Highbrook Rotary Bulletin 21st April 2015
THE ROTARY CLUB OF HIGHBROOK AUCKLAND. N.Z. District 9920. Weekly News Bulletin on 21st April 2015 OUR NEXT MEETING IS ON TUESDAY 5th May 2015 President Phone Email Liz Groenewegen 021 655 157 Secretary Phone Email Katrina Cole 021 862 931 [email protected] Editor Phone Ravinder Manilal 09 924 8599 021 50 78 50 Email [email protected] [email protected]. nz REMINDER ON UPCOMING SPEAKER 5th May 2015: Olivia McCarthy, Regional Voluntary Co-Ordinator on “ARWCF (Auckland Region Women’s Corrections Facility) Overview” “Every day coming to work means walking through a metal detector, having my bag xrayed, drawing secure keys which hang off a chain on my belt and my personal radio.” To hear more about Olivia McCarthy’s work as a Regional Volunteer Coordinator with the Corrections Facilities, please come and join us at our Rotary meeting on Tuesday 5th May. Breakfast meetings are held 1st, 2nd & 3rd Tuesday of the Month in the meeting room at: Club Meeting 21st April 2015 Waipuna Conference Centre @ Highbrook Fun-Run Debrief by President Liz Groenewegen Arrive at 7:00am for breakfast and 7:30am start. It was acknowledged that this was a most successful event with good community & sponsor feedback-active participation from all those involved and $20K turnover. Club members were all congratulated on their participation & hard work in making this event so noteworthy. District Governors news link A big thank you again to all our major sponsors. http://9920.rotarynews.org.nz 1 Club members were asked to give suggestions on areas that needed “tweaking” and there were a few as summarised below. The suggestions are valuable to help prepare us for our 2016 Fun-Run and make it even bigger and better again. Web site & registration issues need to be reviewed. This postponed to a later date for further discussion. A new role of web site liaison was recommended. Also a Facebook Manager. More quality prizes are needed for the winners of the 5km team run. Special mention was made of Office Max (Kevin Obern) who provided the bulk of prizes. Winners’ names from all categories are to be published in the Bulletin. Recommendation that the walkers set off earlier so all teams finish at a similar time, rather than the 5 km runners finishing early and waiting for the majority of runners and walkers to finish. There are however difficulties with this. Comment was made that the event ran to time so less of an issue this year. The results be emailed to all entrants & sponsors, and not only to the supreme winning team. Concern was expressed regarding lack of attention given to the Volunteer Marshalls. A snack pack with water bottles to be issued in future. SPONSORS feedback. - What are their expectations of this event-how did it work for them? Sponsors need to be kept aware of this upcoming event well before the day. Possible contact three times a year to potential Sponsors via emails/flyers. The sponsor’s tent not well used. Is this necessary in future as there was enough publicity. Suggestion made for a combined cycle & fun run walk event by Norm. This was refused for safety concerns & management issues. All data base information to be handed over to one specific person. At this time that is Moira. It was noted that many corporate teams from last year did not enrol or had fewer entrants. We need to understand reason/s for this. General agreement that a TRAINING SCHEDULE IS REQUIRED for prospective teams-entrants. This to be sent out 6 months prior to the day. Recommendation that there be a ‘FOLLOW-UP TEAM’ to move in after the event and manage-reviewrecord the “happenings”. This to have the effect of “new eyes” as well as relieving the organisers. 2015 there were fewer runners & more walkers. Comments that the route is a hard course particularly when windy & the uphill start. Possibility of an analysis of the hard core 10km runners with a view to targeting bigger numbers of these in future. 2 Recommendation that all participants be sent an EVALUATION sheet. (Stephen Passmore to implement). MUSIC. This had a positive effect with many positive comments from both runners & the workers. Light Horse BBQ contribution to be re-evaluated. Confusion regarding charge for the sausages. Suggestion may be Rotarians man their own BBQ. Suggestion for an after run-walk activity, of a “photo booth” or similar for team & individual photos. Greater publicity/display given to sponsors names/logos. General agreement that the “Timing Guy” was excellent-both expertise & attitude. Feedback also required from him as to the running of this event. CLUB OFFICERS FOR THE UPCOMING YEAR 2015-2016 - Presented by President Elect. Brendan Kelly President Elect. Nomination for 2016-2017 Year: Membership: Treasurer: Programme, Interclub Liaison: Youth Director: PR Manager: Bulletin Editor: Facebook Manager: Fundraising Team Manager: Otara Lakes Project: 2016 Fun Run Manager: Katrina Cole Katrina Cole Gayle Askew Mary Ann France Lesley McLagan Vacant Ravinder Manilal Jason Gadson and Tashee Smith Vacant Richard Myhre Stephen Passmore OTARA LAKES PROJECT – Update by Brendan Kelly The immediate requirement is the proposed clean-up of dumped tyres which has an estimated cost of $9,000. This cost will be met in part by the Council ($4500) and GETBA. (Troy i/c environmental issues) $2000. NZ Post-Quest-Goodman sponsoring the balance. Rotary Club Highbrook in consideration for the remaining $500. The Otara Lakes clean-up is a 10 year project and is still in the planning stage. Small steps to start with. Total estimated cost $30m. It was noted that all the tributaries running into the Tamaki River are as yet un-named. Brendan reported on attending the Blue-Green conference. After discussion with Nick Smith (Minister of the Environment) $1-2 million could be given by the Council to this project, followed by further funding. 3 ROTARY HIGHBROOK PRESIDENT CHANGEOVER DINNER – please note in your diaries Tuesday May 19th at 6pm for 6:15pm start At Manukau Institute of Technology. “Dine” Restaurant. Map to be provided. Buffet Cost TBA There will be Entertainment Further details with be provided in the next Bulletin, so watch this space! FLAT BUSH PRIMARY SCHOOL – Update by Moira McGowan DICTIONARIES. Our commitment is for 65 dictionaries per year. Last year’s donation was a huge success with students-parents & staff The gardens need refurbishing with more bark with an alternative to the Punga logs. Further garden extension requested. A Rotary working bee to be arranged. Date TBA. Cooking lessons on stream for parents. Most successful as they learnt how to cook NZ vegetables. Students’ attitude to learning & school in general now sky high due to Rotary participation & prizes. 4 CLUB NOTICES LETS (Leaders Elect Training Seminar) TRAINING FLYER If you are interested please discuss further with Liz or Brendan. 5 KENZIE’S GIFT NEWLETTER Abstract from Newsletter: Highbrook Rotary donates $2,000 to Kenzie's Gift Over 400 runners joined in the Highbrook Rotary's February 2015 Business House Fun Run, raising funds for four charities including Kenzie's Gift. A wonderful donation of $2,000 was made by the Club in support of our community work with children and families. Highbrook Vice President Brendan Kelly said, "Nic spoke to our Members last year and we were moved by her story and courage, particularly in the context of Kenzie's illness. As a Rotary Club we support a number of charities in different ways, all done from love, commitment and Members giving freely of their time and energy. We were so pleased that we could help Kenzie's Gift with this donation from our run." We extend our thanks to Highbrook Rotary Club for their generous support of our work. Please refer to link below for Kenzie’s Gift full Newsletter: http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=2dd56587e82c5e692d1722349&id=1a5975466a&e=fb959c877c POLIO FUNDRAISER – Five Dollar Note Raffle 6 7 INVITATIONS / DATES TO REMEMBER Rotary District 9920 Conference The conference is being held at the Wairakei Resort during the weekend of 1st – 3rd May 2015. Please refer to the link for more details: http://www.d9920conference2015.com/ Rotary Club of Auckland Harbourside invite you to “Best Of British” being held on Saturday 23rd May 2015 starting at 6:30pm. Ticket price is $100 per person. Please contact Jacqui Matthews-Harris ([email protected]) for tickets. Further details follow: Please come along (in medieval costume or otherwise) to support this awesome event which is fundraising for Springboard Community Works. http://www.springboard.org.nz/ 8 THE ROTARY CLUB OF HIGHBROOK PROGRAM AND DUTY ROSTER 2015 DATE 5th May 12th May 19th May 2nd June MC Moira Gayle Kevin SPEAKER Olivia McCarthy Ian Wakefield Club Day Queen's Birthday Weekend SPEAKER SUBJECT ARWCF (Women's Prison) DG Visit N/A VENUE Waipuna Waipuna TBA SPEAKER HOST Mary Ann Richard M N/A THANK GUEST SPEAKER Katrina Liz N/A BULLETIN SCRIBE Lesley TBA Moira BULLETIN Gayle Ravinder Ravinder BACKUP PERSON Sophie Brendan Gayle 9
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