John joined the Invercargill South Club in 1994, and has enjoyed a number of Rotary roles since then, including leading a GSE Team to D5220 in California in 2003, leading the Australasian RYLA Team to Gallipoli in April 2005 for the 90th anniversary of the Allied landing at ANZAC Cove, and was District Governor in 2012-13. The list of his involvements go on, but h may want to share this in person!
John is bringing us some "Rotary Ramblings. Just a collection of Rotary trivia/history/stuff that I’ve observed over the years".
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 13 July:
Desk -- James Opening Thought -- Mike
Greeting -- Joy Introduction -- Linda
Buy the Box -- David B Thanking -- Anne
Club Reporter -- Brenda Parting Thought -- Everard
Please contact Brent to arrange a replacement if you are unable to complete your duty this week
Notices
Ride the Train to End Polio is back!
On Sunday 4 September 2022 the Steam train will be departing Paekakariki at 7.50am 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!
RCPN Book Club
Reminder to our bibliophiles, the RCPN book club is on Wednesday 5.15pm for a 5.30 start Wednesday 13 June, level 6 of the Wellington Club.
This month's theme is crime writing. Bring along your favourite mystery thriller to discuss or an alternate book to share.
Meet Mayoral Candidates at RWC
On 16 September, the Rotary Club of Wellington are featuring a forum with our Mayoral Candidates. Contact President Derek if you are interested to attend in person or zoom in.
LAST CHANCE
TO ORDER ROTARY BRANDED MASKS
These masks are comfortable, and offer incredibly high breathability as well as high protection. You can buy 3 RotZary Branded masks, in either Black or White for $20. A donation of $8.50 from each sale will go to the Wellington Children's Hospital. These are available by clicking this link.Make your order by Tuesday 5pm. *Image shown is not of actual product, but is close!
Rotarian Needed!!
Interact is Rotary's service club for people ages 14 to 18. They are self sufficient and self governing, but need a Rotarian to oversee them.
If you are interested in supporting our interactors, please contact Darryl.
Book Fair this week
Click on the image above to see times and dates. 50% of profits will assist Ukrainian Refugees
Save the date for a Special Breakfast
On 20 July, our breakfast meeting will be hosted by The Wellington City Mission. The usual cost for breakfast will be donated to WCM, who will feed us, then take us on a tour of their Social Supermarket.
Last time we generated over $1000, let's do it again!!!
Bacon Buttie Buddy
If you have a bit of spare time and can take over facilitating the organisation and sales of our World Famous Bacon Butties, raising money for the fight against Polio each year, please contact David. He has all the information you need, and will offer ongoing support, with Linda.
Dream Big!
RI are searching for qualified Rotarians and Rotaractors to apply their leadership skills to serve on a committee in the 2023-24 Rotary year. Click here for more info.
The Oceania Chapter meeting will be held on 21 July at 7.30pm AEST. Zoom in here.
Let’s plant trees to help our planet!
Tree Planting Part 2 - Sunday 14 August 1pm
A small group of us planted 250 native trees in Tawa during the first half of our mission to plant 500 native trees this year with the Friends of Tawa Bush Reserves. Huge thanks to everyone who joined the mission. We were very fortunate to have 8 wonderful Interactors working with us! 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.
Our goal is to keep building on what we have done in the four previous years planting native trees in Tawa. This is helping to regenerate our native Bush to provide habitat and food for the increasing numbers of native birds, to make lovely walking areas for us all, and to help slow down climate change. Everyone is very welcome including family and friends – the more the merrier! Interact and Rotaract members are very welcome to join us! We had a huge turnout from Interact last year and again in June this year. We’ve now planted about 2200 trees.
If you would like to take part, please contact Lisa King by email or on 021 265 6220), or click here. Lisa is Director of our Community Services Committee and also a member of Friends of Tawa Bush Reserves so she is coordinating our Club’s participation. Let Lisa know your mobile phone number and email address so she can send you full details about the tree planting and so she can contact you if we need to defer the tree planting for any reason. Thank you for helping us with this important initiative.
The future looks good!
Events, Meetings and Speakers we have to look forward to include:
Monday 11 July: RC of Sydney - Online discussion: "The role of Bees". Register here.
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.