Photo: Cherrybrook ​metro station by John Cowper 

Inside This Issue

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President's Report

Night Report

Humour

Club Calendar

Upcoming Events

Next Meetings

Brian Powyer - President of National Trust
- Governor Arthur Phillip

Monday 28th October

​Melbourne Cup Night
- Partners Night -         

​Monday 4th November

Ordinary Meeting

Monday 11th November 

Nell Gwynn

Wednesday, 13th November

Information for the next Rotary Club of North Rocks theatre night...…………………..
 
Castle Hill Players have another excellent play planned at the Pavilion Theatre.  The last play for 2019 is on Wednesday 13 November 2019.  The Rotary Club of North Rocks looks forward to seeing you for a night of excellent theatre at the cost of $25 per person.
 
The next play is 'NELL GWYNN' by Jessica Swale, directed by Jennifer Willison
London,1660. The Puritans have been routed and King Charles II has taken the throne – and brought with him a love of all things loud, extravagant and sexy. In Drury Lane, the heart of the theatre district, a young Nell Gwynn is peddling oranges when her sassy nature gets her a role on stage – the very first woman to ever do so!
She is gutsy and very talented and soon has the attention of the new King. But in a time when women are second-class citizens, can Nell’s charm and fearless spirit protect her from the dangers of the court?
With a cast of larger-than-life characters, plenty of ribald humour and cheeky double entendres, this is a loving tribute to the world of theatre and a woman far ahead of her time.
 
Winner 2016 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy
“A bawdy, witty, engaging romp” The Times.  By Special Arrangement with Dominie Pty Ltd."

Once again, wine and cheese will be served in the foyer from 7:30pm, with the play starting at 8:15pm.  As those who have attended previously will know, parking is extremely easy.  For those who are uncertain about directions, the theatre is in the Castle Hill Showground precinct, off Showground Road at Castle Hill.
Can you please let us know how many of you and your friends are coming by Thursday 7 November?

We look forward to seeing you there!
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Kind regards
Fay Kitto
​Rotary Club of North Rocks

Upcoming Events

Train Ride to End Polio

Thursday 24th October

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Pamper Packs for Coonabarabran

Anne and Colin Sharpe have volunteered to visit Coonabarabran to deliver Pamper Packs.
Suggested contents for these Pamper Packs are:  

Ladies

• Body Moisturiser
• Hand Lotion
• Lip Balm
• Chocolate
• Deodorant
• Nuts
• Tea
• Coffee
• Xmas Gift Bag for contents                                                     

Gents

• Shaving Cream
• Sunscreen
  
• Chocolates
  
• Body Wash
  
• Deodorant
  
• Nuts
  
• Coffee
  
• Tea
  
• Xmas Gift Bag for contents

The above is just a general idea, but really its the items that don’t make the list when funds are tight, but make life a little easier and help with your state of mind.
 
If anyone doesn’t have the time to do this but can donate cash Anne is more than happy to purchase goods and make up packs.

Recent Club Activities:
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Garage Sale 2019

12-13 October

We had a very successful Garage Sale.
This .pdf file attached contains some 90 photos of the event.
WARNING:  it is 9Mb in size
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An International article on:
PEACEBUILDING THROUGH CROSS-BORDER LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

​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.

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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Centurion Program and Centurion Membership application

How you can become a Rotary Foundation Centurion?
Centurion Membership donation form.

Significant Club Fundraising Events during the year 

The Book Sale March 2019

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 $19,000.  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 2018

We have just had our best and most successful Garage Sale on the weekend of 13 & 14 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.​​

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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.. 

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.

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President's Report  21 October 2019

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Wow, what a night.  Near forty attended to listen to DG Kalma.
Guests included:

• Edwina Ruff
• Pamela, Lyn, Rashna and Helen
• Peter Justin, George Chenouda and Dee – all of whom were checking us out as a result of the garage sale.
• DG Kalma, Bob Kaye-Smith, and AG Robert Erskine

Garage Sale and other reports were received from Directors.
Kalma gave a well-rehearsed presentation on Rotary.  She also suggested that we accelerate the changeover of Rotary regalia.  Perhaps Edwina will be the last to receive a Dinner Badge with coloured wheel.
Janelle, Douglas, John and Self will attend Pennant Hills Station at 3:21pm to celebrate End Polio Now and present a Certificate the Foundation people visiting 195 stations.
Next week we will induct Edwina.  Our guest speaker is Brian Powyer who will talk on Governor Arthur Phillip.

Rotary Rocks

Keith

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Night Report 21st October

President Keith Ball– welcomes the partners Rashna, Helen, Pamela and Lyn.
Thank you to all the hard work re the garage sale.  We did very well on the gate takings for $2100 and the club topped it up to $3000 to  Coonabarrabran.
 
Janelle Craig -  Just returned from New York and is now very busy with Youth with nominations for 2020.  Catherine Lowry also helped at  the garage sale. 
We have 2 RYPEN candidates.
Working on the National Youth Science Forum.
We have NO applications for RYLA, 18-25yr olds for the 1 week camp so need assistance to find someone.
Club shirts – we are working on colour, style etc.
 
Peter Stanton – International is off to Flores Indonesia on the 12th November with Paul, and members of Lane Cove and an ACT club, to work on water and sanitation.  He is working on setting up a facebook page to communicate their work.
 
Tony Coote -  Membership,  Tammy is working on a new flyer to attract new membership.
Thursday 24 Oct. will be a membership meeting at Tony’s place.
 
Colin Sharpe  -  Member talks are back on, so if you wish to do a talk, please advise Colin of a your preferred date.  Ross will be doing a Member talk on the recent Northwest Passage trip on 18 November, so partners are welcome and encouraged.
State Conference – Woollongong  Friday 20 Mach – Sunday 22 March.  Cost is $240.00 per person.
We have 4 persons going, but would like to see more members attending, at least 7-10 couples.
Jo Wilkins – Coonabarrabran Club will participate in our Tree of Joy and will forward same names etc.  Some of the recent money we have sent to the Club, they are paying the small businesses to pay off the farmers debts.
 
Rosemary Clarke  -  Again thank you for the garage helpers, and thank you Cawas for the Internet sales.  All up we made around $35,000 and should nett between $26,000 – 27,000.  Once people knew the funds were going to the farmers, some people even put money in the jar as they left the garage sale.
 
Neville Hansen  -  gave a list of completed projects to date, such as St. Gabriel’s school, with a water tank and veggie garden, Ronald MacDonald House, the West Pennant Hills school fete to name a few.
We are now planning a BBQ to the ISI & SMS Waste Management people for their donations of the bins etc which we could not do without.  Again thank you.
Anglicare BBQ planned for 12 December at 11:30
Cherrybrook Village 30th Anniversary 28 November, 2019.
Tree of Joy at Cherrybrook Village and Kellyville have expressed interest in doing a Tree of Joy, so will work with one of the other Clubs.
Please return your name tags to Colin Sharpe and the Yellow vests to Kerrie Mann.
 
A mention was made that Howard Fleming was in the SAN hospital with a heart attack after just returning from the U.K.
 
Tony Makin  -  Introduces District Governor 9685, Kalma McLellan, which covers a vast area from North Sydney – Blue Mountains to north of Toukley.  A big area to visit.
Her first task was to present President Keith Ball with a Rotary Foundation Certificate to end Polio for our contribution.  Only 24 clubs made any type of contribution, so thank you very much.
 
This is club no. 46 on her visit list.  She grew up in Kellyville Ridge and went to Castle Hill high school, so felt good to be back in the area.  Spent most of her business life in IT, back in the days of punched cards etc. (which now make good note cards)  so technology has progressed a long way now.  Moved into Leadership and Management Training. 
 
She has strong support from her club and her professional contacts to be a District Governor.  Rotary runs in her family and she was a young Rotaracter.  She and this year’s District Governors are on a united front and they feel they can solve the world.
 
Rotary connects the world so help your clubs where possible, as Cherrybrook /WP Hills a well established club.   Rotary still needs to grow without holding onto old clutter.  There are ‘Passport Clubs” which only require a physical meeting together 4 times a year plus a minimum of 40 hours community service.   Also the ‘E-Club’ so maybe think of some young people you could introduce to either of these 2 different style clubs, that may suit them better than the traditional once a week meeting clubs. 
 
Rotaract – check out potentials and plant the seed, maybe family connections.
 
Keep in touch, and connect professionally, were your club tee shirts to be recognised.
 
6 years ago there was a change of name badges, so we must update to the new image / style of badge and also update our Rotary flag.
 
Days for Girls is a big project which supports South East Asian girls to still attend school during their menstrual time of month by providing them with fabric kits. 
 
Dialisis machines – nurse educator flo. 
 
Using ‘grey nomads’ to make repairs for Purple House.  Raising money on the 29th February (leap year) so make an event to donate funds.
 
525 training in San Diego was about ‘TRY SOMETHING DIFFERENT’
The fund raiser train on Thursday 24 October will be a Pennant Hills at 1521 and Cherrybrook at 2230.
 
Thank you for your time this evening, it was a pleasure to visit Cherrybrook & West Pennant Hill Rotary Club.
 
Heads & Tail won by Tom Westcott
4 Nov – Melbourne Cup dinner & Edwina’s induction.
 

 Night Reporter
Roslyn Savio

Night Photos

Editor Note:  Click on a photo to see a larger version.

This Week's Humour

​Senility

The perfect Hubby

When I went to lunch today, I noticed an old lady sitting on a park bench sobbing her eyes out. I stopped and asked her what was wrong. She said, 'I have a 22 year old husband at home. He makes love to me every morning and then gets up and makes me pancakes, sausage, fresh fruit and freshly ground coffee.' 

I said, 'Well, then why are you crying?' 
She said, 'He makes me homemade soup for lunch and my favorite brownies and then makes love to me for half the afternoon. 

I said, 'Well, why are you crying?'

She said, 'For dinner he makes me a gourmet meal with wine and my favorite dessert and then makes love to me until 2:00 a.m.' 

I said, 'Well, why in the world would you be crying?' 

She said, 'I can't remember where I live!' 

In my rEar

Two elderly women were eating breakfast in a restaurant one morning Ethel noticed something funny about Mabel's ear and she said, ''Mabel, do you know you've got a suppository in your left ear?' Mabel answered, 'I have a suppository in my ear?' She pulled it out and stared at it. Then she said, 'Ethel, I'm glad you saw this thing. Now I think I know where to find my hearing aid.'

Death Notice

When the husband died, his wife put the death notice in the paper, adding that he died of gonorrhoea. No sooner were the papers delivered when a friend of the family phoned and complained bitterly, 'You know very well that he died of diarrhoea, not gonorrhoea.' 

Replied the widow, 'I nursed him night and day so of course I know he died of diarrhoea, but I thought it would be better for posterity to remember him as a great lover rather than the big shit he always was.'

Woman Overboard

An elderly couple were on a cruise and it was really stormy. They were standing on the back of the boat watching the moon, when a wave came up and washed the old woman overboard.. They searched for days and couldn't find her, so the captain sent the old man back to shore with the promise that he would notify him as soon as they found something. 

Three weeks went by and finally the old man got a fax from the boat. It read: 'Sir, sorry to inform you, we found your wife dead at the bottom of the ocean. We hauled her up to the deck and attached to her butt was an oyster and in it was a pearl worth $50,000 . Please advise.' 

The old man faxed back: 'Send me the pearl and re-bait the trap.'

The accidental Bump

A funeral service is being held for a woman who has just passed away. At the end of the service, the pall bearers are carrying the casket out when they accidentally bump into a wall, jarring the casket . They hear a faint moan. They open the casket and find that the woman is actually alive! She lives for ten more years, and then dies. Once again, a ceremony is held, and at the end of it, the pall bearers are again carrying out the casket. As they carry the casket towards the door, the husband cries out, 'Watch that wall!' 

Long Time Friends

Two elderly ladies had been friends for many decades. Over the years they had shared all kinds of activities and adventures. Lately, their activities had been limited to meeting a few times a week to play cards. 

One day they were playing cards when one looked at the other and said, 'Now don't get mad at me...I know we've been friends for a long time.....but I just can't think of your name! I've thought and thought, but I can't remember it. Please tell me what your name is.' 

Her friend glared at her. For at least three minutes she just stared and glared at her. Finally she said, 'How soon do you need to know?'

THE SENILITY PRAYER 
Grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, the good fortune to run into the ones I do, and the eyesight to tell the difference.


Now, I think you're supposed to send this. Send it to a bunch of your friends if you can remember who they are. Then something is supposed to happen . . . I think.

​Cawas .....   at least I think it was (Ed)

Joke bank is at 7

This is no Joke
- it's a poem for Mr Morrison

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​The poem that's gone viral after NSW farmer Joanna Collett posted it on the Prime Minister's Facebook page:

G’day Mr Morrison, I trust that you are fine,
Sorry to be bothering you, but there’s something on my mind
I listened to a bloke last week; he had a bit to say
You lot may have heard of him? He delivers all that hay?
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He spoke of countless hours and the distances they drive
Feeding starving stock, to keep bush hopes alive
They do not get assistance from your tax funded hat
They do it on their own, all off their own bat

I’m not politically minded and I don’t have any clout
And I know you’ve done a tour, to learn about the drought
But there’s just some burning questions, that have left us feeling beat
Why did we fund a foreign land, to learn to cut up meat?

And what about those soccer boys, who went and got all lost
You pulled out all the bloody stops, plain just showing off
You’ve bigger problems here at home, there’s drought up to our necks
So what does your mob go and do ? Give them big fat cheques!

Don’t they have a government to deal with all this stuff?
Why should it be up to us, what’s with all your fuss?
Should we not be reigning in and look after our own
Have you never heard the phrase “charity starts at home”?

I realise there’s many things, that need an allocation
And I also can appreciate, complex trade relations
I’m not sure if you realise, but if our stock all die,
There won’t be any trade you see, your deals will all run dry

As a rule we’re not a whinging lot, our requests are but a few
Most of us who work the land, are tested, tried and true
We respect that we are guardians, and sustain it for the kids
But I often have to wonder, what future will it bring?

I guess all that I’m wondering, is “where’s the Aussie aid”?
Wrapped up in a swag of tape, only then to be repaid !
There’s Aussie blokes and chicks out there, putting you to shame
Helping fellow Australians, in their time of pain

I’m just a simple farmer, grazier, wife and mum
And even though we’re feeding stock, we’re better off than some
I’ve never had to shoot a cow, who could no longer stand
But many have before me, and I pray, I’m not dealt that hand

So will you take another look; admit that we’re in strife ?
And do more than bloody empathise, before another farmer takes their life ?
I’d like to think you’ll do what’s right and put Australia first
And help your own damn country, before this drought gets any worse

Joanna Collett
Wee Waa NSW

.... Stan

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