Keeping In Touch. Otaki Lions Quiz Night Volume, Issue. May 2018

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1 Keeping In Touch Lions Club of Otaki President David Rumsey Phone st Vice President Ian Futter Phone nd Vice President Jenny Askwith Phone Secretary Elizabeth Lynch Phone Treasurer Peter Askwith Phone Membership Director Vacant Projects Director Clive Newman Lion Tamers Ian and Pat Futter Phone Almoner Pat Futter Phone Publicity & Communications Peter and Jenny Askwith Phone May 2018 Otaki Lions Quiz Night 2018 Volume, Issue

2 Page 2 Keeping In Touch President Dave s Rave Hi all, Another Lion s year about to start, and once again we have club members who have put their hands up to fill the various positions needed to keep the club running well. Thanks to all those who have volunteered.. it is great to be part of a club where we can achieve this. The pump track is edging closer to opening: Thomas has said it is firming up well and it should be ready to ride soon. After a week or two they will come back and do any necessary repairs and further compaction, Quiz Night - Friday 20 April As you can see from the front page we held a very successful evening with almost a full house. We raised $ on the night which will go towards supporting out Otaki Health Shuttle and Duffy Books in Homes. A huge thank you to all the effort by Tony for compiling the quiz questions, and apart from a little sound issue on the night which was out of our control, it proved to be a very successful evening. We were well supported by our generous sponsors, in particular Riverstone Café along with New World, Farmlands, Watsons Garden Centre, Mobil, Chairs Hair Design, and Fonterra and Lions Paula Wilson and Dave Rumsey then it should be finished. So, the plan is to remove the fence when he judges it ok, then program the official opening for 2 or 3 weeks later. We had a small working bee last Friday to reshape the lower part of the bank above the track and spread mulch, and another this week to lay the tiles donated by Matta Products to form a path to the track from the nearby concrete footpath. Regards, President Dave Officers for the year The following office-holders have been nominated and voted in for the coming year and will be confirmed at our Change of Officers night: President: David Rumsey 1 st Vice-President: Jenny Askwith 2 nd Vice-President: Ian Futter Secretary: Peter Askwith Treasurer: Ken Lynch Projects Director: Jenny Glen Membership Director: Peter Wilson Lion Tamers: Ian and Pat Futter Almoner: Pat Futter Publicity & Communications: Peter and Jenny Askwith

3 Volume, Issue Page 3 Pump Track Update There have been a couple of low key working bees in the last two weeks and the track is now ready to open. We are just waiting for the go ahead from KCDC and TGL Contracting as to when it will be able to be used. The mulch has been spread over the bank on the northern (pool) side of the track and the path to enter the track has now been completed. The soil was dug out, base course put down and compacted, and Matta tiles laid (donated from Matta Products in Riverbank Road) and fixed in place. The security fence has been reinstated until it is ready for use. While working there, we had many comments from school children wondering when it is going to open as they are waiting to use it, so no doubt it will be well patronised once it is open. Autumn is a bit of a problem with all the leaves from the beautiful trees above dropping on the track, but it is not too onerous to clear them. However, the Norfolk Pine seems to drop its foliage all year around! Thanks to all those members who volunteered for the recent collection. We took a total of $ from outside Otaki New World for Arohanui Hospice. Peter and Avril on the last shift of the day

4 Page 4 Keeping In Touch May Social evening With a few people away for this evening, and Jeanine our caterer also away, it was decided to have a low key fish and chip night with a mystery object show and tell. We had quite a few really unusual and interesting objects to try and fathom out from a vintage paper guillotine, wallpaper remover, digital car speedometer, moustache comb, cake decorating tool, and many more. Two of the more unusual are described below. This meteorite was found in the Sahara Desert, along with quite a few others in the same area, so presumably a large rock entering the atmosphere had broken up into smaller fragments due to the heat. The rock it is made of contains fragments of rock that are older than the Earth, presumably from a planet or moon that collided with another and broke apart. The plastic 3D printed stand is a slightly scaled up copy of the shape of the meteorite itself. The shape was measured by taking twelve photographs of the meteorite and uploading them to a website that analysed them and sent back a digitised definition of the shape. That was scaled up, cut off to make the stand, then had a matching hollow removed from the design to make the recess the meteorite sits in. Dave s son printed the base on his 3D printer. Commonly known as Sea Coconut, coco de mer or double coconut this is the nut from the fruit of the female palm and is endemic to the islands of Praslin and Curieuse in the Seychelles. The tree grows to 30+ metres high and the leaves are fan shaped. It has separate male and female plants and the fruit is cm diameter and weighs 15-30kg and contains the largest seed in the plant kingdom. The fruit requires 6-7 years to mature and a further two years to germinate.

5 Volume, Issue Page 5 Book Stall On 6 May we held our first book stall at the Otaki Women's Community Market. This runs on the first and third Sunday of each month during the winter. It was a very pleasant Sunday morning although a bit wet underfoot as it had rained heavily overnight. We set up the gazebo and tables kindly leant to us by Peter and Pauline and it was a good first time stall promoting Lions in our local community, selling the Lions/Plunket raffle tickets and selling excess books from our huge stash. All books sell for $1.00 and perhaps in the last hour we may sell 3 for $2.00, and 10 for $5.00. We now have a further 19 boxes from the storage barn and about 80 boxes remain in the barn. The market runs from 9am to 2pm. Set up is from 8am. We are looking for volunteers to help run this stall so if you want to put in a few hours, contact Paula or Jenny A and you will be most welcome to join us. Setting up and packing down are the hardest part of the day. Telephone Book delivery Saturday 26 May 8am to 9am start Once again we have a chance to booster our Administration account by volunteering to help deliver the phone books in the Kapiti area. Teams of three are required - two runners/walkers and a driver for each team. The more teams, the more money so please think about volunteering for this event.

6 Standard Meetings First Wednesday of the month Social Evening - 6:00pm for a 6:30pm start Venue: Otaki Golf Club Apologies must be with Ian Futter, phone (06) or ed to Ian.Pat@xtra.co.nz no later than 12 noon on the Monday, prior to this Wednesday meeting. Third Wednesday of the month Business Meeting pm for a 7.30pm start Venue: Otaki Golf Club Dates to Remember Sat 19 May - Palmerston North Papaioea Rose City Lions Club visit Sun 20 May - Book Stall at Otaki Community Market Sat 26 May - Telephone Book deliveries in Kapiti am start in Paraparaumu Sun 3 June - Book Stall at Otaki Community Market Wed 6th June - Change of Officers Evening Venue: Riverstone Café at 6.00pm Treasurer s 31/03/2018 Admin Account: $ Project Account: $ Update on Foodbank Bags The annual Food Bank Collection which is held the last Saturday in November each year has been criticised by many in our district for using plastic bags in the collection. The district organising committee are well aware of this, and so from now on we will be using oxobiodegradable bags. Plastics take 1,000 years to breakdown in compost, whereas biodegradable bags take 30 days to a few months. They contain metal salt which speeds up the degradation process. We will still keep the yellow bags so it is more visual for the collectors and it will be written on the bag: "This is an oxo-biodegradable bag" Ongoing Fundraisers: Eyeglass recycling project For re-use in the Pacific Islands after cleaning. Sunglasses are also a useable item for the Islands particularly after cataract operations. Kan Tabs for Kidney Kids Collect the tabs off aluminum cans to support and assist children with kidney disease including those children who have end stage kidney disease and require treatment such as dialysis and /or a transplant. Heads up for Kids Collect old and pre-decimal NZ coins and all foreign coins which are used to fund education programmes for young New Zealanders who would otherwise not get the opportunity LOVINGINDIVIDUALSOFFERINGNEEDEDSERVICES WE ARE A FAMILY FRIENDLY CLUB SUPPORTING AND ENHANCING THE QUALITY OF LIFE IN OUR LOCAL COMMUNITY We re on the Web!