Toot4Tucker Foodbank appeal - an annual community project led by Tawa Rotary, together with service and business organisations - to collect non-perishable food and cash donations for Tawa Foodbank.
Tawa Rotary to celebrate 50th anniversary
Tawa Rotary is preparing to celebrate its 50thChange anniversary over the weekend of 9 and 10 April 2021.
On 4 April 1970 at a dinner held at the Wellington Overseas Terminal, Rotary International presented the Charter for the new Rotary Club of Tawa to the Club’s Charter President Eldon Armstrong.
Fifty years later the Rotary Club of Tawa planned to celebrate the 50th anniversary of that evening with a weekend of activities. Unfortunately, COVID-19 interrupted the planning.
However, the Club intends to celebrate the anniversary at the end of the 50th year – with a social get together on Friday and finishing with dinner on 10 April 2021. During that weekend members and visitors are invited to take a tour of Tawa and inspect the numerous projects that the Club has been involved in during those past 50 years.
A book on the 50-year history of the Rotary Club of Tawa has been published and copies are available for purchase at $20 each. To buy a book, please contact tawarotaryclub@gmail.com.
Camera for East Timor surgery training
Surgical nurse Mok Freitas is now back home with his family in Dili, East Timor. Tawa Rotary has helped pay for a camera for Mok to take videos of surgical instrument sterilisation techniques for sharing with his colleagues in Dili. The camera was provided on the understanding that, on Mok’s return to East Timor, it would be handed over to the hospital for ongoing training. Mok has sent a message saying “Thank you so much for the support. I gave to the theatre the camera. Thank you so much for Tawa Rotary Club for the support.”
We offer congratulations to Tawa Rotary member Judith Havill, who was recently nominated for a Tawa Community Service Award. Judith was presented with her Award certificate at the meeting of the Tawa Community Board held on the 12th April, by Board chair Richard Herbert.
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Our congratulations to Tawa Rotarian and Past District Governor Pat Waite on receiving Rotary's highest honour - the Service Above Self Award - presented by Rotary International President Ian Riseley on 6 March 2018. Outstanding news and very well deserved recognition of the significant time and talents that Pat has shared to help others.
Photo credit - Svendsen Photography; from left, Melva Waite, Pat Waite and Ian Riseley.
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