Chair: Graeme
Sergeant: Malcolm
Grace: Maurice
Apologies from Shona, Claire, Lew, JohnL, Lynne, Ricky, Christine, Katherine
Notices:
Cycos leaving Star Compass at 10.15am Tuesday 3rd May lunch at Haumoana Cafe
Beach Cleanup at 9.20am Sunday 8 May.
Please come to Paul Handley’s home 18 Ferguson St Bayview and stay on for BBQ lunch
Next weeks meeting at the Sailing Club so please bring as many guests as possible.
Downton Abbey Movie night this Thursday please wear a mask.
Reminder to continue to promote “Legally Blonde”
Reminder to get teams registered with Linda for the Quiz night 18th May.
The telescope is back in its rightful place and working.
The Treasure Chest is currently being cared for by Graeme.
Free Fruit!!! This morning John P has feijoas and Gold kiwi fruit in his car boot after the meeting
Thank you to Ben Keet for laying the Anzac wreath
Paul is accepting donations to help get a family out of Ukraine.
The combined Napier Clubs’ Environment newsletter will be added to this bulletin in the future
RYDA.
Rotary Youth Driving Awareness-
Calling for volunteers on 16 and 17 June 9.15am to 2pm.
Schools involved are St John’s, St Joseph’s, Sacred Heart, NGHS.
Instead of conference on May 22nd, Ross Pinkham is calling for Rotarians to plant pohutukawa trees on Marine Parade.
Fining Session: Malcolm quizzed our knowledge of all things Anzac and extracted a good sum of money.
3min speaker:
Toby described his experiences good and bad at running marathons.
The message is to drink as much water as is available and try to match the first half timing with the second. His best was 1.36 plus 1.36. Well done Toby!
Edgar introduced our guest speaker Fiona Windle from “Beef and Lamb NZ”
Fiona told us how after 4 years as a Medic in the Airforce she went to Massey to study science.
She is now nutritionalist at Beef and Lamb. Her talk focused on the future of meat. Given the emerging trends in diet choices, huge investment in alternative proteins, pressure from social media, the promotion of plant based alternative protein all parts of the meat industry need to be informed and concerned
The Impossible Burger available at supermarkets, mock chicken, tech developed cell cultured “meat” etc. the Impossible Burger made of (probably GE) Soy products has been developed to ‘bleed’ by using an element on soy roots
The price of 2 patties is $13 about the same as premium beef.
Of course the environmental cost of production is unknown. Australia is working on rules for labelling so the consumer will not be confused.
This is particularly important re nutritional content.
Maurice thanked Fiona for her very interesting talk which prompted more than the usual number of questions.
Last word from Andy
“It is what it is, it was what it was, it will be what it will be……. So don’t stress it”
