Hi all,
Well, summer seems to have disappeared these past few days, the lawns, gardens and probably a few of us have been happy about that cool change.
Hopefully it behaves itself enough and stays fine for this week’s working bee at Longview – 6pm start, with a BBQ afterwards ($10). Pls bring hedge trimmers, screwdrivers, hammers, shovels and any other tools you think may be useful for assembling garden boxes, tidying up the grounds and setting up a gate (may need mixing of cement for the posts) any other work they can use us for.
If you haven’t yet RSVP’d, as to whether you’re coming or not please do so – we need to confirm numbers for catering to Longview ASAP.
If the weather is inclement an we have to cancel, I’ll put a post up on Whatsapp. If you’re not on WhatsApp and need to checking, pls message me on 021370427.
I’ve been talking a bit about looking out for each other over the next few weeks as Omicron inevitably spreads into our community. Everyone is handling the current situation differently – some are hunkering down, others are saying ‘bring it on’. There is no right or wrong approach, and as long as we all respect each other’s choices and support each other where we can, we’ll get through this. Attached is a list of people within the club who are available to help if required – if anyone is isolating, or does get sick and needs some support, please don’t hesitate to call someone on this list. Every one of them has made themselves available because they can and want to help our members if need be, in whatever capacity they can.
Last week saw a good turnout for our first formal meeting and the chance to hear from District Governor Mark Wheeler. Some things to think about, but some good options for smaller clubs to enable them to keep going and serving their community, which would have been impossible under the new Incorporated Society’s Act –the number of clubs that will potentially have to look at joining as satellites under the Mana Tangata club is quite sobering and reminds us not to take our club and membership for granted.
It was good to be able to present Adrienne Murray with the details of the $5000 raised through the raffle for the Wellington Regional Children’s Hospital, and to hear how close we are to reaching that $400,000 goal for the 2 Whanau rooms. I know there are other ways they are looking at Rotary helping, so I suspect that goal will either increase or be replaced by a new one at some stage in the future. And as Laura commented, the race is on to see which is opened first – the Children’s Hospital or Transmission Gully!
Also nice of Adrienne to donate the box of wipes which I know Judith Havill will put to great use with the Community Education classes that provide so many options for our community to keep learning.
During the week Liz Sutton and I presented the first lot of sunhats to Linden School. They are difficult to source at the moment as of course everyone is purchasing them for their own kids, but having now confirmed that the style we got was what is needed, we’ll keep hunting out more for them.
Next week on the 15th Feb we have an interesting speaker in Maia from Lazy Sneakers – a great example of a young person seeing a need, and doing something about it. We’ve invited our Rotaract members along, so hopefully we’ll have some of them attend and it may be a great opportunity to take Maia’s work in to the College and surrounding schools.
Great news to hear that Plimmerton Rotary won the top award in the Wellington Airport Regional Community Awards earlier this week for their 20+ year project to build the Ara Piko pathway around Pauatahanui Inlet. Having lived out there many years ago, seeing the progress has been amazing. It’s a great place to walk/run (yourself or the dogs) and just enjoy the quiet and nature without fear of being run over.
Have a good week everyone – hope to see many of you at Longview tomorrow – their BBQ chicken is worth coming for alone 😊
