Rotary District 1020 e magazine - October 2019

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ISSUE 6 OCTOBER 2019

Rotary Scholars arrive in District

District 1020 is pleased to host to three Scholars this Rota-
ry year; all three hail from the USA.
Hayley Dunlop is sponsored by District 5650, Eastern Ne-
braska/SW Iowa, and Rachel Mahbubani is from Western
Kentucky. Both are Global Scholars studying Public
Health at Edinburgh University. Hayley’s host in Scotland
is PDG Lindsay Craig of Currie Balerno club while Rachel
is hosted by Wendy Badger of the Dunbar club.
Jay Arehart is sponsored by the Rotary Club of Denver
and District 5450, Colorado. He is an Architectural Engi-
neer studying at Napier University as part of his PhD. Jay
is hosted by Ian Spence of the Rotary Club of Edinburgh.
The Scholars will be in Aviemore for the District Confer-
ence (25-27 October) where they will make a short
presentation. They look forward to meeting Rotarians
from throughout our District there.

PDG Olive Geddes District 1020 Scholars Coordinator

NEXT ISSUE—January
Deadline January 1st.

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North Berwick: Golf Day

The Rotary Club of
North Berwick
recently held a
Charity Golf Day at
Kilspindie Golf Club,
Aberlady, East
Lothian.

Club President, David
Lancaster, said “A
wonderful day of golf
was enjoyed by 24
teams at our Charity
Golf Day held at
Kilspindie Golf Club.
We had fantastic
support from local
businesses and individuals and I should like to thank our main sponsor Dandara,
our other local sponsors and all those who donated prizes for the day, plus, of
course, the many people who took part and supported the event to make it a very
special and successful day. A big thank you to you all.”

The winners on the day were the ‘Motherwell Dossers’ captained by Colin Williams,
second the ‘Dalziel Park Chancers’ captained by Stewart Cook and third the
‘Luscious Ladies’ captained by Janice Macleod. The winning Rotary team was from
Duns. Kilspindie Golf Club’s support was really magnificent and an excellent meal
was enjoyed by everyone in the evening.

In addition to the main golf competition a grand raffle and a ‘Beat the Pro’
competition was held, with players pitching themselves against local assistant golf
professional Euan Bowden. Most players entered with only a few successful but
everyone had great fun trying!

The event raised a total of £5600 of which £2800 is going to CHAS (Children's
Hospices Across Scotland) who for 20 years have been offering a full family support
service for babies, children and young people with life-shortening conditions. The
balance will be used for other charitable projects supported by the Rotary Club of
North Berwick.

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The Birl n’ Beer Festival was a
great success on 24 August hance the appearance
when warm, sunny weather of the town, thanks to
bathed the town and people Rotary and other volun-
came out to enjoy the refresh- teers who maintain
ments and entertainment in them on a regular basis.
and around the Town Hall. This Well done to all!
is becoming an annual feature
of life in Jedburgh and usually
attracts visitors from outwith
the town as well as local resi-

dents. There was a relaxed,
holiday feel about, with peo-
ple enjoying the music and
drinks and food as well as
the social atmosphere of the
event.

There was par-
ticular praise from the town
twinning visitors from
Malestroit, France, in Sep-
tember. These installations
are especially beautiful at
the moment and really en-

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Jedburgh: E Bay

Our E Bay operation was registered in December 2010 and
began trading once our charity status was finally registered in
January 2011. Since the start we have to date sold just over
£250.00.00 worth of goods on E Bay. Sales in the last 31 days
have improved, they have been £2,212 and in the last 90 days
we have sold £4,506.

Sales for our shop have gone up 182% in the last 31 days. As of
19 August 2019, we have a total of 288 groups of items for sale,
some of which are multiple amounts, i.e we have more than
one of many items of clothing. This gives a total of 1,046 items
for sale, if all sold at our advertised price. This amounts to
£17,441,59 of stock in our shop.

In the last 12 months we sold £16,476.75 of stock.

We are rated by E Bay as “Above standard seller.”

We do have some costs to take from this – some of our sales
are on a 50-5- basis. We buy some of our stock from the local
machine tool manufacturer and we have postage, packing and
other costs which come directly from our Pay Pal account.

In general, the E bay operation makes a regular and often
lucrative addition to the club charity account, which we hope
can continue as long as sales items can to be sourced.

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Jedburgh: activities in 2019

In July, members of the Rotary Club of Jed-
burgh took part in the children’s wristband ini-
tiative organised by Kelso Rotary Club at the
Border Union Show. Children were offered
wristbands to wear, carrying their parent’s
mobile phone number, which can be used in
the event of child getting lost in the busy showground. This is always a
successful annual venture and people often give a donation to Rotary
when they receive the wristbands, grateful for the help for their chil-
dren.

On 15 August the club was honoured with a visit
from District Governor, Jo Pawley from Eyemouth, who presented for-
mer Secretary and President, Stephen Smith, with a Paul Harris Fellow-
ship Award for many years of service to the club and the wider aims of
Rotary.

Club member Roy Spowart was presented with a bottle of whis-
ky for winning the sunflower growing competition. His sunflower grew
to over 7 feet tall under his careful nurturing. Roy is a keen gardener
and has won many awards at the Jedburgh Flower Show for the quality
of his blooms and appearance of his garden.

The club has decided to support an initiative to establish a
cinema in Jedburgh Town Hall with a pilot film initially shown, hoping
to extend this in future to regular film events. This will be on 2 Novem-
ber and the club wishes the organisers all the best for its continued
success.

On 4 September, the club hosted visitors from Malestroit in France who
were visiting Jedburgh as part of the town twinning scheme. The visi-
tors were invited to have dinner with club members and their partners
at the Carter’s Rest.

Finally, the club held a quiz night in the
Carter’s Rest on 20 September. This has
proved to be a popular autumn event in re-
cent years, and once again it was an enjoya-
ble evening of fun again this year.

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North Berwick: Classic Car Results are in

Cheques for £3000 Left to Right: Gordon Symon Chair of the Classic Car Tour Committee,
each were presented to Michelle Sutton, Chair of Muirfield Riding Therapy, Adam Kent, Centre
Maggie’s Centre Edin- Fundraising Manager, Maggie’s Centres, Edinburgh (Back), Robert
burgh, Muirfield Riding Alexander, Administration and Finance Manager of the Vine Trust pic-
Therapy and the Vine tured along with David Lancaster, President, Rotary North Berwick
Trust by Rotary North
Berwick recently. our supported chari- per week, both out-
ties below: door and in their won-
Club President David derful indoor arena,
said “the third Classic Maggie’s Centre Edin- allowing over 250 rid-
Car Tour was a great burgh: ers per year to benefit
success and it is won- from riding therapy
derful that this Rotary Maggie’s offers free on their 13 specially
Club can once again practical and emotion- trained ponies. Their
help 3 worthy charities al support for all peo- sessions are run en-
to help individuals at ple living with cancer tirely by trained vol-
home and abroad. We and their family and unteers and the chari-
will hold the fourth friends. ty is fully self-funded.
Classic Car Tour on
Sunday 26th April 2020. Muirfield Riding Ther- Vine Trust:
I hope that anyone who apy, West Fenton,
has participated previ- North Berwick is an international de-
ously will support us velopment charity
again and for those Offers children and which enables volun-
thinking about getting adults with various dis- teers to provide medi-
involved, for the first abilities, riding thera- cal, home-building
time, please go and py, free of charge, in a and care support to
have a look at the pic- safe and stimulating communities living in
tures on our Facebook environment. There severe poverty in
page and put the date are 7 riding sessions
in your diaries now! It is
a great fun day out ben-
efiting worthy causes!

Over 60 cars took part
in this year’s Tour. 3
charities were nominat-
ed as beneficiaries of
monies raised from the
day:

More Information on

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Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group

Established in 2007, FPSRAG creates publications that help people understand the
connection between plant selection and nutrition, and empowers them to grow a
range of highly nutritious plants which have different seasonal requirements and
maturities. The work is underpinned by a database of edible plants for all countries
of the world, developed by Agricultural Scientist and Officer of the Order of Austral-
ia recipient- Bruce French. We work in over 30 countries with program partners,
who use our educational materials to empower through education, their communi-
ties, by helping them plant gardens and use the products grown in them.

Maybe we could partner with Rotary Clubs in your district, who are developing a
Global Grant, maybe to build a school or hospital in an area of need? We could
provide an add-on to that grant whereby a school or community garden could be
added so that the families would also be able to live healthy lives with a secure food
base.

Food Plant Solutions get many enquiries from NGO’s who need our educational ma-
terials as they have heard about them from other NGO’s. We then have to fundraise
through clubs to pay for their production, translation, and sometimes printing. This
costs time and money, time which most of these people who need them do not have.

We ask that you consider asking each of your clubs to think about putting aside
$500 in their budgets each year, to enable us to say “Yes we can” to those requests
much faster than we do now. By searching our website you can see the documents,
taking into account the needs of the country who requested them.

We have had much success.
In Vietnam at the Truong Dinh Nam Primary school, working with AOG world Relief
Vietnam, malnutrition was significantly reduced in one year- one school had a re-
duction of 80% and another 95% IN ONE YEAR. The children were taught the nutri-
tional values of herbs and vegetables and school gardens were established. Now
other schools in the area are also using this materials to work in their communities.

In Ecuador, Richard Miller, Rotary Club of Los Chillos Milenio has said “I just want
to say BRAVO for the work in producing materials such as this guide. To me it is a
perfect example of what Rotary is about, well done.”

PDG Una Hobday, PHF, OAM
Chair, Food Plant Solutions RAG

https://foodplantsolutions.org/

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Falkirk : Dollar Park Floral Clock in Action

The Dollar Park Floral satisfying Community part-
Clock has been restored nership and you know what
to its rightful position at they say: -”We’re for Com-
the entrance to the Dollar munities”
Park.
International friend-
This brings to a successful ship day, 30th July,
conclusion the drive to was celebrated in
have the clock returned style at Chianti by 36
from its last position at members wives hus-
Westbank. bands mothers family
and friends on Tues-
The venture was a hugely day night.
successful collaboration John Struthers in his inimitable style is to be
between The Rotary Club roundly applauded for engineering what is
of Falkirk, Cyrenians, nothing more than an evening of fellowship and
Friends of Dollar Park and unadulterated friendship.
the Criminal Justice sys- Chianti has become a sta-
tem. ple in the Club’s fellow-
ship calendar and I for
The clock, Previously one look forward to the
deemed irreparable by next one.
Falkirk Council was, it
would seem, Miraculously
brought back to life by
George Stewart from Mid-
land Electrics, also a mem-
ber of Linlithgow Grange
Rotary Club.

The hands, lost for who
knows how long, were lov-
ingly replicated by E&R
Moffat,

Friends of Dollar Park pro-
vided the skills and direc-
tion for the planting which
was carried out by Ruth
Mulligan, Cyrenians sen-
ior gardens co-ordinator
and the Criminal Justice
system.

All in all this was a hugely
successful and immensely

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Falkirk Rotary: Members old and new

Our latest New member is to be inducted in 1973 at the age of 45. He served as
into the Club on Thursday 3rd October. President during the year 1979-1980.
His name is Syed Ali Ausat but he prefers
to be addressed as Ausat as that is how David was Rector of Falkirk High
family, friends, colleagues and Clients School for some time and was awarded
know him. the OBE for services to Education. I re-
member that he jokingly referred to
He is an Accountant and Business advisor this honour as “The Old Bugger from
from Brightons whose wife Muna is a Edinburgh”.
member of Soroptimists.
David was an active and valued mem-
Ausat and Muna are going on an aid mis- ber of the Club and only left in 1999
sion to Beirut on 30 October 2019, to vol- when he moved back to Edinburgh I
unteer in Syrian refugee camps and or- believe to look after an ailing relative.
phanages which have been set up by Ed-
inburgh based charity: - At this time there is no further infor-
mation about funeral arrangements.
www.WorldCareFoundation.org. The Scotsman is probably the place to
watch.
They are financing the trip themselves
and any money they raise will go directly
to those in need as the Charity has a
100% donation policy. Should you wish
to donate please go to their JustGiving
Page: -

www.justgiving.com/Muna-and-Ausat

It was with
great sadness
that we were
told by Jim
Watson on
Thursday of
the passing of
Past President
of this Club
David McKen-
zie.

David joined
The Rotary
Club of Falkirk

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Embracing Change—contactless payments

.The following is an advert
from Amazon and is insert-
ed into our magazine to
ask the following question:

Could your club use one of
these?

Just think of the possibili- ** FOR EXAMPLE PURPOSES ONLY**
ties when you are con-
fronted with someone with Square Card Reader - Accept Contactless and Chip &
no cash on them or per- PIN, Apple Pay and Google Pay
haps only a high value
banknote. Price:
£23.00 & FREE Delivery in the UK.
Clubs can use these devic- Accept chip and PIN cards, contactless cards, Apple
es when out and about Pay and Google Pay
fundraising at supermar- Pay one flat rate for all major cards - Visa, Mastercard
kets for instance. and even Amex
Connect wirelessly to your iOS or Android device with
Or what about a fundraiser Bluetooth LE
when we are selling raffle Our free point-of-sale app takes care of payments, in-
tickets? voices, inventory, reports and more
Deposits direct to your bank account as fast as the next
Going further: could we business day
collect payment for our No monthly or hidden fees or long term commitments
meal using a contactless
card reader. Why not?

Some of our clubs have al-
ready embraced new pay-
ment methods and maybe
we can get some feedback
on how successful and us-
er friendly these new pay-
ment systems really are.

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Rotary District 1020
serving Southern Scotland and the

world
Editorial Team
Calum Thomson, PDG Olive

Geddes,

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