(1 Dec) The Traditional Wine and Friendship Event by Rotary Club Harmanli Attended by Members of our Club (+GAL)
The traditional Wine and Friendship event organized by Rotary Club Harmanli for 15th year took place in Prikazkite restaurant in Harmanli on 1 December 2018. Our Past President Ms. Hristova and our Secretary Mr. Rusinov attended the event and were joined by our past member, now member of Rotary Club Troyan – Mr. Cris Biemod.
The party is also a fundraising event and the money collected will go for the realization of the project of the host club “The School – an Attractive Center for our Children”, which will constitute of construction of a multi-functional playground in the yard of “Ivan Vazov” primary school in Harmanli.
The celebration of the friendship actually started at 14:00 o’clock with a bus tour to Villa Bassarea and later to wine cellar Malkata Zvezda.
After the wine tour the program continued in the restaurant, where the host of the evening – the actor Mr. Yordan Danchev – opened the program a short sketch, which lifted up the mood of the audience and invited the President of Rotary Club Harmanli, Mr. Galin Karagyozov, to welcome the 240 guests.
The floor was then given to the District Governor of D-2482 Bulgaria, Mr. Vesselin Dimitrov who awarded the Past President of Rotary Club Harmanli – Mr. Gosho Jelev – with a certificate from Mr. Ian H.S. Riseley, President 2017-2018 of Rotary International. Mr. Dimitrov also presented Paul Harris Fellow certificates to Mr. Karagyozov and to Dr. Angelov.
The evening continued with songs and dances form the kids from “Harmanli Slavei” and from dance ensemble “Horishtenci”, followed by “Mega Dance” ballet group.
The fundraising raffle auction brought 8,885 BGN to be used for the afore mentioned project.