Rotary Voices: Stories of Service Around the World
Posted by Liz
Papanui Rotary Club Fundraiser
Knowledge & Skills workshops for everyone
All Funds go back into the local community.
Venue J Block , Papanui High School
Date/time Saturday 10am – 5pm 13 February 2021
Bookings Please book through Secretary -papanuirotary@gmail.com
Donation $10 per workshop ( eftpos available on site)
10am Lois Flanagan | Basics - Wills and Power of Attorney | 1pm Keith Mitchell & Sonya | Exercises for mature persons :) |
11am Kathy Anderson | Young Babies care – session for new or soon-to-be parents and new grandparents | 2pm Connie Smart | Facebook for Beginners |
12 noon Doug Archbold | Handling Stress and depression and Where to Find Help | 3pm Grant Paice | Make your Presentations great! |
We need members to come along to at least one workshop! It would be great if they bring a friend of a family member as well. Car parking in school grounds off Langdons Road. Tea, Coffee and snacks available
Pedal for the Pacific
We are excited to have the support of our district leadership team behind Rotary Pedal for the Pacific so we can go all out to not only celebrate 100 years of Rotary doing good in Australasia but also help UNICEF and Rotary Give Every Child A Future achieve their goal of vaccinating 100,000 children in the Pacific.
Pedal for the Pacific is a sponsored charity bike ride on the Little River Rail Trail. The ride is on Saturday 20th February starting at Prebbleton School and ending at the Little River Domain.
How can you help? By adding this event to your bulletin as well as letting all your friends and family know about this awesome event. Further information is available on the Pedal for the Pacific website (pedalforthepacific.gofundraise.co.nz), the events page on the District Facebook page (@RotaryDistrict9970) and Instagram. I have also attached our flier.
Registration closes on 7 February. Even if you don't ride, we would still love your support. Through our website you can either donate directly to Pedal for the Pacific, or you can sponsor a specific individual/team. All funds raised through our website will be going directly to the Give Every Child a Future project.
One of the committee members will be in contact over the next few days.
Xmas Function 2020 a Hit!
A great time was had by all at the Rosebank Estate Winery Restaurant on a lovely balmy evening.
In addition to good food, beverages and company, we were also privileged to hear Amanda Atlas, our guest entertainer, present a range of songs that demonstrated her amazing talent as a professional singer.
President Janice then outlined the names three recipients of Certificates of Appreciation in recognition of their contributions as follows:
Cynthia Tizzard for the tireless work she does on our raffle prizes and baskets.
Heather Mitchell for the work she does with Ronald McDonald House and the support she provides to Keith in his Rotary activities.
Cynthia & Heather receiving their Certificates
Glen Tregurtha for the support he provides to Deryn across a wide range of fund raising activities plus his help in setting up our new accounting system.
We also had a visit from “Santa” who was in fine form assisting with the handing out of a small gift to us followed by Evan who reminded us ten times when the New Year fun golf game is being held which your Club Chat editor has already forgotten :-) before we bade each other farewell for another year.
Trailer Raffle 2020 Winners
Julie, Subrata & Helen congratulated by President Janice
We were delighted to meet and congratulate the three winners of our annual Trailer Raffle outside The Papanui Club last Saturday.
1st prize went to Julie Forsyth from Swannanoa, with 2nd and 3rd prizes going to Subrata Saha and Helen Kent who were both from Christchurch.
Can Collection Day
Despite the short turn-around time frame we were very pleased, as was the City Mission, with the variety of thoughtful food items and other related products that our neighbourhoods donated to help out those in need over the coming holiday period.
Many thanks to the organisers and especially Ron for kindly offering up his garage as the collection and pick-up point.
A Special Gift
We recently purchased a significant number of grocery vouchers in different denominations to give out to families who are struggling at present. Liz created the above envelope for the vouchers to be placed in prior to delivery.
Lois and Liz received some lovely feedback from a number of schools they have visited so far and are hoping to be able to take a photo of these being given out to the teachers for distribution during some of their next visits.
Trailer Raffle Stats
A few stats about our recent raffle.
We sold 1331 books and made a profit of $17,591.41.
We did roughly 442 volunteer hours excluding the time members spent selling their allocation.
We did roughly 442 volunteer hours excluding the time members spent selling their allocation.
Many thanks to all members, partners, friends and others for helping us with the selling of our raffle this year.
And an extra special thanks to Deryn for her amazing work in organising and managing this signature project for yet another year!
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