Archive - 2003
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Christmas Fund Raising Success
The Club held a very successful Christmas Concert at the Town Hall on 12th December featuring the Penybontfawr Choir. This event raised £528.
Our Annual Street Collection on Monday 22nd December raised £482.23 plus around £185 in corporate donations. In all our Christmas Fund Raising efforts raised over £1,200 for much needed charities and Rotary projects.
October 2003 News Updates
GSE Team from Alaska
New Town Rotary Club will be hosting a dinner for a visiting Group Study Exchange team from Alaska on Friday 17th October at the Elephant and Castle Hotel at 7 for 7:30 p.m. Welshpool Rotarians are invited and the cost is £14 per person. Welshpool will be hosting the GSE team on
Saturday 18th October and a light lunch will be taken at the Royal Oak Hotel followed by a visit to Powys Castle.
Wine Tasting Evening
A wine tasting evening will take place on Wednesday 29th October at the Royal Oak, starting at 7:30 pm. Partners and guests are invited at a cost of £10 per head, to include a buffet and a tutored tasting of about six wines of good quality, supplied by Tanners. We have also invited The 41 Club, Round Table, The Lions Club and members of the Inner Wheel
September 2003 News Updates
Rotary Quiz
Welshpool rotary is running a fundraising quiz to find the bird brain of Powys. Each quiz sheet costs £1 and there is a cash prize of £20 and entries will be drawn on the 31st of October 2003. In all there are 50 questions all relating to birds. Please support this quiz which is open to the general public as well as rotarians.
Tenovus Cancer Trust - Sponsored Walk
Neil Benbow and Mike Pepper attended a reception along with Town
officials and the Mayor of Welshpool to greet sponsored walker Mark Newbold as he arrived in Welshpool on the second leg of his walk from Rhyl to Cardiff to raise money for Cancer charity Tenovus. A cheque from the Club for £25 was presented to Mark.
Welshpool at the National Eisteddfod
Success at Eisteddfod
The Rotary stand at the National Eisteddfod proved a great success. Helped by wonderful summer weather the eight day Welsh Arts & Culture festival at Meifod was visited by 16,000 visitors on average per day, many stopping off at the Rotary stand.
Volunteers from Newtown, Llanidloes, Machynlleth, Bala, Oswestry and Welshpool helped to man the stand.
Welshpool Club held its weekly lunch on the stand and guests included District Governor Ian McMinn, District Governor Elect Colin James, District Secretary John Astles, Sara Roberts and an ambassadorial scholar from Japan plus members of the Inner Wheel.
Welcome New Members
In the last three months, we welcome four new members namely Don Smith, Mike Lewis, Dennis Duggan and Estelle Bleivas. In August we also welcomed new member Ann Ellis.
Paul Harris Award
Welshpool Rotary Club has been honoured with two Paul Harris Fellowship Awards within the space of three months. The latest recipient is p.p. Kurt Fleischer who was presented with the award in July by District Governor Ian McMinn. Kurt was President in 1991/2 and Secretary between 1995 and 1998 and has chaired every major service committee. Congratulations Kurt.
Rotarian Mike Pepper was honoured during a June meeting when he was presented with the Paul Harris Fellowship Award by the visiting District Governor John Bird and Club President Neville Williams. Mike was President during 2001/2 and currently serves on the District International Committee.
Irish Twin Peaks Fund Raising Climb
After the success of the Three Peaks Climb in 2002, Pat Lewis, Paul Coackley and Keith Rollinson accompanied by Mike Pepper successfully climbed the two highest peaks in Ireland, namely Carrauntoohil in Co Kerry and Slieve Donard in Co Down in the Mountains of Mourne between 27th-29th May 2003. It is hoped to raise up to £1,500 for Multiple Sclerosis and Rotary charities. Collections are still being received. The Twin Peaks team also met up with Welshpool Rotarian Ray Chadwick & his wife Diana in Killarney where they have recently moved to.
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