Our Sergeant Ted Mason opened the meeting at 6pm.

 

President Ian gave us an update on a few things.

 

Ian approached the subject of Zoom meetings if Omicron numbers rise and asked the Club for feedback. Two members gave feedback that we should carry on as we are for now and have as many face to face meetings as possible until we really cannot continue. If the safety of our Club members and guests becomes compromised, we will move back to Zoom meetings for as short a time as possible.

 

President Ian also updated us on the meeting with Bronwen and the Days for Girls meeting. Ian and Liz have donated to help the Days for Girls programme purchase materials for their products that they make and Bronwen will update us in due course with the plans moving forward.

 

President Ian welcomed our special guest Gary Smith who has only been in Cambridge 8 days but has been in other Rotary Clubs previously and looking to join Rotary to meet people.

 

Roger Hill introduced our guest speaker David Partis.

David gave his New Member speech and covered various aspects of his life up to today. He is turning 60 this year and gave us an update to his life, born in Auckland and grew up there.

David has lived in Owhango in the Ruapehu, Melbourne for 3 years and has finally settled in Cambridge. David and Suzanne have 3 Grandchildren and enjoy campervanning and visiting their children and grandchildren in Auckland and Melbourne.

 

Rollo thanked David for his speech and wished him well.

 

 

David Partis gave us an update about the District 9930 Cycle Jersey that the Ahuriri Sunrise Club has produced and other Clubs in the Hawkes Bay are starting to follow suit.

We can as a club do what we want so David showed us a sample of what the Jersey looks like asking if anyone was interested in buying one and having some sort of consistent cycling apparel showcasing the Rotary logo.

The photos are below in the bulletin and the cost is $108 each including freight and David will handle the ordering with the Ahuriri Sunrise Club for interested members.

 

David Partis also updated us on an Adventure Club outing planned for the weekend of the 30^th April.

The event is a Ruapehu Cycling Weekend with Saturday cycling the Ohakune Old Coach Road and Sunday cycling the Fishers Track in National Park. Both are downhill rides and involve bike shuttles.

The plan is to carpool to Owhango and stay Saturday night in the Owhango Hotel. Dinner and breakfast will be provided and bike shuttles to and from both cycle trails.

The package price for this is $205 to cover accommodation, meals and bike shuttle drop off and pickups.

Please contact David Partis to pencil in your interest for this event as we need to get numbers to the Owhango Hotel to reserve our rooms. The event is also up on the Cambridge Rotary Club website and registration is available online. Guests are welcome.

 

David Blewden gave us an update on Urban Miners and showed a registration sheet for additional volunteers which are needed to keep the programme going.

 

Nigel Salter gave an update on the cycle ride that day along the new Te Awa section.

 

Bill Robinson handed out an award to the Club for the 75^th anniversary celebration and awarded this to President Ian. Also he handed out an award for the achievements of the club in Bev Maul-Rogers year and Bev was congratulated for the achievements of the club.

 

Nigel Salter presented to us his Our Rotary World talk. Nigel talked about some background behind Rotary in Ukraine, the makeup of the Clubs there and how long they have been going. Due to Ukraine heavily involved in wars over the years Rotary is quite new in Ukraine and Nigel explained what he had learned from reading through Rotary websites.  

 

President Ian thanked everyone for coming and thanked Gary Smith for joining us and closed the meeting at 7:45pm.