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My last District Bulletin for 2017-18 - Rotary: Making A Difference
The last District Bulletin for this Rotary year and a very special thanks to our Communications team who keep the information flowing on Facebook - Laura Sommer, District website- Richard Stephen, and the powerhouse worker with a special thank you to the champion of the District Bulletin - Adrienne Murray. Adrienne has done herself proud with gathering and sending out in a timely fashion a monthly District Bulletin with the musing of the District Governor as well as much information that keeps us all informed. The District Bulletin is the one source for the current updates and information about what is happening in the District.
Much achieved in May 18!
As the Rotary year draws to a close we have continued to have an amazing year of Rotary: Making A Difference. This was exemplified by the road show to promote the Rarotonga Mobile Health Clinic with Rotary Club of Masterton South Project leaders David Baker and Dr Rob Irwin as they traveled with the Tranzit modified bus that has been transformed into a Mobile Health Clinic by the talented Paul Snelgrove and his team at Tranzit in Masterton! Heading through stop offs enroute to Auckland for shipping, the Mobile Health Clinic stopped of in Palmerston North, Whanganui, Stratford and Inglewood. Upon reaching the Auckland waterfront it was loaded aboard a ship bound for Rarotonga. It arrived and was unloaded in Rarotonga on May 30th and will undergo final orientation and driver training through the Ministry of Health staff, The final stage of this part of the project will be the official presentation to the Cook Islands government, Rotary District 9920 and the Rotary Club of Rarotonga on June 18th, 2018, by the Rotary Club of Masterton South and Rotary District 9940. The bus has arrived and the Rotary Club of Rarotonga has already been busy promoting the mobile health clinic as you can see from this article in today’s Cook Islands News.
The new Mobile Health Clinic ready for its official unveiling next Monday.
The Rotary Club of Rarotonga has completed a two-year project to bring a mobile health clinic to Rarotonga.
The mobile clinic is the first project of its kind in the Cook Islands, and the bus is now ready for its reveal later next week says Rotary president Mark Boyd
“We see this mobile clinic as having a very high profile and it will be used to promote health initiatives.”
The bus will be donated to the Ministry of Health at a dedication ceremony scheduled for 10am on June 18 at Constitution Park. “We have a number of dignitaries and visiting Rotarians from New
Zealand attending the ceremony, including former New Zealand High Commissioner Nick Hurley and his wife Christine,” said Boyd.
What a way to celebrate Rotary and Making A Difference for the 2017/18 year with RotaFEST 18 - A Festival of Rotary!
11-13 May, 2018 - Palmerston North Convention Centre, Palmerston North Square and WildBase Recovery, The Esplanade, Palmerston North
My vision for this years key Rotary District event in our Rotary annual calendar was to move away from promoting a conference as the reason to come but to encompass a range of activities and events that would ensure Rotarian's had an amazing experience and that we connected Rotary with the community!After welcoming Rotary International Director Elect Raffy Garcia and his wife Minda, their aides for the weekend PDG Rodney and Ange Wong, we welcomed our special guests and introduced many of our Past District Governors with an evening function on Thursday 10th May at the Coachman Hotel and a dinner at Speights Ale House.
The weekend started for our RotaFEST 18 delegates with a Friday afternoon tour of the WildBase Recovery facility that showcased this world class facility. The facility will ensure that the WildBase Hospital at Massey University Veterinary Science Faculty is able to ensure the native birds and animals that are able to be returned to the wild after injury or sickness. This will be done through this amazing rehabilitation centre, nestled in the Esplanade, Palmerston North The special event on Saturday of RotaFEST 18 was the Festival of Rotary in the Palmerston North Square. This day attracted the public with a free concert featuring high school youth jazz bands from Paraparaumu, Freyberg and Palmerston North Boys High School. The youth jazz bands made way at lunch time to the Rodger Fox Big Band with great support from Erna Ferry and kiwi legend and music icon Mark Williams. The food trucks provided a great variety of food for the lunchtime conference sessions break. With kids rides and entertainment, the Big Screen TV playing a variety of Rotary videos promoting the good we do in the world, RotaFEST 18 shared with the community and the gathered Rotarian's many Club projects and activities that Rotary is involved in supporting to support lives and communities. Three jammed packed marquees that circled the PN Square featured Rotarian's with programs and their projects that engaged with the community and promoted Service Above Self. 
For all the 2018 conference/district assembly photos (all 539) click this dropbox link and bookmark it ! (you do not need to have a dropbox account - but if you want to go back to it you need to bookmark the link in your browser).
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Graeme Titcombe, President of the Rotary Club of Karori, has been made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to the home support sector and the community.Graeme had an extensive career in the electrical and electronic manufacturing and service industries in New Zealand and Australia before becoming CEO of Access Home Health, now Access Community Health. ACH is a provider of homer-based health and disability services owned by Rural Women New Zealand. Graeme was CEO from 1999 until 2015 during which time he led the consolidation of a range of rural support services into a national service and oversaw significant growth in those services in New Zealand. He was President of the New Zealand Home Health Association from 2001-2006.
Within the Karori community in Wellington Graeme was a charter member of the Rotary Club of Karori in 1982, he has been President twice, and is a PHF with sapphire. He has been Treasurer of the Rotary Karori Sanctuary Discovery Area, Chair of the Karori Community Bus since 2007, a founding Trustee of the Karori Community Hall Trust, and provides accounting services for the Marsden Day Care Trust.
(Information provided by David Watt)
Marie Baker, President of the Rotary Club of Whanganui Daybreak has been made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in this year's Queen's Birthday Honours for services to lifesaving and swimming. This honour comes on the back of more than five decades of service. She has held roles as an instructor, field officer, education officer, secretary, chief examiner and has travelled the country teaching the discipline to others over the course of her career. Marie has also spent more than a quarter of a century as a swimming teacher and has been a tutor for Swimming New Zealand since 1994. Her decades of service have earned her numerous awards including the Commonwealth Council Service Cross and the Kiwibank New Zealander of the Year Local Hero Award in 2016. She was made an Honorary Vice President of the Commonwealth Life Saving Society in 2014, and is the current president of Royal Life Saving Society New Zealand (RLSSNZ), a role she took on after heading up the Whanganui branch.
After the destruction of the RLSSNZ's national headquarters in the 2011 Christchurch earthquake she undertook the challenge of rebuilding the society, forming a new Board of experienced personnel in late 2011.
She has led RLSSNZ's partnerships with Swimming New Zealand, Surf Lifesaving New Zealand, and Water Safety New Zealand (WSNZ).
As the Society's delegate to WSNZ from 2012 she contributed to the development of WSNZ's integrated sector plan to reduce drowning nationally
.(Information provided by an article from the Whanganui Chronicle)
National Manager and National Administrator
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