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Spring 2010

Welcome to our Spring 2010 newsletter
 
Knaphill Group - 10 years “Young”
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Knaphill TALK celebrated its 10th anniversary on 25th March 2010. The Group’s first session was held on 2nd march 2000 when Diana Lober and Freda Hoare (now Hoare-Douglas) were the joint leaders. In 2001 Freda married and, with other commitments, had to retire but Diana continued until 2007, when I took over.

Attending the celebration were the Mayor of Woking, Coun. Tina Liddington, the Mayor’s mother, the Vyne Manager, Gill Waine, Freda Hoare-Douglas, our Co-ordinator, Susan Houston, and Chairman, Michael Hawtin. Diana was unfortunately unable to come due to illness.

The session began with a quiz on the theme of ‘Anniversaries and Celebrations’ followed by a discussion by tables on the merits or otherwise of various events in the year of the Group’s inception, 2000. Whilst this was in progress, the Mayor began her visit by moving round the tables to chat with recoverers and volunteers.

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The Mayor of Woking, Cllr Tina Liddington, addressing the Knaphill Group

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front:  The Mayor with her mother and Freda Hoare-Douglas
back:  Ben Parker, Michael Hawtin, Susan Houston and Gill Waine

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Jean Raisey cutting the cake, supported by Linda Prickett

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The Mayor talking to Dr Hugh Foster, Recoverer and retired GP,
with our co-ordinator Susan Houston during her tour of the tables

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the cake !
After refreshments had been served, Jean Raisey, a recoverer who started on the first day the Group met, cut the anniversary cake, but lighting the candles was forbidden to avoid activating the smoke alarm!

The Mayor then gave a short address in which she expressed admiration for the courage of recoverers and the importance of the contribution made by TALK. She ended by proposing the toast of TALK - and the next 10 years.

One of our recoverers, Stuart Banks, then read a poem entitled ‘Nothing Came’, which he, and his wife, Rosemary, had composed.

The session concluded with a continuous slide show of photos of the Group taken throughout the last decade. This started with a photo of one of our ‘very special’ recoverers, Claire Husband, receiving an ‘Achievement Certificate’ in 2002 from the then Deputy Mayor, Mrs M. Gosling. Claire had a stroke during childbirth, with total loss of speech, and then a heart transplant! Fortunately she regained her speech virtually completely. Ellen Bowles, a long- serving volunteer, reported that Claire and her daughter, now happily settled in France, were both doing well.

Ben Parker, Group Leader
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