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We were delighted to have our new inbound exchange student Anna Longlune from Belgium with us again and look forward to sharing her experiences each week.
Also along was Alisia Burgess from the Lyme Disease and Chronic Fatigue Support Group to speak. We report on her presentation below and in keeping with our promise for retrospectives, there are also articles on Pet Foodbank (from meeting on 21 May) and Greenbatch-Giving New Life To Plastics (from meeting on 11 June) .We've also included Kieran English's recent toast to the Rotary Club of Taradale, Napier NZ and Ashley West's toast to the Rotary Club of Skipton UK. We'll cover the toasts given by Glenn Trim, John Erkins and Kevin Baruffi in the next edition.
It's also great hear from the Director of Club Youth Service, Simon Cubitt, that our four nominees to attend the prestigious National Youth Science Forum (NYSF) at the Australian National University (ANU) in either Canberra or Queensland University in Brisbane, were all successful. They were: Mihan De Sliva (Willetton Senior High School (WSHS)); Bianca Stevenson (WSHS); Mutia Daruso (WSHS); and Brett Nigli (Corpus Christi College). We will sponsor these students for 50% of the course fees, with one sponsorship being undertaken by the Pat Moylan Memorial Trust. After the District orientation day in September, we intend to have the students attend one of our meetings, to get to know them students they attend the forum.
In the meantime let's not forget that applications are now open for the Rotary Youth Programme of Enrichment (RYPEN) September camp.
Your new Board met for the first time on Wednesday 25 January and agreed to maintain the member subscription at 2017/18 levels and if needed, to allow it to be be paid in two moieties by 31 August 2018 and 31 January 2019 respectively.
Finally I want to thank Vic Camp for stepping in to the Club Membership role to allow Erwin Biemel to focus on his pressing health issues. As always we are thinking of Erwin and I know he will appreciate contact from us whenever possible.
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