Club News

St George’s Day was marked by the club with dinner for forty members & friends and a guest speaker. There was bunting with the flag of St George and tables were also decorated. Red was a popular choice for clothes and there were red roses in several buttonholes.

Chef Richard at Faversham Golf Club served a dinner of traditional English Fayre – a roast beef main course, followed by bread & butter pudding with custard. Delicious!

Heather Knight FSA was the guest speaker. Heather is a Senior Archaeologist at the Museum of London Archaeology. She specialises in the Elizabethan & Jacobean playhouses in London, which were the subject for her very informative and entertaining talk.

Heather explained how modern archaeological investigations are uncovering new evidence which challenges the previously held views about London’s early playhouses.

Shakespeare would of course have known some of these playhouses, both as playwright and actor. He died in 1616 on the 23^rd April – the same day that St George’s Day is celebrated.

There was a table-top quiz which severely tested most guests’ knowledge about St George, although one table scored maximum points. How did they manage that?

All in all, an interesting and fun evening.

A total of 33 members, family & friends recently enjoyed a car treasure hunt arranged by Mandy & Alan. Although not designed as a fund-raiser, a surplus of £76 will be donated to Foundation, the Rotary Charity.

Thanks go to David KM for the maps which participants were given. There were 12 highlighted villages and various questions about each village, but first the anagrams of the village names had to be unscrambled! For example, “did not dong” became Doddington and “grin we ate leg” turned into Wilgate Green. Only then could people decide on their route.

Questions ranged from the straightforward – Where would you find the white horse at Kingsdown? Answer: at Hole Street Farm – to the obscure – Which number will stop you skidding in Painters Forstal? Answer: SW 307 (on the KCC grit box).

And then there were the bonus questions which we were assured we would find the answers to en route! For example – When should you be aware of toads? Answer – January to April (see traffic warning sign at Kennaways).

Not everyone took the most direct route between the villages! Some were heard to say they’d driven down lanes they’d never seen before, but all returned safely for a well-earned cup of tea and cakes.

Faversham Rotary Club recently held a quiz evening at Faversham Golf Club to raise funds for Mary’s Meals.

The quiz had a musical theme, which involved identifying pieces of music as well as trying to recognise images of “musical” people.

For the final round, the participants had to name several different singers who had all recorded ‘A White Christmas’. It’s still being talked about!

The amount raised was just over £400 which will provide a daily meal for more than 20 children for an entire school year.

Mary’s Meals is a charitable organisation that operates in 18 countries world-wide providing meals to more than 2 million children.

The idea is a simple one that works. Community based projects provide one daily meal in a place of learning to attract chronically poor children into the classroom, where they receive an education that can, in the future, be their ladder out of poverty.

For more information about Mary’s Meals or to make a donation please go to www.marysmeals.org.uk