Club Bulletin 26 Nov 18

The Next Meetings

End of Year Lunch

Sunday 18th November

Partners and Children welcome

No Meeting after
End of Year Lunch

Monday 19th November

Youth Night

Monday 26th November

AGM
election of 2019-20 board

Monday 3rd December

Kris Kringle Meeting

Monday 17th December

St Gabriel’s School visit
– Outdoor Learning Area

Wednesday 21st November

Hi Fellow Members,
We have been invited to St Gabriels School for a Morning Tea at 10.30AM on Wednesday 21st November. The first stage of the outdoor Learning Area is now complete, and St Gabriels are keen to show us what has been achieved. As you know, we funded and built an equipment Shed and via Tom Westcott, we contributed shade sails for the courtyard area.
The agenda is as follows.
·         10.30am : Arrive and School Tour
·         11.00am : Meet the students and see the playground
·         11.15am : Morning tea
·         11.30am : Depart
Can you please let me know by 5th November if you would like to attend, so I can confirm numbers?
Tony Coote

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

18th November End of Year Lunch - Muirfield Golf Club

21st November Tour of St Gabriel's School

30th November Ronald McDonald House - meal from the heart

6th December Anglicare BBQ

International Men's Day

Thur 22nd November

November is Rotary Foundation Month

The Rotary Foundation transforms your gifts into service projects that change lives both close to home and around the world.

EXPLORE OUR CAUSES

Promoting Peace

Providing Clean Water

Saving Mothers & Children

Supporting Education

Growing Local Economies

Fighting Disease

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 carol.russell@ybr.com.au before 3pm on the Friday before the meeting.

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

Special President's Report 19th November 2018

A short report as there was no club meeting on November 19th. Thirty members and partners held an end of year lunch at Muirfield Golf Club on Sunday. A good meal and lots of fellowship was had thanks to Max for his organisation skills. The last of us left around 4.30 pm.

Some of you may recall Mark Doren an ex member of the club. Mark won the rocking horse in the “Buy a Cow” raffle. Mark originally indicated he would donate it back to the club, but on reflection has decided that it will go to his grandson.

Mrs Warner is going to use her skittles at Christmas time.

George the winner of the $50 has donated it back to the Club

The Tree of Joy has its baubles thanks to Bernard and Neville.

More helpers are needed for the ARV Lunch time BBQ on Dec 6th. Please let Jaswant know if you can help.

The President’s New Year lunch will be held at Geranium cottage on Sunday Jan 6th, which is also the day that Larissa flies home.

Monday 26th is a partners night and youth night. It is a very important night for Larissa as she will be telling us about her year in Australia. Please come along and hear her story.

President's Report 12th November 2018

A combined meeting arranged by the Epping Club to bring together members from the Epping, Beecroft, Berowra, Carlingford, North Rocks, NorWest Sunrise, West Pennant Hills and Cherrybrook clubs for a special meeting to encourage interclub relationships. The other club presidents gave a 3 minute overview of what their club was doing throughout the year. I did something different and shared details about our drought relief program which has been the “inspiration” highlight of our year so far.

Berowra is a small club of 12 members and 9 plus 2 partners were present tonight. They made the point that small clubs have difficulty attracting speakers so they would welcome an invitation to visit larger clubs when good speakers are present. Something for us to keep in mind.

Eighteen members/partners and our exchange student attended the evening which was a good opportunity to mingle with members of other clubs. Unfortunately, the Q&A session: “Are Australia's major institutions and structures, such as our Westminster Democratic System of Government, Religious Organisations, Education Systems, Media, Judicial and Police Systems, as strong and as respected as 50 years ago" was not to everyone’s liking. Hopefully this does not make it difficult to run another combined meeting.

Having helped our Australian farmers with $19,000 plus 30 pamper packs we embarked on an International project to raise funds to provide Anna Papoutsakis with two more cows to add to the 9 that the club and individual members have already given.
The toy raffle that we ran at Cherrybrook Shopping Centre last week raised $1307.50. The board will be asked to make it up to the necessary $1500.

Thank you to the members and partners (Anne, Bernard, David, Jill, Janelle, Kerry, Keith, Margaret, Max, Rosemary, Ross, Steve and Bob) who sold 680 tickets and collected around $150 in donations over the 4 days we were present in the Shopping Centre. The support from the community and the Shopping Centre is much appreciated and although sales were slow we still achieved our objective.

Of course without the generous donation of the rocking horse and skittles by Errol and Myra-Ann from EJ Creations at Kellyville (http://www.creationsbyej.com.au/)
we would not have been able to raise this money.

The raffle was closed at 10pm tonight (Nov 12th) and the three winning tickets were drawn.

First prize went to Mark (ticket 694)

Second went to C.E. Warner (Ticket 729); and

third prize went to George (Ticket 495).

President Colin

Night Report for Multi Club Meeting at “The Epping Club” 12th November

Welcome by the host club president Bruce Jacob Epping Rotary including acknowledging the various dignitaries and the seven local Rotary clubs being Beecroft, Berowra, Carlingford, WPH & Cherrybrook, Epping, North Rocks and Norwest Sunrise.
Toast to Rotary International by Assistant Governor John Fenessy.
Each president then provided a brief three minute review of their respective clubs achievements for the year, refer President Col’s report.
Our key note speakers were Greg Smith, former NSW Attorney General and Epping MP, Julian Leeser, Federal Member for Berowra, Justin King moderated a debate with the four key topics being Banks. Sport, Government and Church/Religion.
This was followed by questions and observations.
Members of other clubs won the raffle, who cares.
The meeting closed just after the scheduled time at 8.40pm (6.30 start).

Max Henderson
Night Reporter

Night Photos

Peter Stanton's Proposed International Project

"The International presentations Peter Stanton presented over last two meetings are attached for your perusal.
1. Australian Council for International Development, interviews President and Chief Executive Officer of NTA East Indonesia Aid, Dr Colin Barlow.
We learn from the perspective of one of our smaller members how they embrace sustainable development broadly with their partners and the communities within West Timor and Flores.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=h2_136w_ZUI&feature=share

2. Rotary Small Grants project- a Rotary Belconnen (and Lane Cove) and NTA association partnership.”
Click the link below to download the presentation: