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Congratulations to Pam!

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Congratulations to our own Pam Smith who was recently awarded The Queens Award for Voluntary Service for her hard work running the charity shop at The Centre in Newlyn.

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The Newlyn Centre was one of only 112 volunteering groups across the UK to be honoured this year.

The Award was created to mark the Queen’s Golden Jubilee in 2002 and is given for “outstanding achievement by groups of volunteers who regularly devote their time to helping others in the community, improving the quality of life and opportunity for others and providing an outstanding service.”

Well done, Pam. You deserve it!

(The Award is commonly known as the MBE for volunteer groups … should we all curtsey next time we see Pam?)

Mazey Day

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Thanks to Julia’s hard work for Golowan, we were given a Mazey Day stall right on Market Jew Street in the thick of things!

We shared the stall with some lovely ladies from Germoe & District W.I. and, I must say, it all looked most impressive.

So many of us were busy baking during the week and we wound up with an incredible assortment of cakes, biscuits, brownies, muffins, flapjacks, macaroons and sausage rolls!

In spite of the early start and the hard work, there was still time for some laughs:

It was all hands on deck, with pairs of ladies staffing the stall throughout the day from 7am until the bitter end. (Apologies for not having any photos of those of you who worked later in the afternoon, but I’d gone home by then!)

By the end, we’d completely sold out of everything and we made £112! Now that’s a good day!

A Day at the Royal Cornwall Show

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Gill Gowland and Helen Kestle set off today to work as stewards at the Royal Cornwall Show, with a kind lift from Dorothy Oliver and her husband, Alan.

The W.I. tent was easy to spot …

… and our Crowlas & Ludgvan pennant looked lovely displayed with the others from all over the county:

Beth Marshall and Mary Venn were there too, wearing their CFWI hats, and County Chairman Kathy Reed manned the Chairman’s Table:

Before our first shift, we had time to have a look around at the Royal Cornwall’s flower show and were particularly taken with this cauliflower sheep:

We reported for duty and were provided with very official-looking sashes:

Meanwhile, both the Trading Post and the plant stall were doing roaring trade:

And our own Dorothy Oliver held painting demonstrations throughout the day:

The Jubilee-themed W.I. entries were all so impressive …

… but the winning entry from St. Breward was definitely deserving of the trophy:

Feeling exhausted and with aching feet, our only remaining dilemma was to try and remember where we’d parked the car!

Photos!

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Thanks to Pam Smith, some lovely photos of our WI have been added to the website. Click on the ‘Photos’ tab along the top and take a trip down memory lane.

If anyone else has any photographs they can share, please either email them to crowlasludgvanwi@gmail.com or bring them to the next meeting and give them to Helen to scan and post here.

 

May Meeting

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Our May Resolution meeting was a great success.

Our own Shirley Battle, a retired midwife, spoke eloquently about the NFWI’s resolution for 2012 which calls for an increased investment in the training, employment and retention of midwives in England and Wales. Following Shirley’s talk, we voted and the result was overwhelming (if not unanimous) support for the resolution.

Gill will now take the results of our vote (along with those of the other WIs in our link) to the AGM at the Royal Albert Hall in London at the end of the month.

We had four guests at last night’s meeting and it’s always so nice to see new faces. We do hope they’ll all decide to join!