Today's meeting of the Rotary Club of St Johns, Auckland, NZ was amazing with Varayame attending following the amputation of his feet - his recovery from this is so incredible and his spirits so high, especially at the likelihood of prosthetics being fitted next week that he lifted everyone's spirits as well; this is a club/ROMAC project. In addition they had the Fiji RWC team along for breakfast and also their guest speaker Andrew McKenzie, this year's St Johns Rotary Youth Yachting Scholar.
Fiona shares a quip with Fijian RWC team members |
What a breakfast - continental and / or cook - what choice! |
The "Sergeant Session" was highly entertaining and very well thought out. Anyone who thought a Rotary meeting was dull got that myth thoroughly dispensed with! |
Other activities mentioned during the meeting were:
- An update on Varayame (mentioned above)
- The success of the Glen Taylor Camp that many members made donations to
- The Brian Gibbes Memorial Golf Tournamant in October to raise funds for a sporting scholarship
- Also in October is the Trivia Night raising funds for club projects but also an incredibly popular fun event
- Simon Jones gave an update on Deltacom and the fact that the club support programme has contributed $18,000 back to the club over the years (used for RYLA) and 150,000 to Rotary in general
More information via: http://www.stjohns.rotarysouthpacific.org/ and http://www.romac.rotarysouthpacific.org/