Double-Jobbing for Comber Rotary President
There’s a busy Rotary year ahead for Rotarian Phillip Beggs – for on top of his responsibilities as President of the Rotary Club of Comber he also has wider charges for the administration of the organisation throughout Great Britain and Ireland.
New Members Welcomed
Craig Competes for National Young Musician Title
The Rotary Club of Comber is sending the winner of its Northern Ireland Musician of the Year contest to represent all of Rotary in Ireland in the finals of the Rotary Young Musician contest for all of Britain and Ireland this weekend.
Comber Rotary Hears About the Bricklayers of Strathearn School
Strathearn Primary School may be an unusual name for a brand new school standing in the outskirts of Kampala. But it’s there as a tribute to the girls of its Belfast namesake – Strathearn School – who not only raised the £50,000 to fund the Ugandan school’s construction but also travelled there last year in two groups of twenty to build it with their own fair hands under the guidance of school Principal, David Manning.
SAINT MARY’S PRIMARY JOIN CAMPAIGN TO “END POLIO NOW”
The pupils of St Mary’s Primary School in Comber have made a magnificent donation of £60 – raised through a non-uniform day – towards the Rotary Club of Comber’s “End Polio Now” campaign.
WINNER OF NORTHERN IRELAND YOUNG MUSICIAN OF THE YEAR 2010
Fifteen-year-old Craig Lutton from Antrim is Northern Ireland’s Young Musician of the Year for 2010. A pupil of Cambridge House School he won the hotly-contested title in the Harty Room at Queen’s University on Saturday, March 6 against competition from 15 other young finalists.
CATHERINE WINS ALL-IRELAND ROTARY YOUNG CHEF CONTEST
Fifteen-year-old Catherine Burns from Crossgar has won outright the title of Rotary’s Young Irish Chef of the Year 2010. A pupil at Down High School and representing the Rotary Club of Comber, she successfully surpassed the challenge from nine other budding young chefs from all over the island in a hotly contested Dublin cook-off.
LIFE-CHANGING EXPERIENCE FOR COMBER ROTARY REPRESENTATIVE
Down High School pupil, Kerrie Stevenson, told the Rotary Club of Comber last week of the “life changing experience” she had had as their representative among a group of young Irish secondary-level students visiting the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
COMBER AND NEWTOWNARDS ROTARY CLUBS JOIN FORCES TO HELP END POLIO NOW
A Rotary collection at the doors of Tesco in Newtownards last Saturday will ensure that 4,375 children will be immunised against polio for life. And the members of the Rotary Clubs of Comber and Newtownards want to offer their thanks to the public for their generosity – and also to the management of Tesco for permitting it to take place.
