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Guests: Bernie Taylor, Darren Wisbey, Chris Shadbolt, Roy Dykes (all member partners). Ken Smith (DG), Sally Morrison, Rebecca Lee (guest of Buddy’s).
Welcome from President Shiv.
Notices & Announcements
RYPEN – more thanks to all involved. A special thank you to the other Rotary Clubs who contributed: Papamoa, Tauranga & Omokoroa.
Ride for Good: The Great K Valley Cycle Adventure – Sadly this has had to be canned due to cyclone Vaianu. The council closed the valley on us due to the storm, otherwise we would have been keen to go, rain hail or shine – honest! Michele advises there is some unravelling to be done after all the plans put in place. Bad luck – thanks to those who got behind this event anyway.
Graeme Dingle Foundation – will be at the field days - keep an eye out for them if you are attending. Also, 18th November is the nationwide Drop Your Boss event. Keep this date free – some are keen on the Sky Tower.
Eyes for Africa – Shiv is collecting unused glasses for this project. Bring along any discards each Friday and they will be sent to the Eye Care for Africa clinic for reuse.
Paul Harris Fellows: Three members were presented with Paul Harris awards and/or Sapphire Pins. All were thoroughly deserving of the honours: Rhonda Wisbey, Wayne Shadbolt and Kathy Webb. Ken Smith, the District Governor was on hand to present the awards, and Shiv even donned the Bling for the photo shoot. Special thanks to the partners of recipients, Darren, Chris and Andrew for their ongoing support.
Rotary Foundation – Pat Taylor gave us a reminder of Rotary’s own charity - The Rotary Foundation. There a 7 areas of focus: peacebuilding, disease prevention, clean water, maternal health, education, economic development, and environmental protection. Polio eradication, reservoir repairs, District Grants, disaster relief, major gifts and competitive skipping lessons all rated a mention. World Peace too. The Foundation changes lives permanently.
The window of opportunity for District Grants closes in June, so if you have any ideas let Pat know sooner rather than later.
Sergeant Session
Chris Dever– with another display of exactly what Chat GPT can do. Chris ran through the student RYPEN survey results. Questions had been generated by an AI bot. Not sure about the answers. Chris’s cooking came out the winner though, as you would expect. A great marketing tool we can use when trying to raise funds for future RYPEN camps.
Parting Thought from Mary O’Sullivan:
“I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.”
