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11 February 2024
Bulletin Editor
Fiona Nyhof
(If you have any comments or questions, please contact the editor)
Club Information
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
The café has noted that many of our Rotary members and guests are now ordering on arrival.  This makes it difficult for them  to manage staffing levels and keep up the level of service for us, as well as their other guests.  
As a club, we appreciate the use of the venue facilities free of charge. To maintain this it is appreciated if you would please remember to pre-order your food and drink from the menu ahead of time!
Email your order to orders@thedishcafe.co.nz by 11am
Menu 
The Dish menu.
The $20 lunch menu (includes a drink) can be downloaded from here

Programme  FEB - MARCH 2024

ROTARY DUNEDIN SPEAKERS, FEB-MARCH 2024 
 
 
A printed copy is also available at lunch meetings, please share with at least two other people you know. 

If you would like to hear a particular speaker, or have any speaker suggestions please email John Drummond drummond_john@yahoo.co.nz
Stories
New bike station at Port Chalmers
 
Town and Country members are shown here laying the concrete for the new bike repair station to be installed in Port Chalmers at the recently completed Harbour cycleway start/finish point. The new location is ideal and it complements the other two bike Rotary bike repair stations on the very popular Harbour-side cycle and shared pathway. 
Southern Motorway Rotary Sign
The foliage has now been cleared around the Rotary welcome sign on the Southern Motorway. 
 
People travelling North towards Dunedin can now clearly see the sign as they approach the Fairfield overbridge. The sign emerges into view like a sunrise!
Community Projects team members have also cleared the foliage around the Rotary signs seen from the Northern Motorway entrance into Dunedin. 
Awesome!
 
Dunedin Night Shelter
Last week's speaker was David McKenzie, Manager of the Dunedin Night Shelter
- story to follow next week
 
Special events coming up
mark your calendars now! 
 
 
Visit to Rescue Helicopters,
14 Feb Taieri Aerodrome, 5.30pm
 
Fellowship at Five, 15 Feb
Ironic Cafe & Bar, Anzac Ave
Following on from our successful Fellowship at Five event last year, our next relaxed gathering will be on Feb 15th at 5pm at Ironic Cafe. Come along to chat, plan, laugh and relax with Rotary colleagues and friends. Stay for as long as it suits you. Family, workmates, friends also welcome.
To get an idea of numbers and book a table, please RSVP to anna.thomas@raywhite.com by Tue 14th 5pm.
 
Quiz night 27 FEB, 7.30pm 
Otago Golf Club
The Community Project Group are holding their annual quiz night on Tuesday the 27th of February. Funds raised will support the Rotary Park Project. Please promote this to family, friends and colleagues and enter a team or just show up and join a team on the night!
The other matter you can help with is donating raffle prizes - check out your cupboards for attractive items for which you have no need.
Contact Bruce Collier to register a team ($10pp) and / or notify him you have goods to donate, thank you!  Email: brucec3210@gmail.com
 
Dunedin Central Rotary Club
Fun night 20 Feb, 5.30pm
 
Rotary Wine Tour, Cromwell
8-10 March
The 5th annual Rotary Walking Wine Trail. It’s a great fun social weekend wining and dining at some amazing establishments in Central Otago.  It's now just past the 9 Feb deadline to register, but contact Jonathan Usher if you are still interested. email: jonathan@thisway.co.nz
South Island Rotary Conference 2024 - Creating Hope
Christchurch, Saturday 20 April.
Venue: Te Pae, the Christchurch Convention Centre, in the Waitaki Room
Time & Date: 8.50am to 3pm on Saturday 20 April
Tickets: Earlybird tickets available online until the 1st March (https://rotaryoceania.zone/event/south-island-rotary-conference-2024-2024-04-19-2024-04-20-213/register)
•    $120 for Rotarians or Partners of Rotarians ($30 earlybird discount)
•    $150 for non-Rotarians ($30 earlybird discount)
•    bar (own cost)
•    Non-Rotarians are welcome/encouraged to attend, so invite your friends.
More Information here:
Sponsors

Forsyth Barr

Interested in being a sponsor?
Download the website sponsorship guide
Sally Aldrich will speak to us at lunch meeting Feb 15th about the 
‘Claire Kit’ which is a learning tool to help educate and inspire the next generation of geneticists and is a way for the
Aldrich family to honor the memory of their daughter Claire who died from a rare genetic disease.
Speakers
Feb 14, 2024 5:30 PM
Offsite meeting at Rescue Helicopters, Taieri Aero
Feb 15, 2024
Sally Aldrich
Genetic disorders
Feb 22, 2024
RYLA and Science Fair reports
Feb 29, 2024
Jonathan Usher
The J.R.Mckenzie Fund
Mar 07, 2024
Ron Mackintosh and Steve Hydes
Debate: That the parliamentary term be increased to four years
Mar 14, 2024
Scott Mason
Why we need a capital gains tax
Mar 21, 2024
David Black
Rotary World Community Service
Mar 28, 2024
Geoff Simons
The Masters’ Games in Dunedin
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@xtra.co.nz
Birthdays & Anniversaries
Member Birthdays
Paul Spain
February 2
 
Jonathan Usher
February 13
 
Lynne Guy
February 15
 
Join Date
Bruce Collier
February 22, 2007
17 years
 
Grant Chirnside
February 26, 2003
21 years
 
 
Keep Up With Us
 
 
Volunteering OpportunitiesVolunteer Images - Free Download on Freepik 
Fri 16 Feb, 9am-3pm-
1 more volunteer needed! 
We are volunteering at Orokonui Ecosanctuary on Friday 16 Feb with student volunteers from the Otago Medical Student Association.  We will be weeding and tidying around the kaka aviary and the new soft release aviary.  We need at least one    more Rotarian volunteer willing to transport the students and supervise the work on the day. Please contact Fiona or David Neill if you can help. 
 
Sat 9 March
Otago Southland Child Cancer Appeal at Otago Farmers Market. Please contact David Neill (david.neill@xtra.co.nz) if you can sign up for a slot between 8am and 12pm. 
Can you help?
 
ACCOMMODATION wanted
 5 Mar - 6 Mar
Fellow Rotarian Deb Gimblett (Christchurch based) is asking if there are any Rotarians willing to host her and her daughter Jenn overnight on Tuesday 5th March - they are attending the Pink concert here in Dunedin.  They will arrive in the afternoon of Tuesday 5th March and leave first thing on the Wednesday morning. They would like a twin room if possible. She is offering to pay the host directly or donate to their club or foundation, $150 - $180 for the night, or offer the host a ticket for the Pink concert, please can you help? 
Contact Deb directly 
021 105 6139
 
HOST FAMILY SOUGHT for visiting teen mid-late July 
A host family, preferably with teenage kids is being sought for a young student from Germany who has Rotary connections.
14 year old Leopold Staude is planning a New Zealand visit during his summer holidays, he'll be arriving in Dunedin mid July and wants to stay until the end of July. He'd like to stay with a family preferably with kids of similar age. If you or someone you know could provide a home stay like this, please contact Ah Lek Tay (Email below).
The Rotary family connection is that Leopold's grandfather and Fraser Morrison,  who was a Rotary Dunedin club member, met and formed a lasting friendship towards the end of WW2. Leopold's father is a Rotarian in Leipzig, Germany, and he met with our DG,  Ah-Lek Tay last year at the Rotary International Convention in Melbourne. 
It would be great if we can find a home stay for Leopold. More information can be provided if required. Please Contact Ah-Lek Tay: email:
ah-lek@tay.co.nz
Rotary International Convention, Singapore, 25-29 May 2024.