This is Us Project 2020

K Valley Cycle trail

K Valley Cycle Day

President Chris Dever

Tauranga Sunrise is lucky to have a strong club. Our club has good membership numbers and over the past few years we have maintained consiste

nt flow of new members.
We need to maintain that – and I believe that the time has come for us to focus on our club, and what it is we offer to prospective members. New members are no longer of the ‘Baby Boomer’ generation – our prospective members are now the young leaders that we see emerging across the city.

Our club has a great reputation for delivering community services across our district. It is my goal for 2021/22, that the club embraces this younger generation. If Rotary (and in particular Tauranga Sunrise Rotary) is going to be relevant in the future, it’s important that the club offers activities, projects and challenges that appeal to this new demographic of members, whilst at the same time maintaining our Rotary goals and purpose.

I want this to be the club that my now adult kids would join!

Facing all of us, and particularly relevant to young people, including my grown-up children, are challenges associated with Climate Change.
This is why my presidency has seen the creation of a new Environment committee, in line with Rotary International’s new focus on ‘supporting the environment’.

If you are one of our city’s emerging leaders and you would like to ‘give back’ to your community, I urge you to contact the club and arrange to visit one Friday morning.

Chris Dever

Preventing Pollution of Te Awanui-Tauranga harbour by stormwater

The Rotary Club of Tauranga Sunrise Environment Committee would like to invite you to mark the first milestone of our project to raise awareness of pollution of Te Awanui-Tauranga harbour by stormwater.

Tuesday 14^th December at 10.30.

Ngai Tamarawaho kaumatua Tamati Tata will bless a site on the Strand opposite Red Square, immediately before “drain socks” are fitted to two stormwater outlets.

Extensive promotion, we hope, will stimulate ‘copy-cat’ projects in the community.

Your presence will be part of this promotion!

Our Environment Committee

Rotary Club of Tauran

ga Sunrise has a new and very active Environment Committee

Activities of the new Environment Committee:

Pest Control in Kopurererua Valley: we’re part of the Rotary Clubs of Tauranga drive to establish and maintain bait-lines in K-Valley.
Students 4 the Environment: This project involves monthly Sunday morning events (for instance: planting, weeding, trap-line management…) organised specially for high school and tertiary students. So far we’ve co-hosted three events and an

Pest Control in Kopurererua Valley: we’re part of the Rotary Clubs of Tauranga drive to establish and maintain bait-lines in K-Valley.
Students 4 the Environment: This project involves monthly Sunday morning events (for instance: planting, weeding, trap-line management…) organised specially for high school and tertiary students. So far we’ve co-hosted three events and an amazing group of students, dedicated to actively mitigating climate change linked environmental damage.