THE ROTARY CLUB OF FERNDOWN & PARLEY

In this issue

Maddy’s Memo

Dublin Visit

Bournemouth Run

Liz Morris

A Greek Odyssey

Step Outside

Quirky Quiz

Eco Greenhouse

Inner Wheel

Slimmer of the Year

Chernobyl Life Line

Meets at Dudsbury Golf Club

64 Christchurch Road

Ferndown BH22 8ST

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Maddy’s Memo

October has been a busy month for the Ferndown and Parley Club starting with a number of Rotarians helping out at the Bournemouth Marathon in sup-port of the Wessex Cancer Trust. We then had a visit from Rotarians from Dublin North, Ireland who visited the club for a couple of days. A number of our Rotarians joined them on a guided visit to Salisbury followed by a dinner at an Italian restaurant. Our thanks to Bill Field and Mike Fenner in particular for co-ordinating and ensuring they were well looked after. The next day they joined us for our new members evening on the Wednesday. It was great to hear what their Club is doing in Dublin supporting both the young through their Literacy initiative and the elderly through their music events for those with Dementia. Good work Dublin North. A number of us joined President Helen and the Ladies of the Ferndown Inner Wheel for their Charter Celebrations. We were made to feel extremely wel-come and enjoyed a superb meal. It was evident how proud our Inner Wheel colleagues are of their club. On the same evening Jenny Tolman hosted the very popular Quirky Quiz which proved to be another successful fundraiser our thanks to Jenny and all who played and helped on the night . This month we have had two excellent speakers I personally learnt so much on both evenings. Liz Morris spoke on “ My Life and Autism “ and John Martindale. spoke on Chernobyl Children's Lifeline. Both speakers were ex-tremely informative and inspiring at the same time. To wrap the month up we have had a welcome boost to publicity for the club both via the West Parley Autumn Newsletter and a Radio Interview with Forest FM to promote our November Gin Fest in aid of local Charities. We are always grateful for the opportunity to promote Rotary, the work we do and our Fundraising events. Looking forward to all that November is promising: a Fabulous Gin Fest, a visit from Wimborne Club, our shoe box initiative to which so many have signed up and Christmas Lights with the big switch on by Julie Robinson and Sarah Farmer. Keep up the good work everyone.

Maddy

Dublin Visit Even though only two came it was still a great couple of days, Mike Fenner did his usual brilliant tour guide showing everyone around Salisbury Cathedral and then we all met in the evening at Barrolo,s for an Italian meal which we all enjoyed as you can se from the photo’s, especially Mike Fenner. Jack and Dan joined us for the Club Meeting which was a New Members meeting. Where he gave us some ideas for projects the Club might be interested in.

Bournemouth Marathon Club members doing their bit marshalling the marathon at Hengistbury Head, I don’t think it is anything to do with them but next year there will be no marathon in stead it is just going to be a fun run.

Autism Spectrum Disorder A brilliant talk by Paul Harris Fellow Liz Morris gave us an insight to how difficult it was to bring up her two sons who suffer from this disorder, what a great job she has done, to see her two sons doing community work was amazing, but her work didn’t end there she worked in the com-munity helping others as well. Her Paul Harris was certainly earned and deserved.

A Greek Odyssey Beware of Greeks bearing gifts, especially if it’s Ouzo or Retsina

Step Outside Allotment Group Harvest Fest Party

The Step Outside Group has invited us to attend “Step Outside” late Au-tumn get together on Tuesday 19th November . There will be a chance to have a look at their new raised beds, which are part of the Growing Spaces Project at Kingston Lacy.

Weather permitting after the tour of the allotments from 1.30pm there will be tea and cake at Pamphill Village Hall

118 allotments for the community have been made available on the National Trust’s Kingston Lacy estate in Dorset. 40 allot-ments for members of the local community; 26 for school and community groups and a further 52 subsidised plots for individuals referred through local housing associations. The new allotments are the culmination of two years work by the gardening team at the Kingston Lacy estate. £102,000 in fund-ing has been provided by the National Lot-tery Local Food Scheme as well as £30,000 from Local Action Group, Sowing Seeds.

THE QUIRKY QUIZ – SATURDAY 19th OCTOBER On Saturday 19th October, we held another of our popular “Quirky Quizzes” at St Mark’s Church Hall in Parley. This is one of the events which featured in the programme of the Parley Club and which we were keen should continue in the newly merged Ferndown and Parley set-up. Despite the unfortunate clash with The Inner Wheel Charter Night, which meant that quite a few who would have liked to attend the quiz were busy elsewhere, we nonetheless wel-comed 66 people. Grateful thanks to David Allen, Gordon Lewis, John Remnant, Jim Sand-ers and Peter Stockwell Jones who all turned up at 5.30pm to make sure that we could get tables and chairs set up and the technical issues ironed out in time for the 7pm start. Jenny Tolman wrote the quiz as usual and was aided by family members, Lawrence, Miran-da, Barnaby and Rory Long. Lawrence asked the questions and Jenny gave the answers, expanding with explanations where appropriate. Miranda collected the outstanding team money, recorded the scores and oversaw the food distribution in her usual ultra- efficient style. Barnaby operated the laptop and moved the Power-point slides of the questions along so that they were projected on to the white doors at the far end of the hall. This visual aid helped all teams. Rory did an excellent job of selling the raffle tickets. “White noise” from the PA system prevented us from playing the music round which 13 year-old Barnaby had edited from a list of tracks suggested by Jenny, but an alternative round was substituted and so we were able to carry on with the minimum of disruption. Competition was tight at the top. Jim Sanders team “No Doubt”, including a very much “on form” John Bartholomew, amongst others, was leading going into the final round... but there were 7 other teams on their heels. As usual though, the dilemma round had its effect and sorted out the contenders. The Wareham team, captained by Debbie Dunford, just managed to come out on top on 70 points (out of a possible 75). They managed to get every answer in the final round correct without using their joker. They were though closely fol-lowed by last year’s winners Jeff Bowden’s team, “The Dorset Duffers”, on 69, who were, in turn, closely followed by two teams on 68 points. It took a tie-break question to decide 3rd place, with Sue Tovey’s team just pipping Clive Grewcock’s team “Rab Nod on Tour”. Our particular commiserations go to Bournemouth North. They had been going well until they got tripped up early in the finale. Never mind guys and gals.. believe me ..it has happened to us all ...and we wish you better luck next time! We are grateful to Herbie’s Fish and Chips who delivered the 70 meals “bang on time” at 8.30pm and also to Herbie’s, David Scholes, Jim Sanders and Miranda for donating raffle prizes. Thanks also go to Ian Pounds of Longham Motors for both a raffle prize and the prizes for the winning team. We are pleased to report that proceeds for local charities were just over £500. The generous applause and encouraging reaction at the end of the evening confirmed our suspicions that attendees would welcome another “Quirky Quiz” in the not too distant future.

Slimmer of the Year Gordon Lewis receiving his prize a Voucher for a meal at the Chewton Glen Hotel donated by Helen Chiari for losing the most weight , this was for the second year running. I think he will have be barred next year, though I think he might have put a little bit of weight back on after coming back from yet another Cruise.

Eco greenhouse at RHS Chatsworth

Chris & Mike Webb

It started in 2016 with Bakewell Rotary’s request to the RHS that we have a stand displaying an Eco greenhouse at their new Show at Chatsworth. As we are the local Rotary Club, we felt it would be good publicity. However, the person we met ( RHS Shows Organiser ) had no idea that there was a link with Rotary and knew nothing about Purple for Polio although they do support the initiative. After some months’ delay, it was suggested we became volunteers at the Show – but would not be Rotary but RHS volunteers – not what we wanted but there was a promise that at a planning meeting our request would be considered for the following year. Two years later, and after numerous emails even involving Janine Birtwistle, we were given per-mission to have a stand. It was a very last-minute decision which involved urgent emails and phone calls but after their deadline, we started to fill in the appropriate forms and enlist volun-teers. Thanks to the support of our neighbouring Clubs – Matlock, Hope Valley and Wirksworth, we had sufficient volunteers to man the site for 8 hours a day for the 5 days of the Show. The evening before the greenhouse was due to be erected, we didn’t have one as it had not been delivered but thanks to the supplier’s driver, who made a special journey, all was back on track!! That weekend a team of volunteers from all Clubs built the greenhouse frame and added some bottles to show the ‘work in progress’. Thanks to the easy-to-follow instructions from the supplier, RSJ, it was a fairly straightforward task involving about 4 helpers and basic tools and was completed in less than 4 hours. Needless to say, it was great team work encouraged by regular refreshment! The first morning the public were let in, from the beginning it was obvious that the concept of an eco-friendly greenhouse was proving popular. Gardening enthusiasts from all over the world were stopping to admire, comment and ( more importantly ) take leaflets. I am not sure how many times we used the word Rotary but we certainly made everyone who stopped more aware of our organisation! Around the walls of our hut were photographs showing the stages of building the greenhouse and it was soon evident that visitors were impressed by how easy it is to assemble. “The best thing I’ve seen here!” was a comment made more than once and “What a brilliant way to link schools and businesses!” and “It would look good in our community garden or on an allotment.” As we were situated next to the schools’ individual contributions to the theme of ‘Using your Senses’, we had a visit from one school ( all the pupils ) which was interesting - but their enthusi-asm was good to see! We had more families visiting at the weekend so more schools/organisations were provided with food for thought. We had donations of bottles during the week too and once they were cut, they were ready to be inserted onto the canes by passing visitors. The canes can be adjusted to suit the diameter of the bottles to make the greenhouse water and wind proof which was just as well as the weather was not good every day! At the end of the Show, again a team of 4 were sufficient to dismantle the greenhouse in a very short time ( less than an hour! ). The sides and roof panels can remain intact and are easy to transport flat – pack ready for delivery to their permanent home. If the Club want’s we will send a supply of flyers we handed out at Chatsworth.

Mike Webb

INNER WHEEL CLUB OF FERNDOWN

October provided active and pleasurable events.

The International Service Lunch on the 3rd which was a great success. Sandra Simmonds gave a fascinating insight into her life “Under the Veil”. We welcomed District Chairman Jane Inman to our business meeting on the 14th along with visiting Rotarians Fiona Knight and Elaine Phillips (Ferndown) and Pam Coniam (Bournemouth). Jane encouraged members to value the club’s achievements over the years and to be flexible for the future. Elaine discussed our participation in Santa’s Grotto at the turning on of Ferndown Christmas Lights on 30 November.

Jane evidently couldn’t keep away(!), joining us at the end of the same week for our Charter Anniversary dinner at Ferndown Golf Club. It was good to greet former members, some of whom have relocated to other parts of the country to be near family.

Amy Brenan, owner of Heirlooms in Wareham, shared her passion for antique jewellery from as early as the 18th century and for pieces ‘with a story’ through to the 20th century. She passed round breath taking gems to illustrate, and did valuations on items brought by members.

Sheila Smith receiving an award from District Chairman Jane Inman

We are contributing shoe boxes to the Rotary District 1110 scheme.

Mary Tuffrey

Inner Wheel Charter Night Lighting the Candles

President Helen and her Husband Les with some of her guests District Chairman-Jane ,President Maddy, President Elect Keith and his wife July

Wessex Chernobyl Children’s Life Line The Club was visibly moved by John Martindale’s talk on all that his team did for these children and the benefit that they received by the 4 week recuperation away from Belarus. The amount of support that was received from local people and business’s was staggering. From Dentists, Opticians, Monkey World, Lush and Cobhams the list was endless. It is hoped that the Club might try and support the Life Line financially next year. A very moving Vote of Thanks was given by Bill Dinwoodie and I feel sure we all felt the same.

The Object of Rotary The object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and fos-ter: 1. The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service. 2. High ethical standards in business and professions, and the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations and the dignifying of each Rotarian’s occupation as an opportunity to serve society. 3. The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian’s personal, business and community life. 4. The advancement of international understanding, goodwill and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.

The “Four-Way Test” First: Is it the truth Second: Is it fair to all Concerned? Third: Will it build goodwill and better friendships Fourth: Will it be beneficial to all concerned

Business Partners of Ferndown Rotary Club

Helping Our Community Haskins Garden Centres Henderson’s Opticians

Hendy Group Motor Dealers A.E.Jolliffe & Sons, Funeral Directors

Moors Pharmacy Simon R Puddle, Certified Accountant

Swift Body Repairs The Practice at Ferndown, Osteopaths

We are extremely grateful for their support