Roger Milne and Trees for Survival: Roger will speak to us this Thursday on a subject relevant to our increasing interaction with our partner schools. The Trees for Survival programme is an exciting opportunity for us to encourage students to learn about growing, tending, and valuing plants and then planting them out for restoration purposes. Even better from now on, the students will be able to plant them in their local area and watch their progress over the years.
RSVP promptly for exciting Evening Meetings coming up: Our next 2 evening meetings on 3 Aug. and 7 Sept. are likely to be capacity audiences @ 100. Please RSVP promptly when you receive the invitations to: Peter Lester and the Inside Story on the America's Cup on 3 Aug.; and Rotary International delegates visiting from Rotary Institute on 7 Sept.
Tragic News of death of Rotary International President-Elect Sam Owori: We received the very sad news on the weekend that Sam Owori died from complications after a planned operation in the USA. This is major loss for Uganda, Africa more broadly, and to Rotary globally. Sam was to be our speaker on 7 Sept. http://www.newvision.co.ug/new_vision/news/1457767/rotary-establish-memorial-fund-owori
Change of Policy: At our Board meeting last week, we decided to alter policy for morning meetings from 13 July concerning the charge for absent members if an apology has not been received. There was much discussion and expression of differing views on this matter. We decided by majority to expect apologies from members not attending, but not to make a penalty charge for unnotified absence. For all evening meetings, an RSVP is required.
Nick was still in shock from his recent and successful completion of the week long RYLA camp (Rotary Youth Leadership Awards). He described the first three days of the camp as full of inspirational speakers from whom he learned interpersonal skills and the nuances of relationship building.
Thanks to inside knowledge (unwittingly shared with him) he knew he would be forced out of his comfort zone and was not disappointed when Army supervisors called a 3AM muster, broke up previously comfortable groups alliances and allocated camp participants into totally new groups for the journey to Rangitoto. Nick then reported surviving 22 hours of “forming, storming and performing” physical and mental challenges, all of which were completed whilst totally drenched, thanks to torrential rain.
Simon is a regular visitor to our club. Having paid careful attention to Nick’s “snap chat”, Simon suggested he might need Nick’s advice on how to work with difficult leaders (such as Winston Peters).
Since presenting to us last, Simon has married Rachel and gained five children (three of them at home) and one crazy barking dog. His days of returning from work to a silent house, putting up his feet and watching the history channel have now been replaced with a household where homework takes priority, and teenaged “angst” is very real.
He was delighted to discover we had a team travelling to Taveuni and was able to share that he lived and worked in Taveuni for two years and is well acquainted with Geoff Amos. He described his time there as being two of the most amazing years of his life!
The MS Society Street Appeal collection is at Stonefields New World on Friday 1st and Saturday 2nd September. If anyone is interested in participating for 2 hours please email Donald on donald.bowie.dbc@gmail.com.
Club Contacts
President: Peter Buchanan 027 434 1832
Secretary, Treasurer, Apologies: Alex Gatt 021 571 722
President Elect: Allan Smith
Sergeant Major: John Cornaga
Bulletin Editors: Annie Tyson & Robyn Ingram
Membership contact: Brian Fergus bfergus@xtra.co.nz
We meet Thursday for breakfast at 7am for 7.15am start, except for the first Thursday of the month, when we meet in the evening at 6pm for dinner.
Venue is the Remuera Golf Club, 120 Abbotts Way, Remuera, Auckland, 1072, New Zealand.
All Rotarians are welcomed including Rotarian family members.
Others wanting to visit are most welcome to contact Brian Fergus bfergus@xtra.co.nz to arrange an invitation.
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Nick was still in shock from his recent and successful completion of the week long RYLA camp (Rotary Youth Leadership Awards). He described the first three days of the camp as full of inspirational speakers from whom he learned interpersonal skills and the nuances of relationship building. 
Simon is a regular visitor to our club. Having paid careful attention to Nick’s “snap chat”, Simon suggested he might need Nick’s advice on how to work with difficult leaders (such as Winston Peters).