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Striding ahead Totnes speaks out
This year, the St Michael’s Way walk has put more
than £1,600 towards kitting-out the new Out- Children’s author Tanya Landman was this year’s
Patients’ Department of West Cornwall Hospital. visiting speaker at the Speak Out! And Literacy
The walk, now in its 13th year, is organised by Day organised in February at King Edward VI
Mounts Bay Rotary Club, and has raised more Community College by Totnes RC.
than £100,000 for local, national and international
causes thus far. “Children are our future,” was her message. “As
The Hospital cheque was presented by President- such they have the right to be literate, to read,
Elect Eric Bilkey to Caroline Row, chairman of the express themselves, to learn from the past and to
Hospital’s League of Friends. Pictured are (l-r) Jim empathise with others.”
Blain, one of the walk’s organisers, Caroline Row
and Gill Prodger, from the League of Friends, and Rotary’s 2016 Speak Out! Event was the club’s
Eric Bilkey. chance to reward students from Diptford Primary
and KEVICC for their participation on the Young
More from Chris Relf, Secretary, on Writer and Young Photographer competitions.
pelf.pz@gmail.com.
On hand were newly appointed Totnes Youth
Project Worker Kerry McCabe, with Governors,
KEVICC Principal Alan Salt and English teacher
Thomas Jennings,teachers, parents, Rotarians,
and students. District Governor Elect Stephen
Lay, his wife Carol (Youth Services Chair)
presided.
Topics for the five-minute presentations by
groups of three or four were “Healthy Eating”
(Broadhempston Primary); “Healthy Drinking” and
“Tigers” (Diptford Primary) and “People who save
our lives” (Marldon Primary). Afterwards, students
were congratulated on their expert delivery, as
well as the instructive, interactive and engaging
nature of their subject choice in feedback from
Rotarian panel members before receiving
Commendation Certificates and book tokens for
themselves and for their schools.
