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Rotary Goes to Romford Market T


hanks to a contact in


the Rotary Club of Havering East we have been given access to a pitch in Romford Market.As part of the Rotary awareness week the Inter Club Group thought it would be a good idea to use the pitch in the market to collect money for the Bill Gates challenge to eliminate polio throughout the world, and 'wave the Rotary Flag'. We decided to use both of the market days available to us Wednesday 23rd. and Saturday 26th. February. The money collected would be put with anything that we made on the proposed Indian Night.


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n the Wednesday, at 9 a.m., a small group of us set about


decorating the sturdy tent (together with the hardy and regular stall holders) which was provided and erected by the market management. As you can see from the photographs we did a pretty good job. Unfor- tunately the weather did not co-operate on either day, and the takings were disappointingly


low.Also there was a casualty of the weather on those days too. Poor old Dick turned up for his stint to find that the display had been dismantled, and the sodden collectors had gone home!


Unfortunately, Dick did not know (although he had his suspicions) that the empty tent was the abandoned Rotary tent and went up and down the market FIVE times before realising that he was the 'Lone Rotarian Ranger'.


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adly the same thing happened to the weather on the Saturday (not


the Dick saga!) and the total collected for the two days was disappointingly low. However, it was a good experience in several ways and it was decided that we would use the pitch in the future whenever the need arises, and hope that we get better weather and rewards.


W


ell done to all


those Rotarians, from all three clubs , who made the effort to turn out.


Story & photos supplied by


George Larkey 36


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