The Bay of Islands Rotary Club looks for a special venue for its change of officers dinners, and this year the club put Bay of Islands College students in charge of the catering.
It was a win-win, secretary Bernadette Radonich said, with the students serving a beautifully-presented buffet while topping off their 18-month fundraising effortfor 11 Year 12-13 students, two teachers and two parents travel to Cambodia in September.
The students also entertained with kapa haka, singing and jamming with saxophone-playing Rotarians.
Club president of the last two years, Ninni Smythe (Opua) was succeeded by Russell School principal William Fuller.
There was less cause for celebration over the resignation of Frank Leadley after 48 years with the club, but not, hesaid because he had had enough. Now 82, he had so much on his plate with planning and fundraising for the Bay of Islands Vintage Railway's plans for a new station at Opua that he was having to cut back on the causes he was involved with, he said.
He was not lost completely, however.
