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We meet In Person
Thursdays at 6:30 PM
Ocean Road Community Centre
45 Ocean Road, Paraparaumu Beach
P O Box 1406,
Paraparaumu Beach, Kapiti 5032
New Zealand
Phone:
+64 27 227 4622
Email:
boyce.kevinr@gmail.com
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Club Executives
President
Murray Bell
Vice President
Liz Koh
Secretary
m.027 2274622
Treasurer
Derek Hughes
Membership & Communications
Richard Moulton
Service Projects
Tim Orrell
Youth Programmes
Ross Jordan
Club Operations & Service
Alistair Beissel (President Elect)
Rotary Foundation
Linda Jespersen
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Speakers
Club Social Meeting with Speaker Wayne Moore
Aug 05, 2021
A captivating story competing in the Nurburgring 24 hour Race
Carolyn Mills
Aug 12, 2021
Music for healing and transition program.
Stuart Ayres
Aug 19, 2021
Kapiti Economic Development Association
Terisa Ngobi MP
Aug 26, 2021
Update from our MP
Nicola Garland
Sep 02, 2021
Spirit of Adventure
Communciations & Membership Committee Night
Sep 30, 2021
Golf Tournament
Nov 04, 2021
Foundation Committee Night
Nov 18, 2021
Father Christmas
Dec 16, 2021
Fish & Chips night
Jan 20, 2022
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President's Message

Murray Bell

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Kapiti Rotary is renowned for its vibrancy and community service
New members are most welcome. 
Pop along to one of our Thursday meetings 6 pm
Community Centre, Ocean Road, Paraparaumu
The fellowship and food is marvellous
Does a speaker interest you?
We frequently have interesting and entertaining speakers  
You don't have to be member
Come along as our guest  
A Rotarian visitor to Kapiti?
You're most welcome to enjoy our warm Kapiti hospitality
Come along to any of our meetings at the Community Centre, Ocean Road, Paraparaumu, or contact us
 
End Polio Now

Rotary has been working to eradicate polio for more than 30 years. Our goal of ridding the world of this disease is closer than ever.

As a founding partner of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, we've reduced polio cases by 99.9 percent since our first project to vaccinate children in the Philippines in 1979.

We've helped immunize more than 2.5 billion children in 122 countries. So far, Rotary has contributed more than $1.8 billion toward eradicating the disease worldwide.

Today, polio remains endemic only in Afghanistan, Nigeria, and Pakistan. But it’s crucial to continue working to keep other countries polio-free. If all eradication efforts stopped today, within 10 years, polio could paralyze as many as 200,000 children each year.

Explore the history of Rotary and polio eradication

Club News
Kaleb Carter loves Rotary
"I don't even know where to start with the amount of cool stuff we got up to at Outward Bound! But I'd just like to say thank you sooooo much for helping send me on the journey of a lifetime!!! "
So says Kaleb Carter, an extremely grateful, enthusiatic and outstanding young man the club helped to get to Outward Bound.
His words say it all "The past 3 weeks have been the most challenging, action-packed, enjoyable, happy, exciting moments of my entire life!"...The course also provided an incredible amount of self development in such a short amount of time. Once I had returned to Picton from Anakiwa, I was beaming with my new found sense of confidence, leadership ability and purpose (I still am!). I really came to understand the OB phrase 'there is more in you than you think'.
So I am forever grateful to the Kapiti Rotary Club, and I cannot thank you enough for helping me go on the adventure of a lifetime!!!!"
 
We were delighted to host you and really enjoyed your presentation last evening Kaleb. Your enthusiasm is utterly infectious and we wish you al the best on your future endeavours. We love doing this stuff!
Cyber Security
Gee, we'd better get with it. Be a WARE-spyware, malware, ransomware, viruses, worms, dark web are present and poised to get into prone IT systems and get into your most personal world. 
GTB IT Solutions Mark Ternent had members on the edge of their seats as he painted a picture of very real threats to those of us without the proper cyber security protection,  passwords and back ups.  That would be most of us. While we think we don't have much to give away-think access to medical records, transacting our bank accounts, family, friends information and most costly of all -system down time -and with that-the inability to do business and losing trust with customers. Some businesses won't transact with others unless they know their customer / supplier has the best cyber security in place. They don't want to be compromised by their erstwhile partners lack of care or security. 
You can get downloads of GTB IT Solutions e books on cyber security here
Mark also strongly suggested we rethink our passwords -using Password apps. such as Last Pass, I Password etc to create / store / manage complex passwords which can be easily yet securely recalled by rightful owner when required.
Thank you Mark-we need this timely reminder. 
Oh What A Night
A wonderful evening celebrating Changeover 2021/22 with the changing of the guard.  Many thanks for Shirleys superb leadership throughout the year and a big welcome to Murray Bell as our new President. Shirley..
"My thanks go to everyone in our Kapiti rotary whanau – for their support of everything that the club has done and achieved. We are a vibrant club and that is due to the participation of us all. 
There are some specific thanks:
To Ingrid – our caterer and her team. Each week we all look forward to our meal. The effort from you all to ensure that the food is of a high quality, varied and fresh is most appreciated.
 
 
To the Board - Josie, Alistair, Murray, Kevin B, Matthew, John, Derek, Bruce, Mike, Tim, Annemarie and Sharon. 
To the Club Champions – these members work (often behind the scenes) to ensure that everything goes like clockwork. I have had an amazing year and am truly grateful to everyone for their advice and support. My biggest thanks go to my Kevin"
 
Awards to:
Alistair Beissel, most deserving of the Paul Harris Fellow Award for all his tireless work for Rotary.
 
Alistair Beissel, most deserving of the Paul Harris Fellow Award for all his tireless work for Rotary.
 
Ross Jordan received the The Jack Donaldson Memorial award 
 
Stuart Ayres received the Fred Burns award as Rotarian of theYear (accepted by Vic Hewson on Stuart's behalf, who couldn't attend the evening)
 
Julie Stewart (and partner Grant) was inducted and welcomed as new a member.
 
Meantime the club continues to serve the community-this time Pyjamas for Foster Kids, led by Paul Adams
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A youthful evening
Another entertaining and heart warming evening at Kapiti Rotary with Otaki College’s inspirational principal Andy Fraser extolling the clubs role in assisting a number of his students on the Spirit of Adventure and Outward Bound programmes, followed by Paul Newsome and Michelle Simpson from the Hutt Valley club representing the District’s Rotary Youth Leadership Award (RYLA) programme. 
For applications and more on RYLA https://www.ryla9940.co.nz/home
  
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Kapiti Foodbank May 2021
Club members gave their Saturday to collect donations of food and cash for Kapiti's Foodbank. The Foodbank has been hit particularly hard over the past 12 months with theft of its stores of food and having to relocate from the Community Centre closed due to weather tightness issues. Our Kapiti community was very generous this year with an unprecedented 400 boxes (approx.) of food gathered and yet to be counted cash. Foodbank shopping trolleys remain at supermarkets for those that missed the collection. With the exception of 2020 (covid) the Kapiti Foodbank appeal has been an annual giving of the club for Kapiti's community for many years.