17 members of the Rotary club of Deal were joined at our weekly meeting at Dunkerley's restaurant by 3 guests of the club, our visitors were Mr and Mrs Anderson, the brother and sister in law of Rotarian Keith Anderson and by past District Governor John Dunkley.
Members were reminded that next week's meeting with be followed by club council. Patrick Brown our almoner explained that Lew Harris, our most senior member who recently celebrated his 93rd birthday was delighted to have received a birthday card signed by club members. There was more good news for Lew when he was one of the lucky 200 club winners this week! The other winner was David Reid
Our Secretary, the winner of the weekly wine draw donated his prize for the raffle to be held at the curry and quiz night function, raising money for Rotary’s End Polio campaign, to be held at the RMA club on Thursday 6th October. Several members reported on their visits to other Rotary clubs during our scatter week, and passed on the best wishes of our local clubs.
Rotarian Marlene Burnham explained how several members of the club had delivered at helped plant 2,500 crocus bulbs at St Andrews church that morning, the plants will provide a mass of colour next spring and remind passers by of Rotary's Polio eradication programme which has done so much to rid the world of this terrible illness. The club still has a number of crocus bulbs available to the public, the suggested donation with money going to the end Polio now campaign is £5 per hundred bulbs.
Lunch was followed by an informative presentation by PP John Dunkley on the world wide ‘End Polio Now’ programme which has seen the number of cases fall from around 350,000 in 1988 to just 19 cases so far this year (2016) in Pakistan and Afghanistan, with 2 recently reported cases in Nigeria. Rotary worldwide will continue it's work till the disease is eliminated forever.
President Paul Robbins reminded the meeting that he is looking for sponsors for his "shaving his moustache" event on Monday 14 November, with money raised helping to pay for a Christmas meal at the Salvation Army Citadel, for elderly and disabled Deal residents.
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