{"id":1880,"date":"2021-03-07T23:29:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-07T23:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/?p=1880"},"modified":"2021-03-07T23:29:04","modified_gmt":"2021-03-07T23:29:04","slug":"on-this-day-episode-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/?p=1880","title":{"rendered":"ON THIS DAY – Episode 16"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

ON THIS DAY – 10 YEARS AGO<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Club historian Mike McD writes:<\/strong> This was the first joint meeting of the SCRP-Q Committee with the newly formed QRC Committee. In attendance – Mike McDowall, John Howell, Stuart Mitchell, Ranald Mackay, Graham Leith, Stuart Ridge, Alan Meldrum, Peter Locke, with Billy Scott, Neil McPhail, Siobhan Johnson, and Denise Havard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A very successful ‘Music to Rock your Boat 2’ was held on Saturday the 4th. We had an audience of 130, more than twice what we expected. Entertaining us, (and providing a big following of fans!), were the High School band ‘The Shenanigans’ thanks to their drummer, Jordan Harvey (next-door neighbour to Mike).\u00a0Jordan has since gone on to make a successful career as a session drummer, singer\/songwriter in America. He even had a guest appearance in one episode of ‘Neighbours’<\/em> two years ago.\u00a0<\/em>We also had ‘Stevenson’s Rockets’, a band of music students from Stevenson College, led by saxaphonist Bruce Whitehead.\u00a0(Bruce, who is a freelance journalist in Queensferry, was studying there at the time.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was reported that we had had a visit from Margaret Smith MSP on 19th February (see photo below) and there was lots of good news – the trailer was on order and expected in a fortnight. John Watson had already converted four of the oars obtained from the Canal Society; six lengths of timber had been collected from Fife, and the boat cover was also on order. It was also agreed that we would buy a Rowing machine!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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All the arrangements were in place for the Launch and the Ceilidh, and Lord Hopetoun had agreed to become the Patron of the new Rowing Club. He wished to pay a visit to see the boat and meet the members. Further discussion took place on things that the Rowing Club would need to pursue – Election of Office Bearers; Club colours (the proposed logo had been accepted); Teams for the Regatta; Constitution, Operating rules, Subscriptions and procuring the Boat shed at Port Edgar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still lots to do! Next meeting 22 March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ON THIS DAY – 10 YEARS AGO Club historian Mike McD writes: This was the first joint meeting of the SCRP-Q Committee with the newly formed QRC Committee. In attendance – Mike McDowall, John Howell, Stuart Mitchell, Ranald Mackay, Graham Leith, Stuart Ridge, Alan Meldrum, Peter Locke, with Billy Scott, Neil McPhail, Siobhan Johnson, and … Continue reading “ON THIS DAY – Episode 16”<\/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-1880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880","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=1880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1881,"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880\/revisions\/1881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queensferryrowing.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}