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13 November 2018
 
Published fortnightly.
 

        MEETINGS 

Tuesdays 5.30 pm for 6 pm at: 
Wild Thyme Restaurant
Stratton House
24 Beach Street
Cost: $20
Exact numbers attending and apologies must be advised before each meeting.  Please advise by 4 pm on the Monday before each meeting.  To ph: 442-3484 / fax 442-3494 or email: admin@rilean.co.nz
 
     
Weekly Programme
Nov 13, 2018
Make a Wish NZ
Nov 16, 2018
Pasta Night at Wild Thyme
Nov 17, 2018
Dinner at Holiday Inn
Nov 20, 2018
NZTA
Nov 27, 2018
Rotary Queenstown AGM
Dec 04, 2018
WHS School Counsellor
Dec 12, 2018
Combined Christmas Function with Inner Wheel & Partners
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Well what a great night enjoyed by all attending at the premiere of 'Bohemian Rhapsody' on Wednesday 31st October - it possibly got a few of us away from the ‘Trick and Treat’ visitors of Halloween.  A great movie and a great story.  About the only disappointing part of it was the loss of a tremendous artist, writer and singer at the age of 45.  Thanks to all who supported that evening and the profits of the night will go towards our contributions to 'End Polio Now'.
 
5th November Melbourne Cup unfortunately ended up as a general social night due to the attendance indicated.
 
Last week our Youth Committee Chair, Lee-Ann, and I attended the Wakatipu High School Senior Prize Giving.  The students that we were particularly interested in included Jordyn Clark who will receive our $2,500 Tertiary Scholarship for Diligence and Commitment at Year 13 for 2018.  Jordyn achieved a Distinction in Level 3 Biology, Chemistry and Physics and the Queenstown Medical Centre Prize for 'Health Sciences'.  He has also been awarded the Central Lakes Trust Scholarship, Auckland University 'Top Achiever' Scholarship and the Otago University 'Leaders of Tomorrow' Scholarship.  At this stage he will not up take the Otago scholarship as he intends to study Health Sciences at Auckland University.  In addition to all of this he was the Wakatipu High School's Proxime Accessit for this year.
 
We now move onto Archie Kerr-Ritchie.  We are supporting Archie to attend the Rotary Science Fair. He attained Distinction in Level 2 Chemistry, Economics, Geography, Physics and Commendation in Level 2 English, Distinction in Level 3 Calculus and was the top Academic Achiever for Year 12 for 2018 and, I understand, he will be Head Boy next year (2019).
 
Our two Rotary Youth Exchange (RYE) students also featured well at the prize giving.  Leah Kissock attained Distinction in Level 3 English and received the Crombie Lockwood 'Future Pathways' trophy which represents knowledge, wisdom and perception. Ella Numuguchi attained Distinction in Level 3 French and received the Louis Vuitton Award for Achievement in French.
 
To conclude here’s one for the Irish.  Michael O’Leary was waiting at the bus stop with his friend Paddy Maguire when a lorry loaded up with rolls of turf (Ready Lawn) went by.  O’Leary says. ‘I’m gonna do that when I win Lotto.”  “What’s that Michael?” asks Paddy.  “Send me lawn away to be cut.”  Replies O’Leary.
 
Russell
MAKE A WISH PRESENTATION
Our speaker this week was Debbie Hoskins from 'Make a Wish New Zealand'.  Since 1986 her organisation has been making 'wish journeys' with various families who have had young ones with critical medical conditions and between the ages of 3 and 17.  They have a team who analyse applications and meet with the families to see if their child’s request can be achieved and, if so, how.  They attempt to make the wish special in some way.  The average cost of a wish is $4,000 but several are much higher.  Whilst several of the children have passed away, since their wish was undertaken, approximately 80% survive cancer related illnesses especially and are very thankful for what the Make A Wish Team have achieved for them.
 
Some examples that she gave included a child who wanted to experience a hot air balloon trip. It so happened, that at that time of year, the only hot air balloon operation was in Arrowtown.  The family were flown to Queenstown, stayed most of the time in an Air B & B and took part in many Queenstown Tourism activities including the Hot Air Balloon flight over Arrowtown.  Grace was pain free and her Mum didn’t need sleeping pills during the entire time here.  Unfortunately Grace passed away on 5 October but her family were incredibly grateful to the Make A Wish Team.
 
Another example was a Bangladesh family based in New Zealand.  Their son was mad keen on cricket.  His wish was to see his Grandmother.  She was flown to New Zealand and, whilst here, both of them and their family were VIP’s with the Black Caps and the Bangladesh Cricket team when Bangladesh was touring New Zealand.
 
One very sick child with cancer related problems wished to have a cell phone. During the initial investigations with the family it was found that, whilst he was in hospital, he wanted to keep in touch with his Grandfather.  Rather than just giving him a cell phone, they arranged to fly his Grandfather to the hospital so that he could present his Grandson with the cell phone along with other gifts that they had obtained.
 
Another amazing example was the wish of a child to meet Barack Obama.  Whilst nothing had been heard from the White House for some time, a message was received to say that President Obama was able to meet with this child and family in Washington DC on a particular date.  All stops were pulled out and, to the delight of the child and the family involved, that encounter took place.  More importantly, when Barack Obama visited New Zealand, he offered the child and the family tickets to his special event in Auckland or to meet with him in his hotel.  They took the second option.  On their arrival, the then USA Past President was in full talks with other individuals. As soon as he saw the family, he immediately broke away to spend time with them.
 
This was a great and passionate talk from Debbie and well received by all attendees.  I’m sure that we are going to hear more about 'Make a Wish New Zealand' and an activity involving walking the Great Wall of China in the near future.
 
INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP
 
This has been mentioned now for some time - we have a group of approx. 30 international Rotarians arriving in Queenstown this Thursday.  We have arranged a Pasta Night for them at Wild Thyme at 7.00 pm this coming Friday.  They will compete in the Queenstown Marathon on Saturday and on Saturday night they will meet at Holiday Inn (Frankton Road) for their Annual Dinner etc.  
We have been invited to attend either or both the functions and I  hope that we will have a good representation of Queenstown Rotarians and partners at each event.  This is a great opportunity to promote Queenstown and Queenstown Rotary to an international Rotary audience.
 
The Pasta Night is $30 per person and the Dinner on Saturday is $60 per person.  Proceeds from these two nights will be donated to The Rotary Foundation for Polio Plus.
 
COMMUNITY PATROL VEHICLE
Rotary earlier supported the Queenstown 'Community Patrol' team with $5,000 towards the purchase of their first patrol vehicle, a Diahatsu Terrios. This support has been moved across to the  new MITSUBISHI OUTLANDER valued at $45,000 through the sale of the earlier vehicle. 

As you can see, the Sponsors logos are on the new patrol vehicle.

It is important to note that Rotary made it possible for the Queenstown community to obtain its first patrol vehicle with our $5,000 commitment.
 
 
 
Rotarians, Bruce Jefford, Stuart Maclean and Ashley Adams are members of the Queenstown Community Patrol.
 
 
COMBINED CHRISTMAS FUNCTION
 
 
 
Rotary and Inner Wheel Christmas Function
Date:  Wednesday 12th December
Time:  6.00 pm - 7.30 pm
Cruise departs at 6.00 pm so don't miss the boat!
Location:  Million Dollar Cruise Jetty, Waters Edge.
Cost:  $35.00 per head.  Cost includes finger food.
Buy your own drinks.  $7.00 for wine or beer, pre-mix spirits $9.00
and small bottles of bubbles or red wine $10.00.
The boat only caters for 60 people. 
Numbers have been recorded at tonight's meeting.
Any additional numbers to Russell as soon as possible.
 
 
DUTIES ROSTER
                       
Meet & Greet
Introduce Speaker
Thank Guest Speaker
20 Nov Alan Dunbar Neil Dempsey Ken Fox
27 Nov Colin MacNichol NA NA
 
                  
Sergeant
3 min Talk & Parting Thought
Toast to a Rotary Project
20 Nov Derek Bulman David Broomfield Ron Mackersy
27 Nov Stuart Maclean NA  
 
 
If you will be away, or for some other reason you cannot do your duty on the nominated day, it is your responsibility as soon as possible, and certainly no later than the Monday night before the meeting, to arrange a substitute.  A swap with the person who has the duty the next week is suggested.  
Please be there by 5.25 pm if you are on Reception or Meet & Greet.
 
                     
                   
                                            
             
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