President Mark mentioned that Fife Festival of Music had provided the Club with some complimentary vouchers should anyone be interested. The Secretary’s announcement was that the deadline for the District 1010 magazine was mid-February and did we have any articles we would like to submit. PP David MacLauchlan gave a debrief on the recent Burns supper which had been a great success, highlights included both the talk from visiting speaker Bob Garmory and his superb rendition of Tam o’ Shanter. Bob was accompanied by a fellow member of the Bowhill People’s Burns Club Tom Hopton who did a fantastic job of singing unaccompanied. The evening was thoroughly enjoyable and raised £1000. PP Mark finished off by thanking David for putting together the evening.
The meetings guest speaker was Richard Brickley MBE President of Disability Sport Fife. Following World War II there was a realisation of the benefits of sport in aiding rehabilitation. Disability Fife was founded in 1977 making this year the charities 40th Anniversary, the achievements during this timeframe are incredible and include facilitating 25 Paralympians. Richard also emphasised the changes that had taken place over the years, initially sporting participants were using wooden prosthetics, this is a long way from the very technical carbon fibre prosthetics available today. Richard highlighted some of the groups the charity works with and gave examples of achievements including reference to a blind bowler. Richard recounted some of his Olympic travel stories which included draining wheelchair batteries to get on the plane to the Korean Olympics and how he was provided with 30 volunteers to help him at the Chinese Olympics. Richard finished with a story of a young man seriously damaged in a motorbike crash in 2010 and how through the NHS care/rehabilitation and working with disability Fife the young man is now running marathons again.
PP Ann Mitchell gave the vote of thanks saying how she first came across Richard in 1986 and he was a legend then and how he is even more so today for his efforts over the years.
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moreIn 1917, RI President Arch C. Klumph proposed that an endowment be set up “for the purpose of doing good in the world.” In 1928, when the endowment fund had grown to more than US$5,000, it was renamed The Rotary Foundation, and it became a distinct entit
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