Rotary International have a scheme, abbreviated as GSE (group study exchange) where a team of up to 5 young adults, aged in their late 20s or 30s, visit a country to expand their knowledge in their chosen vocational area. It was Hawkes Bay’s turn to be the last stay for a team of 4 Danes from [...]

Many, many years ago I spent a year in Wisconsin, USA, as an AFS student. I attended school for a year at J I Case High (for the non-farmers amongst us, J I Case made tractors!) I stayed with the wonderful Barrett family of Crabapple Drive. I had a great year, which changed my life. [...]

Saturday 24 April my Rotary club held their first fun run and walk on the Rotary pathway starting at River Road outside Havelock North. It dawned a gorgeous day, as the engineer got up before 6am to join the set up crew from the club. I got there at 8.30am, excited to see quite alot of people [...]

We returned to Havelock North today after spending 12 days, travelling down to Queenstown to walk the Milford Track. There were 9 of us in our “Blue Shirts” team, coming from as far afield as Canberra. The team also had both my sisters, Kerry and Penny, as well as my brother-in-law Dave and good friend [...]

Our Rotary student, Beto had a very traumatic morning last Sunday. He was woken with the news that Chile had suffered a 8.8 earthquake. He managed to contact the Chilean Embassy in Wellington, who told him his city Ranagcua, had been devastated, and there was no contact in or out of the city. It was [...]