275 Results for author: Ron Ireland
After a two-year, covid-enforced postponement, the club’s traditional, annual Kümmel Cup Golf match staged a welcome return. This year’s event took place at the St Nicholas Golf Club course in Prestwick where an unfortunately depleted group of four competed for this prestigious trophy and the accompanying bottle of ...
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Ayr Rotary Club’s major Autumn fundraising event was the Ayrshire Alps Challenge held on Saturday 8th October in partnership with Malawi Fruits, a Scottish charity which provides start up finance, training and support to agricultural enterprises; encouraging smallholding farmers to see their farms as businesses. ...
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In delivering his much-anticipated job talk to the club last week, recently-recruited member David Hope held the interest of his audience with his account of the speed of change which has taken place in telecommunications in the last thirty or so years. These changes have occurred principally on two fronts: rapid technical ...
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Our District Governor for 2022/23, Gail Savage, was given a warm welcome to the club by President Bob Cherry.
Gail was a Rotaract member at 18, joining Rotary in 2011 and later serving as secretary for the Glasgow North & Bishopbriggs club. Outwith Rotary, she spent 10 years in a GP practice in the East End of ...
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Last week’s speaker was local businessman Ken Nairn whose interests are many and varied. He was invited on this occasion to talk to the club about the old town of Ayr through the 17th and 18th centuries with a particular focus on the influences and implications of slavery. Drawing on both his keen interest in local ...
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Well-known local speaker Denis Rattenbury made a welcome return to our club last week, this time to explain to us how Ayrshire was shaped by geology, or as he put it “The Deep Time Story of Ayrshire”. Although referring to himself as an “amateur”, Denis had studied pure, or physical, geology at university many ...
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Four determined teams battled it out at the Horizon hotel for the glory of picking up a few bottles of plonk and the associated kudos from winning this prestigious event. Well, only three teams battled since this writer’s team were left so far behind they may as well not have turned up. Still, they did get a packet ...
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Three years ago, thanks to the strenuous efforts of Ayr Rotarian John Ewing, he and a few fellow-members were able to meet a Rotary VIP from the US: Robb Knuepfer, a Rotary International Director and past-president of Rotary Club No 1, Chicago, Illinois. This was where Rotary was founded in 1905 by Paul Harris, a success...
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Denis Rattenbury was welcomed back to our Club to speak about the pipe organ which is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurized air (called wind) through the organ pipes selected from a keyboard. Because each pipe produces a single pitch, the pipes are provided in sets called ranks, which ...
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Bob Cherry has been installed as the new president of Ayr Rotary Club, succeeding Hazel McCully who served as president for 18 months. Bob recently retired from Galbraiths Property Consultants in Ayr and therefore now has more time to spend leading the Club out of COVID restrictions and into a new exciting year. Among ...
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