Photo: Cherrybrook ​metro station by John Cowper 

Inside This Issue

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President's Report

Night Report

Humour

Club Calendar

Upcoming Events

Club Zoom Meeting

7:15pm for 7:30pm Mon 25 May 2020

The speaker is Tony Edwards from mindDog
The member talk is Roslyn Savio.

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

Support for Rotary Club of Patong Beach:
​Feed Phuket - Rotary Covid-19 Project

Hi Rotary Club Members.
At our Zoom Club meeting on the 11 May, we had the benefit of hearing from Denis Carpenter, a past founding member of RCWPH&C
We appreciated listening to his experiences living in Phuket and Bangkok.
The board members were particularly touched about the plight of foreign construction workers
who had no work and no food due to Covid restrictions.
His Rotary club support for these people deserves our club support.
 
Subsequently, at last night’s Board meeting we agreed to contact you, our members, for a brief fund raising campaign.
The money raised would be provided to The Rotary Club of Patong Beach, of which Denis is a member.
 
Request:
We would like you to consider donating the equivalent cost of your Rotary Club meal,
that you would normally spend at Springfield House.
Or whatever amount you think appropriate.
Assistance: Feed Phuket - Rotary Covid-19 Project.
 
Please direct your donation to:
Rotary Club of West Pennant Hills and Cherrybrook
BSB   633000 
Acc   165 073 115
 
Please mark your donation   Your Surname & Phuket
 
The funds collected will be matched by a further $1000 from our club.
 
For Information:
Please visit the Rotary Club of Patong Beach web site. The photos tell the story.
              https://www.rotarypatong.org/    
 
Feed Phuket - Rotary Covid-19 Project
          https://www.rotarypatong.org/photoalbums/corona-projects

Rotary Shipping Container at Galston

We now have two 40 ft High Cube containers on Hornsby Council land at Galston.  We thank Councillor Vince Del Gallego for initiating the approval process with Hornsby Council and Perry Spence from the Council for his assistance at the Galston site following approval from his managers.  Thank you to Tom, Gino, David and Keith for getting the containers installed.  Tom also provided the steel tubes for the footings and arranged for their installation by a concrete contractor.  We now just need to install shelving then we can use them to help generate funds.  Based on the cost of renting containers of a similar capacity at the next door Hills Storage we recover our storage costs within 15 months.
Galston Containers Club information 2020 05 18
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Centurion Program and Centurion Membership application

The end of the financial year is approaching, it is time to consider becoming a Centurion!!!

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

2020 Rotary Virtual Convention

20-26 June 2020

For more information:

NTA's COVID-19 Emergency Appeal

NTA (Nusa Tenggara Association) joins the global efforts in the fight against COVID-19 by supporting Government efforts in distributing vital information.
We need your support to lift this effort in Indonesia to produce and distribute key information and provide training for the communities, particularly on hygiene and hand washing.

 http://www.nta.org.au/

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President's Report  18 May 2020

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I have just attended a joint meeting of RC Coonabarabran and RCWPHC.  It was without doubt a most wonderful meeting.

It was amazing to hear about the range of activities that “Coona” have organised in support for their greater community in an effort to survive the drought.  I was particularly impressed by Lyn Sanson from the CWA who had organised dinners for local families.

Colin S has approached Stacey from Cherrybrook Fire Brigade to seek a candidate that meets the criteria of Rotary Celebrates Emergency Services Personnel.  A response will follow after their Executive meeting later this week.

Please consider supporting RC Patong Beach Feed Phuket – Rotary Covid19 Project. We seek a donation amount similar to what you would expend on a Monday Night at Springfield.  The Club will donate an additional $1,000 over and above the member’s contributions.  The need is compelling.

Next week the speaker is Tony Edwards from mindDog.
Have a safe week.
Rotary Rocks
Keith

Night Report - 18 May 2020

Our  meeting on Monday was a combined meeting with Rotary Club of Coonabarabran.

President Ian Bell (Coonabarabran) opened the meeting with invocation and toasts
Guests were welcomed by Russ James.

Our club had Directors Reports from Janelle Craig who suggested that we may be able to share our Exchange Students with Coonabarabran.

Colin Sharpe gave a brief explanation of Rotary Emergency Service Community Awards and asked for nominations.
Colin reported on the delivery and placement of  containers for our club storage at Dural.

Peter Stanton  Requested that members support Dennis Carpenters appeal for funds to be forwarded to the Rotary Club of Phuket
in East Timor ( via our clubs on line bank account) to relieve starving workers in remote construction camps. Perhaps an amount equivalent to the cost of our meal at Springfield.

Rosemary Clarke gave a briefing, mainly for the benefit of Coonabarabran members, as to how we raised  funds (approx. $30,000)
which this Club forwarded to aid farmers and businesses in Coonabarabran and surrounding  country areas.
These activities included :  Our Garage Sale, Book Sale, Trivia night, Tree of Joy Presents , Donation jars at Bunnings BBQ’s
 and above activities.  Plus private donations.

Jo Wilkin from Coonabarabran Club gave an account of how this relief was undertaken, including a shared zoom screen of pictures, with graphic and sobering before and after shots of the local area, which reinforced for us city slickers just how tough the conditions were and are for our country friends.

Members of the Coonabarabran rural community reported on the value of the Rotary support.
Speakers included CWA President Lyn Sanson, Julie and Councillor Peter Shinton and Marie Knight.

After a brief Questions and Answers segment we showed them how we run our Heads and Tails game, with Bottles of wine as prizes.

Presidents Keith and Ian thanked everyone and closed the meeting at approx. 8.45pm

Alan Paynter

Night Photos:

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This Week's Humour / Interesting Facts

Pray for the Deaf
The preacher enquired, "anyone with 'special needs' who wants to be prayed over, please come forward to the front by the altar."                    
With that, an Aboriginal got in line, and when it was his turn, the vicar asked  him, "Mulrunji, what do you want me to pray about for you?
Mulrunji replied, "Preacher, I need you to  pray for help with my hearing."
The preacher put one finger of one hand in Mulrunji's ear, placed his other hand on top of Mulrunji's head, and then prayed and prayed and prayed. 
He prayed to the 'Almighty' for Mulrunji,  and the whole congregation joined in with great enthusiasm.
After a few minutes, the preacher removed his hands, stood back and asked, "Mulrunji, how is your hearing now?"
Mulrunji answered, "I don't know.  It ain't 'til next week”.
Thanks Stan


The MAIN problem with golf is that the slow people are always in front of you and the fast people always end up behind you.

Some more Comedy:

Club Calendar

Editor's Note:  ​If you wish to download and print the Calendar please click here.

Bulletin Editor - Neville

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 Julie. 
Email  admin@altitudecapital.com.au before 1pm on the Friday before the meeting.
​Please no communication via phone (either verbal or SMS)

If you are expected and do not show you will be required to pay for the meal.

Significant Club Fundraising Events during the year 

The Book Sale March 2020

As the result of a lot of hard work the MarchBook 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:-
President Keith (0478 599 155) or Tony (Membership) (0412 812 624) 

Club Details:
Rotary Club of West Pennant Hills and Cherrybrook meets every Monday for Dinner at Springfield House
Arrive 6:30pm  Start  7:00pm  End  9:00pm
245 New Line Rd
Dural NSW 2128 Australia

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