Navy Today July 08 | Issue 134 - Royal New Zealand Navy

FAMILY & FRIENDSOUR STOKERSThree NZDF teams will be taking part in the Accor Queenstown $10 challenge from 1 to 3 October, raising fundsfor Cure Kids, a charity that funds vital medical research for children with life threatening illnesses.On 29 April CAPT Keat presentedPOMT(P) Richard Barron with hisSolomon Islands MedalThe contest challenges teams (of two peopleeach) to use various modes of transport to gettheir team to Queenstown from Auckland inthree days - with only $10. The team that arrivesin Queenstown with the most points afterundertaking a wide variety of challenges alongthe way is the winner.Our teamsOur Navy, Army and Air Force teams will pitthemselves against 32 other teams from aroundNew Zealand.• Navy: SLT Fraser Toulmin and SLT DarcyTopp• Army: LTCOL S Guiney & LT C Anderson• Air Force: team yet to be selectedBut you’re part of the team too!It just won’t be the six NZDF people taking part,all of us across the three Services can. Over thenext few months we can all assist each team tofundraise $6,000 for Cure Kids.Our Navy team needs to raise $3,000 by 25July and a further $3,000 by 25 September.Which is where you come in - because Tuesday22 July is the NZDF-wide Help Cure Kids CoffeeDay. All you have to do is donate the costof cup of coffee ($3.00 or more if you like) to theteam’s fund. Just think how much you spendon coffee each day and how much your moneythe Bank of New Zealand;Account name: Cure KidsAccount number: 02-0136- 0029419-97• Donations can be made by cheque; theseare to be made out to “Cure Kids,” P O Box 90907, Victoria Street West, Auckland.If you are using either cheque or direct credit/deposit please send an email to a.bishop@curekids.org.nz at Cure Kids - with details ofthe deposit and the team member’s name sothey will know who to attribute the money to.Fundraise online webpage. Each teammember has their own fundraising page sogo to the website www.curekids.org.nz type inyour team’s name – ours is NavyBrassMonkeys- and you will go directly to their fundraisingpage. All people who donate online receivean automatic receipt from Cure Kids alongwith a thank you letter. This is definitely theeasiest option.DON’T STOP NOW….Now that you have chosen which team memberyou are going to fundraise for you don’tneed to stop at the cost of a coffee. Think ofall the other ways your unit, office, mess-deckor ship could help our team to raise the moneyneeded. You could have a bad taste shirt day,chocolate cake bake off and charge $2 perslice of cake, sausage sizzle, car wash, sillyhat day or favours day where you do a task forsomeone and donate $2-5 for every favour tothe cause. And there’s more…..• A further fundraising day will be held in August/Septemberto assist the teams surpasstheir $6,000 goal.BE THE BESTThe organisers have a prize for the team thatraises the most money so let’s aim for the skyand help our teams to be the best.Remember, it’s for children with life-threateningconditions; to find our more about CureKids visit www.curekids.org.nzThe AMT2 07/03 course on completion of their course,13 June: OMT Schultz, OMT Edwards, LT CDRTiller, CDR Bruce, OMT Hart, OMT Cawte, Mr K. Pudney. (Absent: OMT Egan)MARINE TECHNICIANS’Three OMTs were awarded the JASON TUKICUP Cup in recent courses:( l to r) CDRWishart, FMEO, ACSS Rice (AMT2 Course07/01A), OMT Davis (AMT2 Course 07/01) andOMT O'Neill (AMT2 Course 07/02).would mean to a child with a life-threateningcondition. Not much of a comparison really.The AMT1(P) 08/01 Transition Class on their course completion, 6 June. Back row: WOMT(L) Lusis,AMT2 Gillbanks, AMT2 Gurney, AMT2 Hook, AMT2 Chubb, AMT2 Roest, AMT2 Carr. Front row: AMT2Kirkland, AMT2 McMillan, AMT2 Bennett, AMT2 Ujdur, AMT2 Bedford, AMT2 Dowman.HOW DO WE GET THE MONEY TOCURE KIDS?For those of you in the Devonport area you willsee us pounding the pavement asking for donations- please give generously.For those of you slightly further away there area number of options;• Donations can be made via our fundraisingwebsite www.fundraiseonline.co.nz/Navy-BrassMonkeys. Receipts will be given by “CureKids”.• You can make your donation at any branch ofLMT(L) Class 07/01: WOMT(L) Lusis (MESWO) with AMT1(L)Nichols, AMT1(L) Culley (who was awarded the J ARussell Ltd Cup), AMT1(L) Stone & AMT1(L) RulandAMT2 Class 07/02: OMT Belcher, AMT2 Brown, OMT Collett, OMT Heavan-Smith,OMT Marshall, OMT Little-Weastel, OMT O'Neill, OT(WE) Allen, OMT Rangitakatu,OMT Boon, OMT Finlay & WOMT(L) Lusis (MESWO)38 NT134JULY08 WWW.NAVY.MIL.NZWWW.NAVY.MIL.NZ NT134JULY08 39