Sowerby Bridge Rotary Club
Text Box: Group Study Exchange team The team left for Nepal on January 10th with Anna Foxon, whom we sponsored, in the party. Quiz Night The day was changed to a Tuesday but here was still a good turn out and a good time was had by all, and the good thing is that we raised over £350 for Foundation. Apologies for absence at meetings Please call or leave a message on 01422 884798 before 12 noon on Mondays. Messages etc will be checked at 12 noon and numbers attending for meals will be telephoned to the Sportsman Inn immediately afterwards. Any withdrawals after that, please telephone the Sportsman Inn direct on 01422 373725. If you wish to give Roger your future notice of absence at Rotary Club Meetings or functions, please can you give him a slip of paper with the details of the nights when you will not be attending so that he can make the necessary arrangements. Roger hopes that this will not inconvenience members but as he is often engaged on many subjects on club nights he may forget a verbal apology. Your help would greatly ease his job. Many thanks

News

 

Derek Rolinson inducts new members Mo Wilkinson and Keith Taggart. In addition Terry Higgins, Bill Wallace and Barry Small have been added to our ranks in recent months.

 

26 Rotarians and guests visited the Jaguar plant on Tuesday August 14th and had a very enjoyable and informative day.

 

12 Rotarians under the leadership of Roger Bancroft will be helping to marshal the Rushbearing event on September 1st & 2nd

 

£1,401 has been raised and handed over to Hope Community Village. £100 has been raised for the Impact Charity and spectacles are being collected for Vision Aid.

 

Ian and Ken are to host Peace Fellows again this year.

 

The Youth Committee are to allocate £1000 as follows: £100 to Sports aid, £300 to Sowerby Bridge Children Carers, £300 for a competition to be organised by St. John’s Ambulance and £300 to crow wood Park Youth centre.

 

We will be taking part in the Technology Tournament in 2008.

 

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446 people had their blood pressures checked by club members on 9.5.08 at the HBOS Data Centre at Copley.

 

£1000 ponds from the Carving Lunch has been donated to the Hope Community Village.

 

The Christmas concert is scheduled for Wednesday 26th November 2008 at St. Paul’s Church, Sowerby Bridge.

 

The Community & Vocational service committee have decided to donate £700 each to MacMillan Support and Forget Me Not Trust to utilise the monies raised from the Christmas Concert.

 

The Nepalese GSE team will visit us on the Friday of their stay and they will advise us on how they wish to spend the day.

 

The last of the 2007 Community Service Awards has been presented to Saisal Rangeb Of Sowerby Bridge High school for his interest in Developing Community Leaders.

 

Technology Tournament   Tuesday 4th March  

 

Was held at  North Bridge Leisure centre and was well supported by Rotarians and schools. The task was to build a bridge from card and straws. As usual the event was a great success and well appreciated by the participants.

 

Ryburn 3 Step

 

All I know is the fact that there may be singing, there may be dancing but a good time is guaranteed..

 

The big one, the Charter Dinner

 

On 25th April 2008 at Bertie’s where the RIBI President Alan Jagger will be present and we also have a very good speaker in Willie Clarke. Is that date in you diary?

 

Blood Pressure Monitoring

 

Friday 9th May

This event takes part at the Copley Data Centre of HBOS and gives their staff the chance to have their blood pressure taken to see whether there is a problem. There are normally many eager takers and we do find some that need remedial action to be taken another good opportunity to do something for the community.

 

An evening of Jazz at Dean Clough

 

Ashley and Jeff are looking at the possibility of going to Dean Clough on Friday 16th May to see the Billy Jenkins Blues Collective. More detail from one or both of these gentlemen in due course.

 

St Johns Ambulance First Aid Competition

 

The final of the competition that is being arranged by the Youth Committee is being held at St Paul’s Church in Sowerby Bridge on Saturday 17th May, again more detail later. The only thing that I do now is that we will need a lot of Rotarians there on the day to help.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rotary Members Act as Stewards for Sowerby Bridge’s RushBearing Festival 2007

Two  peace fellows , Tony Santiago and Audra Degesys were greeted on their arrival in this country by Richard Goodwin and Derek Rolinson. Together with Sam Aucock they will address the Southport Conference.