{"id":481,"date":"2013-11-20T13:25:25","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T12:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cannock-and-district\/?p=481"},"modified":"2013-11-20T13:26:39","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T12:26:39","slug":"speaker-kara-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cannock-and-district\/2013\/11\/20\/speaker-kara-bird\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker &#8211; Kara Bird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p><!--[if !mso]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 10]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma\" lang=\"EN-US\">SI Cannock and District\u2019s latest speaker was Kara Bird who works as an embalmer within the Co-operative Funeral profession.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>She was introduced by team President Lakhwinder Thompson and, despite this being a possibly difficult subject, gave an interesting and at times amusing talk.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Kara has worked in the profession for 20 years and explained that the most rewarding part of the job for her is the reconstructive work she undertakes, thus giving comfort to the bereaved when they see their loved ones at peace.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>She told club members that she has done reconstruction work with soldiers who were killed in Afghanistan and that a team of embalmers are set to fly out to the Philippines to work in the disaster areas.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Kara feels it is important that work such as hers is \u2018de-mystified\u2019 so that it is not seen as something to be frightened of \u2013 indeed, she has told her own 4 year old daughter about her job.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Soroptimist Ann Rotchell thanked Kara for her enlightening talk.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma\" lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0President Lakhwinder reminded members of their collection of gifts to be given at Christmas to the women and children at Pathway, the refuge for victims of domestic violence and of the Quiz Night to be held in January 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma\" lang=\"EN-US\">The quiz, on Tuesday 14<sup>th<\/sup> January, is being held at The Barns, Huntington, to raise funds for the BIG project &#8211; Birthing in The Gambia.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><strong><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma;font-weight: normal\">Teams of 4 are invited to participate, tickets are \u00a37.50 each and a hot supper is included.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Teams can register on <a href=\"mailto:si.cannock@outlook.com\"><span>si.cannock@outlook.com<\/span><\/a> or by phoning 07971 494510<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma\" lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<a href=\"\/cannock-and-district\/files\/2013\/11\/Kara-and-Lakhwinder.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-482\" src=\"\/cannock-and-district\/files\/2013\/11\/Kara-and-Lakhwinder-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cannock-and-district\/files\/2013\/11\/Kara-and-Lakhwinder-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cannock-and-district\/files\/2013\/11\/Kara-and-Lakhwinder-1024x765.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cannock-and-district\/files\/2013\/11\/Kara-and-Lakhwinder.jpg 1445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma\" lang=\"EN-US\">Photo attached: l to r: Kara Bird with Lakhwinder Thompson, Team President SI Cannock &amp; District<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma\" lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SI Cannock and District\u2019s latest speaker was Kara Bird who works as an embalmer within&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":204,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-club-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Speaker - Kara Bird | News | Blog | Events | SI Cannock and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Cannock and District : Blog &amp; News : Speaker - Kara Bird : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Cannock and District . 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