Mandy Kimber introduced Eve Casadranda to the Club, advising that Eve was born in Germany, moved to Alberta when she was 4 years old and then moved to Wellington, New Zealand in 1986, and then moved to Havelock North in 2017, with her husband Don. Her career included Real Estate, both selling and property management, and Director of Client Services for On Arrival, a company that she and Don established in 1999. She has belonged to several organisations including Beta Sigma Sorority (in Canada), Lionesses, Tawa Community Theatre, Porirua Little Theatre, Porirua Rotary, St Lukes, and Keirunga Creative Arts Society.
Rotary stalwart PDG Mike Smith passed away suddenly on the 13th of September.
Mike is remembered as a kind and caring man with a passion for helping others, particularly through his involvement with Rotary.
He was a Rotarian since 1980 having joined Gisborne 42 years ago.
In 1984 he moved to Napier joining the Rotary Club of Ahuriri where he served as President three times, most recently in 2020/21.
Hastings optometrist Niall McCormack, left, with some of the more than 1300 pairs of glasses to be repurposed
and taken to Tanzania, with Havelock North Rotary Club Rotary Foundation Chair, Peter Mayne.
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The Rotary Club of Otumoetai in Tauranga has started the year with seventeen members but in the past two months has punched a powerful punch well above its weight.Over $2,000 has been collected for the erection of two new seats for the city’s Kopurererua valley known locally as the K-valley project which will mean that locals and visitors alike can sit and enjoy what is projected to become the largest area of native planting within the confines of a New Zealand city. On 15 July club members joined a raft of other city organisations to plant a further substantial number of native trees and plants.
One of RI President Jennifer Jones' initiatives is to focus on the comfort and care of our members, and Membership Month is the perfect time to make sure that your club provides a welcoming experience.Members are more likely to stay if we listen to them and understand what they want out of Rotary. Here are a few ideas for helping people feel valued and involved:
Take the Best Practices for Engaging Members course to develop strategies for engaging people at all stages of membership, or the Creating an Inclusive Club Culture course to discover ways to become more inclusive, diverse, and equitable.
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POLIO NEWS AUGUST 2022
Wild Poliovirus in 2022 (2021)*
Global Total: 15 (6 last year)
Circulating Vaccine Derived Poliovirus in 2022 year-to-date (2021 totals)*
*Data as of 23rd August 2022. The numbers in brackets represent data at totals for 2021.
Breakdown by country
Polio this week
Andy is from the Gold Coast AU, professionally he is an Entrepreneur and International Marketing Professional.
We had a robust discussion on district grants, as we are applying for $5,000 to match the other four clubs working on the Hauraki Rail Trail shelters. The project is for 16 shelters (requested by HRT) and we are now completing the sixth.
So the present round of funding is for a further five shelters then we shall address the issue of funding the final five when ten are erected (update – we put an application in on Tuesday 30th, well inside the 31st deadline!!!).
Blue Light --- Training for Youth for Leadership ---Marjean introduced the team and thanked Rotary for the opportunity to come and speak.
Sidney then joined everyone together in a game around the table ---- a race with all passing the electric shock down the line. Then they told us about Blue Light and the partnership between the Police and the Armed Forces to assist young people to develop and mature and to get them off the streets.
GUEST SPEAKER: Karen Denyer, National Wetland Trust.To purchase Karen’s book ($65) please pay ASB 12 3171 00176 60 00. Please put BOOK and your name in the reference field for the records. All proceeds from the launch sales to the National Wetland Trust.
Karen said how good it was to work with our Rotary club. She is a trained ecologist and has written a book called Life in the Shallows, copies of which she brought along for Rotarians to purchase. The National Wetlands Trust was born around the turn of the century – a Millenium project.
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