{"id":1537,"date":"2014-05-03T07:28:42","date_gmt":"2014-05-03T06:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/lichfield\/?p=1537"},"modified":"2020-04-09T12:19:15","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T11:19:15","slug":"brownie-conga-chain-surprises-shoppers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/lichfield\/2014\/05\/03\/brownie-conga-chain-surprises-shoppers\/","title":{"rendered":"Brownie Conga Chain Surprises Shoppers"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1538\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1538\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/lichfield\/files\/2014\/05\/Conga-Chain.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1538\" alt=\"Conga Chain\" src=\"\/lichfield\/files\/2014\/05\/Conga-Chain-300x224.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/lichfield\/files\/2014\/05\/Conga-Chain-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/lichfield\/files\/2014\/05\/Conga-Chain.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1538\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Conga Chain takes early shoppers by surprise.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">Early morning shoppers at Morrison\u2019s Supermarket in Lichfield were in for a surprise on Saturday 26<sup>th<\/sup> August at 8.00 am, when a group of girls from 5<sup>th<\/sup> Lichfield (St Chad\u2019s) Brownies performed a Conga chain around the aisles of the store.<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;color: #000000;font-size: medium\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">Brown Owl, Sylvia Smetham with Leaders Janine Hill and Faye Jenkins led the girls as they danced between the aisles whilst shoppers, perplexed at first, joined in waving and applauding them on their way.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">The Management and staff at Morrison\u2019s joined the chain which did two laps of the store.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">Brown Owl, Sylvia expressed her thanks to the Management &amp; Staff for enabling 5<sup>th<\/sup> Lichfield Brownies to complete one of their Brownie Birthday Challenges, marking the 100<sup>th<\/sup> Anniversary of the Brownie Movement.\u00a0 This will count towards the Units total of 100 challenges to celebrate this Anniversary.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1539\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1539\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"\/lichfield\/files\/2014\/05\/Conga-Chain-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1539\" alt=\"Brown Owl &amp; Leaders with brownies from 5th District (St Chad's) Lichfield\" src=\"\/lichfield\/files\/2014\/05\/Conga-Chain-2-300x224.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/lichfield\/files\/2014\/05\/Conga-Chain-2-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/lichfield\/files\/2014\/05\/Conga-Chain-2.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1539\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brown Owl &amp; Leaders with brownies from 5th District (St Chad&#8217;s) Lichfield<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">A second challenge was to have the event recorded in a local newspaper.\u00a0 SI Soroptimists were happy to lend a hand and took pictures on the day which, together with a full report, were sent to the Lichfield Mercury.\u00a0 The arrival of the paper was eagerly awaited and sure enough in Thursday 1<sup>st<\/sup> of Mays edition two photographs, together with a report on the event, were featured on Page 14.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">SI Lichfield &amp; District wish 5<sup>th<\/sup> Lichfield (St Chad\u2019s) well with the rest of their 100<sup>th<\/sup> Brownie Birthday challenges.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early morning shoppers at Morrison\u2019s Supermarket in Lichfield were in for a surprise on Saturday&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Brownie Conga Chain Surprises Shoppers | News | Blog | Events | SI Lichfield and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Lichfield and District : Blog &amp; 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