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 8 June 2020

The speaker is Narelle Barker – School Aid Program

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The member talk is by Edwina Ruff.

​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.

Cherrybrook RFS Captain request for help

Gavin Pringle (Cherrybrook RFS Captain) is seeking part time work for his Year 10 (CTHS) son Luke between now and September.
 
Luke has been successful in gaining one of two available places to attend Space Camp USA. Luke is very excited.  He has a scholarship from  One Giant Leap Australia which will pay for half the cost.  He is looking for work to raise another $3500.  Luke is available to work after school and at weekends.  If you know of a potential job please contact  Colin Sharpe or send a message to colin@sharpe.id.au or wphc.rotary@gmail.com .   

Below is an extract from the One Giant Leap Australia press release.  In his application, Luke highlighted the issue of interplanetary travel. “My dream is to one day walk on Mars and even though there are many difficult challenges to overcome such as fuel, finances, political issues, propulsion, habitation, sustainability, calculations etc. I believe that no goal is unachievable. Whether it is me or someone else standing on the red planet, I want to know that I have contributed in some way to this milestone in human achievement.”
 
To gain the scholarship applicants first answered several questions. The answers were scrutinised by the One Giant Leap Australia Foundation Student Ambassadors. They selected the top 10. These
applicants who then had a virtual interview for more than 30 minutes.  Contenders were questioned and grilled – answering many different questions and asked about the finer points of their applications. The top 4 were selected and then had a phone interview from which 2 were selected.
 
Further details of the Space Camp can be found at  https://onegiantleapaustralia.com/

Support for Rotary Club of Patong Beach:
​Feed Phuket - Rotary Covid-19 Project

Hi Rotary Club Members.
At our Zoom Club meeting on the 11 May, we had the benefit of hearing from Denis Carpenter, a past founding member of RCWPH&C
We appreciated listening to his experiences living in Phuket and Bangkok.
The board members were particularly touched about the plight of foreign construction workers
who had no work and no food due to Covid restrictions.
His Rotary club support for these people deserves our club support.
 
Subsequently, at last night’s Board meeting we agreed to contact you, our members, for a brief fund raising campaign.
The money raised would be provided to The Rotary Club of Patong Beach, of which Denis is a member.
 
Request:
We would like you to consider donating the equivalent cost of your Rotary Club meal,
that you would normally spend at Springfield House or whatever amount you think appropriate.
Donations by 8 Jun 2020 please.
Assistance: Feed Phuket - Rotary Covid-19 Project.
 
Please direct your donation to:
Rotary Club of West Pennant Hills and Cherrybrook
BSB   633000 
Acc   165 073 115
 
Please mark your donation   Your Surname & Phuket
 
To date we have collected $1,600 which will be matched by a further $1000 from our club. We are also hoping for a District Grant.
 
For Information:
Please visit the Rotary Club of Patong Beach web site. The photos tell the story.
              https://www.rotarypatong.org/    
 
Feed Phuket - Rotary Covid-19 Project
          https://www.rotarypatong.org/photoalbums/corona-projects

2020 Vinnies CEO Homeless sleep out

​Cherrybrook resident Sreeni Pillamarri (Founder of SoftLabs – an IT company)  is  participating in the 2020 Vinnies CEO Homeless sleep out on June 18th at his home. Sreeni is no stranger to participating in fund raising for charity, having organised and participated in a 380 km walk from Sydney to Canberra in 2018 to raise money for drought stricken farmers.   He is currently Sponsorship Director  for the West Pennant Hills Cherrybrook Cricket Club,  President of the United Indian Associations Inc. and Vice President of the Dural based Australian Community Inspired Association Inc. 
 
Sreeni has achieved a lot since he arrived in Australia in 1998 including being  Citizen of the Year Finalist for Australia Day, in the City of Parramatta 2018-2019. (https://www.theindiansun.com.au/2019/11/18/want-grow-business-pay-forward/)
 
If you would like to support Sreeni’s effort - any amount donated will be greatly appreciated.  https://www.ceosleepout.org.au/fundraisers/sreenipillamarri/sydney.

A Thank You from Taldumande

​Dear Rotary Club of West Pennant Hills and Cherrybrook
 
As we all celebrate National Volunteer Week mostly from our home offices, Taldumande Youth Services would like to extend a heartfelt thanks to all our volunteers who have helped us support over 600 vulnerable children and young people in our care from all across Sydney, over the past year.
 
Whether you’ve participated in a corporate backyard blitz, done regular gardening at any of our properties, designed our annual report, raised funds to help us maintain our properties and support our programs, volunteered at a fundraising event or at the young people’s Christmas party, organised donations for our young people or helped us at head office in research or administrative roles, each and everyone of you are so important to us.
 
Without our volunteers, the success of the provision of our services would be so much harder to achieve. You truly are Changing Communities and Changing Lives and again this year we thank you for generously performing roles that would be extremely costly to our not-for-profit organisation.
 
Attached is a certificate of appreciation, which is only a small token of our appreciation. If you’d like a hard copy, please email your address and I’ll arrange for a copy to be posted to you.
 
In the meantime, keep an eye on our Facebook  and Instagram  pages. We’re posting every day and we’d like you to share and like our posts so our wider community can learn about our treasured volunteers.
 
Have a wonderful National Volunteer Week and everyone at Taldy hopes to see you soon.
 
With much gratitude
 
 
Liz de Rome
Community and Volunteers Officer
Taldumande Youth Services

passed on by Cawas

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.

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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's COVID-19 Emergency Appeal

NTA (Nusa Tenggara Association) joins the global efforts in the fight against COVID-19 by supporting Government efforts in distributing vital information.
We need your support to lift this effort in Indonesia to produce and distribute key information and provide training for the communities, particularly on hygiene and hand washing.

 http://www.nta.org.au/

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President's Report  1 June 2020

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JuneLast night’s meeting was well attended with the count exceeding 35.  I thank you all for attending.
The Sergeant has every right to inform me of his elephantine memory, when I executed a tardy entry.  My apologies.
I enjoyed both Roslyn’s talk and our Guest Speaker from Neighbourhood Watch – Mr Philip Brown.
More monies donations were transferred today, to the bank, in support of “Feed Phuket”.  RC Patong Beach may receive in excess of A$4,600 as a result of Member donations, Club support and a Grant from District Foundation.  Well done!
DG David Clark and AG Robert Erskine have accepted invitations to our Club Changeover.  The date is 6th July and the venue is your home via Zoom.
Frank Anise (Springfield House) has contacted me today and claims ability to handle a regular Rotary Night.  He is able to handle the intricacies of social distancing.  He is also threading some legal niceties to behave like a restaurant.
This raises several issues and I invite Member thoughts on the alacrity with which we move.  Some will insist on further isolation, and others, will see fellowship as a driving concern.
At next week’s meeting our Guest Speaker is Narelle Baker talking about School Aid.  Yes, I am aware that it is a Public Holiday.  We meet to enable some social contact.
Have a safe week.

Rotary Rocks
Keith

Night Report - 1 June 2020

Our Zoom meeting scheduled to commence at 7.30pm began with the customary amicable banter as Rotarians started arriving “on line” after 7pm.

Tony Coote opened the meeting followed by the customary toast. Due to the delayed arrival of President Keith, Tony changed the order of the programme and commenced with some related events which occurred on the 1st June in past times.

Neville – advised that 127 Bowel Cancer kits have been distributed so far : Zoom meetings progressing very well : 8th November Camp Quality for BBQ.

Peter Stanton – thanked members for contributing to FEED PHUKET, coupled with donations from Club and District the final figure should be around $5.000.

Rosemary – District Assembly is now completed : next District Assembly 13th - 14th March 2021 : District Governor visit 31/8/20 joint meeting Epping, Pennant Hills and ourselves : looking for volunteers to join committee for next year.

Colin Sharpe – Stacey from Cherrybrook Fire Station has provided the name of a candidate for the Rotary Celebrates Emergency Services Personnel. Our club has agreed with the nomination and sent it to District for consideration : looking for industrial shelving (600mm wide) for the new containers.

Adrian Sonego then reported on progress with upgrading of the BBQ trailer currently located at Ricardo’s workshop. Next working bee 30/6/20 .

Keith joined the meeting and added his welcome to Rotarians and guest speaker Phillip Brown. He reminded Rotarians of forthcoming events.

Ros then presented her excellent Member’s Talk. Born is Sydney her first and only job has been in the Travel Industry where she has built a highly successful business based on quality personal service from her and her trained employees. Some of her main achievements include an Accredited Agency, many small business awards, attendance at 19 International Conferences. Her service offerings include professional advice (unlike online overseas operations), a reputation of trust, one stop administration, staff with collectively over 200 years’ experience.

Tony Makin then introduced our Guest Speaker Phillip Brown. Phillip has many years’ experience in Neighbourhood Watch and described the valuable role played by this organisation, it’s growth, reconstruction and reorganisation of territories in the Sydney metropolitan area. Working in conjunction with the Police Department he is able to demonstrate how N.W. has helped reduce crime rates, increase community awareness, people to look out for each other, early notification of emerging trends e.g. particularly the older segment of the community which is being targeted for different kinds of fraud. N.W. sees itself as the eyes and ears of the police. After questions Tony thanked Phillip for an excellent presentation.

Following the “ Zoom version” of Heads/ Tails, Keith then thanked Phillip Brown and Ros for excellent presentations, reminded members of forthcoming events, noted the club is still looking for a Social Director to replace Max who has done an excellent job but feels it is time to make a change. Tony then closed the meeting.

Colin Baxter

Night Photos:

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This Week's Humour / Interesting Facts

Yes Dear
​Yes Dear  I'm trying something different. Just play the attached. (Thanks  Stan)
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Some more Comedy:

Thanks to Tony M. and Colin McG.

Club Calendar

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

Bulletin Editor - Neville

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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