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At Loch Green Hotel on Tuesday 1st November, the Rotary Club of Ayr held an 85th Anniversary Dinner of the Club's formation. 80 people, Rotarians and their partners, enjoyed excellent fare with an thoroughly entertaining after dinner speech, delivered by Niven Rennie. Also, during the evening the prestigious Paul ...
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The Help to Hear Fund is a registered Scottish Charity. It was founded by Raj Singh, OBE, FRCS in 1988 for the purpose of establishing a Cochlear Implant Programme for the people of Scotland. This was set-up at Crosshouse Hospital in Kilmarnock in 1989, where the charity funded the first twelve cochlear implant operati...
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At our Tuesday meeting, most of the members entered into the Halloween "spirit" and donned their masks. Shauna, the duty manager at the Savoy Park Hotel, carefully strolled along the ranks of scary faces, one included a Donald Trump mask, and judged that Neil Beattie's home made effort stood out as the best on the ...
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Formerly a senior manager at North Lanarkshire Council, with responsibility for the maintenance of swimming pools, after retirement Jim Rae turned his attention to another form of water. In 2000 he made his first trip to Africa and for nearly six years helped in the digging of boreholes for wells and setting up small farms ...
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There are two sizes of box available - the Gold and the Community.
Aquabox Gold
The AQUABOX GOLD is packed by the Aquabox team and filled with new, specially purchased, humanitarian goods to meet the basic needs of the recipients. The box is filled to capacity bringing the weight up the maximum shipping weight of ...
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Lyn Bateman, Senior Fundraising Officer of the Ayrshire Hospice receives a cheque from President Harry Peters of Ayr Rotary. The monies were raised at the recently held Antiques Road Show in the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, Alloway.
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Clutching their vases, both large and small, their great tombs of dust laiden books and items ranging from toy train sets to silver snuff boxes, hundreds of visitors descended on the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, Alloway, to have their items valued by the TR Callan experts in the hope of being in possession of a valuable ...
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Marri Welsh kindly stood in at short notice to deliver her talk on the Food Train organisation for which she is Ayrshire Regional Manager. Marri is an Ayrshire woman and a member of Ayrshire College board.
The much-reported, ageing population brings difficulties for many in getting around and often results in social ...
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Ayr Housing Aid Centre was established in 1987 and is a registered charity helping South Ayrshire residents with housing issues. A major part of the Centre’s work is to provide advice, information, advocacy, representation along with Tenure Sustainment for those threatened with homelessness and First Home Services for ...
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August 23rd was the date of our 3rd annual Mastermind competition with question master Craig Wilson adopting the John Humphry's role.
The entire club competed in the first round with the three highest scorers in the final. After a tie-break question between several members – How many minutes did the original ...
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