Community Service
Through the Avenue of Community Service - Rotarians give back to the communities they live in.
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Each year our Club arranges a Tree-of-Joy in the Cherrybrook Shopping Centre. This involves canvassing a number of organisations to secure anonymous cards generally describing specific under-privileged people and the type of Christmas gift that might brighten their lives a little. The cards are placed on a Christmas tree located in the shopping centre. Generous shoppers remove cards and purchase a gift for that person prior to returning the gift to the tree. Our members collect, sort and distribute the gifts with up to 1000, conservatively valued at $30,000, being distributed each year.
The Sorting.
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Ronald McDonald House, Westmead provides a warm, welcoming home away from home for seriously ill children and their families travelling to Westmead Children's Hospital for treatment.
Our Club was the first service club to provide cooked meals for these families. We were familiar with the older house that held 18 rooms and 5 units. RMH has now a new facility that provides 60 rooms for families both large and small. This year we attended two nights to participate in Meals from the Heart. |
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A big thank you to the Rotary, Mirvac & ARV teams plus Denis and James who combined together put on a wonderful BBQ and entertain the ARV residents with Christmas carols yesterday. (6th December 18)
Thank you: The Rotary team: Anne, Stan, John, Jill, Teressa, Ross and Helen, Cawas, Bernard, Jaswant, The Mirvac team - Jessica pleas pass this on to your team. The ARV Team. - Chaba please pass this on to your team Denis and James – Denis please pass this on to James President Colin |
WPH Public School Walk-a-ThonWest Pennant Hills Public School held a Walk-a-thon on Friday 21st September. Members Rosemary, Andrew, Colin S and self assisted in this event by preparing some 600 sausages.
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