SPEAKER REPORT

This week’s guest speaker and Rotary club of Christchurch

South member John Woodward gave us an insight into his

adventures along the Portuguese Camino which is a

pilgrimage that starts in Lisbon all the way to Santiago. John

was thankful that he didn’t have to complete the full route

which can take over a month, instead of complete around

140 km of the journey travelling at about 20kms per day.

Along the way, John would experience amazing sleepy

villages and massive vineyards with a huge variety of grapes

to make all different types of wine and beverages. John

himself admitted to partaking of a few of the beverages

through many parts of the day, which tended to make the

walk a little more difficult.

The full length of the route is around 227 kilometers and

starts in Portugal through Lisbon or Porto and ending in Spain through to Santiago de Compostela and is a

leading pilgrimage route since the 9th Century since the 1980s one of Santiago’s oldest city has been one of

UNESCO’s world heritage city. Which just goes to show the significance of the journey that John and His wife Ann

completed.

John was amazed at the route itself which he doesn’t believe is maintained in the way of taxes of the purchasing of

tickets which means It is left to the locals to maintain the route, another feature John admired, the way the route

was highlighted and marked the whole journey. Considering the fact this was a self-navigated journey John had

done very well to only get lost once even with some dodgy measurements in his travel guidebook.

BUNNING SAUSAGE SIZZLE

Saturday 18th August - The Christchurch Youth committee

with the help of Prashna and Sarita Mclean and Barbara

Mckinnon ran a. Barbeque at Bunnings Warehouse Tower

Junction.

According to the takings on the day. The sausage sizzle made

close to $1000 profit, Credit for this project has to go to Youth

Chairperson Liz Bermingham who ran the ship like clockwork

THE BULLETIN

Rotary Club of Christchurch South

District 9970

PO Box 12-243, Christchurch 8242

SERVICE ABOVE SELF

Bulletin Issue #8 - 22/08/2018

Ann Woodward wife of Christchurch South Rotary

member John ward as the walk the pilgrim journey

from Lisbon to Santiago

and make the afternoon smooth and easy and full of laughter.

?the youth committee was also able to make a donation to the Christchurch city mission with a bag of left over

sausages and 8 loaves of bread to help those in the community who need it the most.

Charlesworth Reserve Replanting

To complete what has been a very busy time for Rotarians 3 Christchurch south

members alongside some cashmere high students turned up to Charles worth reserve

and planted approximately 140 plants within the reserve.

Sarita Mclean, Malcolm Rickerby and Shirley Harris can be seen in joyous moods as

they planted all of the trees have a look at the images below

CHICKEN MANURE

Our annual fundraiser, chicken manure sales has completed its

first weekend with rather positive results. Most of the mountains

of bags from the showgrounds have disappeared and John

Wylie fielded calls all morning from successful sites such as

Innes road which constantly ran out. With what is left hopefully

one more weekend should be enough to clear the remaining

stock.

Other Notices

Members should be aware that our Rotary District is

proposing undertaking some form of assistance to

those affected by the severe Australian drought.

Our Club Member, Andrew Kim, recently received

an award for undertaking volunteer work at the Old

Stone House gardens for 15 years – well done

Andrew.

President Kim with newest rotary

member Alison

NOTICE BOARD

MS & PD

Volunteers are needed for the MS & PD

collection on Friday and Saturday 7th and

8th

at Pak N Save Moorhouse Ave If you can

help please notify Malcolm Rickerby.

OPERATION CLEAR OUT

Roster – Operation Clear out. Two people

needed from 2pm on Saturday 15

September at St Mary’s Church, Halswell, to

assist in overseeing deliveries of items for

City Mission.

NEW MEMBERSHIP PROCESS

Membership Director Sarita McLean is

developing a new Membership Application

form for prospective Club members.

ROTARY OCEANIA

AWAPUNI CLUB - TICKING ALL THE BOXES

The Awapuni park has been transformed in a $200,000

upgrade, including a new basketball court, which will

be opened by Kiwi basketball superstar Steven Adams

https://www.rotaryoceania.zone/Stories/awapuni-club-

ticking-all-the-boxes

FROM TO

B Blyth 21/06/16 TBA

E Mussen 13/04/16 TBA

M Whitehead 02/08/15 TBA

M Ireland 01/01/17 TBA

K Dalziel 01/01/17 02/19

G Dockeril 14/02/18 09/18

A Airay 29/06/18 31/08/18

M Opie 01/07/18 31/12/18

S Collins 04/0718 TBA

Q Moss 15/08/18 2019

V Nossiter 20/10/18

C McCarthy 01/10/18

R McKinney 11/18

D Buist 22/09/18

Duty 22-Aug-18 29-Aug-18

Cash Desk L Brown M Bruce

Cash Desk V Ellis K Gunasekara

Reception A Kim C Ayrey

Speaker's Host C Ayrey S Harris

Grace S Harris P Mears

International Toast V Gamage A McKinnon

Thanks to Speaker D Johns A McCully

Quote for the Week J McKessar R Mackie

Closure S McLean B Southey-Jensen

Speaker Reporter J Chamberlain T Blackler

Notices Reporter J Wylie G Fowler

“DUTIES”

“ON LEAVE”

Our Club is on “Facebook” And the internet! You will find us at –

www.christchurchsouthrotary.org.nz

or http://www.facebook.com/RotaryClubOfChristchurchSouth

APOLOGIES – Record your apology at the Reception Desk at a prior meeting OR

Email:chchsouthrotary@gmail.com before 11.00 on the Wednesday - you will get a reminder a couple of days before the meeting re apologising and to advise if bringing a guest.

EMERGENCY APOLOGIES to Mike Bruce, 022 540 1251 or Val Nossiter, 339 8441 DUTIES - If you are unable to do an allocated duty, it is YOUR responsibility to arrange a substituent

AND to advise the President.

LEAVE of ABSENCE (three weeks or more) advise the Secretary by email or in writing.

“ON LEAVE”

“ON LEAVE”

NEXT MEETING

WEDNESDAY 29 AUGUST CHRISTINA BUCKLAND - ONE MOTHER TO

ANOTHER

– MY STORY

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