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The Rotary Cambridge's Urban Miners has taken another big step forward with starting their collections in Te Awamutu. This was was held in conjunction with the Te Awamutu Rotary Club, who are keen to have ongoing E-Waste collections In TeAwamutu.

5000 SHIELDS COMPLETED

In early June, the daytime group of sewers completed their 5000^th shield ! A big milestone! We have now contributed 2500 Days for Girls kits that have gone all around the world and also to New Zealand girls and women in need. Each kit that goes out gets two of our shields in it. We have also sewn 1426 liners that go with the shields. So far this year1000 kits have gone to Fiji.

We continue to meet two times a month to sew together; usually the first Wednesday afternoon and Thursday evening of the month.We sew for a couple of hours, have a cup of tea and cake together and catch up on each other's new. 25 women participate in our group either as sewers or helpers, some taking home sewing to complete as well.

SUCCESSFUL ROTARY YEAR WINDING UP

Cambridge Rotary members were in high spirits at the District Conference held in Hastings recently and were delighted to have won the Best Club Fancy Dress award with the theme “Mid Life Crisis – Call the Midwife”. This certainly was rewarding as a busy year of fundraising, service and fellowship draws to a close.

There have been many successes with the club achieving great outcomes with its service projects and fundraising events. Funds raised from Bookarama and the Charity Dinner exceeded previous occasions and members have delivered more service projects adding the area of community medicine by offering blood pressure checks and volunteering at the Blood Service collections. The Adventure Club is proving very successful; the e-waste recycling project “Urban Miners” recognised at the Waipa Business Awards is proving a popular and welcome community service.

Cambridge Rotary Adventure Club

The Cambridge Rotary Adventure Club is a fellowship project that arranges outdoor adventures on a regular basis.

Adventures range from easy through to difficult and are designed, where possible to allow as wide a range of physical abilities and ages to participate. To date our youngest adventurer is aged 9 and our oldest 85. Adventures are open to both members, members families and non-members. Recently the Adventure Club has scaled Mount Maungatautari, cycled a section of the Waikato River Trails, tackled the Timber Trail on mountain bikes, walked to the Blue Springs and is about to scale the Pinnacles behind Thames, spending the night in the Pinnacles Hut. Future adventures are published in the Upcoming Events section of the club website.

2021 ROTARY CAMBRIDGE GARDEN FESTIVAL

With eleven amazing gardens, at least 1200 tickets sold, generous sponsorship and great weather, the 2019 festival was a blooming success.

Community groups and charities from the Cambridge area benefitted from the proceeds. Organiser Carey Church, says feedback was really positive and with some great suggestions and ideas for the next festival. 2021 will be bigger and better.

Rotary Cambridge cancelled the 2020 Rotary Cambridge Garden Festival due to the consequences of COVID 19 and the lockdowns.

We are now planning the 2021 Rotary Cambridge Garden Festival featuring up to 11 of our beautiful Cambridge gardens.

Save the date: 21 November 2021

Rotary: A strong supporter of our local community.

For more information go to www.cgf.nz

BOOKARAMA 2021 COLLECTING BOOKS NOW

Thanks to huge community support and a host of willing volunteers 2020 Bookarama was the most successful in recent years.

2021 is going to be better still.

Last year there were some surprises, perhaps because of the lockdowns we sold more gardening and cook books than usual! Some customers asking if we had cook books for children. We also sold more vinyl (the in-thing) and CDs (surprising given many people’s move to music streaming services).

With many fundraising activities halted or delayed by the pandemic this was a great result and funds raised will be going back into our community to support local charities.

We have started collecting and sorting books for 2021.

TASTE WAIKATO A GREAT GIFT

Help Rotary to help your community. Rotary Cambridge has published a popular cookbook —Taste Waikato — featuring simple but innovative recipes — all stylishly photographed — showcasing the food of the region. Also featured are light hearted stories of local food producers. All money from sales goes to helping people in our local community.

Taste Waikato is a great present and an extremely useful cookbook for friends either here or overseas. The book offers easy, innovative recipes created and photographed by food professional Jan Bilton.

URBAN MINERS- ROTARY CAMBRIDGE RECYCLING E-WASTE

Rotary Cambridge E-Waste Recycling

Rotary Cambridge has launched a new service for the Waipa community, to collect E-Waste, and dispose /recycle electrical items in an environmentally responsible manner. Items that are in working order, or can be repaired, are recycled or repurposed. E-Waste includes any equipment or product that operates on electricity or a battery. We are currently collecting E-Waste items up to the size of a microwave oven.

Collections are held every 3rd Sunday- 9- 11am out the front of Cambridge High School in Swayne Rd

Sad Facts:

80% of all New Zealand E-Waste ends up in landfills, and is not recycled.
The average New Zealander disposes of nearly 30kg of E-Waste per year.
A community the size of Cambridge generates up to 20-Tonnes of battery waste per year.
E-Waste contributes approx. 40% of Lead and 70% of Heavy Metals found in landfills.

ROTARY CAMBRIDGE BACK TO NORMAL... AGAIN

Rotary Cambridge is back up and running. While in person meetings through both lockdowns were cancelled owing to COVID-19, members met online each Thursday night. Using the ZOOM app, members used their various devices, laptops and computers enjoying this novel way of meeting.

Weekly Thursday 5.30pm meetings are again "in-person" meetings at the Cambridge High School Staffroom.

Due to COVID-19, the Board of Rotary Cambridge were forced to make some decisions regarding upcoming projects.

Bookarama – was postponed from June 2020 but will now be Nov 11-15th. Books are again being accepted at Achievement House in Wilson St, 9am- 3pm Mon- Fri until early November
The Garden Festival has been deferred to 2021
The normal grants' round has been postponed.

TWO ROTARIANS HONOURED

Two Rotarians were recently honoured for "exemplifying the humanitarian and educational objectives of the Rotary Foundation" were presented with Paul Harris Fellow Awards. Ian Rogers and Bev Heron were surprised but delighted when President Robyn Crickett made the presentation.

Ian has been a member of the club for 33 years. He was a member of Lions for 25 years prior to that. Robyn Crickett said "Ian is a great sounding board, having spent many years as a leader and advisor in the Education sector. He has also been heavily involved with Waikato Bowls."

"Bev is never shy to step forward assisting

ROTARY CAMBRIDGE MATERIALS RECOVERY PROJECT

This is a project centred upon collecting and recycling metals based products so they are diverted away from landfills. It is a new

service which Rotary will be providing for our local community and follows extensive research over more than a year. The project is fully endorsed by the Waipa District Council.Our initial focus will be upon collecting e-waste (products which operate using electricity or batteries) up to the size

DAYS FOR GIRLS

During 2018, Days for Girls Cambridge are meeting on the first Wednesday afternoon of the month at 1pm at the Cambridge Bridge Club and also at 7pm on the first Thursday evening of the month, at the same venue. We bring our own sewing machines and sew there. Some members also sew at home. There are 16 ladies involved in sewing shields and they come to one of the sessions when they can.

FITNESS PARK GETTING WORKOUT

Rotary Cambridge is delighted with the use the Fitness Park is getting. Opened in 2016, the equipment is being used throughout the day. Designed for all ages and levels of fitness, the park in Thornton Road is proving to be the success that project coordinator Robyn Crickett had hoped it would be.

ROTARY CAMBRIDGE- COMMITTED TO OUR COMMUNITY

Rotary Cambridge supports many community projects. We're always looking for assistance to support the club with these projects.

END OF CAMBRIDGE DIRECTORY

Rotary Cambridge has reluctantly decidedto stop publishing the annual CambridgeFindit community directory. First published in 1992, the directory has raised more than $1.25 million dollars that has been distributed to various community groups and organisations.

Welcome to Rotary Cambridge

SO WHY JOIN ROTARY?

Bein

g a member of a Rotary Club is not only a good way to get to know more people in your neighbourhood— it's also a great way to get involved in your community. Through community service and other means, Rotarians help promote peace and understanding throughout the world. Our members are our most important asset- the force that allows Rotary to carry out its many humanitarian efforts and achieve its mission. There are 1.2 million members worldwide.

We are neighbours, community members, and global citizens uniting for the common good.

With new enthusiastic members we can accomplish even more.

TELL ME MORE ABOUT ROTARY CAMBRIDGE

Rotary Cambridge currently have about 55 members and our weekly meetings are held every Thursday evening. The meeting format is very welcoming with either a social time over a drink followed by a meal and an interesting speaker or, every alternate week we have a relaxed less structured meeting with snack food.