DECEMBER IS DISEASE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT MONTH
NEXT MEETING 27 JANUARY 2020 – Rotary BBQ
Rotary Meeting 9 -December-2019
ATTENDANCE – 55 members and partners including guests Doug and Jackie Henderson, guest speaker Jo Reyngould and past members and friends of Rotary Des and Lorraine Rawcliffe, John and Betty Baker, Kay Copper and Margaret Loughnan.
SPEAKER – Jo Reyngould coordinator of the Christmas Cheer Appeal said that 550 families in Hastings District including 2000 children under age of 15 will receive gifts and food parcels for families this year. This is done by a band of volunteers and help agencies allocate people they can nominate to receive the gifts. A database is set up to check on double-ups as some families can be nominated 2 or 3 times. Pak n Save provides sponsored groceries, the Yarny Army provide knitted soft toys and Boomerang Bags provide bags. Jo thanked our members for the generous gift of presents and food parcels.
FUTURE MEETINGS
2020
3 February Mayor Sandra Hazelhurst
10 February Lon Anderson – Rural Support Trust
17 February Club Meeting
CLUB NOTICES AND DUTIES
Apologies:
The number of guests attending or apologies must reach Ian Ellengold phone 878 8652 or email ianellengold@gmail.com before 10 pm Sunday. Please also note that if you’re bringing a partner or other guest you also need to notify the attendance officer, to enable our caterers to prepare the correct number of meals.
Duties:
Please note these arrangements: If you are rostered on for duty but find you are unavailable it is your responsibility to arrange a replacement for yourself. Once this is done, email Stephen Randal at stephen.randalnz@gmail.com and advise him of the change. Note: most duties require attendance at 5.30 pm. Your duty may involve the use of equipment; you must put it away at the end of the meeting.
| DATE | 27 January |
| Event | BBQ |
| Cashier | Duties |
| Visitor Reception, Badges and Grace | to |
| Two-minute talk | be |
| Sergeant | advised |
| Speakers Orderly/Intro | in the |
| Vote of Thanks | New Year |
BIRTHDAYS: 10 December – 27 January 2020
| Grant Spackman | 11 December |
| Scott Henderson | 16 December |
| Lyn Gage | 23 December |
| Trish Giddens | 29 December |
| Carolyn Seadon | 30 December |
| Tony Brooker | 3 January 2020 |
| Julie Brangwin | 3 January |
| Jill Downer | 3 January |
| Shirley Brooker | 17 January |
ANNIVERSARIES: 10 December – 27 January 2020
| Grant and Wendy Spackman | 6 January 2020 |
| Rob and Julie Brangwin | 8 January |
| Dale and Jenny Prebble | 11 January |
| Bill and Karin Riley | 11 January |
| Tony and Shirley Brooker | 17 January |
NOTICES
Rotary Raffle Results
1st Prize – Ticket 4856 – M. Lincoln
2nd Prize – Ticket 3147 – G. Smith
3rd Prize – Ticket 2868 – M. Young
All winners have been informed.
Support Needed
In October I spoke to the Havelock North Rotary Club. Part of my presentation touched on the long waiting list that exists in NZ for people needing a cochlear implant.
Currently, there is a petition about the unacceptable waiting list in support of more funding.
I am writing to ask for your help; can you and your club members, friends and family please sign the petition in support of people in need of a cochlear implant?
Here is the link to the petition that is asking for an increase; I’d be very grateful if you could share this around your friends and family.
https://www.parliament.nz/en/petitions/sign/PET_92770
If you have any comments or questions please do not hesitate to contact me.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all your members.
Warm regards
Belinda van der Monde
Fundraising Manager
Message from Trish Giddens:-
So, I didn’t get home till 10.45 from our Christmas function. WHY: I couldn’t find my car keys!. Checked the Hall twice. Colin, Steve and Barbara with Colin’s torch and car lights shining across the grounds were helping me look for them. NO LUCK. Checked with the Tupperware party going on in the room next door – no they hadn’t seen them but could sell me some Tupperware. Damn – with Barbara’s phone – ring my daughter and son in law in Hastings – wake them both up thinking I would have to borrow one of their cars to get home to Waipukurau. THEN I thought – Gosh I wonder if I dropped them in one of the parcel bags I gave to the Christmas Appeal. With Steve’s phone this time – call to Peter Mayne who phones Jo Reyngould who dutifully searches, finds them and so returns with them from Flaxmere. In the interim offers to run me home, put me up for the night and them happily sit with me until my son-in-law comes to assist is all the very good reason I love the gentle genuine caring of my fellow Rotarians and their wives.
Merry Christmas everyone😊.
Trish
from Gabby Anderson.
LAST LAUGH
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM
Ian Holford
Bulletin Editor.
The opinions expressed in this bulletin are not necessarily those of the President or Directors or of members of the Rotary Club of Havelock North Inc.
