Kia Ora

It was great to see members and friends who were able to attend last Tuesday's meeting. A special thanks to Peter Dunn and the members who contributed and supported on the day for our "in person" memorial for Warren Warburton. 

Well done to the social committee on the Fireside Forums that were held last week. It was great to have these back in our programme with a new day time option available.

Thank you to hosts Ross Wensley, Rose and Tom Shields and Alice Pottinger. Some photos from the forums are included in this bulletin, we look forward to hearing reports from the three forums at this week’s meeting.

This week's meeting is an extra one with a change to Level 1 at the Kelvin Hotel (Level 6 is getting new carpet), and this week we are embracing technology and our guest speaker Chris Claridge will join our meeting online as Covid-19 continues to impact on travel. 

Membership growth conversations have progressed to agenda items at club forums, and last week as a fireside forum topic. Now we need to change conversation into action. 

Rotary International president Shektar Mehta is challenging all Rotary clubs with "Each one Bring one". The idea is that each member brings someone along to introduce them to Rotary. 

There are different ways for each of us to do this. If you don’t have someone to bring, or to nominate, do you know of someone in our community that would be a good Rotarian? Remember, you don’t have to be the one bringing them or asking them – connecting us to them is all that is needed.

If you have a new member suggestion – please let me or one of the directors know.  As indicated the focus of the October 12 meeting will be on membership. 

See you later - mā te wā