Photo: Cherrybrook ​metro station by John Cowper 

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Upcoming Events

We are back having meetings in Springfield House. However, due to availability of the venue. The alternate week arrangement with Zoom may not be strictly adhered to. Some meetings may occur on other weekdays instead of customary Mondays. Please consult your calendar for changes.
Ros Hogan is the Attendance Officer for face-to-face meetings at Springfield.  If bringing a partner or not able to attend, please notify Ros via email Ros Hogan hoganros@gmail.com by 12noon on the Thursday prior to a face-to-face meeting. Charges for non-attendance will be incurred unless previously advised.

Club Zoom Meetings
Alternate week
Springfield House

7:15pm for 7:30pm 

6:30pm for 7:00 pm

Mon 28 March 2022
Youth Night - Partners Night
Guest Speaker: TBA

Mon 4 April 2022
​Guest Speaker: Dr Peter Gangemi - Mayor of Hills Shire

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Mon 11 March 2022
Visitors Night -- Membership Drive
​Guest Speaker: TBA

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​Duty Roster

With COVID lockdowns now ending and even more restrictions being eased, effective 08/11/2021, we appreciate that many Club members may be eager to get out and about and take the chance to have a holiday. So, if you are going to be absent from meetings and events in the months up until July next year, please notify Janelle via email.
Equally now that we are back to face-to-face meetings at Springfield it’s important that we get back into the swing of advising Frank of numbers attending by the Thursday prior to Monday meetings. As per our existing RSVP procedures, if you are not attending you need to advise Ros Hogan otherwise you will be charged the cost of the meal. 
Thanks for your patience and understanding with these matters – it’s all part of adjusting to life post COVID!  

Do Browse Through This Website

This website is not just the bulletin. There are many useful information within. Please use the heading buttons at the top to the right of the Club's Rotary Logo and dropdown menus to navigate to other areas of interests. Just be aware that some information may not be up-to-date but come back often. It is a dynamic site and will be updated periodically.

​President Keith's Report - 21st March 2022

Neville managed to intertwine logistics, drone management, trip report, and photos into his presentation on touring Australia. The beauty of our countryside was exemplified by the photos and videos presented.
Rosemary is assembling a wonderful array of peoples for next Monday’s Youth Night at Springfield House (Now On Zoom <Ed>). It promises to be a great Partners Night.
Looking forward to seeing you, at the Youth Night.
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Stay Safe and Dry
Keith

Centurion Program and Centurion Membership application

Please consider renewing your Centurion membership, or if not already a member, why not make this the year to become a Centurion!!!

How to Access MyRotary

Know Your Members
Ros Hogan

PictureRos Hogan
I grew up in Auckland, New Zealand and was educated at Diocesan School for Girls. At the age of 20 I felt the need to spread my wings and left New Zealand and did the big Overseas Experience which seems mandatory for all New Zealanders. I lived in London for two years on a working holiday seeing much of Europe while I was there.
I came back and settled in Australia and have worked as a legal secretary/paralegal for most of my working life.
Sadly, my first husband died from a brain tumour but I was truly blessed to meet another beautiful man, Ross, who I have been married to for seven years. I didn’t have children of my own but am a very involved grandmother to Ross’ grandchildren.
I retired four years ago at which time I took up golf and am a member at Castle Hill Country Club. Before Covid Ross and I travelled overseas a lot but now we are both spending more time on the golf course.
I volunteer at Bella Vista Gardens Aged Care, preparing Trivia each week and visiting residents with our two beautiful 11 year-old Cavoodles, Grace and Molly.
I also do yoga and enjoy spending time with friends.
I became a Rotarian in November 2020, joining the West Pennant Hills and Cherrybrook Rotary Club. I have had a good life and now have time and energy to help make a difference to others in the community through Rotary’s various projects. The members of my Rotary Club are the nicest group of people and have been so welcoming and supportive. Through the Club’s mentoring I will be able to further increase my personal skills. I am proud to say I am a Rotarian.
Petition for Guest Speaker recommendations
Please contact John Caruana if you know of any prospective guest speakers of interest to the club
johncaruana500@gmail.com       Mob: 0417 394 854

Night Report - 21st March 2022

  1. President Keith opened the meeting and welcomed all to the zoom meeting.
  2. Tony Makin presented the toast.
  3. Presidents report:
    1. Apologies from Cawas, Douglas, Peter & Max.
    2. Welcome to partners: Gwen, Pamela, Rob, Helen, Anne and Pat.
    3. Welcome also to our most distant past member Denis Carpenter.
    4. Peter has been working on the NTA Fundraising Dinner.  It will be a joint meeting of five Rotary Clubs and be held on Monday 9th May at the Dougherty Community Centre in Chatswood.  The dinner is to be supported by Lane Cove, Northbridge, North Sydney Sunrise, Chatswood and Roseville clubs.
    5. Seven members and partners attended the District Conference.  We had a wonderful time.  West HQ is a wonderful venue. I purchased two quilts from Shamida Ethiopia.  A key decision to purchase, was that each had panels with heffalumps (elephants), (I love heffalumps), and were very colourful.  Heffalumps are mentioned, and only appear, in Pooh and Piglet's dreams in Winnie-the-...
    6. Next year the convention is the Cowra Breakout (17 to 19 March) and the theme is “1940s”
    7. Have asked Cawas to arrange a Bucket Brigade at Cherrybrook.  The intended date was Saturday 26th March, however, they are slow in responding, so this may slip.
    8. Thanks to all who have or intend to donate to a Flood Appeal via the Club.
    9. Alan reports he is going ok but needs another operation when his surgeon returns from holiday.  Stan has stuffed his left shoulder (might have to change to middies).  No more welfare news because the welfare officer, Jim, is in the San for a minor op.
  4. Janelle provided more details on the District Conference.  The young doctor who has organised “Medics on the Street” was inspiring.  They run medically equipped vans to provide medical assistance to the homeless.  Janelle has also got lots of ideas for next year from the conference.
  5. Director’s reports:
  6. Rotary Foundation – David
    1. Reported that RAWCS has provided $24,000 to flood relief.
  7. Membership - Carol
    1. 11th April is a Business Night at Rotary.  Carol exhorted members to bring along possible new members – business contact, new retirees, females (and males), new neighbours, Probus members and Rotaractors.
  8. Youth - Rosemary
    1. Next week is Youth Night.  We are inviting Harashan from National Science Forum, Katherine - Youth Exchange from 2020, 5 Rotaract members and 4 students from Coonabarabran who will be attending a science forum.
  9. Fund Raising – Neville
    1. The Book Sale is on for 13-15th May.  First club activity is setting up tables at 1.00pm on 8th April for the first sort on 9th April.
  10. Club Service - Janelle
    1. 3 face to face meetings coming up.  We need to support Frank plus some presentations need face to face meeting.
    2. Reported that the joint meeting with Pennant Hills club went well.  We had 27 from our club including Barry Freeman.
  11. Dennis Carpenter spoke to us from Bangkok.  He is still a member of Patong Beach Rotary Club.  He has written 600 editions of the club bulletin but is having a year off.  He intends to start again in the next Rotary year.  Their club runs an SOS scheme which provides food for the poor – last Saturday they provided 550 meals.
  12. David then introduced our own Neville as guest speaker.
  13. Neville recounted details of his trip with lots of fabulous photos.  These included drone shots taken with his new toy.  He also showed us his personal pillow with a photo of the family which accompanied him on his journey.
  14. Neville’s trip was from 21st June to 3rd November 2021, amazingly avoiding lockdown by the skin of his teeth and dodging state restrictions throughout this period.  Neville was accompanied by Lenore and Barry Hansen and Sherilin and Darryl Kister.
  15. The tiny but well appointed caravan includes 130l of drinking water, 90l grey water tank and solar power with two 120AH batteries.  The car and caravan are just under the weight limit for the Subaru.
  16. The trip lasted 137 days and covered 32,500km.  There were no break-downs or other disasters and the weather was great (as evidenced by the quality of the photos).
  17. It would be pointless to list the places visited – just ink in all roads around the perimeter of Australia and across the middle and that about covers it.
  18. The photos were fabulous and included adventures at the Horizontal Falls, swimming with a whale shark and getting close to a lot of crocodiles.
  19. Neville has obtained a photo album available from Facebook which includes all the photos posted on Facebook.  He will bring this to the next meeting. 
  20. There was no sergeant’s session due to the lateness of the hour.
  21. KB closed the meeting and reminded all that next week is a Youth Night – always a good meeting.
Night Reporter
Tony Makin

Neville's Trip
Download the pdf from bottom left corner link 

​Social Calendar 2022

Heritage Park Social BBQ Lunch - Monday 18th April 2022

ANZAC Dinner with Lions Club - Wednesday 20th April 2022
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Book Sale Dinner - Saturday 14th May 2022

Bushwalk and Lunch - Sunday 5th June 2022

Friendship Lunches/Dinner Second Round - Commence Sunday 12th June 2022

​Tony Coote

​ANZAC Commemoration Dinner Wednesday 20th April 2022

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Download pdf here if required
Fellow Members and Partners
As we have done for many years, we are invited to join the Lions Club of West Pennant Hills and Cherrybrook for an ANZAC Commemoration Dinner.
The dinner will be held at West Pennant Hills Sports Club. 6.00PM for 6.30PM on Wednesday 20th April. Full details are included in the flyer. (Below)
To join the event, please deposit $50 per head to our club’s General Account and we will make a group booking.
Do not pay direct to Lions Club
BSB 633 000
Account 165 073 016
Identify as your surname and ANZAC
Please ensure payment by Tuesday 12th April to our account.

​​Fundraising Dinner for NTA
Download Menu here 
menu_-_nta_indonesian_dinner_monday_9th_may.pdf
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Welfare Report
​Updates

​​Jaswant Thakorlal is now in rehab at the SAN and is progressing well. His infections have all cleared up and he is expecting to be discharged on the 30th.
Stan Basely has completely torn the left shoulder muscle under his shoulder blade which is causing considerable discomfort. Unfortunately due to his other medical issues surgery is not available so the issue will need to be handled with medication. He advises that today, Monday 21st, is the first time he has felt comfortable since the injury. He indicated he would have to stop doing push-ups for a while.

TOJ -- Letter Of Appreciation from Marayong Public School


​Please watch this video
 

Looking for Work for our Barbecue Trailer

Hi Fellow Members. Here is our new flyer to help us find work for our renovated BBQ trailer.
Please pass it on to those who may be interested - schools, clubs, charities, etc. Electronic or hard copies available.
Tony Coote and Douglas Lam

BUNNINGS SAUSAGE SIZZLE

​Dural
​Saturday 30th April
​Sunday 29th May

Help wanted

If you can assist please advise Kerry Mann
Bunnings have previously advised:
“The NSW government has defined the fundraising sausage sizzle premises as a hospitality venue under the Public Health Order.  As such, vaccination rules apply to all community volunteers operating the sausage sizzle and volunteers are required to be fully (double) vaccinated. “  

Street Libraries Update

​You may have noticed that street libraries are springing up in peoples’ gardens, especially if you have been doing a lot of walking as we have during the lockdown. It seems that the Board noticed too. They decided that it would be nice to have one, two, three - make it four at various locations. 
A suitable design was sourced – like the one at the end of New Line Road but taller to accommodate a shelf.
Cawas provided some marine ply courtesy of mates’ rates at Bunnings and I went to Bunnings and Mitre10 about a dozen times to purchase the other bits.
So with the help of Peter and Tony we assembled the structures, I painted them and Colin Sharpe provided some polycarbonate for the windows. It took a while but they came together well.
Now we needed a post to fix them to. Bunnings had some woofy posts designed for post boxes but Mitre10 came up with galvanised beasts suitable as a foundation for a tower block.
An erection team was organised of David, George, Keith, Bob and me and we burst into action like a well oiled machine – well actually more like a council work gang with one person doing all the work and rest watching. We decided that Bev’s place was a good place to start since it is a relatively quiet street.
Bob came up with a crowbar the size of a tooth pick and we set about digging a hole in the incredibly hard ground. At about 400mm we decided to stop before we encountered a 33kV cable and set up the post in lots of rapid setting concrete.
Bev provided an excellent morning tea while we waited for the concrete to go hard.
Finally we lugged the box into place and bolted it down.
The only thing missing is the Rotary sign.  This has been ordered and will be fixed later. It is large enough for the Amazon astronauts to read it on their next trip.
Colin Sharpe did a nice job of fixing his to his letter box and even painted the inside (they had already had two coats of lacquer but the paint is a nice touch and we fully expect Anne to install curtains).
Next week the council work gang is reassembling to install Carol’s library.
Thanks to the team and thanks to Bev, Carol and Colin Sharpe for providing the locations. The fourth will be fixed at the Uniting Church when Neville returns from wherever he is this week.

Tony Makin 
​The team continued their exploits 
​Erection of Street Library at Carol Russell's Business Premises

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​Fun With ​Culture
Corner
Answers

​1. Ah! Mes Amis - La fille du régiment - Donizetti
​2. Vissi d'arte - Tosca - Puccini
​3. Non più andrai - Le Nozze di Figaro - Mozart
​4. 'O sole mio - Neapolitan Traditional - di Capua and Mazzucchi
​5. Ave Maria - Op.52 - Schubert

WHO ARE GRANDPARENTS?

Written by a class of 7-year-olds
You'll love it...

Grandparents are:-
  • A lady and a man who have no little children of their own.
  • They like other people's children.
  • They live at the airport from where we need to pick them up and later drop back too.
  • A grandfather is a man, and a grandmother is a lady!
  • Grandparents don't have to do anything except be there when we come to fetch them.
  • They are so old they shouldn't play hard or run.It is good if they drive us to the shops and give us money.
  • When they take us for walks, they slow down past things like pretty leaves and caterpillars.
  • They show us and talk to us about the colours of the flowers and also why we shouldn't step on 'cracks.
  • They don't say, 'Hurry up'.
  • 'Usually they are fat but not too fat to tie your shoes.
  • They wear glasses and funny underwear
  • .They can take their teeth and gums out.
  • Grandparents don't have to be smart.
  • They have to answer questions like 'Why isn't God married?' and 'How come dogs chase cats?'
  • When they read to us, they don't skip.
  • They don't mind if we ask for the same story over again.
  • Everybody should try to have a grandmother, especially if you don't have television because they are the only grownups who like to spend time with us...
  • They know we should have snack time before bed time.
  • They say prayers with us and kiss us even when we've acted bad.
  • Grandpa is the smartest man on earth!
  • He teaches me good things, but I don't get to see him enough to get as smart as he is.

Club Calendar

Editor's Note:  ​If you wish to download and print the Calendar please use the link below.
club_calendar_2022jj.pdf
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Bulletin Editor - Douglas

Meetings
​Monday  6:30pm for 7:00pm - Springfield House - 245 New Line Road, Dural 2158
and Zoom Monday 7:15 for 7:30pm - on alternate weeks 
​- see Club Program for details.

Apologies
For Springfield meetings, If you are unable to attend or are bringing a guest (even if they are your partner) you must notify Ros. Email: hoganros@gmail.com before 1pm on the Thursday before the meeting.
For Springfield House meetings - if you are expected and do not show you will be required to pay for the meal.

Significant Club Fundraising Events during the year
TO BE UPDATED POST COVID LOCK DOWN

The Book Sale March 2020
As the result of a lot of hard work the March Book 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.
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. 


                       
 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.​​
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.
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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:-
Carol Russell (0418 431 157) or President Keith (0478 599 155)

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

Welcome to call Carol or Keith to get log on details and join us on Zoom instead

Meetings

The Club alternates meetings:
Generally, one "Face to Face" one Monday and a Zoom meeting the next Monday.
Face to Face
Meet at Springfield House
Arrive 6:30pm, Start 7:00pm, End 9:00pm
245 New Line Rd
Dural NSW 2128 Australia
​Zoom
Arrive 7:15pm Start 7:30pm End 8:30pm