Events

Our speaker for the coming week is...

Claudia Rees

Claudia will be talking to us about "Learnings From the Pandemic". Claudia is a team leader for National Contact Tracing with the Ministry of Health.

Reminders for the week:

• Friday - Circa Theratre fundraising event and dinner at the Regal start 5.30pm
• Sunday - Tree planting at Tawa Bush 1pm
• Register for Changeover and Changeover dinner before Friday 17 June 5pm

PLEASE NOTE:

1. We need your RSVP no later than Monday 13 June  2022 5pm (please help the kitchen and register) 
2. If you have any dietary requirments or do not want breakfast - please put this in the comments section
3. Include your email address and mobile number in the response
4. If you wish to bring guests/spouses/partners add them when you register.
5. Remember to click "save" at the bottom of the page
6. If you do not receive a confirmation of registration immediately after you have registered, you have not completed the process.

Looking forward to seeing you there.

Kind regards

Louise

Changeover 2022😀

The PNRC outgoing and incoming Presidents would like to invite you and your partner to join them for the 2022 PNRC President Changeover event. 

When: Wednesday 22 June 2022, 5.30 pm - 7.00pm

Venue: The Marquee - Thistle Inn Hotel

Cost:    Cash bar for drinks -  pay individually

             Canapés will be served during the evening

A separate invitation will be sent inviting you to join them for dinner at the Thistle Inn after the event.

​NOTE:

1. The Thistle Inn can only take up to 50 guests for this event.
2. RSVP no later than Friday 17 June 5pm (best to do it now) 
3. If you wish to bring spouses or partners please add them when you register.
4. Remember to click "save" at the bottom of the page
5. If you do not receive a confirmation of registration immediately after you have registered, you have not completed the process.  It is really that simple!

Louise 

Changeover 2022 Dinner 😀

The PNRC outgoing and incoming Presidents would like to invite you and your partner to join them for the 2022 PNRC President Changeover dinner. 

When: Wednesday 22 June 2022, 7.00 pm - 10pm

Venue: The dining room at the Thistle Inn Hotel

Cost:    Set menu dinner $54.00 per head - each guest to pay individually. 

              There will be a choice of entree or dessert and a choice of 3 mains including vegetarian.

              Cash bar for drinks -  pay individually

​NOTE:

1. RSVP no later than Friday 17 June 5pm (best to do it now)  
2. If you wish to bring spouses or partners please add them when you register.
3. Remember to click "save" at the bottom of the page
4. If you do not receive a confirmation of registration immediately after you have registered, you have not completed the process.  It is really that simple!

Louise 

This week at the Wellington Club. 

Our speaker is Audrea Topps Harjo.

Audrea is an experienced and highly resourceful leader in her own field. She is a graduate of Harvard with a Masters in Fine Arts and claims numerous film credits to her name.

This week she will be speaking to us on "Promotong diversity and inclusion between students studying STEM and Design from the US and nNew Zealand"

RSVP ASAP but no later than 5pm on Monday 4 July. Please remember to include any guests.

Members please reply whether you are, or are not, coming to the meeting.  Thank you. 

Remember that if you have completed the registration process properly you will immediately receive a confirmation email.  If you do not receive the confirmation email you may have forgotten to press "save" at the bottom of the registration page. Please go back and check.

Please advise if you have special dietary requirements in the comments box on the registration page.

Mask Fundraiser for Wellington Children's Hospital

This is a follow up to the Rotary Mask Fundraiser that David Shackleton menioned at our Rotary meeting this morning 29/6/22 (please excuse the errors in my initial email :)

We have packs of 3, Brezy masks in either black or white with the Rotary logo on them for sale. The BrezyTM Masks are designed for easy breathing while maintaining high levels of protection. They are worn by the NZ Olympic Team and the most discerning of
customers. Each pack of 3 masks is $20.00 and $8.50 from each sale is going to the Wellington Children's Hospital.

Please register your interest below and state in the comments box the following:

• How many packs you want
• What colour you want

Please make sure you order before 5pm on Tuesday 12 July when sales end.

Kind regards

Louise :)

Our speaker for this meeting will be Claire Achmad 

CEO of Shelterbox 

ShelterBox is an international disaster relief charity that hand delivers aid to families affected by conflict and natural disaster.

Claire will be talking to us on "The Power of the Shelterbox - Helping the Ukraine"

Reminders going forward:

• Register for the next Flashback Friday, 8 July 12pm Thistle Inn
• Mask fundraiser for Wellington Children's Hospital, $20 for 3 masks with $8.50 going to the Children's Hospital

If you have problems or missed any of the invtations please email me lbrayburns@gmail.com and I'll sort it out for you :)

RSVP for our next meeting ASAP but no later than 5pm on Monday 4 July. Please remember to include any guests.

Members - please reply whether you are, or are not, coming to the meeting.  Thank you. 

Remember that if you have completed the registration process properly you will immediately receive a confirmation email.  If you do not receive the confirmation email you may have forgotten to press "save" at the bottom of the registration page. Please go back and check.

Please advise if you have special dietary requirements in the comments box on the registration page.

REMINDER 

Come and join us at the Thistle Inn

for a long Friday lunch on 8 July starting at 12pm

After the wonderful Changeover evening we are back at the Thistle for lunch and to sample a few of their great beverages. Come along and enjoy the warmth and wonderful atmosphere of one of Wellington's oldest pubs during the cold winter snap we are having.

Bring along friends and partners, all welcome. Make sure you list anyone you bring using the comments box by your name when you register yourself.

Please register by Wednesday 6 July 5pm to allow the kitchen to be ready for us.

Looking forward to seeing you there.

Louise :)

Our speaker for this meeting will be John Prendergast

John's topic will be Rotary Ramblings.

"Just a collection of Rotary trivia/history/stuff that I’ve observed over the years"

Reminders going forward:

• Mask fundraiser for Wellington Children's Hospital, $20 for 3 masks with $8.50 going to the Children's Hospital

If you have problems or missed any of the invtations please email me lbrayburns@gmail.com and I'll sort it out for you :)

RSVP for our next meeting ASAP but no later than 5pm on Monday 11 July. Please remember to include any guests.

Members - please reply whether you are, or are not, coming to the meeting.  Thank you. 

Remember that if you have completed the registration process properly you will immediately receive a confirmation email.  If you do not receive the confirmation email you may have forgotten to press "save" at the bottom of the registration page. Please go back and check.

Please advise if you have special dietary requirements in the comments box on the registration page.

Our monthly book club meets next on Wednesday 13 July a week at the Wellington Club Level 6 -  5.15 pm for 5.30 start, running through till 7pm. 

• Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton - famous South African classic
• Harbouring by Jenny Patrick - NZ's writer of Denniston Rose fame 
• The Very Good Lives - J K Rowling  - it's 25 years since Harry Potter hit the shelves 
• The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed - short listed Booker 2021
• books by Steve Cavanagh 
• Status Anxiety by Alain de Botton - another great philosophy read
• Slow down, you're here - by Brannavan Gnanalingam - a NZ cracking read 
• The Children's Train by Viola Ardone - post war novel 
• The Secret Life of the Savoy - Olivia Williams - on the Opera House and Hotel who frequents it

• Endurance by Alfred Lansing
• A Biography of Shackleton by Ranulph Fiennes
• Fifteen Million years in Antarctica by Rebecca Preistly  

Regards

Philippa Bascand

Orange Sky is a not-for-profit organisation providing people experiencing homelessness with access to free laundry services, warm showers and genuine, non-judgmental conversation, across New Zealand.

Our next meeting will be at

The Wellington City Mission

The actual address for the Mission is 19 Gordon Place Newtown but 190 Riddiford Street Newtown is the address of McDonalds where the actual entrance is. Parking is pretty bad around there so it is important to arrive early and find a park in the surrounding streets.

There will be an informal meeting with Murray Edridge who is the Wellington City Missioner and an option to join a short tour of the new social supermarket. We will be given a simple breakfast and our normal breakfast contribution of $27.50 each will be donated to the Mission.

We need to be masked up when arriving and while walking around the WCM. We have been asked to enter on the McDonalds side of the WCM.

Our next meeting will be back at The Wellington Club

Our speaker for the meeting will be Karin Van der Walt

Karin is a Conservation and Science advisor and currently works for the Wellington City Council in the Otari Native and Botanic Garden in Wilton, Wellington. She is involved in a broad range of projects including biodiversity conservation, ex situ plant conservation and research. She specialises in seed banking, cryopreservation and threatened plant management with much of my time invested in conserving New Zealand's plants threatened by invasive pathogens. At this meeting she will be talking to us about the Kauri Project.

Our speaker for the meeting will be Ralph Stewart

His topic is "The Trials and Tribulations of Commercial Innovation"

Ralph is the Managing Director of Lifetime Retirement Income, a position that he has held for the past 13 years. He has also been the Chief Executive of both ACC and AXA, the GM Marketing and Strategy for Tower Insurance and Marketing Director at Jardine Fleming. 

Lifetime retirement income was awarded the best Retirement Wealth Management Firm NZ in the Retirement Planning Awards 2022. 

Lifetime helps people take care of the income part of their retirement plan providing regular, tax paid, fortnightly payments. Lifetime's purpose is "To help people enjoy their retirement with the security of an income for life"

Reminders:

• 6 August - Flashback Saturday lunch at Garage Project - use the invitation already sent to register
• 11 August - Goal Setter breakfast - contact Eden to attend
• 30 September - Rotary Charity Auction 

The Ale and Gravy Saturday Lunch from WOAP

Garage Project at 91 Aro St and perennial Wellington favourite, Aro Bake, are bringing back The Ale & Gravy Tavern. This lunch will be a hearty Aro Bake pie served with all the trimmings (mash! mushy peas! gravy!), wash it down with a delightfully matched pint of handpulled ale and finish off with a generous slice of scrumptious spotted dick.

We will start at 12pm to ensure we get a table as we cannot book and enjoy the small but cozy atmosphere of 91 Aro Street for a long Friday lunch. This is free entry and pay as you consume event.

Don't forget to add friends and family when you register! Hopefully they will fit us in :)

Please register by Friday 5 August 5pm so we have an idea of how many whant to come along.

REMINDER

Let’s plant trees to help our planet!  Tree Planting Part 2 - Sunday 14 August 1pm

A small group of us planted 250 native trees in Tawa during the first half of our mission to plant 500 native trees this year with the Friends of Tawa Bush Reserves. 

It’s now time for the second half of this important work – to plant the other 250 trees in Tawa on  Sunday 14 August at 1pm.

Our goal is to keep building on what we have done in the four previous years planting native trees in Tawa.  This is helping to regenerate our native Bush to provide habitat and food for the increasing numbers of native birds, to make lovely walking areas for us all, and to help slow down climate change.  Everyone is very welcome including family and friends – the more the merrier!  Interact and Rotaract members are very welcome to join us!  We had a huge turnout from Interact last year and again in June this year.  We’ve now planted about 2200 trees.    

If you would like to take part, please contact Lisa King (landm.king@xtra.co.nz or 021 265 6220). 

Lisa is Director of our Community Services Committee and also a member of Friends of Tawa Bush Reserves so she is coordinating our Club’s participation.   

Let Lisa know your mobile phone number and email address so she can send you full details about the tree planting and so she can contact you if we need to defer the tree planting for any reason.   Thank you for helping us with this important initiative.

Please ensure you have registered for this event by 5pm Thursday 11 August, so Lisa has time to contact you with details of the address etc.

Our speaker for the meeting will be Duane Kale

Sport, Politics and Societal Change

Duane is a New Zealand Paralympic swimmer who won four gold medals, along with a silver and bronze, at the 1996 Summber Paralympics. He was also the Chef de Mission for the New Zealand Paralympic team at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Paralympics.

He has spent 11 years as a Board member of Paralympics New Zealand and has been appointed by the International Olympic Committee to the Evaluation Commission for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games

Reminders:

• 14 August - Tree planting - Lisa King - registration sent
• 2 September - Flashback Friday at the Hudson - Lou Bray-Burns - registration sent
• 30 September - Charity Auction - Paula's team

Notes for the coming weeks meeting:

• RSVP no later than Monday 15 August 5pm (best do it now)
• If you have any dietary requirments please note them in the comments section of the registration
• Include your email address and mobile phone number in the response
• If you wish to bring guests/spouse/partner, please add them when you register
• Remember to click "save" at the bottom of the page
• If you do not recieve a confirmation immediately after you have registered, you have not completed the process.

Dear all long lunchers, craft beer and foodies

With this dreary weather lets get out and have a long Friday lunch at...

The Hudson, 56 Victoria Street, Te Aro, Wellington 6011 on 2 September 12 oclock.

A couple of us checked this venue out after our Ale and Pie lunch (a big thanks needs to go to Joy for her time organiing that event).

The Hudson has 16 rotating taps pouring an ever changing range of local craft beer & a whiskey & cocktail bar, plus a delicious brunch and all day food menu.

It is centrally located for those working in the CBD, allowing you to come and join the long lunchers, during your lunch break :)

Bring along friends and family, lets get out of the cold and enjoy each others company.

Please RSVP by 1 September 12pm, so I can let the restaurant know :) Don't forget to register your guests so we can keep track of numbers.

This is a pay as you go event.

Looking forward to seeing you there,

Louise