A crowded Mall at Telford Town Centre filled by the sounds of the Salvation Army Band heralded the arrival of Jo Jesmond of Free Radio who was to switch-on the 2017 Telford Tree of Light. Chairman of the organising committee, Max Clowes, welcomed representatives of the charities supported by this year's Tree, the Tree's sponsors, the Presidents of the four organising Rotary Clubs and many of those whose families' names appear around the Tree.
YIPPEE…. We have received the first report regarding the eye surgery from Peter Minjale at St Andrews Hospital to Morut Isyagi of Lilongwe Rotary Club sent on 16th November 2018: In preparation for the Eye Health programme at St.
The speaker at the meeting on 2nd November was from Telford Samaritans. Joanna 272 gave a full insight into the work that they do in this area. In the year March 2017 to March 2018 they handled 17,900 telephone calls, 5600 e-mail contacts, 4800 SMS contacts and saw 160 people face to face.
Principally to support our local Samaritans branch as well as other local Rotary charities, this year’s Film Evening was held on 30th October. Organised by Sophie Yates and Jim Tranter the film was the Stephen Spielberg cold war movie ”Bridge of Spies”.
The second donation to the Telford Foodbank took place in October following a collection of items at a Club meeting. Richard's car was well down on its suspension as it left the Buckatree carpark for the Sutton Hill base of the foodbank. The next collections takes place on 30 November, 4 January, 1 February and 1 March.
The Club were intrigued to learn about bees, particularly honey bees. Local beekeeper Alison Wakeman shared her extensive knowledge about keeping bees.