Rotary in Ashburton 10
Ashburton Guardian
Friday, May 3, 2019
What is Rotary? Rotary is a global network of 1.2 million men and women who work together to service their communities, locally and globally. Rotary International’s charitable arm is the Rotary Foundation. The foundation supports work in six areas of focus - promoting peace; fighting disease; providing clean water, sanitation, and hygiene; saving mothers and children; supporting education; growing local economies. Rotarians are actively working to eradicate polio worldwide. From 350,000 cases of polio annually in 1985, there were just 27 in 2018 in two countries. Rotary has funded $US1.8b for the programme. Rotarians also support a range of projects and causes in their own communities. They meet regularly, often to have a meal together, plan projects and enjoy each other’s company. Rotary was formed in 1905 in Chicago and next year will celebrate its centenary in New Zealand and Australia.
130 years of Rotary Service in Ashburton
Bookarama - held in Ashburton each September.
Ashburton’s two Rotary clubs have clocked up 130 years of service in the Ashburton District, a milestone to be marked at Lake Hood on Sunday. The Rotary Club of Ashburton celebrated its 80th anniversary in 2017. Next month the Rotary Club of Ashburton Plains
will celebrate 50 years of service. To mark the anniversaries of both clubs an area at Lake Hood on the shore of the lake will be landscaped by local Rotarians and those visiting for the district conference. A number of trees will be planted and picnic tables and seats installed. A barbecue
Supporting the work of Rotary in Ashburton.
donated by local Rotarians is already on the site. A commemorative plaque marking the 130 years of service will be unveiled by Ashburton Mayor Donna Favel and the Rotary International President’s representative at the district conference, Murray Verso, from Melbourne, Australia.