Rotary Meeting – Urban Miners Facility – 24th Feb 2022
President Ian opened the meeting at 6:05 and welcomed everyone.
President Ian talked about the 7 areas of service.
• Peace and conflict prevention/resolution.
• Disease prevention and treatment.
• Water and sanitation
• Maternal and child health.
• Basic education and literacy.
• Economic and community development.
• And as relevant at tonight’s meeting The Environment.
President Ian welcomed our special guests.
Mayor Jim Mylchreest
Councillor Susan O’Regan
Councillor Philip Coles
Councillor Mike Petit
Counciler Lou Brown also representing Te Awamutu Community Board with Board Chair Angela Holt
Councillor and Cambridge Rotary Member Roger Gordon
From our Community Board Chair Sue Milner
Accompanied with Board member Alana Mackay
Te Awamutu Rotary President Peter Robinson
Te Awamutu Rotary members Murray Olsen, Chris Kay, and Chris Johnson
Urban Miner community volunteers Geoff Bentley and Mike Keighley.
And an extended welcome to our Rotary Partners and Guests tonight.
Mayor Jim spoked and congratulated the Urban Miners team. He stressed the Councils support for the Urban Miners project.
Philip Coles spoke for a few minutes and congratulated the Urban Miners team for the recent Keep New Zealand Beautiful Awards. Well done to Mark and David and the Urban Miners team.
Mark Hanlon spoke and welcomed everyone. Last year was the first full year of Urban Miners. In 2020 Urban Miners started regular monthly collections and in 2021 in July started collections in Te Awamutu. In total Urban Miners have diverted 15 tonnes of e-waste going to landfill.
3 collections have been run so far this year and Mark thanked the recent grant from the Waste Minimisation Fund for the grant to purchase the trailer.
Mark and David started taking groups of 8 people through the facility.
6:50pm President Ian awarded a Paul Harris Fellowship Award to John Windle and all the Rotarians showed the usual gratitude for the receipt of a Paul Harris Fellow award.
Dinner was served and the rest of the evening was spent with fellowship and enjoying the surroundings and company of Rotarians and Guests