Weekly Meeting 03 August 2015

Weekly Meeting 03 August 2015

Two guests and one visiting Rotarian attended the lunch meeting in Dunkerley's Restaurant.

Cathy Aizlewood, a member of the RC of Luton Someries, has a house in Sholden and is therefore a fairly regular visitor.

Rtn Alison Munn brought Dawn Whitbread to lunch. Dawn also has a house in Deal, in Middle Deal Road and may be considering joining the club.

Marlene Burnham really needs no introduction with her many aspects of public life with which she is involved—even being a member of the Deal 200 Club—and a past Mayor of Deal. She was the guest of Rtn Carol Kewley.

The President thanked those members who helped with the tombola stall at the Deal Hospital Fete the previous Saturday singling out Rtn Edward Barkway whose job it was to organise the event having never previously experienced the way it is run. The total amount raised is £844.17, all of it going to the hospital.

The Inner Wheel also had an excellent day with all their cakes being sold, as usual.

There is a slideshow attached to this report with pictures taken during the afternoon.

Following on from the June Walk of Life over the White Cliffs that raised money for the Prostate Cancer Support Association (Kent) and the subsequent presentation of the cheque and a talk by Graham Edwards, the association have donated a machine to the Kent and Canterbury Hospital. President Barry Baxter and Rtn Carol Kewley were present to witness the event.

Rtn Martin Porter reported upon his visit, together with Rtn Patrick Brown, to Castle Community College where they met pupils and talked a bit about Rotary. Martin said that they were very interested and some offered help in various ways, perhaps by planting purple crocuses to bloom on Rotary Day (23 February) next year.

PP David Hannent has issued a print-out from a spreadsheet listing all the diary meetings and events for this Rotary year. You are asked to advise David of any mistakes or omissions before these events get added to this web site.

Ian Draper, the club treasurer, gave a final appeal for the payment of the annual subscriptions because he needs to pay dispersments to the 1120 District and to Rotary International.

PP Peter Rothschild has been given a NHS leaflet aimed at those who may be becoming a bit unsteady on the feet. Help is available and it is considered to be more cost effective to issue the advice rather than treat someone after an incident such as a fall. Peter has all the details if required.

PP Howard Binsted has anticipated the birthday of PP Ben Finney (next week) by giving him a 'present' that Howard, when he spotted this item, thought would suit Ben. The present is the gaudiest, outrageous pair of braces imaginable. Would you wear these? They are in 3D! It is fruit in case you are wondering.

There was one 200 Club draw this week with the winner of £20 being Bob Markham, past Mayor of Dover.

The wine draw was won by PP John Utting who was allowed to keep it now that the Hospital fete is over for another year.

It looks like Rtn Alison Munn will be able to give her talk next week after multiple postponements. No details have been revealed as to the content of her talk.

Another postponement was that of the visit of several members of the RC of Hythe who decided that it would best to do that rather than risk being caught up in Operation Stack.

The President and Carol Kewley, together with PP Bob Ford and Olive Ward will be attending a garden party hosted by our contact club of Calais. Hopefully we will have some decent pictures next week.

Volunteer drivers are being sought to accompany District Governor Elect Peter West as he visits clubs in the District. This is a task that some of our club members undertook to chauffer John Dunkley during his year as District Governor.