This week, the Right Reverend Dr Eleanor Sanderson, a long time associate and friend of our club was awarded with the distinguished Paul Harris Fellow.
Ellie has achieved a Master of Development Studies with distinction at VUW, a PhD in Geography, and a Masters in Theology.
She is the first female Bishop Anglican Diocese in New Zealand, and her life demonstrates the Rotary Principles, with a commitment to an understanding and peaceful environment.
Ellie joins a prestigious group of Paul Harris Fellows in our club.
~ This week's speaker ~
Wayne Gordon
Rotary International is considering a project to address membership, public image, communication, leadership, and fundraising challenges to help define a more sustainable future for Rotary.
Our region, or Zone 8, which includes Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands, has been selected as one of two potential regions from across the globe to pilot a regional approach to governance.
Wayne Gordon is coming to our Club to talk to us about what this might look like.
On Sunday 4 September, a Steam train will be departing Paekakariki on a return trip to Taihape, with VIP Conductor Professor Michael Baker, world renowned epidemiologist!!
The train will stop at various locales en route if you'd like to hop off. Tickets are $160pp and can be booked here. Get in quick, as these events often sell out!
See Joy for more info, and if you would like to sit as a group.
It's that time again!
Please remember to bring in any food donations for the Wellington City Mission to our meeting this week.
Rotary International Conference 2023
The RI conference next year will be held in Melbourne!
Breakout sessions can help inspire other attendees to create new ideas for projects, fundraising, strengthening membership, and more! Help us build a breakout program that celebrates all Rotary has to offer.
Do you have an idea or project that you want to share with other Rotary members? The proposal deadline is Friday, 30 September 2022.
We need your help to operate the Waitangi markets carpark on Sundays 4 and 11 September. We operate in teams of two or three in three shifts of two hours each. All we have to do is collect $2 from each car and direct them to a carpark. Easy and fun work. Please contact John Bishop to pick up a shift, either from 7.30am, 9.30am or 11.30am.
Do you smell bacon?
On October 27, we will be hosting the annual Bacon Butties for Polio stand at the Wellington Railway Station. We would love your help, either making butties, or encouraging donations from passers by. Anyone and everyone is welcome to support the cause.
It was lovely to see so many familiar faces and former members of RCPN at the last Meeting to share Bishop Eleanor Sanderson’s delight at being awarded a Paul Harris Fellow. A regular attendee at the Club when she first arrived in New Zealand around 2005, she was appointed Assistant Bishop of Wellington in 2017 and has been serving the Wellington Community in that capacity since then. In 2018 Ellie was made an Honorary Member of our Club.
She has just been appointed Bishop of Hull in Yorkshire. As she was born in the Diocese of York, she is, in effect, returning home with her husband, Tim, and their two boys, Joe and Zach. Great work on organising everything so quickly, Christopher.
Thank you to Joy for keeping us on track with the Polio Train arrangements for 4 September. I hope a few more people can go. If not, there is always the opportunity of helping out with the WCC Parking. John would be grateful of hearing from you!
It seems as though a number of Club members have suffered slip damage in properties in Wellington or elsewhere. Empathy and best wishes with EQC…
Enjoy the ‘big yellow’ set to grace our sky this week at last!
Dawn
Hey, Dennis!
Dennis is one of our intrepid Rat Trappers, enjoying the sun last weekend.
This week Paula and Dennis found four mice in our ongoing Rat Trapping mission!
Please get in touch with Rick Hughes if you would like to contribute to our efforts supporting the Wellington Predator Free initiative.
Richie Hill from the Paper Street Tree company spoke to the club on 24 August about the need for collaboration between local councils, businesses and the community to get good solutions to issues like climate change.
On Wednesday 17 August, former Paralympian Duane Kale returned to speak to our club. Duane competed at the Atlanta 1996 Paralympic Games where he won a staggering four gold medals, a silver and a bronze.
Duane came to speak to our club about sport, politics, and societal change.
**Please note, black & red items are hosted by PNRC. Items in other colours are hosted externally
The 9940 flag has made its way home! Look out for it at some of our upcoming events.
Rotary's Four-Way Test
The Four-Way Test is a nonpartisan and nonsectarian ethical guide for Rotarians to use for their personal and professional relationships. The test has been translated into more than 100 languages, and Rotarians recite it at club meetings:
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?
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
Please text Fraser Ebbett (WCC) 021 765 694 when you arrive and leave the site.
Date
Trappers
3 Sep
Howard Tong
Jenny Flannaghan Tong
17 Sep
Brent Gerrard
Jeff Lee
1 Oct
Steve Lawton
Marc Rands
15 Oct
James Moran
Eden Skipper
29 Oct
Paula McKnight
Dennis Small
12 Nov
David Shackleton
Ross Buxton
26 Nov
Peter Whittington
Rick Hughes
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
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