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Friday 19th September 2008
Rotary Club of Huntingdon presents a Charity Piano Recital
Alexander Karpeyev
(Norah Sande Award winner 2008)
Friday, September 19th, 2008 7.30 p.m.
Performing Arts Centre, Hinchingbrooke Park Road, Huntingdon
Tickets: Adults: £10; Under-21s £5
Box-office: 01480 398082 (answerphone) or peter.downes@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
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Thursday 3 July 2008
The Induction of our New President Maggie Galan
President Margaret installing Maggie Galan as President
President Margaret Hebblethwaite installing Maggie Galan as President of the Rotary Club of Huntingdon for the following 12 months. Maggie is the third woman President of the Club. She is widowed with 3 grown up children and lives in Orwell. She and her husband bought Cromwell House, in Huntingdon, many years ago, renovated it and built 2 extensions to make Cromwell Clinic which she ran until her retirement 3 years ago.
Maggie trained as a nurse at Guys Hospital, London, worked for 2 years in Zambia in the Flying Doctor service and then in the copper mines. Her special interests are music, travelling, gardening, animals and eating.
Her goals for the club during her year as president are to raise even more money for local causes, contribute as much as possible to the International Fund to Eradicate Polio world wide, to enrol a few more members and to maintain a happy club with many interesting events and outings.
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Thursday 26th June 2008
The David Rollett Award 2008
President Margaret presenting a cheque for £100 to Daniel Keatings
Daniel Keatings has been involved in gymnastics for 10 years at the Huntingdon Gym Club. This year he captained the British team at the Junior European Championships in Switzerland. He was awarded 5 medals, 4 gold and 1 bronze, for routines on pommel horse, parallel bars, floor exercise, team event and all round performer. Two weeks ago he was told that he had been selected to represent Great Britain at the Olympic Games in Beijing this summer.
This award has been given to Daniel to mark his outstanding achievement - a local young man who is destined to do very well and we wish him every success.
David Rollett was a distinguished Past President of The Rotary Club of Huntingdon who died in 2005. The award is an annual one funded by the collection raised at the service of thanksgiving in his memory.
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Thursday 26th June 2008
Huntingdon Gym Club Bursery Presentation
President Margaret presenting a cheque to Paul Hall, Director of Training at the Huntingdon Gym Club
This is part of an ongoing programme of bursaries given to help young people to make full use of the facilities at the club.
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Thursday 12 June 2008
Presentation of a cheque to East Anglian Air Ambulance
President Margaret presenting a cheque for £500 to Chris Donaldson, Area
Coordinator of the East Anglian Air Ambulance.
Air ambulance 'Anglia Two' covers Cambridgeshire and Bedfordshire and costs in excess of
£1.7 million per year to run and depends entirely on fundraising and private donations. It is
based at RAF Wyton.
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Monday 9th June 2008
Rotary Gliding Evening
Cambridge Flying Club, Little Gransden
A chance to experience the joys of flying in a glider was organised by the Rotary Club of Huntingdon on the evening of Monday 9th June. Members of the Rotary Club, accompanied by their guests, had a truly memorable evening with excellent warm and sunny weather.
Everybody was able to enjoy a flight with an experienced instructor from the Cambridge Gliding Club at Little Gransden airfield. The exhilarating winch launch was followed by the sensation of floating over the Cambridgeshire countryside on a calm spring evening. The excellent visibility provided wide views over the surrounding villages and Grafham Water.
Visitors also had the opportunity to take control of the glider during the flight.
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Thursday 22 May 2008
Youth Opportunities Evening
PP Alan Kerrison presenting the certificate to Matthew Trenter following his successful completion of
RYLA last summer
Matthew!!
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The evening included four musicians from Huntingdon Music School, Isabella Martin playing the cello, Jack Martin
playing oboe, Sarah Champion singing and Jonathan Champion playing the violin.
Jack Martin
Sarah Champion
Isabella Martin
Jonathan Champion
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Lucy Franklin, supervisor of Young Carers, brought young carer Stephanie
Dunkley and they both told us about young carers and some of their problems.
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Sunday 27th April 2008
Young Musician Final - Melton Mowbray
Mrs Anthea Kenna, Head of St.Anne`s School Godmanchester.
"We had a good day at Melton Mowbray despite our early start (always a downer for us) with all four entrants performing at high level.
The recorder ensemble won, the choir and vocal quartet were runners up and I'm not sure if Eleanor Owers was second or third. She was the youngest and the smallest by far.
I thought the results were very fair except the adjudicators comment regarding the vocal quartet. He based his result on the movements of the winning group and their 'bopping' rather than the vocal/musical performance - which in the case of St Anne's was'sublime' in his words. this brings me back to an earlier suggestion of a category for Musical Theatre or Choreographed vocals to cover this sort of entry. As you are aware, I put a great deal of emphasis on 'proper singing' and whilst I incorporate an element of audience engagement and movement, I ensure that this does not detract from the musical performance. But as always I am aware that the adjudicators views are final and always have an element of subjectivity.
We will be there again next year, I hope. I have that dates of the semi-finals already".
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Thursday 24th April 2008
Foundation Evening Meeting
On Thursday Evening at the Foundation evening meeting Margaret presented Paul Harris Awards to Sue Parkin for her many years of community work and her years in Inner Wheel, including District Chairman and six times President of the Inner Wheel Club of Huntingdon and to Pat Harrington for his long and outstanding years of work for St John Ambulance in the Huntingdon and Cambridge Division.
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Sunday 13 April 2008
Laurels Conservatory
Photographs showing progress so far in the building of the Laurels conservatory.
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Thursday 10 April 2008
Visit by Arnt Nystad
Arnt Nystad and President Margaret
Arnt is a member of the Rotary Club of Kirkenes in the far north of Norway. He gave us 2 fascinating talks. The town has 6000 inhabitants, is 240 miles inside the Artic circle and has 2 months of winter darkness. The border with Russia is only a few miles away but can only be crossed at border controls. During WW II it was almost obliterated by bombing. The Rotary Club was founded in 1952 and has 44 members from a very wide variety of nationalities. We hope Arnt visits us again.
Picture by Peter Beckett on his mobile phone. April 2008
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Thursday 9 April 2008
Malawi Education Link Program
"Sophie Baker of Hinchingbrooke School was selected as one of the few pupils to attend this
years program which seeks to provide schools and other amenities to the people of Malawi.
Sophie will spend a month in Malawi living and working in the community. President Margaret
is presenting a cheque for £250 towards the total of £1200 that Sophie needs to raise to fund
the program.
On her return Sophie will speak to us about her experience."
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Wednesday 2 April 2008
Wimpole Hall Outing
22 children from the Oxmoor Youth Centre and 13 adults enjoyed a days
outing to Wimpole Hall organised by the Rotary Club of Huntingdon.
Following a bag packing exercise just before Easter at Waitrose in
Huntingdon the store very generously provided packed lunches for all.
Attached are some photographs illustrating the day. Dan Connan, PRO
Rotary Club of Huntingdon.
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Bag packing at Waitrose on 20th March, the day before Good Friday raised a magnificent £568.89 as well as an opportunity to publicise Club activities. Following the event, Waitrose also agreed to do the packed lunches for 22 children and 13 adults for the day trip to Wimpole Hall on 2 April. Wonderful and unexpected support. Thank you Waitrose and thanks to Anne and all her helpers on the day. Incidently the trip to Wimpole Hall was a great success, too. The youngsters had a great time. Thanks to Doreen and all who helped.
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Thursday 28th February 2008
Community/Vocational Evening Meeting
Subject: The Rotary Shelter Box Scheme for use in disasters world-wide.
63 members and guests enjoyed an excellent evening on 28th February 2008.
Chris Chew, District International Chairman, gave a talk about the charity 'Shelter Box' with a box and contents on display and a moving DVD.
President Margaret presented Community Service Awards to Nancy Riach and Sam Badni for their tireless work on behalf of the Huntingdon Tennis Club.
PP Geoff Burniston presented the Environmental Award to Arwen Hughes (centre) and Chris Earl, representing Papworth Trust Housing who built the delightful Victorian style terrace on the site of the old Model Laundry in Ouse Walk, tastefully designed to blend with the existing period houses.
EVENTS 2008