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Five members of our friends at Prestwick Rotary Club came along to our meeting this week to inform and amuse us with their “nostalgia cases”. This brilliant idea was the brainchild of the Prestwick club as a means of stimulating memories of the past in the minds of local care home residents. The term “nostalgia” ...
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David Booth is founder and trustee of Harbour Ayrshire, a registered charity providing ‘shelter from the storm of addiction’ and dedicated to helping individuals recover from drug and alcohol dependency and its terrible, associated affects.
David delivered a short but well-crafted presentation in a succinct and easy ...
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Our guest speaker this week was Alasdair Meldrum, a former Ayr Rotary member, managing director of Albion Environmental Ltd and a member of the Chartered Institute of Waste Management. He gave a very interesting talk covering many aspects of waste from how we use (or misuse) our wheely bins to the control (or lack of) of ...
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This week the club welcomed Jim Smith, retired fireman from Cumnock and the man behind the project to restore an original, Welbeck, steam-driven fire engine which had lain, almost forgotten, in bits in an Edinburgh basement. That was where Jim accepted the gift offer and the challenge of acquiring and restoring the engine ...
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Ian McAnulla was the guest speaker at Ayr Rotary Club last Tuesday.
Ian’s speciality is political cartoons and using many amusing slide examples he showed his interested and inquisitive audience the hidden meanings behind popular and cleverly framed drawings. He explained that more than just the lampooning of ...
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The club met last week at Ayrshire College’s Westerly Hotel where staff and students provided us with an excellent meal and waited on us with admirable attention to detail. The club was joined for the evening by a large turnout of ladies from the Ayr Inner Wheel and our guest speaker was George Ballinger, a chartered ...
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Our guest speaker last week was Rebekah McGinn, fundraising manager for the Crosshouse Children’s Fund, delivering care for the children of Ayrshire and Arran. In her excellently delivered presentation, Rebekah explained that the charity’s mission is to improve the experience of those children attending ...
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The club was buzzing on Tuesday evening when our guest speaker was Phil McAnespie. Phil, a locally well-known and respected beekeeper, and past-president of the Scottish Beekeepers Association (SBA), had previously talked to the club some years ago and had come along this time to explain to the members the amazing and ...
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This week the club's business meeting was held at the Balgarth Pines for the first time. The twenty six members gathered appreciatively in the warm and welcoming atmosphere of the function room on what was a bitingly cold and frosty evening.
The special general meeting and the follow-on business meeting was run efficien...
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Christine Bell was our guest speaker at last week’s meeting where she introduced the members to the global organisation Cycling Without Age, which offers elderly and less mobile individuals opportunities to enjoy the outdoors as passengers on electric trishaws (see below). Despite being, unavoidably, a ...
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