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BULLETIN

INDIAN NIGHT ON 12TH NOVEMBER AT ST. MARGARET’S HALL

The evening started with guests arr iving to the sound of Bollywood music. Sashi Anandaram intro-duced the artists, Dr Ajith Kartha and Mrs Divya Kar-tha. Dr and Mrs Kartha be-long to Kerala in South In-dia. Divya is an exponent in Indian classical dance form, namely Bharatnat-yam and Mohiniyattam. She started her training at the age of 6. Divya is a GP working in Wrexham. Dr Ajith Kartha is also a GP and his hobby is singing Indian classical music and Bollywood music. Both Ajith and Divya have taken part in many cultural programmes in the UK. The guests were treated to an evening of wonderful music and dance. Indian food was catered from R K Foods, Preston, who have been providing us with delicious, mouth-watering food for the past few years. David Gittins organised the Bar and helpers during the evening included: Peter & Mac Tompsett, Tony Burdge, Pene Coles, Peter Butler, Lauren Butler and Peter Howell. Mac Tompsett and Anu Anandaram helped in selling the Raffle tickets. Attractive prizes had been generously do-nated. Lorna Burdge presented a token of our appreciation to the artists and President Tony Burdge thanked the performers, caterers, volunteers and all present, for their help and sup-port. A net sum of £1221.45 was raised for Rotary charities - an excellent result thanks to the hard work of Peter Butler and the Fund Raising Committee.

Anan ( Whom we thank as the founder of this great annual event and the man behind it all )

Mrs Divya Kartha

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Sashi Anandaram Dr Ajith Kartha

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NEW BERWYN PRISON - VISIT ON 1ST DECEMBERThanks to the Rotary Club of Erddig, Rotarians from the 4, Wrexham Rotary clubs at-tended a fascinating presentation at the new Berwyn prison during the evening of 1st December. Berwyn Prison is located in the Wrexham Industrial Estate on the old Fire-stone Tyre factory site. It will accommodate 2000 men and there will be 1000 staff - probably making it the the largest prison in Europe. It will open in stages during 2017. Bersham is designed as a Category C Prison for the more docile type of inmate. The strong emphasis will be on rehabilitation with rooms not cells ! Every prisoner will be given a laptop and a phone within a secure network. There will be 1 member of staff for every 2 prisoners, - ‘prisoner' is a banned term however. All the staff are being specially trained to the enlightened ethos of this newer type of custodial establish-ment. It will bring large economic benefits and publicly available facilities to the peo-ple of Wrexham and surrounding areas. These include meeting rooms, bookable for local voluntary organisations. A gourmet restaurant ‘ The Clink ‘ will be open to the public.

TOM LEWIS’S GUIDE DOG WEARS PROUDLY THE AWARD MEDAL PRE-SENTED TO HIM AT THE 2016 DISTRICT CONFERENCE WITH ACCLAIM AND CHEERS. AFTER THE AWARD WAS MADE, HIS DOG CAREFULLY GUIDED TOM ACROSS THE RAISED STAGE, DOWN A FLIGHT OF STEPS, AND THENCE BACK TO HIS SEAT THROUGH A MAZE OF PEO-PLE, TABLES AND CHAIRS - NO COLLI-SIONS ANYWHERE !

IMPORTANT DATES FOR YOUR DIARIESTUESDAY 13TH DECEMBER - THE CHRISTMAS MESSAGEWEDNESDAY 14TH DECEMBER - BUCKET COLLECTION DAY AT TESCO EXTRA SPRING 2017 - CONCERT AT WILLIAM ASTON HALL

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Past Presidents Keith Samuels PHF and Barney Parkinson PHF joined other members of our club on November 10th ,and on several other days, at the Poppy Stall at Tesco Extra. As in previous years the arrangements were ably organised by Terry Wales of the Erddig Club. The total amount collected over the Remembrance period was the very respectable sum of over £9247.

POPPIES AT TESCO

WELCOME TO THE CLUB !

President Tony Burdge congratu-lates Rotarian Robert Williams BSc after his induction in Septem-ber

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CLUB COUNCIL NOTES

We collected £140 at the recent Wrexham Street Party.

Two canal boat trips are planned for 2017.

The Young Chef’s competition will be put off until 2017 due to the complexity of the paperwork to be completed before the event and the time span available.

President Tony attended the Laying of the Wreath ceremony at the Cenotaph in Wrexham on Remembrance Sunday. He was accompanied by his wife Lorna, President of the Inner Wheel Club of Wrexham. Tony and Lorna also attended, along with with other members of the Club, the Erddig and Llangollen Charter Nights. They were excellent occasions and very enjoyable.

The Rotary Club of Wrexham has won the District Quiz. The final was against Bala.

Pene Coles missed Grace being said at Club meetings and It was agreed to re-instate it. It will be said after the meal, as the Club has introduced a staggered in-formal start to luncheon. at 12.50. Members are reminded again to note their duty dates published in the Rolling Programme.

Our latest new member, Julie Bryan, has been welcomed into the club and will be inducted formally in the near future. Mike Kagan. Membership Officer will discuss all aspects of Rotary with Julie.

It has been agreed to reintroduce ‘Friends of Rotary’ Certificates. A record of pre-sent Members has been reviewed and there are four more people interested in be-coming Friends. Joan Murray-Jones has produced some new certificates for new applicants. Two applicants are from Tesco and it is felt that the Club will have a bet-ter standing of Tesco’s ongoing community work. They could possibly become in-terested in donating raffle prizes etc. for the Club’s fundraising projects.

The pantomime this year, at Theatr Clwyd, is Aladdin and Tony Thomas has booked 12th January, 2017 for all who wish to go.

The proposed trip to the vast Hindu Temple complex near Dudley has been post-poned until March/April.

Mock interviews at local schools will begin again in January 2017. Dates are:Jan 19 St Joseph’s; Jan 27 Rhosnesni High School; Feb 3 Ysgol Clywedog; Feb 17 Maelor School Penley; Mar 10 Ysgol Bryn Alyn; Apr 4 Darland High School.

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The proposed ferry boat trip to Salford Quays, via the Manchester Ship Canal, has been provisionally booked for the 28th April.

A £50 Club donation might possibly be sent, via District 1180, to aid relief following the Haiti disaster. The matter is not yet settled.

The MHAT telemedicine project is ongoing. Anan & Peter Tompsett attended the es-sential District Meeting for qualifying in 2017 for Global Grant applications.

A ‘ Bucket Shaking Day ‘has been arranged at Tesco for December 14th from 10am to 6pm. Helpers are needed.

District Governor Molly Youd made her official visit to the Club on Tuesday 8th Novem-

Rotary International and RIBI are merging the currently separate member databasesand there will be no access for 3 days. Individual Clubs are necessarily involved. Peter Howell has completed Stages 1 and 2 of the process. There were numerous differences between the two separate membership files which Peter has now corrected to bring them into agreement with each other.

The 2016 Bartlet Insurance Newsletter has been issued by Alison Stace to Robert Wil-liams and Julie Bryan. All members should now have copies for reference.

Our New Website: District 1180 want us to continue paying £50 per year in support of the District Template website.

CLUB LEGAL COMPLIANCE REMINDER ( EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY- HEALTH AND SAFETY- INSURANCE AND RISK - SAFEGUARDING )

President Tony Burdge and Club Secretary Peter Howell signed and submitted the 2016/17 annual Rotary Compliance Statement committing the club to the District/RIBI re-quirements for: Equality and Diversity Policy , Health and Safety Policy and Safeguarding  (Children and Vulnerable Adults) Policy. All members of our club are required to adhere to these policies.

ATTENDANCE APOLOGIES LUNCH NUMBERSThe higher quality of our £10 lunches has been maintained in recent months and the Ra-mada Hotel must be encouraged to continue to look after us well. On our part, we must do all we can to treat the Ramada fairly, providing them with accurate numbers of lunches required. Should we order too many, that is very unhelpful to the the hotel man-agement and the chef. Our policy with regard to making apologies has been clearly set out in our Annual Club Handbook for a very long time.

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AGAINST MALARIA FOUNDATIONDuring the Tuesday lunchtime meeting on 11th October, a prearranged telephone call was made to enable Rob Mather, CEO of the Against Malaria Foundation which is based in London, to thank us for the £1000 donation we have made for their cause. Vice President Pene Coles used her computer to display slides of the tremendous work being done in various parts of sub-Sahara Africa by the charity and Rob Mather gave a commentary over the phone. Fortu-nately, the sound was loud enough for all to hear. Our dona-tion will buy thousands of mosquito nets which will help save multitudes of lives - more than 1,000,000 youngsters die from Malaria there every year. President Tony Burdge thanked Mr Mather for his excellent presentation which was carried out in spite of gremlins in the communications.

MADE TO MEASURE !

STROKE CLUB ROTA 2017The new rota starts in February and will be published nearer the time.

CHRISTMAS GREETINGS 2016

FROM KEITH

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RECENT SPEAKERS01 SEPT RONNIE DEVLIN - CAIS - ADDICTIONS, MENTAL HEALTH, PERSONAL29 SEPT GRAHAM JACKSON - HOPE AND HOMES13 OCT STEVE DAYMAN - MENINGITIS NOW27 OCT GERAINT EVANS - FEEDING THE ROOFLESS10 NOV DAVE COOKE - TEAMS4U - VULNERABLE 3RD WORLD CHILDREN24 NOV MARK VENNING - YOUTH WITH A MISSION CYMRU01 DEC PHIL ARTON - CHRISTIANITY AGAINST POVERTY12 JAN MARK & SUE PENGELLY - THE COMMUNITY CHURCH - STREET CHILDREN26 JAN GARETH JONES - WREXHAM STREET PASTORS02 FEB MIKE LADE - HEALTH & SAFETY/DATA PROTECTION09 FEB GWILYM HUGHES - HIS DVD VIDEOS OF INDIA23 FEB ANDY CRAVEN - THE WALLICH01 MAR PETER HOWELL - HISTORY OF CHESTER CATHEDRAL22 MAR MARK VENNING - YOUTH WIT A MISSION19 APR DISTRICT GOVERNOR, CHRIS SUMNER26 APR SHAUN STOCKER - AFGHANISTAN 2010 - LOST LEGS CANCELLED (ILLNESS)03 MAY SUSANNE GRONNOW - NATIONAL TRUST ERDDIG31 MAY MIKE GOODWIN - GROUP STUDY EXCHANGE VISIT TO INDIA IN 1980’S14 JUN CHRIS JONES - BLOOD BIKES WALES - URGENT BLOOD DELIVERIES12 JUL ANDY CRAVEN - THE WALLICH19 JUL £1000 PRESENTATION TO STEPHEN CAIRNS, PARKINSON’S NORTH WALES26 JUL DIANE APLIN - MONEYPENNY02 AUG BILL & LYNN MORRIS - KENYAN SCHOOLS PROJECT - £100 PROMISED23 AUG SHAUN STOCKER - BLIND VETERANS : POSTPONED30 AUG MARIANNA BORBELY - HOLIDAYS IN HUNGARY (EVENING MEETING)13 SEPT ANTONY STAGG - “ IF I CAN DO IT YOU CAN TOO “27 SEPT JO LANE - ALZHEIMERS SOCIETY11 OCT ROB MATHER-AGAINST MALARIA FOUNDATION: £1000 DONATION - VIA PHONE20 OCT PRESENTATION OF COMMUNITY SERVICE CUP TO TESCO25 OCT MATTHEW JAMES - HOME-INSTEAD SENIOR CAREO8 NOV DISTRICT GOVERNOR MOLLY YOUD OFFICIAL VISIT12 NOV INDIAN THEMED NIGHT, ST MARGARET’S CHURCH HALL22 NOV JOE BICKERTON, WREXHAM CBC - WREXHAM TOURISM DEVELOPMENT29 NOV PC PAUL DAVIES, NW POLICE - RURAL CRIME ( EVENING MEETING )

OUR THANKS AGAIN TO GARETH PARRY, SPEAKER SECRETARY

Contributions to the Bulletin are always welcome. If you were impressed by a presentation from a visiting speaker, or you have news or comments which you wish to share with us all, why not write a short report and pass it to Peter Howell !