Page 11 - Rotary Matters - May 2021

Meet your neighbours….

Largs Bay Rotary Club

Largs Bay is 9 members strong but is making a massive impact by refurbishing wheelchairs for use in
developing countries. It sources chairs from government agencies and from members of the public
through its Facebook page.

Sourcing chairs has become more difficult recently with
the changes in health administration with many of the
services now privatised. Once a month it meets at
Donations in Kind at Edinburgh to work on the project.

It meets at the Meals on Wheels kitchen at Osborne,
consistently supports RYPEN and RYLA and it oldest
member is now 90.

The Rotary Club of Northern Yorke Peninsula, in partnership with Harvest Christian School, planted a
Peace Pole at the school to mark the R100 centenary. The project began way back in 1955 and now over
200,000 Peace Poles have been –planted by
Rotary clubs worldwide. The poles have peace
messages in four languages to encourage
peace to prevail on earth. The poles are silent
reminders of a common wish for us all to act
in the spirit of peace.

Rotary Club of Canberra Burley Griffin has
arranged with clubs in Australia to plant
100 poles to mark 100 years of Rotary in this
country. In our district the RC Northern Yorke
Peninsula took up the challenge to plant two
representative poles in D9510. The second
pole is to be planted at Kadina High School
but has been delayed by COVID-19.

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