Karori Rotary is celebrating 40 years of service
Karori Rotary is celebrating 40 years of service
The Rotary Club of Karori is one of 36,754 clubs with 1.2 million members in 220 countries and territories around the world.
Like all Rotarians, we share the ideal epitomised in the Rotary motto, “Service above Self”, and, like Rotarians everywhere, we translate our passions into relevant social causes to change lives and make lasting improvements locally, regionally, nationally and internationally.
Our club was chartered in May 1982. This, our 40th anniversary year, is an opportunity to reflect on, and celebrate, the Club’s many activities and achievements over the years. Here is one such achievement.
1986: The Marsden Club
The Rotary Club of Karori has supported the Marsden Club in Newcombe Crescent, Karori since its inception 1984. The latter provides quality day programmes for people with dementia and related disorders, and guidance and support to their caregivers.
In 1986, we established the Rotary Karori Marsden Community Trust and, over the next 10 years, raised $186,000 to purchase the Newcombe Crescent property from the Nursing Sisters of the Little Company of Mary.
In 1993, then Trust Chairman and Past President of Karori Rotary, Eric Aston, on behalf of Karori Rotary, arranged for British actress, Stephanie Cole (Aunty Joan in Doc Martin) to tour New Zealand with her one woman performances of plays by Alan Bennett (famed English actor, author, playwright and screenwriter). This tour alone raised $40,000 and helped us complete the purchase of the Newcombe Crescent property in 1996.
Applications for membership are always welcome
If you’d like to learn more about Rotary and the personal satisfaction and growth that comes from serving others, please contact Andrea Skews, E andrea.skews@gmail.com, M 022 073 5548 or Phil Oliver, E phil@praxissoftware.co.nz, M021 292 7001.
Poll: If we want to reduce speeding, what do you think actually changes driver behaviour? 🛻🚨🚓
In the Post's article on speeding penalties, the question is asked whether speeding fines are truly about road safety, or are they just a way to boost revenue for the Crown?
What do you think? Should speeding motorists receive speeding fines or demerit points?
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37.2% The sting of a fine (Money talks!)
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62.8% The threat of demerit points (Nobody wants to lose their license!)
Some Choice News!
DOC is rolling out a new tool to help figure out what to tackle first when it comes to protecting our threatened species and the things putting them at risk.
Why does this matter? As Nikki Macdonald from The Post points out, we’re a country with around 4,400 threatened species. With limited time and funding, conservation has always meant making tough calls about what gets attention first.
For the first time, DOC has put real numbers around what it would take to do everything needed to properly safeguard our unique natural environment. The new BioInvest tool shows the scale of the challenge: 310,177 actions across 28,007 sites.
Now that we can see the full picture, it brings the big question into focus: how much do we, as Kiwis, truly value protecting nature — and what are we prepared to invest to make it happen?
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