St Johns Rotary April 23rd 2018 (Apr 19, 2018)

A rousing and vibrant meeting with an induction and a presentation from Chris Sattler representing Auckland Seaplanes. Chris kindly offered the auction of a single seat for a scenic flight over Auckland; Sergeant Simon did a superb job with the auction ensuring a "record" Sergeant session.

Jan Hogg was inducted into membership and we look forward to her participation and contribution to the best Rotary Club in the Biosphere.

Please ensure you diary Thursday 10th May, breakfast meeting. Because we missed our Combined Committee meeting evening, we will instead have our Combined Committee meetings as part of our normal breakfast meeting.

We have a busy couple of months coming up with great speakers so remember get involved and support the greatest Rotary Club in the Biosphere.

David Hartstone (Past-President)

ANZAC Breakfast Meeting this Wednesday

Please note our meeting

this week is

ANZAC morning

Wednesday 25 April

This event will replace our usual Thursday morning meeting.

Family and friends welcome - RSVP essential

carecookmichele@gmail.com

Guest Speaker - Chris Sattler
Auckland Seaplanes

Posted by Annie Tyson

On Thursday we were very fortunate to have Chris Sattler present a potted history of seaplanes in the City of Sails and tell us about his company Auckland Seaplanes currently based at Wynyard Quarters. Chris is a fellow overseas and now local Rotarian and has been in New Zealand for 13 years with his family. Over 4 years ago Chris set up Auckland Seaplanes but prior to that it took two years in planning to finally accomplish his dream.

Auckland Seaplanes provide a variety of scenic flights - from the most popular Rangitoto and cityscape to Great Barrier Island and everything in between. The exciting fly and dine excursions to Waiheke and Kawau Islands are a "one of a kind" along with island picnics, fly and stay, and charter options also available. Chris also has a second float and land plane based at Ardmore. If, due to Auckland’s notorious easterly winds the float plane is grounded, this amphibious plane can still provide the service around the Hauraki Gulf.

The Sergeant session was skillfully led by Simon Jones and included an auction to bid for a seaplane flight which with much competition was won by our President Elect, Alan Smith.

New Member Induction

A very war

m welcome to new member Jan Hogg who was inducted at last week's meeting.

Jan's Rotary Buddy is Glen Stichbury and she will join the Environmental Committee.

Sailing...Have A Go!

Designed to give primary and intermediate school students the opportunity to try sailing in a safe and well managed environment, this superb program is taking place at Okahu Bay. These school are now booked, with a few more to confirm. If you are near Okahu Bay, swing by to see what they get up to.

May	School
1	Panmure District School
2	Panmure Bridge School
3	Churchill Park
4	Glen Taylor
7	Stonefields School
8	St Pius X
9	Pt England School
10	Stonefields School
11	St Patricks School
15	Glenbrae School
17	Tamaki School

Cambodia Habitat for Humanity Build

Further to my invitation to join the team to Cambodia, I am pleased to announce that a very generous sponsor has offered to financially support one or two members of St John’s Rotary to participate in the Cambodia Habitat for Humanity build in October. The recipients must have a genuine desire to participate but through lack of funding, cannot contemplate such a worthwhile adventure. Please contact Miles Cain to discuss further.

Regards, Miles Cain 0274 469 225

RYPEN feedback

Posted by Emails to Club

Hey my name is Jacob de Graaf and last term I believe your rotary club sponsored me and 3 other Sacred heart boys to go to the Rypen Rotary Camp fo the weekend. On behalf of the Sacred Boys, we would like to send across our greatest thanks for letting us experience this adventure we undertook.

We all thoroughly enjoyed it and me personally would go back in a heart beat. We have made some new friends that will end up as life long friends and the memories we took out of the camp were amazing.

Once again thank you very much for letting us experience this.

Kind regards

Jacob de Graaf

Dear Sir Johnston Luen

Thank you very much for the opportunity for me to go to the Rotary RYPEN camp. I would like to thank any other members that made this camp and the sponsorship possible. I enjoyed the sling shot team work games, and all the fun beach games. I wished that my fellow friends from my school could have seen all of this and enjoyed this with all of us including the other campers form all over Auckland.

I would like to volunteer for any other Rotary programs or voluntary jobs, also maybe to become part of the Rotary program in Puke or near Pukekohe.

Yours in Rotary

Johan Van Wyk

Pukekohe Christian School

Mt Eden Rotary Fundraiser

Mt Eden Rotary invites you to a private screening of OCEAN'S 8. Please SHARE this invitation with anyone who you think may find it of interest. Thank you!
Date: Sunday 10 June 2018
Time: Starts 6.30pm (Doors open 6.15pm)
Venue: Hoyts Sylvia Park
Tickets: $25 includes popcorn, or choc bomb or bottled coke; CASH sales please.

Net proceeds to: The Rotary Foundation and other Rotary programmes

Win an e-bike with the MS Auckland Raffle

Win an e-bike with the MS Auckland raffle!

Tickets are on sale until the 2^nd of May and only 2,000 tickets will be sold.

Great odds!

Thanks to the kind support from friends at Electric Bikes NZ Ltd and Smartmotion, MS Auckland has an e-bike valued at $2,799 to raffle off!

Tickets are just $5 and come in books of 5 – so you can buy a book for $25 and have 5 chances of winning this fantastic bike! Sales close on the 2^nd May and the prize will be drawn on 9^th of May.

Tickets can be purchased from Donald Bowie (phone: 0274 752 473) or from the MS office at 5 The Strand, Takapuna.
Contact Kirsty at events@msakl.org.nz or on 09 845 5921 for more information on the raffle.
All proceeds from the raffle will be going directly to the support services offered by MS Auckland for people living with MS.

Upcoming Projects and Lead Coordinators

25 April	ANZAC Breakfast (Michele M)
7 May	The Great Rotary Debate (Nic, Hugh, Chris) St Johns v Auckland East
6-13 May	Have a Go Sailing (Gary K) 12 schools involved
30 June - 7 July	RYLA (Tom S) Interviewing now

Club Contacts

President: Peter Buchanan 027 434 1832

Secretary, Treasurer: Alex Gatt

Apologies: Alex Gatt 021 571 722 or gatt@xtra.co.nz

President Elect: Allan Smith

Sergeant Major: John Cornaga

Club Services Director: Brian Fergus bfergus@xtra.co.nz

Bulletin Editors: Annie Tyson & Robyn Ingram

Membership Director: Allan Smith ASmith@accessable.co.nz

Club Email: stjohnsrotary@gmail.com

Website: www.rotarystjohns.club

Our Meetings

We meet Thursday for breakfast at 7 am for 7.15 am start,

except for the first Thursday of the month,

when we meet in the evening at 6 pm for dinner.

Remuera Golf Club

120 Abbotts Way, Remuera, Auckland, 1072

New Zealand

All Rotarian's are welcome including family members.

Others wanting to visit are most welcome to contact:

Allan Smith ASmith@accessable.co.nz

Set-Up

Fergus, Brian

Attendance

Ingram, Robyn

Greeter

Bell, Patrick

Standby

Kevany, Kevin

Speaker Host

Mann, Michele

Thanks & Close

Richardson-Jones, Aubrey

Apr 25, 2018 7:00 AM

Anzac Day Breakfast

Murray Hobson, RNZRSA - Returned Service Personnel in Current Times

May 03, 2018

John Cornaga & ???

May 07, 2018

Debate with Auckland East

Mote: Is the America's Cup only beneficial to Auckland?

May 17, 2018

Paul Minett

Solving Traffic Congestion without Building Infrastructure

May 24, 2018

Two Rotary members

May 31, 2018

Prof Ed Gane

Advances in Hepatitis C Cure

Jun 07, 2018

TBA

Changeover Dinner

Jun 15, 2018

Rotary Planning Breakfast

Jun 22, 2018

Andrew Poole

Rotoroa Island

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ANZAC Breakfast

Apr 25, 2018
7:00 AM – 8:30 AM

Leaders Elect Training Seminar

St Cuthberts College

May 06, 2018
8:30 AM – 4:00 PM

Debate Rotary St Johns v Auckland East

May 07, 2018 5:30 PM

Changeover Dinner

Jun 07, 2018

BE AN ACTIVE PARTICIPANT IN OUR VIBRANT CLUB

Did you join Rotary to do good things in the community?

You can help or join in all projects (whatever the committee), just contact the committee director and/or project team leader. In most cases, you can include family and friends.

Enjoy your Rotary: Be an active Rotarian