News of Roll Out The Barrel Project
Thu, Jul 25th 2013 at 12:00 am - 2:00 am
News of 'Roll Out The Barrel'
Following the recent International Evening and our Club's decision to support this project (we have applied for a District Matching Grant), we have received this news from Bill Leslie.
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