{"id":5663,"date":"2021-07-21T12:26:29","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T11:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/crieff\/?p=5663"},"modified":"2021-07-21T12:34:23","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T11:34:23","slug":"soroptimists-day-of-action-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/crieff\/2021\/07\/21\/soroptimists-day-of-action-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Soroptimists Day of Action 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">This year&#8217;s Day of Action was marked by members of SI Crieff carrying out a litter pick in the centre of Crieff on Saturday 17 July.\u00a0 All clubs were asked to do something related to the Environment so members were happy to don rubber gloves along with their hi viz Soroptimist tabards and grab a litter picker for a couple of hours to tidy up James Square, Crieff\u00a0 High Street etc.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5664\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/crieff\/files\/2021\/07\/SI-Day-of-Action-2021b-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/crieff\/files\/2021\/07\/SI-Day-of-Action-2021b-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/crieff\/files\/2021\/07\/SI-Day-of-Action-2021b.jpg 765w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5665\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/crieff\/files\/2021\/07\/SI-Day-of-Action-2021-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/crieff\/files\/2021\/07\/SI-Day-of-Action-2021-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/crieff\/files\/2021\/07\/SI-Day-of-Action-2021.jpg 765w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Cigarette ends were not hard to find, there were thousands of them, but lots of other items, such as cans, cartons, bottles and bottle tops, paper and even surprisingly a decent if somewhat soiled padded jacket were picked up.\u00a0 It certainly felt that if people could improve their aim at the litterbins provided that alone would make a difference!<\/p>\n<p>It is always surprising &#8211; and lovely &#8211; how many people,\u00a0 locals and visitors alike, chat in passing (perhaps it&#8217;s those tabards) and Saturday was no exception as it was a glorious warm morning and there were a lot of folk out.\u00a0 One or two shopkeepers kindly unearthed brushes and dustpans and joined in and a few even agreed to consider regularly sweeping rubbish up from outside their premises.\u00a0 So perhaps there may be a lasting improvement as sadly in recent months it appears that council cuts have resulted in less attention to litter being picked up.<\/p>\n<p>We felt it had been a worthwhile exercise and there was a noticeable improvement, let&#8217;s just hope others thought so too.<\/p>\n<p>If anyone is interested in finding out more about what Soroptimists do &#8211; and the above exercise was only one small example, and not necessarily typical(!), the variety is wide, do contact Heather on 07796 031510, or Google SI Crieff.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] This year&#8217;s Day of Action was marked by members of SI Crieff carrying out&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":737,"featured_media":5664,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","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>Soroptimists Day of Action 2021 | News | Blog | Events | SI Crieff<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Crieff : Blog &amp; News : Soroptimists Day of Action 2021 : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Crieff . 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