A Fund Raising Coffee Morning will be held at Church House on Saturday the 1st of April. All proceeds will go to Rotary Charities.
Stroke Awareness Day will be held on Saturday the 8th of April. Details will be announced at Club or obtained from Rozanne Corfield.
Pat Lewis will be running in the Great North Run on Sun 18th September, to raise funds for the Sri Lanka Village Project. Welshpool Rotary plan to sponsor one house for a family, at a cost of £2133. Four Districts & RIBI are constructing 4 villages in the area of Moratura, which was badly devastated by the Tsunami on Boxing Day. Please give generously and return sponsorship forms to Pat or the Treasurer.
Interested in attending, contact Mike Pepper or RIBI website directly.
President Mike Edwards welcomes members and visitors to our Website to a new Century of Rotary and a reinstatement of our time honoured message of “Service Above Self” in 2005.
Welcome to new members Geoff Cooke, Roger Eagles, and Tim Platt.
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The club welcomes two new lady Rotarians, namely Clare Helen Bound and Olwen John, both have a background in financial services. Clare and Olwen were inducted in August by President Mike Edwards. Welshpool now has a total of six lady Rotarians. |
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Welshpool Club has contributed to a Shelter Box (£490) which contains a ten person tent, sleeping blankets and cooking utensils. In all RIBI has sent 2,200 shelter boxes and 1,600 Aquaboxes to the earthquake area which was devasted by the loss of over 90,000 lives and 4 million people made homeless. |
This annual Community Service project was held at Welshpool High School on Wednesday 30th November. The mock interviews help prepare students for real life situations in commercial and academic fields.
A part of the Club Youth Exchange Programme, 6 Welshpool High School students and teacher Steve Pierce visited Canada between the 16th - 29th October. They were hosted by our sister Club, Norfolk Sunrise and Waterford High School in the Simco area of Ontario. The Canadian students visit Wales from 9th - 16th March 2006.
Welshpool Rotary is hosting an annual trip to Brugge. The four night stay between the 26th - 30th May 2006 is booked with Eurostar and the Crown Plaza Hotel. 24 Rotarians and guests have signed up for the trip. Places are still available. If interested the cost is £332 per person. Please contact Geoff Cooke or Mike Pepper.
Welshpool Rotary can be proud of designing, producing and circulating a new Visitor Leaflet as one of its Centenary projects. The leaflet has been well received by the Tourist Information Service and local retailers. Initially 5,000 leaflets were printed at a cost of £750, with the design fee of £280 waived by Printer WPG as their contribution.
The leaflet was planned by Rotarians Tony Harvey, Dennis Duggan and non rotarian Freda Davies, with support from President Chris Townsend.
The Tourist Information Boards in Welshpool located at Raven Square Station, the Old Station and Somerfield car park are badly out of date and in poor condition. A fourth board is also needed at the Tourist Information Office.
Welshpool Rotary in cooperation with the Town Council and planning authorities are in the process of updating and replacing the Information Boards. Once a quotation is at hand, we will apply for planning and a matching grant. The signage project is being coordinated by a committee of Rotarians Tony Harvey, Dennis Duggan and Jennie Lock.
On 26th May 2005, seven Rotarians led by President Chris Townsend flew to Oslo for a Centenary visit to Norway as guests of the Rotary Club of Sjerberg. They were met at the airport by Sjerberg Rotarians and spent the next four nights with host families.
On Saturday night a party was held at a local school to celebrate both the Centenary and the anniversary of the Sjerberg Club.
On the Monday morning the party left by coach for a tour of the beautiful scenic west coast before returning on the Thursday evening. After a final night with their hosts they returned to Oslo airport for the flight home.
The visit was a huge success, made memorable by the wonderful hospitality and the military precision of the arrangements.
Over 80 Rotarians, wives and guests attended the Welshpool Club Centenary Dinner at the Royal Oak on Wednesday 23rd February 05. The main guest and speaker was Lord Carlisle, other guests included the Lady Mayoress and A.D.G. Mike Law of District 1180.
President Chris Townsend, Tony Harvey and Mike Pepper with wives and President Dorothy Schofield of the Welshpool Inner Wheel attended a Centenary Service at Liverpool Cathedral on Sunday 27th February. The Right Rev. James Jones, the Bishop of Liverpool officiated and read the sermon in memory of Rotary's 100 years of service. RIBI President Gordon McInally gave an introduction to Rotary International.
Welshpool will again be hosting six Canadian students from Waterford Hill School who are accompanied by Rot. Bill Clevett and his wife Marg. The Canadian team are in Welshpool from the 9th to 18th March. Day trips for the students have been arranged for London, Liverpool Chester and Shrewsbury.
This annual exchange with our twinned club in Ontario Norfolk Sunrise, follows on from Welshpool High School students visit to Canada last October.
Since the Indian Ocean Tsunami hit on Boxing Day, Welshpool Rotary has raised over £2,000 from street collections and donations. The funds have been converted into Rotary Aid in the form of Shelter Boxes and Aqua Boxes.
In the short period since the Tsunami struck we have purchased four Shelter Boxes at a cost of £490 each. These contain a ten person durable tent, sleeping bags for ten people plus valuable shelter equipment such as a cooker, spade, rope, etc. The four boxes have already been dispatched to the Tsunami area.
Equally, eight Aqua Boxes have been dispatched from the depot in Derbyshire to Sri Lanka and Indonesia. Currently, seven empty Aqua Boxes are on order. These Aqua Boxes serve a dual role in any disaster in that they provide clean drinking water for up to 1,100 litres and water storage, along with clothing, household and hygiene items. Our thanks go to many local organizations who have helped to fill the Aqua Boxes at short notice.
For more information on Shelter and Aqua Boxes see our International section.
RIBI supports "Water Aid" which have a new scheme to convert old mobile phones (including battery and chargers) to clean water. Up to £30 per recycled mobile can be converted by Water Aid to provide lasting clean water, sanitation and hygiene education for two people in Africa and poorer countries.
Welshpool will support this project from the 1st April and arrangements are in hand for collection points, local publicity and cooperation with waste collection sites in Powys.
A fund raising Coffee Morning will be held at Church House on Saturday 2nd April at 9:30 a.m. The event will feature a cake, bric-a-brac stall and a raffle.
