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ROTARY CLUB OF THE ENTRANCE INC. Chartered 26th April, 1972 District 9685

Facebook; Rotary Club of The Entrance Website: http://www.rotarytheentrance.org.au

PO Box 8173 Tumbi Umbi 2261

WEEKLY BULLETIN 2016 – 2017

Volume 46 Issue 14 10th October 2017

45 years helping the local community

RI President: Ian Riseley (RC of Sandringham. Vic) (Juliet)

District Governor: Peter Ward (RC of The Entrance) (Anne)

CLUB BOARD MEMBERS

President Secretary Treasurer Gordon Crawford Con Bartsos Stan Crellin President Elect (18-19): George Clifford Foundation: Stan Crellin International: David Waterhouse Club Admin: Robin Hearder Youth: Alan Palmer Vocation/Community : Torben Nielsen Membership: Michael Sawczak Bulletin Editor: George Clifford Auditor: Community Audit Services I

Address Correspondence to: The Secretary Rotary Club of The Entrance Bulletin Editor PO Box 8173 Tumbi Umbi: 2261 [email protected]

CATERING To assist with seating could you make your apology or book in any guests to

Treasurer Stan by telephone call or SMS by noon on Monday on 4389 2153 or 0412 454 356

Child Protection – apply at WWW.check.ccyp.nsw.gov.au/Application/Applicants Use the name on your driver’s licence. Receive a number APPxxxxxx. Attend RMS office with number &

proof of ID. A WWC number ending with V will follow by E-mail eg. QQC1234567V

mailto:[email protected]

http://www.check.ccyp.nsw.gov.au/Application/Applicants


President Gordon’s Report Membership This issue will be discussed at the next Board Meeting Community Awards Nominations All appears to be in hand BBQ at Paint Weekend It was decided by show of hands that we were fully committed and could not take up this request Movie Event

“Murder On The Orient Express” This would be left to individuals to participate or not Community Raffle Members have been asked to take a book of tickets to assist in their sale Treasurer The books have been audited and a report is ready for our AGM Rotary Shirts Sponsorship

I have had a discussion with King Storage and Shelly Beach Golf Club, they agree in principle to continue shirt sponsorship.

Year 7 Sponsorship

.I am also asking the club about the possibility of sponsoring a student going to High School, to cover his/hers first year costs, I have asked local High Schools what costs are involved, Berkley Vale High School costs are $350 which covers school fee for year 7, uniforms and school stationary pack. This was put forward as an item for the Board to consider

BBQ Results

Date Wednesday 4th Oct BBQ No 11

AM Day Manager Clive Denmark PM Day Manager George Clifford

AM Pick up Stephen Hammond-Parker PM Pick up Stephen Hammond-Parker

Supplied Left Used Expected Income

Sausages 20*22 = 440 4 16*22= 352 x $2.50 $ 880.00

Loaves of Bread 43*10= 430 9 34*10+340

Drinks sold 232 124 108*$1.50 $ 162.00

Expected Income $1 042.00

Actual Income $1 095.85

Difference $ 52.85+


Community/Vocation Report Torben Awards Night: As decided at our meeting do decide meeting formats, it was decided for special meetings such as changeover and awards nights, be a formal style of meeting. I have received 6 nominations, trophies have been ordered and will be ready for pick up at Bay Village Saturday Oct 14. Agenda will be: Welcoming special guests Gordon Crawford Rotary thanks Alan Palmer Four Way Test Martin Davis Toast Peter Lethbridge Rotary International Toast Stan Crellin Response to Rotary Toast PDG John Wakefield 1st Dinner Course Presentation of Awards DGE Susan Wakefield 2nd Course and coffee

The Program

Day Date Activity Time Venue

Sat 14/10/2017 Spin & Win 10.30am to 1pm

Tues 17/10/2017 Community Awards Night 6.oo pm for 6.30 pm Mingara

Wed 18/10/2017 Bunnings BBQ

Fri 20/10/2017 Spin & Win 10.30am to 1pm

Tues 24/10/2017 Speaker to be announced 6.oo pm for 6.30 pm Mingara


Thur 26/10/2017 Board Meeting 7.00pm Stan Crellin’s abode

Social Meeting Event Bare foot bowls Entrance Bowling Club


Tues 7/11/2017 Trivial Evening – with David Waterhouse 6.oo pm for 6.30 pm Mingara


11/11/2017 Spin & Win 10.30am to 1pm



Fri 17/11/2017 Spin & Win 10.30am to 1pm

Tues 21/11/2017 Business Meeting 6.oo pm for 6.30 pm Mingara


Thur 23/11/2017 Board Meeting 7.00pm



5/12/2017 Join Erina for Christmas Party ???


Tues 12/12/2017 AGM 6.oo pm for 6.30 pm Mingara


19/12/2017 No Meeting Christmas Break





What To Do About Zombie Nonprofit Organizations?by

Michael Brand | 2:06 pm | Article | 5 comments

In my work with nonprofits it can feel like I’m in the Land Of The Living Dead with all the zombie

organizations I encounter. At times it feels like the world is awash in nonprofits which lumber on with

grossly underpaid employees and dysfunctional infrastructure. Our communities are chock full of

organizations with caring but demoralized staff, outdated information systems, semi-functional Boards

Of Directors.

So why aren’t more leaders asking themselves about their own relevancy. If a nonprofit cannot raise

enough capital to pay employees adequately as well as maintain a functional infrastructure, then perhaps

it is time for the Board to ask, ‘If we can’t be first class, is it time to get out of the business?”

In the Age Of Austerity nonprofits must continually surround themselves with different kinds of talent and

ultimately discuss if the community would be better served by either merging or else relocating programs

and closing up shop.

It’s the Board Of Directors!

In the private sector, companies frequently reach the limits of growth in their current

state and face the choice of either gradual decay or of selling the operation. They

can’t, on their own, acquire the resources to take the enterprise to the next level of

competitive excellence. Unless they find a partner or buyer, the company eventually

employs round after round of cost cutting: gutting professional development,

sticking with antiquated equipment, eliminating employee benefits, job consolidations, layoffs, etc. This

continues until a fire sale or bankruptcy.

Yet in the nonprofit sector this continual decay never seems to reach the terminal stage. Organizations are

able of secure just enough contracts or donations to barely limp along in a somnolent fashion. Not quite

dead, but far from vibrant. These are our Zombie Nonprofits.

Organizations are people, yet the gross under-investment in human capital in

Zombies is a continuing black mark on the entire sector. The sense that

professional development is a frill is stunning after all we’ve learned about

management, yet these investments are usually the first on the chopping

block. The emotional desire to ‘put all resources into services’ is noble, but

ultimately counter-productive. It’s better to have a first class staff manage a

second class program than having a second class staff manage a first class program.

The second area which suffers is technology infrastructure. It is not uncommon to experience a nonprofit

where the hardware is antiquated and software systems are disjointed: case management software can’t

talk to fiscal, which can’t talk to evaluation teams which can’t talk to senior management. The result being

a single client’s information may be entered 3 or 4 times resulting in huge inefficiencies. The point here is if a

nonprofit cannot raise the resources to adequately invest in its people and technology, then it’s time to consider getting out

of the business.

http://michaelbrand.org/author/michaelb/

http://michaelbrand.org/category/article/

http://michaelbrand.org/the-problem-of-zombie-organizations/#respond

http://michaelbrand.org/surrounding-yourself-with-talen/


To be clear, this is not a decision an Executive Director is likely to recommend, research indicates the self-

interest is too great. This is a Board responsibility. They must honestly evaluate the organization and

determine if it’s time to relocate programing to another organization which can provide the proper staff

and technology support.

In the end it’s the public which suffers from Zombie Nonprofits.

Meals on Wheels started in London during WW2 and started in South Australia 60 years ago.

The group have 3 tenets

We Nourish

We Care

We Strengthen Communities

The Groups mission statement is

Nutritional assistance and social support to local seniors and the disadvantaged

Points of note

Meal prices range from $2.90 to $7.50

Lunch is provided 4 days a week

They now deliver meals for cats and dogs

There is a community restaurant in Bateau Bay

They need people to assist in expanding their data base

New services include o Furry friends o Combined home services o Coast cuisine o Merry makers

An old friend of mine – a terrific bloke I was fortunate enough to tour both New Zealand and England with playing cricket for Australia in the IFCR (International Federation of Cricketing Rotarians) passed away some time ago. However, he advised us all to take time out to smell the roses in life. This dog may not know a rose but he has the right idea.

Guest Speaker John Paster

Meals on Wheels


Wyong Drama Group inc. performs ‘Allo ‘Allo!

There will be laughter and music, skulduggery and magic and a cabaret for all to savour and enjoy.

November brings to The Art House the classic British comedy ’Allo ‘Allo! by Jeremy

Lloyd and David Croft. Directors Howard Oxley and Duncan Mitchell are making it a

"Night out in World War II". As we did last year, we are teaming with the Fab Fakes

Art Exhibition hoping to attract elite audience from all over the Coast.

Arrive early for the music of the War era and enjoy the art exhibition, then enter the

world of madcap humour with our café proprietor as he tries to fool not only the

Germans, but the Gestapo, the French Resistance and of course his beautiful

songstress of a wife Edith.

Playing René is Howard Oxley, (well known for all his Basil Fawlty episodes) a

veteran comic, with his wife Edith, Ruth Jordon. These two have been doing plays

together in Wyong since 1984! With Duncan Mitchell (Herr Flick) and Marc Calwell

(Gruber), also veterans of the group, and a host of others, the cast has depth and

quality guaranteed to please any audience.

Our aim at Wyong Drama Group is to provide reasonably priced entertainment for

our community against rising fees at The Art House in an area crying out for live

theatre but constrained by the rising costs. If we “fill the house” we can do it! So

please come and enjoy our show and help us continue the 65 year tradition of

Wyong Drama Group providing great live Theatre for the Coast.

http://www.wyongdramagroup.com.au/CampaignProcess.aspx?A=Link&VID=17468494&KID=79747&LID=317688



TO BOOK RING THE ART HOUSE: 4334 1485

Northlakes Toukley Rotary Club is hosting an End Polio Now - Movie 'Murder on the Orient Express' on Wednesday at the Lake Haven Event Cinema 7pm on Wednesday 9th November 2017 including lucky door prizes. We would extend to your members and friends an invitation to join us in this special event to assist with the

eradication of polio. Double Click on the photo, use the scroll on your mouse and see the slide show. This is worth supporting Regards David Knight President 2017/18 Northlakes Toukley Rotary Club



Are YOU Attending ? While some members will be on Bunnings BBQ duty that day it is a great opportunity for others in our club to be part of a great day. Talk to David Waterhouse if you are going – he may have a small job for some of us.

The Late Bob Hope and some thoughts

ON TURNING 70 'I still chase women, but only downhill.'

ON TURNING 80

'That's the time of your life when even your birthday suit needs pressing.'

ON TURNING 90

'You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.'

ON TURNING 100 'I don't feel old. In fact, I don't feel anything until

noon. Then it's time for my nap.'

ON GIVING UP HIS EARLY CAREER, BOXING 'I ruined my hands in the ring. The referee kept

stepping on them.'

Oct 14 Michael Sawczak

Oct 16 Anne Cantrill


SPIN & WIN ROSTER Please note: Times are 10.30 am ‘til 1pm

Saturday October 14 Martin Davies Barbara Davies George Clifford Torben Nielsen Friday October 20 Robin Hearder Stephen Hammond-Parker Gordon Crawford Torben Nielsen Saturday November 11 Con Bartsos Stan Crellin Clive Denmark Torben Nielsen Friday November 17 Martin Davies Barbara Davies Peter Lethbridge Torben Nielsen Saturday December 2 Stephen Hammond-Parker Robin Hearder David Waterhouse Con Bartsos Torben Nielsen Saturday December 9 George Clifford Gordon Crawford

Stan Crellin Clive Denmark

Torben Nielsen Dated Sept 18


BUNNINGS BBQ ROSTER As at Sept 12

October

First Shift – Morning

Times: Day Manager 7.30 am to 1pm Others 8am to 1pm

Date Day Manager 2IC Helper Reserve 1

Wed 4/10/17 Michael Sawczak Con Bartsos Inner Wheel Stephen H-P Wed 11/10/17 Clive Denmark David Waterhouse Peter Lethbridge Stephen H-P

Wed 18/10/17 George Clifford Peter Lethbridge Gordon Crawford Stephen H-P

Wed 25/10/17 Robin Hearder Con Bartsos Gordon Crawford Stephen H-P

Second Shift – Afternoon

Time: 1pm to 4pm Date Day Manager 2IC Helper Reserve 1

Wed 4/10/17 Clive Denmark Gordon Crawford Inner Wheel Stephen H=P Wed 11/10/17 George Clifford Martin Davies Barbara Davies Stephen H-P

Wed 18/10/17 Robin Hearder David Aldermann Stan Crellin Stephen H-P

Wed 25/10/17 Michael Sawczak Clive Denmark Stan Crellin Stephen H-P

THE FOUR WAY TEST Of the things we think, say or do:

Is it the TRUTH? Is it FAIR to all concerned?

Will it build GOODWILL and better FRIENDSHIPS? Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?

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