Melton’s Young Chefs
Following their visit to Stapleford Park Country Hotel, where they had to rise to the challenge of working under the watchful eyes of head chef David Ellams, Lydia Swift of Long Field School and Tom Mallender of Belvoir High School, recently took part in the Northern Rotary Young Chef District 1070 Final in Leicester
With an age range of 11 to 17 the standard at the Final was extremely high and all competitors worked confidently to produce tasty and very professional three course meals.
Lydia’s meal, with a menu of curried parsnip and apple soup; filo pork with apricot stuffing and ratatouille and lime cheesecake cream on a biscuit base, won her the first place, a real achievement given that she was one of the youngest competitors.
Lydia will now represent Rotary District 1070 in the Regional Final to be held in Ilkeston on 24 March 2012.
Well done, Lydia and best of luck!
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Santa’s Sleigh Collection
Our major fundraising event of the year has now taken place with Santa and his sleigh appearing at Tesco and Morrrisons during the day and touring around Melton at night. Assisted by members of Inner Wheel and Round Table, Club members raised the amazing total of nearly £7000. Fundraising Chairman David Brown remarked, “Once again the people of Melton have demonstrated their generosity by giving a record amount at a time when we are all facing greater demands on our finances. The money raised will be used to provide help to many groups and individuals of all ages within the town.”.
While expressing his thanks to everyone invovled, President David added, “In addition to all those people who gave Santa such a tremendous reception throughout the week, the Club would like to thank sincerely, the organisers of the Victorian Market and the managers of the Tesco and Morrisons superstores for inviting Santa on to their premises, during the daytime“
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Melton Belvoir Charter Night
President David together with 112 guests and fellow Rotarians met at the Brooksby Banqueting Suite on Nov 14th for our annual Charter Celebration. The 32 members from Melton Belvoir were joined by 51 Rotarians from 13 other Clubs and 6 members of Melton Belvoir Inner Wheel. 
Joining President David were his top table guests, including Assistant District Governor, Garner Roberts, The Mayor of Melton Mowbray, Alison Freer, Senior Townwarden, Richard Sage and our guest speaker, The Reverend Ray Sowersby
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Rotarians Plant Hope for PolioPlus
During a 10 day period in mid 
October, Melton Belvoir Rotarians – ably assisted by groups of enthusiastic young volunteers – planted 13,000 purple crocus bulbs as part of the programme to raise the awareness of the work being done by Rotarians worldwide to eradicate polio. The bulbs were planted at the new Melton Borough Council offices and at 10 primary schools within the borough.
Organiser, Rotarian David Brown commented, ” The welcome and support we received everywhere we went was fantastic. The schoolchildren were very interested to learn about polio and what is being done to eradicate this dreadful disease“. Club President, David Sharp added, “This is a tremendous effort from David and his team. Well done to everyone who took part!”
I’m sure we all agree with you, David – but should you really be sitting down on the job?
