{"id":1847,"date":"2021-02-22T23:28:16","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T23:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/?p=1847"},"modified":"2021-02-22T23:28:20","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T23:28:20","slug":"on-this-day-episode-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/?p=1847","title":{"rendered":"ON THIS DAY &#8211; Episode 15"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Club historian and founder member Mike McD writes: <\/strong>Ten years ago today, a rowing club was born. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SCRP-Q held the Public Meeting\u00a0<em>&#8216;to determine whether there is sufficient support to set up a Rowing Club in Queensferry, and if so, to elect a committee and office-bearers.&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">24 people attended, with apologies from 3. After a brief summary of the project to date, and thanks to the builders &#8211; John Watson and Malcolm Meikle, Mike McD introduced members of Boatie Blest from Cockenzie and Port Seton. They told us how their first boat,\u00a0<em>Boatie Rows,<\/em>\u00a0was funded and built, enhancing community spirit. Their Club now had 60 members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The resolution to start a Rowing Club was proposed and unanimously agreed. It was suggested that the name should contain the word &#8216;Community&#8217;. After discussion, &#8216;Queensferry Rowing Club &#8211; A Community Project&#8217; was agreed<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The only office-bearer nomination was for Treasurer &#8211; Peter Locke. The following Committee were elected &#8211; Siobhan Johnson, Denise Havard, Alan Meldrum, Billy Scott, Neil McPhail and Graham Sutherland. It was agreed that all meeting attendees were &#8216;members&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The dates for future events including the launch were reported as well as the six local Regattas that we had agreed to take part in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Rowing Club committee were thereafter invited to attend SCRP-Q committee meetings. The next to be on 7th March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Club historian and founder member Mike McD writes: Ten years ago today, a rowing club was born. SCRP-Q held the Public Meeting\u00a0&#8216;to determine whether there is sufficient support to set up a Rowing Club in Queensferry, and if so, to elect a committee and office-bearers.&#8217; 24 people attended, with apologies from 3. After a brief &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/?p=1847\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ON THIS DAY &#8211; Episode 15&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1848,"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847\/revisions\/1848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}