Events

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