COMBER PRIMARY SENDS HELP TO HAITI
When the children of Comber Primary School made their decision to send a ShelterBox to help with the relief efforts in Haiti they were keen to see for themselves what the contents of their box would be.
ROTARY SAYS: THANKS AGAIN COMBER!
For the second time this month the Rotary Club of Comber wants to offer its thanks to the people of Comber for their enormous generosity in giving to good causes.
THANK YOU COMBER
The people of Comber have donated enough funds for the Rotary Club of Comber to immediately buy another ShelterBox – and they have made a substantial contribution towards a second one.
COMBER ROTARY SEEKS FUNDING AT FAIR IN THE SQUARE FOR ADDITIONAL SHELTERBOXES
Some weeks ago we reported the Rotary Club of Comber’s immediate response through their organisation’s ShelterBox scheme to the string of catastrophic disasters which had struck areas around the Pacific within days of each other.
COMBER PRIMARY JOINS IN CAMPAIGN TO “END POLIO NOW”
Comber Primary School has raised £300 for Rotary International’s “End Polio Now” campaign, and three of its young pupils were there last week to hand over the school’s cheque to John Beers, President of the Rotary Club of Comber.
TOLLYMORE TALK
Despite an area in excess of 1,200 acres and some 20 miles of pathways, nearly 90% percent of visitors to Tollymore Forest Park venture no more than 500 metres from the car park.
BATTLE OF THE ROTARY YOUNG CHEFS
Four young cooks from Downpatrick schools battled it out last week to represent the area in the next stage of Rotary’s Young Chef of the Year competition. After a closely contested 2½-hour cook-off, 14-year-old Catherine Burns from Crossgar emerged as winner.
COMBER ROTARY CHOOSES KERRIE AS ITS “YOUTH LEADERSHIP” CHAMPION
The Rotary Club of Comber has selected Kerrie Stevenson from Downpatrick to be its representative in Rotary’s annual Youth Leadership challenge. Kerrie, a pupil of Down High School, was chosen from nine finalists from the wider Comber district – including competitors from Assumption Grammar School, Ballynahinch; Down High School; the Killinchy Activity Group and Killinchy Boys Brigade – who had been whittled down from an original 24 local applicants.
Call to Young Musicians and their Teachers: The Search is on for Northern Ireland’s Young Musician of the Year 2010
The search has begun to find Northern Ireland’s next Young Musician of the Year. Open to entrants from all corners of Northern Ireland, the competition is for solo instrumentalists aged 12-16 years inclusive, and singers aged 12-18 years inclusive.
COOK ISLANDS INSIGNIA FOR COMBER ROTARY “CHIEF”
Past President Ken Brundle has returned to the Rotary Club of Comber bearing gifts from the Cook Islands.
