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It’s probably fair to say that now we’re getting into the
“home straight” for this year’s District Conference so there’s lots of things
to do and lots of things to talk about with members of the committee, which doesn’t
really make for much in the way of visual imagery, so the picture this week is of
the choir of Rotarians who did such a splendid job for us at the District Carol
Service in December.
Yes, just under 9 weeks now until our Conference in Torquay
(21st-23rd March) so the first meeting of the week was
with Conference Chairman Jean and Stage Manager Phil on planning the events of
the weekend on a minute by minute basis and working out how we squeeze
everything in – and it seemed like there was so much time available before
then!!
Tuesday a couple of hours spent talking with my fellow
members of the Rotary International in Britain & Ireland (RIBI) Foundation
Committee on how we’re doing with our charity in these islands.
Wednesday saw the visit of Rotary Youth Leadership Awards
(RYLA) attendee James Turner to our club, when he told us of his exploits on
the course in North Wales last July (if you go to my Week 4 post there’s
details of my visit up to the course).
It’s such a pleasure to hear how much the RYLAS experience helps the young
people who take part & hearing it again 6 months on is terrific – it has a
lasting impact.
The other topic that has been high on the discussion agenda
this week has been flooding. One third
of the clubs in our Rotary District 1090 cover areas through which the River
Thames flows. With the vast quantities
of rain we’ve had over the last six weeks the river has spread way beyond its’
banks in many places. Fortunately, so
far I haven’t found that any of our members’ homes have been flooded but there
are some areas where homes have been flooded or community facilities rendered
unusable. We’re looking at how we can provided
help to those communities.
On Sunday, I turned up at the end of RC Maidenhead Bridge’s
meeting to see a couple of people about how we’re progressing with bringing one
of our conference sessions together.
Suffice to say that it’s going to be great – if you want more details
you’ll just have to be there on Friday March 21st in Torquay!
Finally, last week I mentioned our Youth Exchange student,
Lucinda, who’s away in New York State.
This week she managed to break her wrist roller-skating. Keep up with her exploits at http://britabroad2013.blogspot.co.uk
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