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Lymm Rotary
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The members of Lymm Rotary club met
recently to celebrate the inauguration
of their new President, Mike Wood,
who took over the helm from retiring
President, Neville Davies. This will be
Mike’s second term in office, having been
President in 2008/9.
In his plans for the next year Mike said
that he wanted to continue the club’s
Afri-Twin support for Lymm High
School, maintain our financial support
by way of school fees, and travel fees, for
Amina Neumani, a little 5 year old Xhosa
girl, so that she can continue her vital
education at the “Little Sparklers” school
in East London, South Africa. Also, he
wanted the club to look at maintaining
our support for the “Porridge and Rice”
charity and the Njoro School in Kenya,
and budget to send Shelter Boxes when
needed to world disaster areas.
Continuing, Mike said, “I want a strong
Community programme and I expect the
Christmas float to be bigger still this year.
A
n
extra night collecting should allow us
to get round all areas – 14 nights out,
starting on the 3rd December – and
four static collections.” He wanted to
see more liaison with the local primary
and secondary schools in the area
and continue to support the Rotary
Youth Leadership Awards – a leader
development programme whose events
are typically 3 – 10 days long. “Of course,
we will still be holding our Senior
Citizens’ Party and Cyril Bell Award”.
Mike concluded by hoping that the
club will support him in all the projects
and that we will continue to provide
service internationally and to the local
community while, at the same time,
enjoying friendship and fellowship as we
go about achieving these objectives.
Lymm Rotary is keen to hear from men
and women who would like to use their
experience for the benefit of others
in their international, national and
community projects. Please telephone
John Beard (01925) 758398 for more
information.
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