Welcome from Michele - she gave us a heads up regarding future discussion around a proposed change of procedure where by maybe having 3 meetings per month and having more chat time in our meetings.
Adrian’s topic was on Bees - which have been around for 50 million years and over 20,000 different species worldwide. Bees are involved in providing 1/3 of all the food that we eat. Finishing well within the allocated time of 2 minutes Adrian encouraged us all to do what we can to look after Bees
Notices and Announcements—
Dave spoke to encourage all members to support RYDER Rotary Youth Driver Education program for Young Passengers and Drivers.
K Valley Bike Day is fast coming up.
Rod Large has resigned from our club.
Rotary District 9930 Conference 21-23April at Te Kuiti registrations are now open.
Our guest speaker- Vince Ford was introduced by Kevin Atkinson. Vince spoke about
Connection being 70% of happiness. Because the slide presentation wasn’t working (faulty Hotel electronics) Vince still continued with his very lively and entertaining delivery on the importance of people connecting with each other and challenged us all to go out and make an effort to connect with people daily.
Raffle – the Vino was won by Wayne 91b
Sargent – Simon was put on the spot as appointed sergeant had vanished. By virtue of AI he produced a poem titled “When the sergeant vanished “
Parting thought from Adrian – A recent survey for healthy living is 90% chocolate and the other 10% chocolate as well .