by Vivien Dawber
PRESIDENT Wendy Homer opened the meeting, welcoming three visitors, and announced that a garden party will be held on June 27 at St Ann's Windmill Lane, from 1pm-4pm. Tickets are £2 and everyone is welcome.
Ideas for a community bursary were asked for and nominations for a World Rural Day Event were invited.
Is Christmas really that near! Christmas calendars and diaries are on order and members were asked to bring a handmade Christmas tree decoration to the September meeting to be judged.
Our next walk is on July 7 to Dunham Park, leaving at 10.15am.
Our June speaker was Mr Garreth Griffiths, who was standing in for his wife Judith. The talk was on Finding My Mother. He told us that Judith was born in 1945 and had been adopted at birth. She had wonderful adoptive parents, and had had no intention of seeking her birth mother, but the death of her son from cancer made her wonder about her medical history and her remaining daughter's health.
The search began in Sheffield and, after many false trails, it ended in Chorley, where she was reunited with her birth mother. Her family has since extended, as she also contacted a half-sister living in Switzerland..
Our next meeting on July 11 is members' evening. The theme is a 1945 street party. Members are asked to be in good voice and to wear red, white and blue for the occasion.
