Our 2nd and Final Breakfast Meeting to start the New Year
Social golf and/or dinner to be catered for by the Liverpool Greenway Rotary Club on Wed 18 Jan.
We will return to the Liverpool Catholic Club on Tues 24 Jan with normal meeting time and venue then for three weeks in a row, running up to our movie night on Wednesday 15 Feb
Under Club review you will find links to the Vietnam Vision News Letter, Our Christmas party at Cabramatta Photos, and we sadly say goodbye to Kristian Anderson.
We also wish you a Happy New Year, give you tips on the races and explore a Mexican delicacy

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The Program for Tues 13 Dec 2011 is Soldier Recovery, by Unrecovered War Casualties Unit enlisted Alan Cooper
In this segment for our Bulletin, All club members are now centurions,Ryla nominations now 2, Science Experience nominees and for Christmas we have a response from Santa and Lawyers are remembered.

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Tonight is Pride of workmanship night with more than $500.00 in prizes. We also induct George Germanos who takes over the mantle of Youngest member. VVP Rotary Getogether BBQ this Saturday, Cabramatta BBQ Sunday, Volunteers requested for School Services Awards. 3 x successful RYLA Nominees, Goverment commits to Polio Eradication. Order of Liverpool Awards announced. June Murray still in Hospital, Birthdays and anniversaries plus amazing dieting results for 1 individual.

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In this section, see a bit of what we have been up to, check out birthdays and we compare three cultural marital experiences. We think we may also have busted a few health myths

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Peter Anjos has been hard at work again and this time it’s a girl, Assistance given by Satellite Club to Anh Minh School in Saigon and now looks to assist 22 year old Ms Phetsami who has been blind since the age of 2 and has resided at a school for blind children in Laos since 1996. Also check out the Lone Ranger’s detective credentials according to Tonto and it’s about time the Irish gave some back.

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Next week’s special guest is Dr. Felix Chan from The Eggtober Foundation which has thought up a very novel way of raising funds for the treatment and prevention of Gynaecological Cancers. VVP presentation night planned for 23rd August at Bach Dung Restaurant. Certificates also received from Shelter Box Australia. Every Board Member to send me information they may want included in my weekly report. The aim is to make it as interesting and informative as possible.

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Lots happening
- ROYA on 26/8/10
- DG's visit on 31/8/10
- Golf Day on 20/10/10

Have you paid you annual dues yet?

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A lot has happened in 2 weeks

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The coldest night of the year did not deter the new president of Liverpool Greenway from attending last night’s meeting where she detailed plans for her club’s year ahead. Mrs June Young is already renowned for her organisational abilities in putting together such successful functions as The Police Officer of the Year Awards and The annual Combined Services Dinner. June is now focussing on staging The Christmas in July spectacular which will again involve the input of all three Liverpool Rotary clubs. The focus for her year as president is to bring the three Liverpool clubs closer together by means of holding

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We had another very good roll up to tonight’s meeting. I counted 26 people in attendance. These included our special guest speaker, the inspirational Colin Taylor; Pastor Colin Davidson of The Inspire Church and Poppy and Duncan, fresh from their RYPEN Camp (with their family members).

Our speaker for the night, Colin Taylor, knows a thing or two about automobiles. His life basically revolved around them, especially Chevrolet cars, a passion he shared with long time friend

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Numbers for last night’s meeting were bolstered to twenty three with the return of myself and other Vietnam Vision volunteers; Joe Cauchi, Ted Mlynarz and Jimmy Leahy. Bob Groat was unable to attend as the stomach bug he procured some eight days ago in Saigon is still preventing him from functioning on all cylinders. Many of our wives were also in attendance which made our special guest, Professor Des Richardson feel right at home. Des is no stranger to our club. Besides being a local to the area, he has visited many times previously whilst also being the recipient of research funds provided by our club.

Professor Richardson’s major contributions to cancer research are focused on understanding the role of iron in cancer cell proliferation and the development of novel anti-tumour agents known as iron chelators. Indeed, these studies have resulted in highly promising and potent anti-cancer drugs

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We again had a depleted meeting last night which was expected with 20% of our members in Vietnam with the Vietnam Vision Team, 10% touring in places between Australia, Canada and the Danube,

Domini Stuart was our guest speaker and her topic was “Challenges & Choices”.

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We had a well attended meeting last night, particularly as we currently have 6 of our Members imbedded in the jungles of Vietnam assisting the Vietnam Vision Team with the planned 400 operations to restore the sight of needy patients, I should qualify the previous statement by clarifying that our members are helping logistically, not surgically.

Our guest speaker was Daniel Doherty from MerlinFX who

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Our guest last night was Miss Kikki Tagaroulias of The Karri Aboriginal Resources Centre in Liverpool. This was the first presentation Kikki has made on behalf of the centre and we were privileged to witness it. Not a bad job either for a first timer. KARRI was established in 1999 and is a dynamic Indigenous community organisation based in Liverpool. They provide Aboriginal Child Protection Services and Community Capacity Building Programs to the Indigenous community of South-West Sydney. They develop and implement best practices in all aspects of their management and service provision and are recognised as the largest Aboriginal children’s service in NSW. Their Vision: The Indigenous community of South West Sydney will become self sufficient

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Last night, I had the pleasure of performing a number of very satisfying duties on behalf of our club. As with all other meetings this year, most our members were fittingly on hand to share the experience.

The culmination of our main fund raising effort saw the handing over of a rather substantial cheque to Drug Arm. National Fund Raising Manager, Jane Thompson and Management Team Member, Naomi Talamaivao were on hand to receive a cheque for over $54,000 from our club which will help administer their Street Outreach Service over the coming year. Drug Arm receives no government funding; therefore allowing a partnership to flourish with our club that has become mutually beneficial. The bottom line is that our club gets to stage a yearly Circus Extravaganza for children and Drug Arm receives much needed operating funds. To date, this partnership has seen in excess of $500,000 raised for Drug Arm and more than 100,000 children pass through the turnstiles of The Circus. Not a bad result in just eight short years.

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Last night our club hosted the very successful and well attended Miller TAFE Awards Presentation. These particular evenings seem to be getting bigger and better every year, so much so that Liverpool Catholic Club moved the event to one of the larger function rooms to cater for the 66 people whom were in attendance.

Our club’s association with Miller TAFE is well documented and dates back some thirty years. Who would have thought that when Liverpool West’s John Leckey, Greg Peel, Bill Keech, Tony Everett, John Mula, George Kristen and Peter Houghton sat down with TAFE administrators in 1981 to work out an awards scheme our club could administer and call our own, that it would still hold such significance so many years later? The vision of these men now sees our club firmly entrenched as a supporter of one of the districts leading teaching faculties.

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Tonight our club hosted Brett Smyth and Josh Grey of The Salvation Army run Liverpool West Youth Service. These two committed Salvos updated us on the work they have been doing with disadvantaged youth in our area through one on one counselling and organised youth camps. There is a very close bond between our club and the Liverpool West Youth Service as it is through the efforts and

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Our club has again achieved excellent attendance to our Tuesday night dinner meeting. Tonight, over 20 members and guests listened to Vice Chairman of The Australian Jockey Club, John Cornish speak on the major development which is planned for Warwick farm Race Course. As a local boy himself, John is highly enthused at the prospect of being involved in a project that is going to benefit the million or so people currently living in the Fairfield, Liverpool, Campbelltown corridor. Over 40 million dollars has been earmarked

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Last night we enjoyed the company of past District Governor Barry Thompson, from the Rotary Club of Padstow. Barry gave our club some food for thought when he discussed Rotary’s new initiative on Club leadership and administration. Although the new concept is not compulsory, yet, the ideals certainly present a case for change that may or may not be adopted in the near future. Barry highlighted the effects

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Our club had many guests to tonight’s meeting including Jane and Michelle from Drug Arm; Max Bunter, all fresh from presiding over the Circus Extravaganza; Reverend Tanifa from The Bonnyrigg Samoan Methodist Church and PDG Bill Little from Village Aid.

Reverend Tanifa was on hand to accept a cheque from Community Services Director

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Fifteen weary Rotarians and their partners returned from last weekend’s District Conference in Forster suitably impressed. All the hype and expectation came to fruition when DG Paul Reid delivered on his promise of presenting “The Greatest Show on Earth”. The 350 plus Rotarians including RI representative, Robert Crabtree,

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Last night, past member, Dougie Hutchinson took our club on a tour of his inner city warehouse, which is filled with his “old wares and rustic antiques collection”.

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Last night, over sixty members, friends and guests representing the five zone clubs (Liverpool, Liverpool West, Liverpool Greenway, Cabramatta & Wetherill Park) attended the inbound Canadian Group Study Exchange presentation at Liverpool Catholic Club.

From the outset, it was obvious that our Canadian guests were thoroughly enjoying their time here. They mingled freely with guests while displaying their gregarious nature, a point that had not gone unnoticed by those who had already met, or in some cases hosted the weary travellers.

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We promised a gastronomic feast that would tantalise the taste buds and tonight, that is exactly what The Bach Dang Restaurant delivered. Forty members and their partners from both our club and Cabramatta Club enjoyed good food, good wine and good company, before finally wishing Peter & Kay Farrell all the best, as they embark on a new phase in their lives.

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Twenty one members and guests were in attendance at tonight’s meeting. Our guests and speakers included Kristian Pengkerego and Amy Godleman from The Benevolent Societies, ‘Fostering Young Lives Programme’, and Jason Borg and his parents.

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This evening, the much anticipated ‘Great Debate’ was held at Hunts Hotel Crossroads. The eight protagonists representing the four clubs, unapologetically and unashamedly lied, cheated, defamed and did everything within their power bar commit an atrocity to convince the judge that they had the better of the argument. In the end it was the combined team of Liverpool and Liverpool Greenway who took home the bacon, and the wine. Liverpool Greenway President, Wayne Schembri mounted what could only be called subversive tactics in his efforts to debunk the Liverpool West and Cabramatta teams argument from the relative safety of his podium. In the end it was all in fun and Wayne and his club should be congratulated for making it the fun evening everyone expected. Thanks to our team which comprised, Pat Murray, David Goldston, David Butterfield and Margaret Favelle. You did us proud but maybe next year we can employ some under handed tactics of our own.

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We had a number of guests attend our last meeting which made for a very entertaining and informative evening. One of these was PDG, Mrs Jennifer Scott, an eloquent speaker who spoke about The Rotary Foundation’s efforts in advancing world understanding, goodwill and peace through the improvement of health, the support of education and the alleviation of poverty. Our club handed a cheque in the amount of $3000, which Jennifer gratefully accepted and assured would go towards advancing the principles’ of The Foundation.

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The festive season along with fun filled breakfast meetings and Golf Days are well and truly behind us. This was indicative by the amount of business ...

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Last Tuesday, we joined with members of the other two Liverpool Clubs in holding the Tri-Club Golf Day at Tree Valley Course, Crossroads. Though only...

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Today we attended a joint breakfast meeting with Wetherill Park Club. President Brian and his members were excellent hosts and Marconi Club catering s...

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Hi all and welcome to 2010, the year of The Tiger. The Christmas trees, baubles and lights have been packed away for another year. The Santa outfit is...

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This was our last club meeting at the Catholic Club for 2009. My thoughts were that most members would have already started indulging in the season’s ...

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Our last meeting, which was also The AGM, was a quiet affair. This came as a welcome respite from the hectic schedule our club has been entertaining. ...

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I write this report while thinking how great it is to be a Rotarian, especially one who also happens to be president of such a great club, Liverpool W...

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The 37th Annual General Meeting of the Rotary Club of Liverpool West Inc. will be held on 24 November 2009 at Liverpool Catholic Club commencing at 6:...

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This morning I have awoken to a particularly nasty headache, as the realisation of our club’s heavy schedule over the coming weeks has started sinking...

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The 37th Annual General Meeting of the Rotary Club of Liverpool West Inc. will be held on 24 November 2009 at Liverpool Catholic Club commencing at 6:...

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I turned up to last night’s meeting, holding onto the faint hope that our ever reliable Peter Houghton and Pat Murray had somehow concocted a guest sp...

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Last night we were entertained by Stuart Telfin, Manager of Motoring Events for “The Variety Club’s Children’s Charity Bush Bash”. Stuart delved into ...

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Last week’s meeting was transferred to a function held in conjunction with other local clubs in welcoming home the Brazilian GSE team. Catherine Ginn,...

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Our last meeting was well attended despite the inclement weather. Furthermore, our two guests, Mitchell Holden and Richard Dabinett, braved the elemen...

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Our meeting on the 8 September 2009 saw the return of our three Vietnam (VVP) vets. All were in good spirits and may I say, sporting slight tans, whic...

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Well the word had got around that Bob was back in town – oops!, I mean the president’s chair because so many members fled the city, some interstate an...

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Our last meeting was once again well attended; however a few members seem to have gone AWOL. I’m told our search and rescue team should locate them so...

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