The Tribune

Cycling Club Bahamas. - Upcoming events:

Saturday - leaving 6am sharp from Harbour Bay Shopping Centre in front of First Caribbean Bank 30 miles headed west. In order to complete this ride, it is recommended that you have done some recent cycling! Leaving P/I Bridges optional at the end! The pace will range from 18–20+mph, two-hour duration.

Sunday - leaving 6am sharp from Harbour Bay Shopping Centre in front of First Caribbean Bank 40 - 50 miles headed East. This ride is not recommended if you have not cycled recently or first timers!P/I Bridges optional at the end!!! The pace will range from 18mph – 20+mph, @3 - 3 1/2 hour duration (cyclists are invited to join in anywhere along the route).

September 5, 2015 - Potcakeman Sprint Triathlon, Jaws Beach, New Providence.

October 9-12 - Run For Pompey Marathon, Exuma, www.runforpompey.com.

November 2015 - UWC Sprint/Olympic/Kids Triathlon, Jaws Beach, New Providence. http://www.uwctriathlon.com/

November 7 - Conchman Sprint Triathlon, Taino Beach, Grand Bahama. http://www.conchman.com/

November 7 – Cycling event in Exuma. Contact jeffrey.todd@givexuma.com.

Morning rides west - Wednesday & Friday, 4.45am Cable Beach Police Station, West Bay Street, 20-mile ride route: Headed east to Montague & return. One-hour duration. Cyclists capable of 14+mph welcome. Ride leaves promptly (cyclists are invited to join in anywhere along the route). Contact Shantell the day before to confirm your attendance: shorelinecargo@gmail.com

Afternoon rides west - Tuesdays and Thursdays, leaving 5:30pm sharp, parking lot next to Lyford Cay Gas Station. 18 or 24 miles depending if you do second loop. This is an advanced cyclist’s ride. The pace will range from 20+mph Intermediate, 18-22mph, see Spyder.

Morning ride east - Tuesdays & Thursdays, leaving 5am sharp, start/end Seagrapes Shopping Centre-(under the big sign), East Prince Charles Drive: 1-1.5 hour duration. Cyclists capable of 14+mph welcome. Prince Charles Dr-Eastern Road-Shirley St-Church St-East Bay-Eastern Road- Prince Charles. Please have lights attached to your bike.

Earthcare. - Earthcare gave a presentation to tennis campers attending Coach Nathan O’Connor’s Tennis Camp. Bahamian environmental issues were the focus.

Gail Woon, of Earthcare, said: “The students were a pleasure to work with. They have a good grasp on the environmental topics covered.”

Topics presented this summer included: ground, air and water pollution; solid waste management (burning refuse versus a properly lined and managed landfill); unsustainable development (eg building golf courses on beach fronts resulting in fertilisers polluting the reef and surrounding habitat as well as the environmental impacts of megadevelopments); dredging without Environmental Impact Assessment, oil spills, industrial mining, coastal habitat destruction, endangered sea and shore birds, healthy reefs vs unhealthy reefs, sea level rise, mangrove destruction, Abaco parrots, turtles, sharks; and kids who make a difference.

The children were very engaged and Earthcare is happy to have had the opportunity to interact with them. The campers learn about tennis, golf, nutrition, exercise and responsibility. The tennis camp continues through to the end of August in time for school to start. If you still need something constructive for your child to do this summer contact Coach Nathan at the Grand Bahama Tennis & Squash Club.

Kiwanis Aktion Club of Fort Montagu. - On Saturday August 15, the Kiwanis Aktion Club of Fort Montagu held a Community Service Project A & A Comfort Care Senior Home in Pinewood cleaning windows, and socialising with the residents.

Kiwanis Aktion Club is a club for Adults with disabilities and meets 1st and 3rd Thursday at the Addington House, Anglican Diocese. Sands road 6 -7 pm. Adults with disabilities and parents or guardian are welcome.

Rotary Club of Nassau. - At its weekly meeting, August 18, the Rotary Club of Nassau hosted Rotarians from other clubs at a viewing of ‘The Final Punch’, a half-hour movie, produced by Ayub Sambal and Rotary International. It shows the challenges and successes of the polio vaccination programme in Pakistan.

The vaccinators are faced with not only the difficulty of dealing with a national population of over 180 million but also with the animosity of religious extremists, who have killed more than 30 of them over the past year or so, in the belief that the vaccine will either kill or make their children sterile.

The lunchtime gathering has also been added to the worldwide list of ‘The World’s Greatest Meal’ another fundraising initiative for the End Polio campaign.

Funds collected during the lunch will go to the End Polio Now campaign of Rotary International, which, together with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has been at the forefront of eradicating polio in most countries in the world, excluding Afghanistan and Pakistan.

If you are interested in learning more, go to www.rotary.org.

In addition, thanks to our longest serving Rotarian, Peter Christie, the Persis Rodgers Home for the Aged now has a smart new sign, proudly displaying the RCN club logo! PP Tony Wallas also did a great job putting the sign together.