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.
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| Fiona shares a quip with Fijian RWC team members |
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| What a breakfast - continental and / or cook - what choice! |
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| 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! |
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| Andrew McKenzie is a high achiever with commendable future plans and is the 15th scholar and like his predecessors finished tops in the CORK Regatta in Kingston. The scholarship provides promising young sailors assistance to their first international competition. |
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/
