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Shop talk Admission was free but charities benefited from
funds raised by artists paying a fee to display
Penzance Rotary Club’s shop has done well their work and commission on sales. There was
enough to donate £500 to the Penlee Lifeboat, also a fundraising raffle, with a painting donated
among other causes supported during the year. by Kingsteignton artist Jayne Farleigh, “Steam
and Water” depicting a Collett 1450 locomotive
The lifeboat money will help towards new crew with Auto Coach on the South Devon railway with
facilities in Newlyn, where presently cramped the River Dart in the foreground, as the top prize.
conditions need to be replaced.
Rotary President John Symonds presents the cheque to The proceeds of ArtEx are destined for the Devon
RNLI Coxswain Patch Harvey as Rotarians and shop Air Ambulance, Children’s Hospice South West
and Rotary’s own global eradication project End
volunteers (from left) Tony Home, Matt Martins, Des Hosken Polio Now.
and Sue Home look on.
The Club is also running a charity choral concert
Drawing in the crowds at the Abbey itself on August 20 (Saturday,
7.30pm), with over 150 singers and soloists
Ashburton & Buckfastleigh Rotarians have performing Mozart’s Requiem and Vivaldi’s Gloria.
been running the club’s charity art exhibitions – Entrance is free (retiring collection).
for the 18th year – at the Great Hall of Buckfast
Abbey (July 28 to August 11). More from Peter Kenyon, Secretary, on 01364
643699 or pwk168@talktalk.net.
This summer’s event has attracted paintings from
97 local artists who put 325 original works on
show on the two floors of the hall, which is next
to the Abbey bookshop.
