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Day: Usually on Tuesday Morning for Breakfast Meeting
Time: 7:15am - 8:30am
Location: Piato Restaurant 123 Blues Point Road, McMahons Point NSW
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We welcome new members and visitors.
We are men and women who meet regularly in North Sydney for fellowship, networking and breakfast! It's a great way to make new friends. We come from many walks of life and backgrounds with a common goal - service to the community (local and worldwide) through fellowship.
Our meetings are both informative and informal, with interesting and varied speakers.
They finish punctually to allow us all to continue our busy days.
North Sydney Sunrise
We are men and women who meet regularly in North Sydney for fellowship, networking and breakfast!
It's a great way to make new friends. We come from many walks of life and backgrounds with a common goal - service to the community (local and worldwide) through fellowship.
OUR NEXT SPEAKER
30 April 2024 - Navy at Gallipoli
Speaker - Noel Phelan
Come and hear Noel look into the role of the Navy at Gallipoli.
He will cover
- An overview of WW I in 1914/1915 and the role of our RAN ships under the command of the RN. The decision by Churchill to attack Constantinople and stop it joining the AXIS forces.
- The Navy attacks on the Dardanelles forts.
- The landings.
- The RAN Bridging Train. Wharves and dockyards had to be built so supplies and soldiers could be landed and the wounded evacuated.
- The role of AE2 – our second submarine.
- The evacuation. This was done at night in secrecy in December by over 100 ships without casualties.
Australian forces were first in and last out at Gallipoli. The historian Charles Bean described the ANZAC spirit using the following words.
“Endurance, courage, ingenuity, resourceful, good humour, mateship and loyal”.
Noel Phelan's first career was as a science and mathematics teacher. He then moved into IT with IBM where he spent 25 years in various technical and management positions. He has been a volunteer guide at the Maritime Museum for several years and enjoys showing visitors over HMAS Vampire, HMAS Advance, HMAS Onslow and First Lady. Noel is also the team leader for the museum speakers.
Guests are always welcome.
FEATURED PROJECT
Woodside Sanctuary
The Rotary Club of North Sydney Sunrise (RCNSS) is expanding Rotary’s humanitarian reach internationally to endorse a project for Woodside Sanctuary in Johannesburg, South Africa – a home for profoundly intellectually and physically disabled. Founded in 1955 with the help of Rotarians, Woodside is at imminent risk of closure through lack of funds – after 68 years.
Today, Woodside is home to 84 profoundly intellectually and physically disabled residents (aged 3-67 years) who require lifelong care, where they receive tailored multidisciplinary care - nursing, stimulation (mental and physical) and well-being programs. Many have known no other home. Woodside is also a training hub for students completing practical coursework requirements (Social Work, Care Workers, and in some years OT), in this way spreading awareness about disability and uplifting standards of care in the sector.
Funds raised will enable Woodside to continue the service they provide to the most vulnerable -– with augmented advantage of foreign exchange to the Rand.
The project is registered with RAWCS (Rotary Australia World Community Service) with benefits of financial governance (donations accounted in their systems/ transferred directly to Woodside); tax deductibility for Australian donations and receipts issued by RAWCS; and extending networking reach in Australia, including to the South African community.
Please spread the word. They need a helping hand. To read more please have a look at:
Website: 'Friends of Woodside Sanctuary’ (with links to Woodside’s appeal, audited financials, cost of care per resident, annual report etc on Donate page) or click on Facebook Page
For more information please contact:
Project Manager: Rotarian Patricia Veale
Mobile: +61 412 570 169
email: patriciaveale9@gmail.com
FORTHCOMING EVENTS
Time 7:15am
Breakfast meetings
Location: Piato Restaurant, 123 Blues Point Rd, McMahon’s Point.
- 30 Apr, Noel Phelan, Navy at Gallipoli
- 07 May, Geoff Pritchard, The Petrov Affair
If you want to attend click on the "Meeting and Contact Info" button in the heading and we will forward you an invitation.
Club Forum
Location: Piato Restaurant, 123 Blues Point Rd, McMahon’s Point.
Breakfast Meetings where we discuss and agree the organisation/projects to be supported and our plans to provide resources and/or funds to achieve it.
Time:7.15am
- 12 Mar, Club Forum & Board Meeting
- 23 Apr, Club Forum & Board Meeting
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