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Carlisle’s four Rotary Club Presidents staged a collective takeover of their Clubs during an Open Garden and Tea event held on Saturday 8th July raising £740 in aid of the Rotary Foundation and the RNLI – the latter to replace kit lost in the Carlisle Floods of 2015 as a contribution to the District Governor’s chosen charity.
From left to right, Brian Scroggie of Carlisle Castle, receives his collar from Don Jary of Brampton and Longtown, who collects his collar from Tony Parrini of Carlisle South who received his collar from Nicki Quayle the new president of Carlisle Rotary Club. Starting the “chain reaction” was Wendy Aldred the local Assistant Governor.
The four Presidents then climbed aboard a 1927 Morris Cowley which will shortly leave Carlisle on a round Britain Challenge in aid of Pancreatic Cancer Action.
"Tasked with "Making a Difference" Carlisle’s Rotary Clubs plan to work closer together under the banner of "Rotary in Carlisle" and the year will see them serving society in a more public fashion. Hopefully this will help recruit more new blood with fresh ideas, to help sustain Rotary for the future” said Assistant Governor Wendy Aldred. “With a satellite Club in the offing, this year’s team of Presidents will be working hard to ensure the Rotary they have taken over will be even stronger when their year in office ends next June”.
Rotary International in Great Britain and Ireland is welcoming Denis Spiller as President for 2017/18 and he looks forward to maybe this year seeing the final case of wild polio in the world. This year to date has seen just six cases.
It is the year that we shall see many new Rotary clubs being created across the UK and Ireland implementing new flexible, informal and project-active programmes to welcome community and business-minded adults of all ages as members.
Denis joined the Rotary Club of Strood in Kent in 1985, directly from Rotaract and is the first former Rotaractor to become President of Rotary in Great Britain and Ireland. Denis has a special interest in youth service having a background in voluntary youth work in Kent. In his professional life, Denis spent 22 years Hewlett-Packard.
Rotary International President-elect Sam F. Owori died unexpectedly on 13 July due to complications from surgery. Sam was a member of the Rotary Club Kampala, Uganda, for 38 years.
“Rotary has become a way of life for me – with the intrinsic value and core belief in mutual responsibility and concern for one another as a cornerstone,” Sam said when he was nominated last year. “I feel immense satisfaction knowing that through Rotary, I’ve helped someone live better.”
“Please remember Sam as the outstanding, hard-working Rotarian he was,” said Rotary International President Ian Riseley. “In this difficult time, I ask you to keep his wife, Norah, the Owori family and Sam’s millions of friends around the world in your thoughts.”
Under Sam’s leadership, the number of clubs in Uganda swelled from nine to 89 over the course of 29 years.
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