Friendship weekend.
President Sue decided to hold her friendship weekend right at the beginning of her presidency. April 26th 1980 was the incorporation of our club
. The friendship weekend was organised to celebrate 45 years since our charter. It is also the 80th anniversary of liberation this year, so the weekend was a joint celebration.
The weekend started with a social event at the new premises at GROW ( Guernsey Rural Occupational Workshop) . Sue has chosen GROW as one of her charities and the manager talked to us about how the new premises came about and how they have expanded from growing into woodwork, and catering and showed us slides of the Crew in action.
We then went outside to meet some dogs from PAWS for support. These dogs are trained to work in different environments. The dogs and their owners may go into places such as school, hospitals and care homes, or could be utilized to go into a persons home.
After this we were treated to a lovely buffet put on by members. This allowed us to socialise with our guests from SI Kernow, SI Stockport, SI Winchester and our regional president Daphne from SI Tiverton.
On Saturday we started with a guided walk around St Peter Port. Gill Girard shared some of her knowledge of St Peter Port and the Occupation and Liberation of Guernsey with locals and visitors.
Saturday evening saw us assemble at Les Cotils where we were joined members from SI Jersey and SI Preston in addition to the clubs already mentioned. Past presidents were also in attendance, so it was lovely to see some of our previous members and forge new friendships with visiting clubs.
Sunday was a beautifully sunny day and the friendship weekend finished with an afternoon tea at Les Cotils. Before tea some members toured the Peace Garden where the tree planted to celebrate our 40th Anniversary has recently been relocated.
It was a lovely weekend of friendship and we would like to thank everyone who traveled to join us.