Club Bulletin 4th Sep 2017

The Next Meetings

Monday 4th September

mindDogs - Tony Edwards

Monday 11th September

Joint sitting at Pennant Hills Golf Club with Beecroft and other clubs.

Special Guest: John Hewko

Monday 18th September

Titanic Talk - Andrew Rodgers

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 Max, so he can amend his records.

Inside This Issue

Upcoming Events

President's Report
Night Report
Humour

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11th September

John Hewko - General Secretary to RI & Foundation
Joint sitting at Pennant Hills Golf Club with Beecroft and other clubs.
Timing 6:30pm for 7:00pm

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A Thank You to Janelle and the BBQ Team last Sunday

Dear fellow members and partners.

This a thank you to Janelle for organising an impromptu Bunnings BBQ at Thornleigh with less than one weeks notice.
Thank you to the members/partners, Sandwich Maker Janelle, Morning Cook Tony Coote, Afternoon Cook Peter Stanton, Chief Onion peeler and Assistant Cook Anne, Morning Teller Angelo, Afternoon Teller Keith, and President Colin who turned out at short notice to collectively raise $813 for the club. We sold around 37 kg of sausages which is more than normal. Quite a few return orders for our quality snags.

I took from our talk with the new Thornleigh Bunnings Event Organiser that our goodwill bank account is in surplus and we are likely to get more of these impromptu events. If he cannot find an impromptu taker the store staff have to man the BBQ. So we have to thank Aidan Craig (who works at the Thornleigh store) for assuring his manager that he could round up a team to man the BBQ last Sunday.

Colin Sharpe

Time Out after 9 hours on the job

Time out from cooking

These tongs did not survive Anne

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John Hewko

General secretary
John Hewko
Rotary Club of Kyiv
Ukraine

John Hewko is the general secretary of Rotary International and The Rotary Foundation.

From 2004 to 2009, Hewko was vice president for operations and compact development for the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), a U.S. government agency established in 2004 to deliver foreign assistance to the world’s poorest countries. At MCC, he was the principal United States negotiator for foreign assistance agreements to 26 countries in Africa, Asia, South America, the Middle East, and the former Soviet Union. During his tenure, he completed the negotiation of assistance agreements totaling $6.3 billion to 18 countries for infrastructure, agriculture, water and sanitation, health, and education projects.

Prior to joining MCC, Hewko was an international partner with the law firm Baker & McKenzie, specializing in international corporate transactions in emerging markets. He helped establish the firm’s Moscow office and was the managing partner of its offices in Kyiv and Prague.

While working in Ukraine in the early 1990s, Hewko assisted the working group that prepared the initial draft of the new Ukrainian post-Soviet constitution and was a charter member of the first Rotary club in Kyiv.

Hewko has been a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University, and a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He has published papers and articles in leading U.S. and international publications, and he has spoken extensively on political and business issues dealing with the former Soviet Union, Central Europe, Africa, and Latin America. He is also a member of the Council of Foreign Relations.

Hewko holds a law degree from Harvard University, a master’s in modern history from Oxford University (where he studied as a Marshall Scholar), and a bachelor’s in government and Soviet studies from Hamilton College in New York.

As general secretary, Hewko leads a diverse staff of 800 at Rotary International’s World Headquarters in Evanston, Illinois, USA, and seven international offices. Hewko is a Paul Harris Fellow. He and his wife, Margarita, live in Evanston.

Pavilion Theatre - "Ladies in Lavender" - Wednesday 20th September

On behalf of the Rotary Club of North Rocks, you and your club members and friends at e invitedto join us at the Pavilion Theatre on
Wednesday 20th September for their next production "Ladies in Lavender".
The cost is $25 per person.
Wine and cheese will be served from 7:30pm.

Please make payment into the club’s General Account with the reference of Ladies and your surname.
If interested please refer to Max who will have to finalise numbers by 10th September. (These will be based on payments to General Account.)

When the Widdington sisters discover an unconscious stranger on the beach and nurse him back to health their ordered life of cocoa before bed and the village jumble sale is transformed.

With a smattering of German between them, the sisters communicate with their patient – often with very humorous results and the assistance of the forthright housekeeper – and discover he is a promising young violinist.

Along with his music Andreas brings a sense of mischief and fun as well as an unsettling ability to stir up lost feelings of love and longing. The unsettled household is further disrupted when a visiting artist overhears Andreas playing the violin, presenting an opportunity that must be seized . . .

Days for Girls Workshop

Become a Friend or Companion of Australian Rotary Health

Top Five Reasons to End Trachoma

Top 5 Reasons to support EndTrachoma by 2020

Clubs around Australia support many worthwhile charities and projects. But EndTrachoma by 2020 is something particularly special for Rotary Australia.

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September is Basic Education and Literacy Month

Supporting Education

More than 775 million people over the age of 15 are illiterate. That’s 17 percent of the world’s adult population.

Our goal is to strengthen the capacity of communities to support basic education and literacy, reduce gender disparity in education, and increase adult literacy. We support education for all children and literacy for children and adults.

HOW ROTARY MAKES HELP HAPPEN
We take action to empower educators to inspire learning at all ages.

ROTARY SCHOLARSHIPS

TEACHER TRAINING

ADULT LITERACY

Rotary members invest in the future by giving scholarships to students who have the potential to change our communities.

We share our knowledge and experience with educators and other professionals who work with vulnerable populations.

Rotary members fight adult illiteracy by working with local advocates to offer community literacy programs.

Wanted - New Members

We are experiencing another drought with respect to prospective new members.

If you know of someone who would benefit from Rotary, or, from whom Rotary would benefit if they were a member, then contact Keith.

Click here for a PDF copy of the form to the right, and send or give it to Keith.

Significant Club fundraising events during the year

The Book Sale March 2017. As the result of a lot of hard work the April Book Sale was a great success, especially from the organisers Max Henderson, Andrew Little and Clive Denmark. Funds raised were circa $13,000. Well done.

2016 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 2158

Apologies

If you are unable to attend or are bringing a guest (even if they are your partner) you must notify Jilda.
Phone 8484 7106 or email jilda.coles@wge.com.au before 11am on the day of the meeting.

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