Living with COVID; lessons learned for the community and health system
Breakfast at Corelli's Cafe with a speaker this Friday 20th Nov 6.45am
Des Gorman (Ngati Kuri and Ngapuhi) is a Professor of Medicine in the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences at the University of Auckland and is currently involved in health reforms in a number of different jurisdictions.
"We went into this pandemic profoundly under-prepared and when we should have closed the borders hard, we couldn't. Being properly resourced meant being able to call on the army and police to set up motels, and even a tented village. "I think we were spectacularly complacent."
Business on Toast
A delicious and bountiful full breakfast for people living or working in and around Devonport and a great way to network with others in your community.
Corelli's Cafe, Devonport. Friday 7 am to 8 am
(coffee or tea available from 6.30 am)
Book in advance and pay $25 cash
(This includes a donation to the Devonport Rotary Charitable Trust)
RSVP by Wednesday 18 Nov 2020
info@devonportrotary.co.nz
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Poll: 🤖 What skills do you think give a CV the ultimate edge in a robot-filled workplace?
The Reserve Bank has shared some pretty blunt advice: there’s no such thing as a “safe” job anymore 🛟😑
Robots are stepping into repetitive roles in factories, plants and warehouses. AI is taking care of the admin tasks that once filled many mid-level office jobs.
We want to know: As the world evolves, what skills do you think give a CV the ultimate edge in a robot-filled workplace?
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Make a hearty dish. Take just half a minute. Add four parts of kestrel. Then just add one. What have you made?
(Trev from Silverdale kindly provided this head-scratcher ... thanks, Trev!)
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Business on Toast
Devonport Rotary Club and Devonport Business Association
Invite you to another
Business on Toast
at
The Stone Oven
5 Clarence St, Devonport
With guest speaker
David Lomas
Documentary host, producer and journalist
The man who finds people, for people
BOOK EARLY AS NUMBERS LIMITED
Friday 20 March 2026
Breakfast from 7:00am
Coffee and tea available from 6:30am
The cost is $30 payable at the door by EFTPOS
Please RSVP by
Wednesday 18 March
to
devonportrotary11@gmail.com
Include 'Business on Toast' in the subject line
David Lomas is best known as the man who makes New Zealanders cry.
For the last 19 years he has fronted more than 160 episodes of his heart warming and heart-wrenching family reunion programmes known by various names - Missing Pieces, Family Secret, Lost & Found and David Lomas Investigates.
In April his new series David Lomas Breakthrough will screen on TV3.
David comes from a background in journalism, writing his first newspaper story 60 years ago as a 13 year old college student.
In a print journalism career lasting 18 years he worked on numerous papers including the Wanganui Chronicle, The Dominion, The Sunday Times, Fiji Sun, Auckland Star, Sunday Star and the Auckland Sun.
In 1988 David moved to television with TVNZ where he was involved in starting the Holmes programme (and was in the helicopter crash with Paul Holmes).
While David did some on-air work at TVNZ he was mainly involved in producing such programmes as 60 Minutes, Sunday and One News.
He has also worked for Radio NZ and was deputy editor of The Listener.
David has won more than 40 journalism and television awards including Journalist of the Year in both television and print.
For the last 20 years he has worked as a freelance producer/ director/ presenter. David has also made a number of one-off documentaries – most notably the top rating The Wahine Disaster and The Real Mr Asia.
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