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Welcome to Eastern Hutt Rotary's e-Bulletin. smiley
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Virtual Meetings Report:
 
Again we successfully hosted 3 Zoom meetings last Monday with very encouraging feedback.  Structure and content is improving and we will be continuing with our Monday meetings at 5pm.
Fellowship is certainly one of the aspects we enjoy as Rotarians.  But we are also inspired by being action-focused.  So now has to be the right time for us to take action and unite to create a lasting change in our local community.  Who needs help and how can we make a difference, must be in our minds right now?  Make this be a focus point of these meetings.

Today's Thoughts:

One has to spare a few minutes and think what it must be like for our President Robert's work these days.  Here is an article in the NZ Herald yesterday - click HERE:
 

Bulletin Contribution
The Politics of Covid19
Posted by Bill Boyd
The politics of the Covid19 response have cost a lot of lives internationally. Sadly, in the early days it became a US/China issue and this delayed the preparations for what was inevitably going to happen. I read yesterday that US agencies took two months to issue their purchase orders for items such as ventilators and protective clothing and have since struggled to catch up.
 
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The  Pongaroa Library Recommends

Please Note: We apologise for the delay but the Pongaroa Pigeon was in lockdown for a while, until the Editor was able to persuade his erstwhile mates in MBIE that it should be granted "essential service" status.
 
Knowing how many of us are housebound we have included two extra recommendations:
 
The Great Escape - Frieda Convict
How to Break The Law - Kermit A. Krime
How to Cook Spaghetti - Al Dente      
How to Behave Well - Ima Godley-Sole
 

General Notices:

* COVID19 Pandemic: While our country is fighting this coronavirus and we are self-isolating, our formal weekly meetings have been suspended.  However, we are hoping everyone who has a computer or device technology will join our Zoom meetings.  
 
* Children's Hospital Raffle: Our District is running this fundraising raffle for the Family/Whanau Rooms.  This was to be drawn on 30th April but permission is currently being requested to extend this date.  Jan Palmer has tickets available until it closes.  Anyone who is able to take a book or two to sell to family/friends/work colleagues, would be appreciated.  It's a great cause!
 
* Water and Sanitation Rotarian Action Group: Colin has kindly shared this interesting clip for you HERE.

Eastern Hutt Rotary e-Bulletin
We are not meeting formally at present during this COVID19 Pandemic
 
For updated information, contact our Secretary
Email: easternhuttrotary@gmail.com
Phone:  (027) 241 5092