Linlithgow Grange Rotary Club - Meeting Reports
The Linlithgow Grange rotary Club meets on Mondays at 6:45 for 7:00pm at:
The Palace Suite, West Port Hotel
18-20 High Street, Linlithgow
Tel: (01506) 847456
30 August
This Monday's Business Meeting, was chaired as usual by President Jim Gillespie. Special mention was made by President Jim of the considerable efforts of Rotarian Ian Adams in the excellent organisation of the Club's 8th Charity Am/Am Golf Tournament, held at Linlithgow Golf Club the week before. He thanked all, including members and their partners who had worked tirelessly behind the scenes in difficult climatic conditions. President Jim advised that Council had agreed that disbursements of £2,500 should be made to Enable Scotland, £2,500 towards ShelterBoxes and a smaller amount towards provision of life straws. The Club agreed to fund five ShelterBoxes. This would go towards replenishing the depleted stocks of the life-saver because of the number of disasters being experienced around the world. The Business Meeting itself covered a wide range of topics including forthcoming environmental projects, the Rotary 'Scotch Hop' planned for 6th November 2010 at Linlithgow Academy in aid of polio eradication, future sports bursaries, competitions for young photographers and young technologists and other fund raising events.
23 August
Monday was the day of the Club's 8th Charity Am/Am Golf Tournament, held at Linlithgow Golf Club. President Jim Gillespie was the master of ceremonies. Taking into account the proceeds of a raffle and silent auction, over £4,800 was raised in aid of Enable Scotland (the charity leading the way in learning disability in Scotland) as well as for the funding of ShelterBoxes to help towards disaster relief in Pakistan and other needy areas. An example of a ShelterBox was displayed outside the Clubhouse. An impressive £35,000 has been raised for charitable causes over the eight years of the event. Thirty nine teams took part and the winners were Linlithgow Rose Football Club, second were Who’s Your Caddy? and third, The Sunday Club. In his vote of thanks, President-Elect Rory Cameron gave special mention of the considerable efforts of Rotarian Ian Adams in the organisation of the event, conveyed the club's appreciation to the Golf Club for acting as host, and thanked all, including the sponsors, who had made the day such a success.
The picture shows the winning team receiving their medals and the Magdalene Cup, presented by the Mrs Joan Gillespie. They are left to right, Jack Foster, David McDougall, Mrs Joan Gillespie, and John McNee. The fourth member of the team, Lee Foster, was unable to attend the ceremony.
16 August
President Jim Gillespie welcomed club members. The announcement was made of the Rotary Citation received by the immediate Past President Jim during 2009-10 for membership recognition and membership retention as well as for meeting a range of other Rotary objectives. Following on from the decision taken last week to finance water boxes to assist in the relief of the floods in Pakistan – a sample shelter box will be displayed at Linlithgow Golf Clubhouse. The golf club will be the excellent venue for the Club’s annual Charity Golf Tournament and Silent Auction to be held on Monday 23rd August. It was hoped that over forty teams will be able to participate. George Stewart introduced Harry Cockburn, the speaker of the night and the consultant for the distillery project to be constructed within the Helix Project for the Falkirk Distillery Company. Members were happy to join in a review of the finer points of malt and blended whisky production.
9 August
President Jim Gillespie welcomed club members. Following discussions, it was agreed to finance water boxes to assist in the relief of the floods in Pakistan. Each water box would fund 3,000 litres of water for a family of water for one year. Gerry Keating introduced Pat Cassidy a director of the charity ‘Homeless World Cup’. In his illustrated talk, Pat explained how his charity utilised football as a means of energerising, motivating and developing the talents of homeless people around the world. He outlined how eighteen teams entered the ‘homeless world cup’ in Austria in 2003. Since then increasing numbers of teams have played in Gothenburg, Edinburgh, Capetown, Melbourne, Milan and this year in Romania. Pat explained how inspired by Rotary, football boxes containing balls, bibs, cones, kit bags and so on proved an excellent investment. Mr Cassidy requested continuing support from Rotary through donations, funding for football boxes as well as through volunteers.
Earlier Meeting Reports
For reports on earlier meetings, the programme of events and more details please refer to the Linlithgow Grange Rotary Club Website.