Rotorua Grey Power February 2017

SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR 2017/18 DUE BY 1 APRIL 2017
Enclosed with this magazine is a green invoice for your Grey Power annual subscription through to 31 March 2017.
Members who joined recently will not receive an invoice for 17/18. Subscriptions remain at $20.00 single, $30.00
couple. Please consider making a donation to Grey Power Rotorua when you pay your subscription. If you are a Grey
Power Electricity customer early renewal is vital so you continue to receive the benefit of discounted electricity/
gas, as well as other Grey Power discounts. As payments are processed, a 2017/18 Grey Power membership card
will be posted to you, or if you pay at the Grey Power office, you will be given your new card. Please remember to
bring the remittance advice section of your invoice with you so we can verify your membership number.
Options for paying your 17/18 subscription:
• Use the subs renewal form on our website www.greypowerrotorua.org.nz and pay by internet banking.
• Use your Grey Power membership number as your reference and specify RENEWAL. Bank account details are
on the website.
• Send in your cheque with the remittance advice section of your invoice to: Grey Power Rotorua, P O Box 414,
Rotorua 3040 or Call into the Rotorua Grey Power office at 1333 Eruera Street, Rotorua.
• From 1 March the office will be open Tuesdays- Fridays between 10.00am – 2.00pm. Friday opening is temporary
during the subscription renewal period.
• [Bring the remittance advice section of your invoice with you.]
ROTORUA GREY POWER
HAD 1928 MEMBERS AT
JANUARY 31, 2017
CONTACT US
GREY POWER, ROTORUA INC.
OFFICE: 1333 Eruera Street, Rotorua
(at rear of Age Concern premises, Ranolf St end of Eruera St)
Phone: 07 346 1739
Email: greypower.rotorua@gmail.com
Office hours: 10am-2pm Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
and office will be open Fridays from 1 March -
during subscription renewals period.
Grey Power Rotorua Inc., PO Box 414, Rotorua 3040
COMMITTEE MEMBERS 2016/17
PRESIDENT
Russell Hallam
Phone: 07 348 6034
All inquiries: contact Russell
SECRETARY
Jennifer Francis
Phone: 07 349 3185
TREASURER
Judy Green
Phone: 07 357 5867
COMMITTEE
David Bruce
Daniel Harris
Wieland Hartwig
Esther Johnson
Rosemary Mackenzie
Yvonne Marehu
Judy O’Connell
Waitsu Wu
If there are issues you would like Grey Power to take up, let your
Committee know by phoning, contacting us via our website
www.greypowerrotorua.org.nz or email.
Your Grey Power Committee meets on the 3rd Monday monthly.
Remember Grey Power when you change your contact details.
Introducing
David Bruce,
Grey Power
Committee
Member
I
joined the Grey Power
committee because I felt
the need to support an
organisation advocating for
those of the third age. As the
number of seniors continues
David Bruce, Grey Power Rotorua
Committee Member
to increase, the possibility of
marginalisation grows.
JOKE CORNER
A distraught senior citizen phoned her doctor’s office.
“Is it true,” she wanted to know, “that the medication
you prescribed has to be taken for the rest of my life?”
“’Yes, I’m afraid so,”’ the doctor told her.
There was a moment of silence before the senior lady replied,
“I’m wondering, then, just how serious is my condition because
this prescription is marked
‘NO REFILLS’.
An older gentleman was on the operating table awaiting surgery
and he insisted that his son, a renowned surgeon, perform the
operation.
As the anaesthetic was about to be administered, he asked to
speak to his son. “Yes, Dad, what is it?”
“Don’t be nervous, son; do your best, and just remember if it
doesn’t go well, if something happens to me, your mother is going
to come and live with you and your wife....”
18 Rotorua greypower News – February 2017