Last month pres­i­dent of the Ro­tary Club of Cen­tral Port-of-Spain, An­drew Joseph, presided over his last meet­ing as pres­i­dent of this club be­fore hand­ing over to 2012/2013 pres­i­dent Ger­ard Mendez. Joseph high­light­ed the suc­cess of the ser­vice projects and fund-rais­ers held dur­ing the Ro­tary year and thanked his board and all those who par­tic­i­pat­ed and as­sist­ed the club. He high­light­ed the pos­i­tive work done on the club's on­go­ing Adopt-a-Child pro­gramme, tar­get­ed at the in­di­gent in our so­ci­ety, as well as the club's sig­na­ture project, it's Mod­el UN As­sem­bly, which at­tract­ed over 100 sec­ondary and ter­tiary stu­dents this year. Al­so high­light­ed was a tree-plant­i­ng project at the Sun­ny Hill Home for Boys and the club's ef­forts to as­sist a needy fam­i­ly dev­as­tat­ed by the loss of their home to a fire and a beach clean-up ex­er­cise which net­ted half a tonne of garbage and oth­er de­bris. Richard Young, man­ag­ing di­rec­tor of Sco­tia Bank and pres­i­dent of the Banker's As­so­ci­a­tion, was the fea­ture speak­er for the evening and he shared with the evening's at­ten­dees the im­por­tance of val­ues. Ro­tary's high­est ho­n­our, a Paul Har­ris Fel­low was award­ed to Ian Roy­er for his sup­port of the Club's Mod­el UN project over the last sev­en years. En­ter­tain­ment was pro­vid­ed by pan­nist, Ken "Pro­fes­sor" Philmore.