Pakenham WI News - May 2022

APRIL 28TH – LADIES WHO LUNCH
Last month’s lunch was at The White Horse Badwell Ash. The most fabulous food, service and ambience, which I can highly recommend.

MAY 12TH 2022 – ALDANITI AND MY WONDERFUL RACING LIFE
We were so delighted to welcome Bob Champion to tell the remarkable story of his racing career. This truly inspirational and delightful man enthralled the audience with his life’s career in the horse racing world. Born in Yorkshire he worked his way up from being a stable boy to fulfilling his childhood dream of being a championship jockey and riding in the Grand National. He fought a life changing cancer verdict, spending months in hospital undergoing harrowing treatment and then many months convalescing in the USA, returning to racing once more. He then set up the Bob Champion Cancer Charity raising vast amounts for research.
We celebrated Beryl’s 80th birthday, welcomed more new members, conducted a Resolution vote and finished off with compulsory AGM. I was honoured to remain as president. Quite a meeting!!!!

MAY 26TH 2022 - LADIES WHO LUNCH
This month’s lunch is at Casa in Bury St Edmunds where we look forward to reacquainting with last month’s speaker Maria.

JUNE 4TH 2022 – THE 1950’5 JUBILEE TEA
We look forward to entertaining the village resident to the food and ambience of a by- gone era.

JUNE 9TH 2022 – THE TRAINING OF MEDICAL DETECTION DOGS
Norma Howells joins us for the evening to tell how dogs are trained to detect the odour of human diseases and successful outcomes by helping detect cancer and other life threatening medical conditions.

My grateful thanks to my brilliant committee and wonderful members for their fabulous friendship and support over the last WI YEAR.

Mary S Kirby (still president of Pakenham WI)