Evening meeting (Meal) - David Cooper Friends of Riverside Park

Thu, Aug 29th 2019 at 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm


On Thursday 29th  August 2019 President Ewen Macdonald, welcomed 17 Cub Rotarians and 9 guests of Rotarians to this evening meeting held in the Gilvenbank Hotel, Glenrothes. 

 

On reception was Geoff Sampson.

Five apologies for absence were received.

 

The following announcements were given by JVP Geoff Sampson. The Presidents Golf Day has been arranged for Wednesday 11th September 2019 commencing 1pm at Thornton Golf Club. Anne Sampson’s past President Dinner has been arranged for the 18th October 2019 in the Dining Room at Balgeddie Hotel. The club has once again entered the Gavel competition and will be completed in the one night, participating clubs are Leven, Cowdenbeath and Perth.

 

Marilyn Robertson once again mentioned the Love Oliver Charity evening on 2nd November 2019 where she was hoping that our club will manage to take a table of 8/10. The venue is Murrayfield Rugby Stadium and tickets are £45 per head.

 

IPP Anne Sampson mentioned that we now have 4 participants for the very successful annual Desert Islands Disc evening which she is organising and being run by Malcolm Robertson. Our own Iain Oates, May Ford with guests Linda Ballingall from the Glenrothes Heritage Centre and past Rotarian along with Brian Munro Rotarian from our Mother Club the Rotary Club of Kirkcaldy being the castaways.

 

This evening we were delighted to be given a talk supported by pictures from David Cooper from Friends of the Riverside Park who are a group of committed volunteers working towards improving the park for the use of the whole community.  They are involved in planning the future of the park, as well as keeping what we already have in good shape. David explained about the area they look after and in detail about the history of the area

They hope that by involving the community to help make decisions about the park, they will help ensure the future of the park is a bright one.

They were successful in obtaining funding from Paths for All to produce pathways within riverside Park.  They set up a competition to which the general public were asked to come up with names for the paths. This was achieved and they are delighted to announce the new ten walks in Riverside Park are now ready for the community to use. A leaflet showing a description, length and terrain of the walks are now available at different points within the park. Unknown to many is Riverside park Orchard. The Community Orchard in the park at Riverside Park has a large orchard on the hill above the tiny tots playpark. FORP are helping to look after this orchard which has apple and plumb trees.

The orchard has its own Facebook site where you can find out more information about it.

 

Ron Page gave the Rotary Vote of Thanks.

 

This coming week Thursday 5th September 2019 is a lunchtime meeting at 12.45pm for commencing at 12.55pm in the Gilvenbank Hotel where members will be given a talk by our RYLA representatives who attended the camp back in July,

 

If you were interested in supporting the community and international projects get in touch by Private message on The Rotary Club of Glenrothes Facebook page. You will be made most welcome.

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