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.
Meal Orders
The current lunch menu can be downloaded from here
(updated 20 Feb 2021)
Please email your order to orders@thedishcafe.co.nz by midday Wednesdays, including beverage choice.
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Storage Space Needed
A new storage location is needed for our Rotary Club materials. These have been stored temporarily with President Cameron in the last year but he is moving house in four weeks’ time. There is also no longer enough space at Petridish. Thus we need some space for around five plastic tubs, a lecturn and our Rotary banners. If anyone might have some suitable space please let Cameron know as soon as possible.
N.B. Only occasional access would be required e.g. for a project where the banners are needed etc.
Our guest speaker at our meeting on Thursday was a Who Am I from Anna Thomas. Anna transferred to our Club from the Invercargill Club last year and it was great to get to know what her background is. Anna has now been in Rotary for 9 years , having joined as a youngster when she was 24. After leaving school, Anna spent a year as an exchange student and on her return followed in her fathers’ footsteps into real estate. Seven years ago she and her dad joined forces and became “Team Thomas” in Invercargill. Anna was really enjoying her work and life in general when a breast cancer diagnosis in July 2019 . Within 2 weeks she was having surgery followed up by chemotherapy (which she described as brutal) and then radiation treatment, which was very tiring. After 6 months off, Anna then returned to work but looking back thinks it probably took a good year to completely get over the fatigue. The message that Anna gave was what she had learned from her experience – she realised she was in the right career for her, and how thankful she is for having an incredibly supportive partner and family. Anna also was fortunate that she was offered genetic testing to find out if she had the BRCA gene (which she doesn’t) where there is a 70% chance of carriers developing breast cancer and a recognised increase in the chances of ovarian cancer. She does however have the CHEK2 gene where there is a 29% chance of breast cancer and a reported increase in developing ovarian cancer. An opportunity for her partner John to buy in to the Ray White franchise in Dunedin came and despite their trepidations about Dunedin being a “grey and overcast” city (how wrong could they be?) they made the move to Dunedin along with Jackson the schnoodle, at the beginning of last year. They have no regrets and now love Dunedin! Anna is a great addition to our Club - thank you Anna for sharing your story with us.
Each day 9 Kiwis find out they have Bowel cancer and 3 of them will die as a result.
‘The Gut Foundation’, while based in Canterbury, is very keen to expand its work into the lower part of the South Island. Rotary D9980 has decided to become involved in this programme, which has the potential to save lives of New Zealanders. This has the support of District Governor Nick.
It is envisioned that should our club wish to become involved then there would be a Gut Health awareness day held at local Foodstuffs premises (New World, Pak n Save, Four Square) talking with people, and raising awareness around their gut health. The Gut Foundation has formulated a self-help programme, allowing people to monitor their own gut health, and they have a chart for people to present to their GP Our Clubs position will be determined by the Board, however President Cameron is keen to gauge members opinions before any decision is made. Please email him direct at camerono@logicgroup.co.nz
Social Breakfast
The Town & Country Group are organising a Social Breakfast on Tuesday 14 September at Ironic Café at 8am If you are interested let Peter Gouverneur know before Midday Monday.
Centennial Project Committee
April 2023 marks the 100th anniversary of Rotary Dunedin and the Directors wish to form a small "sub-committee" to plan and coordinate the celebrations! If you would like to be on this team please advise Past-President Gordon.
RYLA 2022
As per the information in District Governor Nicks latest newsletter organisation of next years Rotary Youth Leadership Awards event is well under way. Our Youth Projects Group is now on the hunt to send two individuals between
the ages of 20-29 years. Please let Rick know if you have anyone in mind. rick@preens.co.nz
Growing Tip #1 Use a cover to protect plant early in the season and to prevent insect problems. However, remember to remove cover before flowering to allow pollination by insects!
Remember back in the day when a cough was used to cover-up a fart?
These days, with CoVid, a fart is used to cover up a cough!!
Mike commenced employment at the Otago Polytechnic in September 1977 as an
Engineering Lecturer and has recently retired his substantive marketing position after 43
years of fun and excitement.
During this time Mike held a variety of roles that covered teaching, academic programme
management, recruitment, communications, marketing management and international
relationship development and currently holds a casual contract with the Otago Brew School as their Beer Ranger!
Outside of his Beer Ranger duties, Mike is a board member of iD Dunedin, Cancer Ball Committee Member, and is the immediate past President of the North End Rowing club where he enjoys rowing and general fitness activities.
Family is also important and forms a key part of a Beer Rangers life with Pam and Mike’s 4 children and 5 grandchildren all living in the city.
A pdf of our programme for August and September can be downloaded from here. I'm sure there are speakers here that your friends and colleague might like to hear, so please pass the pdf on to them and invite them to come along to one of our Thursday meetings. Remember - August is Membership month!
Speaker Ideas
If you would like to hear a particular speaker, or have any speaker suggestions please email John Drummond drummond_john@yahoo.co.nz
A new storage location is needed for our Rotary Club materials. These have been stored temporarily with President Cameron in the last year but he is moving house in four weeks’ time. There is also no longer enough space at Petridish. Thus we need some space for around five plastic tubs, a lecturn and our Rotary banners. If anyone might have some suitable space please let Cameron know as soon as possible. 
Our guest speaker at our meeting on Thursday was a Who Am I from Anna Thomas. Anna transferred to our Club from the Invercargill Club last year and it was great to get to know what her background is. Anna has now been in Rotary for 9 years , having joined as a youngster when she was 24.
Each day 9 Kiwis find out they have Bowel cancer and 3 of them will die as a result. 
The Town & Country Group are organising a Social Breakfast on Tuesday 14 September at Ironic Café at 8am If you are interested let Peter Gouverneur know before Midday Monday.
