HILLS VIEWS Bulletin No 28 22nd Mar 2017 Bulletin of the Rotary 3lub 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 Wednesday Next Week Wednesday 22nd Mar 2017 29th March 2017 Bruce de Graaf, "Why aren't Excellence In Teaching Chair – David Bull you in Rotary" Chair – Mike Hallen Regalia – Mike Blair, Bruce Allen Notes – David Brown
Regalia – Mike Hallen, Mike Blair Notes – David Bowles
March Bruce Allen 5th Terry O’Mara 6th Phil Dunn 12th David Bowles 27th
Saturday, 8th April 17 Bunnings Castle Hills
Ron & Judy Marcus 24th
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selves with one new member during the course of this calendar year - I am not advocating you leave once you have found a new member as we need everyone to carry on as long as they can and as long as they want tothen very soon we will be back over 40 and up towards 50 members. This means the roles – Directors, coordinators of special events, programs and weekly events - can be spread among a larger group so not everyone is doing one, two and three different things in any one year. Last week we enjoyed an excellent event in celebration of excellent work from members in our local community at the Pride in Workmanship awards. Once again many thanks to Bob Chary for his excellent organisation. And of course all the awardees are worthy winners and it was a pleasure to be able to hand them their wards. I hope they are all proudly displayed in their workplaces. Coming up soon is also our Excellence in Teaching Awards and this will be another great event and hopefully as many of you as possible will be able to attend. As we all know great teachers prepare the next generation, inspire them and encourage them to be the best they can be. Please remember that April sees PEST Training and the District Assembly so for those affected please remember to attend. For those who support Wests Tigers, after weeks two and three you can join me by crying in your beer. For those who are looking forward to the AFL, may your team go well (particularly if it is the Sydney Swans). That’s all for now.
we seek to fill some important positions in the Club going forward. Please make sure if you are a member of the Club that you attend to vote. I will have more to say about this in next weeks message. We will also enjoy hearing from Bruce DeGraf who is the District Membership Director. His topic is going to be f particular interest to us all as the Club needs to continue to increase our membership into the future as we seek to secure our long term future for the benefit of the local community and the wider Rotary community. The future of the Rotary movement depends on attracting new members who will get involved in the activities and work that we do, as well as enjoying the fellowship we offer as part of our community. We all know that average age of Rotarians has been creeping ever upwards and these great members become less able to contribute as they once did. As you also know we have lost some great Rotarians and friends of Rotary recently. We must be replacing ourselves and I urge each of you to take as much as you can of good advice from Bruce and others, and help our Club to replace the membership. If each off us Yours in Rotary , takes it upon ourselves to just replace ourPresident Chris
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Pride of Workmanship Night 15th March 2017
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BBQ News
By Phil Davis
Foundation (all undercover of course) at a new site for us being Bunnings at Seven Hills. he girls from the Foundation provided tee shirts & caps & called in to lend their support. rofit was $874 & this will go to this well worthwhile charity. s can be seen from the photos taken on the day, we had great fellowship & a lot of laughs. Note the blue hair on Phil Dunn & Mike Blair’s new dancing shoes. he club is especially indebted to George Biegalke who has invested in an Onion Slicing machine & arrived at the Seven Hills site with 20 kgs of sliced onions at 7.30am all packed in ice. Thank you so much George, you saved us a lot of work on the day when we cooked over 500 sausages plus half the onions. Thanks to all who attended especially 2 prospective members Chris & Paul, who worked hard & said they enjoyed the company.
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a very wet Saturday (18th) we conducted a BBQ to raise funds for the Leukaemia
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Castle Hill Rotary Club Timetable Jan – June 2017 4 January 2017 11 January 2017 18 January 2017 25 January 2017 26 January 2017 1 February 2017
Wednesday Wednesday Wednesday Wednesday Thursday Wednesday
No meeting Home meeting - Peter Marcer Fellowship @ Heritage Park Home meeting - Chris Dunwell Australia Day
6.00pm
"Guess my Part Time Occupation" David Wilson
7.00pm
CHCC
6 February 2017 13 February 2016 15 February 2017 22 February 2017 1 March 2017
Wednesday Monday Wednesday Wednesday Wednesday
7.00pm 7.00pm 7.00pm
CHCC
7.00pm
CHCC
8 March 2017
Wednesday
Rotary meeting: Club Assembly Board Meeting Youth Night Phil and Jenny Dunn’s home Mike Hallen, ‘Why aren’t you in Rotary’ Bette Lakin (partner of District Governor Bruce) ‘Days for Girls’
7.00pm
CHCC
11 March 2017
Friday
District Conference
8.30am
Penrith Panthers
13 March 2017 15 March 2017 22 March 2017
Monday Wednesday Wednesday
7.00pm 7.00pm 7.00pm
CHCC CHCC
29 March 2017 5 April 2017
Wednesday Wednesday
7.00pm 7.00pm
CHCC CHCC
10 April 2016 12 April 2017
Monday Wednesday
Board Meeting Pride in Workmanship Bruce de Graaf, "Why aren't you in Rotary" Chair Mike Hallen Excellence In Teaching Mayor of the Hills 'Sanctuary' Domestic Violence. Board Meeting
7.00pm 7.00pm
Dural
14 April 2016 16 April 2016 17 April 2016 19 April 2017
Friday Sunday Monday Wednesday
7.00pm
CHCC
25 April 2017 26 April 2017 3 May 2017 8 May 2017 10 May 2017 17 May 2017 24 May 2017 31 May 2017 7 June 2017 12 June 2017 13 June 2017 14 June 2017 21 June 2017
Tuesday Wednesday Wednesday Monday Wednesday Wednesday Wednesday Wednesday Wednesday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Wednesday
7.00pm 7.00pm 7.00pm 7.00pm 7.00pm 7.00pm 7.00pm 7.00pm
CHCC CHCC
Good Friday Easter Sunday Public Holiday International Dinner – Dural @ Billy The Greek Restaurant Anzac Day
Board Meeting “Meet and Greet” night
Queen’s Birthday Board Meeting Rotary meeting: Club Assembly
7.00pm 7.00pm 7.00pm
CHCC
CHCC CHCC CHCC CHCC CHCC
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Rotary Club of Castle Hill ry and are not pressured into becoming a Rotarian. Interested individuals can be invited to be our “Meet and Greet” night 10 May 2017
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he club calendar now includes a “Meet and Greet” night on 10 May 2017. he venue will be our normal meeting place, Acres Restaurant at Castle Hill Country Club. Our normal starting time will apply, i.e. 6:30 for 7:00pm with closure at about 9:00pm. atering for the event will be self-service finger food from the CHCC Functions Package. Platters of food will be delivered to the room that will be set up with high tables and some seating. The bar in Acres will be open for drinks at individual expense. f members and partners attend, that takes care of about 40 persons. We also ask members to invite guests to the event in the hope of attracting another 20 or so people to join us and partake in Rotary Fellowship. The idea is to min-
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guests at a later date at one of our regular club meetings. n order to keep costs of the event to around our regular $25 per member, the Rotary Club of Castle Hill will pay for all invited guests. The food package estimate is based on 30 persons. More attendees may potentially reduce the costs to our Club Administration Account. here will be a welcome by President Chris Dunwell but no presentations about our great organisation - that task falls to our members who are expected to mingle with the guests and discuss matters Rotary and how the members of the members of the Rotary Club of Castle Hill are involved. o please check your calendars and start talking to your partners, friends and acquaintances about joining us on 10 May.
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Club Officers and Non-Executive Positions Rotary Club of Castle Hill Rotary Year 2016-2017 President President-Elect (2016-2017) 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 6
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 Ray Danam NO LATER than Noon Tuesday before the next meeting so numbers can be confirmed for Dinner raydanam@gmail.com You can text, call, email or use WhatsApp.
BULLETIN EDITOR
Anil De Silva (from Rotorua, New Zealand)
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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
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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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