If you're unable to do your duty please arrange a replacement.
On duty? Click HERE for a list of your tasks.To see the full duties roster, click HERE
The Club's Helping Hands project aims to help overcome disadvantage, help people who face challenges, provide community facilities and support worthy organisations.
Click HERE for more information, and to download a form for proposing a porject.
Also, the club uses the email address timaru.rotary@gmail.comfor the public to contact us with enquiries.
Thought for the week
One generation plants the trees, and another gets the shade. - Chinese Proverb
THANK YOU KING STREET MOTORS
Thanks to King Street Motors for carrying out a Warrant of Fitness inspection of the Hot Dog Caravan at no cost to the Club, and then carrying out some maintenance work, again at no cost to the Club. What great support of our efforts for the community.
Members might like to return the favour by supporting King Street Motors; you'll find them at 143 King Street.
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President Jess's Message.
Grüezi mitenand (Greetings everyone in Swiss German)
This week at our meeting we had a lovely young man, Hayden Kerr, talk to us about his 15 week Rugby experience over in West Sussex, England. Hayden was a student at Roncalli College who applied for a school rugby scholarship and was selected to train with the prestigious Seaford College. He had a wonderful trip and talked of his experiences; of the departing journey over to England and being all alone having to navigate some of the largest airports in the world, through to the huge 750kg forward pack his new team had!
The travel bug has bitten and he’s excited to get back over to the UK after he gains his 'building certification'. I wish him all the best and sure he will go far with his demeanour and diplomacy! Isn’t it great when we hear back from our local youth who we support in some way or another?
Speaker Nigel Trainor - Chief Executive SCDHB speaking on 'The State of Our Health.'
Time permitting he will cover the following topics:-
Services
Primary versus secondary health care
Mental health demand
Facilities
Preparedness for a future pandemic
Amalgamation likelihood
Financial challenges
Baby boomer demand on current facilities
Followed by a Directors meeting for the 'Board of the Rotary Club of Timaru'.
Members are reminding to put in an apology for the meeting by noon on Monday (otherwise they are liable to be charged) - click on the following link to apologise:-
Members are reminding to put in an apology for the meeting by noon on Monday (otherwise they are liable to be charged) - click on the following link to apologise:-
When doing Host Duties (i.e. Duty Roster), please remember that you set tables, raffles etc up for the night.
Then at the end of the meeting you need to pack up again and return table numbers etc. into the box and put away.
The large sign outside door must also be packed away (this part isn't always been done).
It then falls to those leaving last.
RAFFLE PRIZES
For this Rotary year, President Jess would like members to take turns at providing the raffle prize (no alcohol please), either by buying a prize to the value of $10 to $15 (keep the receipt and ask Treasurer Jenny for reimbursement using the claims form click here...) or maybe you have a suitable prize you'd like to donate.
To make it simple to keep track of whose turn it is, the person on Host Duty 2 will be asked to provide the raffle prize for the week.
When it's your turn to provide the prize:
Please put the prize on the Host table no later than 5:30 pm.
Make sure there's a raffle sheet (from the host bin) and a pen on the table.
If you are unable to attend Rotary, and you are unable to find someone to swap, please contact Robyn Baldwin so she can arrange cover for the night.
District Web Award 2019-20.
Past-President Bev. received the District Web Award on our behalf on Sunday in Waimate at the 9980 Changeover lunch (the district awards should have been presented at District Conference - which was cancelled because of COVID).
The club won it also last year & in 2018 we shared it with Queenstown Club.
Helping Hand Project.
Our first project for the new Rotary year has been completed by Russell, Tony & Jim.
It was a 'Helping Hand' project which involved widening a concrete path for an elderly woman so she could walk safely (using her walking frame) from her home to the letterbox & clothes line.
Bookings Are Now Open For 2021 Season Of Tramping & Bike Trips.
The Milton Rotary Tramping Club is now taking bookings for the 2021 season of 'Otago Youth Adventure Trust' tramping and biking trips - for more information click here...
'LEXOPHILE' - A Play On Words.
Examples:-
When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.
The guy who fell onto an upholstery machine was fully recovered.
A grenade fell onto a kitchen floor in France and resulted in Linoleum Blownapart.
You are stuck with your debt if you can’t budge it.
Local Area Network in Australia: The LAN down under.
Hot Dog Caravan Upcoming Events
Weekly Rugby At Alpine Energy Stadium.
Saturdays 18th & 25th July.
Saturday 8th August.
Click HERE to go to the on-line roster to fill in your name if you can help.
(If you have a problem doing this contact Jenny Ensor.)
Editors Humour.
The Rotary Club of Timaru (Inc) | Rotary International District 9980 | Charter No 2705 (1927)
