Our November meeting featured the work of the Wildlife Hospital Trust. Jordana Whyte, the Manager of the Wildlife Hospital, told us about the patients they care for and the support they receive from the community. The Wildlife Hospital Dunedin is based at Otago Polytechnic and is home to some of the world’s most unique and mostContinue reading “November Meeting”
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Special Event
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September Meeting
This month we welcomed Malina Daulton who told us about her and her husband’s journey into the business of coffee roasting and sales. Founded in 1997, Strictly Coffee produced and supplied freshly roasted coffee for many cafes and restaurants from Canterbury to Southland. Malina, who had had a variety of large leadership jobs in herContinue reading “September Meeting”
25th Anniversary Celebration
Members past and present gathered at the Dunedin Club to celebrate a significant milestone in our Club’s history – 25 years since our charter. We held our celebration dinner in the same venue as our first meeting all those years ago. Thank you to the Dunedin Club staff for helping to make our evening suchContinue reading “25th Anniversary Celebration”
July Meeting
This month it was a pleasure to welcome some new faces to our Club dinner. We hope you enjoyed the evening and we look forward to seeing you again. Juanita Willems from Foster Hope Otago/Southland was our guest speaker. She told us her story being a child in the care of the State, and aboutContinue reading “July Meeting”
June Meeting
This month we were very fortunate to listen to Pauline Blomfield, CEO and founder of K9 Medical Detection New Zealand. Pauline spoke to us about the research happening here in Dunedin, training dogs to use their amazing sense of smell to detect different cancers in a person’s urine. Here is a picture of Freida inContinue reading “June Meeting”
April Meeting
Our speaker this month was Michelle Sinclair, of Deaf Aotearoa Otago. Michelle told us her story and about her work in the Deaf Community. She works with the families of deaf children all over Otago and Southland, supporting them with communication skills. She taught us some signs, and how to introduce ourselves in New ZealandContinue reading “April Meeting”
March Club Meeting
The second club meeting for 2022 has already passed, and the year is well underway. Tonight we enjoyed listening to Jacqui Hyde, former police officer and recipient of a Neighbourhood Support Project award for a safety project “Scam Savvy”. This project is spreading the ‘keep yourself safe from scammers’ message throughout the community. Jacqui sharedContinue reading “March Club Meeting”
December Club meeting
December 7th was our final meeting for the year. We celebrated our year’s achievements and the fellowship we have shared during 2021.
September Club Meeting
Unfortunately our usual meeting on the first Tuesday of the month had to be postponed with the uncertainty of Covid restrictions. All going well, we will have a meeting on Tuesday 21 September at The Dunedin Club which we will combine with committee meetings. It will be nice to meet up with Zonta friends again.Continue reading “September Club Meeting”
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