Bulletin No 07
17th Aug 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 17th August Fun Run Info Meeting Chair Mike Blair Regalia Ron Marcus, Hannibal Shabaz Notes Terry O’Mara
Next Week 24th August Fellowship Event Meeting Chair - TBA Regalia - TBA Notes - TBA
Aug 24
Fellowship Event
TBA
Aug 31
Guest Speaker Maddie McDowall: Building a school in Solomon Islands
Chair – Ross Hood Regalia – Mike Blair, Bruce Allen Notes – Peter Marcer
Graeme & Helen Brangwin 28th Peter & Carol Marcer 30th
Anil De Silva 5th Gerry & Carole Larkin 17th Frank Anisse 18th 1
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well known in the Shire. This should help us to generate interest in membership for all clubs and hopefully more members for our club in the process.
most interesting presentation
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had an excellent meeting with fellow Presidents of other clubs in our Zone and all are committed to working together. Aside from those things mentioned above, ell w n on which we had excellent cooperation thus Du s i r far, we will look to other opportunities to R t Ch n E e N d work together to create awareness of Rotary OR resi P C from Sgt and to work together to serve humanity, m ’S S Fro I R both locally, nationally and internationally. Samantha Davies CH last week. A number of in- It was great to have a representative there teresting statistics were presented from Rotaract and I hope that we can all encourage Rotoractors to be a part of the Zone about which I was unaware. Personally I think it is a shame that people feel the need team as well. to break off all contact with their loved ones e are making excellent progress with and even when found by the police choose the Cross Country Challenge and we not to divulge their whereabouts or make also have some other exciting prospects on contact with their loved ones. the horizon to aid our fundraising efforts for e are looking forward next month to this year and possibly in the years to come. Mike Blair is looking at these with his team. a great night at the Pennant Hills With excellent support form the Council and Golf Club when all the clubs in the Hills get the LAC some of these projects might well together. I am hopeful that we will get a come to fruition and this will see us in a great turnout from the members at Castle Hill. This is a partners night so please come much healthier position than might have along and socialise with members from oth- been imagined as the year began.
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e will have a presentation from the Rotary Club of Condobolin on a potential project to assist indigenous Australians to gain qualifications and meaningful long term employment. If we adopt this project this will be a great Zone project to kick off what I hope will be great cooperation between the clubs in the Hills.
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istrict if also busy and are calling for members to consider joining the Rotary Leadership courses coming up in the near future. Although very useful for new members to learn more about the workings of Rotary and to network with Rotarians from other clubs in the District it is of course open to long standing Rotarians to join these programs also. Having attended myself I recommend them to you.
e have begun cooperation with the other clubs in the public relations hanks for your ongoing support of our field and I know Peter Marcer is working efforts. effectively with the other members to ensure that Rotary is regularly featured in the Yours in Rotary , Hills Shire Times. Our aim is to make Rotary President Chris
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The Rotary Club of Castle Hill is organising a Cross Country Challenge( basically running or walking) Date: 11th September 2016 (Sunday)
Venue: Bella Vista Farm, Norwest Boulevard, Bella Vista Time:
0900
Experienced Running Group (10.5km)
1000
Fun Runners Group (7km)
1030
Walkers / Family group (2.5km)
The funds raised from this event will go towards the reduction of Domestic Violence in the Hills area and other worthy Rotary projects. Kindly refer to the following website for further information and registration: http:// crosscountrychallenge. com.au/ Please pass on this information to all your families and friends. Your attendance on the 11 September is valuable as we need assistance in running the event.
THIS WEEK’S ROTARY FOUNDATION THOUGHT is about
$600,000 or $200 per capita in our district,” says PDG Holly Callen, D5950. “It seemed like a real stretch and it took us three years Club Goal Setting to get there, but by setting an ambitious goal, we were Clubs are asked to set annual giving goals for the Every able to achieve it. This year we have raised the goal to Rotarian, Every Year effort. We’re asking every Rotar- $1million - $300 per Rotarian!” ian to support our Foundation with a minimum More importantly, as our club sets its goal for the comUS$100 contribution. At the President-elect Training ing year, we should also remember to measure our sucSeminar (PETS) this spring, our club president-elect cess by the number of lives we’ve saved and changed. will be asked to submit an annual giving goal for the upcoming year. History has proven that clubs that set goals follow through with them. Many clubs are exceeding that goal now. “We decided to try for a total of 3
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resident members on the Heritage buildings shown on Chris Dun- the front cover which his brother designed 15 well opened years ago. the meeting and annibal Shabaz presented our Club Presiwelcomed: dent Chris Dunwell with 2 Rotary Ban1. Guest Speaker ners, 1 from San Hosea California, one from Snr Sgt Samantha Highland New York State and the third banner Davies and her as- from RI President which he is personally keeping sistant Snr Confor himself. stable Katie Raaymond Danam updated the club on deven from Missing tails about the Rotary Institute Course and Persons Unit NSW advised members how beneficial this was and
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Police Parramatta. 2. Our returned overseas travellers Rotarians Bruce Allen, Hannibal Shabaz and our now Central Coast resident Rod Williamson. 3. Members wives of Rotarians Cheryl Cooper, Pauline Barker and Judy Marcus. 4. Our Raymond Danam who introduced 2 new guests this evening.
this is a quick way to learn what Rotary is all about especially new members. Mike Hallen is a course instructor. For more details about this course speak to Raymond.
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t. Ives Rotary Club are having a Trivia Night on 10th September held at the Roseville Golf Club and A Comedy for a Cause Night. For more details see our President Chris.
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resident Chris Dunwell advised that our od Williamson our Ambassador for Shelter District Zone is working on a project to imBox Australia gave us the latest update on this project and more details can be found in the prove the public relations in the district. previous bulletin. he raffle was won by Phil Dunn and George Biegalke. ike Blair gave us the latest update on the Club project Cross Country Challenge to eter Marcer introduced our Guest Speaker be held at Bella Vista Farm on 11th September. Snr Sgt Samantha Davies from the Missing This is basically a running or walking event. More Persons Unit NSW Police Parramatta. details can be obtained from the new website urrently in New South Wales, over 160 peohttp://crosscountrychallenge.com.au/ Club memple are reported missing each week. For bers keep this date in your diary and tell your their family and friends, the wait for contact or friends to participate re this event. information can be very agonising. th embers have also received an email 10 n 2015, some 9,410 people were reported August from our Club President Chris Missing in NSW and more than 35,000 AusDunwell re this event. tralia wide. 65% of people reported missing are
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ohn Cooper spoke about the front cover of the under the age of 18 and 180 of this age group are Hills Views (our Bulletin) and updating newer still missing. The good news is 98% of missing 4
persons are located, often with the help of the community.
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nce the Missing Persons Unit’s client is missing for more than 3 months it is then Missing Person is defined as, anyone who reported to the State Coroner who requires full details of the DNA etc and family details and a is reported missing to police, whose whereabouts are unknown, and there are fears copy of police report. for the safety or concern for the welfare of that person’s whereabouts over 16 when found person. by the Unit can be kept private when ret is important for people to be aware that be- quested by the missing person. But the Unit can ing reported missing is not a crime and is the tell the parents they have spoken to the missing person. aim of the NSW Police Force to ascertain if the
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00 long term missing people back to the 1950s are still unknown whereabouts.
amantha mentioned in detail how they endeavour to track down missing persons through the various agencies, eg. Centrelink, bank accounts movements, mobile phones and phone account, Tolls, Medicare, Imigration, Vehicle Rego checks by police can pinpoint area they are in, Interstate Police contacts, Safety home bracelets, Salvation Army, hospitals and mental health institutions. These are only a few methods of tracing.
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amantha also advised the role of the Missing Persons Unit is:
Community awareness Education and training Interagency consultation Information Management DNA collection Disaster victim identification
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he first step in reporting a person missing is to report this to the local police and from this report this is sent to the Missing Persons Unit.
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here are approx. 200 unidentified bodies/ parts of people that are still listed as unknown dating back to the 1950s. inger prints can be used only when taken by police.
amantha made special mention of the Safety Home Bracelet project which is jointly run by the NSW Police and the Alzheimer Association whereby elderly people have a name bracelet and details recorded when the person is lost they can be traced back to their relatives.
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his was a very informative evening and brief description of what the Missing Persons Unit does and more information can be obtained from their website. Peter Marcer thanked Samantha for enlightening us on how the Missing Person Unit operates and more informative details can be obtained from the website.
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eeting closed by President Chris Dunwell.
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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 Building a school in Solomon Island Maddie McDowell 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
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
Chair Geoff Duffy CHCC Christmas Fair
Chair: Terry O'Mara Chair Mike Blair Chair Ross Hood Chair Terry O’Mara
Chair Mike Blair Chair Chris Dunwell
Chair AG Hills
Chair Chris Dunwell Chair Santa Clause
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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
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.
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We meet at
Castle Hill Country Club every WEDNESDAY at 6:30 pm for 7:00 pm (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 10th Aug 2016 By PP Geoff Duffy Apologies:
Guests:
David Sommerlad David Bowles Bruce Jenkin Karl Gessner Terry O’Mara
Girish Raniga Sinsava Srivastava Pauline Barker Cheryl Cooper Judy Marcus
Make Ups:
LOA :
Sushil Bandodkar (BBQ)
Anil de Silva till Dec 31, Ron Marcus, till Sept 30, 2016 Bruce Allen July 13 till Aug 17, David Brown, July 20 till Aug 31, Geoff Duffy, Sept 07 till Sept 27, Ross Hood, Sept 03 till Oct 15,
70%
Honorary Members: Nil Visiting Rotarians: Nil Friends of Rotary: Rod Williamson
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