The Hot Dog Caravan is now currently resident at Fraser Park and has completed two Saturdays serving the punters attending the Heartland Rugby championship, the next home game is Saturday 4 October, then Saturday 11 October.
A huge thanks to Jess, Jenny, Basil, John, Andrea, Lynette, Bev and Francis for their expertise and time with the HDV at Fraser Park during September!
I have to say, I was concerned that we would miss the Sri Lankan FRE team, however they are now staying in a Motel in Timaru and Rotarians are invited to share a meal with the team at “Ceylon 85” at 88 Evans Street in Ashbury, Timaru, on the 30thof September. If you are interested, please get back to me with names and numbers at our meeting on the 23rdof September.
Several Rotarians and partners took part in a “Trapper Natter” at the Bay Hill Bar on Friday 5th September put on by Predator Free Timaru.
A BIG thank you to everyone who put time in at “Illuminate” over the last two weeks, this was a project that was organised by Andrea Lord and John Rushton with volunteer hours by Jim Garden, Jenny Ensor, Allen Forrester, Robin Peterson, Lionel and Lynette Wilson, Peter and Diana Jordan and Stephen Don, along with friends of Rotary Hasan, Mahmoud, Khalid and Walid.
At present we are interviewing for the Science and Technology Forum a very BIG thank you to Bev Slooten for ensuring we have a student attend this Forum in Auckland in January 2026.
As I have mentioned, we now have a template for our new Constitution and other supporting documents that are required by the new Incorporated Societies Act of 2022.
All active members will receive the club Constitution later this month along with the required “Notice of the Special General Meeting set down for Tuesday 28th October.
The new Act requires us to provide 20 Working days’ notice of the Special General Meeting.
The actual constitution requires us to place our club’s name, the address of the club, the New Zealand Business Number, the Incorporated Societies number and the contact person for the club (normally the club secretary).
I invite as many of our Honorary members as possible to attend an informal chat regarding the upcoming Centennial of our club in late 2027. The evening is to gain an idea from honorary members (as they are our connection to the past) as to what they envisage should happen at a Centennial celebration?
I have booked the middle room at the Town and Country club for this chat, starting at 7pm on Tuesday 7th October, all active and honorary members are welcome to attend this sharing of ideas.
If anyone wants to have a meal prior to this chat, please feel free to come along earlier and order a meal from the T & C restaurant menus.
We have a Kindling morning organised for Saturday 27th September at the Woodshed on Hayes Street, this will start at 9am and taking up most of the morning. We will enjoy morning tea along with a morning tea BBQ!!
Birthdays coming up are –
Jenny Ensor on Saturday 20th September.
Robyn Baldwin coming up on Tuesday 30th September.
RYLA (Rotary Youth Leadership Awards) Applications are out for both Christchurch and Queenstown events, see Secretary Lynette Wilson for details, if you have a potential attendee for either course. Christchurch age group is 18 to 25 and Queenstown age group is 20 to 30.
The next Rotary club of Timaru Charitable Trust meeting is scheduled for the 23rdof September at 8pm at our home.
Other Dates to put in your dairies are-
The first club AGM is scheduled for Tuesday 25th November
The club Christmas Dinner is scheduled for Tuesday 9th December at Austin92 - Temuka from 6pm.
At our Rotary club meeting this coming Tuesday – 23rd September we will have as our guest speakers, Rebecca Murray and PDG Dylan Murray on their travels through Nepal with a biking group!
Lionel
Meeting Details
Rebecca Murray
PDG Dylan Murray
Biking through Napal
Members are reminded to put in an apology for the meeting by noon on Monday (otherwise they are liable to be charged) - click on the following link to apologise:-
