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Newsletter – July/August 2013 President 2013-14 – Lyana Armstrong-Emery Newsletter – July/August 2013 ENGAGE ROTARY, CHANGE LIVES Welcome to a new Rotary year and the first of what will hopefully be a regular Newsletter to help keep you advised of the Club’s activities. You can also keep abreast of events and access minutes of meetings etc. by visiting the Club’s websites at either http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/RCofG or http://www.rotaryclubofgibraltar.org Firstly, I am sure you will all join me in wishing Lyana all the very best for her forthcoming year as our President and also to thank Jennifer for a wonderful year that has just concluded. Both Jennifer and Lyana have submitted articles for this Newsletter – so read on! Next we should welcome five new members who joined the Club in the last few weeks of Jennifer’s year. These are (in no particular order) Nick Inglis, a Lieutenant Colonel with the Royal Engineers, Liz Jackson, a language teacher and wife of Father Mark Jackson who is the British Forces Gibraltar Chaplin at Kings Chapel, Karen Lawson, a retired Army Officer who now works locally as a Secretary/PA and tour advisor, Alan Lillywhite who is working with GHA as a consultant psychiatrist, Shirley Lillywhite who is a clinical psychologist. A big welcome to you all and we hope you will have a wonderful Rotary time with our Club. If the other members have not yet met these new people, please make an effort to come along to a Club meeting and introduce yourself. Our Treasurer has asked this publication to remind all members who have not yet paid their annual subscription that they are now overdue. This has now been made much easier because it may now be done electronically using a bank transfer. The details are Barclay’s Bank plc a/c No.: 80936030 Sort code: 20-45-21 IBAN: G133 BARC 0204 5218 0936 030 SWIFT: BARCGIGI or to pay by old fashion cheque, please contact Barbara Sellors. 1 Club News Past President Jennifer has kindly submitted the following for your information. Presidential Year 2012 – 2013 – A Summary Speakers We’ve only had one meeting without a speaker, who for whatever reason, did not arrive for the talk. Our first speaker of the year being young Louis Frendo (aged 11) who gave us a very confidant talk on Singapore, where he is now living. Other memorable speakers gave us talks on – Molecular Gastronomy, a former Mayor of Gibraltar spoke on his mayoral experiences, marquetry was another topic and the films “Operation Felix” and “Operation Tracer’ were shown by their director and producer. These are just to mention a few on a long and varied list. I’m sure that you will agree that the speakers we attract make our meetings more interesting and worthwhile attending. We have had seven meetings when we went out from our usual Club meeting at The Rock Hotel which I feel has helped to bring the club together and make our Tuesday meetings more interesting Our end of month “Dine Outs” have continued with one or two special ones, namely visiting a Japanese restaurant in Spain, the dining out of David & Lizeth Lelliott and on Nelson’s Schooner Pickle. Fundraising Albeit, not on a very large scale this Rotary year. We had a cheese and wine evening, a quiz night, car boot sales and a very successful charity ball in aid of mental health, and of course, our annual flag day in May. During the Christmas period we had a Waterfront Christmas stall and a bric-a-brac stall in Casemates which raised smaller but worthwhile amounts and of course, our annual successful auction evening held in November. There were two main fundraising projects for this year, locally for mental health and internationally, for our project in Mbarara, Uganda. The funds for our annual Flag day this year went to this Uganda project. We’ve continued to support Women in Need at both Christmas, with presents and food and at Easter by the giving of Easter eggs to the children. Also Easter eggs were once again given to the children who had to spend Easter in the Rainbow Ward in St.Bernards. Also, as in previous years, the KGV Christmas party was well supported, as was ‘doing our bit’ for Clean Up The World. Although poorly attended by our club and invited speakers our annual awards evening at The Royal Calpe was very much enjoyed by the recipients and their families. Additionally on that evening we made further cheque presentations to Jinson Lima for Calpe House, Phil Cartwright for The British Heart Foundation and The George Pusey Foundation and Women in Need. Two Open Evenings were held to attract new members, although unfortunately, they were not very well attended. Our Club as a whole. We still have the same hard core of people who tirelessly turn up to help in our fundraising efforts. We need more input from members to support our incoming President. The overall attendance for 2 this year was only a sad 42.51%, which averages out at roughly 12 members attending at each meeting out of a total membership of 30 members. This is pretty poor. However, it must be appreciated that we have had several members who have suffered ill health throughout the year, and I’m sure that you will join me in wishing them good health in the future. On a brighter note, it was a pleasure to announce and present The Annual Attendance Award to Alf Smith. Well-done Alf, you set a fine example to the Club. This time last year it was noted that we had had no new members since 2010, however, it is pleasing to note that six new members were inducted into the club throughout this Rotary year. These new members have a lot to offer. Let’s hope that this is the start of new era for The Rotary Club of Gibraltar. One more thing after a very lengthy series of negotiations between the new airport authorities and Secretary Penny and with assistance from PP Tony, our Rotary Wheel has finally been moved from the old airport to the Customs Hall in the new airport. Well done all concerned. Let’s hope it attracts Rotarian visitors to our club meetings. One of the highlights of the year for me was having our Rotary meeting in the City Hall with His Worship the Mayor of Gibraltar, Tony Lima, and also as our speaker. You may recall that the Club this year, made the holder and subsequent holders of the office of Mayor of Gibraltar, Honorary Members of the Club whilst they hold that office. This gave me the opportunity of presenting His Worship with a Club tie and badge. The other event being our Charity Ball at which I presented the Paul Harris Award to our Secretary, Penny. Congratulations Penny for all the wonderful work you do for our Club. To conclude – it was a challenging year for the Club – however I feel that we have achieved a more cohesive Club and I sincerely hope with new members we will continue to prosper. I would like to take this opportunity, once again, to thank the Council, the Club and my “personal secretary” for their continued support throughout the year. Finally, may I wish Lyana every success throughout her year as President of The Rotary Club of Gibraltar. Please give her all your support to make her year a successful one. STOP PRESS: the Director of Mental Health has just advised me that our recent donation will be used in the construction of an aviary in the grounds of the new hospital. The Director met with her team and after discussing it with patients, they have indicated they would like the funds to be spent on a new aviary for the birds that they have, but in the new facility so their much loved friends also get a nice new home, and they can continue to enjoy them as they relax in their new garden. Now something from President Lyana who is setting out a few ideas for her year. President’s Word I think I speak for everyone in saying what a splendid job our previous President has done over the past twelve months, and we thank you very much Jennifer for all your efforts. Jennifer has succeeded in bringing us closer together and whilst doing this we've had a lot of fun as a Club. Your help and guidance in the future will be of great value to us in general, but to me in particular! Our activities and events for this new year will start in earnest on 7th September with a ‘Las Vegas’ style evening to be held at The Rock Hotel. Next we‘re planning a Bollywood evening 3 possibly for the beginning of November and of course we will have our usual major Fund Raising Auction Night towards the end of November. We will also be holding an event at Morrison’s for the donation of clothes, children’s toys and coats, so please make a start now and look for as many of these items as possible for donation to a good cause. December will see our usual KGV Christmas Party as well as our own get-together cum Christmas Party. Looking ahead to 2014, we will feature a Masked Ball, the usual Speakers and Awards evening, a foot rally around the Rock and a 50’s evening. A busy schedule! As I've said before, the programme is open to further development and suggestions from any of you at any time.
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