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.