It was my great pleasure on Tuesday evening, on behalf of the club, to formally congratulate Steve Elms for his Paul Harris Award which had been presented to him by District last week for his work with Fun Day. A worthy recipient if ever there was one. Well done Steve.
Fortunately, we had Chas at club with his posh camera to also get a picture of our victorious winners of the Pepper Pot Golf Challenge held in France. Unlike the European Ryder Cup team, we did retain the trophy so congratulations to Geoff and his team for another excellent performance. I think they also enjoyed themselves by the look on their faces!
Tom Corkery gave us an excellent talk about life and working in Dubai which he did for a couple of years. Some brilliant little anecdotes such as having someone to clean your sunglasses for you and having weddings that last three days with no women invited including the bride.
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It was a shame that less than 20 members were at club night on Tuesday. I have noticed a decline in numbers since I became President, this is beginning to concern me particularly as the standard and variety of speakers has been excellent. Perhaps it is me or am I becoming paranoid?!
On the subject of speakers I went to visit Denise and her husband Stan today (Thursday) who has a very serious form of Alzheimers Disease. Both will be at club on 28th Oct and Denise will start her talk with a clip from a TV programme that featured them both. As someone who knew Stan before he was ill, I found it very difficult to watch without tears. Even for those who do not know them I think you will be very moved. I am glad that some of our members answered the call and are also supporting the local Alzheimer’s Society by attending a show at the Hazlett Theatre on Saturday. I am sure we will enjoy a really good evening.
Finally…. I emptied the Well again this week. This time I went armed with surgical gloves bearing in mind some of the rather unpleasant articles which were thrown in last week. (see earlier posts). Alongside the £27.75 in coins were the usual drinking straws, bottle tops and crisps. In addition this time we had vinegar soaked chips and some cake which had clearly been squeezed through the two inch diameter hole! Once again thanks to the users of Maidstone Leisure Centre for their generosity (I mean that seriously for those who donated and used the well properly) and no thanks to the remainder of the erks who have found themselves an amusing pastime of defacing something that is there to help others less fortunate in the community. They are probably the same ones who have stolen a wheelchair that we use for our disabled swimmers each week, but that’s another story.