Well here we are again, still in lockdown. Hopefully everyone is going well, and we’ll be down to level 3 after Tuesday night.
If you’re struggling at all, or need help, please reach out, there are plenty of people willing to respond and help.
I’m sure you’re all missing your regular Rotary Fix, so we’ve had to rethink our plans and will be moving to Zoom meetings for the next 2 weeks at least.
How we proceed after that is obviously dependent on what happen around the country and what the PM and Dr Bloomfield decide.
Survey
This week we were to have a special AGM, present the accounts and discuss the results of the survey – however, as at lunchtime today, only 14 of us had responded to the survey, which statistically isn’t really enough to base any decisions on.
So thank for those who have responded, there’s some great feedback coming through. It does sound like a few people haven’t received the original emails, so I resent out a reminder today, about 12.17pm - If you haven’t done the survey and didn’t get that email, pls check your Junk or Spam folders on your email, and if you haven’t received anytihng, pls let me know and I’ll confirm your email address is loaded correctly and resend it out.
So the schedule is:
Tuesday 31 August: 7pm Zoom meeting –
- Present the accounts
- And have everyone to speak for a minute or 2 on the book, film or person that has inspired you.
Tuesday 7 September – 7pm Zoom meeting – a link for this will be sent in next week’s bulletin to download Zoom if required, and then join the meeting
The return of the Great Debate.
- Repeating last year’s successful debate, we’ll argue 2 sides of a yet to be determined topic.
- Looking for 6 debaters and a chair – pls advise Karynmeade@icloud.com ASAP if you’re keen to participate, so we can get things organised
Tuesday 14 Sept
Hopefully we’ll be back at level 2 so we can have an in person meeting with our scheduled speaker:
Lisa Beighton JP
Manager Porirua Club
Other news:
Several people are looking at ways in which we can help in the community over this time.
- Food deliveries for the foodbanks
- ‘child minding’ – essentially this is sitting in your car at the supermarket, parked up next to the car of the ‘client’ with their cell phone number, keeping an eye on kids in the car so mum or dad can do the shopping without having to take kids in to the supermarket and know they’re safe – any issues, and you can call the parent to come deal with it.
Another suggestion is helping the refugees that will be arriving from Afghanistan over the next couple of weeks – a call has gone out for furniture, household items and pantry staples. While we can’t deliver anything while we’re still in level 3 or 4, many people are having a cleanout while they’re in lockdown – so if this is you, can you pls put aside anything that could be useful and then we can organise a night to collect and sort it for delivery once we’re in level 2.
Karyn
