Being in the Right Place, at the Right Time
On Friday 15th August it was all about being in the right place at the right time, too catch a glimpse of the Red Arrows as they soared through the sky overhead of a nearby village. It was an amazing sight, remembering 80 years since VJ Day. There are not many of the old soldiers left now. The one’s that were there are still battling on and doing us proud. It’s been an interesting three months since the last magazine. We’ve had a great variety of guest speakers and want to continue bringing you the best quality speakers as it is proving very popular, we are gaining new members each month. Carnival Day we had lots of interest on the stall, the only down part of the day was finding out that our notice board out site the Health Centre on the Quinton Shopping Centre had been vandalised. The money the members put into the society helped to pay for the building of it. Fred Pritchard put £250 and we put up the rest, £750. It was repaired, hopefully the cretins won’t come back again. On 24th July at our open evening we had members and non-members join us, some even went onto The Star Inn after, well, it was very hot that night. We’ve had some wonderful weather, with four heat waves between June and mid August. The last time we had the hottest July, was 22nd July, 2022 with a record temperature of 40.3oC in one part of the UK. Previous to that, it was in 1976 and 1957 that it reached 35.6oC and also August 2003 it reached 38.5oC. On a sad note members, Bill Meredith, Ann Gaytten and Ken Bridge have passed away. Ken was brother to Pam Ball, he had been a member of our Society from the beginning.
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