Last week we received news that the Prime Minister, the Right Honourable Bill English was available to present our Goal Setter Awards at a Prime Minister's Breakfast, hosted by the Club, on 22 March at the Intercontinental Hotel. Please read the initial flyer in the Bulletin and mark this in your calendar.
This will replace the planned event I mentioned at our Breakfast meeting last week. The Club Services Committee are organising the event but will require the full support of the members to come along and help promote the event to our networks and potential new members. It will be great opportunity to showcase the Club and Goal Setters in particular.
More information about the event and how to secure tickets will be coming out over the next week. Please get behind this event.
This week Hayley, one of the club’s more recent acquisitions, told us about herself and her life. She said she expected that her dreadlocks would be a subject we would require many answers to, so she started with an explanation, including detailed pictures...
Over the past few summers Port Nicholson has been involved with providing entertainment as part of the Wellington City summer markets programme.
Entertainment ranging from Whiteria performance groups, Irish tap dances, puppets and a bit of Shakespeare has been arranged by Dawn Sanders with club members helping out on Thursdays and providing some great profile for Rotary. Read on...
On Friday our piano by Tuatua cafe on the waterfront got its annual tune up and health check. The professional opinion from our piano tuner, Len Fifield is that its seen better days and in his opinion dates back to the 1890's (!!) however it looks great in all its splendour. Passers by had again been very generous and contributed some more dollars to help with our good works.
As you may be aware, since Deb and I visited Africa I have been trying to put in place a friendship exchange with D9211 which takes in all of Uganda and Tanzania.
The proposal as it stands is to have a group of up to 8 couples hosted in our district from Saturday April 8 to Saturday 22nd April which is the conference weekend. These dates may change by a day or two but seem like a good option.
The visitors would be hosted by 3 different Rotarians for periods of 5 nights, 4 nights and 5 nights although the last night would be the Friday evening of conference and we would plan to take them there. Ideally we would get a good geographical coverage within our district - last time we placed them in Wellington/Kapiti, Ohakune/Waitara and PN/Horowhenua/Wairarapa.
Hosts are free to entertain the visitors as they wish. The American exchange included activities such as walking the Tongariro Divide, Feilding saleyards, Mt Bruce reserve, visiting Napier, fishing at Taupo, Te Papa, golf etc. Most visitors also appreciated a bit of down time.
Where they can be hosted by he same club it also offers the chance to organise group activity.
If you have individuals who wish to be involved please ask them to contact me or if you would like to work as a club/cluster could you arrange for 1 person to be in touch with me. To date Plimmerton Club have suggested they will act as organiser for their area and can also work in the Wellington clubs if required.
At this stage I have not organised a return date. My original thoughts were to try for May next year when their district conference is in Arusha, the launching point for many Serengeti safaris. This is probably looking to be too short a time frame now and I would look to discuss this once I have the inwards better organised.
One of our newest members, Julie Hood, wondered if this is something that our club may want to get involved with. While it talks about staff, it can be any of us. This is about encouraging us all to get active on a bike for a month - just for fun! Let her know if you are keen or talk to amelia@lovetoride.net or Julie at julie.hood222@gmail.com. Check it out at http://www.aotearoa.bike/.
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