Visitors:   Arshdeep Singh, Janaya Puahotaua.

Welcome–from President Elect Indeevar Duhan

 

FYI: Sustainability Talk Rosalie gave us a wee insight into the use of giant plastic animals, which can be used to adorn your home and are used to signal whether or not you are home or out to lunch. The Cracking Art Group are responsible for these giant animals made of recyclable and coloured plastic. A bit of a step up from a butterfly by your front door. Didn’t see any cats, plastic or otherwise on Gareth’s house either.

 

 

President Elect – Simon advises that no further nominations have been received, so Shiv Thamalla will be our new President Elect. This will be ratified at the next Board Meeting, Well done that man!

 

Volunteer of the Year – Brian Winters won this award at the Western ay Community Awards ceremony – https://www.sunlive.co.nz/news/339563-awards-evening-showcases-hardworking-community-.html 

 

Jane Nees – Mary O’Sullivan advises that Jane’s mother recently passed away (100+, well done that woman!). Our thoughts are with Jane and family.

 

RYPENS -   Thanks to all involved in last weekend. Especially to Chris Dever, who from all accounts held it all together. 34 students attended, and numerous messages of positive feedback were received.

 

 

 

Rotary Conference  17^th -19^th May at Cambridge. Looks like the club will muster a good turnout this year. Get amongst it if you can. Email: info@9930conference.co.nz

 

New Member – Arshdepp Singh, proposed by Indeevar, was born in Punjab in 1999 and came to New Zealand to qualify as a pharmacy technician (Christchurch) in 2020. He currently works at Arvida, Bethlehem Views (aged care) as a wellness partner. His interests include sport and dancing.

 

Raffle: The vino was initially won by no one at all, as the winning ticket was left at the check in desk. A redraw saw Wayne Shadbolt enjoy the spoils.

 

Sergeant at Arms – Dave McDonald should have been able to avoid being Sergeant, but clearly failed. He gave us a little background in how things are run elsewhere (Ellerslie Sunrise), and possibly how they will be run come the revolution. Although there was no money, there were fines for doing things well, doing things badly, and some for not doing them at all. After all that fails, you should always have a catch-all fine, for those who might have missed out. Then, finally a joke, of sorts. A bit like motoring with Robbie. Very effective. It’s a pity no one had any cash.

 

“Winning is a combination of doing one hundred things, one percent better than the opposition.”

Grant Dalton

Visitors:   Clara Rocha – Our Brazilian Exchange Student.  Errol Brain - Speaker 3 (Guest Speaker)

 

Welcome–from President Indeevar in charge in Michele’s absence.  Welcomed all to our meeting.

 

Low attendance 26 people in total – Tourists to Japan are having a great time.

 

 

As a returning speaker to our Club Errol again provided us with an interesting summary of what’s up in the workplace and our community with Drugs. Errol again reminded us that all workplaces should have an effective Drug and Alcohol policy as these substances are known hazards in any place of employment. Failure to do so could result in a WorkSafe prosecution if harm is caused in your workplace.

 

TDDA in the last year conducted 450,000 drug and alcohol tests or which 70,000 were positive. That is a 15% failure rate.  Of those failed tests 30% were positive for Methamphetamine. That is nearly 5% of all tested employees were meth users.  Quite a horrifying statistic.  They have also seen a big increase in the proportion of positive tests for Cocaine. This is becoming a popular recreational drug in NZ and the price is reducing as the supply to NZ increases. Just last week another 50kg or Cocaine was stopped at the port of Tauranga.

 

An employee under the influence of Drugs or Alcohol is

 4x more likely to be in an accident.

15 x more likely to be absent from work.

50% less productive

And

1 in 5 workplace deaths are attributable or partially attributable to Drugs and alcohol.

 

The message

 

Front foot Drugs and Alcohol in the workplace by implementing an effective Drug and Alcohol Policy.

Know your staff

Drugs and Alcohol in the workplace is HAZARD.

Eliminate, and or mitigate the hazard.

 

 

Notice One – Great K Valley Cycle Adventure 21^st April.  Seeking volunteers to assist on the day.  Contact John Carlson.

 

 

Raffle: The vino was won by Barry Fredheim who kindly gifted it to our speaker Errol Brain

 

BEDMASS – remember this from your maths classes.

50+50x2 = ?

Order of solving a maths equation

B – Brackets – before

E – Exponents – before

D – Division – before

M - Multiplication – before

A - Addition – before

S - Subtraction

 

Those in the room with strong left sided brains saw the answer straightaway. The more creative among us provided alternative answers.

The interesting fact is.

Your iPhone calculator correctly provides the answer as 150 – go apple.

Your desk calculator provides and incorrect answer of 200

 

Our Japan Team

 

 The Students that assisted us

 

Decision making

“To not to decide is to decide”.