Riley's Report - October 2008
Published by Nonsuch Rotary on October 15, 2008 at 8:11 am.
President David's Regular Newsletter
How good it was to see so many of you on 23rd August and how lucky we were with the weather.
My thanks to John C for holding the fort whilst I was away with the family. For those of you who hadn’t noticed that I was away, I had a great 2 weeks in Suffolk the ‘R’ word was not mentioned once but we did see a most splendid fountain in Bury St Edmunds that was installed by the local Rotary Club to mark Rotary’s centenary.
You should all by now have a copy of John P and Malcolm D’s full report, their recommendations will be put before the club by either the October or November business meeting.
We enjoyed meeting the incoming GSE team from Brazil and exchanging banners with them. Despite all John G’s excellent planning, somebody still managed to mess up and we missed two of their members.
We have now presented the dictionaries to the schools and I thank the community service team for all their work, especially Tony E, who not only printed a superb label with the name of each child inside but also sorted them into alphabetical order for each school for ease of distribution.
The next big event is the Christmas collection so make sure that you have empty diaries for the two weeks beginning 6th December, we need your feet on the street. Please don’t make Diego and John M have to go round, cap in hand, asking for volunteers.
David III
How good it was to see so many of you on 23rd August and how lucky we were with the weather.My thanks to John C for holding the fort whilst I was away with the family. For those of you who hadn’t noticed that I was away, I had a great 2 weeks in Suffolk the ‘R’ word was not mentioned once but we did see a most splendid fountain in Bury St Edmunds that was installed by the local Rotary Club to mark Rotary’s centenary.
You should all by now have a copy of John P and Malcolm D’s full report, their recommendations will be put before the club by either the October or November business meeting.
We enjoyed meeting the incoming GSE team from Brazil and exchanging banners with them. Despite all John G’s excellent planning, somebody still managed to mess up and we missed two of their members.
We have now presented the dictionaries to the schools and I thank the community service team for all their work, especially Tony E, who not only printed a superb label with the name of each child inside but also sorted them into alphabetical order for each school for ease of distribution.
The next big event is the Christmas collection so make sure that you have empty diaries for the two weeks beginning 6th December, we need your feet on the street. Please don’t make Diego and John M have to go round, cap in hand, asking for volunteers.
David III
Dictionary 4 Life
Published by Nonsuch Rotary on October 02, 2008 at 6:17 pm.
President David Riley and pupils on Nonsuch Primary School
Nonsuch Rotary is supporting a larger Rotary RIBI (Rotary International in Great Britain & Ireland) as part of Rotary’s Literacy Programme. In partnership with Usborne Publishing, RIBI is distributing Usborne’s Dictionary 4 Life to primary school pupils just before they move on to senior school.
This 288 page illustrated dictionary contains 20,000 definitions, 10,000 entries and 1,000 illustrations. It is printed in full colour and acts as a great reference book for all children approaching senior school. As the title suggests, the objective is for the pupils to keep and use the dictionary for life.
Nonsuch Rotary will be distributing 200 of these dictionaries to local schools and the photograph shows President David Riley presenting the first consignment to pupils of Nonsuch Primary School. Other local schools to be supported include Dorchester, and Westbourne Primary Schools. Other Rotary clubs in the area will be supporting other schools in the area.
