Kath's DG Buzz

  It’s hard to believe yet another week has gone speeding past and bringing us ever closer to Christmas. Santa Claus will be here in just under 5 weeks .    I hope you all getting ready for your Christmas Sleigh evening , or days at Supermarkets and Town Centres doing your Christmas collections . This year I’ve asked Family and friends not to send or post Christmas Cards. The cost of the cards and postage, like everything else, just seems to increase year on year, and those increases do make a difference. The price of a card and postage could pay for another child to receive the inoculation against Polio, now that would make a difference. Please think about donating to Polio.  This week I attended a couple of meetings with youth organisations and the highlight of this week was a very pleasant evening spent in the company of President Tony and the lovely Rotarians, friends, and family of  The Rotary Club of Barrow in Furness.  We had a lovely meal, listened to a fantastic speake

    Well, here we are week 20! How the heck did we get here so fast? Not that long to go now until many Rotary Clubs reach their busy period organising Christmas Sleigh collections and, best of all, Festive parties. In my year I can honestly say this has been the most challenging week, and not one I want to go through again, but its been a learning curve and I will take the learning with me going forward. This week I attended the 70th Charter of Longridge Rotary Club, held at Barton Manor and what an excellent night it was. 120 people attended, with several of these being friends of Rotary and Corporate Invites. Tom Finney’s son was a guest of Peter Mason, and it was great to see him.  I must say the guests certainly brought the average age of Rotary down and it was brilliant to have large tables of young men and women on the guest list.   President Graham Robinson certainly gave us a good night out with his speaker Eddie The Eagle who spoke passionately about his life and

  Hello everybody, firstly I’d like to offer my sincere apologies for not updating this site for a couple of weeks, today’s blog will be a bumper edition.  I think it may be worth you grabbing a coffee, or a nice cup of tea, together with a mince pie and relaxing while you read. I’ve attended numerous events over the last few weeks , all Rotary related, but first an update on my nominated Charity for the year - Polio. I am currently preparing another order for the Purple4Polio Quality Street tins, so if anybody would like to order one and give it as a present with a leaflet about polio, I will ensure that you receive both before Christmas.  The tins would make a lovely gift, and although a little expensive, the story behind them and the profit we make for the fight against this awful illness does make them worthwhile. We need to continue with our cause and the promise Rotary made to help eradicate Polio in the world.  I know of a number of Rotarians who have decided not to send