Lunch Time Meeting

Rotary Club of Whitehaven Club meeting: 12.30PM on 18.11.21

God grant that [in partaking of this food] we may be mindful of those who go hungry and so strengthen our purpose that by our daily deeds of service the day may be brought nearer when no one shall want for food or fellowship. Amen.

Speaker: Business

Vote of thanks: None

Number attending: DN Dixon, IR Hill, D Hope, JR Kennedy, AJ Parker, AC Payne, R Proudfoot, G Southward, RA Stout, TF Stout, F Todhunter, IL Watson.

Apologies: Tom Dalzell, A Johnston, T Milburn, D Saxon, D Whitfield-Bott, DM Whitfield-Bott

Hon. Members: D Brownrigg, I Southward, M Starkie

Guests: None

Visits to other clubs: None

Birthdays: None

President’s Announcements:

1.     Business meeting following on from Club Council on 1.11.21

Please see the club council minutes for 1.11.21. There were three actions.

A] Request for assistance at the Paddle Board Meeting in 2022. Our offer of six members to help with car parking has been accepted. We have been provisionally allocated the car park at the Recreation ground. Spaces here will have been pre-booked on- line. Colin Fox will send us further details nearer the time.

B] Send a cow. This is a self-help charity for farmers in the third world; it is similar to Farm Africa. They have requested a donation. We have asked them to speak to us in person or by Zoom. We are waiting on a reply.

C] The Blue -Sky Project. This supports persons in Northumbria and Cumbria who are living with HIV. The local contact, Julie Ann Kelly has acknowledged our request for a speaker; we are waiting for her to contact us again.

2.     President Tony volunteering for AG in 2022-22025. Tony has expressed an interest. Mary Bradley has been informed of this and he is waiting for a reply.

3.     RI Director 2023-2025. The members present voted unanimously for Eve Conway.

4.     The club members agreed that we should undergo a Health Check. We will arrange this ASAP.

5.     President Tony will represent the club and will lay a wreath at the Remembrance Sunday Service on 14.11.21. Any members is welcome to join him.

Secretary’s Announcements: None

Member’s Announcements:

Mike Reid: Foundation Seminar.

Mike reported on this seminar which was on Zoom and lasted for 2.5 hours. Among the items discussed were Crocuses, Foundation grants; Sustaining members; Peace and conflict seminars. Mike was unimpressed.

Anthony Payne: Anthony mentioned an exhibition at the Florence Arts Centre. This is not linked to Rotary but might give members ideas for Christmas.

Next week’s Speaker: Anthony Payne. The Cumberland Peoples Panel on Climate Change.

A.O.B.: None

Absent Members: David Hope reports that Donald Brownrigg is well and hoped to attend one of our meetings.

FO Richard Stout was welcomed back by President Tony.

Fellowship Officer: DFO Mike told tales of a dinosaur with literary pretensions and of the bird man of bungee jumping.

Final toast: 13.28