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Monday 5th September

Operation Hope - Wesley Mission - Jess Warner

Monday 12th September

Our Language - Macquarie Dictionary - Sue Butler

Monday 19th September

Psychiatric Service Dogs - Tony Edwards

Induction of Angelo Casamento

Partners Night

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​Duty Roster

Duty  ​

Speaker Host
Night Reporter
Front Desk
Front Desk
Steward
Steward
​Photographer
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​Member Talk

Monday 5th September

Neville Hansen
Roslyn Savio
Carol Russell
Stan Baseley
Bernard Chandra
Gino Savio
Peter Stanton

​Keith Ball

Monday 12th September

Janelle Craig
Andrew Little
Brian Furrer
John Tchetchenian
Steve Baker
Tom Westcott
Ross Ballinger

​Carol Russell

Monday 19th September

Gino Savio
John Tchetchenian
​Carol Russell
Stan Baseley
Neville Hansen
Coli McGowan
​Peter Stanton

​Colin Sharpe

Inside This Issue

Upcoming Events

President's Report
Night Report
Birthdays and Anniversaries
Humour

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​3rd September


​8th & 9th October

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​District Governor Official Clubs Visit
​Dural Country Club

​Garage Sale
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Trivia Night

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Garage Sale Flyer

Garage Sale Presentation

Neville has supplied a PDF copy of his presentation.  It is detailed but subject to change.   Link  (Opens in a new window)

Garage Sale - Help Needed

At the most recent meeting Neville supplied each table with a multi-page form seeking people availability.  Several Members were unable to fill in these pages as their diary was at home.

​Here is a link to People Availability to enable you to indicate when you are available.
​Please return to Neville on completion.

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RYE - Amelia's Report

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Prague Dessert

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News from Other Clubs

ST IVES' COMEDY FOR A CAUSE

Cross Country Challenge - 11 September

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More Rotary Graphics

​Thought I might follow a theme.  These images can be downloaded by left clicking and saving.

​Worldwide, 67 million children have no access to education, and more than 775 million people over the age of 15 are illiterate. Our members support educational projects that provide technology, teacher training, vocational training teams, student meal programs, and low-cost textbooks to communities. Our goal is to strengthen the capacity of communities to support basic education and literacy, reduce gender disparity in education, and increase adult literacy.

Improve Basic Education and Litracy

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Beyond School Books - Girls who code can change the world - towards gender parity in computing fields.

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PAEBA is a regional youth and adult literacy and education initiative established in 1992 and implemented with technical and financial support from the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation for Development (AECID). ​

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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.

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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. 

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The Garage Sale
We had a very successful Garage Sale on the weekend of 26/27 September raising over $24k gross. The weather made it hard to set-up in the lead up to the event, but for the sale the wet weather stayed away. ​

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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.. 

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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.

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President Report by IPP Tony Coote 29th August 2016

Fellow Members,

What a fabulous night on Monday! The most important thing we can do in our club is induct new Rotarians. It was a real pleasure to welcome all the guests who came along for Ricardo's induction and then to have the honour of inducting Ricardo to our club and also welcoming his wife Rebecca. Thanks to Cawas and Carol for their part in making it such a memorable occasion.
 
Our guest speaker Ryan Allen from NSW Fair Trading was a very impressive speaker and I particularly liked the interactive way he presented his topic. Considering the short notice he was given I think he did a great job. 
 
The Trivia Night is over for another year, and the hard-working team can take a short breather before we gear up for the Garage Sale. The evening was a record for attendance and everyone enjoyed the fellowship and the Trivia. Well done Andrew, Max and all the team.
 
A special thanks to Frank and his team. I thought the meal was excellent.
 
Please wish our President Rosemary a speedy recovery.  We need her back on deck!

Tony 

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Night Report  29th August 2016

Sergeant Barry Freeman introduced acting President Tony Coote and the meeting opened at 7.03pm.
 President Rosemary was absent ill and President elect Colin Sharpe was also unable to attend. Acting President Tony welcomed everyone including Ryan Allen our guest speaker, our special guests Ricardo and Rebecca Raad and 3 members from Norwest Sunshine.
 Our Exchange student Sarah gave us all an update on her activities for the week. She has been busy again. Members, please remember to invite Sarah to join you if you are able.
 Report / Notices.
Neville Hansen:

• Garage Sale is progressing well and on track. Not long to go now.

• Sheets on tables to be completed indicating your availability. We need everyone to participate to make this major fund raiser a success.

Cawas:

• Has been approached by West Pennant Hills Primary to support their Walkathon on Friday 16th September by providing members for a BBQ they wish to conduct between 10am & 1pm on that day.
• A number of members indicated they could assist.  

Andrew & Max:
·       The Trivia night was a great success with a record number of people attending.
·       $5332 raised on the night with minimal expenses.
·       Fantastic club / team effort. Thanks to everyone who participated.
·       Janelle was presented with 5th prize which could not be given on the night.
·       Couple of bugs to iron out for next year.
 Clive Denmark gave us brief talk about his life and times. Clive joined our club when Barry Lambert was president approximately 11 years ago. Originally from England (not Denmark) Clive worked as an accountant for 25 years. Met his wife Jenny at a party that his rugby team attended (probably crashed it?). They were married in 1975 after they had moved to Australia. Returned to England where he worked in Yorkshire for 4 years as a Financial Controller.
 Came back to Australia in 1982 with 4 & 2 year old boys, where he worked for Brambles / Cleanaway in southern NSW. This started his janitorial expertise which has continued since. Worked on a J/V with CSR on a rock quarry landfill, until he commenced consulting. Has been with for SMS for quite a few years now and spends a great deal of time in Coffs Harbour on that operation.
 Clive and Jenny moved to Forrester’s Beach on the Central Coast in November, 2014. They have become grandparents twice since. Clive is looking to take his Rotary experience to a club on the Central Coast.
 Induction:
With great delight, Acting President Tony inducted Ricardo Raad and his wife Rebecca to our club. Carol Russell proposed Ricardo and Tony undertook the formalities. We all welcomed them both to the club and look forward to working with them and enjoying their company.
 Our Guest speaker for the evening was Ryan Allen from Department of Fair Trading. Ryan took us through many details about scams. A scam is an attempt to falsely obtain either our details or our money.
 Some forms of scam include, Computer Repairs, Romance, Lotteries, Inheritance, Money Transfer, Online Selling, Credit Cards, Medical, Rogue Trades people etc. There was a lot of discussion and questions around this interesting topic. I think we are all probably a bit wiser for the presentation. Complaints should be registered with NSW Fair Trading, Scam Watch (ACCC) for business or the NSW Police. Service NSW also has access on their website to check licences of Tradespeople.
 Sergeant Barry took control of the evening again by issuing a few brief fines as we were running overtime.
 The meeting concluded around 9.05pm.
 Steve Baker
 

Night Photos 29th August 2016

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Birthdays

Daniel Tan - 7th September
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Anniversaries

Nil

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This Week's Humour

Shingles

Kevin had shingles.

Those of us who spend much time in a doctor's office should appreciate this!

Doesn't it seem more and more that physicians are running their practices like an assembly line?
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​Here's what happened to Kevin:

Kevin walked into a doctor's office and the receptionist asked him what he had. Kevin said: 'Shingles.' So she wrote down his name, address, medical insurance number and told him to have a seat. 

Fifteen minutes later a nurse's aide came out and asked Kevin what he had....

Kevin said, 'Shingles.' So she wrote down his height, weight, a complete medical history and told Kevin to wait in the examining room.. 

A half hour later a nurse came in and asked Kevin what he had. Kevin said, 'Shingles..' So the nurse gave Kevin a blood test, a blood pressure test, an electrocardiogram, and told Kevin to take off all his clothes and wait for the doctor.

An hour later the doctor came in and found Kevin sitting patiently in the nude and asked Kevin what he had.

Kevin said, 'Shingles.' The doctor asked, 'Where?'

Kevin said, 'Outside on the truck.

Where do you want me to unload 'em??' 

HOPE THIS MAKES YOU LAUGH OUT LOUD LIKE I DID....
THAT'S WHY I HAD TO SEND THIS TO YOU.....
THESE DAYS WE NEED ALL THE LAUGHS WE CAN GET 

We don't stop laughing because we grow old; 
We grow old because we stop laughing.

​Stan

Another Sick Joke from my son

​Why did the gnome become a prison guard?
​Because he was a Guard'em Gnome.

​Keith

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