The Rotary Club of
Port Elizabeth Sunrise

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CHARITY WINS AT RIVER MILE
Monday, 06 February 2012

After all the medals and prize money are presented at next weekends SPAR Redhouse River Mile, the real winner is sure to be the local communities of Nelson Mandela Bay. Organisers of the River Mile, Zports Event Management, have once again teamed up with the Rotary Club of Port Elizabeth Sunrise to ensure that all proceeds from the Discovery off-road triathlon, Caste Lite Beer Garden and the Rotary Quali Juice Kids Entertainment area will all go towards the community based projects of the Rotary Club.

"The SPAR Redhouse Mile, thanks to Zports, has become the main fundraiser for our clubs annual commitment to the Rotary Foundation," said club president David Raymer, "The Foundation provides much needed funding for our community based projects through matching grants, which effectively ensures that can almost triple the funding that we raise ourselves."

"One of our latest projects within the club at the moment is to supply of rainwater tanks to as many local schools as possible. These schools have, through the Wessa Eco-Schools project, established vegetable gardens as part of their school feeding efforts. Most of the schools have large buildings and harvesting rainwater will ensure that they are not relient on purchasing municipal water. We're confident that with sufficient support at the River Mile, our club will be able to realise a large portion of the needed budget for this project. As part of our fundraising at the River Mile event, our Rotary club will be also be manning a fruit stall, selling watermelons and spanspek donated by Habata."

The 88th River Mile is taking place at Sundays River on Sunday 19th February with over 3,000 people expected to attend the festival like event. Free entry into the area which is filled with vendors, craft stalls, kids entertainment and the Castle Lite Beer Garden ensures that the families get to enjoy a wonderful outing to Cannonville on the banks of the Sundays River just outside of Port Elizabeth.

"Raising funds for Charity has become a focal part of all our Zports events and it's great to be able to support such wonderful organisations like Rotary whose volunteers working tirelessly for our local communities," said Race organiser Mike Zoetmulder. "The River Mile is one of the oldest swimming events in the world and, together with Eastern Province Aquatics, we would like to try and establish the event as one of the signature social sporting events in the country."

Normal entries for the events close this Sunday with late entries being accepted through to race day. Information and maps of the event are available on www.rivermile.co.za

Article from www.adventureracing.co.za

Local Rotarians Receive Paul Harris Fellow Recognition

30 August 2011 MyPE.co.za Port Elizabeth's Community Web Site

The Rotary Club of PE Sunrise recently rewarded three of its members with special awards at their recent club sponsors evening.

Rotary President David Raymer with Paul Harris Fellows; Barbara Foot and Michael Zoetmulder

Rotarian Michael Zoetmulder and past club member Barbara Foot each received a Paul Harris Fellow recognition, named after the founder of Rotary, which is the Rotary Foundation’s way of expressing its appreciation for a substantial contribution to its humanitarian and educational programs.

Rotarians have a tradition of supporting the Foundation by honoring others. It is because of world-wide donations to the The Rotary Foundation, that Rotary can carry out an array of programs that achieve beneficial changes in our world, such as improved living conditions, better education, wider availability of treatment and rehabilitation for the sick and disabled, and safe drinking water. Programmes like GSE and Ambassadorial scholarship are also funded through the Rotary Foundation. Rotarians often designate a Paul Harris Fellow as a tribute to a person whose life demonstrates a shared purpose with the objectives of The Rotary Foundation.

The Rotary Club of PE Sunrise has only ever recognised 4 people for the Paul Harris Fellow, these being the late Laura Slabbert, Gail Cillie, Olga Burman, past club member Vernon Wait and current member Daryl Burman.

Foot received recognition for initiating the clubs Twinkle Star school building project, one of the club’s biggest community projects to date, and for initiating and supporting the Global Diabetes Walk in Port Elizabeth. Foot also ensured that the visiting Indian Navy visited the Ubuntu schools during their stay in the city. Zoetmulder, a member of the Rotary Club since 2007, was recognised for his contribution to the fundraising of the club and his direct and indirect marketing and promotion of the PE Sunrise Club. Zoetmulder has ensured that proceeds from his involvement in events like the Redhouse River Mile and the Global Diabetes walk and the Ocean Racing Series all supported the clubs Rotary Foundation fundraising.

The club also awarded their Laura Slabbert Stadler Award to Rotarian Gerrit van Wyk. This award is an internal club award made annually by the incumbent President to a club member who has lived up to the highest ideals of Rotary. van Wyk has made a huge contribution to the club since joining in 2009. In presenting the award, Club President David Raymer also achnowledged the support of van Wyk’s wife Elsa in their contributions towards the club.

The Rotary Club of PE Sunrise is the only breakfast Rotary club in Port Elizabeth and meet on Friday mornings between 7am and 8am at the Connynhams Coffee Shop in Mount Croix. For further information on Rotary and the Sunrise Club you are invited to email the club Secretary, Elmarie, on This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . 

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Registration for the District Conference in Port Elizabeth, 29 September to 1 October 2011, NOW OPEN!
Register online  www.discon2011.co.za

At the 2011 District Conference, you will have an opportunity to meet Rotarians from most of our District’s 50 clubs during a relaxing and enjoyable weekend. The weekend will be filled with great Rotary moments, information about district and international Rotary events, educational breakouts, awesome fellowship and good food.

Rotarians who have never attended a Rotary district conference, have not yet experienced one of the most enjoyable and rewarding privileges of Rotary membership.

The conference will be held at the 2nd Avenue Summerstrand campus of NMMU. Express your club spirit by getting your whole club to wear their club Tshirts or Golf shirts on the Saturday.

The Ladies day event on Saturday will be held at Pine Lodge, 1 Marine Drive, Summerstrand, and includes a 3 course lunch.

The formal banquet on Saturday evening will be held at the Port Elizabeth Feather Market Hall.

Read more on the Discon website.