Garve & Lochluichart SWRI

Meeting 30th September 2010
The meeting this month was in Garve Hotel where we held an all prize tombola for the residents at the hotel.

Members had collected or made all the prizes, and together set up and ran the tombola which the residents enjoyed and found it great fun.

This was the second year this has been used as an entertaining fund raising event.

The tea was supplied by the hotel and the meeting for business held in their vacant games room. Plans  are being made for the next meeting when guests from other institutes are expected.

Meeting 28th October 2010
For the October meeting we were joined by SWRI members from Muir of Ord and Marybank.

The visitors were welcomed and the meeting was opened by our president, Mrs Jennifer Haslam.

The business was quickly dealt with before the talk by Mr Howie Firth. He gave us a brief history of Orkney from 390 million years ago, its travels to where it is now and why it looks the way it does. He talked about the peoples who have lived there from possibly 10,000 years ago up to the present, and stories of the worthies who lived there while he was a child growing up in Orkney.

It was a highly entertaining evening, finished off nicely by tea, with food brought by all the members.

Raffle, and the competitions: the knitted Bear was won by Jean Bailey, 2nd Jeannette Dickinson, for the fork 1st Berta Logie, 2nd Jeannette Dickinson.
Helen Grainge



Scottish Women's Rural Institutes

is one of the largest women's organisations in Scotland and boasts about 22,000 members. Members informally call the organisation the Rural.

There are lots of opportunities to get involved in SWRI: attend classes in crafts, go to cookery demonstrations, go to summer school, join a drama group, sing in a choir, take part in sport, go on a study tour at home or abroad, debate local issues, organise events or simply enjoy the friendship of fellow members at the monthly meeting.

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