{"id":529,"date":"2014-04-07T15:18:04","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T14:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cannock-and-district\/?p=529"},"modified":"2014-04-07T16:26:49","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T15:26:49","slug":"60th-year-looking-backwards-and-forwards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cannock-and-district\/2014\/04\/07\/60th-year-looking-backwards-and-forwards\/","title":{"rendered":"60th year &#8211; Looking backwards and forwards"},"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><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: Arial\">Members of\u00a0 SI Cannock &amp; District had their first ever meeting 60 years ago in April 1954 at the Gas Showrooms in Cannock.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>At their AGM on 15<sup>th<\/sup> April 2014 the club will begin its Diamond Celebratory year their President will be Dr Janis Lomas.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>During the year they will be holding many fun events and will have some super speakers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: Arial\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: Arial\">They will continue to uphold the vision of SI to Educate, Enable and Empower Women &amp; Girls, in particular raising both funds for and awareness of Staffordshire Women\u2019s Aid and Pathway, both of which run refuges and other services to support women victims of domestic violence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: Arial\">\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: Arial\">The first major fundraising event will be on Thursday June 12<sup>th<\/sup> at the Barns: \u2018An Evening with Mary Queen of Scots\u2019 alias Lesley Smith, curator of Tutbury Castle.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>The evening includes a two course meal; tickets cost \u00a318.50 and are available by contacting members of the Soroptimist Club, by phoning 07971 494510 or by emailing <a href=\"mailto:si.cannock@outlook.com\">si.cannock@outlook.com<\/a>.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: Arial\">\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: Arial\">On Sunday 13<sup>th<\/sup> July the Club will hold it\u2019s Summer Celebration at Ingestre Hall: the ticket price of \u00a322 includes a glass of bubbly, a show of six decades of fashions presented by Notty Hornblower of Hope House Costume Museum and a scrumptious home made afternoon tea.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Tickets are available as above or from Soroptimist Betty Morgan: 01543 573650<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: Arial\">\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: Arial\">Club members look forward to welcoming friends old and new to their events during the year and to making a difference to women worldwide.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;font-family: Tahoma\">\u00a0<a href=\"\/cannock-and-district\/files\/2014\/04\/SI-Past-Presidents.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-530\" alt=\"SI Past Presidents\" src=\"\/cannock-and-district\/files\/2014\/04\/SI-Past-Presidents-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cannock-and-district\/files\/2014\/04\/SI-Past-Presidents-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cannock-and-district\/files\/2014\/04\/SI-Past-Presidents-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cannock-and-district\/files\/2014\/04\/SI-Past-Presidents.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/span><i><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;font-family: Tahoma\">Photo shows 12 of the Club\u2019s Past Presidents<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of\u00a0 SI Cannock &amp; District had their first ever meeting 60 years ago in&#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-529","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>60th year - Looking backwards and forwards  | News | Blog | Events | SI Cannock and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Cannock and District : Blog &amp; News : 60th year - Looking backwards and forwards : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Cannock and District . 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