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CLUB NEWS AND EVENTS
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"THE
POWER OF PERSUASION"
On the evenings
of Wednesday 10th. and Thursday
11th. February, our Youth
Opportunities committee organised
the "Power of Persuasion"
held in the Old Schoolroom
of Ludlow College, Mill Street.
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Members of
Our Youth Opportunities Committee
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The
3 categories of secondary school
students were years 7/8,
9/10 and 11+
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Students
were drawn from across South
Shropshire including Bedstone
College, Church Stretton School,
Ludlow School and Moor Park
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Our adjudicators
for Wednesday were Owen
Elias (twice mayor of Ludlow
and a previous honorary member
of our club), Dr. Julian Morgan
(former JP and High Sheriff
of Shropshire), and John Woolmer
(Chairman, ex soldier and school
teacher). On Thursday Owen Elias,
Sylvia Duffy (former language
teacher and researcher) and
John Woolmer formed our panel.
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Each
category was timed
per presentation:
Category A
5 mins for presentation
and 2mins. for questions;.
Categaory B)
7min. and 3min.
and Category C)
9min. and 4min.
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On Wednesday
our Speakers comprised two groups:
A) Lucy Davies
and Toby Thomas (Moor Park),
Aidan Webber (Bedstone); Rosie
Oatham and Alice Oatham (Ludlow
School),
B) Alistair
Lamont (Bedstone); Molly Armstrong,
David Mortiboy and Simon Riley
(Church Stretton School); Alex
Church, Victoria Wall (Ludlow
School).
On Thursday
night Category C) had two competitors:
Jovi Cheung (Bedstone)
and Sophie Farley (Ludlow College).
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Committee
Chairman Dick Doyle (pictured
left) said afterwards,
"This
was a new venture for Youth
Opportunities compared with
the Spoken Word when poetry
and prose were presented. The
extra task of writing a presentation
and preparing a reasonable memorised
argument was more taxing on
individuals taking part.
All acquitted
themselves admirably and as
an example of our youth, their
ideas about our world and their
articulation bodes well for
the future. Having established
this new competition we hope
it will encourage more schools to
come and take part next year."
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Our
timekeeper Ian Bott (pictured
far right) had designed and
meticulously engineered a three
colour timing light set. This
was to inform both adjudicators
and speakers of the time allotted
to each speaker, who would be
penalised for over-running.
 
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Winners were
given book tokens from our sponsor
Stanton Stevens of Castle Bookshop.
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President
Michael Evans is pictured here
presenting first prize winner
(cat.c) Sophie Farley from Ludlow
College
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THE
LUDLOW "TREE
OF LIGHT" 2009
Our
selected charities for the Tree
of Light 2009 were: "Macmillan Cancer Support"; " Ludlow and
District Group Riding for the Disabled"; "Midlands Air Ambulance" and "Working Together"
(The Town Mayor’s Charity). The amount raised for these charities through
the generosity of your donations and commercial support was enough
to give each charity a very welcome £750 - see the photo below.
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Roger Barker, Senior Vice President, (right) with
Rotarian Harry Peachey from Macmillan Cancer Care, Jean Midwood, Riding for the
Disabled, Claire Carter from Working Together, and Chris Hatt, Midlands Air
Ambulance
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A
MUSICAL EVENING
IN
OCTOBER THE WORLD-FAMOUS
FRON MALE VOICE
CHOIR APPEARED
AT LUDLOW
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Located
in the centre of Ludlow, the beautiful church
of St Laurence is one of the finest parish churches
in the country.
With its superb architectural
and acoustic qualities, St Laurence's church provided
an uplifting venue for a charity concert by the
sixty-strong FRONCYSLLETE male voice
choir on 3rd October. Every
ticket was sold. And what
a night it was!
A packed house of 475 people
enjoyed fine Welsh voices in accomplished harmonies and thrilling solos from
this top ranking choir
and its conductor Ann Atkinson, pictured right.
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Our
prize draw featured dinner for two at a top Ludlow restaurant,
Fishmore Hall,
a voucher from The Castle Bookshop,
and a beauty treatment by Huntington Holistics
of Ashford Carbonnel. Rotary
President, Michael Evans and
Rotarian Sue Fleetwood are seen here (lower right) drawing the lucky
winners' numbers.
The
evening raised over £3,500 plus a last-minute
appeal for the relief of those caught up in the recent
disasters in the Pacific which raised over £350.
This event was made possible by so many people
to whom we are profoundly grateful - our Sponsors
:- F. J. BODENHAM, department store, Greens Solicitors of
Ludlow, Nock Deighton Estate
Agents and Surveyors; the FRON choir
who performed so magnificently, and of course to everyone
who attended and gave so generously to our selected
charities.
We
shall be seeing more of this wonderful choir, we have
no doubt!
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LUDLOW FOOD FESTIVAL - ROTARY MANNING THE
"SAUSAGE TRAIL" STAND
On the morning of Saturday 12th. September in Castle
Gardens the Sausage Trail Stall was being set up. The stall was up and running
by 9.00am with huge frying pans over gas bottle fired burners staffed by
Rotarians and volunteers - a small but very efficient group of young lady
"fryers".
Rotarians were there to man (and woman) the stall
throughout a hot and challenging six hours. Each team of six was on duty for two
hours, with two further teams to appear from 11.00am to 1.00pm and 1.00pm to
3.00pm including James Harris who organised proceedings throughout the day.
There was also the help of a member of the Food Festival organisers who ensured
that the supplies of thin rubber gloves, sausages, buns, bags, etc. necessary
for the continued activities of the Sausage Trail Stall ran smoothly. Although
the stall was in shade their job was hot, smoky and demanding in ensuring well
done sausages and they applied themselves with unstinting and uncomplaining
determination.
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The Sausage Trail Stall was situated at the
end of the "trail", to receive the voting forms from the hundreds of visitors
who had "tested" each of the five sausages in the competition and to supply the
selected "favourite" sausage of the voter's choice in a bun, for
immediate consumption. There was a little delay before the first visitors
arrived, having worked their way through the queues at the town's butchers, to
claim their sausage and deliver their vote. This gave time for the first team to
cut buns and prepare napkins ready to receive the cooked sausages and for the
cooks to prepare samples of all five. Calm prevailed. This would be a piece of
cake .......wouldn't it ..?
Once "battle" was fully joined and the queues
grew it became a desperate task to keep up with requests! 
It often occurred that a sudden extraordinary
demand for one type of sausage would exhaust immediate supply, which would
require a Secondary queue to grow until more products rolled off the frying
pans.
By the end of the frantic final session, when the heat
and the queues at last subsided, the whole team was rather dazed and the young
ladies who cooked stood drinking re-hydrating water. It had been an energetic
day for the sausage trail stand but there was the sense of a job well done. Once
more Rotary et al had risen to the occasion and manned the barricades - sorry,
stall and provided true “hands-on” service.
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