Weekly Club Bulletin 06 February

Last Meeting:

30 January 2012

Program: The Hills Historical

Society Apologies:

Toasts:

Loyal

PP Alan Walker Overseas Club PE Bobby Redman

Next Meeting:

Monday 13 February 2012

Program

Youth In Search

WHAT AM I UP TO NOW PP Robert Mackey

Duty Roster

Door

PP Graeme Rohan Minutes

PP Alan walker Rotary Grace

Rtn Stephen Dinte

Rotary Grace:

“O Lord our giver

of all good

We thank You for

our daily food,

May Rotary friends

and Rotary ways,

Help us to serve

you all our days”.

Rotary Four-

Way Test:

Is it the TRUTH?

Is it FAIR to all

concerned?

Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?

Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?

Mon 06 Feb 2012

Issue 3. No. 25 The Rotary Club of the Hills-Kellyville

Weekly Bulletin

Program: Australian Brewery Visit Duty Roster tonight: Door Minutes Rotary Grace Birthdays: 11

th Ian Pascoe

16th

Vivien Sifonios Anniversaries: 15

th Alex & Helen Traill

19th

Allan & Janice Walker 21

st Ian & Patricia Pearce

Toasts: Loyal Overseas Club What Am I Up To Now

Rotary Grace: “O Lord our giver of all good

We thank You for our daily food, May Rotary friends and Rotary ways,

Help us to serve you all our days”.

Rotary Four-Way Test: Is it the TRUTH?

Is it FAIR to all concerned? Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER

FRIENDSHIPS? Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?

Monday, 06 February 2012

Welcome everyone. Tonight is our first casual away meeting for the year if you don't count our very first informal get-together meeting at Keith & Lyn Stapley's last month. There are a couple of events coming up that I would like you to consider attending. The screening of the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel on Thursday 23 Feb, Events Cinema Castle Towers 7pm sharp start. If anyone is interested in attending I will need to confirm and pay up front by to Bruce Allan by 17th Feb. Cost is $20 with all proceeds to go towards "End Polio". I have received an invitation to attend the Charter of the first Rotary E-Club in our District on Friday 24th February. Erin McCluskey has joined this club and I would like to support her. If anyone is interested in attending please let me know so I can confirm our attendance. The Charter Night will be on Friday 24

th February at 6.30pm for 7pm at Boronia

Grove Receptions, Rawson Street Epping. The entrance to the venue is at the rear left side of Coles Car Park off Rawson between Bridge St and Carlingford Road.] Rotary Club of Epping is the proud sponsor of the new E-Club. Dinner Fee for the night is $45 per person. Our District Conference is only 5 weeks away and so far there are only 4 members including myself who have confirmed that they will be attending. This is a little disappointing as we will need more members to man our display successfully in Friendship Hall on our "Bourke Public School Breakfast Program ". If you haven't registered yet I urge you to register as accommodation is being booked out. It is going to be an exciting weekend being the 50th Anniversary of our District 9680. Please see PE Bobby Redman if you would like further information or go to the District Website to have a look at what is being offered. Enjoy your evening tonight. President Penny Hill.

The Rotary Club of the Hills-Kellyville meets Monday Night at the Castle Hill Tavern 6.15pm for 6.45pm start. Postal address: P O Box 6502, Baulkham Hills Business Centre 2153

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President’s Report

DG visits for 2012/13 will be replaced by a zone visit on 27 August to be held at Castle Hill Country Club. Clubs are being encouraged to invite DG John Dodd to as many events and functions as possible during the year. Thomas Cann reported that a thank you dinner is being planned as a thank you for our Christmas tree container suppliers.

Treasurer’s Report

Semi-annual fees now overdue and invoices will be sent out to the non payers soon.

Secretary’s Report

Club Flyers are now printed and ready for use.

Club Service Report

Next weeks’ meeting is at the Australian Brewery, all the information has been emailed to members.

Community Service Report

Update on the Australia Day event cancelation. Dan Murphy’s quiet again last Saturday, need swaps for 17 Feb and 24 March

Youth Service Report

Youth In search have mailed to us seeking funds!

PR Report

Gordon reported on editorial on Christmas Trees and the Giving Tree.

Sergeant Session

Acting Sergeant broke the record for taking the longest time to collect very little!! We love you Graeme (AJ)

International Service Director’s Report

Polio Plus

Following a number of comments from members regarding the lack of acknowledgement for Rotary’s role in Polio eradication, it is good to finally see an article in The Economist that acknowledges Rotary’s leadership http://www.economist.com/node/21543126 Generally though, what is really important is that we acknowledge our partners and continue to promote the Polio campaign.

http://www.economist.com/node/21543126


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Group Study Exchange

The GSE team from D1260 UK team will arrive Sunday March 4 and depart Sat 31 March 2012. They will attend the Wollongong Conference. Note the 2013 GSE will be with Turkey and the D9680 team will be at Gallipoli on 25 April 2013. Calls for team nominations will occur around August so keep in mind searching for potential nominees.

The Battle of Vinegar Hill

Pam Wilson (Hills District Historical Society)

The original inhabitants of the area including Castle Hill were the Darug Aboriginal people, who lived in the district for thousands of years prior to European settlement. The first known Europeans to reach the Hills district were Governor Phillip and party in 1891. A decade later a government farm was established by Governor King, who was calling it Castle Hill by March 1802. Also in 1802 the first free settler, French nobleman Baron Verincourt de Clambe, took up land at Castle Hill. In 1803 work began on the construction of a double-storey, stone convict barracks at the Castle Hill government farm. By March 1804 seven hundred acres of land had been cleared for cultivation. Amongst the convicts assigned to work at the government farm were Irish political prisoners, transported from their homeland following a 1798 uprising known as the

Battle of Vinegar Hill. In March 1804 these exiled Irish leaders and their supporters staged an escape from Castle Hill with a plan to return to Ireland. This event became known as the Castle Hill Rebellion. More than 200 convicts escaped, acquired weapons, including stolen rifles, and set off towards Parramatta. The group was intercepted by the NSW Corps and a battle took place near Rouse Hill on 5 March, leaving 15 convicts dead. This was the inaugural European battle on Australian soil and also became known as the Battle of Vinegar Hill. Most of the Irish leaders who survived the conflict were later executed. The government farm closed in 1810 and in 1811 it was converted to a lunatic asylum. In 1826 the asylum was relocated to Liverpool. In 1822 a town reserve was created over two hundred acres of the original government farm.

President Penny, Edna Rohan, PP Rod Tilden and PP John Maloney

@ Castle Hill Rebellion Bi Centennial Celebrations

PP Ray Campbell, Carol Jones and Rotarian Michael Griscti

@ Castle Hill Rebellion Bi Centennial Celebrations


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Rotary Foundation Thought for the Week

This week's Rotary Foundation Thought highlights the cooperation between two Rotary Peace

and Conflict Studies Program alumni.

The first encounters between two classmates in the Rotary Peace and Conflict Studies program were anything but cordial. From July through September 2006, Raveendra Pathiranage and Thevananth Thevanayagam participated in the program’s inaugural session at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand. For weeks, they argued about the long-standing conflict in their native Sri Lanka.

“But we talked about our problems and gradually understood each other,” says Thevanayagam, program manager for the Tamil Refugees Rehabilitation Organization in Sri Lanka, who was sponsored by the Rotary Club of Jaffna, Northern Province. The agency provides food, shelter, rehabilitation, and other assistance to displaced Tamil refugees.

“We erased the hard feelings and went on to what can we do to solve the problem? What can we contribute?” says Pathiranage, senior state counsel in the attorney general’s office in Sri Lanka, who was sponsored by District 3220.

He was especially moved by Thevanayagam’s stories of children who had been orphaned or couldn’t go to school. In November, when conflict forced the main road into the Jaffna peninsula to close, Pathiranage asked, “Theva, can I do anything?”

Thevanayagam explained that the region was barely surviving on twice-monthly dry rations and many people, including his two young children and the rest of his family, were suffering from Chikungunya, a disease that causes high fevers, rashes, and joint pain. Pathiranage used some of his personal connections to get a month’s supply of dry milk and medicine to Thevanayagam for his family.

In June, the two men travelled together to the first Rotary World Peace Symposium in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, held just before the 2007 RI Convention, to see their former classmates.

“The link between myself and Theva will be very important in the future to discuss the peace-related issues [in Sri Lanka],” says Pathiranage, who sees a direct connection between what he learned in the Rotary Peace and Conflict Studies program and his work.

At the D9680 Conference in Wollongong we will have Emma Leslie as a speaker and Emma is on the faculty at Chulalongkorn University and hosts the students in Cambodia as part of their studies.

Weekly Toast

This week we would like to toast the Rotary Club of Araponga in Brazil. The club was chartered on the 22

nd September 1951 and last

year celebrated their 60 years anniversary. Also at the end of last year their President, Carlos Romero Gerard introduced two new

Paul Harris Fellows.


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Message from this year’s Conference Chairman

Our 2012 District 9680 Conference is now only six weeks away. From 16 to 18 March, we will be gathering in Wollongong to "Go for Gold at the Gong". We are looking to have as many of your Club members as possible with us at that time, to share in an exhilarating mix of fellowship and inspiration, to listen to top-flight speakers, to be informed and enthused about the great range of projects in which we are involved as Rotarians, and to participate in memorable social events, such as our Saturday night Masked Ball with a great swing band for dancing. While many of our Conference activities will be familiar to regular attenders, we have some exciting initiatives: the Club Showcase which will give every Club the chance to shine as they promote their projects and skills, and Speak Your Mind, an opportunity over Sunday lunch for Rotarians and partners to express their own thoughts about Rotary and where we should be going. Space at our Conference is filling up rapidly, so your members should move quickly to register, if they have not already done so. They can do so by going to our Conference website at conference.rotarydistrict9680.org. There your members will see the wide range of registration options available, which will cater for all needs. On the same site you can book your accommodation, read about our guest speakers, view our program and learn about other activities in which you may wish to participate in before the Conference. Can I urge you to encourage new members in particular to come along? As you will know yourself, nothing brings you "up to speed" as a Rotarian more quickly and thoroughly than being at a Conference, Wollongong is less than two hours away by car or train. This once grimy industrial city has reinvented itself and can now boast quality museums and art galleries, cafes and restaurants, and a host of tourist attractions in the city and the hinterland. You will be able to secure accommodation within walking distance of our venue at the WIN Entertainment Centre, or you can use the shuttle bus provided. So there are many reasons why this weekend in Wollongong in March will be well spent by all who come. Please urge your members to get online and make their booking. Yours in Rotary David Ellyard Conference Chairman 2012 [email protected]

FELLOWSHIP AND INSPIRATION!!

OUR 2012 ROTARY DISTRICT CONFERENCE

IS COMING UP FAST

YOU WOULD NOT WANT TO MISS IT!

GO TO THE CONFERENCE WEBSITE

Conference.RotaryDistrict9680.org

TO LEARN MORE AND REGISTER NOW

Have the privilege of hearing Ramesh Ferris. Crippled by

polio as a child, Ramesh has become a standard bearer for our astoundingly successful

Polio Plus program.

mailto:[email protected]


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Club Members

Name

Classification

Ray Campbell PP,PHF Education - Secondary

Thomas Cann PHF Landscape Supplies

Col Davis Accounting Taxation

Stephen Dinte Financial Planning

Russ Evans PP,PHF Finance

Henry Grech PP Legal Practice

Michael Griscti PHF Lighting Technician

Paul Haslam Steel Distribution

Penny Hill Customer Service Manager

Alan Jones PP,PHF Marketing Consultancy

Bob Low PHF Electrical Distribution

Robert Mackey PP,PHF Construction Services

Ian Pascoe PP Gas Fitting

Ian Pearce PP,PHF Industrial Consultancy

Bruce Pike Nursery Retail

Suresh Prasad PP Sugar Research

Haran Ramachandran PP,PHF Computer Support

Bobby Redman Psychology

Michael Richardson Honorary Member

Greg Rieper PP,PHF Consultancy

Graeme Rohan PP,PHF Petroleum Distribution

Gordon Scoble PP,PHF Education Primary

Jim Sifonios PP,PHF Product Development

Keith Stapley PP,PHF Photogrammetry

Rod Tilden PP,PHF Window Furnishing Sales

Alex Traill PP,PHF Building & Maintenance

Wilf Van Emmerik PP,PHF Specialised Transport

Allan Walker PP Funeral Direction

Glenn Willcox PP Project Estimating

P – President PP - Past President PHF - Paul Harris Fellow

Dan Murphy Roster

Saturday 11 February 2012 PP Glen Wilcox Rtn Bruce Pike

Saturday 18 February 2012 PP Graeme Rohan Rtn Col Davis

WHAT AM I UP TO NOW 13th Feb PP Robert Mackey 20th Feb PP Ray Campbell 27th Feb P Penny Hill

Duty Roster Monday 20 February 2012

Door PP Greg Rieper Minutes PP Allan Walker Rotary Grace Rtn Stephen Dinte

Joke of the Day – Late To Work Jones came into the office an hour late for the third time in one week and found the boss waiting for him. "What's the story this time, Jones?" he asked sarcastically. "Let's hear a good excuse for a change." Jones sighed, "Everything went wrong this morning, Boss. The wife decided to drive me to the station. She got ready in ten minutes, but then the drawbridge got stuck. Rather than let you down, I swam across the river -- look, my suit's still damp -- ran out to the airport, got a ride on Mr. Thompson's helicopter, landed on top of Radio City Music Hall, and was carried here piggyback by one of the Rockettes." "You'll have to do better than that, Jones," said the boss, obviously disappointed. "No woman can get ready in ten minutes."

Club Calendar

Note: Apologies must be in to PP Graeme Rohan by 12pm on Mondays

so numbers can be confirmed for dinner.

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Weekly Club Bulletin 06 February