{"id":3501,"date":"2016-10-28T10:48:17","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T09:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/?p=3501"},"modified":"2016-10-28T10:56:25","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T09:56:25","slug":"gold-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/2016\/gold-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"Our President Travels and Meets Soroptimist Gold Coast Sisters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/53-Gold-Coast-Elwyn-Alison-Denise-Doro.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3503\" src=\"\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/53-Gold-Coast-Elwyn-Alison-Denise-Doro-300x161.jpg\" alt=\"53 Gold Coast Elwyn, Alison, Denise, Doro\" width=\"300\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/53-Gold-Coast-Elwyn-Alison-Denise-Doro-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/53-Gold-Coast-Elwyn-Alison-Denise-Doro.jpg 418w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Our Club President, Denise Powell, took the opportunity whilst on holiday in Australia (Ed: lucky Denise!) to make contact with our sisters from <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.siswp.org\/Gold-Coast-Inc\/\">Soroptimist International Gold Coast.<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>Denise reports back here:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Although\u00a0they didn&#8217;t have a meeting during my time there, 3 of the Members (President Alison Robinson,\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Dorothea Banner and Elwyn Syers)<\/span>\u00a0took time out of their summer break to meet with me (over coffee and cake!). I gave them a gift of a book about St Albans, and they gave me a Club pennant to bring home and share with our Club.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It was fascinating to hear about some of the programmes that their Club is undertaking, particularly in relation to the indigenous population. They have some neat little activities too, including keeping a &#8216;penny&#8217; box into which their Members pop the tiniest of the coins at each meeting&#8230;..it apparently all mounts up&#8230;.<\/em><\/p>\n<div><em>A lovely warm group of ladies, to whom I issued an open invitation to come and visit us!<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>The attached photo shows us enjoying our alfresco meeting!&#8221;<\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>One of the great things about being a Member of Soroptimist International is that you will get a warm welcome from Members all over the world.\u00a0Our network of over 75,000 Club Members in 132 countries and territories works at a local, national and international level to educate, empower and enable opportunities for women and girls. 75,000 sisters &#8211; now that&#8217;s a lot of socialising opportunities!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><strong>Soroptimist International St Albans and District \u2013\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Women Serving the St Albans Community Since 1957<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/president\/\">The Club will celebrate its Diamond Anniversary in April 2017, and this <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2722 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/Soroptimists-60th-Anniversary-logo-249x300.jpg\" alt=\"Soroptimists 60th Anniversary logo\" width=\"249\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/Soroptimists-60th-Anniversary-logo-249x300.jpg 249w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/Soroptimists-60th-Anniversary-logo.jpg 853w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/>event is a \u201c60 for 60\u2033 production\u2026\u2026..<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Club President, Denise Powell, took the opportunity whilst on holiday in Australia (Ed: lucky&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":3503,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[200,201,205,202,283,14,113,284,12,60,11,13,99],"class_list":["post-3501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-club-news","tag-200","tag-60th","tag-60th-anniversary","tag-anniversary","tag-australia","tag-club","tag-denise-powell","tag-gold-coast","tag-soroptimist","tag-soroptimist-international","tag-st-albans","tag-women","tag-womens-organisation"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Our President Travels and Meets Soroptimist Gold Coast Sisters | News | Blog | Events | SI St Albans and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI St Albans and District : Blog &amp; News : Our President Travels and Meets Soroptimist Gold Coast Sisters : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI St Albans and District . 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