Zone 7

Zone 7 - Tayside, Perth & Central           

Zone 7 – Assistant Governor Samantha Miller
Aberfeldy & District	No information
Alloa	No information
Auchterarder & District	The Club are having a sponsored day with the Auchterarder community School on the 11th of February, A press release gives some idea of the events, this will involve about 1000 staff, pupils, Rotarians and helpers. The pupils at different ages will have different tasks to perform and these will be sponsored, at the end each pupil with get a certificate and for the younger pupils a purple pinky. The Club are hoping to get as much press coverage for this event as possible and have been in touch with all the local press as well as larger Scottish papers.
Blairgowrie	No information
Bridge or Allan & Dunblane	The Bridge of Allan RC is planning to involve schools/ pre schools in the Purple Pinkie day on 23d February. They will be making contact with a number of schools on their return from holidays, firstly for the shoe boxes and, on the back of this, Purple Pinkie day. They will try to match the date with the 23d February but this will be at agreement of schools/pre schools. The Club has identified a vacant shop in the main street in Bridge of Allan where they have been able to get permission to put up posters. There is a local 'Fun Day' on Sunday 13th December where we will be running a couple of stalls selling pancakes and a 'bat the rat' game for the kids. All funds raised are for Polio Plus
Callender & West Perthshire	No information
Carse of Stirling	No information
Crief	No information
Perth	Over the period 19th October through until the conclusion of the Rotary Club of Perth's Silent Auction, they will have a double page spread each week in the bi-weekly local newspaper, the Perthshire Advertiser, who are their partners in the the Silent Auction that last year raised £21k towards the new Macmillan Cancer Palliative Care Unit in Perth. The previous year they handed over around £15k from the same project. The spread includes a weekly update on the lots donated plus a few local newsworthy articles either on the charities or the companies who are supporting the Auction. They are once again well advanced in preparation for the Auction, and this year the three charities involved are Macmillan Cancer Care, The Black Watch Heritage Appeal, plus for the first time our own Rotary local and international projects. Within that giving, they will of course be forwarding an amount to the Polio Plus campaign.
Perth Kinnoull	No information
Perth St Johns	Perth St Johns RC has raised a fabulous £1300+ from a sponsored parachute jump by their SVP Paul Kyle. Here is Paul's story of the experience: Geronimo Being slightly claustrophobic the plane journey of 15 minutes to get into the correct position at 14,000 feet was the worst bit. Once they opened the door things got much better!! Three ‘jumpers’ and six members of the Parachute Regiments ‘Red Devils display team (three tandem jumpers and three photographers) fairly filled the small plane – oh and a pilot (well someone had to stay in the plane!). I wasn’t fussed on the cramped conditions but I think I was coping better than the young lady sitting opposite me. She confided that this was her first time ever in and aeroplane - and she was about to jump out of it. She looked very green and very apprehensive, no sick bags were provided and I was glad I was leaving before her. My turn came and ‘we’ sat in the doorway, feet dangling into space with nothing between me and Auchterarder 14,000 feet below. I think I could see Maureen’s house but it looked very small. The cameraman was in position (hanging on to a sill on the side of the aircraft by his fingernails) and then it was up to me to rock to the point of no return then tip forward out of the plane and into fresh air. I had been warned we would ‘naturally’!! flip upside down on exit but would right ourselves – we did and we did - fortunately, as the view was better facing the earth and the parachute was the right way up that way! 0 - 120 MPH (terminal velocity) in 10 seconds felt very fast and had a weird effect on ones cheeks for the one minute it took to fall from 14,000ft to 3,500 ft. It was certainly one of the most exhilarating minutes of my life and seemed considerably longer than a minute. With the ripcord pulled, my concerns turned to where the airfield had gone but fortunately my very good friend behind me seemed to be on that case and it took another few minutes to enjoy the view of Strathearn and tack into position for landing which given the skills of the Red Devil attached to me was very smooth. All in all an interesting experience and it seems a worthwhile one for the Clubs Polio Plus target. At the time of By George publication, £1361 Has been raised by the efforts of the clubs members which is great. I paid for the costs of the jump so all of the money raised by Club members is going to the Clubs Polio Plus target. Thanks everyone again for supporting this effort. …..oh and the last thing I was thinking about on exiting the plane was shouting the names of Indians. If you are keen to have a go speak to Paul.
Pitlochry	No information
Stirling	No information