Tag: Rotary
Rotarian honoured for his service
An east Aucklander has been awarded one of Rotary International's highest distinctions in service.
Dr Philly Karani, a senior member of Rotary Club of Somerville...
72-yr-old runs 80k to create awareness for End Polio
By Madison Chang
With Covid slamming the brakes on a lot of planned events, Howick resident Ronald Chen decided that nothing would stop him...
Ride a train or ferry to enable others to walk
Watch out for a sea of red at the Half Moon Bay Ferry on Friday, October 23 at 8am.
After last year's success of `Ride...
Rotary speech contest highlights ethical standards
Student Anannya Chaudry has won Howick Rotary Club’s annual speech contest.
The club held its annual Brian Hanlon Howick College 4 – Way Test Speech...
Ready to hop on a celebrity train?
Rotary in Auckland and a host of celebrities are coming together to fight polio.
`Ride a Train to Enable Others to Walk Challenge’ is on...
Trivia, an art form
The Pakuranga Rotary Trivia Night with a Wearable Arts theme held at Edgewater College was a riot.
Not only in terms of colours, ideas and...
Good news for birds, bad news for pests
It’s now easier for the community to join the fight to protect native bird species.
Howick ward residents can now borrow pest traps from a...
Sunnyhills School gets a defibrillator
Half Moon Bay Rotary Club has donated an automated external defibrillator (AED) to Sunnyhills School.
An AED is a safe and easy-to-use machine which is...
Another year, another successful fun run
Walkers and runners gathered bright and early for the eighth annual Howick Rotary Fun Run earlier this month.
With running shoes and sweat bands at...
From Bangers to Bluff for charity
And they’re off.
Around 40 travellers hit the road on Tuesday morning in cars that cost them less than $2000 for the annual ‘Bangers to...
A rewarding breakfast
A $16,000 cheque towards a special Audiostar Pro machine for Middlemore Foundation to help early diagnosis of hearing loss was recently presented by Rotary...
Science superhero is out to change the world
When a door closes on you, don’t take no for an answer, said Dr Michelle Dickinson, popularly known as Nanogirl.
Passionate about introducing children to...
Getting their hands dirty
Local primary students recently got down and dirty planting young native flaxes and trees as part of the Trees for Survival initiative.
Under the Trees...
Teens dig deep to lend helping hand
It was a bluebird day, and quite frankly, the kind of weather you’d expect would send teenagers on holiday flocking to the local beach.
Instead,...
