Recent Events

NTA Fundraising Dinner

9 May 2022

Dear Rotary Club Members and Supporters,
We are fortunate to have such good group of Rotary friends and supporters.
Your club members worked tirelessly to make the Nusa Tenggara Association (NTA) Fundraiser Dinner such a success.
We had the following dignitaries attend:

Bapak Vedi Kurnia Buana – Consulate General of the Republic of Indonesia for NSW, Qld,SA
Pak Abdul Nazar - Information, Social and Cultural Affairs Consul
Pak Ahmad Firman Sejati - Economic Consul
Indonesia Business Council – Pak Josep Rustam
DG Lindsay May,
PDG Pam Pritchard,
State Member for Willoughby Tim James,
Rotary Club of Chatswood Roseville- Michael MacQuillan
Rotary Club of Lane Cove - President Lalitha Warren
Rotary Club of Northbridge - President Jon Gidney
Rotary Club of North Sydney Sunrise - President Allen Colburt
Rotary Club of Turramurra - President Rebecca Matanle
Rotary Club of Upper Northern Beaches - Eric Gidney
Rotary Club of West Pennant Hills Cherrybrook - President Keith Ball

We achieved an outstanding result, but also an incredible amount of good-will and fellowship was on display during the evening
between Rotarians and the Indonesian community.

141 people attended, including 4 Guests.

Final profit for the event: $12,000 !!

This result is a credit to the incredible committee members and volunteers who worked so hard to make this event a success.
The evening was a culmination of many weeks effort and I appreciate your patience and commitment.

It would be remiss of me if I did not thank a few key people from our club.

Stephanie Heighes NTA Operations Manager
Andre Hariman Indonesian Food.
Tony Coote Treasurer and Confirmation of attendees
Alex Jugueta Seating and greeting
Douglas Lam IT and Music.
Janelle Craig MC (at short notice!!)
Robert Clark Photographer
Julianne Stanton Room Styling, helped by many Rotary partners.
Ian Burnet Raffle.

Most importantly, I know the funds will be spent wisely in the villages and schools in NTT, where it is needed.

2022 Giant Book Sale

The West Pennant Hills & Cherrybrook Rotary Club had a successful 2022 Book Sale on Friday 13th, Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th April, raising about $15,000 despite all that is happening now.
Thank you so much to the public for supporting our efforts. Books and reading are still very popular activities in this area.
The book sale is a great way for our members to participate in community service to raise funds for well deserving charities and local community projects that are undertaken by our club. It also provides fellowship, satisfaction and enjoyment of working together as a team.

We would like to thank everyone that either came along to help during our book sort days, the lead up preparation to the book sale, or during the sale itself, including members sons & daughters, Probus club members, students and other friends of Rotary.
Once again, the Sunday clearance sale, where customers could buy good quality books, records, DVDs and CDs by the bag, proved to be extremely popular.
Many customers commented on the high quality of the books, including how well organised the overall layout was with fiction books sorted by author surname and non-fiction sorted into 34 main categories, which allowed them to easily find what they were looking for.
Thanks also to the Cherrybrook Uniting Church for use of their premises and support for the book sale.
The West Pennant Hills & Cherrybrook Rotary Club would like to thank all those who generously donated books, records, DVDs and CDs. Without your kind generosity, the book sale would not have been the success that it was.

Pennant Hills High School Winter Fete

25 Jun 22

A Neville Email
Hi Michelle & Leeanne,
You guys must be congratulated for the Carnival on Saturday night, what a great event and the number of people there was fantastic.
Please find attached a reconciliation of the Rotary BBQ.

Edwina the Spruiker

We were very pleased with the event and the amount of the donation being forwarded to you. We also, very much enjoyed ourselves.
Tony our Treasurer will transfer the money today so you should have it within the next 48 hours.
Can we please request a receipt and also advice on specific project/s that our funds will be used for?

We sold/vouchered over a thousand sausages and gave all the left-over sausages, bread and drinks to Chris for your cleanup BBQ on Sunday.
Would love to know your approx attendance and your final nett revenue when you work it all out.
All the best and hope to see you next year.

Once again, a great effort.

A Michelle Email
Oh thank you so much Neville, we were so glad and privileged to have your Rotary Club join us on this inaugural Penno High Winter Carnival.
We have had nothing but praise and congratulations on such a great community event and we are just so pleased that it went so well with really no incidents at all.
It was exactly how I imagined, and we have rough numbers in of about 4/5000 people, although I feel it was closer to 7000 ... (just my estimate)
I will have Peter (our P&C treasurer) & Jen (our Carnival Finance Team Leader) get back to you with money details and receipt.
We have many projects we would like to put our raised funds to and we are having a P&C meeting tomorrow night to celebrate and discuss this very thing.
We will be in touch and let you know very soon.
Thanks so much,

Photograph Reprise of 22-23 Changeover

26 Jun 22

2022 Pride of Workmanship Awards Photos

Extracts from the Night Report

Rotary Club of West Pennant Hills & Cherrybrook Meeting report Monday 4th July 2022
Sergeant Max opened meeting at 7:00pm
Bob Davison gave a Toast to Rotary and Australia, Colin Sharp read “Acknowledgement of Country” followed by Sergeant Max introducing President Janelle.
President Janelle, welcomed he Guest Speaker David Firth, visiting Rotarians, guests especially the POW awardees, members and partners...

......Edwina introduced David Firth Co-President of the Rotary Club of Pennant Hills. David spoke about what Pride of Workmanship means and his involvement with this Rotary project since its inception. Afterwards Edwina and David presented the awards to this year nominees:

Lucy-Jade Folkard, introduced by Janelle Craig. Lucy-Jade is a florist at Dural Farm and Florist and has been there for 16 years. She is the face of the business handling the customers in the shop.
Next Generation For Hair, owners Livio & Frank Leuzzi introduced by Carol Russell. Livio and Frank have been in business at Castle Mall for over 30 years having taken over the business from their uncle. Livio and Frank employ 10 hairdressers and are open 6 days a week. They have an excellent list of satisfied and happy customers.
Michele Rocheta was introduced by Colin Sharpe. Michele is the founder of “Goods Rescued and Rehomed” a charity she established over 25 years ago to collect equipment, supplies and clothing and distributes to those in need. A lot of this also goes overseas.
Cathy Yu introduced by Neville Hansen received her award for her work with the Cherrybrook Guides. Cathy joined the group over 6 years ago as Junior Guide Leader and is now the District Leader/Manager...

....President Janelle thanked all those present and Edwina for organizing the night. She then declared the meeting closed.

John Caruana
Night Reporter.

Girl Guide Hall Ramp Repair

Courtesy: Janelle & Neville

R100 Sign in Rotary Garden