LAST SPEAKER MEETING
The clock is certainly ticking down as this past Monday was the last Speaker meeting of this Rotary year. Next week is Club Assembly and then the week after is the Handover meeting where the Presidential baton will be passed over to SVP Geoff Smith.
I wanted to make the last Speaker meeting a memorable one and in that regard I brewed two beers: an English Ale and a traditional Bitter. Both beers seemed to have gone down well. Almost all of the 23 litres of ale were consumed and most of the bottles of bitter were drunk. So, I think everyone enjoyed the beer.
Here are some photos of beer glass empty or half empty. A very good sign!
A true pleasure to be President on the last Speaker meeting of the year. Major thanks to Gail and the girls in the kitchen who prepared an American southern fried chicken dinner. Superb! Big thank you to all 35 Club members who attended.
One of the big moments of the evening happened in the beginning when we presented two BIG cheques to two local charities:
The clock is certainly ticking down as this past Monday was the last Speaker meeting of this Rotary year. Next week is Club Assembly and then the week after is the Handover meeting where the Presidential baton will be passed over to SVP Geoff Smith.
I wanted to make the last Speaker meeting a memorable one and in that regard I brewed two beers: an English Ale and a traditional Bitter. Both beers seemed to have gone down well. Almost all of the 23 litres of ale were consumed and most of the bottles of bitter were drunk. So, I think everyone enjoyed the beer.
Here are some photos of beer glass empty or half empty. A very good sign!
Of course I do enjoy my beer too!
Our guest speaker was Alan Davies a very good personal friend of mine from my umpiring days with the Derby County league. He gave us a superb accounting of his career and the game today. Everyone very much enjoyed his talk which was followed up by several questions. The vote of thanks by Neil Hall was superb as well as Alan and many in the Club knew Author Hunnybun from Ockbrook and Borrowash Cricketing fame and umpiring days.
Thank you very much Alan for coming and speaking to us. Most memorable and appropriate for the last speaker meeting.
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| Alan Davies |
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| Me and Alan at Top Table |
Borrowbrook Home Link and NORSACA. Borrowbrook Home Link does so much wonderful work with our local OAP community in providing assistance in any way possible to OAP's in need. Considering they lost most, if not all of their government funding organisations like Rotary need to step in and help fill the need for funds. Thank you to the Club for agreeing this substantial amount for Borrowbrook Home Link.
NORSACA is our local Autism charity and they have a school in Heanor. I was so pleased to present them with a cheque that will purchase in full a wiggle bar for their young people in their care. I am very thankful to the Club for supporting this charity as there is a personal interest of mine in Autism. The Club's support was overwhelming and I believe that when Melanie came to speak she sold the charity and its work superbly. Thank you to all for making this a reality for NORSACA
I will be going out later this month to deliver cheques to Ashbrook and Draycott Primary Schools. Pictures to follow.
Thank you to everyone for making our last Speaker meeting of Rotary year 2013-14 such a success.
Greg
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