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Rotary Magazine for District 1210

Four winners have been announced for Newport Rotary Lite’s
successful Spot The Oddity competition – and they’re delighted.
Winning entrants have received a £25 voucher to spend in
participating businesses in Newport.

Newport Rotary Lite President Phil Knight said “We’re delighted
we had such a positive response from both people doing the
competition and Newport businesses – the support has been
great, and people have had a lot of fun.”

“The feedback has been brilliant, with several shops reporting
increased footfall, people going into Newport businesses that
they’ve never been in before, and perhaps best of all at the
moment – really enjoying a free activity in the centre of our
town.”
“It was a really simple idea. All you had to do was Spot The
Oddity in the window of participating businesses, find as many
as you could, then just enter the competition. Businesses really
got into the spirit of it – we had David Bowie’s Space Oddity
album in the window of a brilliant electrical store, gnomes, a can of baked beans, socks in a computer
shop, a teapot in an optician’s – and Concorde for sale in an Estate Agent’s window. I think some of the
businesses had as much fun as the participants. We’ve already had people contact us saying they will
enter future competitions.”
The winners were Kate and Stuart King, Sam Edgeley, Kim and Lawrie Boardman, and 10 year old
Sophie Dahn and her 6 year old sister Lucy. One of the winners Kate King said “It was a great way of
exploring and mooching around shops in Newport. It made us stop and look in businesses we didn’t
really look in before. We loved it!”

Phil Knight added “Like many voluntary groups we lost 80% of our income during lockdown so we’ve
been a bit limited on what we can do for the town. We wanted to do something that helped local
businesses that have supported us so well, something that was free for everyone to take part in, and
provide a bit of fun for children of all ages! Hopefully we’ve helped everyone a little.”

A promotional board to make students aware of
the work of Rotary in Stafford is situated in a
corridor at Sir Graham Balfour High School,
Stafford.

The board is maintained by Teaching Assistant,
Lynn Gallimore, who has responsibility for
Community involvement.

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