On the 18th July the Girne Amphitheatre hosted the play entitled “Pigeons without Wings” performed by the Theatre AŞHK.
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Ercan Airport gives clearance for Qantas over-flight to Larnaca
By Margaret Sheard ……
There has been some speculation and comment on Facebook about the recent incident of a Qantas flight from Sydney, Australia, heading for London Heathrow Airport via Dubai, being diverted to Larnaca Airport due to a medical emergency on the flight when a pregnant passenger became unwell.
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TRNC should celebrate the release from the Crans – Montana talks
Roger Jennings wrote an article in October 2016 click here predicting the failure of the negotiations. As background, his Grandfather is the highest decorated person in Greek history for saving more than 1,250,000 Greeks and others in 1922-23. Roger attended the dedication in Volos, Greece, of a monument honouring his Grandfather Asa K. Jennings.
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Northcyprusforum.net joins Cyprusscene.com
By Chris Elliott…….
The memory of a great friend and mentor, Nigel Watson has been kept alive in the northcyprusforum.net blog complete with its forum that we created, but it’s now time to make some changes to reach out to a bigger audience.
We are now in the process of incorporating the forum into cyprusscene.com with its membership and they will be receiving notification of the new sign-in procedure very soon and we hope that perhaps other readers may also wish to join them.
One of the features that we are delighted to bring to cyprusscene is the NCF Members events manager where members can post news of social and entertainment events which we will try to promote further where we can.
For those potential writers and contributors who would like to share their thoughts and ideas, please leave a message in “Write to Cyprusscene” and we may be able to publish these as articles for the enjoyment of other readers.
Do call by at cyprusscene.com and find out what is changing and also read the very latest news.
Rotary Club of Kyrenia Cosmopolitan – 6 months review
The new Rotary Club of Kyrenia Cosmopolitan have issued their newsletter for the first 6 months of 2017 and the members have been very busy with their various projects. We are showing below some of the wonderful achievements by this new Rotary Club and their complete newsletter can be viewed by clicking here. (This is a large document and may take a little while to download).
In July, the founding President of the club, Malcolm Mitcheson, handed over the reins to Gultach Ozsan who is now the new current President.
Rotary Club of Kyrenia Cosmopolitan are also pleased to announce that the final total from the Auction and Pub Day at Jessic’s Bar in Karsiyaka in July is 12,153TL – 100% of which goes to projects at Yesilyurt Special Needs School – a big thank you to everyone who helped achieve this fantastic amount.
Our first 6 months:
In our first 6 months as a Chartered Rotary Club we have:
- Donated numerous essential food items to the Vakif Lefkosa Food Bank collected from member contributions at Club Meeting
- Held a 1TL raffle at each meeting with the proceeds ring fenced for re-planting forest areas in Camlibel in December 2017. To June 30, enough has been collected to replant 228 trees.
- Donated 1000 USD to Cyprus Friendship Program, helping build friendships between Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot teenagers.
- Pledged to support the Cyprus Rotary Children’s Diagnostic Cancer Unit Global Grant Application
- Donated three wheelchairs to the North Cyprus Orthopaedic Disability Foundation, and collected many thousand more bottle-tops towards this project.
- Held a fundraising event for Polio Plus, contributing the equivalent to 1400 vaccinations.
- Established a strong social media presence, with a concentration on raising the profile of our Rotary club both nationally and internationally.
- Had two delegates attend the District Conference in Dubai
- Surpassed expectations for voluntary Rotary Foundation Contributions
- Developed strong community links to help with our goals
- Established Club training, and project planning capabilities
- Established plans for strong fund-raising capacity in 2017-18
- Established best practice for Club Administration and Finance
- New Rotarians taking leadership roles
- Refined our Club Vision and Mission
Jessic’s Auction
Crowds of bargain hunters joined us at Jessic’s Bar in Karsiyaka in January 2017 for a great day of Auction, Raffle, BBQ, and live music by the very talented Peter Dawson. An incredible 8,251TL was raised for our Charity Account.
Our thanks to Mus and his team at Jessic’s, and to the brilliant volunteers who achieved such a great result.
International Students Day
Congratulations to Rotarian Imren and her team for 
organizing such a vibrant celebration of the cultural diversity amongst the tertiary student population of North Cyprus. With great support from sponsors Near East University and the University of Kyrenia, on Friday May 5th 2017 Kyrenia Town Centre was alive with music and dance from so many different nationalities.
Blitz the Beach
We’ve held two ‘Blitz the Beach’ Community Service days in the last 6 months, and enjoyed a fun day of fellowship as well as trying to clear up the coastline.
Brunch for Polio
On June 3rd we enjoyed a sunny Saturday morning 
Brunch at the Villaggio Restaurant in Zeytinlik.
We raised over 1000TL which will be trebled by the ‘Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’, translating in real terms to over 1400 doses of the polio vaccine.
THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR SUPPORT
