Rotary Bulletin 14-December–2020 – Meeting

The next get together on Monday 25th January is at John and Sue Pollard’s property. This is the BBQ Fundraising event which marks the start of our new year Rotary involvement. Funds raised will go towards the Rotary Foundation. Details of the event to follow at a later date.

Attendance: 40 people incl. Guest

Sergeant’s session: N/A

Raffle: N/A

Toast: N/A

Two-minute talk: N/A

NOTICES

Membership Drive
A quick reminder from Rob Brangwin for each Rotarian to list the details of any potential new Rotarians. This list to be forwarded to Rob or Trish who will follow up in the new year.

Fundraising

Christmas Raffle
Excerpts from Colin Wakes email dated 15th December
“The winner of the trailer is Michelle Kilgour, who lives in Porirua. She was so excited when I rang last night and she was still just as excited when I spoke with her again this morning. She will be coming up on Saturday, and along with a brother who lives in Hastings, will collect the trailer sometime Saturday afternoon.
I delivered the kayak late this afternoon to Samuel Walter, a very pleasant young guy who has recently returned from living in Perth. He was thrilled with his win.
The winner of the third prize, Fraser, was a young lad. His mother assured me last night when I phoned her that he would be very happy with his $50 voucher. I delivered it today to their address in Lucknow Road.”
Thank you to Colin, Jessica, David and others on the Raffle committee, along with all those who volunteered to sell raffle tickets, you made this another successful Christmas Raffle.

Duties (as at Rotary Bulletin 29 December-2020)
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.

DATE	25th January
Event/Speaker	New Year BBQ at John and Sue Pollard’s property.
Cashier
Toast
Grace and Badges
2 Minute Talk
Sergeant
Speaker’s Orderly
Vote of Thanks
Parting Thought

Editor’s Piece
Another Christmas has come and gone, my family left today back to their various locations. We have been entertaining between 10 – 13 people since the 23rd which has been wonderful, but I will be looking forward to a couple of days getting the house back in order and not cooking for a large group. Unfortunately, although the weather on Christmas day was better than expected, it has slowly gone downhill since then and we are back into our winter woollies at the moment. We are enjoying the cricket so it gives us an excuse to stay inside and watch this on the telly. We did get out to Waimarama for a swim on Boxing day which was lovely, how lucky are we to have such a wonderful beach so close to us. We now have New Year celebrations to look forward to and then hopefully you are all enjoying some lazy days in the sun before things get too hectic again. HAPPY NEW YEAR everyone and I hope 2021 is a little better than 2020 which we all want to forget. Just think how fortunate we are to be in NZ and enjoy all the freedoms that do not exist in other parts of the world right now.

Karen Tobeck
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.