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September News update

Published on: Published in: 7. President Gillian 2013-2014

Welcome back after the summer holidays

President Gillian welcomed members back after the summer break and hoped everyone was looking forward to starting the Autumn with renewed energies. Thanks were expressed to Elaine Bullock who raised £60, in aid of Birthing in the Gambia, by holding a bottle stall at St. George’s Church Centenary Fair.

Members had brought items to fill backpacks to send to the ‘Mary’s Meals’ project in Malawi. More goods are needed for children aged 4-10 years old. Each child will receive a big blue mug from the charity from which they will eat their ‘meal’. The meal they have is similar to porridge and  members were urged to observe World Porridge Day on October 10th in support of the project. 93p of every £1 raised goes towards supporting the children, enabling them to have a wholesome meal and an education, a very worthwhile 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On October 3rd it will be Club Friendship Day to celebrate the founding of the first Soroptimist club in Oakland California in 1921. Llandudno Club will be sending special greetings to friends in Vienna, Austria, Herrsching in Bavaria and Pendleside in Lancashire. A DVD presented to the club by Pendleside Soroptimists was shown, it featured their work supporting the International Aid Trust by knitting blankets for Sierra Leone.

The Bee Project has been a success and it will be taken up by 4 more schools in the Spring.

Several members are going to the SIGBI Conference at Gateshead and an invitation had been received to attend the Club celebrations in Herrsching, Bavaria.

A service to celebrate the International Day of Peace will be held in St. Tudno’s Church on the Great Orme, on Sunday, September 22nd at 3pm. Everyone is welcome to join the club at this special celebration. Here are members of the Club after the service outside St Tudno;s Church.

 

 

 

 

 

President Gillian and Janet who contrubuted to the service marking International Day of Peace.

 

 

 

The next meeting will be a speaker meeting on September 26th, attended by Jade Barratt from Clatterbridge Cancer Care and there will be entertainment by ‘Parti’r  Llan’.

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