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KEEKLE AND PADSTOW WI

Published 7 May 2008

THE April meeting started with the singing of Jerusalem. Mrs Fleming welcomed members and also our speakers for the night Ann and Avril from The Beacon.

SEASCALE WI

Published 7 May 2008

THE meeting held in the Methodist hall, with Judy Hall in the chair.

LAMPLUGH WI

Published 7 May 2008

IT was with great sadness when Brenda Shaw started our April meeting with silent prayers and thoughts for Maureen Fisher who had just lost her sister.

Friends lobby PM

Published 30 April 2008

WEST Cumbria Friends of the Earth have urged Prime Minister Gordon Brown and MP Jamie Reed to extend the government’s new Climate Change Law to cover all sources of carbon dioxide emissions, including the UK’s share of emissions from international aviation and shipping.

Whitehaven Probus Club

Published 30 April 2008

RALPH Lewthwaite is an eminently able presenter of a documentary about Whitehaven’s life during the second decade of the last century, once known as the Roaring Twenties.

Cumbria Decorative and Fine Arts Society

Published 30 April 2008

THERE was never any doubt about Dr Neil Faulkner’s enthusiasm for his subject right from the start of his talk on Imperial Roman Art.

Millom & District Flower Club

Published 30 April 2008

MORE than 100 members and visitors turned out to see Zena Stone from Bolton who was the demonstrator at the March meeting.

Cumbria Humanist Group

Published 30 April 2008

LIKE the Quakers, Humanists are essentially a peaceful group. So when Cumbria Humanist Group invited Anne Bell and fellow Quakers from Penrith Meeting to speak to our members on April 16, at the Eden Rural Foyer in Penrith, we focused on our shared values rather than our differences.

Whitehaven Rambling Club

Published 23 April 2008

ORGANISED by George Taylor, 57 members of Whitehaven Rambling Club recently spent a weekend based in Conwy, in North Wales.

WOODEND & DISTRICT WI

Published 23 April 2008

MRS Graham welcomed 28 members to the April meeting of Woodend WI. Mrs J Dickinson was welcomed back after her visit to New Zealand, and Mrs Z Degler has recovered from her accident. Mrs Hodgeson thanked us for her plant given last month. Apologies were received; the minutes of the last meeting were read and signed.

Moor Row Jubilee Club

Published 23 April 2008

MOOR Row Jubilee Club chairman, John Allonby, opened the meeting on April 1, and David Simpson, secretary reported a welcome donation of £300 from the Co-operative Community Fund.

Whitehaven Flower Arranging Society

Published 23 April 2008

THIS month Lyn Constable gave a demonstration called Have Flowers Will Travel. The first place ‘ visited’ was France, and she used a tall cream vase. There was a circle of scerecio leaves around the top of the vase and then three tall longi lillies were put in. To finish, a circle of gypsophila was added. It was a simple design, but very attractive.

SANTON BRIDGE WI

Published 23 April 2008

PRESIDENT Mrs Matterson welcomed members and three visitors to the April meeting of Santon Bridge WI.

Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society – South West Group

Published 23 April 2008

MEMBERS enjoyed a fascinating outing on April 12 with a short walk from Ravenglass to Saltcoats in the enthusiastic company of archaeologist Clifford Jones.

Calder Sew & Sews

Published 23 April 2008

AT the latest monthly meeting the chairwoman announced a trip to Belsay quilt show on Saturday July 5, with a visit to a quilt shop on the way.

CLEATOR WI

Published 23 April 2008

THE March meeting began with a welcome from the president, Mary Gregg, and then the singing of Jerusalem. Congratulations were extended to Dorothy Warwick on the birth of her great grandchild, and also to Jean Shipton-Smith on the birth of her new grandchild.

RAVENGLASS WI

Published 23 April 2008

MRS E Thornton presided over the April meeting, held in the Village Hall, at 7pm.

BECKERMET WI

Published 23 April 2008

THERE were 11 paper-knives entered in the competition from 14 members who attended the meeting on April 9, at the Reading Room, Beckermet. Claude McGrabe, vice-president welcomed us and Jerusalem was sung.

U3A round up

Published 23 April 2008

AMERICA can offer many surprises, but vice-chairman Keith Irving was unprepared for a bomb scare before he had even entered his hotel in Washington.STAN BUCK, chairman of Lamplugh and District Heritage Society, formed four years ago, opened Whitehaven U3A members’ eyes and minds with a review of more than a century’s effort to preserve Ennerdale Show.WILLIAM Hague has published two acclaimed biographies, one of William Pitt and the other of William Wilberforce, and during a talk on the latter by David Matthews we learned more of the interesting connection between these two men.

Whitehaven Local History Group

Published 23 April 2008

LAST month’s meeting of the Whitehaven Local History Group was held on March 17 at URC Hall, Market Place, Whitehaven.

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