Rotary Club of Gibraltar donates £2000 to Calpe House

Julian Risso, this year’s Rotary Club President has presented a cheque for £2000 to Charlie Tilbury (chairman of the Calpe House Trust). These funds were raised by the Saint Michael’s Cave Rotary Charity concert which in total raised over £5000 profit for charity (half of which has already been donated to the new Royal Gibraltar Regiment Charitable Benevolent fund).

“The Rotary Club is honoured to be associated with this excellent organization which provides so much help and support to Gibraltarians and their families who require serious medical treatment in the U.K.” said Julian. “We hope these funds will help Calpe House to continue to be a home away from home for sick Gibraltarians for many years to come” said Julian.

Rotary Outing to Micro-Brewery

Rotarians enjoyed an outing on 8th March to the micro-brewery Kettal in Los Barrios. I think the pictures say it all!





Rotary Club Gibraltar Donates to Calpe House

Julian Risso, this year’s Rotary Club President has presented a cheque for £2000 to Charlie Tilbury (chairman of the Calpe House Trust). These funds were raised by the Saint Michael’s Cave Rotary Charity concert which in total raised over £5000 profit for charity (half of which has already been donated to the new Royal Gibraltar Regiment Charitable Benevolent fund).

 “The Rotary Club is honoured to be associated with this excellent organization which provides so much help and support to Gibraltarians and their families who require serious medical treatment in the U.K.” said Julian. “We hope these funds will help Calpe House to continue to be a home away from home for sick Gibraltarians for many years to come” said Julian.

Our Roman Experience in Chester

Gibraltar Rotarian Gordon Vickers is the owner of the Mill Hotel and Spa, a famous venue situated in Chester. Mr Vickers kindly donated the star prize which was raffled at a sell-out Charity Concert in aid of local charities hosted at St Michaels Cave by the Rotary Club of Gibraltar last year.

The prize consisted of a full board three-night stay for two persons over the Valentine's weekend. Also included were flights courtesy of Monarch Airlines and airport transfers by private car to the Mill Hotel in Chester. The package incorporated £100 worth of beauty treatments at the Spa, a historical walking tour of Chester with a Roman soldier in attendance and to end it all a Valentine's three-course dinner at the 55 Club in Gibraltar on our return.

My wife and I were the fortunate winners of this prize and on Friday11th February we boarded the midday Monarch flight at Gibraltar Airport headed for Manchester. After enjoying the flight we were collected at the Airport by Hotel Official Dave in his private car and driven to the Hotel, a 40 minutes drive away on the motorway.

On arrival at the Hotel we were shown to our balcony room where a bottle of champagne on ice and a bouquet of red roses were waiting for us. The standard of the room was excellent and included a Jacuzzi bath, flat screen TV and nice décor and furnishings. After sipping some of the champagne in the balcony overlooking the canal and in the hotel's own broad-beam luxury restaurant cruiser we headed for the Spa. There we enjoyed a fish pedicure followed by a full body Swedish massage, again the friendly staff and full range of treatments and facilities were second to none.

The dining experience started off with a three course dinner dance, where we were entertained by a lovely female singer during our meal, followed by a Valentine's dinner cruise on the Saturday evening .This is definitely a highly-recommended one of a kind experience, finished off by a Roman high tea cruise on Sunday afternoon and a Roman feast on Sunday evening. I must say that the quality of the food and presentation were really first class.

The Mill Hotel and Spa package with its superb facilities makes it a premier short break destination where you can also enjoy Chester’s rich history and great shopping experience. All in all top class facilities with great food matched with personal friendly service that couldn't be beaten.

We had a really memorable time!

Jinson Lima

Rotary hosts Afghanistan heroes

The Rotary Club of Gibraltar was honoured last Tuesday with a visit from three soldiers seriously injured in Afghanistan. The soldiers, Ben Parkinson, Andy Allen and Jake Barnett were introduced by Rotarian and Royal British Legion Chairman, Mr Momy Levy to a loud round of applause. Also present was well known local personality and British legion member Mr Pepe Fabre. Rotarian President,

Mr Julian Risso thanked and praised the soldiers for all their efforts. When it was announced that Jake Barnett had just turned 20 years old the previous day all Rotarians present sang Happy Birthday.

 

Mr George Williams, his wife Joanne and Mr Gordon Vickers, invited the three soldiers, their families and Mr Pepe Fabre to dinner at the Waterfront Restaurant and to lunch on Saturday at 14 on the Quay.

Rotary Xmas Auction 2010

Rotary Concert for Charity

The Rotary Club of Gibraltar recently held a Christmas Charity Concert in St Michael's Cave. The evening was well attended with over three hundred members of the public supporting the event. The programme started with the National Anthem played by the full Band of the Royal Gibraltar Regiment and conducted by the band master, Justin Gooch.



The Royal Gibraltar Regiment Band directed by Justin Gooch



This was followed by a selection of music from the band accompanied by the magical vocal skills and sounds of the National Choir directed by Lili Olivero. A beautiful rendition of Hallelujah was sung by soloist Jamie Barry and Manuel Bonavia delighted everyone with his excellent guitar medley. The first half of the programme ended with the spectacular and eerie performance of the 'skeleton' dance, a display rarely seen outside military circles executed by the corps of Drums of the Royal Gibraltar Regiment.

National Choir directed by Lili Olivero

Jamie Barrie & Manuel Bonavia



Corp of Drums



The prize draw was held at the beginning of the second half of the programme. The lucky winner received an all-inclusive Romantic Valentine's Weekend for two at the Mill Hotel & Spa in the Roman city of Chester, UK with return flight tickets from Gibraltar to Manchester kindly donated by Monarch Airlines ending in a romantic special Valentine's dinner at the 55 Private Members Club in Main Street, Gibraltar. The prize and bouquet of flowers was jointly presented by the owner of the Mill Hotel (and long-standing Rotarian) Mr Gordon Vickers together with Miss Gibraltar, Larissa Dalli who was escorted on to the stage by Rotary President, Mr Julian Risso.



Julian Risso, Henry Sacramento, Larissa Dalli, Gordon Vickers & winner



The second half of the programme continued with young soloist Kate McCullough delighting everyone with her song 'Time to Say Goodbye' followed by soloist Phillip Borge's performance of 'Remember when it Rained'. Gibraltar's own virtuoso pianist, Aaron Monteverde, once again amazed the audience with two accomplished pieces, the first from Spanish composer, Campuzano followed by Mr. Monteverde's own composition 'Libertad'.





Kate McCullough










Phillip Borge







Aaron Monteverde



Altogether the performers created a really memorable charity concert in a truly unique and majestic setting.

The entire evening was professionally compered by Mr Henry Sacramento.

Henry Sacramento



Present were His Excellency the Governor and Patron of the Gibraltar Rotary Club, Sir Adrian Johns, his wife Suzie, the Commander British Forces, Mr Tom Karsten and the Commanding Officer of the Royal Gibraltar Regiment Lt. Col. Colin Risso MC were present

A huge thank you goes out to the public who attended, sponsors & the artists & everyone who helped to make this event an unparallelled success. The evening enabled the Rotary Club of Gibraltar to raise a substantial amount for worthy local charities such as Calpe House & the Royal Gibraltar Regiment Welfare Fund.