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Following five months of high activity within the club’s programme, it was a welcome break to have a quiet August with just two meetings due to the calendar and a Bank holiday. So the regular comment of “read more” is in fact read less, having said that, we did have a very enjoyable social evening on the 14th and a productive business meeting on the 21st.
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A great start for our President’s 1st month of the Rotary year. A highly successful Gold Hill Fair, An excellent and amusing talk by a local Chiropractor, complete with skeleton. Also a most enjoyable evening meal with our wives and partners when cheques were given to Air Ambulance and Prostrate Cancer representatives. Plus, our monthly Business meeting and general social get together.
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The concluding month of President Bernard’s Rotary year was certainly a high point. The Larmer Tree lunch, “Kids out” (our landmark annual trip to Longleat) and an excellent presentation by the Head Girl
and Boy of Shaftesbury Academy school. Then club assembly, when Trish Lever our President elect named her team and outlined her aspirations for the year and finally the Presidential handover when Bernard thanked his team and reflected on his successful year.
Another busy month for the club, with the re- branded “North Dorset Cycle Ride” proving to be a great success. We welcomed two guest speakers; Kay McBride who shared the courageous story of her daughter Ruby-Mae, for whom we were able to raise £1,000 and Mike Hurley who gave us an enjoyable talk about the Rotary’s Young Chef competition.
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April was another busy month for the Rotary club, as we welcomed two new members Tim Cook and Dave Britton to the club. We had the annual Young Chef competition which is supported by various Rotary clubs and we also welcomed our Heerlen friends over to stay with us for a weekend, where we toured the SS Great Britain and also visited Haines Motor Museum.
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March was an excellent month here at Shaftesbury Rotary. We enjoyed a fantastic evening at the dog racing in poole (although none of us were very good gamblers!) which was great fun and something different. We also started a fantastic new project looking at a potential speedway track here in Shaftesbury thanks to Graham Sutton of Poole Speedway.
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In February we enjoyed a wonderful talk from Shaftesbury Youth Club and also with Gerald Tagg about the local talking newspaper for blind people. Our incoming president Trish Lever also met with some nearly 70 Rotary Clubs where we received praise for our excellent website. We also discussed upcoming social events for 2017.
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November was an enjoyable month as we enjoyed an evening of musical talent from our very own Rotarian Bob Shearn, we also had a fantastic evening at the local fire station which gave us the chance to try out some of their equipment, and we also did our yearly collection of charity shoeboxes.
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Wow! What a busy October Rotary have had with lots going on. We had our annual Golf Day which was a huge success, a wonderful talk from martin Sayers about small yacht sailing, a charity race night to help raise funds for a local church which was excellent fun as well as much, much more!
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A fairly quiet month in September, we had a wonderful talk from Shirley and Michael from the Dorset Deaf Children’s Society as well as also getting a visit from our Australian Rotarians who presented the President with a special Rotarian pendant, and we talked about Sturminster Exchange.
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Formula One Car Racing
Posted on Feb 1, 2014
Posted on Jun 25, 2015
A Rotary Christmas
Posted on Dec 1, 2014
President’s Night
Posted on May 1, 2014
November
Posted on Nov 21, 2015
