The Rotary Club of Corringham Thameside

On Saturday 4th December we will be holding our annual Give-A-Can appeal at Morrison’s Supermarket in Corringham. We invite customers to donate a can of food which will be passed to the homeless via The Salvation Army. PLEASE GIVE GENEROUSLY TO THIS WORTHWHILE CAUSE.

On Sunday 5th December, the club will be manning our own sideshow – “The Original One Armed Bandit” at the Billericay Christmas Market, where we hope to raise funds for local charities. PLEASE SUPPORT US.

David Fenn the current club president was interviewed by Elizabeth Grant today for Gateway FM. Elizabeth has written a lovely ‘blog’ about Rotary and in particular some off the things we do here in our club. Her blog can be found here

At the club meeting held on Thursday 11th November, the club members competed for the Reg Edwards Trophy. The trophy is presented in the memory of a former club President, and started as a darts competition. In recent years this has been broadened out to encompass virtually any competitive game contrived by the members. In previous years we have competed for the trophy by playing such diverse activities as “Remote controlled Sumo wrestling,” “carpet golf” and “miniature darts”. The competition winner is expected to arrange the following year’s competition. 2009 winner, Danny Lawrence was unable to attend, so club President David Fenn took on the responsibility for this year’s competition. Returning to the original concept of darts. Only this was to be “Brain Darts”. Each segment of the dartboard was allocated a subject, and points were awarded to those who answered the questions correctly. The scores were exactly the same as for darts, with singles, doubles and trebles – the higher the score the more difficult the questions. Competitors had to score 301 and end with a double. Competition was fierce with natural competitive instincts to the fore. Finally, Doug Nash emerged as the winner, and was presented with the trophy and with the dubious honour of having to come up with a new game next year. In true Rotary traditions there was much fun and merriment, and as usual the overall winner was the fellowship of our fellow members.