The Rotary Club of Kaikohe | Bulletin |
Dinner Meetings Wednesday 8 March - Speaker - Mike Edmonds - Community Board Wednesday 15 March - Board Meeting
Date | Cashier | Five Minute Speaker | Introduce Speaker | Raffle | Sergeant | Sergeant's Assistant | Thank Speaker | 8-Mar-2017 | Liz | Colin | John V | Valerie | Glenis | Jim | Ray | 15-Mar-2017 | John V | | | | | | |
News and Notices Link to Celebrating 112 Years of Rotary. Link to Celebrate with us in Atlanta. Link to ShelterBox New Zealand announces a new Vice-Regal Patron. Link to the website of the Rotary District Conference 21-23 April 2017 in Whangarei - follow the links to the programme and registration pages.
Calendar and Blogs (where there is always something new - check these links every week) Link to the Kaikohe Rotary Club Calendar. Go here to check out Guest Speakers for future meetings and details of other club activities. Link to Kaikohe Rotary’s Facebook page. Link to the District Facebook page. Link to the District Calendar. Link to the Rotary Service Connections Blog. Link to the Rotary Voices Blog.
Link to the Rotary Down Under Blog. Link to the Rotary Regional Public Image Resource Blog. Link to Rotary International’s Member News. Link to Wasrag (Water and Sanitation Rotarian Action Group) Blog.
Regular Newsletters Link to Rotary Weekly - 3 March 2017. Link to Rotary Weekly - 24 February 2017. Link to Rotary Down Under 592 - March 2017. Link to Rotary Service - February 2017. Link to Young Leaders in Action - February 2017. Link to End Polio Now - February 2017. Link to the Governor’s Newsletter - 8 February 2017. Link to the latest Bay of Islands Club Bulletin. Link to the latest Dargaville Club Bulletin. Link to the latest Kerikeri Club Bulletin. Link to the latest Waipapa Club Bulletin. Link to the latest E Mara E Pānui.
1 March Meeting It's a headache for many parents: how to keep their children focused and interested - and out of trouble - when the school day ends. That's a real issue for parents who work, and for parents on modest incomes who may struggle to pay for their children to take part in activities that excite and stimulate them. But in Kaikohe there is a group that is filling the gap. OSCAR stands for Out of School Care and Recreation and provides before-school, after-school and school holiday programmes. Alison Shaw from the Celebration Trust which runs OSCAR in Kaikohe spoke to Rotarians this week about how the programme works. OSCAR has two centres in Kaikohe and is managed by a coordinator and seven staff. The co-ordinator, Gail Erueti, plans the programme of activities. Children on the programme are picked up from school and taken to the centres for the after-school activities. These activities are wide ranging and aim to get children physically active and engaged. OSCAR covers costs by charging fees to parents. Beneficiary parents can apply to WINZ for a subsidy to help them pay. But recent budget cuts has meant OSCAR has had to scale back some of the activities - especially trips. And they forced OSCAR to get rid of a bus it was chartering to take students from schools to activities. It now uses vans instead. Alison told us that OSCAR has an average of 25 children in its after-school activities, with room for about another 20. While money is tight, Alison says they scrimp and save to provide a stimulating range of activities and the children appreciate that. Glenis sutherland thanked Alison for an interesting presentation. OSCAR is doing good work in the Kaikohe community and we told Alison to get in touch if they need any help.
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