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 Fiona for details of the link to use.
Meal Orders - Update April 2023
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 lunch menu ahead of time!
During the launch of his book "Helping Hands" a history of the last 100 years of Rotary in Dunedin, Craig threw out some "teasers" - the answers to which can be found by purchasing and reading the book!!
Here are a couple:
*What was Neil Lyons’ favourite part of the Orokonui project? It’s not what you might think. He must be just a big kid.
*What did Jonathan Lemalu say to me, after we sang the national anthem side-by-side at a Rotary lunch?
It is a rollicking good read that you won’t want to miss, you can purchase for $35 per copy.
Courtney Moore works for Civil Aviation’s Explosives Detection Unit as a dog trainer & handler certifier. The dog detection unit started in 1992 with 4 dog teams & now has 34 teams with more being established. Dogs are well suited for detection work as they have 300 million smell receptors whereas humans only have 6 million, dogs can operate each nostril independently (the mind bogles) Courtney initially started with MPI training dogs for customs work detecting fruit etc. with air travelers, she said if you teach a dog to detect a lemon they will then detect all citrus. Courtney said dogs could detect a drop of blood diluted in a 5 litre bucket of water or a tablespoon of sugar in the equivalent of 2 x Olympic Swimming pools of water Aviation Security are always looking for families to foster pups from 8 weeks until 12 months old when they are assigned to a trainer. foster@avsec.govt.nz The best dogs for detection are hunting dogs such a spaniels, Labrador spaniel cross, they need to be boisterous, be confident & totally focused on their work. Up to now no explosives have been found at airports but the aviation security unit also work with the Police & often find explosives when executing search warrants. Great talk by a passionate dog lover
Last weekend Bruce Cowan, Jack, Matthew Tofia - principal of Sara Cohen School, Anna and partner John planted 21 fruit trees at the new school site on Riselaw Road.
club bank account number (for payment) is BNZ 02-0912-0026502-00 using Ref. ROLLS
or cash payment to Bruce at meetings
NZ Native Trees and Plants Sale
Rotary Club of Mosgiel has available for other Rotary Clubs/ Rotarians packs of 100 assorted Native trees for $600. Species available:-manuka, kanuka, kowhai, cabbage tree, flax, pittosporum, ribbonwood,
lemon wood, southern beech, toe toe. These healthy plants are available for your environmental planting programmes and/or donations to your chosen schools and planting groups.
Contact Colin Mackintosh, colin.mackintosh@xtra.co.nz 02 7489 7926 or - John van Delft, jmvandelft@gmail.com 021 0258 7454
"Rotary and Rotarians should honour its founder as other organisations do theirs." - Craig Radford (Helping Hands p64)
The portrait of Paul Harris, Rotarys founder, displayed at the recent Centenary Dinner is seldom seen these days but it was once hung prominently at every meeting.
The original painting in oils was done in 1931 by John Doctoroff, prominent American portrait painter and member of the Chicago Rotary Club. The painting now hangs in the Rotary Club of Chicago offices.
In 1932 the Chicago Club sold copies of a print of the Doctoroff portrait as a fund raising project. The prints were sold to clubs for display at their meeting place or to be given as a gift to some Rotarian to reward 'distinguished service' . "The Rotarian - Feb 1932 - p 56" advertises that these prints were made "by a recently improved process which gives in seven colors a most faithful example of the original, retaining the full effect of oil upon canvas."
It is assumed (and seems highly likely) that the club portrait is one of these copies.
In 2012 clubs throughout New Zealand chartered before 1931 and still in existence, were contacted and asked whether they had a copy of the print, or knew the whereabouts of one. Most replied, all in the negative. A similar question was asked in a "Letter to the Editor" of Rotary Down Under, with no affirmative replies. It appears that our copy might be the only one in existence in the country (possibly in Oceania).
So, our painting may be "only" a print but it is surely a club treasure and worthy of displaying on special occasions. Bruce Collier
Jordana Whyte is the Trust Manager for the Wildlife Hospital Dunedin, an organisation she co-founded in 2015. She also serves as chair of the NZ Sea Lion Trust. Her previous experience involves being a Project Manager for the Cosy Homes Trust and she has a community development and grant writing background. She is also on the Predator Free Dunedin trust board.
Courtney Moore works for Civil Aviation’s Explosives Detection Unit as a dog trainer & handler certifier.
Last weekend Bruce Cowan, Jack, Matthew Tofia - principal of Sara Cohen School, Anna and partner John planted 21 fruit trees at the new school site on Riselaw Road.
Recently John Drummond was guest speaker at a meeting of the Dunedin 60+ Club and was by all accounts well received!
