Rotary Club of Parramatta City




                                COMMUNITY NETWORKER
                                      ROTARY CLUB OF PARRAMATTA CITY                                         29/10/2012



        MEETING                14/01/13                                               BOWELSCAN
                                                                                      Bowelscan is a Rotary Community
    A Lot has happened in the world since the last issue of our newsletter firstly    Service program, developed in
    the shooting in Newtown USA.                                                      1982 in District 9640 and now
                                                                                      conducted by more than 300
    President Johnny sent an email to DG Brian Amey                                   Rotary clubs across Australia.

                                                                                      These clubs issue approximately
Dear District Governor Brian Amey,                                                    150,000 kits during their annual
                                                                                      colorectal screening programs.
On behalf of the Rotary Club of Parramatta City, District 9690 in
                                                                                      Since Bowelscan commenced
Australia, we would like to convey our sympathy and our prayers to all the            more than 1500 people with bowel
Rotarians in your club and community on the terrible news of events in                cancer and 5,400 with polyps
Newtown.                                                                              have been detected. Bowelscan is
                                                                                      essentially a public awareness
                                                                                      program, seeking to increase
Regards,                                                                              community knowledge of bowel
                                                                                      cancer and its symptoms with a
                                                                                      view to its earlier diagnosis.
Johnny Ching
President                                                                             The project also involves the
Rotary Club of Parramatta City                                                        distribution to the public of a
                                                                                      simple scanning kit on which is
District 9690 Australia                                                               collected small specimens of
                                                                                      faeces for laboratory analysis to
                                                                                      detect evidence of minute
    Message from our beloved DG
                                                                                      traces of internal bleeding.
Hello everyone, 
                                                                                      Bowelscan is a program
No doubt you have been following the news on the bush fires on the Tasmanian          supported by Australian Rotary
Peninsula. I have been in contact with my colleague DG James Wilcox of D9830          Health since 2003. Details of the
                                                                                      program’s administration are
 and the township of Dunalley has all but been wiped out with 65+ homes lost          available from:
including community centre, primary school, police station and RSL Club and 
they are expecting it to worsen.                                                      Lionel Phelps • Secretary of the
                                                                                      National Bowelscan Committee
I have had enquiries as to how we can support them and also been offered              Telephone (02) 6624 2363 • Fax
                                                                                      (02) 6624 4803 • E-mail
donations so have attached below information from James giving several                lphelps@scu.edu.au
alternatives, I would suggest what they really need is monetary donations to          www.nationalbowelscan.org.au
assist Rotary in helping to rebuild the communities for the future. 
 
Please see below and I will keep you up to date with any further information, 
particularly if anyone requires their donations to be Tax Deductable, in which case they can be directed through 
RAWCS once they have the account set up.   
 

Best Regards 
 

KEITH ROFFEY 
District Governor 2012 – 2013 
Rotary International District 9690 

    From DG James Wilcox D9830 Tasmania
    Thanks to those that have already expressed concern and offers of support for those affected by the bushfires
that have hit parts of Tasmania in recent days.
Rotary Club of Parramatta City

 
    Sadly, there is every possibility that other communities in Tasmania and around Australia will also suffer during this
bushfire season.
 

To assist those communities in Tasmania devastated by the bushfires,  our  District Emergency Relief Fund 
Committee has established  the ‘Rotary Tasmania Bushfire Appeal’ with an initial donation of $5,000 from the our 
Disaster Relief fund. The Appeal will  seek to fund recovery projects that will have a long term direct influence on 
affected communities. We will work closely with the Rotary clubs in those areas who have local knowledge of where 
the funds can best be used. 
 
    Should any of our ‘mainland’ Rotary friends wish to support our fundraising efforts there are several options
available for donations: 
 

     (a) Send a cheque to Mike Whitehouse, District Finance Manager at 42 Auburn Road, Kingston TAS 7050. Cheque 
         to be made payable to Rotary Tasmania Bushfire Appeal. A receipt will be issued but the donation is not eligible 
         for tax deductibility. 
 

     (b) Donate through the Rotary Tasmania website at www.rotary9830.org.au (donations are not eligible for tax 
         deductibility). 
 
    I have been advised that Rotary Australia World Community Service (RAWCS) is looking to set up a process that
will enable donations through the “Rotary Australia Benevolent Society”. This donation option will provide for a
receipt giving eligibility to tax deductibility. Should this option become available it will take RAWCS a few days to
set up the process for donations and to provide advice through District Governors.
 
    Regards, James.
    James Wilcox
    District Governor 2012-13
    Rotary District 9830 – Tasmania, Australia
 
    Email: jkwilcox@bigpond.net.au
    Mobile: 0439 911 747
    www.rotary9830.org.au


From Secretary Joy:
The next board meeting will be 5.30pm on Wednesday 16th January – at which time we have to appoint a President
for 2013/2014!
 
A change in menu starting from Monday for lunch. They will rotate through 4 weeks, so we get each of these hot
dishes 3 times as they will change the menu each quarter.
 
Salad
    •   Traditional Caesar Salad with grilled chicken
    •   Rocket, parmesan, cucumber, tomato & onion salad with home-made dressing (with chicken or without)
Hot Dishes
    •   Butter chicken with jasmine rice & roti
    •   Penne pasta with chicken & prosciutto in a creamy Napolitano sauce
    •   Scotch fillet with truss tomatoes & jus served with a choice of seasonal vegetables or mash
    •   Market fresh fish with potato mash, steamed greens & lime beurre blanc (this is the usual fish dish, however
       the type of fish would change each time as usual)

CALENDAR OF EVENTS
    January 2013
    14
    21
    28
    February 2013
Rotary Club of Parramatta City

   4 Glenn Gardner, Polio Australia
   11 Sandra Carvajal, Good return

APOLOGIES
 
Apologies to Joy Gillette on 8837 1900 before 9.30am Monday morning. 
The latest time for apologies to be made is 9.30am on Monday as that is the time Joy has to advise the hotel of 
numbers.  
 
The Club is required to pay for the number of lunches ordered. Invoices for the cost of a meal will be sent to members 
who do not apologise for non attendance by 9.30am. 
 
Keith Henning:: 
would like to remind you all that your subscription is now due please attend to this ASAP. 
 
Christmas tree sales project 
 
Expected profit about $9,800, roughly the same as in 2011. 
 
Number of trees sold by Club down by nearly 25%  to about 430 trees. Sales by Scouts up. About 80 trees unsold. 
 
Increase in sale price of trees from $50 to $60 enabled Club’s surplus to be about the same as last year. 
 
The winners of the Christmas hampers were 
               Purchaser of Christmas Treasure Trove ticket                       Bruce Hodgkins, West Pennant Hills. 
               Return customer letter                                                                Ross Law, Cheltenham     
                                                             
Greg Mellis  
 
Congratulations to Greg Mellis and his family for raising over $3200 for Children’s Hospital Bear Cottage as a result of 
the Christmas lighting and diorama display at their residence at Emu Plains. 
 
Greg and Linda have now been supporting Bear Cottage in this way for a number of years. 
 
The Club was sorry to receive a letter of resignation from Greg during the Christmas break.  
 
We wish, Greg, a Past President of the Club, and his family all the best in the future and hope that he may be able to 
join us at a lunch meeting at some future date. 
 
 



                                         CELEBRATIONS
                                Happy Birthday for last week Ken and Colin
                                Happy anniversary Mark, may you have many happy years with Sarah and the Kids




It is with regret we received the resignation of PP Greg Mellis who has been a member of our club since September
2002.
Greg’s work commitments make it difficult for him to attend meetings.
We are sorry to see you go Greg hope you will look us up when your situation changes.

Weekly newsletter 140113

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    Rotary Club ofParramatta City COMMUNITY NETWORKER ROTARY CLUB OF PARRAMATTA CITY 29/10/2012 MEETING 14/01/13 BOWELSCAN Bowelscan is a Rotary Community A Lot has happened in the world since the last issue of our newsletter firstly Service program, developed in the shooting in Newtown USA. 1982 in District 9640 and now conducted by more than 300 President Johnny sent an email to DG Brian Amey Rotary clubs across Australia. These clubs issue approximately Dear District Governor Brian Amey, 150,000 kits during their annual colorectal screening programs. On behalf of the Rotary Club of Parramatta City, District 9690 in Since Bowelscan commenced Australia, we would like to convey our sympathy and our prayers to all the more than 1500 people with bowel Rotarians in your club and community on the terrible news of events in cancer and 5,400 with polyps Newtown. have been detected. Bowelscan is essentially a public awareness program, seeking to increase Regards, community knowledge of bowel cancer and its symptoms with a view to its earlier diagnosis. Johnny Ching President The project also involves the Rotary Club of Parramatta City distribution to the public of a simple scanning kit on which is District 9690 Australia collected small specimens of faeces for laboratory analysis to detect evidence of minute Message from our beloved DG traces of internal bleeding. Hello everyone,    Bowelscan is a program No doubt you have been following the news on the bush fires on the Tasmanian  supported by Australian Rotary Peninsula. I have been in contact with my colleague DG James Wilcox of D9830  Health since 2003. Details of the program’s administration are  and the township of Dunalley has all but been wiped out with 65+ homes lost  available from: including community centre, primary school, police station and RSL Club and  they are expecting it to worsen.  Lionel Phelps • Secretary of the   National Bowelscan Committee I have had enquiries as to how we can support them and also been offered  Telephone (02) 6624 2363 • Fax (02) 6624 4803 • E-mail donations so have attached below information from James giving several  lphelps@scu.edu.au alternatives, I would suggest what they really need is monetary donations to  www.nationalbowelscan.org.au assist Rotary in helping to rebuild the communities for the future.    Please see below and I will keep you up to date with any further information,  particularly if anyone requires their donations to be Tax Deductable, in which case they can be directed through  RAWCS once they have the account set up.      Best Regards    KEITH ROFFEY  District Governor 2012 – 2013  Rotary International District 9690  From DG James Wilcox D9830 Tasmania Thanks to those that have already expressed concern and offers of support for those affected by the bushfires that have hit parts of Tasmania in recent days.
  • 2.
    Rotary Club ofParramatta City   Sadly, there is every possibility that other communities in Tasmania and around Australia will also suffer during this bushfire season.   To assist those communities in Tasmania devastated by the bushfires,  our  District Emergency Relief Fund  Committee has established  the ‘Rotary Tasmania Bushfire Appeal’ with an initial donation of $5,000 from the our  Disaster Relief fund. The Appeal will  seek to fund recovery projects that will have a long term direct influence on  affected communities. We will work closely with the Rotary clubs in those areas who have local knowledge of where  the funds can best be used.    Should any of our ‘mainland’ Rotary friends wish to support our fundraising efforts there are several options available for donations:     (a) Send a cheque to Mike Whitehouse, District Finance Manager at 42 Auburn Road, Kingston TAS 7050. Cheque  to be made payable to Rotary Tasmania Bushfire Appeal. A receipt will be issued but the donation is not eligible  for tax deductibility.     (b) Donate through the Rotary Tasmania website at www.rotary9830.org.au (donations are not eligible for tax  deductibility).    I have been advised that Rotary Australia World Community Service (RAWCS) is looking to set up a process that will enable donations through the “Rotary Australia Benevolent Society”. This donation option will provide for a receipt giving eligibility to tax deductibility. Should this option become available it will take RAWCS a few days to set up the process for donations and to provide advice through District Governors.   Regards, James. James Wilcox District Governor 2012-13 Rotary District 9830 – Tasmania, Australia   Email: jkwilcox@bigpond.net.au Mobile: 0439 911 747 www.rotary9830.org.au From Secretary Joy: The next board meeting will be 5.30pm on Wednesday 16th January – at which time we have to appoint a President for 2013/2014!   A change in menu starting from Monday for lunch. They will rotate through 4 weeks, so we get each of these hot dishes 3 times as they will change the menu each quarter.   Salad • Traditional Caesar Salad with grilled chicken • Rocket, parmesan, cucumber, tomato & onion salad with home-made dressing (with chicken or without) Hot Dishes • Butter chicken with jasmine rice & roti • Penne pasta with chicken & prosciutto in a creamy Napolitano sauce • Scotch fillet with truss tomatoes & jus served with a choice of seasonal vegetables or mash • Market fresh fish with potato mash, steamed greens & lime beurre blanc (this is the usual fish dish, however the type of fish would change each time as usual) CALENDAR OF EVENTS January 2013 14 21 28 February 2013
  • 3.
    Rotary Club ofParramatta City 4 Glenn Gardner, Polio Australia 11 Sandra Carvajal, Good return APOLOGIES   Apologies to Joy Gillette on 8837 1900 before 9.30am Monday morning.  The latest time for apologies to be made is 9.30am on Monday as that is the time Joy has to advise the hotel of  numbers.     The Club is required to pay for the number of lunches ordered. Invoices for the cost of a meal will be sent to members  who do not apologise for non attendance by 9.30am.    Keith Henning::  would like to remind you all that your subscription is now due please attend to this ASAP.    Christmas tree sales project    Expected profit about $9,800, roughly the same as in 2011.    Number of trees sold by Club down by nearly 25%  to about 430 trees. Sales by Scouts up. About 80 trees unsold.    Increase in sale price of trees from $50 to $60 enabled Club’s surplus to be about the same as last year.    The winners of the Christmas hampers were                 Purchaser of Christmas Treasure Trove ticket                       Bruce Hodgkins, West Pennant Hills.                 Return customer letter                                                                Ross Law, Cheltenham                                                                    Greg Mellis     Congratulations to Greg Mellis and his family for raising over $3200 for Children’s Hospital Bear Cottage as a result of  the Christmas lighting and diorama display at their residence at Emu Plains.    Greg and Linda have now been supporting Bear Cottage in this way for a number of years.    The Club was sorry to receive a letter of resignation from Greg during the Christmas break.     We wish, Greg, a Past President of the Club, and his family all the best in the future and hope that he may be able to  join us at a lunch meeting at some future date.      CELEBRATIONS Happy Birthday for last week Ken and Colin Happy anniversary Mark, may you have many happy years with Sarah and the Kids It is with regret we received the resignation of PP Greg Mellis who has been a member of our club since September 2002. Greg’s work commitments make it difficult for him to attend meetings. We are sorry to see you go Greg hope you will look us up when your situation changes.