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Memories Of a Ex-exchange Student - Sonya
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22nd March
7th - 9th April
8th May 2017
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TALDUMANDE
2017 Charity Dinner Book Sale
WHP&C Rotary 30th Birthday
Please join us to celebrate another milestone of our Rotary Club Mark your diary now Partners Night Of Course |
District Conference
Registrations at conferene2017.rotarydistrict9685.org.au
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New School Initiative by Operation Food For Life at village of Kivoro-Poe
DENNIS PERRY -President Operation Food for Life 18th FEB., 2017
Operation Food for Life identified an urgent need for a Christian Early Learning School to serve the villages of the area, aware that at least 60 children, most who had no education, would immediately benefit from the school plant.
With a temporary “bush school” build, two qualified teachers ready to commence, all was in readiness to welcome students for the first term.
With Jim Hawkins, our Vice President, Phillip and Maureen Vaki (who are our incredible PNG Directors for our humanitarian work and ministry in the country,) travelled to the school for the memorable opening ceremony. We were totally overwhelmed when enrolments reached 120 children. ...and still counting as this goes to press.
Education is free for the children who live in very poor communities.
The local village Chief stated "he had been praying for a long time for a Christian school to educate the children, paying tribute to Operation Food for Life’s commitment to Christian education to educate children who live in poor communities. You are also giving these children hope in Christ filled classrooms. Thank you. Thank you" the chief said. During this year Operation Food for Life will build a permanent two classroom facility with an additional first aid room to serve the school and the community. Jim Hawkins is managing this project. This will be Jims second build for Operation Food for Life having managed the construction for our Born Free Sanctuary which is providing 24/7 care for many children at risk and less fortunate. Thank you Jim for transforming so many lives you touch through Operation Food for Life. |
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The new school is another welcomed addition to all our humanitarian programs and projects in Papua New Guinea. This includes our first three teacher Operation Food for Life Rob and Jan Patterson Christian Literacy School in Wildlife Port Moresby which has 120 children enrolled this year.
We praise God for his leading and abundant blessings upon our hands and feet, as all our volunteers give ourselves away above self-interest to serve others of less fortunate circumstances. |
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Taldumande 2017 Charity Dinner
To help make this a success, we would be very grateful if you could support us in one or all of the following ways:
- Join us at the dinner on Wednesday 22nd March 2017.
- Make a tax deductible donation to Taldumande Youth Services at www.taldumande.org.au
Individual tickets are $185 or Table of 10 for $1750. Tickets covers entry to the event, entertainment, full three course meal and all beverages.
To purchase ticket, please go to https://www.taldumande.org.au/news/2017-charity-dinner or alternative, I can produce an invoice for you.
Your support would contribute towards the success of our fundraising dinner and our ability to provide these essential services to vulnerable and homeless young people.
Kind regards,
Kevin Marcus Tran
Fundraising and Events Coordinator
2017 Book Sale
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The 2017 book sale is fast approaching and it is time to start preparing! This year the book sale has been postponed by a couple of weeks from the usual timing in late March to Friday 7 (9am to 5pm), Saturday 8 (9am to 5pm) and Sunday 11 (11am to 2pm) of April.
This is due to the fact that some of our key players will be overseas during the lead up to the actual book sale itself. This includes Andrew & Desley (13 Feb to 20 Mar), Bob & Bev (16 Mar to 14 Apr) and Colin & Anne (start Apr to end May). Whilst we now have some great additional people on our committee (Neville & Heather Hansen & Charlie), we will need all the help we can get from club members & partners to make this year’s book sale a success. This is especially true for the book sort days Saturday 11th, 25th March and Tuesday 4th April) where we really need people to help us for the whole day up to around 3 or 4pm. One of the most onerous jobs is packing the sorted boxes of books away on the book stands at the end of the sort day. Many times this is left to a small number of very dedicated people. Likewise we need assistance with the set up days Wednesday 5th & Thursday 6th April. In order to make it easier on our backs, knees, hips, etc, we are ditching the conventional fruit boxes (which are also extremely difficult to source) and are moving to the Lifeline size cardboard box which is about 2/3 the size of the fruit box and will hence will limit the total lifting weight to around 10kg. This is why Lifeline went to this style & size of box in order to comply with OH&S requirements for their ever aging members! These boxes come flat packed & are taped together as required. At the end of the book sale the tape will be cut & the box flat packed for storage. (See photo on right showing these boxes - note the 10Kg written on the side of the box in the foreground!). The Church has agreed to let us run the book sale on the Sunday from 11am to 2pm when we will start the usual pack up routine. This will provide an extra 3 hours on the Saturday and 3 hours on the Sunday, ie a total of 6 extra selling hours. The 2016 book sale raised around $14,000 and we are aiming to better this in 2017. To do this, we need help from ALL club members during the book sort days - Saturday 11 March Saturday 25 March Tuesday 4 April and during the sale itself from - Wednesday 5 to Sunday 9 April The milestone dates for this year's book sale are as follows: |
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| 2017 Book Sale Committee Meetings | |
| First Book Sale Committee Meeting | Thurs 9 Feb 17 |
| Second Book Sale Committee Meeting | Wed 1 Mar 17 |
| Third Book Sale Committee Meeting | Wed 29 Mar 17 |
| 2017 Book Sale Schedule | |
| Banners & Flyers out | Sat 25 Feb 17 |
| First Major Sort | Sat 11 Mar 17 |
| Second Major Sort | Sat 25 Mar 17 |
| Third Major Sort & Set Up Table Layout | Tue 4 Apr 17 |
| Continue to set up tables, boxes and signs | Wed 5 Apr 17 |
| Fine Tune Layout, etc | Thur 6 Apr 17 |
| Book Sale | Fri 7 Apr 17 |
| Book Sale | Sat 8 Apr 17 |
| Book Sale & Clean Up | Sun 9 Apr 17 |
| Book Sale Dinner | Sun 9 Apr 17 |
RYLA 2017 - this is an excerpt from the latest DG's E News & shows why we support RYLA
Well Done and Thank you to all who made it happen....and I hope that the experience convinces the new RYLArians to join Rotaract so they can continue to enjoy and enhance the Rotary experience.
Significant Club fundraising events during the year
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.
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.
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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Phone 8484 7106 or email jilda.coles@wge.com.au before 11am on the day of the meeting.
President's Report 20th February 2017
Mrs Leonie Day from Marayong Public School spoke of the effect that the Tree of Joy has on those less fortunate. Again, an incredibly humbling project that we all love to get involved with.
It’s wonderful and very necessary to help those less fortunate than us but it is also important to provide opportunities for leadership and development of our young people that Rotary is able to offer.
Congratulation to Tony Coote on his organisation of the amazing night.
And so onto the Book Sale. Please put the dates into your diary especially the book sorting days and the set up days prior to the sale. If you are thinking of taking a day off to help, the Tuesday prior (April 4th) would be a great day to do so. The whole club needs to be involved to ensure great results. Put your names on the lists and get as involved as humanly possible.
While you are speaking to neighbours and friends don’t forget to mention how wonderful Rotary is. We need new members to join this amazing club!! Let’s all try to “grow our club.”
Rosemary
Night Report 20th February 2017
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The meeting started with
a prayer lead by Jim Simpson, followed by the Rotary's toast proposed by Alan
Paynter.
2.
Presidential welcome and
opening remarks - president Rosemary.
Guests and
Visitors:
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AG Jan Duffy
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District Youth Exchange
representatives – David and Maureen Raynor
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Amelia Craig - returning Exchange
student, brother Aidan and
grandmother Joan Byrne, mother Janelle Craig - our club member
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Paul Laroumanie
- father of club's outbound exchange student Anna and a host dad of Sarah our
exchange student from Switzerland for this year
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Ms Leonie Day – assistant Principal from Marayong
PS
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RYPEN students: Rebecca
Lawson and her mum Ann Lawson
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Ashley Eaton and his mum
Jane Eaton
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Honeywell Summer School
of Engineering - Marie Bernadette Morad and her mum
Violet Morad
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Fabienne Meyer – past exchange student from Switzerland ( 2009 - 2010 )
with brother Serge
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Nick Saunders in absentia of Julian Swann – RYLA participant
President Rosemary
gave a brief information about Rotary International programs which were
attended by young people sponsored by our Club.
Rotary
Facts:
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Rotary Youth Exchange –an opportunity to experience the culture of a different country,
a new way of life, in some cases a new language, and a chance to grow in
self-confidence, tolerance and self-reliance.
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RYLA – Rotary Youth Leadership awards for
18-26 year olds for a week’s course to develop character and leadership skills
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RYPEN- Rotary Youth Program of Enrichment for15-16 year olds– a
weekend’s course to develop increased motivation, improved life skills,
self-image, pride in themselves and an understanding of setting and achieving
goals.
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Honeywell School of
Engineering – a
6-day course held at Macquarie University with the aim to
give NSW and ACT high school students a better understanding of what
engineering is and how it works in everyday life
President Rosemary informed that
the rest of the evening will be conducted by the Youth Director Tony Coote.
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Directors Reports
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Social Committee - Colin
Sharpe
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reminded about the
Club's 30th anniversary on the 8th May members were requested to confirm their
participation ASAP.
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the incoming Board
members/ Directors will be asked to provide lists of members of their
respective committees
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Fund Raising / Book Sale
Committee - Max Henderson
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the Book Sale will take
place on the 7,8,9 April. Max asked members to provide as much help as possible
especially please refer to the Sort Out dates in the Bulletin.
4.
AP Marayong
Primary School
Leone Day thanked the Club for
continued support provided to the students at the school. The Christmas gifts
which were provided by the Club and children of Cherrybrook
Public school for the past three years were very highly appreciated. The Marayong Primary School caters for many children from
underprivileged families affected by various difficult life
circumstances.
On the top of all that one
person associated with our club provided a brand new backpack which contained
all the necessary school books required for one of the students who was
starting Secondary School in 2017.
The comment of one of the
parents of the recipients of the gifts has said "I can't believe that
someone would do it for us"
At the end of her talk Ms Day presented President Rosemary with the certificate of
appreciation for her and the Club's continued support to children.
5.
Youth Reports - Tony
Coote
As an introduction to the
speakers, Tony explained why our Club is very keen in supporting and sponsoring
young people.
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Rebecca Lawson and
Ashley Eaton attended RYPEN program just recently. Both students had very
similar opinions about the program and benefits they gained from participating.
Some of the teachings stated were: increase in confidence, gaining more life
skills, learning how to communicate more effectively with others, self discovery,
learning new tools and skills in leadership and above all gaining new friends.
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Laura Commens, another RYPEN
participant was not able to attend our meeting due to her dancing
commitments, however she sent a thank you letter, also briefly stating how much
she benefited from the program.
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Bernadette Morat – participated in Honeywell Summer School of
Engineering. The program allowed her
participate in various workshops and different universities each day, where
participants were challenged into on hand projects and tasks. There were also a
lot of engineering careers information provided.
Tony’s comments were that if all
young people would have an opportunity to participate in similar programs the
world would be a better place; while all speakers assured us that our future is
in good hands.
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Sarah’s presented her
weekly talk emphasizing the benefits of an international students’ exchange: her
learning about a new country, enjoying visits to the beach, making new friends.
Also, she thanked the Club for the sponsorship and care which is provided to
her.
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Visiting past Exchange
Student from Switzerland Fabiene Meyer gave a brief
talk about her life after the Exchange. When she returned to Switzerland she
continued with her secondary schooling for two more years. After that she
started a university course in Law and in few month time she is hoping to
finish her Masters Degree in Law. She expressed her gratitude for the
opportunity given to her 7 years ago and thanked the Club and everybody
involved for taking care of her.
8.
Paul Laroumanie
(the father of Anna, this year’s outbound Exchange student currently in Japan)
and Charlie McCartney as her counselor on behalf of the Club reported on Anna’s
well being overseas. Currently she is hosted by her second family, started
school, met some local officials, tried very unusual local cuisine and so far
everything is progressing very smoothly.
9.
Nick Saunders – RYLA
participant.
He was impressed with the
program and variety of talks and activities provided. He praised the quality of
the motivational speakers and program facilitators. The participants were
introduced to various discussions and participated in activities associated
with topics as leadership skills and styles, communications and power of words,
decision making, relationships and team building, ethics and morals, emotions
and how to deal with them, how to move forward and planning for the future.
Nick felt that the program was
very powerful and extremely beneficial to his career and on personal level. He
offered a vote of thanks on behalf of Julian (who was not able to attend the
meeting due to his work commitments) and himself for sponsoring their participation.
10. Amelia Craig – last year outbound exchange student who returned
home few weeks ago.
Amelia gave a very detailed
report on her one-year adventure. She was hosted by two families who looked
after her very well. As part of the exchange program she travelled in Europe
and visited few countries. She did many trips to the Rotary sister club in
Germany, where she was introduced to many activities and challenges like
sailing, farming or playing golf. When at school she participated in netball
and handball teams, playing games every Saturday and above all making friends.
Amelia thanked the Club for
sponsoring her and gave a very emotional speech about her life before and after
the Exchange. While few rocky events in her personal life caused some loss of
confidence, one year overseas caused that she feels confident again and able to
look into the future with trust and optimism.
11. Rotary Foundation - Teresa Janowski
100th birthday anniversary celebration raffle
draw – two tickets to the Maritime Museum were won by Neville Hansen.
Teresa appealed to members to continue
supporting the Foundation by becoming Centurions each year. She also expressed
her hope that the members of our club who were so far unable to contribute the
symbolic anniversary sum of $ 26.50, will be able to achieve this in near
future, to achieve 100% celebratory donors.
12. Due to the shortage of time there was no fining session, nor
Heads and Tails fun.
13. President’s Closing Remarks:
President
Rosemary thanked all participants of the meeting stating that it has been a
wonderful evening for us all. She said that Rotary has wonderful programs
for youth and asked all of us to spread the word about Rotary and to remember our motto this year: Rotary Serving Humanity.
Let’s keep on doing so.
The meeting concluded with the National
Australian anthem initiated by Caroll Russell.
Minutes
by: Teresa Janowski
Night Photos - Peter Stanton
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This Week's Humour
Sid asks Abe, "Do you know if any people of our ancestry were ever born and raised in Mexico ?"
Abe replies,"I don't know, let's ask our waiter."
When the waiter arrives, Abe asks, "Are there any Mexican Jews?"
The waiter says, "I don't know senor, I ask the cooks.
" He returns from the kitchen after a few minutes and says, "No senor, the cook say no Mexican Jews."
Abe isn't satisfied and asks, "Are you absolutely sure?"
The waiter, realizing he is dealing with "Gringos" replies, "I check once again, senor," and goes back into the kitchen.
While the waiter is away, Sid says, "I find it hard to believe that there are no Jews in Mexico . Our people are scattered everywhere."
The waiter returns and says, "Senor, the head cook Manuel, he say there is no Mexican Jews."
"Are you certain?" Abe asks again. "I just can't believe there are no Mexican Jews!"
"Senor, I ask EVERYONE," replies the exasperated waiter.
"All we have is Orange Jews, Grape Jews, Prune Jews, Tomato Jews and Apple Jews, but no Mexican Jews
-- Carol Russell
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