Breakfast Meeting, Thursday May 26th - Club Assembly.
Present: 32 Members
As there was a significant amount of content to include in the meeting Club Notices and Directors Reports were kept to a minimum to ensure we allowed enough time to perform our District Conference "Skit" and to allow our PE's to sell us their plans for next year, and what a great job they did.
Club Notices:
- Change-over June 18th - RSVP's essential to Club Services Director Robyn. This is one of the most important events in the Rotary calendar - let's aim for a record turnout!
- Apirana Working Bee Sunday June 19th. Moving mulch in readiness for the Winter Planting Working Bee on July 23rd.
- District Conference Jun 24 - 26 in Wellington - Registrations still open. If you require more details please contact Co-Presidents.
Guest Speaker: HM Peter Boshier
Peter is not only an honorary member of St. Johns Rotary - he is also, a founding member of the club, past president, composer, conductor, choir master and certainly not the least, he is Chief Ombudsman for New Zealand!As the original Composer of the St. Johns Club Official Song, we were honoured to have Peter present to lead us through the recording of the song which will now be entered in the District Conference "Rotary Has Talent" skit as we stand by to be awarded one of the prizes!
Together with Co-President Elect Gary, Peter did a stirling job of leading us through the performance and we thank you sincerely Peter as we know just how precious your time is.
Club Assembly: Apart from the "Performance", this meeting was also our Club Assembly which had Gary and Graham lead us through their plans for next year.Primarily it will be all about reconnection, involving all members - active and non active, plus of course, new members,
Much of our activity in the new year will revolve around the new 7th pillar of Rotary - the environment, while we continue to target more youth to join our club.
In the weeks and months ahead, we will be hearing a lot more about these plans and at the top of the list will be our involvement and commitment towards making the "Apirana Reserve" activity key to much of what we do, while still maintaining our focus on doing good in the community, youth programmes and having fun !!
Thanks Gary and Graham, we all look forward to supporting you in your quest which was well summerised by Co-President Penny.