Rotary Engagements since July 1 262
Well no, really not!! As we all know the subsequent line
is “….comes the dust-cart”. And that
really isn’t the case this last week.
According to my diary I had very little in the way of engagements, but
it really has been full-on with a lot of really nice emails to answer with lots
of complimentary things to say about our conference so not exactly hard
duty. Also I seemed to have put off a
few things in the week before as being lower priority than conference so there
was a fair bit of that. Oh, and a goodly
amount of time updating the three posts for last week to keep you all informed!
Nice meeting of our club on Wednesday though – almost everyone
there either had played a role in helping with the organisation of conference,
or had been there, so we had lots of chat about the event – amazing how much goes
on around you that you don’t see yourself.
Early start on Saturday though – off to Heathrow to wave
off our Vocational Training Team on their way out to Uganda for two weeks,
training midwives & nurses in basic skills to reduce infant and maternal
mortality. The hospital they’re going to
serves 750,000 people and has just 2 doctors – a far cry from what we find in
the NHS! Gillian, Jacqui, Aisha &
Jide are quite literally going on a life-saving mission and we wish the well.
Seeing them off were Karen Eveleigh who has been
invaluable in making things happen & organising the process, Joan
(Greening) who raised a significant amount of the seed money to get the project
off the ground with charity performances of her play and me, making up the
numbers! The team have set up a blog at http://rotaryd1090vtt.co.uk/ - have a
look yourself and see how they’re getting on.
And then on down to Maidstone for the Region 4 final of
Rotary in Britain & Ireland Young Musician of the Year. We went with high hopes for our representatives
pianist Robert Cheung and vocalist Francesca Power and were absolutely over the
moon with both of them succeeding in reaching the National Final, in Truro
Saturday 3rd May – looking forward to that – well done you two!!
Sunday saw our second World Pooh Sticks Championships of
this Rotary year (the event in 2013 had to be postponed from March to
October). Unlike October, the weather
gods shone on us, the people flocked out to compete and spectate – the press
and the radio were there, and the winners were just over the moon – young and
not so young! A great event – super show
from RC Oxfprd Spires (supported by RC Wallingford, Sinodun & District,
Eynsham, Bicester, Banbury, Windsor St George, Oxford Rotaract, to name but a few!).
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