There was a 'soft opening ' at the meeting! The food was available early so members decided that they would grab it while it was hot. This occurred about 7.09 am.
There were 14 members present.
Apologies: Dons C and S, Colin, Peter B, Gregg, and Jim apologised for their absence. If you want to put in apology for absence tell YHC at nickhamnz@gmail. com.
Club announcements;
December 14 is gift wrapping at Kinder House for Epsom Lodge. 4.30 pm.
The District Conference is on 31st March 2023 at Karaka.
The next CETA meeting is on 16 November (that's tonight fellows!) and is a Bowling and Pizza meeting at $25 per person.
Online banking to 03 0104 0810155 003. The event is from 6,.30 to 8.30
Christmas Puddings:
Members are invited to buy Rotary puddings at $23 per pudding This is a fundraiser for the Club The cost to the Club is $17 per pudding. Please place orders with Rory at rory.macdonald47@gmail.com. and please do so before 30 November. Payment for the puddings is to the account of 12 3109 0110290 02 and the preferred reference is "Xmas Pud". So far 10 have been sold - what's Christmas like without a traditional pud?
Polio eradication
As a fund and awareness raising event Ingrid and about 50 Rotarans 'Rode the rails' last Friday. Together they raised about $50,000 for Polio Plus.
Max reported that he had attended Remuera Rotary at celebration meeting. The club was rightly celebrating the end of its "Oxygen for Fiji" project that provided approximately $600,000 for oxygen machines for Fiji's hospitals, particularly life saving for very young children.
Rotary Down Under is running a feature on our district's projects. Ingrid is looking for a writer to detail successful Parnell projects. Contact Ingrid of you can stick two words together!
Finally: Grace foundation collection:
YHC, like the majority of members, totally forgot that it was the first meeting of the month when the club decided that we would donate bathroom products for the Foundation. So if you're as absent minded as me. A $10 donation is suggested to 12 3109 0110290 02 labeled at "Grace"
Sargent's session
A Jones definitions: Bipartisanship - a bigger than normal deception of of the general public"
Sargent David has confirmed that it is now summer - he appeared in shorts!
Three minute speaker:
Max had attended the Paediatricians Society of NZ recent conference. He made some interesting comments on ADHD, listing some of the symptoms. Members fell silent as they considered how many of the symptoms they had!
Speaker:
Linda Vagana, General manager of Duffy Books in Homes told the club that 575 schools benefited from this successful charity's actions. The Schools have to put up a third of the costs, the taxpayer a third and charities that final third. Over 30 Rotary clubs are amongst the charities supporting this project. Mainfreight is a major supporter. When asked about declining literacy standards in NZ schools Linda was very direct"mobile phones" with children using them all the time rather than reading books.
An impressive speaker doing a very good job.
The last day for a Club meeting this year is 14 December.
