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    09 July 2008
 
Rotary Centenary
Achievements
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Over the last few years the club has completed many “hands on” projects including:

  • Building a bird watching hide for the public at Quarry Moor
  • Seating at Quarry Moor Nature Reserve
  • Distributing food parcels to the poor
  • Annually, around Christmas, planting and distributing bowls of Hyacinths to the elderly
  • Completing a total ‘Environmental Survey’ of the City of Ripon, so that relevant authorities could rectify problem areas. (The survey looked at things like - bad footpaths, overgrown hedges and dangerous obstructions etc.)
  • Creating an ‘Aromatic Garden’ for the Blind at Allhallows Park

    Aromatic Garden

  • Providing and installing an access ramp and security lighting for the Salvation Army Outreach centre
  • Transporting the elderly to the Salvation Army Christmas lunch
  • Cleaning out the River Skell at Alma Ford
  • Hosting children from abroad during ‘Tours of Yorkshire’
  • Recreating the Ripon Maze in the Spa Park

    The maze in Spa Park

  • Doing gardening for the infirmed
  • Supporting Ripon Children’s Sports day annually
  • Collecting and sending second hand tools to Third World Countries
  • Organising and promoting ‘Crimestoppers’ in Ripon
  • Filling ‘Aqua-boxes’ and ‘Emergency Boxes’ to store and send abroad following any disaster
  • Promoting a ‘drug awareness’ programme for junior schools in the locality
  • Helping with the planting of daffodil bulbs on the Canal side and on the Ripon By-Pass
  • Organising, annually, a ‘Stroke Awareness Day’ in Ripon Market Place
  • Helping, annually, at ‘Ripon Day’ at Ripon Racecourse
  • Together with the ‘Lions’, taking ‘Santa Claus’ and his ‘Sleigh’ round the streets of Ripon in the weeks leading up to Christmas
  • Repainting work at the Ripon Prison & Police Museum for the Museum Trust