Greetings from Melbourne! It’s a bit chilly over here but Sue and I are enjoying our break away to spend 10 days with our granddaughter – hence a brief report from me this week. Ever so grateful that we have the chance to travel across the ditch after 14 months of border closure.
Thank you, David, for filling in for me and presiding over the breakfast meeting last week.
For those of you who attended the launch of Mana Tangata People of Action on 12th May at the National Library I hope you enjoyed the event and found it uplifting. Thank you, Bev, Howard, Peter, Marc, David, Rob, and Warwick, for volunteering to assist in the exhibition that followed on Friday and Saturday.
As I reported at an earlier breakfast meeting following a decision at the April board meeting, Port Nicholson Rotary has agreed to join the Carbon Calculator project, an initiative of the Rotary Club of Wellington the purpose of which is to measure our carbon footprint which of course is a step towards identifying measures to reduce our carbon emissions. Marc Rands will lead a team including Tori Triegaardt and Eden Skipper. Members will be asked to assist by responding to questionnaires.
The Board meets on Monday, 17th May. One of the matters on the agenda will be a decision on the distribution of the funds raised from the charity auction to be donated to The Children’s Hospital and the Malaghan Institute. I will update on that and other board matters at the breakfast meeting on Wednesday.
We have a few exciting social and community events coming up which I hope many of you will attend:
- 20th May - social evening at One Red Dog.
- 24th May - Rotary Club of Wellington centennial gala dinner at Parliament
- 11th June - Friday Flashback at Waitoa Brewery.
- 13th June - community tree planting in Tawa.
- 23rd June – informal breakfast meeting at Leuven
- 7th July- Changeover at Wellington Club
For the 13th year in a row, The Rotary Foundation received a four-star rating — the highest possible — from Charity Navigator, an independent evaluator of charities in the United States, who determines its ratings by examining how non-profits use their funds, how sustainable their programs are, and how well they follow industry standards of transparency and accountability. It is always reassuring to know that our annual giving to The Foundation ($7,800 this year) is used effectively and meaningfully.
The Rotary International Convention which was supposed to be held in Taipei, Taiwan this year will now be a virtual event due to Covid-19. This will be held 12-16 June and offers an opportunity for members to experience the event. Please register in the by clicking on this link if you wish to attend and learn more about Rotary.
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