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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:
+64 274 905 269
Email:
murray_bell@xtra.co.nz
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m.+64 21 375008
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m.+64 21 526484
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Funeral Fun Night - Harbour City Funeral Home
Mar 11, 2021
Funeral Fun Night - Harbour City Funeral Home
Mar 11, 2021 6:00 PM
Sandra Daly
Mar 18, 2021
Citizens Advice Bureau
Club Services Committee
Mar 25, 2021
Matu Booth
Apr 08, 2021
Nga Manu Nature Reserve
Wine tasting
Apr 15, 2021
Youth Committee
May 27, 2021
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President's Message

Shirley Stratton

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Best Wishes for 2021 to all. Let’s hope that it will be a quite different
 year from the last one.
The Club has made a busy start to the year. Our annual Fish n Chip night saw a new table layout with an empty chair in the middle of the circle – who knows what the chair was for, but it certainly meant that club members were on their best behaviour.
We are so fortunate to have 2 new members join us this month and another couple of prospective members are checking us out. A very warm welcome to Elaine Westlake and Roderick Kinghorn.
                     
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Our speaker programme is looking most interesting and the first 2 excellent choices have been both informative and entertaining. Speaker’s Choice books to be donated to a local primary school – Paekakariki school - have started again.
Club events coming up include the Bottle Auction BBQ (raising funds for Kapiti Youth), tractor museum visit, Pride of Workmanship, a visit to a funeral home, and wine tasting.
Community wise, we will be involved with marshalling at the Youth Xterra run, partnering with the Kapiti Chamber of Commerce on 5th March to celebrate International Women’s Day, and helping with the Foodbank collection on 22nd May. 
Our big project for February/March will be the delivery of recycling bins for a local company. There will be an opportunity for all club members to assist in some way, as well as appreciating the camaraderie of other members. Of course, there will also be money to be made that we will be used to support community or Rotary projects.
If you have not read the thank you letter that we received from Kaleb – a student that was sponsored to Outward Bound – please do. It puts our fundraising efforts in perspective. It was a journey of a lifetime for him – “the most challenging, action-packed, enjoyable, happy, exciting moments of my entire life!” We hope to get him along to a club meeting soon.
A big thank you to club members for being involved in ‘All things Rotary’ and for helping to make this club such a success. 
 
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
 
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Club News
THANK YOU KAPITI ROTARY
A thank you from Kaleb, the first of nine students selected to undertake self development programmes at either Outward Bound or Spirit of Adventure, where they push the boundaries to find what they are capable of. The funds to enable their adventures were raised by Kapiti Rotary, the students themselves and by the programme providers. Feedback like this makes all the hard work fundraising so worthwhile. Evidently Kaleb is going to remember this experience for along time.
Congratulations and our very best wishes Kaleb. You will be always welcome at Rotary-we're here to help you on your ongoing journey of you want.
"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!!! I really appreciate it and I will never forget those experiences! I met so many interesting and amazing people who I will likely stay in touch with for the rest of my life! The past 3 weeks have been the most challenging, action-packed, enjoyable, happy, exciting moments of my entire life!..
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Trailer Raffle Drawn
Winning ticket # 257 was drawn under police supervision last night for the club's annual Trailer Raffle. The winner has been notified. The trailer and goodies therein are valued at $5,000. Proceeds from the raffle go to supporting Kapiti Youth and the Wellington Childrens Hospital. Club members in front of the trailer enjoying an island themed evening on an appropriately beautiful Kapiti evening (ahem!)
 
...and the winners are ...,..
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MenzShed Kapiti
Tony Annanadale, (President) and Cliff Daly (Projects Manager) from the MenzShed gave an interesting and inspirational account of the development of the Menz Shed Kapiti (Waikanae Beach) into one of the largest and most successful clubs in New Zealand, with 140 members of which at least 40 regularly turnout on Tuesdays and Thursdays at their property at Waikanae Beach. "A place where men can do what men do.........
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Annual Golf Tournament
The club’s annual golf fixture was held at the Paraparaumu Beach Golf course, raising a record amount. Beneficiaries were the new Wellington Regional Children’s hospital (Trish Lee), $5,000 - towards the fitout of the Rotary whanau rooms (a Rotary D9940 centennial project). A further $1000 was donated to Paraparaumu Beach Golf Club (Murray Armstrong) for Junior golf. The balance of the funds raised will be used for a wide range of local youth projects that the Rotary Club of Kapiti supports. President Shirley Stratton expressed thanks to all of the supporting businesses who contributed funds or prizes, particularly principal sponsor Kapiti Hire (Tim Mikkelson). 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Serious Walkers
Rosemary and Barry Ward came to share with us the adventures of their intrepid journey from Cape Reinga to Lyall Bay in Wellington.  The Te Araroa Trail snakes for 3000km through New Zealand and over their Christmas Break Rosemary and Barry walked the trail down through the North Island.
 
 
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