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This week our Tuesday meeting was held in the comfortable surroundings of the Inver Restaurant on the Ayr College campus. This had been arranged by Alistair Tyre with the main purpose of hearing from those participating in a community service programme that has substantial College involvement.
Cameron Bell, head of ...
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What an evening we had at the Unity Grill – great food in a great place with great friends and guests! The surroundings and staff at the restaurant excelled.
The main purpose of our meeting there was to congratulate Angela McNay for achieving her ambition of opening a social enterprise restaurant in Ayr ...
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Last Sunday (15 April 2018) John Ewing and club secretary Douglas Haddow made a formal presentation of a cheque for £200 from our Treasure Chest fund to the Friends of Craigie Allotments. Marion McPherson of the Friends thanked Ayr Rotary and said that the cheque would go a long way towards their aim of providing matting ...
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Retired headmaster and Strathaven Rotarian, Ian Valentine, related to us, in humorous fashion, the strange tale of Rudolph Hess and his mystery visit to Scotland in 1941.
Ian began by identifying three key characters in Hess’s wartime life: Hess himself was born in Egypt in 1894 and, in 1914, joined the German army in ...
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What a magnificent turnout and performance at the Big Rotary Beach Clean! This was the biggest one ever and included for the first time the beaches at Dowhill and Turnberry in addition to those at Newton, Doonfoot, Seafield, Bracken Bay, Dunure, Croy and Dipple. Congatulations to all who helped make this such a success.
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Using humorous and sometimes embarrassing photographs, our Secretary, Douglas Haddow conducted a fun night of naming captions for fifteen photographs. He divided his audience into four opposing teams whose spokespersons were Hugh Millar, Jim Nelson, Alistair Tyre and Colin Vooght. Consequently, they competed by creating ...
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Irene Howat, an Ayr woman, is a prolific writer of many different Christian biographies as well as multiple children’s books and biographies. At our last meeting Irene entertained us with a series of verses from her latest poetry publication – ‘The Crackit Cup’. The poems are crafted around a fictitious central ...
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Ian McAnulla was the speaker at our Tuesday evening meeting. Political cartoons from the last 100 years were examined in detail. From their finer, clever messages to the blatant political statements, Ian made his audience analyse and appreciate the layers of information visible in each cartoon. He showed the subliminal ...
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Fifty years after the world said “Never Again” to the horrors of the Holocaust, genocide took place on European soil.
John Corrigan, ex-police chief and head of counter-terrorism made a welcome return to the club to explain to us how the name “Srebrenica” has become synonymous with those dark days in July 1995 ...
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It takes a brave and special person to stand up before their peers and deliver a speech with confidence. Just such a person is Robbie Paterson from Carrick Academy, who was ably supported by Chloe Cairns as the Chairperson and Scott Anderson as the Proposer ofthe Vote of Thanks at the 2018 District 1230 Final of the ...
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