2nd April (Mar 31, 2023)

2 April 2023

Published fortnightly.

MEETINGS

Tuesdays 5.30 pm for 6 pm at:

Holiday Inn Queenstown

594 Frankton Road
Turn off Frankton Road into Goldfields Heights then Goldfields Way
Queenstown

Cost: $30

Exact numbers attending and apologies must be advised before each meeting.

All apologies and guests to be made by email to queenstownrotary@gmail.com by 5pm on the Sunday prior to each meeting.

Find Us

Apr 04, 2023 5:30 PM

Lakes District Air Rescue (Holiday Inn Remarkables

Air Rescue their work, training and personnel.

Apr 11, 2023

NO MEETING - EASTER

Apr 18, 2023

Fred Van Brandenburg (architect)

Apr 25, 2023

NO MEETING - ANZAC DAY

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President

Grant Rees

President Elect

Neil Boniface

Past President

Jason Climo

Secretary

David Tait

Treasurer

Hamish Murray

International

Neil Boniface

Club Administration

Lee-Ann Lines

Membership & Communication

Gabrielle Schou

Community

Stuart Maclean

Youth Director

Lee-Ann Lines

Bulletin Editor

Keith McIntosh

Environment

Richard Bowman

Rotary International President

Jennifer Jones

Jennifer Jones

Rotary International's first female President in 2022-2023. She is a member of Rotary Club of Windsor-Roseland, Ontario, Canada Mahanagar.

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Gabrielle Schou
(If you have any comments or questions, please contact the editor)

Grant Rees

Thank you again to everyone that helped out last Sunday at the Family Fun Day, it was a big ask of the members to help again coming so soon after the parking at the Home Show and the duties at the Golf Open. Although the numbers of the public attending weren’t as many as we had hoped for the combined total for the day was $10,000. It was again good to see the co-operation between the service clubs of Lions, Altrusa and our Rotary club.

We are having to rearrange our Wilding Pine control day as the gondolas will be closing at the end of April for their big upgrade. We have now rescheduled it for Saturday 22^nd April. As Richard and Ken will be away David Tait and myself will be arranging it. David will again arrange the post match lunch (which I am sure the only reason he comes along).

I am looking forward to this Tuesday’s off-site meeting where we will have our meal at the Holiday Inn Remarkables park, followed by a visit to LDART hanger where one of the paramedics will tell us something of the work they do. It will be good to see the use that the money we raised for the Rescue helicopters is being put to.

Our condolences as a club go out to Alan Ward and his family on the recent passing of Alan’s mother.

I hope you are all looking forward to you Easter break. A reminder that there will be no meeting Tuesday 11^th of April as this is Southland Anniversary day.

I am about to head out the door on an annual hunting trip that I have been going on for over 20 years. Over time the hills seem to get much steeper!

Regards

Grant Rees

President

Rotary Club of Queenstown

CONGRATULATIONS KEITH McINTOSH

District Governor appointment

Reported from District

"The District 9999 Nominating Committee met this week to appoint a District Governor for 2025-26. The Committee unanimously selected Rotarian Keith McIntosh of the Rotary Club of Queenstown for the role. We are delighted with the outcome and congratulate Keith and Heather on the appointment and look forward to Keith joining our District 9999 Leadership Team from July 2023."

CYCLONE GABRIELLE - INSURANCE ASSESSMENT

Ashley Adams, in his role as an Insurance Adjuster, presented to the club a glimpse of the nature and extent of storm damage by Cyclone Gabrielle. Ashley showed an array of photos of the damaged roading infrastructure (particularly bridges) in Hawkes Bay and damage to a secondary school in Esk Valley from floodwater and silt arising from the Cyclone. In the Hawkes Bay district eleven bridges were destroyed requiring total replacement, and up to one hundred bridges were damaged, some able to be re-instated with minor repairs others requiring major repairs. Ashley's role was to assess the damage and provide costs to the insurance companies and district councils. The concern for all is the secondment of trained bridge and road builders to complete the works in a reasonable time.

CYCLONE GABRIELLE FUNDRAISER 2023

Give it back to Gabrielle- Queenstown Events Centre Frankton - Sunday 26 March.

This was part of a joint fundraising event initiated by Lions with Altrusa and our own Rotary Club of Queenstown. The event was a family day and raised $10,000. Our silent auction was a great success, thankyou to all that contributed to this.

Nell Hunter, one of the Rotarian volunteers of the day with her children, Alfred and Penelope Hunter enjoying the face painting on offer.

We even made the Mountain Scene with Grant, Cora and David.

ROTARY FROM THE PAST

From the Editor:

On reading the Mountain Scene, I came across the article below. This is but one of the projects in which the Rotary Club of Queenstown has contributed in the past to our District. Lets be inspired to be people of action for our District now. NB I have overwritten the article so the words can be easily read.

ROTARY LINKS - 2 APRIL 2023

ROTARY IN REVIEW – 10 March

AAP (rotary.org)

COMMUNITIES IN DISASTER

Supporting Our New Zealand and International Communities in Times of Disaster

Appeal Details – Last Inclusion

Rotary related Appeals for NZ Floods and Cyclone Gabrielle, Ukraine Support, Turkey/Syria Earthquake Recovery, and Vanuatu Cyclone Recovery are still open. Please check the following websites for their donation process.

RNZWCS www.rnzwcs.org/appeals ** Apology – this was inadvertently incorrect last week

ROZops www.rotaryoceania.org

Shelterbox www.shelterbox.org.nz

MEETING APOLOGIES DEADLINE

AN IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR MEETING APOLOGIES

We must have apologies in by 5pm on Sundays. If no apology is received by then, members will be invoiced for the meal as Holiday Inn will invoice us for it. We will be strictly enforcing this.

You can put in an extended apology and just inform us when you WILL attend a meeting.

If you have already put in an extended apology or LOA, can you please email queenstownrotary@gmail.com to update and confirm this is still required.

MEMBERSHIP LIST

If you need an updated copy of the current membership with contact details, please email queenstownrotary@gmail.com to request one be emailed to you.

BANK ACCOUNT

The Club bank account with the ANZ - 01-0867-0722903-00 - always put your name and what it’s for as the reference.

OUR MEMBERSHIP OF QUEENSTOWN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

Details on our Membership of Queenstown Chamber of Commerce.

DUTIES NOTICES & APOLOGIES

PP Lee-Ann is looking after the programme, duties, meetings and attendance. If you have any suggestions/ideas for the programme please let her know. If you have a duty and can’t attend, please make sure you find a replacement.

The 3 Minute Talk - to make sure we run to time, please keep to between 3-5 minutes, unless pre-arranged with the President.

Apologies - Must be received to queenstownrotary@gmail.com 5 pm the Sunday before the meeting. Please be aware that you will be invoiced for your meal if no apology is received. If you are unsure if you can make it each week, you can put in a permanent apology and let us know when you do come. It is easier to inform the restaurant of an extra meal than the Club having to pay for meals not claimed.

DUTIES ROSTER

	4 April	11 April	18 April
Setup 5.20 pm Meet & Greet	OFF-SITE	OFF-SITE	Ken Fox
Cashier	NA	NA	Chris Taylor
Introduce Speaker & Parting Thought	NA	NA	Ross Beal
Sergeant	NA	NA	Michael Walter
Toast to Rotary Project OR 3 min Talk	NA	NA	Tim Wilshire
Thank Speaker	NA	NA	David Carter

PLEASE NOTE: Person rostered to Introduce Speaker please forward notes of their presentation to Keith McIntosh, Bulletin Editor, for inclusion in the Bulletin.

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.

THE ROTARY FOUR WAY TEST

1. Is it the TRUTH?

2. Is it FAIR to all concerned?

3. Will it build GOODWILL and FRIENDSHIP?

4. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?

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