Council at 5.45 and then Business & Committees Meeting

The meeting this week was a business meeting during which the Secretary, Treasurer and Club Committees reported back on any past or forthcoming activities.

The latest Youth activity was the Photography Competition hosted by Sainsburys – the overall winner was Lucy Whellans, with Andrea Brennan as runner up – both girls will be entered in the Rotary District 1020 finals. Fuller details below.

The International Committee is holding a Quiz Night on Friday 15^th February at 7.30pm (note the correction of date) in the Bridge Function Rooms Hawick – We will be raising money for the Charity “500 Miles” which provides Prosthetic Limbs for people in developing countries. Teams of 3 or 4 are very welcome to enter and support the project.

Rotarians and their partners are looking forward to our Scot’s Night on Thursday14^th February will take place at the Lynnfield Hotel.

A date for our diaries is out annual Coffee morning being held on the 18^th May at the Trinity Church hall – the Foundation Committee are raising funds for the Rotary Freedom from Fistula campaign which will help many women in developing countries live a normal life again.

The Rotary Young Photographer competition saw entries from 11 pupils under Miss Suzanne Alderson from Hawick High School. It is a competition designed to support and encourage development of photographic skills. The task was to produce a portfolio of three photographs based upon the theme ‘Beauty of Nature’ as well as providing a brief sentence of what each photograph represented in relation to the theme.

 

The competition aims to encourage young people to:

• Experiment with photography
• Use digital or traditional methods of photography
• Show interpretation of their chosen topic
• Express their ideas through the medium of photography

Karen Thomson, the PR Ambassador for Sainsbury’s in Hawick, displayed all the anonymised photographs within Sainsbury’s and it took quite a while to count the voting slips as there were so many of them! It was a close-run contest as the standard was so high.

However entrant H was the overall winner of the Local Heat which belonged to Lucy Whellans whilst second place was entrant C which belonged to Andrea Brennan. This is good as they can both progress to the next round as Lucy is in the senior age group of 14-17 years whilst Andrea is in the intermediate age group of 11-13 years, as of the qualifying date.

 

These two portfolios now go on to the District Competition and the winners of that round are decided by the end of March, with the National Final being early April.

Sainsbury’s have kindly offered £10 gift tokens for Lucy and Andrea; congratulations and good luck going forward to both these worthy candidates.