Bulletin Oct/Nov 2008
CLUB SERVICE DUTIES
Date President Finance
23 Oct Lucas Shahzad
30 Oct Coupe Elbourn
6 Nov Crossley Sarwar
13 Nov Turner Helliwell
20 Nov Madeley Evans
27 Nov TBC TBC
Next Council Meeting
The next Council meeting is to be held on Tuesday 4th November at Bent House Cottage Halifax Road, Littleborough OL15 0BJ – 01706-376775.
International Committee
Next meeting 6 Nov 5.30 pm at Richard St
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Dates for your Diary / Misc
• 24/10/08 to 26/10/08 – D1280 Conference in Southport
• Sunday 2 November (afternoon) - Grimethorpe Brass Band Concert at the Gracie Fields Theatre.
• 17/11/08 (Monday) – Charter Night
• Saturday 20 December – Mega Bag Packing and Collection at Morrisons.
Apologies for absence
Please advise Doug Hill 01706 352398
so that he can adjust catering numbers
accordingly.
The Piano Man Tribute Show
A Joint Social & Music Evening
with Inner Wheel.
Friday 14 November at Richmond Hall
Lomax Street Rochdale OL12 0JR from 7.30
Tickets £15 to include an evening of entertainment by Glen Phillips and also
Meat & Potato Pie or Cheese & Onion Pie
with mushy peas.
New Member
President John Kay welcomes our newest member Bill Evans.
ROTARY CLUB OF ROCHDALE
President: John Kay
Oct / Nov 2008
Bulletin for Rtn
Date Programme Time
23 Oct Polio Plus: Rtn Jeff Cowling L
30 Oct Frances Sherrington - Health Trainers (Evening)
6 Nov Friends in Mind Mike Tomkinson E
13 Nov Martin Coupe L
20 Nov “Derek O'Toole – Further
Education in Rochdale E
27 Nov Jeff Williams – Send a Cow L
4 Dec SGM & Accounts E
President’s Remarks
Time flies when you are enjoying yourself.
I have nearly completed a third of my Presidential year but I think the club is warming up to achieve great things over the next few months.
All service committees are busy. David Acton’s Grow Bag is now an official project and John Cannell, Vocational Convenor, has run out of hard backed books for the Rotating Book Project. If you have any please help.
On the 9th October 2008 we had a lunch time talk on “Life Straws” which for a cost of £3 can provide fresh drinking water. These are included in “Life Boxes” which are packed in Rochdale and that evening Joan Elbourn (International Convenor) and Derek Heywood organised a practical training programme for twelve of our members. We now have the basic skills to provide a team of “packers” whenever this is needed.
On the 11th October 2008 we had the first training session for members who were interested in the befriending scheme for Rochdale people with mental health disabilities. The scheme is called “Friends in Mind” and volunteers will commit to a social call on a chosen sufferer for about 1 hour every two weeks. Mike Tomkinson, Community Service Convenor, who is organising this and is himself a Community Mental Health Worker says, “It is not a lot to commit to but it will make an enormous difference to the quality of life for the person befriended”. I know that this is very good Rotary Service for those who take up the challenge.
The Arts and Craft fair at Rochdale Town Hall on Sunday 14th September 2008, Heritage weekend, has come and gone. Thanks to David Acton, Rochdale Youth Orchestra and the Mayor of Rochdale for making this another success. I was delighted that surplus prizes from the Tombola were passed to members working with the NSPCC, one of my charities, and made a further £80.00+. How about that for joint working.
Graeme Turner and I, with our wives, took part in the tour of Manchester United’s Old Trafford grounds on the 7th October 2008. The tour was organised by Bob Brierley of the Rotary Club of Rochdale East and it was good to be invited and to support them. It has been agreed that the two clubs will work together to promote Rotary and Polio Plus on Saturday 21st February 2009 at the request of District Governor Graham Jackson. This will be followed by a sponsored walk around Hollingworth Lake which will represent the world early in March 2009. Mohammed Sarwar and Shahzad have both agreed to help me organise this and I do hope that members of the Asian Community will take part as Pakistan and India are two of the Countries who still suffer from polio which we seek to eradicate.
I now feel to know our District Governor Graham quite well. I met him at Middleton Charter night on Friday 10th October 2008 when I proposed the toast to their club and at Rochdale East Charter night on Monday 13th October 2008 when I proposed the toast to both Rotary International and their club. If this was not enough DG Graham was our guest at our weekly meeting on Thursday 16th October 2008.
We will see him yet again at the District 1280 conference at Southport which starts on Friday 24th October 2008 and at which we have a party of 25 delegates and wives. We will be staying in the Conference Hotel, the new (very new) Ramada Plaza which will only open for business on the day before the conference. “Treat the staff gently” is the instruction “as you will be their first living customers!” More about this will appear in the next Bulletin – if we are spared.
District Governor Graham Jackson with President John.
By the next Bulletin we will also have enjoyed the Brass Band Concert with Grimethorpe Colliery Band on Sunday 2nd November 2008, and the joint Innerwheel and Rotary “The Piano Man Tribute Evening” with Glenn Phillips on Friday 14th November 2008 which happens to double as my 62nd birthday party (which falls on the same day). We will also have enjoyed our Charter Night on Monday 17th November 2008 but we will still have the Mega Bag Pack at Morrison’s to look forward to on 20th December 2008.
Time flies when you are enjoying yourself.
John Kay