Another six children at Te Waka Unua school have earned the right to call themselves Healthy Heroes. They have completed a variety of ‘healthy lifestyle’ activities which they now aim to incorporate into their daily lives.

It has been a busy period in the last two months working in a different way during the Covid-19 lockdown and the subsequent easing of levels. Rotary activity for me has been maintained albeit in a different format.

For the third year Papanui Rotary partnered with Ray White Real Estate Papanui to bring some free, safe family fun for local children at St. James Park.

One of the highlights of the Rotary year is when we have the finalists of the Year 7 and Year 8 speech competitions attend Rotary and present their winning speeches. The following excerpts are from Alan McKinnon's report for the weekly bulletin.

The District Growing Rotary committee identified a need to offer a more flexible model for people who found that the traditional model of Rotary does not necessarily suit their lifestyle.

This is the second year in a row that Lincoln Rotary has been awarded the Rotary Citation.

The 36th annual Rangiora Rotary Book Fair will this year be held on Friday November 26 and Saturday November 27 at the Rangiora A & P Showgrounds Pavilion (Tin Shed) because of COVID-19

On 28 October, the finals of the Papanui Rotary Speech Contest were held at Heaton Intermediate School. 16 students from 7 schools and in years 5-8 competed for the top prizes on the night.

Pop Up Op shop Zero is a collaboration between Westport Rotary Club and the local iwi social enterprise NUKU.

Watch this promotional video from Goldpine talking about the lodge, Rotary involvement from the beginning, and of the relationship forged for the recent upgrade, and of course, the use of Goldpine materials.

Registrations are now open for the next Rotary Youth Leadership Award 2022 to be held at College House, Waimairi Road, Christchurch from Sunday 16th January to Friday 21st January 2022

In this edition we profile Lois Flanagan one of the four Assistant Governors based in Canterbury.

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