To celebrate 100 years of Rotary in Australia and New Zealand, we’ve teamed up with UNICEF to give life-saving vaccines to 100,000 children across the Pacific.
Kia ora everyone,
Another fortnight over and as you read this, I will be off biking somewhere in Hanmer Springs or sitting in a hot pool. There may even be a few wines!
Last week we had David Goadby from NZ Bike Trails enlighten us about the importance of keeping moving and how bikes have enabled more people to remain active as we mature. (Like a good wine) We are certainly blessed with amazing bike tracks at our doorstep and don’t forget the Rotary bike group go riding every fortnight with a ride yesterday, Sunday, leaving from the Dinosaur Park each fortnight.
Tomorrow night, 16th September, District Governor Keith McIntosh and his wife Heather will be visiting our club. I
am sorry I cannot be with you all and appreciate Geoff stepping up. I understand that lamb shanks will be served
for dinner, enjoy.
We will also be welcoming a new member, Laurence Mikkelsen, to our club.
Welcome back to Sally from her international travels & we look forward to hearing about the highlights.
On the 9th September I attended the Funding committee meeting. It was great to see a high turnout of members
and observe the planning and organization for the upcoming Duck Race. The fundraising committee still need your help to sell our ‘Duck Race Tickets”. Please sign up to help sell these tickets at either New World 3 Parks or Mitre 10 MEGA. All help greatly appreciated. This yearly event will be held on Saturday 25 October weather
and river conditions permitting.
All the information regarding the need to re Charter our Rotary Club has been received from District 9999. I will be attending a meeting of District Presidents on Sunday 14th to learn more about the legalities involved. All changes to our charter will be approved at a General Meeting either at the year end or early in 2026. The club needs to reregister with Incorporated societies by the 5th April 2026.
The literacy project to provide all five-year-old children starting school in the Upper Clutha region with a literacy pack in 2026 is progressing. We will be submitting our request for packs to Invercargill East Rotary club the first week in October and currently looking at about 150 new entrant students across the region in 2026.
We have a busy next few months up until Christmas so please check out the dates on what is happening and be involved as much as you can. I am looking forward to attending our weekend at Tititea 4th and 5th October.
Remember everyone in our club brings a diverse and different set of skills and everyone is appreciated and welcome. One of the strengths of the Rotary Club of Wānaka is how inclusive we all are. Don’t forget our newer members have a star on their name badges so please ensure that you introduce yourself to them.
If you are not able to attend a Rotary meeting please make sure that you enter your apology.
Enjoy the remainder of the ski season and start getting gardens ready for the Christmas potatoes.
Bye for now
Mā te wā
Marie
Club Duties
Duty roster notes.
1. All active members (except honorary members and directors/president) are eligible to be rostered for duties.
2. Rostered members are responsible for doing the duty or arranding a substitute.
3. Please advise Jenny Dickie of substitutes on 021 342 227.
4. Duties are for the rostered week only.
5. Duties are notified in the fortnightly bulletin.
CLUB DUTIES ROSTER
16th September
23rd September
30th September
7th October
Attendance
Sally Angus
Jenny Dickie
Bowls Night
Movie Night
Meet, Greet and Photography
Kelly Budd
M.J. Moffat
Bowls Night
Movie Night
Introduce Speaker
Roger Hamilton
Chris Tempest
Bowls Night
Movie Night
Thank Speaker
Derek Howarth
John Milburn
Bowls Night
Movie Night
3 Minute Speaker
TBA
TBA
Bowls Night
Movie Night
Raffle
Ken Goldfinch
Julian Warren
Bowls Night
Movie Night
Parting Thought
David Brewer
Eion Rutherford
Bowls Night
Movie Night
Audio Visual Support
Ron Horner
Ron Horner
Bowls Night
Movie Night
Tititea Rotary weekend moved
The Rotary Tititea weekend has been moved to the first weekend of October, 4th and 5th due to a clash of dates.
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Coming up - Club Night Activities
Tuesday 16th September: Keith McIntosh Assistant Governor Central Otago Lakes.
"Where Rotary is at in the South Island and what we need to do to sustain Rotary in the future".
Previous Club Night Activities
Tuesday 2nd September: David Goadby - NZ Bike Trails
David is the Principal of nzbiketrails.co.nz and operates in the Greater Queenstown Lakes/ Central Otago region offering trail bike packages including transfers and pickups necessary to complete trails.
David began his talk by outlining his childhood and experiences as a top English swimmer. He then talked about his corporate career mainly in the energy sector in both Australia and New Zealand. This information is in the ppt shots below. When he became interested in cycling he cycled the Tour Aotearoa before moving to Wanaka in 2022
David is a very engaging speaker and his talk was well received.
Foundation Committee Movie Night
Movie Night Tuesday 7th October in Cinema 1 at Paradiso.
The movie is The Roses.
featuring two of the best UK actors Olivia Colman ( on cover of Mindfood this month) and Benedict Cumberbatch
in a satirical black comedy based on the 1981 novel and a remake of the 1989 film The War of the Roses.
Life seems easy for a picture-perfect couple - successful careers, a loving marriage, great kids …… but a storm is brewing !!!!
There are only 78 seats available.
Guests are invited to arrive for some fellowship and a raffle from 6 pm with the movie starting at 7 pm.
Tickets are $25 per person. The last 3 movie nights have been sellouts so you can not rely on turning up on the night or bringing an extra guest and expect there to be a seat.
Please purchase your seats via online banking into our club account giving your surname,
ref: movie night and the number of tickets. Please for Richard’s sake check that you are paying into the normal account (I.e. the one for our subs) and not the Trust Acc.
see you there
Dave Evans
Foundation Committee”
The Men’s Health event.
Well (sorry I had to get a pun in somewhere!), Friday afternoon saw about forty men turn up to the event in the Armstrong Room to hear three medical people talk about health issues and some of the responses to them. I need to make it clear that I write this as I remember it, so if you have concerns, go to your doctor or medical specialist for proper treatment.
First up was Dirk, a skin specialist who practices here in Wanaka. He went into fine detail about skin cancers – their causes, appearances, treatment, and how to avoid them as much as possible. Obviously, we blue-eyed, fair-haired members of society are particularly prone to getting skin cancers, especially here in New Zealand because of the sun intensity. But, there are things we can do to help ourselves – covering up our skin when outside, slapping on a lot of sunscreen, wearing legionnaire hats - that have a neck cover on them and a large peak – and not exposing ourselves for too long at any one time. The other suggestion is to boost Vitamin D3, along with Vitamin K MK7 supplements as this can be depleted in the body by the effects of the sun. As regards sunscreen, Dirk indicated that the difference of effect between SPF 30 and SPF 50 is negligible, so don’t waste money on the more expensive SPF 50!!
Dirk was emphatic on the need to be checked for moles, dark lesions and growths, and similar issues, on a regular basis, as they can develop very quickly in to problems – a case of prevention is better than cure.
Our second speaker was James, an orthopaedic surgeon, who talked about joint replacements and bone issues, with some fairly graphic slides to illustrate his commentary. It was fascinating to hear how different implants work and how developments over the years turned some of the implants upside down to get an even better result. James has some very definite likes and dislikes – he does not like staples to close wounds, for example. He also indicated that skin from, say, under your arm should not be used form transplants as it carries possible harmful bugs that don’t exist on clear, non-hairy, areas of skin. There was a lot of technical information, but very interesting, including information around bone density. He has developed a lot of surgical equipment over the years to help him with his procedures, and showed a fair degree of common sense regarding some of the
operations – not cutting through the patella, but round it, for example. James was involved here in Wanaka with Dennis Pezaro and Dave Allan in setting up and working at the Wanaka Health Centre.
The last speaker was Peter, to talk about Prostate Cancer, and gave us some very clear ideas and recommendations – again, going to see your Doctor if you have any suspicions something may not be quite right. His examples of people who had had prostate cancer were sobering – if treated in early stages, adding a minimum of ten years to one’s life is not uncommon – and one in the audience was treated by Peter twelve years ago – he did sound a bit concerned that he had done his ten years and was there any future for him!! The incidence of this type of cancer can often be traced within families – father and brother are not uncommon. I think the information Peter gave us was clear enough to make us all think about the need for getting checked out, and doing so on a regular basis.
My report is brief and general – of necessity, as I do not yet have access to the slides the speakers used, but suffice to say that a lot of questions were asked, which to me was an indication of the interest of the audience in what was presented.
My thanks to everyone who helped put on this event, but most of all to Nikki Carey who helped source the speakers and convince them to come and talk to us – as the saying goes, it’s not what you know but who you know!! Thanks Nikki.
My thanks also to the other
Rotary members who helped in any way – you know who you are!!
Was it worthwhile? Yes, by the reaction and comments from those in the audience, especially to me afterwards. Would I do it again? Possibly, at some point in the future, for a wider (paying) audience to try and promote the Rotary name in the community, as well as the health of that audience.
The main lesson of the day – don’t put it off!!! Go and see your health specialist and get checked out – NOW!!!
Mike Elliot.
Greetings from D9815, Melbourne and Gippsland Areas. My local club is Maroondah, about 30km NE of Melbourne. Valda, I am an aviation nut, having attended the Royal International Tatoo (RIAT) in the UK, and a regular attendee to Avalon International Airshow (near Geelong) and Warbirds Downunder at Temora (NSW). I have always coveted attending Warbirds over Wanaka and have started looking forward to my options for 2026 and attending WOW over the Easter Weekend. I notice from the club website that the club assists in the running of the event, although there is no indication of exactly what you do. If i was to indicate that I would be available to assist over the weekend, would that be something your club would entertain? As I did when I went to RIAT in 2016, i was hosted by Rotarians in the near area and wonder if amongst your members there would be a Rotarian willing to host me for 3-4 day? I will have my own means of transport over the stay period. If home hosting isn't available, do you have connections in the accomodation industry where you might suggest i look for somewhere to stay? I look forward to your earliest favourable response. Kind regards PP Andrew Brownlie roo48@aapt.net.au +61 (0)478637661
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