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We meet Thursdays at 5:30 PM
Resthaven Community Centre
The Views on Vogel
4 Vogel St
Cambridge, Waikato  3434
New Zealand
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Next Meeting 15th August

Next Meeting - Thursday August 15th - AGM

Speaker:    Robyn Cricket
Topic:        Annual General Meeting
 
Venue:     Resthaven Community Centre
 

THIS WEEK'S NOTICES

Club meeting 8/8/19

Welcome

 
President Robyn welcomed visitors to the meeting Graeme Webber, Sue Milner, Adrienne Miller (Porirua Rotary) and Bronwen Byers as well as Silvio Ribeiro and his wife Adriana.  She also welcomed back from holiday Blewdy Blewden, John Bullick, Gordon Calder, Keith Rogers and Bev and Don Wilson.  Carey Church mentioned the invaluable help that Adrienne Miller had been in establishing the Garden Festival.
 
Guest Speaker: Brigadier Jon Broadley, New Zealand Defence Force – NZDF update
 
Don Harris introduced Brigadier Broadley who has had many years’ experience in the New Zealand Defence Force and is a resident of Cambridge.
 
Brigadier Broadley said that the modern environment poses different challenges to what was experienced during the first and second world wars. Although the current threats are not a conventional war, threats to our security and way of life still exist.  Through live television and social media we see incidents such as the tragedies in Christchurch, the Middle East, Africa, New York, London, Paris, Nice and Sydney played out in public with a level of detail and immediacy. This did not exist in the early and mid-20th centuries. Brigadier Broadley emphasised that terrorist attacks were not the only threat to our security, citing piracy and missile testing by certain countries, amongst other things.
 
New Zealand’s zone of responsibility in terms of Search and Rescue stretches from the equator to Antarctica and from half way to Australia to half way to Chile – an area of 30 million square kilometres. A total of 15,000 personnel – comprising fulltime, part-time and civilians are employed/engaged, with 250 personnel deployed on operations overseas.
 
From a military perspective, viable and sustainable military options must be maintained for the future. A strategy that prepares the NZDF for the future around three goals has been established to ensure the organisation is an effective Force for New Zealand. NZDF is always striving to work smarter and find better ways of doing things.
 
In closing and prior to questions, Brigadier Broadley thanked Rotary Cambridge members for their service to the community.
  
Induction of new member – Silvio Ribeiro
August is Membership and New Club Development month for Rotary, and very appropriately President Robyn had the pleasure of formally inducting into Rotary Cambridge - Silvio Ribeiro. Silvio, who is from Brazil has lived in New Zealand for three years and now resides in Cambridge with his wife Adriana who was also present.  Silvio is no stranger to Rotary having been involved in Rotoract. His father has been a Rotarian for 30 years and has held many official positions. Members acknowledged appropriately Silvio’s induction into the Rotary Club of Cambridge and are looking forward to his contributions and working with him.  
 
His classification has been registered as Marketing-Digital. Silvio is already a member of the Publicity team and will be a member of the New Generations Committee under the directorship of John Bullick.  We are sure Silvio will bring valuable new ideas to the club especially in the digital space.
 
Notices
 
Proposed project for a Matching Grant
President Robyn advised that discussions had occurred with relevant Council staff members in exploring the proposed project of upgrading/enhancing the bank of the Square opposite the Town Clock and a shelter for the bus stop opposite the i-site.   Further research was required and members would be kept updated.
 
Firewood project
Ian Grant, Ken Leatham and Chris Crickett were working out a plan for donating or selling trailer loads of firewood.
 
 
Annual General Meeting (AGM)
The AGM will be held next club meeting – Thursday, 15 August.
 
Club meetings
President Robyn reminded members as follows:
  • Club meeting 22 August – Chamber BA5 – a business After 5 meeting with Chamber members.
  • Club meeting 29 August – Vocational visit to Ruakura to learn about Small Animal Research and sheep milking. Please advise your intention to attend.
 
Westpac Rescue Helicopter Trust
Doug Lang read a thank you note from the Westpac Rescue Helicopter Trust for the Rotary Cambridge $2,500 grant.
 
Raffle Winner
Greg Gascoigne (first prize) with Roger Hill taking second place 😊
 
Rotary International News             
-Value of Rotary Volunteering
 A special report prepared for Rotary International by the Johns Hopkins Centre for Civil Society Studies estimated the value of Rotary member volunteer hours per annum at $US850 million (translated into New Zealand dollars this equates to $1,314,146,325.68). The report estimated that Rotary members provide about 47 million hours of volunteer effort a year. For the 2018/19 year, Rotary Cambridge had an estimated total of 6,500 volunteer hour
 
 
 
-International Convention – 6-10 June 2020, Honolulu, Hawaii
Honolulu, Hawaii
 
15 December 2019: Last day for early-registration discount
 
Registration is open to Rotarians, Rotaractors, Interactors, alumni, Youth Exchange students, club and district employees, and spouses of deceased Rotarians. Guests can also attend at the appropriate fee.  
The temperature in Hawaii in June is between 22-30 degrees Celsius.  Consider taking advantage of the relatively close location to New Zealand and attend this major world-wide Rotary event.
 
 
 
 
 
2021-22 RI President selected
Shekhar Mehta, of the Rotary Club of Calcutta-Mahanagar, West Bengal, India, is the selection of the Nominating Committee for President of Rotary International for 2021-22. He will be declared the president-nominee on 1 October if no challenging candidates have been suggested.
 
 
 
 
 
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Roster

Roster

Please take note of the Duty Roster and be in good time for your duties.

NOTE The Duty "Magic Moment" is: A short comment referencing something in our community, or within Rotary which you find inspiring, encouraging or adding to the joy and pleasure of life. It should be an uplifting story that takes no more than two minutes to deliver. Ideally it will be something from the last week or so, something others may not yet have heard about.
 
 
15 Aug
22 Aug
29 Aug
Sept 5
Attendance
Tom Pickering
David Smith
Peter Fisher
Roger Hill
RUAKURA
 
TBC
Ian Rogers
Tom Pickering
Welcomer
Keith Rogers
Ron Geck
 
Andy Newman
Intro
AGM
BA5
 
John Bishop
Thanks
AGM
BA5
 
Kim Prichard
Magic
Moment
AGM
BA5
 
John Bullick
Bar
David Blewden
Kim Prichard
John Tarbutt
Gavin Levesque
 
Carey Church
Mark Hanlon
Kitchen
Laurie Craham
Phil McCreery
Shirley Haycock
Shona Devoy
 
Bill MacMillan
Bill Wilson
Equipment
Richard Johnstone
Roger Gordon
Ted Mason
Andrew Bateman
 
Dennis Finn
Bob Teal
IT Equipment
Andrew Bateman
Andrew Bateman
 
Doug Lang
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Duties

Weekly Duties

A new description of the weekly duties has been published.  You can see the full description on ClubRunner using this link to the duties
 
 
 

 

 
 
Equipment Duty
 
Time:
5-5.15pm  in time to set up before regular meeting.
Plus after the close of the meeting
 
 
Duty:
Set up attendance table.
Set up tables for dining.
Set up lectern and check IT equipment is out.
Return equipment to storage after meeting.
Leave tables and chairs in pattern according to Resthaven plan (on lectern)
 
 
How:
Place name badges so members can recover them as they arrive.
Placemats and salt and pepper on each table - these may need rearranging to suit our meeting.
Place lectern by top table.
Place sergeant’s paraphernalia on top table (shrapnel box, fines box, raffle numbers, bell and hammer). Microphone to be placed on lectern..
Place President’s paraphernalia on top table (chain of office, collar microphone, flags).
Place roll out banner(s) by top table behind lectern.
After the meeting return all equipment, including name badge box where you found it and lock cupboard. Venue should be left as according to Resthaven set up plan.
 
 
Materials:
 
Large items are stored in the small room beside the kitchen (lectern, banners, etc)
Tableware is stored in the black metal cupboard in equipment room. Key to cupboard hangs inside lectern.
 
 
 
Locking up:
Check and coordinate with the President that the building is to be locked as you leave.
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Speakers
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Aug 22, 2019
BA5
Aug 29, 2019
Ruakura
Sep 05, 2019
A day in the Life of an MP
Sep 12, 2019
District Governor's Visit
Sep 19, 2019
JPD- Just some fun for the evening
Sep 26, 2019
New Principal - Cambridge High School
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Annual General Meeting
Aug 15, 2019
5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
 
Club meeting
Aug 22, 2019
5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
 
Club Forum
Aug 29, 2019
5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
 
Club meeting
Sep 05, 2019
5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
 
Club meeting
Sep 12, 2019
5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
 
Club meeting
Sep 19, 2019
5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
 
Club meeting
Sep 26, 2019
5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
 
Rotary Cambridge Garden Festival
Nov 24, 2019
 
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