Rotary Club of Port Nicholson Bulletin 8 November 2018
President's Message
On Monday night Club Presidents from clusters 1 and 2 (representing 8 Wellington Rotary clubs and Rotaract Wellington) met with our Assistant Governors, Lisa King and Linda Wellington for a combined meeting.
We are considering ideas for a joint cluster project, possibly including cluster 3 (four clubs outer-Wellington city). It’s early days yet, but some of the ideas we have been exploring are:
Partnering with Big Brothers Big Sisters Charitable Trust to support their youth mentoring programme for ages 6-18 years, alongside the Police
Development of a Rotary playground which is ‘disability friendly’ for children
City Mission ‘Orange Sky’ mobile laundry and showering facility (van) to support the homeless
With the combined input of 12 Rotary clubs, Rotaract and Interact, there’s a great opportunity to be involved in a reputable programme or complete a practical project that will support children and youth in the community, be inspirational to others and raise the visibility of Rotarians in Action.
If you have any ideas, please let me know and I will pass them on.
Bev
Waitangi Park – wetlands in the city
Nicole Thompson, the landscape architect for the Waitangi Park Project, has had the project close to her heart for seventeen years.
The architectural firm she works for – Wraight Athfield Landscape + Architecture – known as WALA – has been involved in the project almost from day one and had to beat off competition from both other architectural firms and from the winning design in a public competition.
The Wellington City Council was divided but after heated debate councillors went with the WALA plan, Nicole told the club this week.
She’s originally from Australia but is wedded to the project which she said provides sound environmental protection and open space for the public to enjoy.
The site of the project is all reclaimed land built up in the period 1901-04 although the great earthquake of 1855 had also brought up a lot of land along what is now the harbour’s edge.
The area has a lot of native grasses and indigenous plants Nicole said that pohutukawa (although not indigenous to Wellington) were also to be planted soon.
Club Reporter
John Bishop
Friends of Waitangi Park
On Monday our guest speaker, landscape architect Nicole Thompson, presented a great history and outline of the various, mainly underground, workings of Waitangi Park as it acts as a filter of all the water, waste etc that accumulates around that locality. Fair to say few of us knew of the intricacies of what is below the park and the job of all those plants and pathways.
One of our club objectives this year is to establish a "Friends of Waitangi Park " group to act as an interest / lobby /promoter/advocator group for the Park. This will not involve any weeding, maintenance etc but rather be some sort of kaitiaki or guardian of the Park and ensure that others involved such as the public, the WCC are aware of the many aspects of the Park and are active in their management and protection of one of our city's treasures.
More will follow on this but in the meantime any thoughts you have will be appreciated to President Bev, David or Rick
Caption Competition
Caption this picture:
Entries to paula.mcknight@ppmck.co.nz by Wednesday 14 November 2018
Click on event above to see further details and register online.
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BLIND DINE
6.30pm Saturday 24th November
(After the Zealandia Project)
It’s simple, its fun.
Host are required for another Blind Dine 6.30 Saturday 24th November.
Just indicate how many guests you can accommodate. $20 payable to the Club of which $15 goes to the host.
Guest are required to bring their favorite bottle on the night.
President's Message
