Club News - the Gossip Page
| 08/03/2010 |
The February INNER
WHEEL NEWSLETTER
is now available. Click
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| 04/03/2010 |
The Youth Speaks District 1090 Final was held in
Wycombe High School today. Our Club had a
particular interest in this event as St Mary's School Ascot had a team
in the Intermediate Section. There were four teams competing in this
section and as was to be expected the standard was very high. The St
Mary's team was just pipped at the post by the Royal Grammar School
High Wycombe.
When we staged the Zone Final a few weeks ago the
Senior Section was
won by Uxbridge College and they were again successful at the District
Final. Both wining teams now go forward to the Regional Final to be
held on 13 March at the Cranleigh Baptist Church, Cranleigh, GU6 8RT
(1:30pm for 2:00 start). (Report by Alan Clare)
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| 27/02/2010 |
Today is also "Thanks for Life - End Polio Now"
day, with Rotary
Clubs up and down the country operating collections outside over 300
Tesco stores. At short notice our Club took on the
organisation
and manning of the collection at Tesco, Martins Heron, operating a rota
from 9:00am to 6:00pm. The day raised over £530 which will be
our
contribution to the national total.
Pictured left are President Colin, with Moya and
Anthony. Anthony coordinated the day, which was judged a
great sucess.
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| 27/02/2010 |
The District Final of the Young Chef compterition
hosted by the Rotary Club of Farringdon at the Farringdon
Community College took place today, and President Colin went along with
Moya to
support our competitor, Hannah Wilson.
Unfortunately
neither Hannah from Ascot nor Nadin Harris from
Wokingham made it through to the next round but they both enjoyed
taking part.
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| 25/02/2010 |
WEB
SITE UPDATES -
The Minutes
of the Business Meeting held on 24th February 2010
are now on the web site, also the Golf
Sub-committee Minutes for 24th February. Log in
before trying to follow these links. In the public area, the Diary is updated. |
| 18/02/2010 |
WEB
SITE UPDATES -
The Minutes
of the Council Meeting held on 17th February 2010
are now on the web site, also the Club
Service Minutes for 8th February. Log in before
trying to follow these links. |
| 10/02/2010 |
Tonight it was Ascot's turn to host the annual "5
Clubs" dinner, attended by over 60 members of the Rotary Clubs of
Ascot, Bracknell, Crowthorne & Sandhurst, Easthampstead and
Wokingham. Our District Assistant Governor Robin was present
and our guest speaker was Peter Caddick-Adams, who spoke on the subject
of "Media in Modern Warfare".
(Apologies for the poor quality of this photo)
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| 10/02/2010 |
The January INNER
WHEEL NEWSLETTER
is now available. Click
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| 03/02/2010 |
Tonight the Club ran the Zone Final of the "Youth
Speaks"
competition, with schools from Slough, Windsor, Northwood,
Uxbridge and Ascot competing for a place in the District Final in
March. The teams have already won a local competition to get into this
zone final, and we were very pleased that an Ascot team, St. Mary's
School, were sucessful tonight. They won the Intermediate
competition (pictured right receiving their trophy from
President Colin), and now progress to the District Final.
Individual prize winner
in this age group was Rahul Soni of Herschel Grammar School.
In
the Senior competition, Uxbridge college made a clean sweep, winning
the team tropy and a place in the next round, and their Speaker,
Ismaila Ngum winning the individual prize.
We are grateful to St.
Georges School, Ascot, who kindly hosted tonight's competition, Master
of Ceremonies and Event Coordinator Rtn Alan Clare, and the
judges, Chris Majewski, Margaret Barton and Paula King.
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| 31/01/2010 |
WEB
SITE UPDATES -
The following items have been added for Members only (Click to View but
log in first) Business
Meeting Minutes, 27/01/2010 and Community
& Vocational Service Minutes, 27/01/2010 |
| 28/01/2010 |
The third leg of the Sunninghill Wheelbarrow Race
Triathlon took place tonight,
at a Gourmet Dinner and Auction attended by the Ascot Day Centre
Benefactors, Rotarians and partners, and guests from the local area.
The event took place at the Jade Fountain in Sunninghill, and the
auction and raffle raised in the order of £2,000. This means
that
the total monies raised for the Ascot Day Centre through the three
activities comes to £7,000.
During the evening the Wheelbarrow Race winners
"Taking the St. Michael's" were presented with their trophy, now
engraved.
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| 23/01/2010 |
WEB
SITE UPDATES -
The following items have been added or amended in the Public Area - President's Second Quarter
Report, and the Club Diary.
For Members only (Click to View but log in first) - Minutes
of Club Service meeting, 18/01/10, Minutes
of SGM, 20/01/10, Minutes
of Council Meeting, 20/01/10, Charity
Account , 31/12/09, Club
Account 31/12/09, Cash
Flow 01/01/10 |
| 20/01/2010 |
Our Special General Meeting, delayed by the snow
fall earlier this
month, finally took place today. After presentations by the
candidates for the Senior Vice President post, the ballot
result
was in favour of Rtn Beverley Williams, pictured left
receiving the
SVP medal from President Colin. The Junior Vice President
ballot
elected new Rtn Robert Linnell, pictured right receiving the JVP medal
from President Colin. Rtn David Marshall was re-elected
Treasurer, and Rtn Ian Valentine was confirmed as Secretary, no-one
else applying for the job!
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| 16/01/2010 |
Responding to the earthquake disaster in Haiti,
our treasurer
reports that he has sent off a Club cheque for £1,470 to cover the cost
of 3 Shelterboxes, one being the box discussed at last
Wednesday's meeting, the other 2 being funded by a private
donation from a Club member.
More information can be found on the Shelterbox
Web Site.
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| 16/01/2010 |
Members of Ascot Rotary Club and Ascot Inner Wheel
joined 20+ Rotarians from across our District at Charters School,
Sunningdale, today to take part in a "hands on" Public Relations
workshop "Getting Your Message Across" organised and presented by the
D1090 Communications Committee (chaired by your webmaster).
Presenters included District PR Officer Judith Diment,
District Web Master Liz Yardley and the Managing Editor of the London
Eventing Standard, Doug Wills, with support from John McCarthy, a
website expert.
Participants included District Governor Terry
Kenyon and RIBI Marketing, PR & Comms chairman, Tony Bacon.
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| 13/01/2010 |
It looked like a case of "Oh no, not again!" this
morning when we
woke to find yet another 2 inches of snow (5 cms. for our younger
members) had fallen overnight. After a series of phone calls
we
decided to go ahead with our Curry Evening at the Rajvoog Indian
Restaurant in Sunninghill. However, as it seemed only a
fraction
of the expected numbers would be able to attend, we would have a
fellowship evening and reschedule the Charity Dinner for a later date.
Nevertheless over 20 Rotarians, partners and guests did turn
up,
and owner Mogsud Khan served us a very enjoyable meal.
Afterwards he told us more about the Access
Bangladesh Foundation,
and announced that in spite of the low numbers and our promise to
return at a later date, the proceeds of the evening would still go to
the Foundation. CLICK
HERE for more pictures.
The meeting discussed the Haiti earthquake
situation and agreed to propose funding a Shelterbox,
subject to confirmation that we have sufficient funds in hand.
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| 06/01/2010 |
Snowed in! For the first time in many years the
Wednesday meeting
had to be cancelled due to adverse weather conditions. This
was
particularly unfortunate because it was the date for a Special General
Meeting. The SGM has now been deferred until our
20th
January meeting.
Picture shows your webmaster's drive, somewhere
under the white stuff in front of the lamp post.
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| 01/01/2010 |
Kicking off the New Year on a clear but frosty
morning, the 14th
Sunninghill Wheelbarrow Race gave competitors a chance to don fancy
dress and gallop around the streets of Sunninghill, all in aid of the
Ascot Day Centre. This year , due to the stupendous efforts
of
the Wheelbarrow Race Committee, we had 16 teams in the race.
The
fastest team, with a time of 9 minutes 42 seconds were last year's
winners "Taking the St. Michael's", closely followed by "Round Table
Runners" (10:46) and "The Swinley" (11:04). The fastest
ladies,
with a time of 18 minutes were "Santa Mania", and the prize
for
best fancy dress went to "Men in Black". The special prize
for
raising the most sponsorship money went to "Taking the St. Michael's"
who raised £304, narrowly beating "Silver Surfers" at £301.
Afterwards
spectators ajourned to La Cloche at the Carpenters to enjoy a hog
roast, the raffle was drawn, and of course the prizes were
awarded. The profit from the event so far is around £4,000
and
with the Auction to be held at the Jade Fountain on 28th January, this
should be enhanced to £5,000 to £6,000.
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HERE for more pictures
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