Walter Ranasinghe makes improvements to Public Service Club

Upananda JAYASUNDERA Kandy Sports Special Corr.

ENERGETIC SECRETARY: The General Secretary of the Public Service Sports Club in Kandy - Walter Ranasinghe who is an old boy of Dharmaraja College, is a glutton for work and he has been able to make vast improvements to the club.

He was an outstanding sportsman and in the mid sixties he was involved in judo, karate and boxing at school.

He is a Brown Belt in Judo has boxed at the Stubbs Shield and also at the Junior National Boxing Meet along with the Gunatilleke brothers, Jayasundera brothers - Ananda de Alwis, Nimalsiri Ellepola, A. Moonemale, to name a few. With the experience that he has gained, Walter Ranasinghe has been able to make improvements to the Kandy Public Service Sports club since 2005 and has been able to have regular cricket tournaments, walking races, bridge tournaments, etc to improve the facilities at the 63 year-old club.

He thanks the former General Secretary D. Ranasinghe from preventing the club being shifted to another place by speaking to a former President of Sri Lanka, D. B. Wijetunge.

Walter Ranasinghe is a willing worker and to further improve the facilities for members, he has initiated moves to have a new block with the assistance of present senior vice-president Jagath Kulatunge, Treasurer D. D. Palihakkara, K. A. Sumathipala and other committee members.