President's Monthly Message - October 2016

It doesn’t seem possible that the Rotary year is already a quarter through, but that’s a sign of how busy we are. During September we kept up the high quality of speakers talking to us about Police Training in Sri Lanka, Treating Prostate Cancer, The Kirkliston Gala Day and Nutrition. We always leave the meetings a little wiser than when we arrive.

We competed in the first round of the district quiz against the Rotary Club of Linlithgow Grange and it took a tiebreaker for Linlithgow Grange to triumph – due to Heather’s knowledge of Pocahontas music. Good luck to them in the next round. The spirit of competition was also evident at the annual Clay Pigeon Shoot. Best score of the day was by Fiona Willis, daughter of Rotarian Alan Smith.  Her skill is all the more impressive when we found out that she’s only managed to shoot twice in the past 18 months. Well done to her.  The club trophy, awarded to the Rotarian with the highest score was keenly competed but with a bit of luck I just managed to win it. 

Well done to several members who went out late one Friday evening as volunteer Marshalls for the Maggie’s Crawl.  This was supporting the Maggie’s Centre organisation who were very grateful for the help from South Queensferry Rotary Club at this fundraising event.

If anything, October is going to be even busier because as well as speakers on Brewing, Queensferry Heritage and the Incorporation of Hammermen (How varied can we get?) we also have our local round of the Young Chef competition on 27th at Queensferry High School.  Then we’re going out to plant 5000 Purple Crocus corms at a couple of sites around South Queensferry to remember the Rotary End Polio Now campaign, (which has managed to almost eradicate Polio throughout the world).  And  to top it all a number of us are off to Harrogate at the end of the month for the District Conference, with Sandy and Jim going down a day early to compete in the Golf competition. Good luck to both of them.  

As always, if you fancy seeing what we’re up to we’re always pleased to welcome guests at our weekly meetings in the Hawes Inn, 6:45 for 7pm every Thursday.  Come along and enjoy a meal and a chat with us.