addition to helping to solve real-world problems, science and engineering can be fun and may even offer a potential career choice. Teams of students from different schools compete against each other in a series of eight challenges, including:

Bridge: students construct a model bridge out of balsa wood and masking tape, which then has to support a railcar carrying increasingly heavy weights as it races across a test rig
Catapult: after constructing their swing-arm catapult out of dowel, students gain points for length and accuracy of the flight of their projectile
ElectraCITY: with a powered board, students use cables to connect power to a city's infrastructure at the lowest possible cost
Helter Skelter Shelter: towers are constructed from common materials and then tested for strength and stability, through the use of weights and a shaking base which simulates an earthquake.

We heard from Jarod Lambert (Year 12) about his experience at the London National International version of NYSF (National Youth Science Forum). Jarod met Erik and formed a strong friendship. They are somewhat similar in their ability to speak competently and enthusiasm for science. Jarod also explained that students from Coonabarabran endeavour to seek work experience in Sydney which is where he did his. Finding companies to participate and accommodation is difficult so perhaps this is something we could explore further.

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.

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.

Larissa visited the sheep farm of the Club Rotarian who co-ordinates the jumpers for lambs and she enjoyed herself immensely.

Arrangements are underway for a few days stay at the farm after school closes in Dec. We discovered that Larissa’s family have a farming background and Coonabarabran has a lot in common with the area where she lives. The Coonabarabran Club normally hosts an exchange student but are having a year off. They continue to support the Rotary Australia New Zealand Student Exchange Program (RANZSE). Our District does not participate in this program.
Finally our club members Anne & I, Peter, Julie, Gino, Ros, Andrew, Desley, Rosemary, Rob and Larissa enjoyed ourselves immensely and I am sure this will lead to a long-term relationship between the two clubs. We know at least one Coonabarabran club member will be visiting us before the end of the year.

President Colin

A Report from Mikaela, our Exchange Student in Denmark

Mikaela's, latest report of 22/8/2018 from Denmark begins: "The winds of change are upon us

Godaften,

As I write today, I face a startling reality; . . . ."

Click here to read more.

Night Report 17th September

Opening: Sgt Rosemary opened the meeting then handed to Pres Colin.
Welcome to Don, our guest speaker, and visitors from South Africa, Robin and Edna. Also welcome back Jim Simpson and Colin Baxter, who have been travelling.

President Col’s Report
Pres Colin spoke of the sad news of the passing of former member Jim Kehoe. Refer President’s report in the bulletin.

Director’s Reports
Jaswant (Community Service):
Many projects happening:

Book reading program: Tues 18 Sep, Wed 21 Nov
Tree of Joy: the tree in Cherrybrook shops will be Mon 12 Nov to Wed 12 Dec
Ronald McDonald meals from the heart: Fri 30 Nov
Anglicare BBQ: Thu 6
Diabetes Alive: we will contribute $3,000, which with matching will buy a $9,000 pump

Peter (International):
Peter ran a video on his favoured project, NTA (Nusa Tenggara Association) East Indonesia Aid. They are organised, and work with the government and the Kelompok (group of about 15 families that work together as subsistence farmers) to improve conditions. The focus is water/sanitation, and education in subsistence farming techniques. Peter is going to Indonesia in a few months, and hopefully will agree on a project for us.

Janelle (Youth):
Larissa is moving from the Love family to the home of Bev and Bob Davison this Sunday.
Applications are now open for :

RYPEN (year 9-10 students). CTHS has provided one, we expect another
RYLA (18-25 yo): we have no candidate. This is an excellent program. Talk to Janelle if you know of anyone who would benefit, they often become involved in Rotaract after

Paul (Treasurer):
Some dues are outstanding, make your payment now ($300 or $150)

Max:

There are 3 shows listed in the Bulletin. One of these is with Clive Denmark’s Club, Seasons Greetings on 20th October. Clive supports our Club, it would be good for members to support his Club and attend this great night out.
The Garage Sale dinner on Saturday night is at WPH Sports Club. It is usually a great night.

Bill (BBQs):
Bunnings Dural have offered us to do a BBQ on Monday 1st October (public holiday). All monies will go to Farmers. Volunteers were noted.

Neville: Garage Sale update:

Promoted at every school in the area
We have 4 devices for processing credit cards
Pickups are occurring
We have been offered the contents of two houses (with quality merchandise)
The awning goes up this Sunday at 9am, we have 5 volunteers
Sunday we are also doing pick-ups
Monday we setup the guide hall and the church

Neville also gave an update on Heather.
Heather had breast cancer in 2004 and treatment for 5 years. After that it was managed/monitored with mamograms and Ultrsounds every year.
Recently she experienced some pain, and an xray indicated things were OK. But then a CT scan followed by a bone scan indicated secondaries in bones, she is starting treatment.
The concern is that you do all the right things, monitoring, but it isn’t picking up that the cancer is spreading, until there is an issue.

Larissa’s talk.
Saturday she went to the beach at Dee Why. It was 31 degC, but the water was still cold. Sunday was at the museum, opera house and lunch at Darling Harbour. A very full weekend.

Guest Speaker
Don Heussler BE (wearing a footsman’s cloak of the 18th century) was introduced by Peter Cleary. He spoke on the topic of “Vegetable Sheep and 18th Century Telescopes”. He applied his scientific interest to determine the magnification of telescopes used by Captain Cook in 1770. The short version is that Cook observed a plant (Raoulia) which looked like sheep while at sea off Mt Taranaki (NZ). The “sheep” are typically 1 meter in diameter, Cook logged that he was 3 leagues out to sea, the observation was thus 1 meter at 36 kilometers, hence the answer.
Click here to see an excellent detailed description.

Sergeant at Arm’s
Did you know (we do now) that 17th September is:

International Country Music day
Locate a Friend day
US Apple Dumpling day
Aussie Citizen day (and all citizens were fined to celebrate)

Heads & Tails won by: Peter Cleary (given to Don)
Raffle won by: Colin Baxter (welcome back)

Bob Davison
Night Reporter

Night Photos

the Travels of Ross and Helen Ballinger

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