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September
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Harpenden Canoeist Wins SportsAid Bursary
Youth News

beth_barratt_sportsaid_bursary_1.jpgBeth Barrett from Harpenden has won a £500-a-year bursary from SportsAid to improve her skills in the up-and-coming water sport of canoe polo. Her award follows a recommendation from Harpenden Village Rotary Club.

Seventeen-year-old Beth, a student at Sir John Lawes School, was a member of  the Great Britain Under-21 Ladies Canoe Polo team which competed in Essen,Germany, earlier this year in a warm-up event for the European Championships. She is now looking forward to representing Britain at the European Championships proper, also in Essen, in August.

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ROI gets national coverage
International News

roilogofeb08.jpgRotarian's 'making blindness history' programme is exposed in June's Rotary Today.

Gaining national and international traction for club initiatives takes time and patience, particularly for small clubs like Stevenage Grange. It is pleasing therefore that Rotary Today made space to remind us that ROI needs on-going support to build on donations which have already funded 2,750 cataract operations and provided 1,500 ophthalmoscopes to 44 developing countries through ROI's eye-care partners SightSavers International, IMPACT and others.

WHO advise that restoring sight is one of the most social and cost effective health care interventions. Some 2m people in developing countries go blind needlessly each year. Children who go blind in a developing country are twice as likely to die before they are 13. Yet 75% of avoidable blindness is curable or treatable: An individual's sight and family livelihood can be restored for as little as £4 with the support of Rotary Foundation grants!

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Wendover Cheese and Wine Tasting
Clubs News

wendoverrotarycheesewinegroup2nl.jpgThe new emerging Club at Wendover held their first fund raising event on 20th May, when they organized a Wine and Cheese tasting at the Memorial Hall in Wendover.

The wines and cheeses were kindly provided by Waitrose and members of their staff talked about the samples offered.   

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Fillipo Berio Young Chef National Final 2009
Young Chef

rebecca mandall presentation young chefnl.jpgThis year's Rotary Young Chef final was held at North Herts College, Hitchin on Saturday 2nd May.  Rebecca Mandall was there -  sponsored by Welwyn Garden City Rotary Club and representing Region 3 of RIBI (D1080, 1130, 1240 and 1260).

Competing against her were three other girls and four boys, and she finally finished third behind Hailey Vickers representing Region 5 and Susan Pattinson representing Region 7.

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Wheelchairs for St Vincent and the Grenadines
DG's News

alexanderoneillnl.pngIt was just 12 months ago that many of us were at the Alexander O’Neal concert and the fund raising that went with it. On the night there was great excitement on the dance floor, which was packed all evening. And then more excitement at the auction when the money kept rolling in. 

But my involvement goes back three months further when, for a reason I cannot remember, I went to a meeting with John Ashton, Bill Henderson, Alan Corkhill to talk about the concert. By the time the meeting ended I had agreed to set up a computer system to deal with ticket sales and after the concert I thought that would be it.  How wrong I was.  

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We won a national award
PR/Comms News
ribi_logo_portrait.gifIn February the call came down from John Minhinick, chairman of the RIBI PR and Communications committee for nominations for the national PR event award. This award is for the event, that in the eye of the judges, has promoted Rotary in in accordance with the set criteria. It was decided to enter the Brickhills club for the Rotary Easter Showcase that we put on in Middleton Hall last year.

A 45 page report was drafted and submitted to RIBI headquarters. One month later we had a phone call to say that we had won the award jointly with Stanford St Martins Rotary club.
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Race For Life - Volunteers
Community & Vocational News

logo-cruk.gifMeg Salmon is an Area Events Manager for Cancer Research UK and she organises Race for Life and Run 10k events. 

These include the following:-

  • Welwyn & Hatfield Race for Life – Stanborough Park, Sunday 7th June 2009
  • Luton Race for Life – Stockwood Park, Sunday 5th July 2009
  • Stevenage Race for Life – Fairlands Valley Park, Saturday 11th July 2009
  • Stevenage Race for Life – Fairlands Valley Park, Sunday 12th July 2009
  • St Albans Race for Life – Verulamium Park, Sunday 19th July 2009
  • Hatfield House 10k – Saturday 17th October 2009
  • Hatfield House 10k – Sunday 18th October 2009
Each of these events require a lot of support from volunteers and she was wondering if any of the local Rotary Clubs to these events would be interested in getting involved in supporting any of them on the day.
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The Chiltern Charity Golf Classic 2009
Sports News

golfer.jpgThe annual Chiltern Charity Golf Classic will be held on Thursday 24th September 2009 at the Gerrards Cross Golf Club, Chalfont Park, Gerrards Cross. SL9 0QA

The event now in its 23rd year is organised by The Rotary Club of Amersham and sponsored by the NHBC.

The main beneficiaries of the event this year will be:

  • THE PEPPER FOUNDATION
  • HELP FOR HEROES
  • and other Rotary Charities

 

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Polio network helps respond to potential flu pandemic
International News

final_inch_still_4_-_drops.jpg The technical network of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) is actively helping support the global response to the potential pandemic of H1N1 influenza.

30 April 2009 - With a network of technical staff and associated transportation, communications and data management capacity in more than 70 countries, the GPEI network has in the past helped identify and respond to outbreaks due to avian influenza, SARS, meningitis, Marburg fever, Ebola, cholera and other serious infectious diseases.


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A Thought...

glennestessl.jpg"One of the most wonderful things about Rotary is that it allows you to be part of something so much larger than yourself."

Glenn E. Estess Snr., RI President 2005.

Nothing Changes...

paul-harris.jpg"I would like to think that the pioneering days of Rotary have only just begun. There are just as many new things to be done as ever there were. Kaleidoscopic changes are taking place, many of them without our will. Even to hang on to the fringe of this fast-changing world is about all most of us can do. Rotary simply must continue to pioneer or be left in the rear of progress."

Paul Harris - The Rotarian February 1945