{"id":8619,"date":"2022-10-10T22:48:50","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T21:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/?p=8619"},"modified":"2022-11-18T17:38:27","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T16:38:27","slug":"tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/2022\/tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Club Development, Long Service and Tree Planting!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On <strong>Monday 10 Oct<\/strong> the Club held a lovely <strong>Club development<\/strong> meeting at Greenwood URC. Members met face to face and split into three groups for discussions. <span class=\"x_ContentPasted0\">A lot has changed at our Club since we last reviewed how the Club works and the Club has had to adapt during the pandemic. Members are all encouraged to complete a survey so that all the feedback can be considered and incorporated into plans for a way forward which we plan to implement in the new year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/240-Janet-Tansley-35-Years.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8624 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/240-Janet-Tansley-35-Years-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"St Albans Soroptimist Janet Tansley 35 Years\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/240-Janet-Tansley-35-Years-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/240-Janet-Tansley-35-Years.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>There are no pics of the group discussions, but we were delighted on the night to be able to present <strong>Janet Tansley<\/strong> with her <strong>35 years long service award<\/strong>! Congratulations Janet &#8211; we love the T Shirt! Janet is a Member of the Club&#8217;s Planet Team &#8211; see below for more about the Club&#8217;s tree planting.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/239-St-Albans-Centenary-Hornbeam-Tree-Fleetville.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-8622 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/239-St-Albans-Centenary-Hornbeam-Tree-Fleetville-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Soroptimist St Albans Centenary Hornbeam Tree - Fleetville\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/239-St-Albans-Centenary-Hornbeam-Tree-Fleetville-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/239-St-Albans-Centenary-Hornbeam-Tree-Fleetville.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>On Thu 13 Oct four members met in Fleetville Park St Albans <\/strong>to \u00a0search for our <strong>Centenary tree<\/strong> (and have a coffee together). The hornbeam that was planted last Autumn looks like it is thriving and is pictured here with (l to r) Sarah Lichman, Barbara Saunders and Helen Byrne (thanks to Gill Clegg for being the photographer). The tree was planted to celebrate the <strong>SIGBI Centenary 2021 Project &#8211; #PlantTrees for a Brilliant Future.<\/strong> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/239-SI-Centenary-Tree-Hornbeam-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8729 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/239-SI-Centenary-Tree-Hornbeam--212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/239-SI-Centenary-Tree-Hornbeam--212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/239-SI-Centenary-Tree-Hornbeam-.jpg 724w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/a><\/strong>The Club raised \u00a3255 to pay for this beautiful tree and we hope it continues to thrive. Hornbeams are native to Hertfordshire &#8211; mainly found in ancient woodlands &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hertswildlifetrust.org.uk\/wildlife-explorer\/trees-and-shrubs\/common-hornbeam\">https:\/\/www.hertswildlifetrust.org.uk\/wildlife-explorer\/trees-and-shrubs\/common-hornbeam <\/a>\u00a0The beautiful artwork here is our <span class=\"markdk2k5svpq\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">tree<\/span> sponsorship commemoration insert, \u00a0that has been added to the <span class=\"markdk2k5svpq\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">Tree<\/span> Book of Remembrance that is sited in the St Albans City Hall.<\/p>\n<p>In March this year we had a great evening on Zoom about the Queen&#8217;s Green Canopy Project <a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/2022\/qgc\/\">https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/2022\/qgc\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/Eileen-Slope-SISTA-President-2000-1-Tree-Planting-St-Peters-St.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-8620 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/Eileen-Slope-SISTA-President-2000-1-Tree-Planting-St-Peters-St-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"Eileen Slope St Albans Soroptimist President 2000-1 Tree Planting St Peters St\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/Eileen-Slope-SISTA-President-2000-1-Tree-Planting-St-Peters-St-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/Eileen-Slope-SISTA-President-2000-1-Tree-Planting-St-Peters-St.jpg 819w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>The Club is no stranger to tree planting &#8211; see the photo here of past-President Eileen Slope in 2000 planting a tree in St Peter&#8217;s St St Albans for the millennium. The lime tree is still there, only much bigger,\u00a0 just round the corner from the Civic Centre in St Albans.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday 10 Oct the Club held a lovely Club development meeting at Greenwood URC&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":8624,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[12,60,11,206,652,13,111,99],"class_list":["post-8619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-club-news","category-club-projects","tag-soroptimist","tag-soroptimist-international","tag-st-albans","tag-st-albans-and-district","tag-tree-planting","tag-women","tag-womens-group","tag-womens-organisation"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Club Development, Long Service and Tree Planting! | News | Blog | Events | SI St Albans and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI St Albans and District : Blog &amp; News : Club Development, Long Service and Tree Planting! : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI St Albans and District . 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