Club Bulletin 9 July 2018

The Next Meetings

Monday 9th July

Mental Health and Mental Health First Aid - Scott Fanker

Partners Night

Club Assembly Monday 16th July

Dural and Round Corner Chamber of Commerce Monday 23rd July

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 Keith, so he can amend his records.
Also, to avoid being rostered on, please notify Keith of any upcoming known absences (eg holidays) from meetings in the next twelve months.

Inside This Issue

President's Report
Night Report
Humour

Club Calendar

Upcoming Events

7th July

District Changeover

20th July

SYMT - Rock of Ages

A Request from Vilde

Hey Bev! I'm coming back to Australia, to study at UNSW from mid july till january! Hope we can catch up, and hope I'll be welcome to join another Rotary meeting! I also had a question. Since I'm studying at UNSW I'll try to see if I can find somewhere to stay near Bondi or Coogee. Do you know of anyone renting out, or looking for a flat mate in the area, or does someone in the club might know of something! Will be lovely to see you all again. Xx

Editor: Vilde from Norway spent 2013/14 as an exchange student with the Club.

Marayong Public School - Shade Sails Opening 29th June

Tom did a great job, Rosemary was pleased to visit Marayong Public School after 21 years as a teacher

Joint Rotary Meeting

Daisy Montano (who has attended a number of our club meetings) from the Nor West Sunrise Club is running a special function at the Pennant Hills Golf Club on Mon. 13 August 2018 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm. Could you please tentatively put this into the Club Calendar. I will speak to this on Monday to see if there is sufficient interest to have our meeting in conjunction with Norwest.

Daisy has arranged for Dr Ian Nicholson, a leading specialist in Adult and Paediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery to be the guest speaker. Dr Nicholson is actively involved in outreach programs through Rotary and Open Heart International performing Cardiac Surgery in developing countries of the Pacific region, South America and Africa. Dr Nicholson will share some of his amazing life experiences and why he believes in the concept of Community Service to improve quality of life, develop stronger communities and to build a better world.

The full details are here.
https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/be-the-inspiration-celebrating-service-above-self-rotary-sydney-tickets-47126923898

Colin Sharpe

Wanted - 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 Tony C.

Significant Club Fundraising Events during the year

The Book Sale March 2018

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 $15,000. Well done.

2017 Trivia Night

The Club held a very successful trivia night on Saturday 26 August 2017at the Cherrybrook Community Centre, raising just over $5,000 towards the charities we support.

The Garage Sale

We have just had our best and most successful Garage Sale on the weekend of 7&8 October raising a record 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.

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 Carol.
Phone 8850 6515 or email [email protected] 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.

Presidents Report 2nd July

President Colin welcomed 22 members & guests (instead of the normal approximately 30). I extend a warm welcome to our members and our 4 guests – Honorary member Brian Furrer, Exchange student Larissa, prospective member Laurel Colley and guest speaker Cherelyn Suzuki. It seems the winter chills and Northern Hemisphere holidays have taken their toll.

Daisy Montano who is no stranger to our club and the International Director at the Norwest Sunrise Club has invited us to join with her Club for a dinner meeting at Pennant Hills gold Club on Monday Aug 13th at 6.30 pm. The objective of the meeting is to celebrate the Rotary concept of "Service Above Self." Daisy is a regular attender at this club.

A number of other District 9685 clubs will also be attending. Tickets (including dinner) are $40 per person. Guest speaker on the night will be Dr Ian Nicholson, a leading specialist in Adult and Paediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery. Dr Nicholson is actively involved in outreach programs through Rotary and Open Heart International performing Cardiac Surgery in developing countries of the Pacific region, South America and Africa. Dr Nicholson will share some of his amazing life experiences and why he believes in the concept of Community Service to improve quality of life, develop stronger communities and to build a better world.

The meeting supported my proposal to move our Monday meeting to PH Golf Club. We will need to book seats so I will send out an email asking who will be attending or NOT.

We have a number of members (7) on (or about to be on) extended leave of Absence.

Hornsby Kai ring gai PCYC – an update was received from Peter Kirkwood. Membership continues to grow and has passed the 8,000 mark – there are around 1,000 visits per day. Twelve High Schools are visiting the PCYC weekly and Waitara Public School has around 180 children drop in for sports activities. The club is discussion with Sport NSW, St. Edmund's College and Studio ARTES regarding the inclusion of disability sports activities. The Rotary Youth Hub is extremely popular both during the week and on weekends. The Rotary Youth Hub is proving very popular for hosting birthday parties. The birthday parties include use of the Youth Hub, fresh food from the PCYC cafe, and supervised activities either on the sports court or in the gymnastics area (Grandparents note!). With the school holidays coming up, hundreds of kids will use the youth hub and other areas engaging in a range of sporting and recreational holiday activities.

A new sign has been added to the Youth Hub. The sign provided the PCYC Values - Commitment * Resilience * Integrity * Citizenship * Respect*).

Club assembly will be held on July 16th. This will be an opportunity to review the club vision and agree on a 5 year club strategy. I intend to send out homework to members and collect their inputs during the assembly.

Thank you to Carol who had another article published – The Hills Shire times included an article about changeover and a photo of Anna and me handing over the cheque.

Thank you to the club members who attended the unveiling of the shade sails at Marayong Public School. Rosemary, Tom & Annette, Peter Stanton and Stan.

Michael Weathers’ plight came to the attention of the club via Rebecca Furrer. Michael, who lives in the Central Coast, plays for Westbrook AFL and has been selected to represent NSW Under 15s Schoolboys team at the Nationals. There are two trips involved - one to Canberra and one to Adelaide. Michael has to find $3,000. Michael's mum Belki passed away on 26th May She had been fighting cancer for a long while. Dad, Danny is a Firey and is having difficulties finding the funds to send Michael tp yjr Nationals. The medical and funeral expenses have been hard for him. He's asked around the coast but been unable to secure any help for Michael.

Westbrook is based at Greenway Park is one of only a few Junior AFL clubs that feed players into both the Sydney Swans Academy and GWS Giants Academy programs.

Michael’s situation is very like the family at Marayong School that we helped to get to an athletics carnival in Adelaide. The Board has agreed to make a donation of $1000. A cheque was presented to Brian to pass on to Michael.

Partners in Rotary Team has been announced as Anne Sharpe, Roma Chandra, Heather Hansen, and Bev Davison.

Next week is partners night and a talk on Mental Health and Mental Health First Aid by Scott Fanker. Scott is the Principal Workplace Relations Adviser at the NSW Mental Health Services. He was previously Operations Director for Mental Health Services at the South West Sydney Local Health District .
Next week will also be the presentation of the Trevor Turner Award to Angelo by Ann Turner.

Until we meet again on Monday July 2nd for more fun and fellowship, have a great week.

President Colin

Night Report 2nd July

Sergeant Rosemary opened the meeting at 7:00 a.m. and after the customary Rotary Grace and Loyal Toast called on President Colin Sharpe who welcomed attending Rotarians and Guests. Please refer to the President’s Report for details.

The following Directors’ Reports were received.
Keith spoke of:

changes to procedures for forwarding content for the Bulletin to:
1. Webmaster [email protected]
2. Bulletin Editor [email protected]
next week is a Partners’ Night.

Neville spoke of The Garage Sale and reminded us that

the dates of the sale will be 13th,14th October. Rotarians will be asked to make themselves available for three weeks preceding the sale to undertake various duties
there will be a committee meeting this coming Thursday at his home
he is looking for his placement as this will be his last year as organiser. The ideal would be for the nominee to work alongside him this year to facilitate a smooth hand over.

Tony reminded us

annual or half yearly fees are now due
Membership Committee meeting at his home Thursday 12th July’

At the completion of the Directors’ Reports Peter and Tom spoke of the celebratory meeting at Marayong school with the grateful staff and children for the shade sails our Rotary Club has installed in their playground. Tom paid tribute to Rosemary for her magnificent contribution as a teacher at that school for 21 years.

Larissa spoke of her activities over the last week, her birthday next Sunday and how she is looking forward to the forthcoming holidays.
In her ”Member’s Talk”, Kerry showed us photos of her large family headed by her Dad in his 90’s and her 84 year old Mother. She then shared with us the role she plays in helping to run Cranbrook Care retirement facilities.

Fellow Rotarian Cherelyn Suzuki then reminded us of the magnificent work being undertaken by ROMAC throughout the South Pacific where during the last 30 years over 500 children with unbelievable deformities have been treated. Heart wrenching stories where Australian doctors and other medical professionals through Australian hospital facilities have been able to change these young lives for the better.

Sergeant Rosemary then announced the winners of the raffle and the “heads and tales”, and invited President Colin to make his closing remarks.
After the singing of The National Anthem she closed the meeting.

Night Reporter: Colin Baxter.