The Lakeland Park camp Boulder Wall Project official opening was yesterday (Saturday 17th) with a handful of Rotarians there to celebrate this successful Rotary Community Project and acknowledge the hard mahi of those involved. Camp managers Ross and Lynette and 2 camp trustees put on a BBQ lunch. These types of smaller projects are really meaningful, and they are manageable to complete. Riki and Jason have both said that this is a big part of why they joined Rotary and are keen to do more projects like this in the community. This is what it is all about, while being seen doing good in our hood. After all, Rotarians are People of Action, aren’t we?
Last weekend, our club hosted the RLI Facilitators training course and catered for 19 Rotarians which raised $822 and which the Board have agreed to put towards our Shelter Box goal. A big thanks to new member Fiona for your time and delicious home-made culinary efforts. Fiona is amongst many things, a Qualified Chef, so she was perfect for the job.
Foundation Dinners are mainly over for another year. The last one will be held tomorrow night. I hope that you have all enjoyed some excellent meals and fellowship. If you still need to pay the new bank details are below.
The new bank account with the ANZ - 01-0867-0722903 00
(Please remember to update if you have saved it to your bank list of payees)
November is a busy month with the Cardrona Distillery Tour and dinner at the Cardrona Pub on the 3rd November. Dinner is with the Wanaka Rotary Club and is a set menu at $35pp. It looks pretty good and it should be a fun night and a great chance to catch up with a few of our fellow Wanaka Club buddies.
You can choose to pay $25 per person or per couple for the tour. The Distillery have very generously offered it for free if we put the money towards one of our charities, which again, Shelter Box will be the recipient. This should bring us real close to the amount required of $1500 to buy a full Shelter Box. This is a great effort by you all, thank you.
November 5th is The Polio+ Movie night, “I Am Woman” at the Reading Theatre. Please be there before 5.30pm. Remember to invite your friends and family. The tickets will be pre-sold, however, there will be door sales if there are spare tickets. Afterwards, everyone is welcome to head next door to Winnies for supper at $20pp or you can choose from the menu.
CHRISTMAS FUNCTION : SAVE THE DATE
This year it is ‘LUNCH AT CARGO WAITIRI CREEK, GIBBSTON VALLEY’ on SUNDAY 6th DECEMBER, 11am - 4pm. COST IS $55pp. Plus optional pre-meal beer or wine tasting $12pp.
I will probably arrange transport for those who would like it. More info on this later.
During the school holidays, 2 lucky WHS students, Yasmin Kidd and Jack Smillie, went on the Bluelight Whitbread, Steinlager 2 Yacht, leadership course in Auckland. We have 2 more going in December. Below is a summary of their report they emailed us with some pictures. It sounds like they had an awesome time. I am trying to get them to visit us but they are busy with NCEA exams at the moment, so it may be nearer to Christmas.
This week, John Parson gave an eye-opening talk that left most of us a little shell-shocked. The ease in which we all can be a victim of cyber-crime, even if we are careful, is real and it is especially frightening when children are targeted. John has put out a book, which Ralph Hannan happened to be lucky to win a free copy.
The links below are for all members and your families. The videos address the issues of risk and give practical advice to parents and grandparents. Please use as you wish.
Live Streaming: Understand the risks for children
BEDROOM, BATHROOM, PAJAMAS
HOW TO DEAL WITH ANTI SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR
CHILDREN & ONLINE GAMES - A NOSY PARENT IS A LOVING PARENT
CIRCLE OF LIGHTHOUSES
KEEPING YOUR CHILDREN SAFE ONLINE
NEXT WEEK: Is the AGM. Find out how our Club is tracking and how things are going.
Reminder: Have you asked someone this week if they want to join Rotary? You are the best advocate, so don’t keep our great Club and all the good work we do a secret. Ask someone today.
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