Thank you very much for your continued support for me and the our Rotary Club.
Welcome to year 2021. What a wonderful summer we are having. I do hope you all had a great festive season.
Past Activities
I would like to thank every one of you for, not only a successful first half of this Rotary year, but also a happy and joyful one.
Despite the effects of COVID-19 we together have achieved several milestones.
These are:
Successful and entertaining Rotary Club Changeover;
Club Birthday Celebration (26th year) – Grand Harbour Restaurant.
Refreshing presentation by our DG Craig Horrocks 2020-21;
Food parcels, vouchers, and podcast for Southern Cross School;
Face masks in association with Auckland Chinese Women’s Association to Southern Cross School;
Midwifery Contribution – new mothers Family Food Vouchers;
Epsom Lodge Breakfast for the homeless;
Indian New Year Celebration – extremely successful from all counts. We were blessed with good venue, great company and excellent weather. Well done Harjeet and the INY team;
Very successful and well attended Zoom Meetings – forced by COVID-19 lockdown and attended by overseas residents;
Well attended Fellowship Dinners at chosen Restaurants;
Supporting fundraising Wine sales for the Rotary 100 Year Celebration in June - Australia, NZ & Oceania
Fund raising – Sale of Spiegelau crystal glasses (well done Brian)
Successful and productive Club Assembly and Club AGM
Planned Activities
Moving forward for the 2nd half of the year we have planned:
Sunday, 24 January 2021 - Picnic in Cornwall Park on Sunday, starting from 3:00 PM onwards. Bring your own food, drinks, and seating;
Wednesday, 03 February 2021 - Rotary meeting probably at The Alex, Alexandra Park at 6;30PM for 7:00PM. Karin Rostami, a senior member of ST Johns Ambulance will be our speaker (beneficiary of our CNY event);
Saturday, 13 February 2021 - Fellowship BBQ at Gillian & Grant Cossey’s place starting from 3:00 PM onwards. Early dinner provided at a cost of NZD10 per person. Bring your own drinks;
Thursday, 25 February 2021 - RYDA Training for Southern Cross Campus at Mt Smart Stadium;
Saturday, 27 February 2021 - Chinese New Year Celebration from 6:00 pm at Grand Harbour Restaurant. Cost: NZD99.90 per person. Wishing Kai and the team all the best for the event.
Further ahead we have following activities in planning:
Club visits
Joint Club projects
Rotary 100 Year Australia, New Zealand & Oceania Celebration
International Evening
Rotary Club of Labasa - toilet block project
Southern Cross Dictionary distribution
Southern Cross Speech competition
Southern Cross Catering School dinner
Speakers
I would like to thank Kai Luey who has worked tirelessly to arrange excellent speakers under lots of constraints due to COVID-19 restrictions - some of whom were happy to join our Zoom meetings.
Some of these Speakers were:
David Seymour – Leader ACT Party
Meng Foon – Race Relations Commissioner
Pearl Hawkins – Compliance Officer for Government (IRD)
Jeff Liu – Taiwanese Director General
Craig Horrocks – Rotary 9920 District Governor 2020-21
Claire Eyes – Midwifery
Caralise Trayes – ‘The Final Choice’ about one of the referendum topics
Marina Matthews – CEO SuperDiversity
James Lea – Operations Manager, Drowning Prevention Auckland
