{"id":395,"date":"2011-12-11T17:54:22","date_gmt":"2011-12-11T16:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/gosport-fareham-and-district\/?p=395"},"modified":"2011-12-11T17:55:19","modified_gmt":"2011-12-11T16:55:19","slug":"christmas-trees-with-a-story-to-tell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/solent-east\/2011\/12\/11\/christmas-trees-with-a-story-to-tell\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas trees with a story to tell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/gosport-fareham-and-district\/files\/2011\/12\/100_1074.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-397 alignright\" src=\"\/gosport-fareham-and-district\/files\/2011\/12\/100_1074-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/solent-east\/files\/2011\/12\/100_1074-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/solent-east\/files\/2011\/12\/100_1074.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>WHAT a fabulous sight was to be seen at St. Mary\u2019s Church, Alverstoke, during their Christmas tree festival \u2013 69 cleverly decorated and illuminated trees.<\/p>\n<p>The three-day event is the third to be held at the church and our club tree was one of those that lit up the lovely building. It was decorated by Pam Simcock, a former president and Chelsea Flower Show judge, and featured stars depicting projects that we have worked on, such as our international effort Project Sierra. The tree was topped by a magnificent globe (pictured right) \u00a0illustrating our international role, suitably inscribed: A Global Voice for Women.<\/p>\n<p>One of the aims of the festival is to unite the community and it was obvious from the names of the tree sponsors \u2013 among them local schools, businesses and organisations such as ours &#8211; that this was achieved.<\/p>\n<p>Money raised will go to the St Mary\u2019s \u201cShaping the Future\u201d Fund.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/gosport-fareham-and-district\/files\/2011\/12\/100_10721.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-400\" src=\"\/gosport-fareham-and-district\/files\/2011\/12\/100_10721-205x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/solent-east\/files\/2011\/12\/100_10721-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/solent-east\/files\/2011\/12\/100_10721.jpg 329w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHAT a fabulous sight was to be seen at St. Mary\u2019s Church, Alverstoke, during their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":398,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395","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>Christmas trees with a story to tell | News | Blog | Events | SI Solent East<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Solent East : Blog &amp; News : Christmas trees with a story to tell : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Solent East . 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