Club Bulletin 30 Jan 17

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Monday 30 January

The speaker will be Paula Hammond who will be speaking about Foster Care Angels. Foster Care Angels is a 100% volunteer run, Sydney based charity, supporting children in Foster Care. See below for more detail.

Monday 6 February

Club Assembly

Monday 13 February

TBA

Duty Roster

Duty	Monday 30 January 2017	Monday 6 February 2017	Monday 13 February 2017
Speaker Host	Colin Sharpe	-	Stan Baseley
Night Reporter	Teresa Janowski	Colin McGowan	Cawas Suhkar
Front Desk	Tony Coote	Bob Davison	Bob Davison
Front Desk	Ros Savio	Bernard Chandra	David Turnbull
Steward	Peter Cleary	Nick Chuah	Gino Savio
Steward	Tom Westcott	Brian Furrer	Carol Russell
IT Person	Andrew Little	Andrew Little	Neville Hansen
Photographer	Peter Stanton	Ross Ballinger	Peter Stanton
Member Talk	Nick Chuah	Tom Westcott	Howard Fleming

Inside This Issue

Upcoming Events

President's Report
Night Report
Birthdays and Anniversaries
Humour

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Sunday 29 January

Tuesday 31 January

Bunnings BBQ at Thornleigh

Major Projects Committee meeting at Barry Freeman's residence

District Conference

The District Conference will be held at the Penrith Panthers on Saturday 11th of March 2017.

Registrations at conferene2017.rotarydistrict9685.org.au

For a video on the District Conference at the Penrith Panthers click the video arrow below

Anna Laroumanie, our outbound student for 2017/18, leaves for Hokkaido, Japan.

A group of us joined the Laroumanie Family on Friday January 20th to say farewell to Anna. Colin and Anne Sharpe, Charlie, Declan and Megan McCartney and and I went along.

Anna joined a group of 3 other students from NSW going to Japan. Anna flew on from Tokyo to Sapporo on the northern most island of Hokkaido. She will be living in a town called Eniwa (25km SE of Sapporo). As you can see from the photo below it's a very different climate!

Charlie will keep the club updated with reports from Anna.

Tony Coote

Hokkaido, the northernmost of Japan’s main islands, is known for its volcanoes, natural hot springs (onsen) and ski areas. Rugged Daisetsuzan National Park is home to steaming, volcanic Mount Asahi. Shikotsu-Tōya National Park contains caldera lakes, geothermal springs and a Mount Fuji look-alike, Mount Yōtei. Popular ski resorts include Rusutsu, Furano and Niseko.

Area: 83,454 km²
Weather: -4°C, Wind S at 14 km/h, 79% Humidity (current as at Thursday 25 Jan 12 noon!)
Population: 5.474 million (31 Mar. 2012)
Capital: Sapporo
Peak: Asahi-dake
Colleges and Universities: Hokkaido University, more

Foster Care Angels

Foster Care Angels is a 100% volunteer run, Sydney based charity, supporting children in Foster Care. Below is a short video showing what they do.

2017 Book Sale

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 in February/March (namely me - Andrew) and April/May.

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.

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 25 February
Saturday 18 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:

2017 Book Sale Committee Meetings
First Book Sale Committee Meeting	Wed 1 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 18 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

Peter Stanton's Rwanda Presentation

Peter's presentation at the last meeting on his trip to Rwanda can viewed here

Jazz at the Pines

Jim received this email from Alan Jones on behalf of The Rotary Club of The Hills-Kellyville

Hi,
The next Jazz at the Pines is on Sunday 19th February and features the
popular 'Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters'.

A flyer is shown below with the complete list of dates through to May 2017,
a copy of the flyer is also attached should you wish distribute or print it.

Tables can be booked for groups and individuals or simply turn up un the day
with your chair, picnic rug and eskie, there is plenty of room for everyone.
All payments are made at the gate, $20 Adults and $15 Concessions.

Tea, coffee and fresh baked cakes available.
For more information and to book online visit www.jazzatthepines.org.au

Club's Child Protection Manual

Fellows
Attached to this email is the Club's Child Protection Manual, agreed to by the Board, that we are required to have by law. You are encouraged to become familiar with the requirements as stated in the manual.
As you would know by now this is a serious matter for all clubs and associations that work with children as part of their regular operations. This club has a big focus on youth with a significant amount put aside each year for our youth activities so it is an important issue for us. All members should by now have their working with children clearance, or be in the process of obtaining same. If any member is having problems with their applications please let me know.
The manual will be uploaded to our website (click here) and any future changes will be made to the website version. You will be advised when these occur.
Jim Simpson
Secretary

More Rotary Graphics

Some more Rotary graphics. These images can be downloaded by right clicking and saving.

Significant Club fundraising events during the year

The Book Sale March 2016. As the result of a lot of hard work the March book fair which was a great success, especially from the organisers Max Henderson, Andrew Little and Clive Denmark. Funds raised were $14,000. Well done.

The 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.

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.

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..

Meetings

:Monday 6:30pm for 7:00pm - Springfield House - 245 New Line Road, Dural.

Apologies

If you are unable to attend or are bringing a guest (even if they are your partner) you must notify Jilda. Phone 9439 1422 or email accounts@lhogroup.com.au before 11am on the day of the meeting.

If you are expected and do not show you may be required to pay for the meal.

President's Report 23rd January 2017

From President Elect Colin Sharpe standing in for President Rosemary Clarke.

It was great to see another good attendance and Clive back with our guest speakers David and Dianne in tow.
David Waterhouse is a member of Clive’s new Rotary club (The Entrance).

Anna Laromanie was farewelled to Japan by her family, Sarah, Tony Coote, Sharpe’s, & McCartney’s (minus Rob).

2017-18 presidential theme was announced last week. RI President-elect Ian H.S. Riseley urged incoming district leaders to seek gender and age parity and protect the environment in announcing the 2017-18 presidential theme Rotary: Making a Difference at the International Assembly in San Diego, California, USA. Riseley is a member of the Rotary Club of Sandringham, Victoria, Australia,

Rotary Fact for this week: There are 85 Rotary Clubs in Nepal, with some 2700 members – there are around 1100 clubs and 30,000 members in Australia. Nepal is a very poor nation (~2400 USD GDP per person – Australia is ~ $55,000 USD) that has about the same population as Australia and is about twice the land area of Tasmania.

January is Rotary Awareness Month
Rotary is seen by the community through our good works and contribution to society. Even then much of what we do is invisible to the wider community or not necessarily attributed to Rotary.

RI President Sakuji Tanaka (2012-13) had the following to say on the subject: “I am asking all of you to wear your Rotary pin and to raise awareness of what the pin means. I believe having that pin changes you. It makes you think more before you speak and before you act. It makes you remember, all the time, that you are a Rotarian – and that as Rotarians, we are here to help.
All of us should be ready to talk about Rotary. When someone asks you about that pin, you should be ready to answer them. What is Rotary? What does Rotary do? These are questions that each of us should always be prepared to answer”.

We don’t always have to do big things to do worthwhile things. So a simple but effective outcome from Rotary Awareness month might be for us all to work on how you will answer the questions posed by RI President Sakuji. In any sales pitch you only have few words in which to make or break a sale.

Rotary International “Core Essence of Rotary” statement, which defines Rotary as “A worldwide network of inspired individuals who translate their passions into relevant social causes to change lives in communities”.
Or you may prefer, the more traditional Rotary Mission Statement. “We provide services to others, promote integrity, and advance world understanding, goodwill and peace through our fellowship of business, professional and community leaders”.

Have a great week and do not forget to remind your partners to let Jeanette Roberts know if attending, or not, the Partners Wine Tasting being held at the Coote’s Residence 6pm February 6th.

Regards
Colin