At our final meal meeting before the summer recess over 15 club members enjoyed a fascinating talk from Lesley Mowat about her involvement with the Girls Brigade in Aberdeen over a number of years. Club member Pat Moir a close friend and long time nursing colleague was happy to be the model as she showed use how the uniform had evolved over the years.
Club member Dorothy handing in plastic bottle tops to our local Lush shop for up-cycling
Aberdeen Harbour, one of the UK’s busiest ports, is being transformed to develop new facilities and associated infrastructure at Nigg Bay, to the south of the existing harbour. The construction will facilitate increased capacity and will accommodate the larger vessels now associated with a whole range of existing and new markets. This £350 million project will continue for three years, and its scheduled completion date is in the summer of 2020. In this time, breakwaters, quays, improved access roads to support the new development, road re-alignment, parking and means of access, temporary construction and fabrication areas and other associated development including, paths, lighting, and signage will be built. The visitor’s centre is full of fascinating facts and display boards about the project and about the history of Aberdeen harbour. We enjoyed an informative talk from Teresa and Havier about the complexity of this new development
At our February meeting member Pat Stewart gave a very informative talk about palm oil. A lively discussion followed about palm oil, what the issue is with “conflict” palm oil, how we can try and ensure we are either reducing our consumption or only using products containing sustainable palm oil. The picture is a range of products we looked at and discussed.
SI Aberdeen members are working hard to bring together our 90th birthday celebrations. We have been planning for a good few months now to organise our birthday bash at The Douglas Hotel in Aberdeen in conjunction with the Regional meeting on Saturday 9th March of this year.
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Wed 4th April saw well over half our members gather at our regular haunt The Atholl Hotel for a very full and interesting meeting, with Sue Kinsey chairing her last meeting before handing over the reins to Hilda Smith at our forthcoming AGM. We were delighted to induct new member Louise McIntosh a retired teacher into our fold. As always when a new member is welcomed we each introduced ourselves, giving Louise a short insight into any specific role we have within the club. Our Program convenor Marjory Smart introduced our speaker for the evening Susan Hogg a member of the Trefoil Guild who gave us a fascinating presentation on her trip to Russia as part of TOPAZ (Trefoil Overseas Participation Adventure with Zest). Susan had been selected along with seven other adult Trefoil Guides from the UK to spend a week with their Russian
S I Aberdeen member are certainly hoping so. This spell of miserable snowy weather along with a number of our members suffering from colds, flu, and other ailments has meant that our attendances at club & meal meetings has been quite low. So come on Spring, daffodils and sunshine where are you? Wishing all our “under the weather” members a speedy recovery and looking forward to meeting up with you all soon.
Marjory Smart and Janice Rees are getting very excited about their visit to Kenya and Meru. They leave on Saturday 7th April and return home on Sunday 15th April. Janice says ” we will bring photographs back and are looking forward to sharing our experiences with you.” We are also grateful to CIFORD (Community Initiative for Rural Development) who delivers our project to the women and girls of Meru. Over the winter we have continued to raise funds for the project with a successful coffee morning in early March. Well done to all who battled “the beast from the East” to raise raised over £220. A sale of unwanted Christmas goods at our February meeting raised £65. Some of the beautiful knitted goods which were sold at our coffee morning.
We were delighted to be able to pass on our Sainsbury’s vouchers to Carronhill School in Stonehaven. As you can see Alani Manson is busy baking with some of the utensils the school acquired.
