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ROTORUA EAST INC.NEW ZEALAND DISTRICT 202-L, Zone 6

MARCH 2020

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CLUB STRUCTURE2019-2020

Club Meetings on the 1st and 3rd Mondays each month At the Rotorua Club (Rotorua Racecourse)

Fellowship from 5.30pm for meal at 6.00pm and meeting at 7.00pm

President: Jennifer Storey

Past President: Linda Cousins

Vice President: Brian Halligan

Club Administrator: John Wyatt

Lion Tamer. Gordon White

Secretary: Sheree McKenzie

Treasurer: Ross Allen

Bulletin Editor: David Elliott

Webmaster: Wendy Allen

Tail Twister: Christine & Fred Brock

LCIF: Kevin Jensen

Directors

(Projects) Linda Cousins

Kevin Jensen

David Elliott

(Social & Membership) Brian Halligan

(Youth & Welfare) Gordon White

BEYOND THE CLUB2019-2020

International President : Dr Jung-Yul Choi (Korea)First Vice President: Judge Haynes Townsend (USA) Second Vice President: Brian E. Sheehan (USA)Third Vice President : Dr Patti Hill (Canada)Chair of L.C.I.F: PIP Gudrun Yngvadottir (Iceland)

Constitutional Area 7 Global Action TeamTeam Leader PID Sheryl Jensen (NZ)

Multiple District 202 Global Action Team Team Leader PDG Wendy MillerLeadership PDG Alice McDonaldMembership PDG Wendy GoodwinService PID Eric Carter District 202L District Governor David PeartFirst Vice DG Margaret GillSecond Vice DG Suez ReidZone 6 Chair Phyl Hawkins

Postal address: Rotorua East Lions Club, PO Box 1791, Rotorua 3040

This Month’s Tale EAST LIONSHere’s a poem about GIS

have a little Satnav, it sits there in my car. A Satnav is a driver's friend, it tells you where you are.

I’ve had the little Satnav, for almost all my life.It does more than the normal one, my Satnav is my wife.

It gives me full instructions, on exactly how to drive."It's thirty miles an hour Dear, And you're doing thirty five".

It tells me when to stop and start, and when to use the brake, And warns me that it's never ever, safe to overtake.

It tells me when a light is red, and when it goes to green, It’s programmed so compulsively, to always intervene.

“Look out for that car ahead, and watch for those behind”, “You’re too close to that car ahead, Slow down if you don’t mind”.

I'm sure no other driver, has so helpful a deviceFor when we leave and lock the car, It still gives me advice.

But with this non-stop counselling, each journey's pretty fraught.So why don't I exchange it, and get a quieter sort?

Ah well, you see, it cleans the house, makes sure I'm proper- ly fed,

And multifunctionality, makes up for modern tech..

Club meetings for March

Monday 2 March Business meeting RotoruaClub Lounge Meet in thebar at 5.30 pm for a meal at 6.00.and meeting at 7.00 pm .

Monday 16 March Social meeting RotoruaClub Lounge Meet in thebar at 5.30 pm for a meal at 6.00. Guest speaker Phil Muldoon, Chief volunteer Fire Officer who has recently assisted the firefighting in Australia.

Remember meals are available on both scheduled meeting nights, BUT you must apologise if you are NOT going to attend, or require a meal, by noon on the Friday before themeeting, and you must also advise of visitor / guest numbers by the same deadline. Meals are user pays and are ordered at the bar.

APOLOGIES & VISITORSEmail rotoruaeast@lionsclubs.org.nz before noon on the Friday before the meeting, or phone or text Secretary Sheree 0274 505

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hanks to the Club’s membership of the Tatau Pounamu Community Collective, and President Jennifer and 1VP

Brian Halligan’s regular attendance at the Collective’smanagement committee meetings, our Club received the 2020 Environmental Award at this year’s Lions 202L District Convention held in Waihi Last month.

This was recognition of the Eastside community’s environmental

projects organised by the Collective, comprising: the predator trap making and pest control on Mokoia Island, OwhataLakefront reserves, and throughout the Eastside suburbs; riparian planting of native trees and shrubs; stormwater improvement; local wetland restoration; and inorganic rubbish collection. The Collective has been informed of this award and has expressed its satisfaction with this recognition.Later in the Bulletin there is an account of the Collective’scommunity health and welfare strategy the “Piripoho Initiative”.

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provide the support of a second nurse for home visits.

he exposure given to climate change sceptics' opinions and fake facts in the social media continues

to disappoint. Here is a response:

One of the most scary results of the increasing power of theinternet-based social media is the increasing scepticism about scientific facts. Scientists are bound by a code of ethics which forbids positive proof. They can never prove that a hypothesis is true, only that there is no evidence that it is not true.Respectable scientists are therefore reluctant to use the social media to report conclusions. Disreputable scientist are bound by no such scruples, nor are they exposed to peer scrutiny. In the past they have claimed that smoking is not a threat to human health, that immunisation is dangerous andunnecessary, that large chemical industries are not causing ill health and death among its neighbours, and closer to home, that 1080 is killing the indigenous fauna it’s being used toprotect. The internet demands no credible audit and it appeals to those who prefer to be indignant than properly informed.The meetings of the IPCC are attended by reputable scientists specialising in research directly related to climatechange. Those self-declared expert sceptics don’t attend. There is uncertainty and controversy, and vigorous argument, at the meetings concerning the interaction of influences and the rate of change. BUT not about the fundamental“conclusion” that increasing concentration of greenhousegases, resulting from human activity, is the major influence on climate change, and that the clear demonstration of change in climate is progressive, NOT a cyclical phenomenon. Somereputable scientists believe that the point of no return has already been passed, but even if it hasn’t, while there are self declared scientific sceptics who Governments can use to justify no action, it’s becoming increasingly likely that that point will be reached sooner or later.

ANNIVERSARIES

Congratulations to The Elliotts who have their weddinganniversary on 15 March, and the Brocks whose wedding was on 30 March, and happy birthday to Brian Old on the 19th and his wife Heather on the 28th.

Climate change sceptics still supporting Global inaction.

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Fine the Elliotts and the Brocks and Brian Old.

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John Wyatt’s collation of the 17 February committee meeting reports.

Projects & Services Carols by Candlelight – A debrief meeting is being held on

17 March at 5:30pm at David Elliott’s residence.Stock Cars – Numbers were confirmed for Saturday 22

February and for 6 March Club Night manpower is to be confirmed by email.

Diabetes Rotorua – Rescheduling of Whanau Day. The Club feels that this should be deferred until the 2020 Diabetes Day.

Telephone Books – Quote the same price as for 2019.Bunnings Barbecue – Saturday 21 March 2020. Numbers

were confirmed with Project Organiser Wendy.

Membership & SocialSocial

Sulphur City Invitation for Wednesday 26 February – Their Guest Speaker will be Phil Muldoon, Chief Fire Officer, Lake Okareka, who has recently returned from fighting the devastating fires in Australia. Brian to also invitePhil Muldoon to speak at our Social Meeting on 16 March 2020 or on a subsequent social meeting.

Change of Officers – Monday 27 July 2020 when President Elect Brian Halligan returns. This would be instead of the Social Meeting on 20 July 2020

MembershipNominations Committee – Comprises Brian, Jennifer and

Kevin. Nomination Forms will be available at the next Business Meeting. Brian asked members to think seriously about standing.

New Member/s – Kevin Beesley was welcomed as a transferred member.

Next Board Meeting Date – Monday 9 March.Banner Design – Wendy has submitted two designs.

Further photographs will be taken and copies brought

to the Business Meeting at which the purchase of banners would be progressed.

Club Dues – For the second half of the year are now due.

National Pens – Pen and keyring in presentation box @$10.00. To be discussed further at the next Busi- ness Meeting.

Business Cards – Generic Business Cards were dis- cussed with 250 as a starting point for negotiation with the supplier.

Youth & WelfareCommunity Hauora Day 22 March – Club to provide an

activity (Guess the Number of Lollies in the Jar; colouring in book for children with Club supplying crayons) and gazebo for stage has been sourced from District 202L.

Youthline Application – This is a national one. Outside of our criteria.

Girl Guides Request – Defer at this time as the request is not applicable until 2021.

International Youth Camp Feedback – Left to the next Business Meeting.

he roster for the Eastside Youth Space ran out during the summer break and is re-established

below. David Elliott , Brian Halligan and Wayne Hall have already carried out weekly pick-ups so the roster will start on the week ending Sunday 22 March. The playground now has a substantial carpark runningalong the main road, and the two Council bins have been relocated, but not far, and they are still not much use to us. It has been proposed that our Club should “sponsor” a bin which would be set up by the District Council in the centre of the playground. We will have the bin sign written to acknowledge our sponsorship

The Eastside Youth Space litter pick-up roster

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Initiative

This should reduce the amount of litter we have to pick up, and, for the first time, it will let park users know that the Club is providing this community service. The Club’s support for this proposal will be sought at the next business meeting. In themeantime the next six week roster is set out below:

Week ending Sunday 22 March Linda Cousins

Sunday 29 March Kevin Jensen

Sunday 5 April Sheree McKenzie

Sunday 12 April John Somerville

Sunday 19 April David Elliott

Sunday 26 April Brian Halligan

he Eastside community has more than its fair share of health and social problems associated with poverty, and

one of the Tatau Pounamu Community Collective’scommitments is the social wellbeing of the community and the safety of its children. It is fortunate to have the services of a dedicated and competent community nurse employed by the Owhata Health Centre and the strategy adopted by the Piripoho Initiative is to support the work she does. This involvesfacilitating her access to learning centres and schools and into the homes of individual families; arranging closer support for her work from health and social agencies by bringing their services into the community and if required into clients’ homes, by organising community events which make the communityaware of the services available, by encouraging families to walk in off the street to ask for help, and by being aware of, and providing support where there are kids exposed to familyviolence. To make sure that the community nurse can spend as much of her time as possible on clinical work Tatau Pounamu will provide administrative support covering patient bookings and reminders, updating statistics and preparing reports, promoting services and events, organising and schedulingmobile clinics, and delivering literature. As required it will also

MEAL TIME AT THE ROTORUA CLUB IS 6.00pm

AFTER FELLOWSHIP IN THE BAR FROM 5.30pm

[Put these events in your diary]

Monday 2 March Business meeting RotoruaClub Lounge. Fellowship from5.30 pm. Meal at 6.00 and meeting at 7.00 pm.

Friday 6 March Stockcars. 2 volunteers neededfor the local Club night.

Monday 16 March Social meeting RotoruaClub Lounge Meet in the bar at 5.30 pm for a meal at6.00. Guest speaker Phil Muldoon, Chief Fire Officer, Lake Okareka, who has recently assisted thefirefighting in Australia.

Saturday 21 March Bunnings Barbeque

Sunday 22 March Eastside Community HauoraDay, 10 am to 1 pm, Puketawhero Park, organized by the Owhata Medical centre and the Tatau Pounamu Collective.

Saturday 28 March “New Idea Workshop”. 9 amto 3 pm, St John Ambulance Room, 32 Rawhiti Avenue, Matamata, organized by Lions District 202L

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