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Saturday 3 September, 2022

Rovers Training Weekend

The Rovers Training Weekend in Carlisle commenced with an informal meal at SannaS Sardinian Restaurant on Friday night. Members enjoyed a relaxed atmosphere and there were a lot of favourable comments afterwards about the meal.

Saturday morning commenced with the AGM followed, after a short break by the speech contest. The winner of the contest was Yvonne Baker, pictured below receiving the Tibbie Brown trophy from club president, Rosemary Low.

President Rosemary presenting the trophy to winner Yvonne Baker

After lunch the club parliamentarian, Ruth Maltman, led a workshop on Practical Parliamentary Procedure. The second part of the afternoon was a mini debate chaired by Margaret Robertson.

In the evening we had a meal at the Crown and Mitre hotel followed by table topics led by Nancy Sanderson.

Members and Guests at the Crown and Mitre

Saturday 31 August, 2019

The Rovers Club Training Weekend

Rovers Club are having their annual training weekend, as usual, in Carlisle. This morning the Business Meeting was held followed by the club speech contest.

Linda presenting the trophy to the winner, Laurence


The contestants

In the afternoon members visited Burgh by Sands and St. Michaels, a Norman church.

Carved Corbel

Millennium Mural

In the evening we had a meal at the Crown and Mitre. A little surprise was that a former member of ITC had provided a little reminder of the past.

ITC Napkin

After a good meal, Rosemary led a very entertaining topic session.

Rovers 2019

Monday 25 March, 2019

CALEDONIA COUNCIL SPEECH CONTEST.

The Annual Speech Contest of Caledonia Council was held in the Doubletree by Hilton, Westerwood, Glasgow on Sunday 24th March 2019.

President Iris opened the meeting.

The First item on the Agenda was the Speech Contest

Nancy was the capable Chairman of the Contest.

The timers were Roz and Brendan

The winners were Iris and Diana with Terry and Grace as runners up.

Following lunch there was a short Business Meeting and the final item on the Agenda was an illustrated talk by Iris on Madeira. The meeting closed at 3.30 pm. and all agreed that it had been a most enjoyable day.

Thursday 21 February, 2019

POLLOKSHIELDS CLUB - SPEECH CONTEST.

Pollokshields Club held its annual Speech contest on Wednesday 20th February, 2019 in Hutchesons' Grammar school and welcomed members from Stirling and Rovers.

The contestants anxiously await the start of the contest.

President Scilla, with her usual charm opens the proceedings and introduces the Speech Contest Chairman

Louise - who chairs the contest with charm.

Following the conclusion of the contest the ballot was collected and everyone enjoyed supper.

Following supper, Ruth was introduced and she gave an excellent Education slot/evaluation of the contest.

Finally the winners were announced. Anita and Carole. President Scilla presented them with the Shield.

This was a most enjoyable evening with a delightful surprise at the end when Lauren asked to join the club. Two new members in the past two meetings. We are hopeful that more visitors will come along and perhaps join us.

The next meeting is on 6th March 2019 in Hutchesons' Grammar School - visitors are always welcome.

Saturday 1 September, 2018

Rovers Training Weekend

The Rovers Club is meeting in Carlisle for our annual training weekend. Members met last night for a meal. Proceedings started this morning with the business meeting. This was followed by the speech contest and pictured are (L to R): Yvonne (Speech Contest Chairman), Colin (Contestant). Laurence (Contest Winner with the Tibbie Brown quaich) and Evelyn (Contestant).

Activities continued in the afternoon with a talk by Nancy on her early years on Lewis, a quiz on Etymology led by Diana and a workshop on accents led by Evelyn. As always it was very enjoyable and we learnt a lot.

A more formal dinner will take place tonight and there will be further workshops tomorrow morning before we wind up the weekend and head for home.

Monday 18 June, 2018

Great Britain Region Speech Contest.

Great Britain Region met at the Holiday Inn, Lancaster on Saturday 16th June, 2018.

The Speech Contest was chaired by President Nancy and the winner was Carole from Pollokshields Club.

Contestants and President Nancy with the cup.

Following the Speech Contest the winners of the Writing Contest were announced by Colin

The winner for the non fiction was Evelyn from Rovers

The Fiction Winner was Anita from Pollokshields. Anita was, unfortunately there so Roz, President of Pollokshields accepted the trophy.

The Winner of the Poetry went to Olga from the Netherlands.

There was a short business meeting when the new Constitution was discussed. It had been decided that President Nancy would stay in place until September.

The Financial Year end has been changed to 31st March with the accounts discussed at the AGM.

Members enjoyed the opportunity to meet up with members from other clubs and all enjoyed the meeting.