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Welcome to The Rotary Club of Northbridge
Northbridge
Service Above Self
We meet Tuesdays at 6:00 PM
Northbridge Golf Club
Sailors Bay Road,
Northbridge, NSW  2063
Australia
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District Governor Visit
Sep 04, 2018
 
Northbridge Plaza Bookstall
Northbridge Plaza
Sep 16, 2018
 
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Sep 20, 2018
 
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Sep 25, 2018
 
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Next Meeting – 4 September 2018
Attendance desk:
Joanne Coleman & Helen Gulson (Reserves: Sally O'Neill & Valda Andrews)
 
Set up & pack up:
Peter McNair & John Bolton (Reserves: Liz Grey & Bob Edwards)
Speakers & topic:
LIZDE ROME    -   TALDUMANDE
Rotary Club Meeting 28 August 2018
 
Welcome
President Ranald called the meeting to order at 6.30pm and proceeded to welcome all those in attendance and in particular Alison French, our Guest Speaker for the night, Anaji D’Cunha of Willoughby Girls’ High School who had been sponsored by the Club to attend the June 2018 RYPEN camp in the Blue Mountains and a delegation from Willoughby Girls’ High School being the Principal -Elizabeth Diprose, Careers Advisor - Rana Morris and Acting Head Teacher (Wellbeing) - Nola Budd.
 
Toast
Secretary Liz Grey proposed the toast to the Rotary Club of Byron Bay. The club is very similar to ourselves but has an extraordinary fund-raising event. Once a year the Club organises a Golf Day. At one point in the day the local Westpac helicopter drops onto one of the greens 750 numbered golf balls which are sold to the players for $20.00 each. Thereafter at one of the greens there is a ‘nearest to the pin’ competition with the numbered golf balls and the owner of the one nearest to the pin wins $4,000.00. The members duly honoured the toast.
 
Announcements
President Ranald proceeded with the Club matters firstly thanking Sally for her organisation of the two barbecues for the Willoughby District Netball finals weekend and the upcoming Bridge Day for which there will be 22 tables.
 
Luke Keighery reported on the Trivia Night held last weekend by the Rotary Club of Lane Cove to raise money for Mary’s House and at which our Club had two tables.
 
P.P. John Turner spoke of the forthcoming Rotary Club of St. Ives Food & Wine Festival and urged members to attend.
 
Present Ranald advised that at the Willoughby Spring Fair the Club, in association with other local Clubs are manning a Rotary Information stall and collecting money for Drought Relief and called for two more volunteers for the day.
 
Youth Director Kevin Tattrie then followed with a formal welcome to the Principal and teachers from Willoughby Girls’ High School and gave a short talk on the various youth programs available through Rotary. He then introduced Anaji D’Cunha who thanked the Club for sponsoring her to attend the RYPEN weekend. She then gave a full report as to the activities undertaken during the weekend and described the benefits that she felt that she had received from the program.
Guest Speaker - Alison French - District Global Grant Scholarship
P.P. John Turner then formally introduced Alison French who as a District Global Grant Scholarship Awardee had been sponsored by the Club to attend Oxford University to study at the University’s Blavatnik School of Government to achieve a degree of Master in Public Policy which she duly did. Alison gave a short introduction as to her earlier life as an undergraduate studying law at ANU. During that time she was involved with Linkz working with members of the Indigenous Community in Roebuck W.A. After graduating she worked for some time as a tipstaff and then took a position with the Royal Commission into Institutional Abuse of Children in Sydney before leaving for Oxford in September 2016.
 
At Oxford there were 120 in the course coming from 66 different countries. There were other Rotary Global Grant Scholars and there were other Australians who were not there through Rotary. The local Rotary Clubs took the Global Grant Scholars under their wing and she was provided with a full time ‘mentor’. She became quite involved with Rotary, attending the local District Conference. The highlight of her year was her involvement in a program pursuant to which she was sent to Cambodia for 2 months, working with World Vision.
 
After completing her studies and achieving her Master’s Degree in Public Policy she returned to Canberra and has taken a position as a Policy Advisor in the Department of The Prime Minister & Cabinet in our Government. Alison took questions and was thanked by P.P. John Turner for her attendance and address.
 
Sergeant Peter Fehon then did his best to bleed us all dry and the meeting closed with a rendition of the National Anthem – two verses.
Stories
SHELTERBOX NOMINATED FOR NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
I am honoured to advise you ShelterBox has been nominated for the 2018  Nobel Peace Prize, the winner to be announced in October.  Whatever the result, this is an amazing nomination and we are truly honoured. The nomination reflects the incredible work done by the ShelterBox staff and volunteers around the world, and to those who have supported us, especially the many Rotary Clubs and Rotarians.
 
The nomination is also an implicit recognition of the partnership between ShelterBox and Rotary International.  Two great organisations combining their efforts to provide disaster aid wherever it may be required across our world.  I am reminded that last year we helped 32,000 households, or 160,000 people, who had lost everything through conflict or natural disaster. We responded to world events 24 times in the year and deployed aid to 20 different countries. Rotary groups around the world helped us provide vulnerable people with emergency shelter and aid in almost all of the countries we have worked in affected by natural disaster.  In 2017, we also surpassed the highest number of days ever deployed in one year. This includes 84 ShelterBox Response Team volunteers who deployed for a total of 1,530 days. That’s an average volunteer deployment of 18 days each.
 
I never underestimate the impact of the support of Rotary International, Rotary Clubs and individual Rotarian has to ShelterBox in achieving our goal of no family without shelter.
 
As we continue to pursue our goal, we thank each and every one of you for the support given, and make an impassioned plea for that support to continue into the future.  As individual organisations we can make a difference in the world; as a partnership we can do even more.
 
Thank you.
 
Rowley
 
ROWLEY TOMPSETT  CRLSS  FICDA  JP
Chair
 

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