Monthly Newsletter - 283- Dec 2016

Rotary Club of Stranraer

Monthly Newsletter No 283

 December 2016

 Service above self

 Imminent Activities   

Mon 5^th Dec – SGM- including presentation and approval of Annual Accounts and decision about future meetings.

 Tues 6^th Dec - visit to the Dark Sky Observatory, near Dalmellington – leaving Stranraer at 6pm.

Mon 12^th Dec – evening - Craig Daniel, B of S  Branch Manager, will be talking about frauds and scams.  

Sat & Sun 17^th & 18^th Dec – Street & Morrisons Collections

Mon 19^th Dec –  12.30 - Christmas Lunch

Mon 26^th Dec and 2^nd January – no meetings

Dates for your Diary

Fri 24^th Feb – Burns Supper – now being organized by Ronnie Irving

Fri 19^th May – Christian Aid - Bread and Cheese lunch

Sat 27^th May – Mull of Galloway Trail Marathon

Fri 30^th June – Annual AmAm

Recent Events

Nov 7^th – Fellowship.

Nov 14^th – evening – Chris Robinson, PGA Professional at Portpatrick Dunskey Golf Club, spoke about his role as a club golf professional and his work in promoting the growth of the game, particularly among young people and the challenges which the game faces. Very interesting – even for non golfers!

Nov 21^st – Stewart Fitzsimmons, past President of Stranraer YFC and present President of Dumfries & Galloway YFC, provided an excellent talk about the YFC movement and what they do.

Non 28^th – Our speaker was Stephanie Gosling who, along with colleague Fiona Fay, was the joint recipient of our annual Exemplary Service Award at Stranraer Academy because of their work in the ‘Scotland Reads’ programme. She explained how pupil volunteers are used to help, daily and on a one to one basis, pupils who have difficulty in reading.

A candidate, Margaret Jamieson, has been identified and presentation arrangements are being made.

Skiffs project

Good news for this project which is being led by Gordon Baird. - the awaited grant of £12,500 has now been agreed.

Golf

Vice President Neville Wright is in touch with Larne Club regarding a possible golf match to be played each Spring.

Curling

Hugh Parker has returned from his Rotary curling trip to Canada which involved 17 games against other Rotarians. The ‘hectic’ trip involved being hosted by fellow Rotarians are visits to 6 Clubs.

Rugby          

Our group of supporters and friends made good use of their season tickets to watch Glasgow Warriors last season. All of our group have renewed their season tickets and have been joined by a new supporter bringing us up to 9.

We had 2 trips to Glasgow in September starting with an exciting victory Saturday 10^th against last season’s finalists Leinster and then lost narrowly to Ulster on Friday 23^rd.

In October we travelled to 2 home games and enjoyed wins against Leicester and Benneton Treviso.

 In November we travelled to the only home game – unfortunately Warriors, without 19 internationalists lost to Ospreys.

December has 2 excellent home games which are guaranteed to be complete sell outs as has every home game this season – Munster on Friday 2^nd and Racing 92 on Friday 16^th.

Our season ticket holders will again be making their tickets available to Club members for individual matches which they themselves are unable to attend.

Contact Tom Mitchell if you are interested in making use of any spare tickets.

Press Officer

Members should get in touch with Tom Mitchell, in his role as Press Officer, if they have anything they wish included in the Newsletter or reported in the press. He particularly wishes photographs for publication and/or Club archives.

We have articles in the Free Press and in our District Magazine on a regular basis.

Our websites are

http://rotary-ribi.org/clubs/homepage.php?ClubID=1383

http://www.mullofgallowaytrail.co.uk/

We also have a presence on Facebook

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