Dr Who? I am now informed by RNIB that


(Finally!) The Very Last Lost Dr Who – The Ultimate Evil – recorded by me in twelve hours over three days in their Camden studios last year, is now available for sale through all RNIB outlets and could be on sale at any conference where they are booked into the House of Friendship / Fellowship or whatever if the conference Chair organises it. It is worth remembering that the Royalties are divided equally between Foundation Polio Plus campaign, and RNIB. n


Wally K. Daly Kensington Club London, D1130


We would be interested to know if


any other club in this country can claim to meet in a building with such a history, or whether as we believe no other club in this country meets in such an old and continuously occupied building. We would be glad to hear from any other club which thinks it can beat us and we would like you to forward this letter to Evanston for publication worldwide. n


Michael Rooze Past President of the Rotary Club of Hebden Bridge D1040


it appears to me that if we could make this supplement available to these potential new members it would be very useful as a marketing tool. My question really is would it be


possible to get say 20-25 copies of the Rotary Basics supplement which we could use to introduce potential new members to the many faceted work which our wonderful organisation does? n


Ed: Rotary Basics is available from the RI online shop, price 75 cents. Visit www.rotary.org. It complements RIBI’s own new member attraction ‘tool kit’ of leaflets, posters, pull-ups, DVDs etc, available from www.ribi.org/shop.


Howard Griffiths Past RIBI Treasurer Ros would like to thank everyone


An historic meeting place This club has been in existence for just


over fifty years but we believe it has a unique distinction. Does any other club meet in a building with such a history? Our meetings take place in a restaurant


known as II Mulino. That as you probably know is Italian for ‘the mill’. The restaurant is on the first floor of the


building which is indeed the former town mill. The original foundations are still there although the present building is much more recent. The original site of the mill dam is still there as is the mill race taking away the water after turning the wheel. In this area of Yorkshire the mill race is called a goit and its course is the original one, emerging downstream through the old stone structure. The original wheel has long since gone


but it has been recently restored by the owner, sadly not yet a Rotarian, and is now turning again although now instead of grinding corn it generates electricity. The wheel for those of your readers with an interest in such matters set an undershot wheel. The point about this building is that


it received its charter to operate a mill in 1114, and from old records it began operating as a mill the same year. We and the owner are looking forward to celebrating the 900th anniversary of the building in three years time.


who attended Howard’s funeral and sent messages of condolence on his recent passing on 23rd August. Howard had a very rare aggressive cancerous tumour and there was no coming back from that. The family were overwhelmed and greatly comforted by the large attendance at the church and the number of cards and letters sent to them. Howard worked hard for many


charitable organisations even up to the time he was admitted to hospital on 11th July. He is going to be missed considerably by many but none so much as by his family.


Rest in Peace, Howard. n Ros Griffiths


Eamonn O Raghallaigh Secretary of the Rotary Club of Dublin Viking Ireland’s only Breakfast Rotary club


Rosie Kilburn


2010, has passed away aged just 19. Rosie was diagnosed, two years ago, with a rare form of liver cancer but this did not prevent her living life to the full. Her weekly column in a local paper inspired many, she raised thousands for cancer research and her blog, The Knock on Effect, talked openly about her illness in order to break the taboo of talking about cancer. Rosie, from Gloucestershire, became a


I


Basic but benificial I am Secretary of the Rotary Club


of Dublin Viking and a regular reader of “Rotary Today” which I find most informative and interesting. I was particularly interested in the


“Rotary Basics” supplement in the current issue. We hold information meetings for


potential new members a couple of times each year and on the basis that “a photograph is worth 1,000 words”


local superstar for her fundraising efforts, fronting a national campaign, running a very successful art auction in 2009 and starting her own fundraising business to help cancer sufferers and their families. Whenever she spoke of her illness, Rosie bravely insisted she was not a victim. Rosie was nominated for the RIBI


Young Citizen Awards by the Rotary Club of Newent & District and was presented with her award in Bournemouth by BBC presenter Konnie Huq. Rosie passed away on Monday 12th


September surrounded by her family. A full tribute is on the RIBI website.


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t is with sadness that Rotary Today has just learned that Rosie Kilburn, RIBI Young Citizen Award Winner


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