Bulletin No 02
13th June 2016
Bulletin of the Rotary Club of Castle Hill ISSN 2203-126X
Rotary Club of Castle Hill Chartered 18th March 1965
PO Box 13, Castle Hill. 1765 www.rotarynews.info/club4201
Rotary Year 2016-17 District Governor: Bruce Lakin (District 9685 ) Rotary Int’l President: John F Germ
This Week 13th July 16 Guest Speaker Judith Dunn: Parramatta Female Factory Precinct Chair Ross Hood Regalia Mike Blair, Bruce Allen Notes David Brown
Next Week 20th July 16 Guest Speaker Cherelyn Suzuki: Youth Exchange Retrospect Chair – Mike Hallen Regalia – Bruce Davis, David Bull Notes – Raymond Danam
July
Mike Hallen 21st Geoff Duffy 24th Marie Ford 25th
John & Cheryl Cooper 17th
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ell, I chaired my first meeting and I think it went ok. Of course that’s not for me to say, rather for you as the members to comment on. Only another 50 or so to go before I can hand over the reins.
I would like to thank the members for working through a fairly dry session on the Strategic Plan. l l e However, as the slides remind us, in the wise unw D s i words of former US President JFK – “There are Chr R t n E e N d risks and costs to a program of action, but hey are OR resi P C m ’S far less than the long range risks and costs of comfortable S Fro I R inaction”. So thanks for endorsing the plan, largely unchanged CH from our session last year. I will be asking Paul to put up the new plan on the Club website so you can all see where we are going and what we have committed to going forward. I thank you for some lively debate over some of the issues and for good ideas from you all. I very much want to have input from everyone throughout the year as this is how we will make the Club work well and create the energy we need to have fun and do good in the world. We had some great successes in 2015 and we will have some great successes in 2016, I am confident of that. I am looking forward to working with everyone to make that happen. Just to recall, our top priorities are in the areas of Membership. I want to see all you active and engaged in the club at the end of my year. Retention is very important and we will strive to make the Club a great place to be. We also need to attract new members. We agreed that the membership of our club should more closely reflect the make up of our community. So we need more women members. Let’s face it half the population are women so we should find some more ladies. I know Marie is pleased to receive the attention of so many men on weekly basis, but I think she would like share fellowship with a few more ladies as well! We also need to attract he many successful community minded people who are Asian Australians, or African Australians. So we should challenge each other during the course of the year to invite potential members to experience our club. Now that RI has relaxed the attendance requirements we have an opportunity to invite new members without the need for them to attend every week. We will also look to collaborate with other Clubs in our Zone to work on some joint projects. I have no preconceived ideas whether these should be local, national or international. Frankly they could be all three. So please think about what we can do and how we can find worthy projects that we could potentially work on together with Norwest Sunrise, Glenhaven, Hills Kellyville, Rouse Hill etc. As you know DG Bruce Lakin is hoping to sup2
port the Indigenous Australian community in some way during his year and this might be a great opportunity for a collaborative project. We will also look to have fun. So fellowship will be a focus. To that end I invite anyone in the club to bring good ideas for fun and fellowship to the attention of the Board and the Fellowship Committee so we can enjoy each other’s company in fun and entertaining ways, engaging partners and friends to join us on a regular basis. So we look forward to continuing support for Teachers, Police, Pride in Workmanship and our many Youth activities, to making a success of our Cross Country Fun Run, our ongoing support to the victims of domestic violence in the Hills and some great BBQs. Yours in Rotary ,
President Chris
July 13
July 20
July 27 Aug 3
Guest Speaker Judith Dunn: Parramatta Female Factory Precinct Guest Speaker Cherelyn Suzuki: Youth Exchange Retrospect Christmas in July Family Event (TBA) Club Assembly – Yearly Plan & Budget
Chair – Ross Hood Regalia – Mike Blair, Bruce Allen Notes – David Brown Chair – Mike Hallen Regalia – Bruce Davis, David Bull Notes – Raymond Danam CHCC Christmas Fair?? Chair Chris Dunwell Regalia – Peter Marcer, Ross Hood Notes – David Bull Chair – Phil Dunn Regalia – John Cooper, Paul Robinson Notes – Ron Marcus
Aug 10
Guest Speaker Sgt. Samantha Davies: Missing Persons Unit
Aug 17
Info Meeting – Fun Run
Chair Mike Blair Regalia – Ron Marcus, Hannibal Shabaz Notes – Terry O’Mara
Aug 24
Fellowship Event
TBA
Aug 31
Guest Speaker Maddie McDowell: Building a school in Solomon Island
Chair – Terry O’Mara Regalia – Mike Blair, Bruce Allen Notes – Peter Marcer 3
Club Officers and Non-Executive Positions Rotary Club of Castle Hill Rotary Year 2016-2017 President President-Elect (2015-2016) Secretary Treasurer Director Club Administration Director Membership Director Public Relations Director Community Service Director Rotary Foundation Director Outreach Projects
Chris Dunwell Paul Robinson Raymond Danam Phil Dunn Chris Dunwell Mike Hallen Peter Marcer Mike Blair Bruce Allen Terry O’Mara
Non-executive Club Officers Bulletin Editor Sergeant at Arms Guest Speaker Program International Chairman Youth Chairman Vocational Chairman Welfare Officer Webmaster
Anil de Silva Phil Davis/Hannibal Shabaz Ross Hood Phil Davis Ross Hood Hannibal Shabaz Terry O’Mara Paul Robinson
JULY No special designation for this month Rotaract Club of The Hills Meets: 2nd & 4th Wednesday of each month Location: Room 3, Turner Building, Balcombe Heights Estate, 92 Seven Hills Road, Baulkham Hills. 4
July 6 July 13 July 20 July 27
EGM & Revisit Strategic Plan Guest Speaker Guest Speaker Cherelyn Suzuki: Youth Exchange Retrospect Christmas in July Family Event (TBA)
Chair Chris Dunwell
Aug 3
Club Assembly – Yearly Plan & Budget
Chair Chris Dunwell
Aug 7 Aug 10 Aug 17 Aug 24 Aug 31
BBQ at Bunnings Guest Speaker Sgt. Samantha Davies: Missing Persons Unit Info Meeting – Fun Run Fellowship Event Guest Speaker Maddie McDowell: Building a school in Solo-
Chair Mike Blair
CHCC Christmas Fair
mon Island
Sep 7 Sep 11 Sep 14 Sep 21 Sep 28 Oct 5 Oct 12 Oct 19 Oct 26 Oct 30 Nov 2 Nov 9 Nov 16 Nov 23 Nov 30 Dec 7 Dec 14
Excellence in Policing Cross Country Fun Run Guest Speaker Fellowship Event Fun Run Presentation Night Guest Speaker Club Assembly Guest Speaker Fellowship Event BBQ Cumberland forest Guest Speaker Polio Movie Night Guest Speaker Fellowship Event Guest Speaker Annual General Meeting Club Christmas Party
Chair Terry O’Mara
Chair Mike Blair Chair Chris Dunwell
Chair AG Hills
Chair Chris Dunwell Chair Santa Clause
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ets & costs $400.00 un-stapled or $600.00 stapled. If we can sell tickets at Castle Towers & Stockland Mall Baulkham Hills our Club could raise up to $2,000 in funds. West Pennant Hills/Cherrybrook are having a trivia night on Saturday 27 August. It would be nice if our club can organise a table for 8. The President then invited Directors/Members to say a few words. Mike Blair: Mike Blair & Terry O’Mara have been able to get the Tour de Hills Website revamped at no cost Sergeant Mike Blair: for the proposed Cross Country Fun Run at Bella Vista on 11/09/16. Called the meeting to order and requested all Warren Bowden garage sale has raised around present to toast Rotary International. After the $4,500 customary toast he asked all present to welcome Ross Hood: our President Chris Dunwell & handed over the mike to him. Ross has been able to get the following speakers: President: 13/07/16 Judith Dunn: Parramatta Female FactoPresident Chris Dunwell extended a warm wel- ry Precinct come to all. 20/07/16 Cherelyn Suzuki: Youth Exchange Retrospect On the Agenda was to call an EGM & then talk 10/08/16 Sgt. Samantha Davies: Missing Perabout Strategic Plan Review. sons Unit 31/08/16 Maddie McDowell: Building a school in The EGM was declared open & Bruce Allen Solomon Island moved a motion to accept the audited accounts for 2014/2015. Motion was seconded by Mike He will be away on holidays overseas Sept/Oct. Hallen. Motion was carried. He will be interviewing Ayla Jones for RYLA The President thanked Neil Todd for running the Bowel Care Programme for the last few years. Beecroft Rotary Club will be having a Book Sale Terry Ireland will take over from Neil. Raymond Danam: Norwest Sunrise Rotary has organised a Persian Rug Sale in Castle Hill where substantial discounts are available for Rotarians.
Geoff Duffy is still in charge of the Attendance. Any apologies must be notified before noon on Tuesday
Crows Nest Rotary Club will be looking after the With regard to membership we have 25, 9 HonMelbourne Cup Raffle. A box contains 2,024 tick- orary Members & 8 Friends of Rotary 6
Phil Dunn:
Strategic Plan Review:
Phil requested members to pay their half yearly dues of $130.00 as early as possible
President Chris Dunwell initiated discussion of the Plan that was drawn up last year.
Terry O’Mara:
Members contributed with various suggestions to tweak the plan
With regard to welfare of members Terry mentioned that John Cooper is frail & David Sommer- Increasing membership to 40-45 by 2020 is a lad very frail. Phone calls would be appreciated. challenge. Raffle:
Membership does not reflect the diversity of The Hills Shire. There is no Asian representation
David Bowles organised this with his usual panache. Winners: Mike Hallen (Red) & Chris Dunwell (White) both from the same table. Fine Session: Though attendance was quite low acting Sergeant did not spare many.
Merits of holding meetings weekly, fortnightly or monthly was considered in depth. It was felt that to retain the current venue, weekly meetings should continue. Meeting concluded at 8.45 pm.
Chris Dunwell: In the first Bulletin he calls his Report “Chris’s Conor” instead of Chris’s Corner. No display of Theme Banner Bruce Allen: For his sartorial splendour (bow tie) on Changeover Evening. No PHF Medallion. Put it on later in the evening. Also unable to do Regalia next week as he will be in Monte Carlo Mike Hallen: For not thanking Mayor for the Civic Reception Phil Dunn: For selling Mike’s flashing at the garage sale. David Bowles: For the two figure salute & then trying to bribe the Sergeant not to fine him Terry O’Mara not doing the Regalia Fined all those who did not wear their PHF Medallion & those who appeared in photos.
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24 latrines for families in need. The host Rotary Club of Addis Ababa EntoGLOBAL GRANTS to partnered with the BelWith funding from a Rotary Foundation gian non-profits Caprioolkinderen and Global Grant, Rotarians from six counSiddartha Development Ethiopia, which tries have worked to fulfill the basic have teamed up on similar programs needs of 50 street children in Addis Aba- since 2002, providing food, shelter, and ba over two years. The youths also rebasic education to 300 children. ceived vocational training in woodworkEvery Rotarian, Every Year – Nourishing ing, metalworking, and bricklaying, bodies and minds. which they applied by helping to build THIS WEEK’S ROTARY FOUNDATION THOUGHT is about
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PAST PRESIDENTS 1965-66Gerald Engel Prov & Charter President 1966-67 John Wells 1967-68 Roley McClintock 1968-69 Don Wright 1969-70 Ray Wells 1970-71 Tony Dehlsen 1971-72 Roy Martin 1972-73 Frank Crooke 1973-74 Allan Buckingham 1974-75 Ken Binns 1975-76 Colin Lawford 1976-77 Roger Wood 1977-78 Brian Stacey 1978-79 Warren Bowden 1979-80 Ern Death 1980-81 Peter Gilbank 1981-82 Graeme Brangwin 1982-83 Stan Fulker 1983-84 Phillip Dunn 1984-85 Bill Robinson 1985-86 John Barker PSM 1986-87 Norm Roach 1987-88 Milton Colburt 1988-89 Ron Marcus OAM 1989-90 Bill Tait 1990-91 Peter Wood 1991-92 Bruce Allen 1992-93 Ray White 1993-94 Ron Miller
1994-95 Gerry Larkin 1995-96 Hannibal Shabaz 1996-97 George McDonald 1997-98 Peter McBean 1998-99 John Stuart 1999-00 Geoff Duffy 2000-01 John Cooper 2001-02 Mike Hallen 2002-03 Judy Ford 2003-04 Jeff Whyte 2004-05 Peter Ford 2005-06 Mike Blair 2006-07 Terry O’Mara AM 2007-08 David Waterhouse 2008-09 Peter Marcer 2009-10 Rod Williamson 2010-11 Terry O’Mara AM 2011-12 Stephen Macquarie 2012 –2013 Paul Robinson 2013-2014 Bev Cooney OAM 2014 - 2015 Mike Blair 2015—2016 Mike Hallen PAST PRESIDENTS OTHER CLUBS David Sommerlad AM , Bruce Jenkin MBE Neil Todd, Phil Davis Raymond Danam SERVICE ABOVE SELF AWARD Ron Marcus OAM
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We meet at
Castle Hill Country Club every WEDNESDAY at 6:30 pm for 7:00 pm
Between Wilcannia and Broken Hill NSW Time zone change location
(Spurway Drive, Baulkham Hills NSW 2153) Apologies, Please inform Geoff Duffy NO LATER than Noon Tuesday before the next meeting so numbers can be confirmed for Dinner jgduffy@internode.on.net
BULLETIN EDITOR
Anil De Silva (from Cobar, Outback NSW) aniljdes@yahoo.com.au Deadline Friday 8:00 pm This Bulletin is kindly printed by Snap Printing. Unit 20/5 Hudson Ave. Castle Hill 2154 Ph: 96801858
Attendance 06th July 2016 By PP Geoff Duffy Apologies: David Sommerlad George Biegalke John Cooper David Brown David Bull Phil Davis Bruce Jenkin Make Ups: Nil Friends of Rotary: Honorary Members:
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Visiting Rotarians: Nil Nil LOA Anil de Silva till December 31, 2016 Ron Marcus, till September 30, 2016 Hannibal Shabaz, May 03 till August 03, 2016. Bruce Allen July 13 till Aug 17, 2016. David Brown, July 20 till August 31, 2016 12