Capacity audience for fascinating talk

Bothwell Castle Golf Club was packed with a capacity audience last Tuesday (October 25) for Sandra Brown’s play ‘One of Our Ain’.

Rotarians and guests listened as the author and campaigner took the audience back into her childhood and the events linking her bus driver father to Coatbridge youngster Moira Anderson’s disappearance in 1957.

Many of those who attended said that they found the evening both thought-provoking and moving.

The play was followed by a stimulating Q&A session with the author and also with detective superintendent Pat Campbell, officer in charge of the investigation as part of Police Scotland’s cold case unit who gave interesting insight into developments to date.

Ticket sales from the evening will be donated to the Moira Anderson Foundation, a charity supporting families who have been subject to child sexual abuse.

This Tuesday (November 8) vice president George Waterston will give a talk on ‘Workshop Wonders’.

The speaker on Tuesday, November 15 is Colin Mcdowell on the topic ‘Command, Control and Communication - Fighting for the second British Expeditionary Force in June 1940’.

Tickets will shortly be going on sale for Rotary’s annual Carol Concert to be held in Bothwell Parish Church on Sunday, December 11, where entertainment will be provided by Bothwell Philharmonic choir and friends.

The club is seeking new members, both men and women, who are community minded, for fellowship, and to assist with its various charitable activities, local and international.

Anyone interested is invited to into its weekly meetings for a taste of what the club is about.

Meetings are normally held in Bothwell Castle Golf Club on Tuesday evenings from 7pm.