Thanks for those who attended last week’s meeting, it was sad to hear that one of our past members, Colin Flett, had passed away. Colin first joined at Milton Rotary in February 1967. Thanks to all who went to his funeral. A special thanks to Rob for preparing a beautiful eulogy on our behalf.
Stephen’s talk on the Otago Rescue Helicopters was very informative about the cost of running this service in Otago. It was amazing to see how many call outs was required by this service.
The next Rotary meeting will be held on Monday 16 May at the White Horse Inn, Milton. This will be followed by a Directors’ meeting.
Thanks to Glenis for sending out the Salmon sales notices. Reminder that orders are to be in by Tuesday 31 May.
I wish everyone a good start to the new month and keep safe.
Brendan Bearman talked about how Fonterra changed how they pick up milk. Silos now have computer on the side with milk temperature being measured going into silo, in the silo and volume of milk in the silo measured.
Last year Fonterra saved $85million in fuel by using the data available.
Our speaker this week was our own Colin Calteaux who shared the change in his company since Colin, Lynne and his two sons purchased Andrew Haulage 10 years ago. Earth moving and drainage are major areas of work, along with developing footpaths. Colin also has forestry roading crews where they are contracted to Rainer Forest to build forestry roading. Andrew Haulage has also been involved in farm developments for example, effluent ponds and wintering pads. Wintering pads require drainage and holding ponds which hold effluent for 3months.
Originally there were 15employees. This rose to a maximum of 62 and has now settled at 45.
One of their biggest contracts has been at Marina Terrace in Wanaka. This was supposed to be a two-year development and is now just finished after five years.
Clutha Concrete is a subsidiary of Andrew Haulage – they guarantee to deliver concrete 24 hours a day. This year they have delivered 4203 cu meters – 1100 loads.
Chipping Plant – they have two big chippers working all year round. They supply Silver Fern with 3 loads of chips per day for their boilers.
This year Colin’s son, Troy, won the national excavator competition, for a second time.
The biggest risk for the company now is Covid. They are finding it difficult to get parts and prices are increasing rapidly. Colin gave an example of a part that three months ago cost $270, now costing $580. Cement has gone up 15% in the last month – it is all imported.
Stephen, Jackie, Mark and Glenis attended an evening of celebration at the Balclutha Town & Country Club last Thursday. It was a evening of sharing the success of the projects undertaken over the past two years – originally designed to be part of the 9980 District Conference under DG Tania.
Well done to Tania for organizing this lovely celebration event – it was great to hear from the recipient of each of the grants/projects.
Projects shared with us included the following:
Catlins Promotions – Alison and Fergus shared activities / projects that have been undertaken
Chaslands Cemetery, Matai Rail Trail, Rocky Knoll track - Catlins river, Catlin’s Lake planting and lookout.
We learned lots about some great places to visit in the Catlins area.
St Mary's Milton – Jo shared the development of the children's garden & planting of fruit trees - 3 apple trees & 2 pear trees. There are two raised gardens – the children are growing great veggies. St Mary’s is looking for someone to share gardening knowledge with children on a weekly basis.
Coombe Hay Riverside Walkway at Toko Mouth - received funds to build a bridge over a swampy part of the track and also built some steps.
Future plan to have some seating installed and plantings, and a fairy glade.
South Otago Historical Society Museum - Roz shared how new signage was being done (by Alice Muir). Future plans include a new entry.
Rosebank School - grant for new entrant play area. Sarah shared photographs of outdoor mud kitchens, a fence, seating. Some great painting of murals on the ground had been completed. There was also a small garden with a few fruit trees. They are hoping to extend the garden and develop a roof to allow more all-weather play.
Stirling School – Will shared a poster with photographs of the Gully which had been cleaned out and planted with native trees. This is an ongoing process with plans for more trees being planted.
Sandra Campbell - Waiwera Kaihuku Catchment group. Funds were received to buy plants and these have been planted next to Waiwera bridge. Sandra is an Otago South Rivercare board member. Money from Rivercare will help maintain the planting area.
Carol and Maxine shared the progress at Naish Park
Plantings include - trees and a rose garden. Seats were painted. In autumn there are plant to plant a garden along bowling club fence. New BBQ has been purchased - Round Table are making surrounds for it.
Ben Cameron, Sophie, and Annabel - St Joseph's School. Funding was received for plants for new garden area and a working bee was held to plant these and tidy the gardens.
Sophie and Annabel presented a ‘paper garden’ from the students which included a flower form each child.
This was an amazing array of projects - thank you to Tania Lowery and Phil Atkinson for developing this wonderful idea. $37,000 from the Balclutha and Milton Rotary Clubs was donated, along with lots of volunteer hours to make the projects happen.
Christmas Tree expo – the Co-operating Parish is holding a Christmas Tree exhibition Friday 17 – Tuesday 21 December. Entry is a gold coin donation – any profits to go towards the Family Fund Days 2022. Make sure you go along and have a look – and vote for the People’s Choice Award. We are having a Milton Rotary Club tree!
Lighten up someone’s day with this is a delightful Christmas story. Alice is providing these books to the Rotary Club for a wholesale price of 3 for $10 (+ $5 postage). Rotary clubs can pass them on as gifts. The retail price of the books is $15 each.
COVID - District Governor, Nick Wood, encourages all clubs to follow current gathering rules and take care of each other.
Things are changing with the traffic light system - we will know by the end of the week how that will affect us here in the south.
Here is a link to the Covid-19 Protection Framework http://bit.ly/TrafficLightCovid
Pumpkins For Polio
Its time to to sign up to support our pumpkins and the growers in your clubs, if your club doesn't have a grower then look to support your neighboring clubs or a name you recognize around the district.
Susie is growing pumpkins for the Milton Rotary Club.
This link will collect all of the information and remove the risk of losing a sign up sheet over the coming months.
Send the link to everyone you know to find as much money for the fight to eradicate Polio, we are in the home straight or the final round as we truly are this close to living in a world free of this horrible virus.
RYLA 2022 – we are still looking for 20 – 30 year old for the club to sponsor– a great opportunity to develop leadership skills and meet a great bunch of other young leaders.
RYLA is a great opportunity for the young adults in our community - please look out for young leaders you believe will benefit from this.
Applications Open: August 1st and close on December 17th 2021.
We need to encourage local young people (20 – 30 yrs) to apply for this amazing opportunity. Brochures will be available at Rotary meetings.
Please encourage those young people you know to complete an application form.
RYLA 2020 had 28 participants from just 14 Clubs
RYLA 2021 had 35 participants from just 17 Clubs
RYLA 2022 - the goal is 40+ participants and ALL Clubs to sponsor or endorse one or more participants.
n, Jackie, Mark and Glenis attended an evening of celebration at the Balclutha Town & Country Club last Thursday. It was a evening of sharing the success of the projects undertaken over the past two years – originally designed to be part of the 9980 District Conference under DG Tania.
