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Eyes for Africa – thanks for the used glasses for Eye Care for Africa clinic. Keep them coming.
K Valley Planting Day 14 June.
Alzheimer’s Collection 23 May – looking for volunteers
Change Over – Booked in for Lunch at the Harbourside 4 July. Mark it in your diary now.
Buddy Mikare thanked Wayne & Chris Shadbolt and Shiv for helping with parking duties at the recent ANZAC service at Papamoa. It’s getting bigger and better every year with an estimated 3000 at this year’s dawn event.
Report back from Committee Meetings
Environment Committee: Bryan Winters
We need a new flagship event. Bryan is keen to develop an art / AI event with an environmental theme, that is growing in his brain. Report back soon ???
Community Service - Ross Mosely
Alzheimer's collection coming up. Hanging out for the (Personal Rescue Equipment) project.
New Generations - Chris Dever
Have already had a busy year with RYPE, RYDA, RYLA and a few others where we haven’t had a candidate. We need to continue with the smaller social events to bring in some money e.g. movie / show nights. Op Shop Hop.
Membership & Club Service – Buddy Mikaere
We each took 3 minutes silence to put together a list of people we will invite to a meeting – recruitment is the objective.
Next week’s speaker is: Louise Saunders – Manaaki Kaimai Mamaku Trust, which should be interesting for all our guests.
Sanjana has offered to make a series of videos with current (and past?) members talking about the benefits of being a Rotarian. Noted that people love project-based activities. Capture the ‘why’.
Appoint people to:
· Exit interview those who leave
· Mentor new members
· Revive the induction pack -we already have a leaflet explaining some of the process including fees. Make up a few hard copies of the Sunrise handbook.
Note: a link to this document is on every Bulletin that goes out weekly.
Survey our current members – Kathy will send last ones to Sanjana and work on it to complete very soon.
Sergeant Session
Andy Cameron tells us that Caesar's last breath (famously a quizzical “Et tu, Brute?”) contained around 25 sextillion (that's 25 followed by 21 zeros) air molecules, which of course have spread around the world - one of you which you might have inhaled. Also included in your next inhalation could be Cleopatra’s perfume, German mustard gas and even particles exhaled by dinosaurs. This all comes from Andy’s favourite book “Caesar’s Last Breath”, which tells the history of the air that we breathe and the science behind Earth’s atmosphere. There was an awful lot of detail, which was difficult to note down but it was something to do with the solar wind, helium alpha particles, carbon dioxide hoovered up by plants and methane from Caesar’s last fart. Strontium 90 got a mention as did Calcium & Mars lack of a molten iron core.
It was a lot of science to digest so early in the morning, but breathe easy: “It's all OK” Andy kindly reassured us in his erudite, avuncular manner. Well, thank goodness for that.
Parting Thought:
“If life hands you lemons, find a friend whose life has handed them vodka. Then you can have a party!”
