| Club Programme, News and Events 2006-07.. |
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| 03 July 2006 - Lunch Time Meeting - Changeover Day. |
| Changeover of Officers: President John McClean handed over the reins of office to President Elect Pat Kelly and quickly retreated to the back benches but not before thanking members for assisting him in an enjoyable year as President. |
| Paul McCauley, Station Manager of BBC Radio Foyle, addressed the club. Paul, already famous, locally and internationally, as the journalist who covered the Bloody Sunday Tribunal, had previously spoken to us on the suject of the Tribunal. Wearing his new hat he gave a most interesting talk on the advantages and pitfalls of new Digital Technology in Broadcasting. He also outlined his thoughts on the role of BBC Radio Foyle in the community and asked for our views on how the station could contribute to the business sector. |
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| 10 July 2006 - Lunch Time Meeting PP John MacCrossan gave a report on the recent District Council meeting. Although we had no speaker arranged for today, we were fortunate in having visiting Rotarian Sanford M. Bernstein, from The Rotary Club of Rockaway, Queens, New York, General Manager of "The Wave" a local Newspaper publishesed in Rockaway. Rtn Sandford explained the family nature of his visit to Ireland and gave an excellent report on his home anre and the doings of his Rotary Club, before presenting us with his Club Banner. |
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| 17 July 2006 - Lunch Time Meeting |
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| 24 July 2006 - Lunch Time Meeting Our speaker was Karen Tower from the Labour Relations Agency. Karen explained the work of the Agency, the set up in the local office and an outline of the variety and quantity of work handled in the past year. The Derry office recieves a large number of queries each year from both employers and employees as well as taking on on conciliation and review processes. All services are provided free. |
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| 31 July 2006 - No Meeting - Local Holiday |
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| 07 August 2006 - No Meeting - Local Holiday . |
| 10 August 2006 - Club Council Club Council will be held at the home of Rtn Heather Fielding at 8.00pm. . |
| 14 August 2006 - Lunch Time Meeting |
| Council Reports. Speaker: Our speaker was Mr Ian Mills, Organist and Choirmaster at St Columb's Cathedral. Ian gave a most enjoyable introduction on the roles of the Cathedral in the Religious, Civic and Tourist life of our community. He them spoke about the Cathedral Choir, one of only three all-male, four part, Cathedral Choirs still extant in Ireland. Ian spoke about the training of young choristers and how it helped tp develop their literacy as well as their social and presentational skills. He also talked about the linkages between his choir and the choirs of other cathedrals noting the joint Mozart concert earlier this year in St Eugene's Cathedral. Ian concluded by advising that the Cathedral Organ had been almost fully renovated and would be launched with a spectacular recital by Carlo Curley on Sunday 08 October 2006 at 8.00pm |
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| 21 August 2006 - Lunch Time Meeting Our speaker was Stephen Kelly, Chief Executive of the City Centre Initative, which is a public-private partnership focused on improving the city centre. The key stakeholders are Derry City Council, Londonderry Development Office and the private sector. Stephen, who has addressed us on a number of previous occasions updated members on what is happening around the city centre including the proposed traffic management changes in the present pedestrianised zone. We also had a distinguished guest in Riona Judge McCormack, District Rotaract Chair. Riona, who will depart to study in South Africa next year as a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar, is presently on a month's internship at St Columb's Park House. President Pat Kelly wished her every enjoyment in the City. Riona will alsp represent Rotaract at District Conference. |
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| 28 August 2006 - No Meeting - Bank Holiday |
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| 04 September 2006 - Lunch Time Meeting |
| Our speaker was Eamonn Deane, onetime teacher, member of a well-known local family, and, for many years, a Director of Holywell Trust. Holywell Trust is a community-based organisation dedicated to achieving reconciliation and healing between many people and groups who perpetrated or suffered from the violence of our troubles. They have facilitated meetings between paramilitary organisations, ex-prisoners, victims of violence and community groups at various locations, including several residential reconciation centres. In his easy and open manner, Eamonn took us through the formation, naming and development of the Trust and explained its various spheres of activities, including the very positive contribution the Trust has made to peace in our city. Rtn Maurice Brennan, who has known Eamonn for many years, proposed a fitting vote of thanks. |
| . 07 September 2006 - Club Council Club Council will be held at the home of VP Vincent Grant . |
| 11 September 2006 - Industrial Visit - Invista Twenty members from the club will take an industrial visit to the Invista (formerly DuPont) site at Maydown. Members attending must report there by 12.45pm at lastest. Latecomers may not be admitted. Full security and safety rules will be enforced. Photo ID (Passport or Driving Licence) is required. PP Werner Scheel has circulated those attending with a list of prohibited items and site behaviou and security rules. There will be no meeting at the City Hotel; other members are excused attendance. . |
| 13 September 2006 - Foundation Event - Limavady The Gorteen Hotel, Limavady was the location for an inter-club Foundation Evening hosted by Assistant Governor Sam Connolly and District Rotary Foundation Officer Verity Swan, with District Governor Howard Caskie and District Secretary John MacCrossan in attendance. Eight clubs were represented; our own club sent five members. |
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| 18 September 2006 - Lunch Time Meeting Council Reports |
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| 25 September 2006 - Lunch Time Meeting Our speaker was Bill Kirk, recently-appointed Chief Executive of Ilex, the URC (urban regeneration company) tasked with developing the former MoD lands at Ebrington Barracks and Fort George. Bill outlined his experiences with other regeneration programmes, especially his most recent in Sheffield, before turning to the plans for Ebrington. His excellent talk was enhanced by the fact that our meeting room in the City Hotel has a panoramic view of Ebrington Barracks and Bill used this to good effect . The new plans will be officially announced within a couple of weeks. We wish Bill and Ilex every success. |
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| 28 September to 01 October 2006 - District Conference - Millenium Forum |
| District Conference was right here in our own city, jointly hosted by our club and Limavady Club. We were blessed with good weather apart from times set aside for golfing and touring! The plenary sessions ran well apart from some slippage in time-keeping and the excellent panel of speakers was well received. |
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| 02 October 2006 - Lunch Time Meeting Conference Report and District Council report. Conference Chairman PP James Buchanan gave a report on our District Conference. Approximately 800 delegates and guests attended. Over 520 people were served at our banquet in the City Hotel. Everything ran smoothly and there were no significant hitches. Very positive feedback has been flowing in from delegates and guests. |
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| 09 October 2006 - Lunch Time Meeting |
| Our speaker was Declan Doherty, Chief Executive of Derry Youth and Community Workshop Limited, an organisation with a long track record of youth training. However, Declan did not talk directly about the training company. Instead he addressed our members on the serious problems inherent in our local youth culture. Declan helped to broaden our views on the causes and effects of these problems and indicated that it was necessary to challenge anti-social behavioural and clearly define what is acceptable and unacceptable. He drew examples from situations which he had met professionally and how implementing the fair but firm rules of the Workshop had proved successful. With clear guidance, young people fell into the trap of relying on urban myths which with other bad influences left them vulnerable and unable to rise to a better quality of life. |
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| 16 October 2006 - Lunch Time Meeting Our speaker today was Damien Tierney, Executive Officer, City of Derry Airport. Damien gave a short history of City of Derry Airport from its use as a military airfield during World War II and the first passenger flights to Glasgow from Emerald Airways, the passing of the airfield into Council hands and the development of the new Terminal Building, runway and apron with the help of European Funding.
The Airport currently has scheduled flights to Dublin, Stansted, Glasgow, Liverpool and East Midlands and a service to Prestwick will commence in December. There are a number of Summer charter services operated by Falcon Holidays and Slattery Sun to Majorca, Salou, Lanzarote and Faro.
Work on the safety overrun at the western end of the runway will commence when the properties have been brought into Council ownership. The process of vesting these properties is proceeding.
Damien mentioned that the Airport was still controlled by Derry City Council and it was hoped to set up a more independent Airport body to spearhead future development.
The change in short haul aviation over the last five years has allowed low cost carriers to open many new routes and the low level of fares encouraged many more people to travel and many others to travel more frequently. Damien mentioned that the Airport was always talking to other carriers about new routes from City of Derry and he hoped that services direct to the Continent would arrive sooner rather than later. However, these were dependent on getting the extra safety measures completed at the
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Damien thanked the business community on Derry for its support and asked for this to continue. . |
| 23 October 2006 - Lunch Time Meeting Our speaker was District 16 Inner Wheel Chair Majella McGee. Majella gave a lively presentation touching on her role as District Chair but concentrating on the development and current successes of our local Inner Wheel club, of which she is a member. The ladies of Londonderry Inner Wheel have a long history of service to our community and also of service to their organisation at District and Association level. |
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| 30 October 2006 - Lunch Time Meeting |
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| 06 November 2006 - Lunch Time Meeting |
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| 09 November 2006 - Wine Tasting - Waterfoot Our first fund-raising event of the year was a wine tasting evening organised by President Elect Eamonn Gee. This was an excellent event supported by Rotarians and visitors. Good wines, many of them quite inexpensive, and other drinks were available for tasting underthe guidance and advisve of experts from a number of wholesale houses. Many thanks, Eamonn! |
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| 13 November 2006 - Lunch Time Meeting |
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| 20 November 2006 - Lunch Time Meeting |
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| 27 November 2006 - Lunch Time Meeting |
| Our speaker was Don Patterson, secretary of the Foyle U3A. Foyle U3A was the first such organisation in Ireland. It provides a broad range of opportunities for social activity, hobbies, study and physical activity for retired members of our community. The orgainsation is based in Pascal McDonald House in Gransha Park. Don gave us an excellent review of U3A activities. |
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| 04 December 2006 - Kid's Party - Guildhall Over 350 kids from primary schools all over the city attended our party in the Guildhall. They were entertained by Parky the Magician who also presented a Punch and Judy Show. They also had their faces painted and bent balloon into all shapes. After the children had lunched, they cheered to welcome Santa Claus who distributed presents to all the young guests. Thanks are due to the schools who participated; to the teachers and assistants who accompanied the children; to The Sixth Formers from Lumen Christi College and Foyle & Londonderry College who assisted in so mant ways, to Jacqui and the staff from Omega who were the backbone of the organisation, to Millar's Toys who prepared the presents; to Wheelers who provided lunches for the children; to Parky and Poodle for the entertainment; to our face painting team; to club members President Pat Kelly, PP James Buchanan, PP Werner Scheel, PP John MacCrossan for helping on the day; (especially) to Rtn John McMonagle who organised the event and, of course, to Santa Claus who, thanks to the Fire Service was able to include us in his busy schedule. . 04 December 2006 - Lunch Time Meeting Our Rotarians, accompanied by our various helpers from the Kids' Party enjoyed a lovely finger buffet lunch in the minor hall of the Guildhall. Preoccedings were enlivened by the presence of District Governor Nominee Paul Hutchinson who narrowly avoided having his face painted by agreeing to wear a wonderful headress made from balloons. Our face-painters, with their balloon artistry, helped make it a most festive and memorable occasion. |
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| 11 December 2006 - Lunch Time Meeting - Special General Meeting |
| Council reports. A Special General Meeting will be held to ratify Annual Accounts, elect future Club Officers, including second Vice President and elect RIBI delegates. |
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| 15 December 2006 - Friday - Christmas Lunch NB There wil be no meeting on 18 December |
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| 18 December 2006 - No meeting Meeting moved to Friday 15 December . |
| 25 December 2006 - No Meeting - Christmas Holiday |
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| 01 January 2007 - No Meeting - Bank Holiday |
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| 08 January 2007 - Lunch Time Meeting Our speaker was Niall Birthistle, Chairman on the North West Chambers of Commerce Initative (NWCCI), an umbrella body representing Chambers of Commerce in Coleraine, Derry, Gweedore, Letterkenny, Roe Valley and Strabane. NWCCI is a powerful lobbying voice for Industry and Commerce in the cross-border area of the North-West. |
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| 13 January 2007 - President' Night - Da Vinci's Around 200 Rotarians and friends attended President's Night including District Governor Howard Caskie and Grieté (Limavady) and Assistant Governor Sam Connolly and Katherine (Limavady). In the course of a most enjoyable night, President Pat presented Paul Harris Fellowships to Rtn Patrick McGonagle, for his most excellent services to Rotary, and to Mr Michael Doherty, Golf Professional for his most excellent services to sport, the community and youth. DG Howard gave a talk on the history of Paul Harris and the significance of the Fellowship Award. President Pat Kelly turned his had to fund-raising for Shelter Boxes with amazing and speedy success. |
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| 15 January 2007 - Lunch Time Meeting DG Howard Caskie made his official visit to our club today. In speaking, Howard elaborated on the theme of RI President Bill Boyd's theme of "Lead the Way" as well as asking for support for the RIBI preferred projects: Impact Foundation; Wheelchair Foundation; Institute of Cancer Research and Barnardo's. He thanked the club officers and members for their tremendous service and especially for hosting District Conference last September. |
| 22 January 2007 - Lunch Time Meeting |
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| 29 January 2007 - Lunch Time Meeting |
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| 05 February 2007 - Lunch Time Meeting |
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| 12 February 2007 - Lunch Time Meeting |
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| 19 February 2007 - Lunch Time Meeting |
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| 26 February 2007 - Lunch Time Meeting |
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| 05 March 2007 - Lunch Time Meeting |
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| 12 March 2007 - Lunch Time Meeting |
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| 19 March 2007 - Lunch Time Meeting |
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| 26 March 2007 - Lunch Time Meeting |
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| 02 April 2007 - Lunch Time Meeting |
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| 09 April 2007 - No Meeting - Bank Holiday |
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| 16 April 2007 - Lunch Time Meeting Mr Michael Doherty PHF, Golf Professional at City of Derry, gave a most enjoyable talk on the benefits and perils of Golfing. |
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| 23 April 2007 - Lunch Time Meeting Speaker: PP Jack McFarland, recently retired from the Water Service gave a lively talk on the proposed Water Rates. |
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| 30 April 2007 - Lunch Time Meeting NSPCC . |
| 07 May 2007 - No Meeting - Bank Holiday |
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| 14 May 2007 - Lunch Time Meeting - Annual General Meeting |
| President Pat and his team will present their reports on the year to date. Officers and Council Members will be elected for 2006-07. |
| Council Reports. |
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| 21 May 2007 - Lunch Time Meeting |
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| 28 May 2007 - No Meeting - Bank Holiday . 31 May 2007 - Club Council Meeting Redmond McFadden's Home . |
| 04 June 2007 - Evening Meeting - Club Assembly - Foyle Golf Centre - 6.00 for 6.30pm |
| PE Eamonn Gee and his team will outline their plans for 2007-08. |
| The usual golf competition will precede the AGM. Tee-offs from 3.00pm. . |
| 09 June 2007 - Fund Raising Evening - Everglades Hotel This is a major event for corporate friends and fellow Rotarians. Contact PE Eamonn Gee for further details. |
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| 11 June 2007 - Lunch Time Meeting |
| Council Reports. |
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| 13 June 2007 - Wednesday - Kids' Out Day |
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| 18 June 2007 - Lunch Time Meeting |
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| 25 June 2007 - Lunch Time Meeting |
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| 02 July 2007 - Lunch Time Meeting - Changeover Day. |
| President Pat Kelly will hand over his chain of office to President Elect Eamonn Gee. |
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| The Rotary Club of Londonderry © 2007. |
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