Dinner = Speaker will be Archie Lawrie

On Thursday 11th April 2017 President Brian Johnson welcomed 17 Club Rotarians and visiting Rotarian from the Rotary Club of Kirkcaldy Jack Dempsey to this lunch time meeting which was held at the Gilvenbank Hotel, Glenrothes. 

On reception, this week were Murray Grubb who said grace and Peter May.

Six apologies for absence were received.

President Brian advised that the recently run Swimarathon for Rotary Foundation our club raised £291. 

Community Chair Anne Sampson advised that our Young Photographer of the Year Cassy Watt went on to win the District competition as well, so well done to her.

Wilna Roger advised that all was now in place for the Awards evening on 25^th May 2017.

Our speaker who stood in at the last moment this week was our own Archie Lawrie who spoke about a case he was asked to attend about Poltergeists at Blackford (between Perth and Stirling) with his friend a medium, Francesca Ryan. He had been informed of a building which had Sick Building Syndrome which is believed by some to be an illness caused by unknown agents in buildings it is a controversial subject because many experts do not think it is a true syndrome it has no known cause and many others have been associated with individual buildings and for those who believe the syndrome is real with many risk factors being cited and fit no pattern. Archie said he had attended 696 investigations in buildings but this is only the second he had attended with the shaking of a property. The first incident he remembers was the day of the twin towers attack in Sept 2005 when a building with walls 2 feet thick started to vibrate. This incident at Blackford found medicines beside a fireplace downstairs previously on a shelf in a bedroom upstairs and the dogs of the house locked in a bathroom from the inside. This could not be explained. Francesca mentioned that there was a forceful spirit around the building, Archie stood against the wall of the building and the other two heard a Banging noise which Archie did not hear. Archie felt the wall vibrating as a mirror started moving on the wall which the other two did not see, Was Archie imagining this? Francesca eventually pushed the spirit right back and it has not been felt since.

The Rotary vote of thanks was given by Geoff Sampson.

This week’s meeting on Thursday 18th May 2017 will be a lunch time meeting and is to be held at the Gilvenbank Hotel. please meet 12.45pm for starting at 12.55pm. On reception will be Geoff Sampson and Peter May and as this is a business meeting their will be no speaker.

If you were interested in supporting the community and international projects get in touch by Private message on The Rotary Club of Glenrothes facebook page. You will be made most welcome