Club News 30.1.22 (Jan 29, 2022)

New Zealand is under the Covid19 Red Traffic Light Setting.

Within this setting we can still meet as a club in person.

If you have cold or flu symptoms, please stay at home.

You can join us via Zoom if you aren't comfortable leaving the house.

Please continue to wear your face masks, unless you are sitting at your table.

~ This week's Speaker ~

Crystal Stewart Wellington Prisoners Aid

2 February 2022

Prisoners Aid provides support to ex-offenders who need help with practical day-to-day issues. They assist with setting up bank accounts, accessing WINZ benefits, health appointments, identifying employment and volunteer opportunities and support with day to day activities, as well as a raft of other important areas prisoners and their whanau benefit from.

Are you r egistered to attend??

Prisoner Aid website

Member Duties

For the meeting at The Wellington Club at 7am on 2 February:

Desk -- Warwick Opening Thought -- Mark C

Greeting -- David S Introduction -- Kamini

Buy the Box -- David B Thanking -- Linda

Club Reporter -- Brent Parting Thought -- Andre

Please contact Brent to arrange a replacement if you are unable to complete your duty this week

RCPN supports Tonga

Following the recent volcano eruption in Tonga, Rotary distributed 538 Emergency Response Kits with the help of the Rotary club in Tonga.

The Rotary Club of Port Nicholson is providing funding to support this but if club members want to contribute, please pay your donation into the Trust account and add Tonga as the reference.

Check out this link for updates on progress

Rotary District News

Our two South Island districts 9970 and 9989 will become D9999 from 1 July 2022.

Rotary International
have asked the North Island Districts to come up with a Redistricting plan by the 30 June 2022.

Help needed -

Waitangi Markets

This is not a drill!!

Please volunteer a small portion of your weekend to help our club provide the service we have committed to!

Please go to the sign up page if you are able to help out at the Waitangi Markets for a couple of hours on a Sunday.

ESRAG Oceania's January Newsletter is out

The Environmental Sustainability Rotary Action Group of Oceania have released a Newsletter to start the year. Read it for updates and projects that align with Rotary's newest area of focus

Read the SustainAbilty News

Welfare Officers

RCPN now has two Welfare Officers who are available to provide any support needed to help members and their families who are unwell or are in distress.

Please contact us at any time.

We are available to chat, find help, or help directly with anything essential such as groceries, phone calls,

visits, prescription pick-ups etc.

David Barnes: 0273544137,

david.barnes.s@gmail.com

Linda Wellington: 021 512 489

lindaw@waterford.co.nz

RCPN on Zoom

Due to our country moving into the red traffic light setting, we are aware this may influence how comfortable you feel with being out and about in the community. You can join us on Zoom, by clicking this link or the one at the top of this bulletin.

The club sponsored Fabian Johnson, from Wellington School of Architecture, to attend RYLA this week.
Warren and Marc attended the event’s RYLA BBQ on Friday evening to meet the participants. RYLA is an
experiential live-in programme designed to help young people develop their teamwork and
communication skills and fulfil their potential as leaders. Warren and Darryl are past RYLA participants!

The secret to a long and happy marriage may or may not be found by clicking this link...

A big thank you to Marie Whitney for sharing the Christmas Rocky Road recipe!

The RCPN Charitable Trust will soon make a donation to the Rotary “1 Million Masks” project

You can buy a box of 10 masks for $20 per box.

Deposit your funds into the Port Nicholson Charitable Trust Bank Account 03-0502-0407484-00 by Friday 4 February 2022, with your NAME and MASK(1,2 or how many boxes you require).

See more about the masks..

In case you missed it...

We welcomed two new members!!

Andy Ellis and Hadleigh Petherick, our newest members with President Marc

Last week's speaker

Andy Ellis talks about NZ's Mental Health

Our speaker Andy Ellis, is one of our newest members who was inducted today! He is responsible for running about 30 different government websites related to social harm and mental health issues and he has taken a leadership role across a number of different health campaigns.

As an IT professional with real life experience of our mental health system, he brings his skill set of software development, marketing and digital technologies to help to ease the strain on the current mental health system. But how can technology help? One in four of us experience mental health challenges at some stage in their lives. It’s part of being human. But we have such a shortage of health professionals with long wait times for services, using technology for good can reduce the demand and ease some of the pressure.

Member Profile: John Bishop

I am a more or less retired journalist and I have been a member of the club for 12 years serving as
President a few years ago. Currently I am one of the team of reporters for the weekly club bulletin and I
also organise the roster of members for the carpark at the Waitangi Market when it is our turn to collect
the money. My wife Rosemary is a lawyer and we live in Karori with our cat Bogart.

Meetings and Speakers we have to look forward to include:

Wednesday 2nd February: Crystal Stewart - Wellington Prisoners Aid
Wednesday 9th February: Fabin Johnson - RYLA 2022
Wednesday 16th February: Alison Cadman Dwell - Community Housing

If you have feedback for the Editors, or content you would like included in the club bulletin, please send it to rcpnbulletin@gmail.com by midnight on Saturday to ensure its inclusion.

Predator Free Waterfront Trapping Schedule

Please text Fraser Ebbett (WCC) 021 765 694 when you arrive and leave the site.

Date	Trappers
12 Feb	Jeff Lee	Marc Rands
26 Feb	Eden Skipper	Brent Gerrard
19 Mar	Howard Tong	Jenny Flannaghan Tong
2 April	Steve Lawton	James & Twyla Moran
16 April	Ross Buxton	Rick Hughes
30 April	Peter Whittington	David Shackleton
14 May	Paula McKnight	Dennis Small

As always, if the dates above do not suit you, please feel free to swap.

Thank you for your help with this important club project