| 1 | Camp Rangi Woods |
| Project Leader: John Livingstone |
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Camp Rangi Woods is a 70-bed outdoor camp located in the Totara Reserve Regional Park in the Pohangina Valley near Palmerston North (25 minute drive from Ashhurst).
It is set up primarily for school groups, and features 9 cabin dormitories and recently renovated facilities.
See www.pnrotary.co.nz/CampRangiWoods.php
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| 2 | Emergency Shelter Boxes |
| Project Leader: Philip Boulton |
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In times of disaster, many thousands of people are often left homeless and without basic shelter and survival equipment. ShelterBox New Zealand stands at the ready to provide aid to those in need anywhere in the world.
The ShelterBox New Zealand project was founded within the Rotary Club of Mosgiel, Otago, and is supported by Palmerston North Rotary and other clubs as part of an international project involving around 5,000 rotary clubs worldwide.
Rotarians are directly involved as volunteers in ShelterBox Response Teams (SRTs) deployed to disasters worldwide to deliver aid. Most recently they were deployed in Japan in response to the 2011 earthquake and Tsunami.
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| 3 | Framjee Essay Competition |
| Project Leader: Melba Scott |
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| 4 | Intermediate Speeches |
| Project Leader: Chris Michalski |
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| 5 | International Student Activities |
| Project Leader: Bessy Rasmussen |
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The Club has a long history of liaison and support for international students in the City. Regular annual events include a welcome reception - latterly a Maori hangi and cultural entertainment, and a day trip to Cross Hills Rhododendron gardens at Kimbolton with a picnic lunch.
RUCHI or the Rural Centre for Human Interests is a non-political, non-profit making organization committed to development of rural India.
The RUCHI project is a joint District 9940 project that has provided a community water supply, technology for farm fencing, and village transport for those looking after the schemes. The Rotary Club of Palmerston North contribution has focussed on the many villages around RUCHI headquarters in Bandh, in the Himachal/Pradesh province in Northern India.
See www.ruchin.org
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| 6 | Ivy May Jensen Trust |
| Project Leader: Bob Lockwood |
| Project Team: John Freebairn , John Livingstone |
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The Ivy May Jensen Memorial Homes project for housing of the elderly was set up by the Rotary Club of Palmerston North in 1971. A trust administers the project today with an interest maintained through Club representatives.
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| 7 | Kahuterawa Native Bush Restoration |
| Project Leader: Ken Rush |
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The Kahuterawa Bush Remnant Restoration and Development project is a Rotary Club of Palmerston North project in partnership with the Department of Conservation, Linton Army Camp, and Palmerston North Schools including Palmerston North Intermediate School, Palmerston North Boys High School, and Palmerston North Girls High School.
This is a Club-wide project for 2011-2012 to continue planting of native trees and shrubs, develop the wetlands area and make the whole restoration area a place for members of the public to walk through, picnic, and enjoy.
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| 8 | Luck Club Support |
| Project Leader: Heather Tanguay |
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| 9 | Musica Viva |
| Project Leader: Olga Barrett |
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Musica Viva provides a performance place for musicians to play before an audience of performers and listeners of mainly classical music. Youth performers have had a scholarship to aim for annually for which the Rotary Club has provided $1000.00 to be divided between piano, instrumental and vocal.
This year the scholarship will take place Saturday, October 1st for auditions with the final concert on Monday October 3rd at 7.30pm in the Evelyn Rawlins Room at Square Edge.
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| 10 | National Science & Technology Forum |
| Project Leader: Mark Buxton |
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The Rotary Science Forum is a two week science programme held annually in January for year 12 students who are about to enter their final year at College.
The programme is designed for outstanding students who are planning to further their studies at University in a science field.
The programme is run by three Universities in the Auckland area. Accommodation is provided at tertiary Halls of Residence in the city.
The objective of the programme is to allow students to gain insights into the broad set of science options that are available to tertiary students – from psychology to quantum physics to zoology. The programme of activities involves hand-on science lab work, lectures from University staff, and visits to businesses in the Auckland area that are engaged in science and research.
Over the past 5 years Rotary have sponsored one student who has gone on to become Dux Academia of Palmerston North Boys_ High, and another student who, through the Forum, won a scholarship to attend the London International Youth Science Forum.
The Rotary Science Forum has attracted outstanding applications and will continue to be supported by the Palmerston North Rotary Club.
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| 11 | NZ Business Week |
| Project Leader: Mark Buxton |
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NZBW is a week-long event designed for Year 12 and 13 students who are interested in furthering their studies at University in the area of business, finance, accounting and marketing.
Students from all over NZ spend a week in the May school holidays “boarding” at Palmerston North Boys_ High School during the programme.
The programme involves working in small groups on business development and marketing projects. Each student in the group has a role to play in the overall development of the business, from Marketing Manager, to Production Manager, to CEO.
The week culminates in a business Trade Fair where invited local business people “vote” for the winning business team by choosing which of the businesses at the Trade Fair they will invest their allocated “investment money” in.
Other high lights of the week include lectures at Massey in Palmerston North on business subjects, and visits to a number of businesses in the Manawatu area.
Palmerston North Rotary Club has sponsored a student for each year of BZBW for the past 7 or 8 years. Each year the sponsorship recipient has been able to come and talk to our Club about some of the key things that he or she has learnt or enjoyed thought NZBW.
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| 12 | Refugee Support - Gardening |
| Project Leader: Allan Ford |
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| 13 | Rookie of the Year Awards |
| Project Leader: Colin Duckett |
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The Manawatu `Rookie of the Year` trade apprenticeship awards have been running since 2004.
The awards were the the vision and brainchild of Club member, and respected and successful businessman, Bob Lockwood who wished to see young people continue with their learning after leaving school. He saw trade related apprenticeships as one way to achieve that.
The qualifying criteria states:
In considering applicants the Club particularly looks to recognise those apprentices who have demonstrated a great attitude, are committed to self development and improvement, have possibly come into their selected trade apprenticeship from a less advantaged footing (family situation, academically challenged, troubled schooling/background etc), but through their apprenticeship they have turned the corner and are personally developing. They need not be the top performing apprentice in their class or trade, rather they are `punching above their weight` from an all-rounder perspective.
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| 14 | RYPEN |
| Project Leader: Peter Askey |
| Project Team: Melba Scott |
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RYPEN is aimed at young people in the 14 -17 age group who are not likely to be selected for Youth Exchange or later for RYLA, but who possess qualities of decency, persistence and application and who deserve further encouragement.
The aim of the programme is to present the young people with a series of ideas, challenges and social experiences, which will hopefully assist them in broadening their horizons socially, culturally and physically.
It is suggested that students who have participated in previous outdoor education activities do not attend e.g. Outward Bound, Spirit of New Zealand, or any college outdoor pursuit type course. For details of the programme contact a convenor e.g. Outward Bound, Spirit of New Zealand, or any college outdoor pursuit type course.
RYPEN in the Rotary District 9940 is organized by the Rotary Club of Taihape and is held at the Kawhatau Outdoor Education Centre near Taihape. The programme is usually run in early October Friday to Sunday.
The Rotary Club of Palmerston North meets the programme and reasonable travel costs of the candidates it nominates and generally nominates one candidate per year and, depending on nominations received, has supported two candidates in a year as it did in 2008.
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| 15 | Sixtus Lodge |
| Project Leader: Johan Bonnevie |
| Project Team: Peter Askey , Ron Dobson |
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Our enthusiastic involvement with Sixtus Lodge Outdoor Education Centre began early - even before the place was completed, October 1977
The Lodge is situated at the foothills of the Ruahine Ranges where farmland gives way to native bush, some 75kms from Palmerston North. It is very popular with community groups as well as with schools.
The involvement of the Rotary Club of Palmerston North is mainly of very practical, hands on nature, simply to supply firewood to the Lodge (and great quantities are needed). This entails one or two working bees a year, cutting, splitting, carting & stacking firewood - all leading to great noise, great fun & great appetite/thirst.
This to the clubs knowledge is the longest working bee tradition in the history of the club. It is a tradition to be proud of, involving many eager beavers every year.
For a start firewood was found on the property; old charred logs and stumps from the bush felling days. Later followed macrapapa wood from neighbours farms, and today we are on our 3rd bluegum plantation (wisely planted two decades ago).
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| 16 | Youth Music Festival |
| Project Leader: John Livingstone |
| Project Team: Mark Buxton , Mark Rabone, David Petre, Kevin Monk, Maureen Ax-Doolan, Brian McMeikan, Bill Bendall, Nigel Pedersen |
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Talented young musicians performing at a selection of participating cafes and venues in central Palmerston North.
See Youth Music Festival for more details.
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