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Club News
24 July, 2022
 
 
 
~ This week's host and speaker ~
Karin Van der Walt

As the Conservation and Science Advisor based at Otari Native Botanic Garden, Karin is involved in a broad range of projects including biodiversity conservation, ex situ plant conservation and research. She specializes in seed banking, cryopreservation and threatened plant management with much of her time invested in conserving New Zealand's plants threatened by invasive pathogens.

Karin is going to speak to our club about a Kauri Project.

 
Please ensure your registration includes any special guests you are bringing, or any meal requirements for the Wellington Club's Chefs.
 
If the Chefs don't know what you want, they cannot be expected to make it for you....  

Member Duties 

For the meeting at The Wellington Club at 7am on 27 July:

 

                                  Desk -- Hadleigh            Opening Thought -- Eden                          
                                   Greeting -- Brent            Introduction --  Everard                                
                                        Buy the Box -- Bill            Thanking -- Rick                                                      
                              Club Reporter -- David B            Parting Thought --  Philipa                                                                                                                                                                
Please contact Brent to arrange a replacement if you are unable to complete your duty this week 
Notices
 
Waitangi Markets
 
Club members have stepped forward but we still need one more person for each of the three shifts on Sunday 31 July.
Please email John to volunteer. Early shift is 7.30am – 9.30am. Middle is 9.30 – 11.30am and late is 11.30am – 1.30pm.
Easy and fun work and a tidy earner for the club.
 
 
Ride the Train to End Polio is back!
 
On Sunday 4 September, a Steam train will be departing Paekakariki on a return trip to Taihape. The train will stop in Levin, Palmerston North and Marton, if you'd like to hop off and enjoy these locales. Tickets are $160pp and can be booked here. Get in quick, as these events often sell out!
 
 
 
 
Goal Setters
 
Secure your tickets now!
The Goal Setters Breakfast is one of our key events for the year, where our club really shines. Please show your support for our club and the four very deserving winners for this year by taking yourself and a friend in lieu of attending our usual breakfast meting on August 11.
 
 
Tree Planting Part 2 
 
 It’s now time for the second half of this important work – to plant the other 250 trees in Tawa on  Sunday 14 August at 1pm. If you would like more info, and to take part, please click here.
 
 
Darryl's Column
 
If any of the below three points are you, please contact Darryl.
--  you know of any Ukranian families in the process of resettling,
 
--are thinking about RYLA - and know a good candidate
-- you are interested in supporting our interactors.
 
 
It's that time again!
 
It's the last meeting of the month, which means it's collection day!
 
Please bring items for the Wellington City Mission - anything is appreciated, but the items most needed this month are tinned fish; baked beans and spaghetti; milk powder and long life milk; toiletries and laundry products.
                      In case you missed it...
Visiting the Hungry Side of Town
 Members of the club went to what singer Johnny Cash famously called “hungry side of town” for their breakfast and a reality check this week
   
John Bishop reports.
Read more...
Not saying that size matters, but Rotary is the biggest....Just Sayin'
John has held numerous Rotary roles that have taken him from California to Chicago and Gallipoli.
 
He took us on what he called a Rotary Ramble, an informative but fun reflection on things he had noticed on his Rotary journey.
 
Brenda Lazelle reports.
Read more...
The future looks good!
   Events, Meetings and Speakers we have to look forward to include:  
 
  • Monday 25 July: John McKinnon - former NZ Ambassador to China presenting to RCW
  • Wednesday 27 July: Karin Van der Walt: WCC's Kauri Project
  • Wednesday 3 August: Ralph Stewart, CEO of Lifetime Retirement Trust.
  • Saturday 6 August: Ale & Gravy WOAP at Garage Project Tap Room - Details here
  • Wednesday 10 August: No club meeting 
  • Thursday 11 August: Goal Setters breakfast with Paula Tesoriero - Disability Rights Commissoner - info here. 
  • Sunday 14 August: Tree Planting with Friends of Tawa Bush Round 2 (details and registration here).
  • Wednesday 17 August: Duane Kayle - Sport, Politics and Societal Change 
  • Wednesday 24 August: Richie Hill - Collaboration and greenwashing
  • Sunday 4 September: Ride the Train to end Polio - Details and tickets available here
  • Wednesday 14 September: Club Forum 
  • Monday 26 September: Panel Discussion on Ukraine - RCW @ The James Cook
  • Friday 30 September: Charity Auction
  • 27-31 May 2023: The 2023 Rotary International Convention in Melbourne, Australia - "Imagine What's Next" - Click here for details & registration       
**Please note, black & red items are hosted by PNRC. Items in other colours are hosted externally
 

Object of Rotary

The Object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and foster:

  • FIRST: The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service;
  • SECOND: High ethical standards in business and professions; the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations; and the dignifying of each Rotarian’s occupation as an opportunity to serve society;
  • THIRD: The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian’s personal, business, and community life;
  • FOURTH: The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.

 
Club Welfare Officers
 
David and Linda are available to provide any support needed to help members and their families who are unwell or are in distress.
 
Please feel free to contact them for a chat, or if you are needing help.
 
    David Barnes: 0273544137,                                                              Linda Wellington: 021512489
    david.barnes.s@gmail.com                                                                    lindaw@waterford.co.nz
 

Predator Free Waterfront Trapping Schedule

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

Date

Trappers

28 May

Jeff Lee

Marc Rands

11 June

David Shackleton

James & Twyla Moran

25 June

 Howard Tong

 Jenny Flannaghan Tong

9 July

Rick Hughes

Eden Skipper

23 July

Brent Gerrard 

Jeff Lee

6 Aug

Peter Whittington 

Steve Lawton

20 Aug

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
 
 
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.
 
 
Noho Haumaru (Stay safe)
See you on Wednesday!