Bulletin 16 June (Jun 16, 2024)

Fiona Nyhof
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Thursdays at 12:00 PM

Petridish

8 Stafford Street
Dunedin, 9016
New Zealand

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Meeting Attendance

Members are encouraged to attend Thursday lunch meetings whenever they can. They are an opportunity for fellowship, to hear interesting speakers, and to catch up with our Club activities.

Remember that if you are unable to join our lunch meetings in person, we can still provide a Zoom option. Please contact President Katie for details of the link to use.

Meal Orders @ the dish cafe-

Please remember to pre-order your food and drink from the menu ahead of time. This assists the cafe provide us with good service and timely delivery.

For members and friends/guests who choose to come along but not purchase a Rotary lunch, a $5 contribution to room hire is applied by the cafe (see menu). As a club, we appreciate the continued use of the venue facilities.

Email your order to orders@thedishcafe.co.nz by 11am

New Menu!

The Dish menu has been updated effective 13 June. The $20 lunch menu (includes a drink) can be downloaded here.

CaringStay

Posted by Neil Lyons

CaringStay Respite Care – Lizzie Scott (by Zoom)

Our speaker on 13 June was Lizzie Scott (Photo of Lizzie was taken from the CaringStay website).

Lizzie was born in Oamaru. Now 60 years of age, Lizze returned to NZ in 2020 after 30 years overseas.

Lizzie is now living in Wellington. Having experienced personally family and other acquaintances who were living alone and who, after being in hospital were destined to recovering with minimal or no external care.

This gave her the idea of developing a business model some 18 months ago whereby she would coordinate ‘hosts’ to care for ‘guests’ in their private homes of people in such circumstances.

She has now 21 hosts and is looking to establish many more. Hosts could receive a rental from their guests to supplement their income. Lizzie screens the people wishing to participate to ensure they meet criteria of a suitable host. She now has hospitals referring people to her to provide respite care.

Contact Lizzie by Email: lizzie@caringstay.co.nz

Read more about CaringStay on the website: https://www.caringstay.co.nz/about

Celebrating Neville's 50 years membership

Posted by David Neill

Neville and Pam Horne, taken at our club's 100th anniversary dinner, April 2023.

At our meeting last Thursday (June 13) we celebrated Neville Horne's 50 years of membership, fellowship and service to our club.

Neville joined The Rotary Club of Dunedin on June 13 1974, he held many roles in our club over his tenure, he was convenor of the International committee in 1980, Special Projects convenor in 1982 and Finance convenor in 1987 and 1988.

He became a trustee of the Hugh Saunders Trust and Rotary Trust in 1990 and has continued to be a trustee until his retirement which takes effect in a few weeks.

He has also been honorary auditor of the club from 1991 to 1995 and club statistician from 2012 until recently. He has been on the membership and classification committee since 1996. He has also been an integral member of the the Town & Country Committee.

Neville is a much respected and valued member of our club and will be missed by all when he and Pam move permanently to Wanaka.

Thank you to all our volunteers!

Last week we had a team of volunteers collecting for

Hato Hone St John's annual appeal.

Volunteering opportunities coming up

28 July- we'll be planting at Rotary Park -

save the date!

Interested in being a sponsor?

Download the website sponsorship guide

We are looking forward to hearing from Richard Kinley this week, Richard is the CEO of Otago Rugby.

Future speakers

If you would like to hear from a particular speaker or have any speaker suggestions please advise John Drummond

drummond_john@yahoo.co.nz

Link to our Speaker List April-June - Use it to invite friends to club meetings!

Jun 20, 2024

Richard Kinley, CEO, Otago Rugby

The State of the Game (1869: 1st game of rugby in NZ)

Jun 27, 2024

Fellowship meeting

Jul 04, 2024

Changeover night,evening meeting at PetriDish

President Katie hands over to President Elect Anna

View entire list

Duty Roster

Follow this link to the Duty Roster.

The five week roster is the most accurate and members are urged to check the Duty Roster webpage regularly.

Essentials

SPEAKER HOSTS please remember to send a summary of the Speakers presentation complete with photo to Fiona fiona.robin@outlook.com

Join Date

William Thompson

June 1, 1992

32 years

Murray Bayly

June 3, 2004

20 years

Rick Wellington

June 6, 2013

11 years

Neville Horne

June 13, 1974

50 years

Are you interested in going on a mid winter tramp?

for more information contact Malcolm Liddell malcolm.liddell@icloud.com

Midwinter Solstice 2024- this Friday.

The winter solstice is the shortest day and longest night of the year after which the days begin to get longer and the nights get shorter. This makes it both a time of celebration and reflection: a time to celebrate the return of the Sun and the promise of longer days ahead but also a time to reflect on the past year and to set goals for the year ahead.

The winter solstice is also a time of astronomical significance and marks the beginning of Astronomical Winter. It is the day when the Earth's axis is tilted the most away from the Sun. This means that the Sun appears to be at its lowest point in the sky. After the winter solstice, the Earth's axis begins to tilt back towards the Sun, and the days start to get longer.This year, the solstice is due to occur over Dunedin skies on Friday, June 21, at 9.08am. Dawn is at 07.46, Sunrise at 08.21, Sunset at 17.00 and Dusk at 17.35, and a day length of 09.48.19 hours.

Info source: https://www.sunrisesunsettime.org/australia-pacific/new-zealand/equinox-solstice.htm

Let's look forward to the Midsummer solstice on December 21st this year (picture above is a summer sunrise taken at Hampden Beach).

Meanwhile enjoy the Dunedin Winter Carnival happening on June 21st and June 22nd at First Church from 6 - 9pm. https://www.midwintercarnival.co.nz/event-info/#midwinter