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Locally renowned speaker and historian, Ken Nairn, paid the club another visit this week. On this occasion Ken was representing the Commonwealth War Graves Commission with whom he has been a hard-working volunteer for a number of years.
The CWGC was founded more than a century ago with the purpose of commemorating, ...
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Rotarians and partners were thoroughly entertained at this week’s organist entertains recital. Calum Robertson, an Edinburgh based clarinettist, organist and choral conductor, masterfully played the Town Hall Lewis Organ, with renditions from all female composers, to the delight of the Monday lunchtime audience. In ...
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Rotarian John Scott still serving the community
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Seven school teams entered the Rotary Club Youth Speaks competition held at Belmont School recently. Belmont Academy, Kyle Academy and Wellington School each represented the seniors category, which is for ages 14 to 17, with Kyle submitting two teams. The other intermediate category, for 11 to 14 years of age, received ...
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Visiting from Kilmarnock Rotary Club, retired Chief Superintendent David Johnstone delivered a light hearted presentation, peppered with facts and figures on “How to Hold onto Your Driving License” Since 2011 David has been a Justice of the Piece which is a unique part of Scotland’s criminal justice system ...
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At a recent Ayr Rotary Club meeting, we were privileged to link up with Sergii Zavadskyi of the Rotary Club of Kyiv Ukraine, district 2232. A retired mechanical engineer with two sons, a daughter and four grandchildren, Sergii has held many prestigious positions in business. He joined Rotary in 2000, serving in many roles ...
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Bubbly and personable 18-year-old Poppi Mackay is the latest beneficiary of a £250 grant from our popular Treasure Chest fund. The Club has £250 to award each month to deserving local charitable causes or individuals and can assist with schemes and activities which can demonstrate real benefit from this support.
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As the unjustified war in Ukraine continues to have its dreadful impact on the lives of innocent civilians throughout the country, the Rotary GB&I Ukraine Crisis Taskforce increases its efforts to provide much-needed help in numerous ways.
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Local man, Alex Hall, has spoken to the club before on the world wars and was invited back recently to give his overview of the period and personalities involved in the German espionage efforts during the early years of WW1. Alex is an expert on many aspects of those gruesome times, and this was evident in his very ...
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The Dragon’s Back is 6-day multi-stage mountain race over 240miles with a total 57,000ft of ascent. Our own iron-man, Alasdair Meldrum, went off on a wee adventure at 6am on 5th September to run, jog, walk, crawl and cry down the spine of Wales from Conwy Castle to Cardiff Castle. He was doing this as part of the ...
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