Open day Friday 24th September

Allister McGowan

The Friday 24th September lunch meeting was planned as a day to open our club meeting to enable members to bring business colleagues and friends  to our meeting to showcase what Rotary is about.

We had some 10 visitors and 1st VP Gary welcomed them and gave a short talk on the aims and principles of Rotary.

We were also thankful to Allister McGowan who filled in at short notice after our arranged speaker had to cancel. Allister  gave us an excellent talk on the Police and fire Games which had taken place in Northern Ireland in the summer of 2013

Allister told us how he came to believe that Northern Ireland could host this big event when he was attending the games in Ottawa. After gaining support from authorities here he then took on the mantle of heading up the organisation of what became a hugely successful event. He particularly mentioned the volunteers and we had several associated Club members  who had  volunteered -Robin Holliday and Margaret, Melanie Minshull and Margaret McDonough.

Melanie and daughter

Margaret and PP Billy