Chipping Norton Times - Issue 26 - November 2012 (PDF)

The New Rotary Club of
Kingham && Daylesford
Chippy Theatre breaking new ground
The club recently had an excellent overview of the current status
and future of The Chipping Norton Theatre by Director John
Terry. John explained that the trustees had had to rethink its
strategy following the cutback of grants but was continuing on a
progressive path employing creative leadership and creative
management. The line ‘Chippy Theatre belongs to you’ encourages
the management to bring something new into this unique rural arts
complex that suits the local audience and the auditorium.
The annual pantomime with its 80 performances and 96% of its
seats already sold has been the financial prop for the theatre, but it
isn’t enough in these austere days of withdrawn grants. Home
productions such as the brilliantly staged “Frankie and Johnnie” are
part of the answer and John is now looking forward to the spring
production of “The Glass Menagerie” having even greater success.
You can help End Polio … please!
170 million children in India, aged up to five years
old, will be given the life-saving polio vaccination on
one day, 4 November, thanks to Rotary’s End Polio
Campaign. India is now just off the endemic list but
this does not mean the disease is gone. India needs
to have three complete years with no new polio cases. During that
time Rotary will keep immunising every child to spare them from a
life of crippling disabilities and pain. The immunisation drive is
part of Rotary’s End Polio Now campaign, which has been leading
the way since the early 1980s. Thanks to Rotary’s efforts, the
number of endemic countries has dropped from 125 to 3.
Gloucester puppy
Local Rotarians marked World Polio Day on 24 October,
satellite centre* or sent
through awareness campaigns including presentations to local
schools. Each child was asked to come with five 20 pence coins to
pay for vaccinations for 5 children. If you would like to make a donation or learn more about Rotary go to www.ribi.org/get-
involved/make-a-donation.
direct to -
Canine
Partners Stamp Appeal,
PO Box
638 Fareham,
Hants PO14 9JJ.
management” Chequers in Churchill. New manager Peter Creed
has agreed the previous “Assumpta” formula … free sandwiches
and chips with a raffle. Spaces need to be booked either direct with
Chequers or via Richard Collings 01608 238514.
Training Assistance
Dogs for people with
disabilities
Assisting people with disabilities
to enjoy greater independence
and a better quality of life, by
providing specially trained
assistance dogs.
Fund-raising for survival is important and audience support is
HOW A CANINE PARTNER HELPS
Our dogs are trained to assist with a range of practical tasks such
as:
• Opening and closing doors and cupboards
• Retrieving a variety of items
• helping you to get undressed
• pressing buttons and switches
• raising the alarm in an emergency
• unloading washing machines and tumble driers
• much more besides, depending on individual needs
essential. We can be proud to have this jewel in our midst; it brings
us variety, culture and artistry that we would have to pay three
times as much for in the theatres of the large cities. If you haven’t
been to The Theatre Chipping Norton you have missed a treat and
it needs your support.
Our canine partners provide practical day to day assistance with
tasks that may be difficult, painful, or impossible to perform. They
also provide that special companionship, unconditional love and
affection which is so unique to dogs.
Scotland … made by Sir Walter Scott?
Canine Partners needs your stamps
Why does the Queen holiday at Balmoral and why are shortbread
tins decorated in tartan? Eric Anderson, who is a trustee of
Abbotsford, Sir Walter Scott’s quirky baronial house in the Scottish
borders, believes that modern perceptions of Scotland all go back
to the poems and novels of the Author of Waverley. Our next
speaker, Sir Eric Anderson former headmaster of Eton, will
explain all!! The public are always welcome to “speaker nights” so
if you would like to attend 6pm for 6.30 on Wednesday 14
November, please call Mike Clark 01451 830 684 … stay
for dinner
at £12.50 if you wish. You will be most welcome.
Canine Partners is able to collect used stamps and turn them into
much needed funds. In the past few months we have raised over
£1,000 as a result of the stamps collected. All kinds of stamps are
welcome, on or off paper. You need to leave no more than a 5mm
single thickness border around them, and the perforations should
not be damaged. Any commemorative or special stamps should be
sent, or handed over,
separately.
dropped off at the
Collected stamps can be
Charity Quiz Night at the “new” Chequers.
Sunday 18 November (7.30pm) sees the very popular annual
We also recycle ink
cartridges
and old
mobile phones.
charity quiz run by Richard Phillips at the “under new
*contact us on 01739
716013 for full address.
Caninepartners.org.uk
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