Our Events
During the coming year we shall have many events which are worth recording for both members' and perhaps your interest. We shall use this page to tell and show you what we as a club have done recently.
Our first two have been a members trip to Gateshead
with local visits and our Golf AM/AM at Windermere Golf Club. Both have been
very successful and our thanks are due to Fred Parker and John Tiscornia
for organising these opening events.
On the way to Gateshead we all met at Durham Cathedral for coffee and a look at one of the Country's finest Cathedrals. Dating back to Anglo Saxon and Norman times this powerful building expresses clearly the style of secular architecture of the age. The columns of the nave are a wonder in themselves and everybody enjoyed seeing many features of the cathedral. The afternoon was reserved for a visit and tour of Sir Norman Foster's Sage Concert Hall on the quayside at Gateshead. Unfortunately we were not able to sample any music or theatre but we were all delighted with the wealth of information gleaned on the tour and the ambience of this very modern addition to Gateshead's facilities for music and theatre. The following day we went back in time and ended the trip with a visit to the Museum at Beamish.
Friday July 13th was very wet and miserable, particularly in the afternoon
- it was also the day of our Annual Golf AM/AM at Windermere Golf Club.
41 Teams of stalwart golfers from near and far ignored the weather and
teed off from early morning to late afternoon. Sadly, many were really
defeated by the weather but everyone declared that they had enjoyed themselves.
We are very grateful to all those who entered and have helped us to make
good donations to the two nominated Charities - Life Education Cumbria
and the Starlight Children's Foundation.
The winners were The Butchers with 118 points, followed by The Bandits with
114 points. Third were Demels Picklers, captained by our own John Tiscornia
with 112 points and fourth were The Ambleside Four with 110 points.
Our social activities are of course, legend and last week
we held a Wine Tasting for Charity 'Call My Bluff' evening. It was well attended
and tables of around six people were asked to taste seven wines, three white,
one rose and three reds. The tastings were accompanied by three descriptions
of the wines, one of which was correct.
Our panelists were two wine experts and an expert amateur - you have
to guess who he was!. The wine experts were Kevin Boles and Deborah Brooks.
Deborah is an associate with Paul Boutinot Wine Agencies and Kevin is head
of the Cumbria University Business School and has an interest in wines. An
excellent social evening arranged by Brian Jowett and other members of the
Community Service Committee. 
The
last three weeks have seen us really enjoying the social side of our
Rotary fellowship as well as raising funds for very worthwhile causes.
On Saturday 17th May
2008, we combined our efforts with Inner
Wheel, Soroptomists and the local Support Committee for the charity, Hope & Homes
for Children to raise money to settle orphaned children in foster homes in
Eastern Europe and Africa. A garden party was held at Rayrigg Hall, in Windermere
which raised around £2,500 for the charity, thus providing enough funds
to settle up to three destitute children into a secure family life. The club
and its partners are grateful for the help and support received.
Our evening event at St Martin's College -
the true story of Rorke's Drift had an audience of 120 people enthralled
at the animated talk which accurately described the infamous battle which
took place there. Almost £900 was raised for the Langdale and Ambleside
Mountain Rescue Team - the club has increased that to £1250.00.
At the end of each Rotary year our President and the President of our ladies' Inner Wheel Club kindly combine to provide lunch and an afternoon of fun and competition between the clubs at our 'Annual Millennium Games' After an exciting play off, the Trophy Decanter this year went to the Inner Wheel Club. Our thanks are due to both Susan and Alan Katz and Bill and Judith MacCormack for an excellent and enjoyable afternoon. Below are some of the antics our members got up to!
