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President's Message
Michelle Smith
Presidents Notes.
 

Apologies from your editor for the late release of this weeks rapport.

2018 District Governor Changeover

 

Date:                Saturday 7th July 2018

Time:                5.30 - 7.30pm

Location:         Quality Hotel, 20 Gladstone Rd, Parnell

 

Cost:                 $30 per person

 

The Rotary Club of Parnell and DGE Ingrid Waugh and John would like to invite you to join them to say thank you to DG Malini Raghwan and her team, to celebrate the past year’s achievements, and to introduce the Rotary District 9920 team for the 2018-19 Rotary year.

 

Come and join your fellow Rotarians for an evening of fun and celebration.   All Rotarians are invited.

There will be a welcome drink on arrival, nibbles throughout the event and a cash bar will be available.

 

RSVP the names of those attending to:

District Governor’s Secretary Peter Barron at : pbarron@xtra.co.nz

By  Monday 1 July  2018

 

Please make payment to : The Rotary Club of Parnell

    12-3109-0110290-02

 Ref:  C’over/name

 

If you have specific dietary requirements (vegetarian, gluten free etc.) please let us know in your RSVP email.

 

 

RYLA, Volunteers are still required.

Speak to Terry Mickelsen if you can help. In particular, drivers are needed to take Newmarket RYLARIANs to the venue at the commencement of RYLA and from when RYLA concludes.

Change Over – Club Change Oover is taking place on 26 June at Sorrento, One Tree Hill.

Duty Rosters 

Members please note that if you are unable to undertake your duty please arrange for some-one else to take your place.
 
Programme 29-May-2018 5-Jun-2018
Topic Royal Akarana Yacht Club-Hyundai Marine Sports Centre  
Speaker Andrew Short Queens Birthday - no meeting
Introduction Mike Allison  
Thanks John Meadowcroft  
Rapport Ron Halls  
AV Duty John Hawke  
Cash Desk Colin Lucas  
Registration of Visitors Mark Wells  
Presidents Table PR & Comms  
Host to Visitors Kuei-Sen Yang  
  Mike Alison  
Attendance Register Eric Turner  
Sunshine Boxes Bill Bennett  
  Ian Bond  
Raffle Duty Dave Birch  

Stories
Hyundai Marine Sports Centre - Andrew Brookland

Our guest speaker on 29 May was Andrew Brookland, General Manager of the Akarana Marine Sports Charitable Trust and the Royal Akarana Yacht Club.

Andrew spoke to us about the construction of the Hyundai Marine Sports Centre on the landing at Okahu Bay Auckland.

The RAYC has been on the site since about 1952 when club rooms were constructed on the reclamation. In 1980 odd there was talk about construction of a new club rooms as then the old club rooms were becoming somewhat tired. After much hard work by members of the club and other sports entities construction of replacement clubrooms commenced 2017 with first the demolition of the old clubrooms and secondly construction of the new Hyundai Marine sports Centre which is due for completion late 2018.

In general terms the purpose of the new high Hyundai Marine sports Centre is to create a fully inclusive Marine sports hub, with the ability to host world-class events as well as provide facilities for marine based user groups to engage in competitive, recreational and educational activities. The intention is for the centre to be a destination on the waterfront that is open to the community. At the same time the centre is intended to provide a home for theRAYC as well as Auckland University, the Auckland sailing club, Sailbility Auckland, T.S Achilles, triathlon Auckland, Waka Ama groups and similar.

RAYC already has a high performance unit within its structure which has produced outstanding sailors such as Blair Tuke, Peter Burling and Molly Meech to name but a few. These athletes used the RAYC as facilities for training before the London and Rio Olympics and the intention is that the new sports Centre will continue to offer that sort of support.

It is not only able-bodied sailors who will be catered for at the sailing Centre. It is intended that sailability Auckland will be supported. As a consequence the new sports Centre has focused on accessibility with at least 11 disabled persons toilets in the building as well as easy access for people who require the use of wheelchairs.

The aim of the centre is to provide access hundred and 10 hours a week through a public café/bar, conference centre provision of customer spaces for use as the conference and ongoing sailing academies.

Andrew also told us that all the moorings in Okahu Bay will be removed by the end of the year freeing up space for paddling and Whaka Ama events as well as sailing Academy activities. Interestingly he commented that the old pile wave break which runs from the Okahu Bay wharf to the Marine Rescue Centre will be retained but not maintained as it is a historic structure.

This is an exciting project and will be a great addition to the Auckland waterfront in particular and marine scene in general.  This project and others flowing from the Americas Cup in 2021 will mean that the waterfront will be vastly improved over the next few years. Exciting times!

Andrew’s address was well received by members. The Hyundai Marine Sports Centre clearly shows what motivated people can achieve when they put their minds to it in this city.

 

ROMAC Visitors
 

ROMAC visitors

Rosie Bradshaw gave us a brief introduction to ROMAC - which is the acronym for Rotary Oceania Medical Aid for Children. The aim of ROMAC is to provide within Australia and New Zealand medical children for children 15 years and under from developing countries (generally within the Pacific basin) for life-saving and/or dignity restoring surgery not available to them in their own country.

She introduced us to our meeting guests from Vanuatu who are ROMAC participants as adults and children, Athenas, Sandrine, Yammie, Abelnando and Anesha. with open arms and hope that the medical procedures for the children are successful.

ROMAC travel expenses of an adult and child to New Zealand for surgery. Accommodation is provided at Ronald McDonald house and those people are provided with a support person, in this case Rosie, who accompanies them to medical appointments, makes sure they have adequate clothing for winter and assist with provision of other necessaries.

We hope the visit of our guests to New Zealand is successful.

RYDA Alexandra Park Timetable
See below the RYDA time-table so members can see what happens at the event if the want to see more than at lunch.
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Ocean Light Book Launch
 
Mount Eden Rotary Invites to the launch of Ocean Light. See below