Visitors: Guest Speakers Mark Hanlon, Cambridge Rotary Club, Fiona Sullivan
Welcome–from President ……(a few words) – actually very few words this week.
FYI: 2 December 1917 - Six p.m. closing of pubs was introduced as a temporary wartime measure. It ushered in what became known as the ‘six o’clock swill’, in which patrons drank their fill before closing time. The practice was to last for 50 years.
Since the 1880s a campaign for the prohibition of alcohol had developed into a powerful mass movement. During the First World War its supporters promoted sobriety as a patriotic duty, and in 1915 and 1916 nearly 160,000 New Zealanders signed petitions calling for six o’clock closing. The government agreed to restrict opening hours to increase the efficiency of the workforce. In 1918 six o’clock closing was made permanent.
Maybe not a Green fact but I suspect many men felt Green after they had binge drunk for an hour on an empty stomach.
Environment 90 seconds – Warren Banks showed us a composting solution that is being worked on by the Dairy industry to separate Nitrogen as gas from Dairy effluent before the solids are available to be applied as compost fertiliser.
Guest Speaker Mark Hanlon Cambridge Rotary
Urban Mining Project - Recycling E-Waste - A fabulous Rotary initiative
between Cambridge and Te Awamutu Rotary Clubs. They are mining the E-Waste of their communities. Monthly public collection events are scheduled to allow people to deliver their e-waste and pay a small fee to have it recycled. They have great community support and approx. 65% of the volunteers are not Rotary Members. The project is run on a not-for-profit basis where all profits are used to reduce the community cost of recycling. They have diverted 20000 kgs of e-waste from landfill in the last 12 months. The volunteers dismantle and send for recycling, batteries, circuit boards, and many other electronic components. Refurbishment of laptops for resale to their community is very popular and they are sold for about 50% of the trade me price. They have an education programme at local primary schools to support the e-recycling project as well as household battery recycling bins at the local Mitre 10 and supermarkets. This is the most visible Rotary project in town and Rotary has consequentially gained excellent community support. Perhaps we could learn from them in Tauranga.
Notices & Announcements
Notice One – Lisa thanked members for completing the club survey and encouraged us to go to the theatre – “Winding Up” which is a great show.
Notice Two – Next week is Club Assembly and the survey results will be discussed.
Then Christmas meeting on the 15 December.
Notice 3 – Christmas BBQ at the Beatons Sunday 17th December . RSVP to Michelle and Simon.
Raffle: The vino was won Ian Burns
Sergeant at Arms – Barry Fredheim
- Mining members – or new members. An excellent few tips on how to encourage people to come attend a meeting and consider Rotary.
“Don’t be afraid to ask the question” - Would you like to join me at a Rotary meeting next Friday morning?
Don’t be afraid of rejection.
Try to create connections to create opportunity to bring people together.
Parting Thought from : Kathy Webb
3 Things you can never recover.
A word after its said
A moment after its missed
Time after its gone.
