Thank you club bulletin editors who have sent me your bulletins. I’ve included some good stuff from them!

Actually, while I'm thinking about it, I will be at the Conference as it's a great opportunity to catch up with old friends, meet some new ones, learn some interesting ideas and (because it's in Hawkes Bay)  drink too much. I hope that you'll make yourselves known to me so I can thank you personally for sending me your bulletins and providing me with a whole lot of good ideas and quite some amusement!

Club bulletins were received from:

  1. Auckland
  2. Auckland East
  3. Botany East Tamaki
  4. Downtown Auckland
  5. Ellerslie Sunrise
  6. Howick
  7. Mangere
  8. Manukau City Sunrise
  1. Newmarket
  2. Otāhuhu
  3. Pakuranga
  4. Papakura
  5. Parnell
  6. Penrose
  7. Suva East

Auckland: Chartering a new Interact Club

On Tuesday our Club sponsored the chartering of a new Interact Club at Epsom Girls’ Grammar.  Rotary Interact Clubs are for young people aged 12 to 18, who want to join together to tackle the issues in their community that they most care about.  Our Club has already chartered one Interact Club at Auckland Grammar School and this Club continues to grow each year – with a current membership of about 130.

Auckland East : St. Heliers School Fair

A very big thank you to all members and partners who volunteered to be part of the St Heliers Primary School Fair on Sunday. It was a great opportunity for our club to be seen doing great work in the community thus raising our profile, as well as giving back to the School who have supported our book fair in the past years.

We really stood out in our Rotary uniforms and those who had the high vis vests with the Rotary emblem even better. The Rotary auction wheel we have is really a great asset both for fundraising and also raising our profile and it made me realise we should try and use it more often. President Bevan

Anon (i.e. I can’t remember which club’s bulletin this came from!)

So John says to Joan, “how did you get on at the faith healing session last night?”
Joan replies, “It was rubbish. Even the guy in a wheel chair got up and walked out”.

Downtown Auckland Club: notifications in advance

While we encourage all members and guests to attend our informative and fun meetings, it's important to register your attendance in advance. The Northern Club normally charge members who fail to register in advance a $5 late fee as it causes challenges with catering.  Starting in May, we will begin charging members/guests who don't register the $5 fee. The Northern Club have graciously agreed to donate any late registrations fees to our Sunshine Fund. So please make sure to click your meeting invitation to register yourself or your guests by the 12noon deadline on Monday before our meeting.

The club is working on getting an online payment system in place, in the interim you may register online at the club website https://rotarydowntownauckland.club/ and pay on the day at reception with either in cash or credit card for the $25 breakfast fee. If you have any issues with online registration, please txt Graham Hendry at  021 997 934 or email President Lucy at changlorinczi@icloud.com.

Mangere:

Auckland Harbourside

“Work for a cause
not for applause,
Live life to express
Not to impress"

Three Ideas for meetings:

These are some venues and activities that clubs that sent me their bulletins had during April:

Auckland – Spirit of Adventure evening sail

Newmarket – Petanque at Epsom Bowling Club

Pakuranga - Sachies Kitchen Chinese Cooking Social Night, St Georges Bay Rd.  This is a wonderful opportunity to learn some basics of Chinese cooking and at the same time taste your cooking

Global Grant Hydroponics project, Kiribati

Jennie Herring visited South Tarawa. During her visit she presented the charter certificate to Kairao Tune, chairperson of the RCC, and a pull up banner to the South Tarawa Rotary Community Corps (STRCC).

Remuera and St Johns, and Mt Eden

There were two ‘quiz’ nights managed by these clubs recently. Remmers and St Johns was in aid of the medical-oxygen project in Fiji and Mt Eden’s for Allergy NZ.  These are great fun, add to the branch’s social engagement and raise money for good causes.  What’s not to love? Your Humble Correspondent and the Ever Loving went to the St John’s and Remuera competition, we were unable to repeat last year’s winning performance but had a great time in a well presented and profitable evening.