Chatterbox 0612 - Rotary Club of Belper

Sale of Books
We have just received a small donation, just £15, into our charity account from
the sale of second hand books at Carsington Fields Caravan Site. Peter and
Judy who own the site agreed that we could place a small Rotary bookcase in their
reception office offering books for sale at 50 pence each. We initially stocked it with
books, but have not needed to replenish the stocks as people have been replacing
the books when they have finished with them. Once again it spreads the name of
the Rotary Club of Belper and Duffield to a wide audience. It is not going to make
us a lot of money, but for no effort the end results are most worthwhile.
Southwell Race Evening
About 20 members and friends attended the special Rotary sponsored Race
Meeting at Southwell on Tuesday 15th May when some £9000 was raised for
Polio Eradication. The early arrival of some of the party allowed them to have a
leisurely fish and chip supper; thereafter there were long queues at all of the
refreshment facilities .
The more seasoned punters were soon putting on their bets and the novices
amongst us had the odd flutter. Nobody made any real money out of the evening
and Dave Ashley was disgusted that the horse he had put his life savings on fell at a
fence and had to be put down!
Our staff photographer was there and captured a shot of his winning mount
along with a backcloth of blue sky to show that we had good weather after all the
hail and showers earlier in the day over Derbyshire.
Photograph on page 2.
Stroke Awareness Day
D uring the morning of Saturday 19th May we carried out blood testing at The
Strutt Club on Campbell Street as part of the Stroke Awareness campaign.
Despite it being a really cold and miserable morning with very few people about in
the town centre we managed to test in the region of thirty people with a number
of people being referred back to their own GP
The tests were carried out by a friend of the Club, Liz Parkes from a doctor’s
surgery in Riddings with one of her colleagues; Liz has been helping us with this
event for a few years. Gail presented a flower arrangement to each of the nurses
for their assistance. Thanks to Dave Ashley, Hilary Surga, Alan Widdowson,
Elizabeth Wright and Janice Cooney (a neighbour of Gail's) for their invaluable
assistance on the morning; we are grateful also to the management of the Strutt
Club for allowing the use of their premises.
Gail Ashley
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