Almoner's update: Shirley Barrell is doing really well. She is lucky to have a great family around her.
Malcolm
Bottle Auction 15 February
This is a partners and friends event - please register any guests ahead of time. Proceeds support Life Education, a great cause.
Please donate a bottle or 2, either as a mystery (wrapped) or if a special and/or expensive donation, unwrapped with some information about it so a suitable reserve can be set. No more novelty items please. Bring along this Thursday or on the night.
Shirley
RYLA was a huge success - the write up was sent out last week. The Kāpiti Rotary RYLA team of Shirley, Rod, Josie, Ross, Rob, Paul, Anthony and Marilyn were presented with certificates of appreciation from District 9940. Shirley expressed her thanks to the whole club for all the support with baking and other assistance. Planning is already underway for next year.
Thanks from rangatahi we have recently sponsored
A thank you email received from Angus Mackay who we sponsored to attend RYLA:
Kia Ora
Just wanted to say a huge thank you for giving me the opportunity to attend RYLA!
I came into it not expecting to get as much out of it as I did and it is truly one of those experiences that will stick with me. The amount of enjoyment, learning, and friendships I got out of the programme went way beyond any expectations and none of it would've happened without the Kapiti Rotary so again a massive thank you.
Kind regards,
Angus
An excerpt from a thank you email received from Fletcher Martin who attended the Science and Technology Forum:
I would like to start this report by taking a moment to express my immense gratitude for allowing me to be part of such a large and wondrous experience as the Forum. The Forum was an incredible opportunity that I will hold very dearly for a long time. Coming into it my main personal goal was to explore alternative fields of science to find a possible specialty for further study. The numerous academic modules throughout the forum allowed me to dip my toes into the water of various fields of science and technology, some of which I had never encountered before.
The Forum was an experience, to say the least. It was busy and insane and overwhelming and tiring and everything else all at once. But I would not change it for anything. The Rotary National Science and Technology Forum was truly the most wonderful experience that I have ever had and I am beyond grateful that you allowed me to attend it. Thank you more than I can attempt to express, and I hope that this retrospective was able to express some of the wonders of the Forum.
Yours gratefully.
Fletcher Martin
We have invited both Angus and Fletcher to attend a meeting to speak about their experiences.
Paul
The international fishing competition event (fundraiser for Mary Potter Hospice) will be held at Kāpiti Landing on 24 and 25 February. 6 people are required between 2.30 and 6pm each day for parking duties. Please let Paul know if you can help out.
Martin
Yellow Pages delivery is going extremely well. We hit the halfway mark last weekend, despite the weather last Saturday being... moist. Lots of people have volunteered for the 2nd weekend coming up.
Update: As some famous person once said: We knocked the bastard off! Saturday was forecast to be wet and a bit wild, after the tempest that hit Kāpiti hard late on Friday afternoon. But Saturday dawned clear! A flurry of phone calls later, and we were back in business. Sunday was a lovely sunny morning and we have now completed the whole lot, a week ahead of expectations. This was a heroic effort, thanks to everyone from Martin. $5,000 will go into the club's coffers.
Thank you so much to Martin, Bruce and Paul for the precision planning, Al for all his time and storage facilities and every member, partner and offspring who volunteered: driving, walking the beat and/or baking for smoko.
