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admin — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 04:03:53 +0000

Shirley Franklin, vice president, chaired the meeting held on Wednesday 2nd June. Before the business part of the meeting, members sang Jerusalem, followed by a one minute silence in memory of the victims of a mass murder which occurred in Cumbria on that day.
The speaker for the evening was Natalie Thompson from Barrow-upon-Soar, who gave a power point presentation and talked about ‘Deaf Awareness and Sing Signing’. One in seven people in the U.K. Have some form of hearing loss and it is the most common disability after mobility problems. Any breed of dog may be considered as suitable to be a hearing dog and it costs approximately £4,000 to train each dog. Patients are admitted to a special residential home to learn how to become a hearing dog owner.
Afterwards members learned signing and accompanied Natalie as she sang two pop songs, it was both difficult and funny at the same time. Some gestures are very straight forward and somehow lay people can communicate with deaf people in some form or another.
Natalie was given a donation for the Hearing Dogs for Deaf People charity.
The vote of thanks was given by Mrs C Grant and the competition for a picture of a pet dog was won by Mrs C Hickling.
Mrs S Arthur won the raffle and Mrs J Brewerton and Mrs R Foster were tea hostesses.
The next meeting will be at Syston Community Centre at 7.30pm on Wednesday 7th July when Mr Neil Head will give a presentation entitled ‘How to be your own Bodyguard’ and the competition will be ‘a Security tip’.
Visitors are always welcome.

New Barkby WI May Meeting report

admin — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 04:01:46 +0000

New Barkby’s May meeting was to discuss the one resolution to be voted on at the W.I’s A.G.M. in June, to be held in Cardiff.
The resolution: This meeting urges HM Government to introduce clear and mandatory country of origin labelling on all meat, poultry and fish products sold in this country.
Mrs Janet Kirk, a W.I. Advisor, led members in discussion and at the end members voted ‘for’ the resolution by a majority vote.
Mrs Kirk was thanked by Mrs Shirley Franklin, acting president for the meeting. Also during the evening there was a publications and sales box from W.I. House and New Barkby’s own sales table.
Members very generously brought along items of cakes, biscuits and jams which were collected together, then taken to the Manorcroft Day Centre in Stoneygate for LOROS patients to enjoy when they visit the centre. This effort only occurs every few years, the previous occasion when New Barkby made a contribution was in 2005. Thank you to everyone who donated items.
The raffle prize was won by Mrs V Cobb and Mrs R Foster and Mrs K Sharp were tea hostesses.
The next meeting will be Wednesday 2nd June at 7.30pm in Syston Community Centre when the speaker will be Natalie Thompson on ‘Deaf Awareness and Sign Singing’. The competition will be a picture or photograph of a dog.
Visitors are always welcome.

New Barkby W.I. April Meeting

admin — Sat, 01 May 2010 04:01:14 +0000

Farmer Mr Brian Dalby of Rugby visited New Barkby W.I. for their meeting in April. From his herd of Friesian dairy cattle, Mr Dalby diversified into making diary ice cream in 1987. Everything is derived from a natural source. All ingredients are put into a stainless steel tank, pasteurised to a certain temperature, cooled, transferred to another tank to cool down, then flavours are added when the ice cream is at the freezer stage of its process.
The dairy farm has to have a licence to produce ice cream, the labelling on the lid states size of container and ingredients and the number code means that the product can be traced back to the manufacturer
This ice cream is mostly sold in small size shops and farm shops, and could not keep up the demand for large scale supermarkets.
One of the flavours used is Christmas Pudding, which is a popular one during the festive season. Unfortunately, there was none of that to taste during the evening, but members were able to taste several other varieties, including ginger, strawberry, vanilla and even an apple crumble. We all had to be quick as the ice cream started to melt in the warm atmosphere of the room.
Mrs C Grant gave the vote of thanks. Mrs B Gamble won the competition for an ice cream recipe. The raffle was won by Mrs K Sharp, and the tea hostesses were Mrs G Baker and Mrs B Gamble.
During the evening we welcomed Mrs Janice Webbon as a new member. The May meeting to be held on Wednesday the 5th will be the Resolution meeting. Visitors are always welcome at Syston Community Centre at 7.30pm.

New Barkby W.I.

admin — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 04:02:12 +0000

‘Our Vic’ the story of a Leicestershire Sailor was the subject of the March meeting given by Mr Mark Gamble of Wigston. This is a story about the life of his great uncle Vic, who was a Thurmaston man.
Through his talk and power point presentation, Mark built up the life of Vic through family history and recollections from friends who knew him. He was sent to HMS Pembroke at Chatham, Kent and after training, worked on a mine-laying vessel around the islands of Scotland. After being sent back to Chatham, he worked on HMS Volunteer, a destroyer. Later Vic went to the Azores and n 1942 volunteered to go to New York, before working on a ship taking troops to Sicily. The ship was torpedoed and unfortunately Vic lost his life at the early age of twenty five years. Today his name is listed on the memorial monuments at Thurmaston and Chatham.
To end the talk, Mark showed slides of the Royal Navy and personnel while members listened to the song sung by Rod Stewart ‘sailing’. The vote of thanks was given by Mrs Mary Gamble.
Mrs June Bishop won the competition of a fob watch. Mrs Catherine Grant won the raffle prize and Mrs Rosemary Foster and Mrs Janet Cross were the tea hostesses.
The next meeting will be on 7th April in Syston Community Centre at 7.30pm and will include a talk on ice cream. All visitors are most welcome.

NEW BARKBY WI

admin — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:40:31 +0000

Monica Winfield visited New Barkby WI for their December meeting to talk about the work of LOROS and fundraising for the hospice. She gave members facts and figures. Ninety two pence out of every pound goes on care for patients and the nursing staff and volunteers all strive for normality. (Two hundred and eighty members of staff, eight hundred volunteers on a regular basis doing a variety of jobs). Mrs Winfield also spoke of her work with BBC Radio Leicester and how the two jobs interweave together.
Mrs Pat Warren gave the vote of thanks. The competition for a Christmas tree bauble was won by Mrs Barbara Gamble and Mrs Aileen Talbot was the raffle prize winner.
Mrs Christine Grant and Mrs Chris Iliffe were the tea hostesses and Mrs Dorothy Hubbard was welcomed as a new member.
There will be no meeting in January and our February meeting will be on Wednesday 3rd February 2010 when Mrs Pat Wadd of Queniborough will join us for an Antiques Quiz .
All our meetings take place at Syston Community Centre, School Street, Syston (Brookside suite) at 7.30pm. Visitors are always welcome.

Barkby WI

admin — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:01:21 +0000

New Barkby W.I. recently held their Annual meeting. Speakers for the evening were Mrs J Kirk and Mrs R Green from Barkby and Beeby W.I.

Mrs Janet Hutton was re-elected president for a second year. Other committee members are to be Mrs J Brewerton, Mrs J Brutnall, Mrs V Cobb, Mrs R Foster, Mrs S Freaklin, Mrs K Fryman, Mrs C Grant, Mrs A Montague, Mrs J Oliver, Mrs A Taylor and Mrs A Wright.

Afterwards, members enjoyed social time and a bring- and-buy sales table. Members who attended courses at the W.I College (Denman College, Oxfordshire) brought along samples of their art work for display.

Our next meeting will be on Wednesday 2nd December at 7.30pm in Syston Community Centre when the speaker will be Monica Winfield on the work of LOROS. The competition will be for a Christmas Tree Bauble.

Visitors are always welcome.

New Barkby WI

admin — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 04:01:07 +0000

Mr David Bell a member of the Crime Writers Association visited New Barkby WI for their October meeting and spoke on Murder Cases in Leicestershire and Rutland from the seventeenth to the twenty first centuries, highlighting cases and in the 1980’s the discovery and development of DNA, which is now a vital part of murder investigations.
Mrs Doris Conroy gave the vote of thanks. The competition for the Leicestershire memory was won by Mrs B Jameson. Mrs S Gamble was the raffle prize winner and Mrs J Brewerton and Mrs R Foster were the tea hostesses.
Recently, several members went on a trip to Highgrove House, the home of HRH The Prince of Wales, and had an enjoyable day out organised by Mrs Shirley Franklin.
The annual meeting will be on 4th November.
Visitors are always welcome at our meetings which are held on the first Wednesday in the month at Syston Community Centre at 7.30pm.

New Barkby WI

admin — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:01:22 +0000

At our September meeting, members were entertained and informed by Mrs Kerry Evans of Syston who gave a flower demonstration, making four arrangements containing roses, spray carnations and sunflowers, plus other plant foliage material. One arrangement was made in a plastic bottle and decorated around the edge with laurel leaves and green tissue paper, pink roses were then placed into oasis fitted in the bottle.
All the arrangements were raffled off and the winners were Mrs B Jameson, Mrs B Lancaster, Mrs P Warren and Mrs R Foster.

The vote of thanks was given by Mrs M Gamble, who also won the competition for ‘a small flower arrangement’. Mrs B Jameson and Mrs P Warren were tea hostesses.
The next meeting will be on Wednesday 7th October at 7.30pm in Syston Community Centre. The theme for this meeting is ‘Murder cases in Leicestershire and Rutland’ and the competition is ‘a memory of Leicestershire’.
Visitors are always welcome at our meetings.

New Barkby Womens Institute News

admin — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:01:52 +0000

Mrs Felicity Austin gave a talk to the New Barkby WI members at their August meeting on ‘The History of Toys and Games’. From the amazing display of toys, some old, some more recent, members were fascinated to learn of the history of items. An example was a photograph of a Greek Plate depicting a boy playing with a yoyo, this toy disappeared for sometime, but re-appeared in China after the 16th century. In Medieval times there was a counting game of ‘In and out the windows’ in the springtime. Tudor Times had hobbyhorses, whips and tops, balls made of leather (or even blown-up pig’s bladders). Something similar to a football game was quite vicious when apprentices in different villages became rivals for the game. Knobs or Dibs were made of bones from sheep or pigs and in groups of five, whereas China used seven stones. In Leicestershire, shoe buttons were also used. Many toys were improvised from the materials around at the time, wood or hollow grasses and bones. Mostly children were creative with what they could find, until more toys were manufactured commercially, for example, Action Man, Cindy, Barbie and the cuddly Teddy Bear.
The vote of thanks was given by Mrs P Warren. The competition for a child’s table mat was won by Mrs A Taylor, raffle winner was Mrs J Cross. Tea Hostesses were Mrs R Foster and Mrs M Hegginson.
The next meeting will be on Wednesday 2nd September at 7.30pm in Syston Community Centre when Mrs Kerry Evans will be demonstrating ‘Flower Arranging’ and the competition will be a small flower arrangement. All visitors are welcome.

New Barkby W.I.

admin — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:02:21 +0000

The talk given to New Barkby members at their 6th July Meeting was ‘Places to see before you die’. Mr Alan Joyce, a blue badge guide for Leicester, showed slides and talked about a variety of places, historical buildings, monuments, that exist around England, Scotland and Wales. Local places of interest were shown including Old John, Loughborough and the Carillon, Abbey Park and the grave of Cardinal Wolsey, Leicester Cathedral, The old Grammar School at Market Harborough. They were all brought to life through the slides.

The vote-of-thanks was given by Mrs M. Gamble. The competition for a holiday postcard was won by Mrs V. Cobb.

During the evening, Mrs Stephanie Morgan of Thrussington visited to give her account, as representative for Soar Valley and Wreake Valley Groups of W.I. She spoke of her day spent at the National Federation of W.I.’s A.G.M. in London. Resolution was for more research to be carried out because of a decline in the Bee population and this was carried by majority vote. Two new members were welcomed into New Barkby W.I. by Mrs Jan Hutton, President. Mrs S. Arthur and Mrs B. Lancaster.

The raffle prize was won by Mrs J. Oliver.

Tea Mistresses were Mrs K. Fryman and Mrs S Gamble.

The next meeting will be held on Wednesday 5th August, Syston Community Centre at 7.30pm, when the speaker will be Mrs F. Austin who will give a talk entitled ‘The History of Toys and Games’. Visitors are welcome.