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Jun 01, 2023 8:00 AM - Jun 03, 2023 5:00 PM
Books can be dropped off to these service stations up until 26th May 2023.
Caltex Savoy (Tay St) Youthline Southland provides support, information, crisis intervention, and referrals for young people. The free 24/7 helpline is staffed by trained helpline counsellors there to listen when the pressure is hitting. You can find out more here. https://www.youthline.co.nz/invercargill-centre-page.html\ Enquiries for the 2023 Book Sale can be sent to: rcinvercargill@gmail.com
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Jun 06, 2023 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Last Club Forum for the 22/23 Rotary Year Lunch is BYO (Bring Your Own). The objectives of a Club Forum are: Fellowship The Forum agenda is:
If you have a suggestion for an agenda item to be included at a future forum please email President Elect Chami chami.abeysinghe.rotary@gmail.com
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The spread of misinformation in the modern age
Jun 13, 2023
Brett Solvander has spent a career in media and communications, with television production being a part of this, but he is better known as a public relations practitioner, who has worked in various senior communications roles in both the public and private sectors, here and overseas. Brett has also worked for government ministers as a ministerial press secretary and established his own communications consultancy in the mid 1990’s with business partner and wife, Wilma Falconer. In his presentation Brett will focus on the spread of misinformation in the modern age and how we as information consumers can navigate propaganda, lies and fake news to get to the truth. This subject has meaning for everyone interested in getting to what we understand to be the undiluted facts so that we can make well informed decisions for ourselves and for those we care about |
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Jun 13, 2023 12:15 PM - 1:30 PM
Everyone Welcome Guest Speaker: Brett Solvander - Topic: The spread of misinformation in the modern age Lunch $25.00pp includes: light lunch/cake & coffee/parking at H&J Smith car park. Meals can be paid online on day of meeting and advised at reception. A/C 06-0925-0022834-00 RSVPs noting any dietary requirements to Janna by email janna@mwm.net.nz or by phone 03 2141839, Monday prior to meeting by 3pm.
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The Grace Street Project
Jun 20, 2023
Janette Malcom, Mervyn English & Terry Nicholas are trustees of the The Invercargill Community Connections Charitable Trust (IC2). The Trust was formed in December 2020 after research established a strong need, and support for, a proposed new community facility in South Invercargill – currently known as the Grace Street Project. The Grace Street Project is a community-led initiative to create a multi-purpose facility in south Invercargill with the goal of fostering a safe, welcoming, and thriving community for all. Janette Malcolm Janette has a wide variety of public and private experience including international business, law and community development, which is a particular passion of hers. Living in Southland since 2008, she established and ran South Alive and subsequently established and chaired the social enterprise business The Pantry. She has been part of the Grace Street project from the start having seen the huge local need for physical space that can provide opportunities for learning and growth in the community. Terry Nicholas Terry is the Manager of Hokonui Rūnanga, the Hokonui Representative on the Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu tribal council, and the Portfolio Director for Murihiku Regeneration. Terry has been involved with Hokonui Rūnanga and has been the Hokonui Te Rūnanga O Ngāi Tahu representative since January 1999. A champion for community development and creating opportunities for all in Murihiku, Terry sees the Grace Street Project as being pivotal to enhancing opportunities for those in South Invercargill – particularly at-risk youth. Mervyn English Mervyn grew up in Southland, and as a young man, he spent considerable time in Southland’s mountains. His career took him to other major cities, where he held senior roles in both the public and private sectors. This experience has been across multiple sectors, health, social services, energy, agriculture, and conservation. After serving on a number of boards, he also has significant experience in public policy, delivery, and governance. He has returned to Southland and is enjoying contributing to this community. Want to know more - visit: https://www.thegracestreetproject.nz/
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Jun 20, 2023 12:15 PM - 1:30 PM
Everyone Welcome Guest Speaker(s): Janette Malcolm, Terry Nicholas & Mervyn English Topic: The Invercargill Community Connections Charitable Trust (IC2) - The Grace Street Porject Lunch $25.00pp includes: light lunch/cake & coffee/parking at H&J Smith car park. Meals can be paid online on day of meeting and advised at reception. A/C 06-0925-0022834-00 RSVPs noting any dietary requirements to Janna by email janna@mwm.net.nz or by phone 03 2141839, Monday prior to meeting by 3pm.
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Jun 27, 2023 6:30 PM
After a 2 year term President Lisa-Maree will handover the 'chains' to President Elect Chami Come & celebrate in 'old hollywood style' Tuesday 27th June - 6.30pm Level 6 - Kelvin Hotel Dresscode: Old Hollywood / Black Tie Cost: $65.00 per person RSVPs' with dietrary requirements to: chami.abeysinghe.rotary@gmail.com
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Jul 04, 2023 12:15 PM - 1:30 PM
President Chami's first lunch meeting Cost $25.00pp includes light lunch/cakes, tea/coffe and parking at H&J Smith car park Meals can be paid online on day of meeting and advised at reception. A/C 06-0925-0022834-00 RSVPs noting any dietary requirements to Janna by email janna@mwm.net.nz or by phone 03 2141839, Monday prior to meeting by 3pm. |
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Southland Long-Term Plan - Overview and Key Focus Areas
Jul 18, 2023 12:15 PM
Bobbi is currently leading the development of the Beyond 2025 Southland regional long-term plan. With over 20 years’ experience in local government, community development, sporting, rural and tourism sectors, she has extensive experience in strategy and policy development and stakeholder engagement and management. A proud Southlander born and bred, Bobbi grew up in Gore and has dairy farmed with her husband and son in Clinton for the past 20 years. Her 15-year career as an international netball umpire ensures she brings a diverse range of skills and experience to her current role. |
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District Governor Phil Gully & wife Anna
Aug 15, 2023
Phil Gully is a charter member of the Whakatū Club in Nelson and will be the second District Governor for D9999 – the South Island of NZ. He originally joined Rotary in Hastings in 1989 as a member of the lunchtime Hastings Club, and after moving to Nelson in 1991 joined the Nelson Central Rotary Club (now the Phil’s interests are cricket, golf and fishing. He is a member of NZ International Fellowship of Cricketing Rotarians and played for “NZ” in the NZIFC tournament in Vapi, India in 2012. He Phil’s goals for 2023/24 are to have fun, plan, encourage clubs to be bold and moreover be creative. |
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Aug 27, 2023 1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
The 2023 Host A Roast is on this weekend in Riverton. Sunday 27th August. 1.30pm - meal at 2pm Host a roast is a fundraiser for the Southland Hospital Ronald McDonald Family Room. Last year we raised just over $500 for the family room and we hope to make a similar donation again this year. Shout out of thanks to our roast host - Helen McCurdy. It is not too late to book a seat at the table - contact Lisa-Maree on 027 2304 611 if you would like to come along. If you want to support this great cause but can't come along please click here to make a donation or https://hostaroast.kiwi/rotaryclubofinvercargill The Ronald McDonald Family Room, Southland Hospital, is an extension of the hospital that is directly connected to the Children’s and Neo Natal wards. When families walk in, they forget they’re in a hospital. This is a place to rest and regroup just moments away from their children. A home away from home for families who have children undergoing treatment at Southland Hospital. There are also four overnight bedrooms, which are allocated on a daily basis by the Family Room Supervisor in consultation with the hospital’s medical staff. Rooms are provided to families on a greatest need basis and each family’s individual situation is taken into consideration. |
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Aug 31, 2023
Rotary members have a unique opportunity to be welcomed on and to visit the newly redeveloped Murihiku Marae.
For more information about the marae and its development click on these links: Waihōpai - Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu (ngaitahu.iwi.nz) Massive $15m Murihiku Marae reopens in Invercargill | Stuff.co.nz Redeveloped Murihiku Marae reopens | Southland Express
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Making Music at the Bottom of the World
Sep 05, 2023
Sally is a musician, music educator, composer, arranger, writer, academic and mother of five. She composes and arranges for multiple groups including choirs and brass bands. She has composed musicals that have been performed locally and internationally with the most recent being the world premiere of 18 Eden Avenue in Invercargill last year. She is a writer who has edited a book about the musical life of Southland called Making Music at the Bottom of the World. She is well-known nationally in music education, having edited MENZA’s (Music Education New Zealand Aotearoa) Tune Me In magazine, for a number of years. She also serves on the Board of the international research group ANZARME (Australia New Zealand Association for Music Education), Arts Murihiku, the management committee for the local Out of School Music Classes, and is a founding member of Outreach Singing Aotearoa. Sally is very involved in the local music scene; she teaches on the Bachelor of Contemporary Music degree at SIT (where she is also the Research Manager), she teaches at Out of School Music Classes on Saturday mornings, she has run the SIT Kids Concerts for the past 21 years, and this year she was musical director for Gore Musical Theatre’s successful season of The Addams Family, as well as directing The Sing Thing, an event held at the ILT Southland Stadium which saw 1400 members of the community come together to sing. |
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Sep 05, 2023 12:15 PM - 1:30 PM
Formal Lunch Meeting at the Kelvin Hotel Cost $25.00pp includes light lunch/cakes, tea/coffe and parking at H&J Smith car park Meals can be paid online on day of meeting and advised at reception. A/C 06-0925-0022834-00 RSVPs noting any dietary requirements to Janna by email janna@mwm.net.nz or by phone 03 2141839, Monday prior to meeting by 3pm. |
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Transformation of the Poultry Industry
Sep 19, 2023
Judith Mair – General Manager Agribusiness for Mainland Poultry Ltd. Judith is an experienced leader having held technical, senior operations and general management roles across primary sector companies including Fonterra, Alliance Group, Top Top, Hellers, Cadbury, and now with Mainland Poultry. That breadth of commodity and FMCG experience has been important in gaining the skills to manage in our rapidly changing work environment. Judith will give us an overview of the dynamics of the current egg shortage and the priorities of the poultry sector including the focus on animal welfare, productivity, and sustainability. |
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Sep 19, 2023 12:15 PM - 1:30 PM
Formal Lunch Meeting at the Kelvin Hotel Cost $25.00pp includes light lunch/cakes, tea/coffe and parking at H&J Smith car park Meals can be paid online on day of meeting and advised at reception. A/C 06-0925-0022834-00 RSVPs noting any dietary requirements to Janna by email janna@mwm.net.nz or by phone 03 2141839, Monday prior to meeting by 3pm. |
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Sep 21, 2023 5:00 PM
Meet the Candidates evening on September 21.
What: Meet the Candidates Evening
Where: Level 6, Kelvin Hotel
When: 5pm, September 21, 2023
RSVP: Registration is required. Go to https://southlandchamber.co.nz/events/89763/
Cost: $10. Pay with registration or cash on the night.
The Rotary clubs in Invercargill together with the Southland Business Chamber are proud to collaborate to bring a “Meet the Candidates” evening for the public to hear from Invercargill Electorate candidates standing in the October General Election.
The clubs are hosting the candidate evenings as a means of community service, which is a core part of Rotary’s service above self motto.
Rotary Club of Invercargill President Chami Abeysinghe says the public will have the opportunity to ask candidates questions during the hour-long event.
“We’re asking the community to ‘save the date’ and come along to the joint event which is a joint project by all Rotary clubs in our area including, Rotary North, Rotary South, Rotary East and Sunrise,” she says.
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Wander Search
Oct 03, 2023
Daniel Erickson Daniel (callsign ZL4DE) is part of a national network of licensed amateur radio operators (NZART) who assist emergency response and land-based search and rescue operations in New Zealand. An emergency management volunteer since 2005, a community-minded person, Daniel started volunteering because he “wanted to serve in the community, to be involved.” Now Daniel is the Southland Deputy Leader of AREC (Amateur Radio Emergency Communications). AREC provides radio operators and communications equipment during emergency responses, ensuring those involved can share information regardless of whether cell phones, telephones and other standard communication channels are operating. Daniel has volunteered with the Wander Search program through Land Search & Rescue since 2012. Daniel has led the program in Southland during the past 6 years, which he has seen a massive increase in demand recently.
John Taylor Aged 73- born in Invercargill 45 years LandSAR volunteer Had 2 Search Dogs Retired Electrician Currently working as a Pest Plant contractor using a trained Dog to find the pest Weeds. Work area is New Zealand Also Rabbit and Possum Control work |
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Oct 03, 2023 12:15 PM - 1:30 PM
Formal Lunch Meeting at the Kelvin Hotel Please note this meeting has moved back to Level 6 Cost $25.00pp includes light lunch/cakes, tea/coffe and parking at H&J Smith car park Meals can be paid online on day of meeting and advised at reception. A/C 06-0925-0022834-00 RSVPs noting any dietary requirements to Janna by email janna@mwm.net.nz or by phone 03 2141839, Monday prior to meeting by 3pm. |
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Oct 06, 2023 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM
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Oct 10, 2023 12:15 PM - 1:30 PM
Lunch is BYO (Bring Your Own). The objectives of a Club Forum are: Fellowship If you have a suggestion for an agenda item to be included at this or a future forum please email President Chami: chami.abeysinghe.rotary@gmail.com |
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Former Invermay Scientist Relections
Oct 24, 2023
Colin graduated with a BVSc from Massey in 1971, worked for two years in a mixed veterinary practice in Tauranga, did veterinary locums in Australia and England, and worked as a research assistant at the Central Veterinary Laboratory, Weybridge, UK on TB in badgers. On returning to NZ in 1978 Colin enrolled for a PhD study at Massey University on leptospirosis in dairy cattle, which he completed in July 1981. Colin then joined the deer group at the Invermay Agricultural Research Station (which became AgResearch Invermay) where he was the station vet. He undertook veterinary research for 35 years, including research on deer diseases such as yersiniosis, deer parapox, MCF, parasites, bovine tuberculosis and Johne’s disease.
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Oct 24, 2023 12:15 PM - 1:30 PM
Formal Lunch Meeting at the Kelvin Hotel Cost $25.00pp includes light lunch/cakes, tea/coffe and parking at H&J Smith car park Meals can be paid online on day of meeting and advised at reception. A/C 06-0925-0022834-00 RSVPs noting any dietary requirements to Janna by email janna@mwm.net.nz or by phone 03 2141839, Monday prior to meeting by 3pm. |
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"Undertaking and Overtaking"
Oct 31, 2023
The “ Undertaking” is for the ten years that Dave spent working as an “ Undertaker “ or Funeral Director . Dave followed an uncle into the profession and had wanted to do so from age 18 – his uncle told him to go away and get life experience first …he did that, then entered the profession and went on to qualify as an Embalmer, Funeral Director and Monumental Mason. The “ Overtaking “ is for the ten years Dave spent working for varied ambulance services. Dave was a volunteer ambulance officer for many years before entering into that field full time. He took up ambulance work full time after leaving the “ Undertaking “ . He worked in both New Zealand and Australia and ended up as an Advanced Care Paramedic. Dave did side studies in Anaesthesia and Psychology . Dave has been asked by a publisher to pen a book titled “ Undertaking and Overtaking “ to speak of his many years involved in Ambulance Work and Funeral Directing.
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Nov 10, 2023 6:15 PM - 8:30 PM
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Community Trust Update
Nov 14, 2023
Jackie Flutey Heamana/CEO Community Trust South. Jackie has a range of management experience in the grantmaking and tertiary education sectors; she joined Community Trust South in early 2018, having previously worked as the Manager of the ILT Foundation and for 17 years in a variety of roles at Southern Institute of Technology. Jackie has a commitment to fostering relationships and partnerships with other funders and the community.
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Nov 14, 2023 12:15 PM - 1:30 PM
Formal Lunch Meeting at the Kelvin Hotel Cost $25.00pp includes light lunch/cakes, tea/coffe and parking at H&J Smith car park Meals can be paid online on day of meeting and advised at reception. A/C 06-0925-0022834-00 RSVPs noting any dietary requirements to Janna by email janna@mwm.net.nz or by phone 03 2141839, Monday prior to meeting by 3pm. |
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Nov 21, 2023 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
This replaces our club forum day as we will be undertaking hands-on service, supporting our involvement with the Santa Parade. Each year the Santa Parade floats are given a final check over & clean to ensure they are looking their best for parade day, (Parade Day is 25 November). Tasks may include cleaning, painting or other general parade prep so please dress accordingly. The float workshop is at CP Wool Store, 815 North Rd. There is an informal fish and chip tea following the working bee. RSVPs are required to assist with catering. |
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Valuation Profession
Nov 28, 2023
Robert Todd is a Director of Valuation & Advisory Services at CBRE. Based in Southland, Robert’s experience as a senior valuer is wide and varied, including commercial, industrial, along with residential and lifestyle property. In addition, he has experience with forestry valuations. Robert regularly completes valuations for audit, financial reporting, mortgage security, rental and insurance purposes. |
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Nov 28, 2023 12:15 PM - 1:30 PM
Formal Lunch Meeting at the Kelvin Hotel Please note this meeting will be held at Level 1 Cost $25.00pp includes light lunch/cakes, tea/coffe and parking at H&J Smith car park Meals can be paid online on day of meeting and advised at reception. A/C 06-0925-0022834-00 RSVPs noting any dietary requirements to Janna by email janna@mwm.net.nz or by phone 03 2141839, Monday prior to meeting by 3pm. |