Members Bulletins 2018-10-07 (Oct 07, 2018)

Please register guest attendance and apologies for non-attendance by Monday before midday
to: tawa.rotaryapologies@gmail.com.

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 Judith Gray 0274406098 or email: judith@nadabakery.co.nz.

YOUR DUTIES!

9^th October 2018 Project Night

Set up	Greeters & Raffle	Speaker Host, Intro & Thanks	Starting & Parting Thought	3 Min Talk	Sergeant	Photos
Karen Searle & Russell Smith	Chris Black & Judith Havill		Don Rushworth	Richard Herbert	Paul Drummond	Richard Hutchinson

16^th October 2018 Worlds Greatest Meal /Polio Fundraiser/DG Visit

Set up	Greeters & Raffle	Speaker Host, Intro & Thanks	Starting & Parting Thought	3 Min Talk	Sergeant	Photos
Karen Searle & Judith Gray & Liz Sutton	Steve Pettigrew & Malcolm Andrews & Olivia	Denise Garcia	Lyn Calman	Nil	Nil	Richard Hutchinson

23^th October 2018 Speaker: TBC

Set up	Greeters & Raffle	Speaker Host, Intro & Thanks	Starting & Parting Thought	3 Min Talk	Sergeant	Photos
Karen Searle & Euan Patchett	Ken Woodgate & Robert Tredger	Michael Kelly	Pat Waite	John Melville	Des O’Sullivan	Peter Lockery

THIS WEEKS EVENTS

NOTICES:

On Tuesday 9th October, we have a Pizza and Project Discussion evening. We will hear about and contribute to the planning of some upcoming projects including; Toot 4 Tucker, Book Fair 2019, Timor Leste medical equipment, Future speakers, and Spring into Tawa.

Thank you to the members and nurses that helped out with the Stroke Awareness Day at New World Tawa on Saturday 6 October.

Keep the night free on Tuesday, 16th October. Meet the 9940 District Governor as she shares our Tawa Rotary World's Greatest Meal fun night.

Bring partners and family - for a great night of fun and food!

Judith has organised a Paella Chef to be on site and a Spanish flavour to the night.

This will be the Tawa Rotary - World's Greatest Meal fundraising night for POLIO, and also celebrating World Polio Day (24th October).

Whanganui woman Marion Johnston to become Rotary district governor

https://rotary9940.org/stories/dge-marion-johnston

Also check out the Events tab for further details of a couple of other upcoming interesting Cluster events.

On Wednesday 17th October, Plimmerton Club have organised a Suffrage 125 event to celebrate Porirua College growing powerful young women. Hear some inspirational women speakers, and entertainment from Porirua college students. See event info for more details.

On Sunday 4th November, Porirua Club have organised a Diwali celebration meal at the Whitby Taj. There are two sitting times still available at 1pm and 4.30pm. Why not get together a table of friends. Confirmations of interest are required by 30 September. See event info for more details.

See above for future Rotary Tawa rosters.

Epilepsy First Aid

Many members of our Club have been touched by epilepsy through their family and friends. Our guest speaker on Tuesday 2nd October, Krystle Crimmins, enlightened us about epilepsy and the eight different seizure types, some of which are invisible and others visible. Krystal as a young woman of Karori has had to learn how to cope with her own epilepsy. She found people in general had a lot of misinformation and prejudice about epilepsy.

Against a background of a general lack of community awareness and knowledge about epilepsy, Krystle explained how to deal with a seizure, whether it is visible or barely noticeable. One in twenty people will have an epileptic seizure of some sort in their lifetime, yet there are still many myths around epilepsy that impact adversely on people and their employment. Epilepsy affects people in different ways, it is not a mental illness and there are also myths such as swallowing one’s tongue.

Krystle has written a book about epilepsy to explain the triggers, the different seizure types and dispel the myths. The book, titled Epilepsy First Aid: A comprehensive guide to types of Epileptic Seizures and how to administer First Aid, is available at https://epilepsyfirstaid.com/

If you do come across a person having a seizure go and help. Create Advocacy and Awareness among employers about Epilepsy. Be more accepting of those with Epilepsy.

We wish Krystle well in her goals to promote awareness and recognition of epilepsy, to advocate on behalf of those with epilepsy and for sponsorship to help with the business cost of getting her resources to organisations, workplaces and schools.

Also note that November is Epilepsy Awareness Month.

Presidential Message October 2018

Barry Rassin President 2018-19

Every Thursday morning, I receive an email from the World Health Organization with an update on the status of polio eradication. It contains a wealth of information, country by country: where and how immunization campaigns are being conducted, how many millions of children are being vaccinated, and where environmental surveillance has found evidence of circulating virus. But every week, when that email appears in my inbox, my heart seems to stop for just a moment until I read the first few lines – and learn whether a child was paralyzed by wild poliovirus that week.

That, my friends, is where we are today in the work of polio eradication. The question on my mind as I open that message isn't how many thousands of cases we might see in a year, as we did not too long ago, or even how many hundreds. Instead, when that WHO email arrives every Thursday, the single, binary question it answers is: Was there a new case this week, or wasn't there?

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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