Photo: Cherrybrook ​metro station by John Cowper 

Inside This Issue

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President's Report

Night Report

Humour

Club Calendar

Upcoming Events

Club Zoom Meeting

7:15pm for 7:30pm Mon 29 June 2020

​Janette Etherington - Interplast
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The member talk is by Jim Simpson.

​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.

BBQ Trailer

Last Saturday 13 June, we met at Ricardo’s workshop for another working bee to upgrade our BBQ trailer. Thank you, Tony Coote, Peter Stanton, Douglas Lam and Ricardo Raad, for all your work, and especially a big thank you to Ricardo for letting us use his workshop and Neville Hansen for the loan of his trailer. David Turnbull also joined us on an earlier work day we had on Saturday 30 May.

The main task last Saturday was the installation of the new BBQ’s.  This was not a simple task, but Tony C had designed all the steps and had measured and remeasured all the fittings, made templates, and measured everything again, and got Douglas and others to check measurements again and again, and then he didn’t sleep for the last month whilst he worried if the BBQs would fit into the tight space. But in the end the BBQ’s went in perfectly. And during all this, Peter Stanton was coming up with very good alternative fitting options and MasterChef Douglas was constantly consulted to make sure the BBQ’s functionality is optimal. Finally, after a very successful day, Tony C was able to go home happy and ready for a proper sleep.

We have planned the next work day on Saturday 4 July, when we will install the wash station, new door seals and locks etc etc.
I’ll keep everyone updated on progress.

Keep safe.
Adrian Sonego

Excellent Articles in Dooral Roundup
thanks Carol

Emergency Services Community Awards

​The 2020 Rotary Emergency Community Service Awards are designed to recognise our emergency service personnel whom have gone above and beyond their call of duty and reflected the Rotary moto of “Service above Self”.
RESCA is a community nominated Awards, therefore it is based on the reputation of the personnel from their local communities viewpoint.
 
These awards were developed in 2009 by Rotarians in the Illawarra who recognised the value of not only our paid, but also our volunteer Emergency Services Personnel.  The project moved to a State Project in 2015 and national in 2019.  The Project has enjoyed Vice Regal Patronage by the Governor of NSW since their inception.
In keeping with the Rotary’s motto of “Service Above Self”, RESCA acknowledges and celebrates the selfless Community Service of Emergency Services Personnel whilst also supporting and funding two important Rotary initiatives:

• Australian Rotary Health – PhD Research Scholarship investigating Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in Emergency Services Personnel
• Emergency and Disaster Preparedness training by a competitively selected Vocational Training Team connected with a developing country in the Asia/Pacific Region

RESCA is a community-nominated Awards, therefore, it is based on the reputation of the personnel from their local communities’ viewpoint. Up to four (4) Finalists will be selected from each ESA (can be paid or volunteer). One winner per ESA (i.e. Seven (7) Agencies/Category Awards) a total of 28 Finalists and two (2) overall winners (i.e. one (1) Paid and one (1) Volunteer) who are announced at the Awards Dinner.
This year our Club has participated by encouraging the Cherrybrook RFS to nominate one of its members.  Nominees are selected on three (3) criteria:

• Community Service over and above the normal duties which best exemplifies Rotary’s motto, “Service Above Self’. (i.e.. a community involvement where they are not working in their role)
• Personal attributes
• Contribution to their organisation.

Should our candidate be successful the award will be made at a ticketed dinner on August 1 at the Bankstown Sports Club in The Grand Ballroom.

Rotary Shipping Container at Galston

We now have two 40 ft High Cube containers on Hornsby Council land at Galston.  We thank Councillor Vince Del Gallego for initiating the approval process with Hornsby Council and Perry Spence from the Council for his assistance at the Galston site following approval from his managers.  Thank you to Tom, Gino, David and Keith for getting the containers installed.  Tom also provided the steel tubes for the footings and arranged for their installation by a concrete contractor.  We now just need to install shelving then we can use them to help generate funds.  Based on the cost of renting containers of a similar capacity at the next door Hills Storage we recover our storage costs within 15 months.
Galston Containers Club information 2020 05 18
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Centurion Program and Centurion Membership application

The end of the financial year is approaching, it is time to consider becoming a Centurion!!!

How you can become a Rotary Foundation Centurion?
Centurion Program Donation Instructions for WPHC Rotary Club - 2020.

2020 Rotary Virtual Convention

20-26 June 2020

For more information:

NTA (Nusa Tenggara Association) Update

NTA Update:
·        NTA’s response to the Challenges of COVID-19.
·        How NTA monitors progress of the projects YOU help to fund in Eastern Indonesia.
·        DATA COLLECTION
NTA is ramping up systems to report on success using electronic data systems
They visit all our participants twice a year to monitor progress and better understand their needs.
During these field visits, data is collected, including information on crops, issues affecting crops,
health information, and income information.
They are now in the process of training our Indonesian counterparts in using the electronic questionnaires
so we can continue to collect similar data on a more regular basis.
This data is uploaded to a Cloud-based system providing live access to information in Australia.
It also allows the uploading of photographs showing progress and completed projects.
Many thanks to the Rotary Club West Pennant Hills and Cherrybrook and Telstra for donating Tablets.

Peter and Paul present our donation of
3 X Tablets to NTA in Flores last Nov 2019.

NTA (Nusa Tenggara Association) June 2020 Newsletter

Click here to read the Newsletter

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President's Report  22 June 2020

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We had at least 29 attendees on a night of firsts.
It is the first time to my knowledge that the Sergeant did not know he was in the role.  I applaud the equanimity with which David recovered and performed with aplomb.

We held a survey regarding Regular Meetings (Monday nights).  We also had an acknowledged proxy voter to overcome a member’s inability to vote via Zoom.  The votes were anonymous but Bob was able to determine legitimate participants. The speed with which we were supplied the results is amazing.

Cawas supplied an excellent Member Talk.

In my judgement an excellent night.

Next week we have Janette Etherington speaking about Interplast.


Rotary Rocks
Keith

Night Report - 22 June 2020

33   attending including Zoom administrator(Bob) 30 to vote’ Honorary member Brian Furrer in attendance.
Tonight’s primary aim was to vote for meeting frequency, type and return to Springfield.
Sergeant was David Turnbull – It was a surprise to David, but he did a good job anyway and Bob thanked him for this impromptu appearance as Sergeant.

Toast – Janelle - everybody bottoms up.
President Keith  spoke on 2020 RI virtual convention.  Kalma advises District Changeover is at RSL Castile Hill on 19 July. Keith asked members to advise by Zoom Chat if attending (3 attending).  Spoke about Ross’s resignation and invited him to say a few words.  Thanked all those behind the voting.  Advised that next weeks speaker is Jeannette Heatherington.
Ross. Made very good friends.  Lack of enjoyment now.  Mainly own fault because not putting much in.  Joined 30 years ago and was the longest serving non charter member.  Now David Turnbull takes that honour..  Involved in District activity for many year .  Will now have more time for caravanning.  Willing to help in projects, if around.  Wished the club well for the future. 
Directors:
Rosemary spoke on Club Changeover by Zoom on July 6.  Theme is fascinators & bowties.  19/20 Club Report and 20/21 plans being sent out next week
Member Talk -Cawas:
Took early retirement to have some fun.  Soon got bored and joined Bunnings at Artarmon 4 years ago – works 40 hours a week.  Loves it.  Looks after Trade, click and collect, hire shop and deliveries.  Doing training at other stores currently at Gladesville.  Unique culture in Bunnings with the mix of young and old staff.  Great Bake off done on site is a lot of fun, also dress ups.  Not stressed when he leaves work.  Get sup at 4.30 am and finishes around 3pm.  Has served Famous people including PM Morrison who recently visited for cubby house timber.    Click and collet is delivered to the car - around 5000 at Artarmon store since March.  Does Mystery shopping.   Lack of item location list at end of Isle raised as a concern.  Lots of questions in jest.
Meeting Survey.
Tony Coote invited Rosemary invited to speak.  Decision will be made tonight & majority rules. Social outlet at some-ones house.  Decision will be fluid depending on where the Covid 19 goes.
Tony explained the process – It is confidential. Bob will not know how members voted.  One member did not want to vote online so Rob Clarke voted  on his behalf. 
Tony spoke to slides  containing the information sent out by email plus 1 additional slide.

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Col M suggested we consider having a different mix of meeting formats in July/Aug
29 voted.  Everyone liked the Zoom voting.

The results of the voting where:

Question asked:  will Springfield have Zoom.  Tony C thought probably, but members should be restricted to using it only if travelling and give notice of intending to it on Friday.  Andrew mentioned some technical and equipment matters to deal with before meetings at Springfield can use Zoom. 
No important messages were posted on Chat other than attendance at District Conference.

Sergeant ran head and tails – Winner of the bottle of white wine – Bernard after 3 flips.   

Night Reporter
Colin Sharpe

Night Photos:

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This Week's Humour

​A Family Prayer   (Thanks, Cawas)
At dinner, little Johnny was asked to lead the prayer.
"But I don't know how to pray", he replied.
"Just pray for your family, friends and neighbours, and the poor etc" said his father.
"Okay", the boy said.
"Dear Lord,  thank you for our visitors and their children, who finished all my cookies and my ice cream.
Bless them so they won't come again.
Forgive our neighbour's son, who removed my sister's clothes and wrestled with her on the bed.
This coming Christmas, please send clothes to all those ladies on my Daddy's Blackberry who don't have any clothes.
And provide shelter for the homeless man who uses Mom's room when Daddy is at work.  AMEN"

....Dinner was cancelled!! 
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Case Dismissed    (Thanks, Neville)

This is from an actual trial in the UK.

"A young woman who was several months pregnant was sitting in a bus. When she noticed a young man smiling at her, she began feeling uncomfortable due to her condition. She changed her seat and the man seemed more amused. She moved again and the man laughed even more!

​She filed a court case against him. But in court, the man's defence was : When the lady boarded the bus I couldn't help noticing that she was pregnant. She then sat under a movie ad which read "Coming Soon- The creature from Hell!" I was even more amused when she moved and sat under a female deodorant advertisement, which read : "The love stick did the trick"... Then I completely lost it when she moved a third time under an advert for tyres which read : "Dunlop Rubber would have prevented this accident".

The case was dismissed because the judge fell off his chair laughing ! 

Club Calendar

Editor's Note:  ​If you wish to download and print the Calendar please click here.

Bulletin Editor - Bob

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.

Significant Club Fundraising Events during the year 

The Book Sale March 2020

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 $15,000.  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 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.​​

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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.. 

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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