For many years in October the Stroke Foundation, Rotary and many Foodstuff’s supermarkets partnered together to carry out over 13,500 high blood pressure tests throughout New Zealand. On average around 16% of those tested are referred on to their GP as they have a high blood pressure reading.High Blood Pressure is one of the leading causes of a stroke but can be managed and controlled which is why getting a regular check is important to reduce stroke and other health risks. It can therefore be seen that the testing carried out by the partners can be lifesaving.
In 2020 Rotarians in D9930 we would have been participating at 13 Pak’n Save and New World sites.
Unfortunately due to Covid 19 the programme was postponed and a revised system will operate from 2021.
Our involvement to date has been to contact the sites, which had already agreed to participate with the Stroke Foundation, to arrange layout of a suitable area within the supermarket with tables and chairs provided by the supermarket and to affix posters advertising the event in a place approved by the staff. On the day we encouraged customers to have their readings taken and we completed the necessary paperwork which was provided by the Stroke Foundation. When the testing was complete we assisted the breakdown and tidied the area. The Stroke Foundation arranged for BP testing personnel to be present to do the actual testing.
It is with great pride that we inform you that one of our own has been named one of TIME’s “100 Most Influential People in the World.”
Rotarian. Robert Benjamin of Rotary Club of Ahuriri Napier has designed a shield to be attached to the car Sun Visor to protect the driver’s eyes from being blinded by Sun low down on the horizon.
District Governor Grant Spackman has asked that all Rotary clubs in District 9930 hold this year’s polio fundraisers, such as the I Am Woman movie event, in the name of Past International President Sir Clem Renouf.
On Monday the 31st August District Governor Grant Spackman, along with Club President Mary Legg, had great pleasure in welcoming Donald Bowie as a new member of the Rotary Club of Lake Taupo.
Durham Street, in the Centre of Tauranga was transformed into the new venue for the annual Tauranga Rotary Club’s “Canvas Careers Expo”. Organised by Tauranga Rotary and Priority One, the Expo had over fifty exhibitors as well as using Waikato University and Toi Ohomai’s new buildings to showcase their programmes and facilities. 
2020 Polio Movie Event On 
President Lynette welcomed everyone and introduced Raewyn who is her daughter and also our coordinator with Tarawera High School for the student involvement on Friday 28th for Daffodil Day.
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