Guests: A warm welcome to Ruth Deacon, David Woodhouse's daughter from the UK, Shirley May, Julie Hignett, Monique Erdlinger, James Clague. Also Speaker Michelle Tanner
Notices:
Foundation for the Blind thanking our club for collecting on their behalf. We will update roster. We will roster our collections and put up a plan shortly as part of our strategic planning.
Dean Thompson spoke about the mugs for Foundation notifications and that he is ordering one for each member and s
ome spares for new members. Every 3 months people will bring in their collection to be added to the Foundation donation. Concept is to donate the cost of one flat white coffee per week.
Sally Morrison, Ross Brown and Ursula Hurn talked about getting the Polio Auction sold out by inviting friends, antique dealers and any potential purchaser to view items and prepare to bid online or in person.
"Rotary, along with its partners, has reduced polio cases by 99.9 percent worldwide since their first project to vaccinate children in the Philippines in 1979. “We are close to eradicating polio, but we need your help.”
Sally Morrison, a well-known member of the Rotary Club of Tauranga Sunrise and resident of Tauranga wants to help make that difference and has donated approximately 50 pieces of furniture and other household items to be auctioned. All the proceeds will go to eradicating polio and Sally says: “Tauranga Sunrise Rotary is a special club, and working together, I believe we can raise enough to immunise 45,000 children in Pakistan. Imagine what a difference this could make to children and families who already have to survive in such a harsh environment.”
For every dollar the Rotary Club of Tauranga Sunrise raises, Rotary will add $2, tripling the funds we can donate to the eradication of polio.
The auction will be held on Saturday the 12th of November at Sally’s apartment at the Mount and will run from 3:00-5:00pm with drinks and nibbles. Numbered tickets are $10 each and there are only 100 tickets. Please help us make a difference to the lives of thousands of children in Pakistan by buying a ticket and coming along to buy at the auction. To view the items please follow this link www.rotarypolioauction.org. Items can also be viewed from 300pm on the day.
For more information or to buy a ticket today please contact me.
Please share this post so that we can raise funds to eradicate polio for good.
If you would like to make a contribution but cannot attend, please contact me to find out how you can do this."
Eric Happé wants to know if we have the correct email for you. A list was circulated but go check you profile on
http://www.rotarytaurangaam.club/ and update your details. Eric also mentioned that Austin sends his best as family duties, while waiting for the birth of the twins, is keeping him busy at the moment. We wish him well.
Sally Morrison accepted the challenge of the Christmas Pudding Orders and also Mince Tart orders. But Polio Auction FIRST.
Dan Allen-Gordon reminded us of the arranged Kiwican visits for members:
Tuesday 1 November at Mount Intermediate: be there for an 8.15am, 10.45am or 11.30 am start. Alternatively 4 November Brookfield School for a 10am or 11am start
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apan Visit-Information Meeting 6pm Sunday 6 Nov Please contact Bill Holland (ph 027 696 5962 or
bill.holland@hobec.co.nz )if you are interested in joining this 10 day tour starting 29 March 2017 and he can give you details of this meeting. To the others of you whom I have copied this message to and who have already expressed some interest, the meeting will be drinks and nibbles at our home at 247 Devonport Rd at 6pm Sunday week. Please let me know if you can make it.
Glynis Parton in her travels talking about ROMAC brings back regards from Paul and Robyn Skelton in Rotorua.
Wayne's World: Wyrds of Wisdom –
Vision without action is merely a dream.
Action without vision just passes the time.
Vision with Action can change the world.
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Stuart Peterson introduced our speaker by talking about "Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll". Not sure what any of that had to do with Polio and Michelle Tanner but a delightful opening.
Speaker: Michelle Tanner said she loved attending our club as we were young and vibrant (perhaps the sun was in her eyes??)
Michelle shared a fundraiser called Concert by the Lake with us for next February. Some of the funds raised go to Foundation.
Polio Update:
99.9% there BUT Polio is a virus that can live for a long time outside of a body and in Nigeria there are 4 new cases despite being declared Polio free in 2014.
Michelle talked about the differences between the Jonah Salk Vaccine and the vaccine that has been used from Sabin until earlier this year. So many challenges still exist to eradicate polio completely.
- The oral vaccine can mutate in a very small number of cases but this has led to polio in a small number of cases.
- Injections mean that the polio virus can still live in the gut and contaminate water ways in areas with poor sanitation.
- It will cost another $1.5 BILLION US to completely eradicate polio from the world and does require access to areas currently politically difficult to access to check water ways and drinking water.
- The ability to cope with Ebola in Africa was because of the systems set up by Rotary to fight Polio.
- Michelle believes that Polio can be eradicated in her lifetime with the ongoing support of Rotary and the Gates Foundation.
Chris Rapson thanked Michelle and recalled classmates affected by Polio
Sergeant Session; Pauline Cowens;
Time was short so she simply fined a number of people for being special – Paul, Gail, Stan, Un-volunteered Warwick (replaced by a paid person) and our Halloween Baby Neil who will be 66 on the day. She also fined all other bionic people now that her hip is replaced. Big thanks to her Head Girl for the special blessing before our meal.
Parting Thought Fraser Lellman
“Dollars have never been known to produce character, and character will never be produced by money. I’ll invest my money in people.” – W K Kellogg
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Welcome
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Stan Gregec
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Katherine Sandford
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Stephen Dorrington
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Door & Parting Thought
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Kathy Webb
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Max Mason
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Pat Taylor
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Cashier
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Phil Mangos
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Warwick de Vere
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Ron Devlin
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Stan Gregec
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Jane Nees
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Sergeant
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Rhonda Wisbey
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Larrisa Allen
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Peter Tinholt
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Backup
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Katherine Sandford
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Stephen Dorrington
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Glenys Parton
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Speaker
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AGM & Club Assembly
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Janet Coutts - History of Ryman
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Committee Meetings
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