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RIBI President Mike
Webb
visits
Arbury Rotary Club
8 September
2005
Left to right - Mike Webb,
President of RIBI,
Mick Larder, President of Arbury Rotary Club and
David Robinson, District Governor D1060
It was a great honour for the Rotary Club
of Arbury to welcome Mike Webb to their weekly meeting at Weston Hall Hotel
at Bulkington.
On this special occasion the Arbury Club
members were joined by many Rotarians, wives and friends from all over
Warwickshire.
Mike, our National President has been a
member of the Rotary Club of Mendip in Somerset for about 30 years as well
as leading a group study exchange team to New Zealand and making a number of
films for Sightsavers and other charities in India, Africa and Bangladesh.
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BASIC LIFE
SUPPORT SKILLS
Basic life support skills and actions were ably demonstrated to members of
the Rotary Club of Arbury and the Inner Wheel Club of Arbury in a "hands on"
lecture and demonstration by two specialists from the George Eliot Hospital.
 Over
50 people attended the evening, at The Weston Hall Hotel, Bulkington, which
was arranged by Mr. Krishna Prasad, a consultant surgeon at The George Eliot
Hospital, and a member of the Rotary Club of Arbury. The two specialist
demonstrators were Mrs. Claire Roberts, the Resuscitation Officer at The
George Eliot Hospital and Dr. Meera Lele, a consultant in anaesthesia and
intensive care, also based at the local hospital.
Dr
Lele explained that the purpose of basic life support is to keep the heart
pumping and the patient breathing. The most common situations in which basic
life support can be applied are heart attacks, fainting, strokes and brain haemorrhages. Dr. Lele said that the symptoms of heart attacks were chest
pains, and collapse, with the main causes being blood clots, thickening of
the arteries and bleeding in the arteries in the heart.
Mrs.
Roberts and Dr. Lele then demonstrated, with the use of medical mannequins,
exactly what to do to help a victim. A lone individual, knowing the basic
skills and actions, could do a lot to help a victim, and the actions were
quite simple to perform.
The
audience then spent time practising the actions on the 5 mannequins which
are flexible models of the human head. neck and trunk, and fully illustrated
notes were given to all present.
 This
was followed with a demonstration of how to help a victim of choking and
then an Automated External Defibrillator was used on a mannequin. This model
spoke out clearly the instructions of how it should be used. Defibrillators
are becoming more available now in large shops, factories and places where
there are lots of people, for use by the First Aid people in those centres.
 The
Arbury Rotarians and Inner Wheel members felt the evening had been a great
success and people realised they could help in urgent situations, although
they were not medically trained, but the first priority was to call for
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THE
ROTARY CENTENNIAL
The Rotary Club of Arbury decided some
time ago to commemorate the 100th birthday of Rotary
International, with specific projects for Nuneaton, and 3 were decided upon.
The biggest is the awarding of a series of Bursaries for students at the
local King Edward VI College. These Centennial Bursaries are for students
who go on to study for a degree after their Advanced Level course at the
College. The first Bursary was awarded for September 2004 to Nuneaton
student Laura
Willdig, to study at the University of Wales.
 Immediately
after securing the A level
grades to start her course, King Edward VI student Emma Massey was named as
the recipient of the bursary for 2005. The
Award is worth £600 over her 3-year degree course
at the University of Teeside. Laura and Emma attended the Rotary Club
Meeting at Weston Hall Hotel, Bulkington and both addressed the Club after
receiving their cheques from Club President Mike Larder.
A further Award will be
given for September 2006 and again for the next few years. The students in
King Edward VI College are encouraged to work in the community on a
voluntary extra-curricula basis. The annual Bursary is awarded to the
applicant deemed to have provided most worthwhile service in Nuneaton and
Bedworth during the 2 years of the Advanced Level course.
 The 100th year of Rotary
International has ended and the Centennial Presidents of the Rotary
Clubs of Arbury, Bedworth and Nuneaton visited the floral clock alongside
the Council House in Nuneaton. The Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council
had agreed to the Rotary Club of Arbury request that the floral bedding
should commemorate 100 years of Rotary in the world and this was one of the
Arbury Club’s projects for Nuneaton.
The photograph
shows Immediate past
presidents John Mills from the Rotary Club of Arbury, Brian
Merry from the Bedworth Club and John Shirley from the Nuneaton Club. The
flower background to the clock is set out to show the Rotary badge and has
the words: ROTARY 100 YEARS
The third project in support of
Nuneaton refers to the Nuneaton Heritage Centre.
The premises in Avenue Road were originally the Chilvers
Coton Free School founded in about 1735 by Lady Elizabeth Newdigate for the
purpose of educating "30 of the poor of the Parish". After many
different uses the building was taken over in 1998 by the Chilvers Coton
Centre Trust and has continued ever since as the Chilvers Coton Heritage
Centre
 
The clock had not worked properly for some years and when the
Nuneaton Carnival Committee donated £150 to the Heritage Centre some 3
years ago, costs of refurbishment and of a new clock were investigated. As a
result, the Rotary Club of Arbury and the Rotary Club of
Nuneaton have donated £600 each for the purchase and
erection of a new clock, which is now in position on the peak of the roof
of the building overlooking the car park and the Craft Centre.
The town's Clubs joined forces to donate the clock, as part of both Clubs
celebrations of the 100th anniversary of the formation of the worldwide organisation,
Rotary International.
A commemorative plaque was unveiled on 12 June by the
Chairperson of the Heritage Trust, Mrs Beryl Kerby. Also in attendance
were representatives of the 2 Rotary Clubs and the Carnival Committee who were
shown on the photograph.
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