District Governor Visit

The Rotary Club of Kirkcaldy is one of the 88 Rotary Clubs in District 1010 (Scotland North); with wide ranging Club locations like Alloa, Shetland, Stornoway, Stonehaven. In the course of any year, a Rotary District Governor almost invariably visits every Club in order, in part, to ‘fly the flag’ of a worldwide movement presently with more than 1.2 million members.

The Kirkcaldy Club welcomed DG Mike Halley to its weekly meeting as he ‘makes the rounds’ of the various Clubs. Mike’s home Club is The Rotary Club of Loch Ness. A Rotarian since 1979, and with 27 years experience in Fire Safety Management; Mike’s frank, realistic, and forward looking thoughts about Rotary were made clear to one and all. Like a three decker ‘sermon’, Mike called for Rotarians to re-calibrate, re-engineer, and reposition Rotary for its future advancement. Standing still is not an option.

Rotary's funding drive to eliminate polio worldwide through its Polio Plus campaign by 2018 is well on target. Rotary’s major funding charity finds numerous Clubs in District 1010 currently involved in projects at home and overseas well in excess of £100,000.

Deserved ‘congrats’ also go locally to Kirkcaldy Rotarians who helped gain with other parties, a Gold Award for all those floral displays at Kirkcaldy Rail Station. In his apt vote of thanks to Mike Hally, Club President John Kilgour made it clear to one and all that ’standing still' was not on the Club’s agenda.