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The Next Meetings

Saturday 26th August

TRIVIA NIGHT

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Monday 28th August

​No Meeting after Trivia Night

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Monday 4th September

mindDogs - Tony Edwards

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Monday 11th September

Joint sitting at Pennant Hills Golf Club with Beecroft and other clubs.

​Special Guest:  John Hewko

​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 Max, so he can amend his records.

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Inside This Issue

Upcoming Events

President's Report
Night Report
Humour

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26th August

11th September

Trivia Night

John Hewko - General Secretary to RI & Foundation
Joint sitting at Pennant Hills Golf Club with Beecroft and other clubs.
​Timing 6:30pm for 7:00pm

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Trivia Night

Trivia Night - Member Courtesy

House Keeping for Club Members

• Wear Dinner badges (available at the door).
• ​Car parking, try to use the second carpark behind the hall or alternatively park away from the hall in the main carpark to cater for older guests and visitors

John Hewko

General secretary
​John Hewko 
Rotary Club of Kyiv
​Ukraine

John Hewko is the general secretary of Rotary International and The Rotary Foundation.

From 2004 to 2009, Hewko was vice president for operations and compact development for the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), a U.S. government agency established in 2004 to deliver foreign assistance to the world’s poorest countries. At MCC, he was the principal United States negotiator for foreign assistance agreements to 26 countries in Africa, Asia, South America, the Middle East, and the former Soviet Union. During his tenure, he completed the negotiation of assistance agreements totaling $6.3 billion to 18 countries for infrastructure, agriculture, water and sanitation, health, and education projects.

Prior to joining MCC, Hewko was an international partner with the law firm Baker & McKenzie, specializing in international corporate transactions in emerging markets. He helped establish the firm’s Moscow office and was the managing partner of its offices in Kyiv and Prague.

While working in Ukraine in the early 1990s, Hewko assisted the working group that prepared the initial draft of the new Ukrainian post-Soviet constitution and was a charter member of the first Rotary club in Kyiv.

Hewko has been a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University, and a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He has published papers and articles in leading U.S. and international publications, and he has spoken extensively on political and business issues dealing with the former Soviet Union, Central Europe, Africa, and Latin America. He is also a member of the Council of Foreign Relations.

Hewko holds a law degree from Harvard University, a master’s in modern history from Oxford University (where he studied as a Marshall Scholar), and a bachelor’s in government and Soviet studies from Hamilton College in New York. 
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As general secretary, Hewko leads a diverse staff of 800 at Rotary International’s World Headquarters in Evanston, Illinois, USA, and seven international offices. Hewko is a Paul Harris Fellow. He and his wife, Margarita, live in Evanston.

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Pavilion Theatre - "Ladies in Lavender" - Wednesday 20th September

On behalf of the Rotary Club of North Rocks, you and your club members and friends at e invitedto join us at the Pavilion Theatre on
Wednesday 20th September for their next production "Ladies in Lavender". 
The cost is $25 per person. 
Wine and cheese will be served from 7:30pm.

Please make payment into the club’s General Account with the reference of Ladies and your surname.
 If interested please refer to Max who will have to finalise numbers by 10th September.  (These will be based on payments to General Account.)

When the Widdington sisters discover an unconscious stranger on the beach and nurse him back to health their ordered life of cocoa before bed and the village jumble sale is transformed.

With a smattering of German between them, the sisters communicate with their patient – often with very humorous results and the assistance of the forthright housekeeper – and discover he is a promising young violinist.

Along with his music Andreas brings a sense of mischief and fun as well as an unsettling ability to stir up lost feelings of love and longing. The unsettled household is further disrupted when a visiting artist overhears Andreas playing the violin, presenting an opportunity that must be seized . . .
 
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Days for Girls Workshop

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Top Five Reasons to End Trachoma

​Top 5 Reasons to support EndTrachoma by 2020
 
Clubs around Australia support many worthwhile charities and projects. But EndTrachoma by 2020 is something particularly special for Rotary Australia.
 

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August is Membership Month

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Significant Club fundraising events during the year 

The Book Sale March 2017.​  As the result of a lot of hard work the April Book Sale was a great success, especially from  the organisers Max Henderson, Andrew Little and Clive Denmark.  Funds raised were circa $13,000.  Well done.

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2016 Trivia Night
The Club held a very successful trivia night on Saturday 27 August 2016 at the Cherrybrook Community Centre, raising just over $5,000 towards the charities we support. 


                            2017 Event is on 26th August

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The Garage Sale
We have just had a very successful Garage Sale on the weekend of 8/9 October raising a record gross of over $30k. The combination of good planning and benign weather 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.. 

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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 Jilda. 
Phone 8484 7106 or email  jilda.coles@wge.com.au 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.

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President's Report

Presidents Report – August 21

President Colin welcomed fellow Rotarians partners and guests.  Guests tonight were. 
·       Hans and Liz Rupp  - The Rotary Club of Glenhaven President
·       Jean Elborn and Bill Smith both from The Rotary Club of Glenhaven
·       Our guest speaker – Lynne Shori introduced later in the evening by PP Barry
·       Outgoing exchange student Mikaela Love and her mum Nicole.
·       PP Brian and Barbara Furrer
·       Tchetchenian family –John, Rita, Zachary and Marcus,
·       Partners  Anne, Bev, Jill, Gwen, Pamela, Rashna, Roma,. Helen, Lynne, Margaret, Rita
·       Special Welcome to Ross and Helen who celebrated a 50 year wedding anniversary yesterday
       
Business Items
1)  Charlie –$60 to Foundation in her name
2)  Centurion.  About 50% member participation.  There are now 2 ways to pay. – Individually direct to RI – I will circulate the form or continue with our current method of paying the Club and the Treasurer will consolidate and submit to RI in your name.
 
Presentation to Zachary and Marcus Tchetchenian.  These two young aspiring Rotary members have contributed greatly to Club fund raising events.  They are two young men who would like to be recognised at our fundraising events as being associated with Rotary.  It gives me great pleasure to present them with a name badge and Rotary cap.

Honorary Member Award. 
An Honorary Member award is made to a member or non-member in recognition of long and valued contribution to the Club and meritorious service in the furtherance of Rotary ideals.  An Honorary Member has all the privileges of a club member except no voting rights and no fees required.  The member is also listed with RI as a club member so now we are back to 40 Members. 

Brian has been a member of Rotary since 1986 first with Glen Innes and then this club since 1993.   Brian inherited Club Presidency in 2003 - 4 from Dick Bushell and passed it on to Barry Freeman.  Brian’s notable achievements during his Presidency were:
·       Added Cherrybrook to the club name
·       Started the Centenary of Rotary Project at the Guide Hall
·       Moved the Club Meeting venue from Springfield House the to Burning Log at Dural
·       Initiated a joint painting project at Inala School with the Rotary Club of Glenhaven.
·       Organised and staged the District MUNA Project involving 50 schools.  (The Model United Nations Assembly (MUNA) is a significant international Rotary youth program )
·       Instigated the Cherrybrook Chase Fun Run.
Other Notable events were:
·       Christmas in August,
·       Bush Walk
·       Car Trial
·       Dinner to recognise 3 local apprentices
·       Christmas lunch for disabled people
·       International Aid trip to Vanuatu.
·       Winning District Conference Theme Prize Safari Theme with Alan Paynter’s Landrover
Brian left the Club in June 2017 and at the time had been coordinating the Club’s Tree of Joy project for 10 years.  Finding a replacement for Brian will be a challenge.

President Colin thanked everyone for attending tonight’s meeting and wished them all a great week making a difference.  Members are reminded about our Trivia night on Saturday and no meeting next Monday.  Our Speaker for Monday Sept 4 is Tony Edwards speaking about mindDogs an intriguing topic so come along and find out more. 

Some humour for our tech Gurus.  The following text messages were exchanged on a cold winters day.  Wife – Windows Frozen.  Husband – Pour some warm water over them.  Wife - Computer completely stuffed now.

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Night Report

Night Report 21st August
 
OPENING
Sergeant Ric opened the meeting at 7.0 p.m and after the customary grace and loyal toast invited President Colin to present his report.(see details elsewhere in this Bulletin.)
Ross then advised members he would be accepting orders for Rotary shirts, caps, and aprons, samples of which he had on display at the back of the room and reminded members of the importance of wearing these at the forthcoming garage sale.  

DIRECTORS’S REPORTS.
Max---North Rocks Rotary Club invitation to join them at The Pavilion Theatre on 20th September for a special performance of LADIES IN LAVENDER. Cost $25 per person payable into our club’s General Account prior to the event.
              Trivia Night this Saturday evening 6.30 p.m. for 7.0 p.m. Attendance estimated at 193 people.
Neville---outlined the plans for the forthcoming garage sale and asked all members to advise him of their availability.
Barry---reminded members of dinner to be held at Baulkham Hills TAFE on 21st November.$38 per person. Numbers limited. As a consequence Rotary meeting on 20th November will be cancelled.
Peter ---talked about his exploratory actions in looking for how our club might become involved in international charitable activities .Amongst these is the Rotary Against Malaria (RAM) project and he advised of his attendance at the recent conference.
MEMBER’S TALK.
In his inimitable style, Tony presented a most interesting and pictorial insight into his woodwork skills. This time, combining with  his interest in building clocks, he showed us photos of three long case examples apply named ALBERT,VICTORIA, and GEORGE!
OTHER.
Linda advised how she would be standing in for Charlie during her absence.
Outgoing exchange student Mikaela Love thanked the club for her nomination and advised that she would be going to Denmark.
Rosemary advised  that Eric Willison will attend the forthcoming  National Youth Science Programme and that the Club is looking for possible nominations for both RYLA andRYPEN.                                                
  
HONORARY MEMBER.
The President announced that Brian Furrer had been appointed an HONORARY MEMBER of our club.(see details in President’s Report elsewhere in this Bulletin.)

GUEST SPEAKER.
Lynne Shori introduced herself as having a mixed heritage with an Australian father and a mother from Manus in PNG; a member of Manly Rotary Club for 15 years; educated in Australia and having spent 10years working in the financial services market.
She described how after experiencing the poor sanitation practices and lack of facilities at Manus she decided that she would try and”make a difference.”
She established two projects(1)  Composting Toilets (2) Days for Girls. The results of the former are a growing number of physical facilities being erected which effectively convert waste into compost.
The second is the provision of menstruation  products being packaged into kits and being made available for girls thereby enabling them to continue with unbroken attendence days at school.
Both projects are spreading across the country with attention being focussed on the benefits of scale through train the trainer programmes.
Annual budgets are prepared and demonstrate the need for on going financial support.

OTHER
The Sergeant conducted the fines session, heads and tails and announced the winner of  the raffle.
President’s final remarks (see details elsewhere in this Bulletin.)
The Sergeant closed the meeting.
Colin Baxter.​

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This Week's Humour

The Parking Ticket

Colin S

A parable to ponder on in our politically correct society....................

An old man, a boy and a donkey were going to town. The boy rode on the donkey, and the old man walked.

As they went along they passed some people who remarked "What a shame, the old man is walking, the boy is riding." The man and boy thought
maybe the critics were right, so they changed positions.

Later they passed some people who remarked "What a shame, he makes that little boy walk". So they decided they'd both walk.

Soon they passed some more people who remarked "They're really stupid to walk when they have a decent donkey to ride." So they both decided
to ride the donkey.

They passed some people who shamed them by saying "How awful to put such a load on a poor donkey." The boy and the man figured they were
probably right, so they decide to carry the donkey.

As they crossed the bridge, they lost their grip on the donkey, the donkey fell into the river and drowned.


The moral of the story: If you try to please everyone, you might as well kiss your ass goodbye.

David

Eleven Minutes Can Be Forever

A Police Officer was patrolling late at night off the main highway.
At nearly midnight, he sees a couple in a car, on Lovers' Lane, with the interior light brightly glowing. 
He carefully approaches the car to get a closer look.
Then he sees a young man behind the wheel, reading a computer magazine.
He immediately notices a young woman in the rear seat, filing her fingernails.
Puzzled by this surprising situation, the Officer walks to the car and gently raps on the driver's window.
The young man lowers his window. "Uh, yes, Officer?"
The Officer asks: "What are you doing?”
The young man says: "Well, Officer, I'm reading a magazine."
Pointing towards the young woman in the back seat the Officer says: "And, her, what is she doing?"
The young man shrugs: "Sir, I believe she's filing her fingernails."
Now, the Officer is totally confused.
A young couple, alone, in a car, at night in Lover's Lane and nothing obscene is happening!
The Officer asks: "What's your age, young man?"
The young man says: "I'm 22, sir."
The Officer asks: "And her,…what's her age?"
​The young man looks at his watch and replies:  "She'll be 16 in 11 minutes.”

Jim

Pondering!

Lying around, pondering the problems of the world, I realised that at my age I don't really give a rat's anymore.  
If walking is good for your health, the postman would be immortal.   
    
A whale swims all day, only eats fish, drinks water, but is still fat.   
    
A rabbit runs and hops and only lives 15 years, while a tortoise doesn't run and does mostly nothing, yet it lives for 150 years. And they tell us to exercise? I don't think so.   
    
Now that I'm older, here's what I've discovered:   
    
1. I started out with nothing, and I still have most of it.   
2. My wild oats are mostly enjoyed with prunes and all-bran.   
4. Funny, I don't remember being absent-minded.   
5. Funny, I don't remember being absent-minded.   
6. If all is not lost, then where the heck is it?   
7. It was a whole lot easier to get older than it was to get wiser.   
8. Some days, you're the top dog, some days you're the hydrant.   
9. I wish the buck really did stop here, I sure could use a few of  them.   
10. Kids in the back seat cause accidents.   
11. Accidents in the back seat cause kids.   
12. It's hard to make a comeback when you haven't been anywhere.   
13. The world only beats a path to your door when you're in the bathroom.   
14. If God wanted me to touch my toes, he'd have put them on my knees.   
15. When I'm finally holding all the right cards, everyone wants to play chess.   
16. It's not hard to meet expenses . . . They're everywhere.   
17. The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth.   
18. These days, I spend a lot of time thinking about the hereafter .. . . I go somewhere to get something, and then wonder what I'm "here after".   
19. Funny, I don't remember being absent-minded.
20. It is a lot better to be seen than viewed.  
21. Have I sent this message to you before...or did I get it from  you?

Colin McG

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