I know it's very late, but I've just caught up with some changes in 9930 foundation arrangements that mean this may not have got out to your clubs, so I thought I would email you.
Please can you publicise the attached to clubs in 9930 that may still have polio events scheduled and need some shirts for Friday/Saturday.
Richard Stephen
Operations Manager
President Bev welcomed the Days for Girls ladies
Led by Anne, with Deb and Sue in support, the ladies gave a detailed background of the group and its objectives in providing re-usable sanitary hygiene packages to girls and women in third world countries to enable them to participate fully in their communities without losing time in their menstrual cycles – to quote Anne “giving them back their days”.The group has grown from humble beginnings to now number 30 and has now completed 4,536 shields and more than 500 liners.
Members were given a rundown on the various contents of the packages.
Our Guest Speaker was local senior vet Richard Hilson who recounted how he got involved in what became a rather infamous event in our recent history
...the live export by air of 900 breeding ewes to Saudi Arabia just a few years ago.
He told us about how the export shipment was organised and carried out and some of the ‘interesting’ consequences of it.
A fascinating insight into doing business with very strict Islamic country culture indeed.
Dale Prebble introduced Stuart Foote a retired local GP who now oversees the Cape Sanctuary project.
Stuart gave us a summary of his failures to retiring early and his change in passions. From Deer Farming to Angora Goats, then sailing including having a vintage racing schooner which he travelled widely in. A bike accident which resulted in a long term head injury made him revisit his own mortality and reassess his priorities.
In Memorium
Past District Governor Keith Rogers (Governor 2007-2008)
Rotary Birkenhead (1990 – 2016)
Rotary Cambridge (2016 - 2020)
Our Science Forum Student this year was Bernadette Dykes, a student at Napier Girls who gave a 5-minute talk about her trip to the University of Auckland during her school holidays earlier this year.
Her friends thought she was crazy for spending her holidays by attending two 3-hour lectures each day, but she loved it.
She saw Nanogirl and learned a great deal about her favourite subject, Chemistry, such as the purification of jellyfish fluorescent proteins.
Her plans are to return to the University of Auckland and graduate in Biomedical Sciences with the intention of attending medical school afterwards.
Brief article for Zone 8 DG NewslettersThe Rotary International Board meets in November 2020 and will consider a proposal by the Shaping Rotary’s Future committee to move toward Regionalisation. Governance would move from the current 527 Districts to 20-40 Regions. This would allow more Regional autonomy and provide more support for Clubs, Rotarians and Rotaractors.
In Jan 2019, the RI Board approved a petition from the District Governors of Zone 8 (Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands) to propose a Regional structure and approach to halt membership decline, provide a stronger Rotary voice and better partnerships with government, business and communities. Our work since receiving that approval means we are well placed to modernise Rotary in our Region if the RI Boartoward Regionalisation.
Take action for World Polio Day: 24 October.
Every year, Rotarians and Rotaractors across the globe mobilize for World Polio Day to raise awareness about eradicating polio for good. If we stay committed, polio will be the second human disease ever to be eradicated.
Plan an event for your community
Join the effort to ensure every child receives the polio vaccine and end polio by organizing a World Polio Day event.
2020 Polio Movie Event On A special preview screening of the movie “I Am Woman”, about the life story of Australian singer Helen Reddy has been arranged at 7.00 pm on Tuesday 20th October at the Reading Cinema in Napier.
Helen Reddy sadly died this week at the age of 78 at her home in Los Angeles after a long battle with dementia. This film is a fitting tribute to the star who did so much for women’s rights. I urge your Rotary Clubs in Area 10 to support this event with proceeds going to Polio Now through the Rotary Foundation.
The Rotary Club of Ahuriri is coordinating the event on behalf of all Rotary Clubs in Hawkes Bay. Tickets for your members can be arranged by contacting Max Patmoy: maxpatmoy@gmail.com or Mike Smith: mike1950@xtra.co.nz.
Over the past couple of months, polio vaccination campaigns have resumed worldwide to tackle an immunity gap that has widened during the pandemic. To protect children who have missed out on vaccines, the polio programme has swiftly ramped up efforts, including by supporting governments to run COVID-19-safe campaigns and exploring opportunities to deliver other vital health interventions alongside polio vaccine. Alongside this work, the programme continues to focus on understanding and addressing the remaining barriers to reach every child in Pakistan and Afghanistan, with an emphasis on operational change and building trust with communities.
The Taradale Volunteer Fire Station has benefitted from the generous donation from the Rotary Club of Taradale and the Rotary Foundation.The Taradale Fire Station is now the proud recipient of a Thermal Imaging Camera.
On Thursday the Club President Claire Connor officially presented this important piece of kit to Paul Hughes, Senior Station Officer, and learned how much of a difference it was making to their team.
The Thermal Imaging Camera can see through darkness/smoke and identify people and the source of the heat. The value of the camera is in the vicinity of $8000, the cost being shared between the Rotary Foundation and the Rotary Club of Taradale.
Guest speaker Rodger McCutcheon gave an entertaining talk on both his personal journey as an aviator and the unique history of the 1942 DC3 now based at Napier Airport.Rodger ‘rescued’ the DC3 from becoming a café when he observed it while flying to Queenstown. The owner had been struggling to get an airworthy certificate over a number of years and Rodger negotiated the purchase on the basis that he could get the certificate in a matter of days.
GUEST SPEAKER: Julian Lowe (Opotiki Rotary)Julian shared his very personal and painful COVID19 experience with us.
Julian and Ngaire had planned a South American trip culminating in a visit to Machu Pichu in southern Peru.
They got as far as Rio for 3 days as COVID was starting to make a global impact.
They were quarantined in Lima whilst their fellow tourists from the States went home.
Paul Engleman was two years old when he was diagnosed with polio in 1955.One of the lucky ones, as his mother would say, he was not paralyzed by the crippling disease that sometimes kills.
Now, he is in the age group that is more susceptible to a new threat, COVID-19.
A frequent contributor to Rotary magazine, Engleman describes what it is like to survive polio and live through the COVID-19 pandemic and talks with polio survivors determined to eradicate polio.
For many years in October the Stroke Foundation, Rotary and many Foodstuff’s supermarkets partnered together to carry out over 13,500 high blood pressure tests throughout New Zealand. On average around 16% of those tested are referred on to their GP as they have a high blood pressure reading.High Blood Pressure is one of the leading causes of a stroke but can be managed and controlled which is why getting a regular check is important to reduce stroke and other health risks. It can therefore be seen that the testing carried out by the partners can be lifesaving.
In 2020 Rotarians in D9930 we would have been participating at 13 Pak’n Save and New World sites.
Unfortunately due to Covid 19 the programme was postponed and a revised system will operate from 2021.
Our involvement to date has been to contact the sites, which had already agreed to participate with the Stroke Foundation, to arrange layout of a suitable area within the supermarket with tables and chairs provided by the supermarket and to affix posters advertising the event in a place approved by the staff. On the day we encouraged customers to have their readings taken and we completed the necessary paperwork which was provided by the Stroke Foundation. When the testing was complete we assisted the breakdown and tidied the area. The Stroke Foundation arranged for BP testing personnel to be present to do the actual testing.
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