Members Bulletins 2019-05-26 (May 26, 2019)

PLEASE NOTE NEW APOLOGY PROCEDURE

Please register guest attendance and apologies for non-attendance by 8pm on Sunday evening to: tawa.rotaryapologies@gmail.com,

or else before midday Monday please text to Malcolm Andrews 027 472 9837

Please check if you're on duty (list below) and arrange a substitute if you're unable to attend.

Any queries about meetings and duty rosters, please contact Malcolm Andrews 027 472 9837 or email: ml.andrews@xtra.co.nz.

Duties 28 May – Robin Peterson - Day in the Life of a School Nurse

Do You have a Job on Tuesday Evening?

Set Up:	Karen Searle & Ken Woodgate
Greetings Table:	Steven Pettigrew & John Melville
Starting & Parting Thought:	Ian Munro
3 Minute Speaker:	Michael Kelly
Guest Host, Introduction & Thanks	Tom Humphries
Sergeant:	Paul Drummond
Photos:	Laura Sommer

Duties 4 June – Board Meeting only

Duties 11 June – Angela Miller Educational Leadership

Do You have a Job on Tuesday Evening?

Set Up:	Karen Searle & Robert Tredger
Greetings Table:	Don Rushworth & Malcolm Andrews
Starting & Parting Thought:	Richard Herbert
3 Minute Speaker:	Judith Havill
Guest Host, Introduction & Thanks	Tom Humphries
Sergeant:	Malcolm Sparrow
Photos:	Richard Hutchinson

This Week's Meeting and Notices

NEXT ROTARY MEETING

Tuesday 21st May 6 p.m.

NOTE due to a speaker apology there has been a changed of programme for next week's speaker.

Our speaker will now be Robyn Peterson - from Linden, a Mother of 6 and a School Nurse from Wellington Boys College Wellington.

Robyn will tell us about a day in her life working with teenage boys. Boys who may turn up at any moment in the day with mild health issues to major health issues from asthma, cancer, flu, broken limbs to mental health issues. It's all in a fun-filled full day's work for Robyn.

OTHER NOTICES:

The Tawa Salvation Army Foodbank project: Stuff The Trailers With Stuff

As earlier announced Tawa Rotary and Inner Wheel and Salvation Army have joined forces for a collection project to top up the Tawa Food Bank to cover the winter season demand. Keep Saturday 8th June free to help with this project for a couple hours on a roster at either Countdown or New Wheel.

Speaker 11th June : Angela Millar

Our speaker on 11th June is Angela Millar who is a graduating PhD student at Victoria University of Wellington. Her thesis investigated principal leadership practice in low socio-economic primary school settings for educational success.

This is an opportunity for school principals working with lower decile schools can network and connect together with organisations like Rotary and make a difference to the achievements of students in low decile socio-economic environments.

We welcome any school principals, teachers or guests to join us for the dinner $25 at 6pm or just come for Angela's talk (no cost) starting at 7pm.

Please RSVP to tawa.rotaryapologies@gmail.com to confirm guest and visitor numbers for the dinner/talk option, or the talk only, by Sunday 9th June 7pm

Tawa MenZshed : Movie Fundraiser - only a few seats remaining

The Tawa MenZshed has planned a Movie Fundraiser at Pauatahanui Light House Theatre to support their shed development. The movie is Rocketman which tells an epic musical fantasy about the incredible human story of Elton John’s breakthrough years. The fundraiser screening is 6pm Wed 12 June. Tickets are $20. Please contact Richard Herbert to secure tickets and support this local community enterprise.

Rotary Centenary Tree Grove

Thanks to the three musketeers (Richard, John and Don) for helping get the 50 native trees planted at Duncan park on Sunday.

Rotary Meeting - 21 May 2019

At last week's Rotary meeting we heard from speaker Pam Lyons. Pam is a Resource Teacher working for Van Asch Education Centre in Wellington. She is currently studying for the Specialist Post Graduate Advanced Diploma in Deaf and Hard of Hearing Endorsement.

After retelling to us some of her background Pam told us about the history of deaf culture. In the 19th century prominent figures in deaf education, had been debating the effectiveness of oral-only education (lip reading) versus an education that utilises sign language as a means of visual communication, culminating in the Milan Conference in 1880. Milan 1880 was a historic event in deaf education that nearly led to the death of sign language and led to the Dark Age of Deaf Education. It was not until the 1970s that sign-language use was revised and in 1995 began to be introduced into NZ deaf education centres. The New Zealand Sign Language Act came into effect on 6 April 2006 which saw NZSL become an official language in New Zealand alongside English and Te Reo Maori. Since this time New Zealand Sign Language Week has been commemorate on 2^nd-8^th May.

Pam also talked about Audiograms how to read them. An Audiogram is a graph or chart that displays the results of your hearing test.

Questions led to a discussion about cochlear implant treatments. A cochlear implant is an electronic medical device that replaces the function of the damaged inner ear. Unlike hearing aids, which make sounds louder, cochlear implants do the work of damaged parts of the inner ear (cochlea) to provide sound signals to the brain.

Pam's talk concluding with some examples of sign language and the sign language alphabet.

Olivia was the club speaker for the 3-minute talk slot and gave us her account summary of the Wanganui District conference.

Presidential Message May 2019

Barry Rassin President 2018-19

The people who know me best — my family — know that my passion for Rotary is boundless. They also know that I don't expect them to get involved in Rotary the way I have. It's a choice that's up to them. But I must admit, I can't help smiling when I see them making the right choice.

At the end of the Toronto convention last year, my 12-year-old granddaughter turned to me and said, "I'm inspired to do something. What can I do?" Naturally, I did what any other Rotarian grandfather worth his salt would do: I asked her if there was an Interact club in her school. When she discovered there wasn't, she attempted to set one up. Unfortunately, her principal had other ideas, but we should not be deterred from helping Rotary youth programs whenever we can, because their value is beyond question.

Take Rotary Youth Leadership Awards as one example. It transforms young people into more confident, focused individuals with a better understanding of the world around them — changes I was pleased to see in my 16-year-old grandson after he participated. click Read More >>>>

New World Tawa

Our thanks to New World Tawa for their sponsor of our weekly raffle and support of Rotary fundraising projects.

Richard Herbert
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