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Mega returns Kids join in
Barnstaple Rotary Club has announced that the proceeds of the
annual MegaDraw have been £20,000 in the past year. The (Picture with permission of Simon Horn,
cumulative total raised for local organisations has now exceeded a Exmouth Journal)
staggering £200,000.
The MegaDraw is organised by Barnstaple’s daughter “Link” club, Rotakids members joined
with support from the parent club. This year, they persuaded local Rotarians, Exmouth in Bloom
councillor Des Brailey to draw more than 120 winning tickets, which and East Devon Council to
were picked at random. plant purple crocuses in Phear
Barnstaple also sold tickets at St John’s Garden Centre and to its Park, Exmouth, last December
own members and this helped raise £765 for its own charitable (see above photograph).
benevolent fund.
The plants were chosen to
Pictured: MegaDraw Hero Lew Baglow; North Devon Council Leader reflect the purple-pink ink that
Des Brailey; President of Barnstaple Link - Mike Willcox. is used to identify children who
have been immunised against
More details: Peter Spencer of Barnstaple at polio worldwide.
peterspencer100@hotmail.com;
or Tony Dart of Barnstaple Link, on tony@tonydart.co.uk. The Exmouth and District
club says that, with the support
of the Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation, it has managed to
raise a grand total of £22,000
towards eradicating the disease
since 2003.

More information: Exmouth
Secretary Malcolm Pressey on
msp@dsl.pipex.com.