Autumn Ladies recommenced on Wednesday 11th September. Our guest speaker was Frank Roy from the Lanarkshire Cancer Care Drivers. He was presented with £410 raised from our Spring coffee morning, which would cover about a thousand miles driven by voluntary drivers. They travel all over the centre of Scotland taking people for their treatments to hospitals in Glasgow etc. The service is greatly valued by their clients as they can develop friendly relationships with them, enabling them to ‘Be themselves’.
Doreen had hand stitched a lovely bed quilt and Frank was shown this as it was to be used to raise further funds for the Cancer Care Trust. Our next speaker was John Wilcox on the 25th September. He gave us an amazing insight into gold. Many years ago there had been a gold rush in Scotland which lasted a whole season and was profitable to those involved. Leadhills has a regular competition on panning for gold, but the organisers now lace the containers with small pieces of gold for the competitors. John’s presentation was excellent with many illustrations and lots of information.
Our next guest speaker will be Morag Sebation from the Salvation Army in Shotts. We had one of her colleagues last year who was excellent and we are looking forward to listening to Morag’s tale. We continue to meet on alternate Wednesdays with Memory Lane and love to see new faces. Meeting between 2-4 p.m. with guest speakers and afternoon tea.
Isobel Malcolm
