Letters

Rotary Club of Salmaniya recently held its business meeting at the Golden Tulip Hotel. The meeting allowed the new president, Shaikh Abdulla bin Khalid Al Khalifa, to introduce the new board for 2018/19.

The club will be focusing on environmental projects and socially important issues in our community. The board members, namely President - Shaikh Abdulla, Vice President - Osama Muein, President Elect - Seema Baqi, Secretary - Akram Hage, Club Services - Faisal Juma, Community Services - Mohamed Al Khaja, Treasurer - Ashraf Obied, Sergeant at Arms - Andrew Petty, Immediate Past President - Yusuf Fakhro, International Services - Viren Bhatia, Vocational Services - Costas Demou and General Services - Hassan Al Mansoor, will create committees to help them complete their tasks.

The board members are all ready and excited about the challenges ahead.

Regards,

Faisal, on behalf of the Rotary Club of Salmaniya.

Thank you and your team for your excellent coverage of my upcoming cookbook in GulfWeekly.

This positive exposure will definitely help me launch my book successfully. As a budding writer and one of the smaller entrepreneurs I’m really grateful for your willingness to include the article. Kindly extend my thanks to everyone involved.

Best Regards,

Mubina Maqbool, Bahrain.

With reference to last week’s cover story on my career to date in Hollywood. Thank you so much for the beautiful feature. I am grateful. Hopefully, the next time you hear about me it will be about a feature film!

Ali Salam, Hollywood.

It’s getting so hot outside to go for a morning run that a neighbour suggested that I popped down to City Centre Bahrain for an exercise session.

She told me about the free fitness training programme called City Walkers and that it had a new up-beat ‘Wednesday music session’ which she described as great fun.

I dropped by to join in a workout session hosted by fitness professionals. It ran for 60 minutes and included warm-up, stretching, cool down periods and a mix of lunges, push-ups, high jumps, plank, pulsating and partial squats, mountain climbers, side lunges, star jumps, get ups, crucifix push, wide push and more.

It was exhausting but she was right, it was fun and there were people of all ages and sizes taking part!

Claire, a newcomer to Bahrain.

Editor’s note: City Walkers takes place three times a week - every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday, from 9am to 10am. To join in, you simply have to register at the customer service desk on the ground floor, at City Centre Bahrain, and can immediately start training at the mall’s central galleria.