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Central Connection 34
 
Date : 27 February 2018
 
We normally meet Tuesdays at
5.30 for 6:00 PM
The Dunedin Club
33 Melville Street
Dunedin,  9016
New Zealand
 
 
Apologies and meal guests to be entered into the web base (button below) by 11am on the day of the meeting.
 
 
Speakers
Feb 27, 2018
New Members Talk
Mar 06, 2018
CEO of Night n Day
Mar 13, 2018
New Members Talk
Mar 20, 2018
Life of a Post Graduate Dental Student
Mar 27, 2018
Speech Contest
Apr 03, 2018
no meeting
Apr 10, 2018
Our Club is hosting this event
Apr 17, 2018
Urban Dream Brokerage
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Graham Spence
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Executives & Directors
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Secretary
 
Treasurer
 
Foundation
 
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Service Projects
 
Club Communication Director/Chair
 
Public Relations
 
WEB master
 
Bulletin ED
 
Welfare, alongside wife, Jenny Spence
 
Speaker Seeker
 
Club Activities
 
Speaker Seeker
 
Youth & Vocational
 
Shelter Box auction
No action this week
 
Sergeant's Session
no action this week
If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.
APJ Abdul Kalam
via Rajesh T
 
 
by  "i am not a tosser'
Sandy J
 
won by Grant B
 
 
What's New
Well we really got the story from     Neville H - starting with his demise from the restaruant business by getting his brother to take the responsibility and filling in his spare time with the families property portfolio mamagement.
He is a hard task master and i do hope that he doesnt confiscape Julie's devices when he wants her to follow his 'demands'. Ben is 17 and Emelian 15. They are both very good on the piano and 'love' practising.
Derek gave a run-down of the very sucessful tournament. GCA won the best dressed. Well done the Stephen G's office.
The tournament raised $9,000 less expenses.There were several sponsors of which one was Cutlers, Thank you Heather.
Speech Contest
Pieter has organised and the Finals are to be hosted by our Club on the 10th April. It will be a partner's night.
The Learning Place has provided soponsorship for this event.

Club Notices

  • President Sue welcomed our speaker for the evening John Scoones and his wife Marie, Keith Rogers from the UK a guest of Peter Sinclair, Alexandra Bannon and Lauren Hay guests of David Black, and Wendy M back briefly from the shakey north.
  • Presiedent Sue thanked David and Jan for hosting us all for a wonderful BBQ.
  • Reminder to all the registrations forr the conference  on the 5th and 6th May should be in now. Dont miss this Rotary event. I provides us all with an opportunity to hear some amazing speakers and catch up with old friends.
  • Bob S (assisted by Derek K) is to present the dictionaries to the Yr 4 pupils at Brockville School at their assembly on the 16th March.
  • And lastly but with reget that President Sue informed the meeting that Lisa Foster had resigned from the club. Lisa had been an enthusiastic Support of the activities of the club and had 'fronted' our contact with our schools.
  • President Sue had asked Lisa to come to a meeting so that we could all thank her in person.
  • SHOWCASE 7th April. All directors and 2ICs should attend as it is an opportunnity to find out what you should be doing  AND see what other clubs are doing. A real education and good fun.
  • Rob M notes that he has changed the Meals and Attendance sheet to be Christian name order.
  • President Sue explained that the books sent to Vanuatu are sitting on the wharf waiting on a ship to take to the island.
  • The Board has approved $1200 for the Tonga for emergency kits.
  • The Board has also approved  a grant of $1000 to assist the Milton Club to install heat pumps providing for Day Programme providers. Thank you to the Trust for these grants.
  • Ah-Lek is organising a week-end away rather like Peter Dicks 'tours' to Oamaru on the 21 and 22 April.
  • Ah-Lek and Derek were on the fashion wlkway with the proposed jackets fir our club to wear at Andrew's conference. $100 each. They are the sort of quality jacket that can be worn after the conference.  
IMPORTANT NOTICE
there is to be no more appologies accepted by the Dunedin Club. All apologies are to be submitted on the offical site by 11.00am on the day of the meeting. No apologies by this time will incur a $25.00 meal charge.
Next Week's Speaker
Jean and a 'close' friend at the Taj Mahal
 
New member's talks have always been a high point for us as we learn more about our 'new' members.
Jean is a retired business woman who has been invloved, with her pharmsict husband David, in many companies.
Jean had been  
 
Jean had only joined our club and was into it 'boots and all' helping collecting for the Blind Foundation.

Rotary International President-elect Barry Rassin laid out his vision for the future of the organization at the Assembly in San Deigo, calling on leaders to work for a sustainable future and to inspire Rotarians and the community at large.

Rassin, a member of the Rotary Club of East Nassau, New Providence, Bahamas, unveiled the 2018-19 presidential theme, Be the Inspiration, to incoming district governors at Rotary’s International Assembly in San Diego, California, USA. “I want you to inspire in your clubs, your Rotarians, that desire for something greater. The drive to do more, to be more, to create something that will live beyond each of us.”

Rassin stressed the power of Rotary’s new vision statement, “Together, we see a world where people unite and take action to create lasting change — across the globe, in our communities, and in ourselves.” This describes the Rotary that leaders must help build, he said.

To achieve this vision, the president-elect said, Rotarians must take care of the organization: “We are a membership organization first. And if we want to be able to serve, if we want to succeed in our goals — we have to take care of our members first.”

I want to see Rotary Be the Inspiration for our communities through work with a transformational impact — taking the time to research the real needs, to involve all the participants, to plan and to partner.

We are at an incredibly exciting time for polio eradication: a point at which each new case of polio could very well be the last.
Thirty years ago, the wild poliovirus paralyzed an estimated 350,000 people, almost all of them children, every year.
Four years ago, polio paralyzed 359 children.
Three years ago, it was 74 children.
Two years ago, 37 children.
Last year, 21.
In 2018, so far, not one child has been paralyzed by polio
.

That one number that has measured our progress, year after year, for so long, stands at zero.
We all hope that is exactly where it stays. But whether we reach our last case this year, or next year, or have reached it already, that last case won’t mean our work is over. And that is something it is incredibly important for every Rotarian to understand. Polio won’t be over until the certifying commission says it’s over — when not one poliovirus has been found, in a river, in a sewer, or in a paralyzed child, for at least three years.
Until then, we have to keep doing everything we’re doing now.
We have to keep immunizing the kids — 450 million of them every year.
We have to keep up all the surveillance — checking communities for paralyzed children, checking water supplies for virus, and maintaining all of the labs, staff, and infrastructure we support now.
If we stop any of that work — if we let immunization levels fall, if we take our eyes off the places where the virus can hide — we risk losing everything. And that’s why we need to raise all the money that we’ve committed, to get us all the way to the end.
When polio is gone, it will be the end of one disease. And it will be the beginning of a new chapter for Rotary.
A chapter where sustainability in our service moves front and center in everything we do.
Sustainability has become our watchword in Rotary. We want the good we do to last. We want to make the world a better place. Not just here, not just for us, but everywhere, for everyone, for generations.
And if we really mean that — if we really care about what the world is going to look like, 10, 20, 50, 100 years from now — we need to acknowledge some hard realities about the state of our world today.
Pollution, environmental degradation, and climate change are having more and more of an impact in every one of our six areas of focus.
Environmental pollution is now responsible for 1.7 million child deaths every year.
Four billion people now live with major water scarcity for at least one month a year — and that number is only going to go up as the planet gets warmer.
I live in a country where 80 percent of the land is within one meter of sea level. According to the projections we have now, we’ll see a two-meter rise in sea levels by the year 2100. That means my country is going to be gone in fifty years, along with most of the islands in the Caribbean and coastal cities and low-lying areas all over the world.
I ask all of you to Be the Inspiration to help Rotary move from reaction, to action — to take a hard look at the environmental issues that affect health and welfare around the world, and do what we can to help.

Be the Inspiration, to your countries and your communities — by coming together and taking action to create lasting change.
Be the Inspiration — and together, we can, and we will, inspire the world.
Read more in your copy of Rotary Downunder.
Pre talk and Eleanor's doing her job well, putting John at ease.
 
Eleanor explained that John has 3 children who are all in Australia and 1 grandchild. he has run 15 marothons , he plays tennis and has done the coast to coast
 
It did not take John long to get into his stride.  As he explained that he started off in the MED did a 'stint' in Boots as a corportate accountant and was made redundant in 1987 with 3 children. He ended up doing 18 months in Speights, Computer Co, DIC, Arthur Barnetts then NZ Postas accountant the ;graduated to the Posties Branch in 1990. Worked for them in Malaysia fixing up their systems for 9 months then back to Dunedin. He left NZ Post and went t o Select Personnel to collect rubbish for $12 per hour. 
A month later (in 2007) Envorwaste took him on as an owner/operator to empty wheelie bins. He has been doing this for 8 years collecting DCC bags and Envorowaste bins. One needed a class 4 licence to drive the large trucks and this took 19 days of intense training. He went through an engine and gearbox every 112,000kms and this was with the truck being serviced every 200 hours. The waaste was taken to the landfill and was covered every night - it was never left exposed.
There are video cameras in the trucks that vrecord exactly what is happening both with the loading of the bins and what the truck is doing, this protects the drivers and the trucks.
These recordings are over written every 5 days. He has been 17 years at Envirowaste.
John had a Environwaste subscription for uthe Club to auction off which raised $85 for the club.
 
This was the first of 3 items to be auctioned. the second was a FitBit  that Eleanor won with a bid of $150 and the third was a bottle of Grants whiskey taht sold for $80.
 
 
27th Feb
 
 
6th March
 
 
13th March
 
   
 
Duty One
Andrew M Peter N Bob S
Duty Two
Beth S Ah-Lek T Rajesh T
Pres Guest
Beth S Ah-Lek T Rajesh T
Grace
Pieter vd K Patricia P Jean L
Thort 4 Week
Pieter vd K Patricia P Jean L
Guest Intro
Hilary B Robyn C Grant B
Guest Thanks
Bob C David B Brigetta A
Sergeant
Spephen G Brigetta A Neville H
What’s New
Andrew H David H Sandy J
Heads & Tails + Hospality
Sandy J David Macl Rob M