• Link to Seven Sharp - Kaikohe’s Painting Renaissance.

• Link to the Kerikeri Rotary Club’s Kerikeri Garden Safari website (2-3 November).

• Link to the Kumeu Rotary Club’s Kumeu Garden Festival website (2 November).

• Link to the a notice about the Dargaville Rotary Club and the Royal New Zealand Ballet’s Tower Tutus on Tour - Dargaville - 6 November.

• Link to the latest Clarks Escapades programme.

• Okaihau Kaikohe Traverse 29 September 2013

• Link to the Slide Show and Feedback Form. Club members add your feedback while it is fresh in your mind.

• Link to the Feedback Summaries from 2011, 2012 and 2013. Interesting to compare.

• Link to a message about Purple Pinkie Day - 24 October.

• Link to the District 9910 ERKs Promotion.

• Link to the webpage of the District 9910 Conference Waitangi - 25-27 April 2014.

• Link to the webpage of the Rotary International Conference Sydney - 1-4 June 2014.

Calendar and Blogs (where there is always something new - check these links every week)

• Link to the Kaikohe Rotary Club Calendar.

• Link to Kaikohe Rotary’s Facebook page.

• Link to the Rotary Down Under Blog.

• Link to the Rotary Regional Public Image Resource Blog.

Regular Newsletters

• Link to Shelterbox News - October 2013.

• Link to the District Governor’s Newsletter - September 2013.

• Link to the October Rotary Down Under webpage.

• Link to the September New Generations Newsletter.

• Link to Rotary Global History Fellowship Newsletter - #139.

• Link to Rotary Service Update - September 2013.

• Link to the Kerikeri Rotary Bulletin.

• Link to the latest E Mara E Pānui.

9 October Meeting Report

• Apologies - Ray, Frank, Keith, Alan.

• Guests - Monita Skipworth, Matewai Cruickshank, Cam Sutherland, Jessie Wilson, Kaya Tobin.

• Make-ups - Elizabeth and Bill at the Blood Pressure promotion.

• Thanks to the Meals on Wheels volunteers.

• The Breast Cancer Appeal is on Friday 11 October.

• There will be a Combined Meeting with Kaikohe Lions at 6:00pm 23 October at The Hubb, Northland College. The guest speaker is Jim Luders, Northland College Principal.

• We have been asked to assist with the Kaikohe Christmas Parade - 29 November.

• The club agreed to hold the Okaihau Kaikohe Traverse again in 2014.

• Five Minute Speaker told members about Clarks Escapades.

• Guest Speaker Monita Skipworth is a senior student at Okaihau College and is going to France as an Rotary Exchange student.

• Monita lives with her family at Matene Road Tautoro. Her parents are Garry Skipworth and Matewai Cruickshank.

• She spent her early years in Hawkes Bay where she attended Kohanga Reo and Kura Kaupapa Māori.

• She got the inspiration to apply to be a Rotary Exchange Student after an exchange student spoke to their school when she was in Year 9.

• In thanking Monita, Bruce Gillies noted that she was the 22nd Exchange student who had spoken to the club.