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Fran Tate - President 2017-18
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Guest Speakers
Apr 23, 2018
Mongol rally greatest motoring adventure on theplanet
May 01, 2018
International Needs Bangladeshi Orphanage
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April 5
 
chris Tempest
April 15
 
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April 21
 
Upcoming Events
Art in the Park Wanaka
196 Maxwell Road, Cnr Faulks Road
Apr 21, 2018
8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
 
David McAtamney
UNDER CONSIDERATION
May 19, 2018
7:00 PM – 9:30 PM
 
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Tuesday 6th March 2018  @ The Golf Club
 
Magazine Recycle – Need reading material? Take a look in the box.   
 
Mountain Biking Sunday – Still happening if you want!
 
Vege Swap – Still some great produce out there to swap or giveaway. 
 
Friends of Rotary (FOR) – If you have anyone interested in helping out at our fundraising events, then let me know. FOR is a good way for interested parties to get to know how the Rotary Club works. This could lead to more members.  Friends signed up x 4. 
 
Coming up
  • Membership Satisfaction Survey (MSS) - Have you done yours?
  • Rotary Speech Competition  - Coming up. The Youth Committee is on the lookout for participants with Don Irvine at the helm. 
  • ClubRunner Calendar - updated to April, this is the start of a very busy 3 months!  Keep an eye out for the events volunteer information, next up is the A and P Show.  
REMINDER: Please check duty rosters in the bulletin. If you are unable to perform the duty please find someone else and notify Admin & President Fran.     
                                                      
Deadline for Apologies: Monday 5pm  
 
The Wanaka Rotary Club - Out there and Doing it!
 
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CLUB DUTIES

2018

March

April

Attendance

Johnathan Wamisley

Deborah Budden

Attendance 

Nolene Pullar

Maryanne McKenzie

Introduction

John Huddleston

Ian Shore

Raffle

Richard Wallace

Mike Elliott

Thanks

Rosie Burridge

Deans Hudson

Sergeant

Jarrod Fraser

Tony O'Regan 

Meet&Greet

Shirley Armstrong

Catherine Little 

Meet&Greet

Malcolm Baker

Pam Brown

Members who are absent for a meeting (s) but not on Leave of Absence should in the first instance arrange a swap with the member doing the same duty next month. If this is not successful enlist someone else and return the favour later :-)

Mountain Bike Riding SUNDAYS
9am meet at the Log Cabin
and ride round to the lake finishing at Double Black Cafe in Albert Town.
 
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UPPER CLUTHA CHILDRENS MEDICAL TRUST QUIZ NIGHT
The Upper Clutha Childrens Medical Trust (check it out on www.uccmedtrust.co.nz and see exactly what we do) is holding a quiz night at the Wanaka Golf Clubhouse at 7 pm on Friday the 13th April 2018.

We are looking for teams of 6 - 8 people with the cost of entry being $15 per person.  You are guaranteed heaps of fun with quiz master George Smyth.  There is a cash bar, supper and outstanding raffle, spot prizes and just 1 auction of an outstanding flight package around Mount Cook.

It would be great if Rotary could put together some teams and come along and support such a great cause.

Please get in touch with Dave Evans or Derek Valentine to get your tickets.


 
 
In the last District Newsletter, there was an article about this year's District Conference. It told you about one of the speakers Cam Calkoen and about the MC Matt McLean and probably you have been wondering ever since who else is coming???
 
There is information about all of the speakers going on the conference website 9980conference.co.nz very soon - in fact it might be there already!!! But just in case, I thought I should tell you about some of our other speakers:
 
Martin Snedden - former New Zealand cricketer, and also a former CEO of NZ Cricket, 2011 Rugby World Cup coordinator, leader of the successful bid to host the 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup, CEO of Duco Sports Management, and CEO of the Tourism Industry Association - he has lots of entertaining stories to tell!
 
Kevin Biggar - a self-confessed couch potato who decided to row across the Atlantic in 2003 with fellow-rower Jamie Fitzgerald, and then to walk unsupported to the South Pole! He and Jamie combined to host several series of the very successful TV series First Crossings and Intrepid NZ. Why?? Come along and find out!
 
Robbie Francis - an outstanding young women who is an inspiration to us all. Robbie has close ties with Rotary, especially in our District, and her mission to empower people with disabilities through the Lucy Foundation (which she founded in 2014) is a story worth listening to!
 
Associate Professor Nicola Atwool specialises in issues relating to children. She has worked for Child Youth and Family (CYF) and for 7 years was Principal Advisor in the Office of the Commissioner for Children. She is well qualified to tell us about the issues that have led to the creation of the new Ministry for Children.
 
Dr Lance O'Sullivan is a Maori doctor working in Kaitaia who was named New Zealander of the Year in 2014 for his work in bringing health programmes to disadvantaged people in rural areas. In 2015 he was named Communicator of the Year. Lance is passionate and outspoken about resourcing health care, and recently played an integral role in changing the Hippocratic Oath.
 
The Conference Committee has worked long and hard to secure these speakers, and we think we have an amazing line-up...so good in fact that you can't afford to miss it!!!
 
Registrations are now open at 9980conference.co.nz for a conference not to be missed!!
 
PS Next week will be the release of the theme for the Saturday night function - is this the year that Fiordland Club get knocked off their perch??

“NRG PROVIDES NEW ENERGY”
Article by RC PDG John Prendergast
 
We have seen in New Zealand in recent years the advent of “NRG” - Next (or New) Rotary Generation - Rotary Clubs. The first in New Zealand was in Invercargill – they started with a presentation from human spark plug Holly Ransom in May 2015, and less than a year later in April 2016 NRG Invercargill received their charter. Fast forward another year and in April 2017 NRG Dunedin were chartered. Work is now underway to establish NRG Timaru, and there is also interest in other areas of New Zealand to form NRG Rotary Clubs.
So, what are these new and presumably wildly different Rotary Clubs? Well perhaps surprisingly they’re pretty much like a normal Rotary club, but with a few little twists and tweaks. It is probably fitting that NRG Invercargill was chartered in April 2016, because that was the same month that the 2016 Council on Legislation approved significant changes to the way Clubs operate, allowing much greater flexibility. NRG Invercargill, unknowingly, was an early adopter of these changes mandated by the Council on Legislation - even though the new Rotary Club at the end of the earth probably wasn’t even aware of the existence of the Council, let alone that the Council was meeting at the very same time NRG Invercargill was arranging their charter meeting, NRG Invercargill set their Club up to operate in a way that suited them, and in a way that was relevant to life in the 21st century – and happily the Council on Legislation had moved in the very same direction.
NRG Invercargill: meets every second week; don’t have a formal meal at their meetings, instead they have drinks and nibbles, which are much cheaper, and don’t require a caterer, they just bring their own; one third of the Club have just had, or are having, babies - so their meetings are family friendly, members brings their kids along with them; they use Facebook for promotion and communication – every meeting is a Facebook event, and serves as a way to introduce the Club, and Rotary, to the public. So, quite different to a box-standard Rotary Club you might say – but when you actually look at it, they’re not really that different at all: ·
NRG Invercargill’s absolute focus is on service, and fellowship; · whilst flexibility has been important to them, so are solid processes and procedures; · the core tenants of Rotary International remain - Rotary’s goals and ethos form the backbone of NRG Invercargill, just as they do for all of our Rotary Clubs around the world. It’s just that NRG Invercargill deliver their Rotary experience slightly differently. And the differences really are only slight, any existing Club could easily adapt what they’re currently doing and adopt some of the simple practices that NRG Clubs have in place – with amazing results: · since chartering 3 years ago with 20 members, NRG Invercargill’s membership today sits at 27; · they have an ethnically diverse membership – Irish, English, Indian, Pakistani, American, Brazilian, Filipino; · 75% of their membership is female.
NRG Clubs are often looked at by other Rotarians as one of those new-fangled clubs for young people – we would be better to look at them as the new way of delivering Rotary in the 21st century for ALL Clubs, and adapt our existing Clubs to these more flexible ways of operating. The changes aren’t actually that massive, and would be simple to implement - where there’s a will to do so.
The results speak for themselves.