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Meetings Monday 6.30pm for 7.00pm – Springfield House – 245 New Line Road, Dural. http//www.wphcrotary.org Rotary Club of West Pennant Hills and Cherrybrook Inc. PO Box 103 West Pennant Hills 2125 Australia 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 [email protected] 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** Club Bulletin Volume 26 Issue No. 23, 17th of December 2012 The Rotary Club of West Pennant Hills and Cherrybrook Monday 17 December - Partners Night Christmas Meeting (Kris Kringle-gifts). Exchange student blazer presentation to Bethany. Monday 14 January Murray Stone - Kids Research Institute Westmead Childrens Hospital Monday 21 January Australia Day Meeting - Barry Freeman on Alzeimers Duty Roster Next Meeting - Monday 17 Dec 2012 Following Meeting – Monday 14 Jan 2013 Speaker Host Santa Claus Speaker Host Col McGowan Night Reporter Graham Cuthbertson Night Reporter John Fletcher Front Desk Graham Evans Front Desk Brian Furrer Front Desk Douglas Lam Front Desk Ian Roberts Steward Col Baxter Steward Col Wright Steward Alan Paytner Steward David Turnbull Photographer Steve Baker/Ross Ballinger Photographer Steve Baker/Ross Ballinger Inside This Issue Presidents Report Caitlin Gilchrist’s Report from Spain Humour Night Report and Photos from the last Meeting Birthdays Club Calendar Santa Suits Anniversaries Miska’s Program Upcoming Events Thursday 13 December Tree of Joy- Santa's Workshop at David Turnbull’s Saturday 19 January BBQ Bunnings Thornleigh Sunday 6 January President's New Year Lunch Celebration @ Geranium Cottage Thursday 7 February Ronald McDonald House Dinner

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Page 1: The Rotary Club of West Pennant Hills and Cherrybrook · Rotary Club of West Pennant Hills and Cherrybrook Inc. PO Box 103 West Pennant Hills 2125 Australia APOLOGIES: If you are

Meetings Monday 6.30pm for 7.00pm – Springfield House – 245 New Line Road, Dural. http//www.wphcrotary.org Rotary Club of West Pennant Hills and Cherrybrook Inc. PO Box 103 West Pennant Hills 2125 Australia 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 [email protected] 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**

Club Bulletin Volume 26

Issue No. 23, 17th of December 2012

The Rotary Club of West Pennant Hills and Cherrybrook

Monday 17 December - Partners Night Christmas Meeting (Kris Kringle-gifts). Exchange student blazer presentation to Bethany.

Monday 14 January Murray Stone - Kids Research Institute Westmead Childrens Hospital

Monday 21 January Australia Day Meeting - Barry Freeman on Alzeimers

Duty Roster

Next Meeting - Monday 17 Dec 2012 Following Meeting – Monday 14 Jan 2013

Speaker Host Santa Claus Speaker Host Col McGowan

Night Reporter Graham Cuthbertson Night Reporter John Fletcher

Front Desk Graham Evans Front Desk Brian Furrer

Front Desk Douglas Lam Front Desk Ian Roberts

Steward Col Baxter Steward Col Wright

Steward Alan Paytner Steward David Turnbull

Photographer Steve Baker/Ross Ballinger Photographer Steve Baker/Ross Ballinger

Inside This Issue

Presidents Report

Caitlin Gilchrist’s Report from Spain

Humour

Night Report and Photos from the last Meeting

Birthdays

Club Calendar

Santa Suits

Anniversaries

Miska’s Program

Upcoming Events Thursday 13 December Tree of Joy- Santa's Workshop at David Turnbull’s

Saturday 19 January BBQ Bunnings Thornleigh

Sunday 6 January President's New Year Lunch Celebration @ Geranium Cottage

Thursday 7 February Ronald McDonald House Dinner

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                                                    Presidents Report  

 Last Tuesday Rob Wansbrough  represented  the Club at a  thank you morning tea provided by Telopea Public School. They were so appreciative  of  the  camp we  supported  (we  helped  4  students cover the costs, plus a bit towards the bus for all) that they gave Rob a video of the students enjoying the camp. Rob advised that the school were very appreciative of the support we gave. 

The meeting of  10th December was  changed  to  a  youth one  at relatively  short  notice.  Rosemary  organised  that  our  RYPEN (Rotary Youth Program for Enrichment) candidates meet the Club and  tell us a bit about  themselves. Both Merle Runde and Sarah Collins are 14 years old, and have  just finished year 9.  I was very impressed  with  all  their  interests  and  the  programs  they  are involved  in.  They will  certainly  embrace  the weekend  at  RYPEN and  get  the maximum  benefit.  Sarah’s  father,  Peter  also  came along.  Our  RYLA  (Rotary  Youth  Leadership  Award)  candidate, Adam Derriman also came to the meeting, and told us a bit about himself,  and what he hopes  to  achieve  at RYLA.  This was made 

difficult by the  fact the RYLA program  is kept secret until  it  is experienced (to maximise  impact).  I am sure Adam will benefit a lot from his experience. 

Rob Wansbrough came along to talk about Telopea Public School, his visit to the thank you morning tea and to show the video of the students at camp. From the video we could see the impact it had on the 16 students who went. Rob explained how beneficial our financial support was and how appreciative the school  were  to  get  this  support.  This  is  an  excellent  community  need  that  we  supported  and  all members appreciated Rob sharing this message, and agreed that we should support Telopea again if the need arises. 

This was an excellent meeting, and my thanks to Rosemary and Rob for making it happen. 

On Wednesday 12th Dec  there  is  a Board meeting  at my place, 7:30pm. We need  to  resolve  a  very important issue regards the audit of the 2011‐2012 accounts. 

Next Thursday evening  (13th Dec) we have a call  for Santa’s helpers  to prepare  the Tree of  Joy gifts, 7:30pm at David Turnbull’s (bring some scissors and tape dispenser…. also some refreshments). This  is as much  a  social  activity  as  a  working  bee. We  prepare  the many  donated  gifts  for  those  in  our community who would otherwise miss out. 

Next Monday’s meeting (17th Dec)  is our Christmas meeting and the final meeting for the year.  It  is a Kris Kringle, so partners and members should bring a present of value up to $10. Santa and his helper will be there.  In addition, Beth Ferguson will be there to officially receive her Rotary blazer which she will take on her exchange to Denmark. She leaves 18th Jan for her 12 months away. 

I wish all our members, partners and friends a Merry Christmas and Happy New year.   

 

President Bob Davison

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                                                       Night Report                

President  Bob  opened  meeting  and  welcomed  Sarah  Collins,  Merle  Rundle,  Peter  Collins,  Adam Derriman and Bev.                                                                                                                              

Sarah and Merle are year 9 students from Cherrybrook High who we are sending to RYPEN. Adam is our RYLA  student.  Please  contact  Rosemary  if  you  can  help  with  transport  for  Adam  or  would  like  to represent the Club at RYLA Dinner.                                                                                                                        

Reminder to Board members of meeting this Wednesday at Bob's                                                       

Tree of Joy wrapping and labelling at Turnbull's this Thursday.  Anyone who can deliver parcels on Friday or early next week to contact Brian                                                                                                       

Sarah  and Merle  gave  a  short  introduction  to  their  hobbies,  activities  and  their  thanks  to  Club  for selecting them for RYPEN.                                                                                                                                    

Adam is a motor mechanic apprentice and in Rovers, looking forward to attending RYLA 

 Miska advised that he is in middle of year end exams and happy with progress.                         

Rob Wansborough advised that he attended function at Telopea Public and was thanked for our support for the school camp at Milson Island.  We paid for 4 out of 16 kids who went to camp. Rob was given a DVD of the happy campers at the camp which was shown to members.                                                                    

Stan Baseley won the raffle and Ian Roberts the heads and Tails. 

Night Reporter Barry Lambert

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                          

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                                     Photos from the Last Meeting                         Rosemary Clarke with Adam Derriman below and (L) Rob Wansborough speaking about  

Telopea Public School  

   

                

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                         Miska sharing his week at the Meeting 

                                 RYPEN Candidates Sarah Collins and Merle Runde 

  

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                                       Rosemary with Sarah and Merle  

  

                                                 Santa Suits for Sale – Fund Raising                                                          Clubs involved in market stalls etc., have been offered the opportunity  to try and sell these suits  The originating organisation ‐ a NFP on the Central Coast ‐ had them made in China and would be happy to cover costs ($5.00 per suit).  If any interest, please contact Jayne Mote on 0405 714 289 or by email to [email protected].   There are 3 sizes ‐ XLarge, Large and Child.    

Les Walsh Communications Director Rotary District 9680  

  

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                                                            Caitlin Gilchrist’s December Report                                                          Feliz Navidad!!!  Merry Christmas to you all from Spain!! I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and holiday season. I am looking forward to Christmas Eve with my Spanish grandmother and family in Burgos City. We will have a family meal ‘ Noche Buena’ and go to midnight mass ‘La Misa del Gallo’. We are then travelling home to Tres Cantos on Christmas Day which is the quietest day over Christmas in Spain to prepare for our trip to Paris, staying at Disneyland!! New Year ‘Noche Vieja’ will be celebrated in Madrid with school and Rotary friends and then 6th January is the Festival of the Three Kings ‘Los Reyes Magos’ and our gift giving.  My amazing Rotary exchange is complete on January 12th and I leave with sadness my family and my friends in Spain. I look forward to seeing you all on my return and wish to thank you very sincerely for the opportunity you have given me in 2012 to represent Rotary in Spain. 

                               

 

Celebrating Thanksgiving dinner with the Rotary exchange students in my district. 

Love and best wishes, Caitlin

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                                          Birthdays and Anniversaries                                                                              

                             Anniversaries      ‐ Bob and Lyn Myers    ‐ 23 December 

- Graham and Margaret Evans – 28 December Birthdays - Ross Ballinger  – 21 December  

                                             ‐ Rob Hamer – 22 December                                                ‐ Lynne Henderson – 28 December                                                ‐ Jo Gerges – 28 December                                               ‐ Helen Lambert – 29 December                                               ‐ Pamela Makin – 31 December 

                                               Food for Thought  

                                                                                                                Christmas is a time when you get homesick ‐ even when you're home .

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

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                                                      Humour 

Life in the Australian Army...                                      Text of a letter from a kid from Eromanga to Mum and Dad.  (For Those of you not in the know, Eromanga is a small town, west of Quilpie in the far south west of Queensland )   Dear Mum & Dad,  I am well. Hope youse are too. Tell me big brothers Doug and Phil that the Army is better than workin' on the farm ‐ tell them to get in bloody quick smart before the jobs are all gone! I wuz a bit slow in settling down at first, because ya don't hafta get outta bed until 6am. But I like sleeping in now, cuz all ya gotta do before brekky is make ya bed and shine ya boots and clean ya uniform. No bloody cows to milk, no calves to feed, no feed to stack ‐ nothin'!! Ya haz gotta shower though, but its not so bad, coz there's lotsa hot water and even a light to see what ya doing!   At brekky ya get cereal, fruit and eggs but there's no kangaroo steaks or possum stew like wot Mum makes. You don't get fed again until noon and by that time all the city boys are buggered because we've been on a 'route march' ‐ geez its only just like walking to the windmill in the back paddock!!   This one will kill me brothers, Doug and Phil with laughter. I keep getting medals for shootin' ‐ dunno why. The bullseye is as big as a bloody possum's bum and it don't move and it's not firing back at ya like the Johnsons did when our big scrubber bull got into their prize cows before the Ekka last year! All ya gotta do is make yourself comfortable and hit the target ‐ it's a piece of piss!! You don't even load your own cartridges, they comes in little boxes, and ya don't have to steady yourself against the rollbar of the roo shooting truck when you reload!   Sometimes ya gotta wrestle with the city boys and I gotta be real careful coz they break easy ‐ it's not like fighting with Doug and Phil and Jack and Boori and Steve and Muzza all at once like we do at home after the muster. Turns out I'm not a bad boxer either and it looks like I'm the best the platoon's got, and I've only been beaten by this one bloke from the Engineers ‐ he's 6 foot 5 and 15 stone and three pick handles across the shoulders and as ya know I'm only 5 foot 7 and eight stone wringin' wet, but I fought him till the other blokes carried me off to the boozer.   I can't complain about the Army ‐ tell the boys to get in quick before word gets around how bloody good it is.  

 Your loving daughter, Sheila Contributed by Rob Hamer

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Volume 26 Issue 23 Page 10 of 12 Monday 17 December 2012

ClubProgram2012‐2013 RED YES = PARTNERS on a meeting night. 

Updated 11/12/12 by RWH 

Dec‐12  Family of Rotary Month    

Mon 17 Christmas Meeting (Kris Kringle-gifts). Exchange student blazer presentation to Bethany.

Yes Bob Davison

Mon 24 No Meeting

Mon 31 No Meeting

Jan‐13   Rotary Awareness Month    

Sun 6 President’s New Year Lunch Yes Social Comm.

Mon 7 No Meeting

Wed 9 Club Board Meeting - Bob Davison's home. Bob Davison

Mon 14 Murray Stone - Kids Research Institute Westmead Childrens Hospital Rob Hamer

Sat 19 BBQ Bunnings Thornleigh. Yes Barry Lambert

Mon 21 Australia Day Meeting - Barry Freeman on Alzeimers. Yes Rob Hamer

Sat 26 Australia Day Holiday

Mon 28 Australia Day Public Holiday - no meeting

Feb‐13  World Understanding Month    

Mon 4 Meeting moved to Binet display home Barbeque. Rob Hamer

Thu 7 Ronald McDonald House Dinner Douglas Lam

Mon 11 Looking for speaker Rob Hamer

Wed 13 Club Board Meeting - Bob Davison's home. Bob Davison

Sat 16 Dinner at Lemon Chello, Italian Restaurant, West Pennant Hills. Social Comm.

Mon 18 Norm Spalding - An Ambulance Officer's story. TBC Yes Rob Hamer

Sun 24 Nordby Picnic day at Kokoda Memorial at Rhodes. Yes Douglas Lam

Mon 25 Youth Night Rosemary Clarke

Mar‐13  Literacy Month    

Mon 4 Jim Kehoe, author - “From Whites to Muddies” a history of Rugby Union in the Royal Australian Navy. Confirmed 25/10/2012

Rob Hamer

Wed 6 Book Sale Setup Clive Denmark

Thu 7 Book Sale Setup Clive Denmark

Fri 8 Book Sale Clive Denmark

Sat 9 Book Sale Clive Denmark

Mon 11 Bryan O'Shannassy from Erina club on Ethics. Peter Cleary

Wed 13 Club Board Meeting - Bob Davison's home.

Fri 15 2013 District Conference Evening - "Soar into History" Yes David Turnbull

Sat 16 2013 District Conference Day 1 Yes David Turnbull

Sun 17 2013 District Conference Day 2 Yes David Turnbull

Mon 18 Steven Carruthers - Naval Historian - "First Salvo" Japanese Midget sub attack on Sydney 1942.

Yes Rob Hamer

Mon 25 Anne Harcombe - Dress for Success

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Volume 26 Issue 23 Page 11 of 12 Monday 17 December 2012

Please don’t forget to book an outing, dinner or activity with Miska [email protected] or mobile 0431 166 636

Miska’s Family of the Week Program

2012-2013

Week Ending Friday Host Family Planned Activities Miska with You

Friday 14 December Ferguson

Christmas Party Dinner Dance - Gladesville Club

9 -23 Jan

Holidays with the Bickfords

Sunday 10 February Ferguson Sailing Day - St Ives Club -TBC

Fri. 22- Sun. 24 February Ferguson

Umina Beach Weekend for Inbound students – Umina Club

Fri 15- Sun. 17 March

Ferguson

District Conference - Nowra

17 March Davison

April/May Davison

Safari briefing – St Albans Anglican Church – Lindfield -TBC

May/June Davison Safari - TBC

15 June Davison Farewell to students - TBC

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Volume 26 Issue 23 Page 12 of 12 Monday 17 December 2012

Directors 2012-13

Rotary Club of West Pennant Hills and Cherrybrook President Bob Davison 0413 008 574 Past President Colin McGowan 0438 810 773 Secretary Barry Lambert 0412 465 819 Actg Secretary Keith Ball 0401 895 333 Treasurer Ian Roberts 0401 898 989 Membership Carol Russell 0418 431 157 Club Services Director Rob Hamer 0400 335 091 Youth Services Director Rosemary Clarke 0439 819 965 Community Services Director Douglas Lam 0419 421 659 International Director, Foundation and PR PDG Larry Jacka 0418 690 898 Vocational Director Peter Cleary 0419 499 827 Fundraiser Director Clive Denmark 0400 425 210

Club Welfare Officer (non executive) Stan Basely 9634 1084

Social Committee Leader Pru Daras 0412 441 052