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As several members are aware, Norma Gayton, who was our very first chairman, reached the age of 90 on Friday 22 March and so some of her friends decided to get together and hold a lunch party at the Staddon Heights Golf Club in her honour. Everyone received a yellow rose nosegay (yellow being the colour of friendship) and she was presented with a silver and blue pair of earrings and scarves. A birthday cake was specially decorated with raspberries and cream, in which we all indulged. The following day, Norma had a tea party thrown by her neighbours and on Sunday, a group of Plymouth u3a members held yet another party for her. Her house now looks like a florist's shop and we are sure she needs a good rest! .

As a thank you to all our loyal volunteers, the Committee organised a cream tea at Fort Stamford on Friday 8 March. Ten of our volunteers were able to come and the caterers at Fort Stamford did us proud, we had delicious scones, plenty of tasty jam and lovely Devon clotted cream as well as endless tea and coffee all served in the conservatory. Of course there was much debate as to the eternal question of jam before cream or cream before jam!! There was lots of chatting and everybody seemed to have a lovely time.

So thank you again our lovely volunteers, we couldn’t do without you!

We need to ask for a replacement for our Volunteer Organiser, Heather O'Brien who stepped down earlier this year from this role organising a team of volunteers for the monthly meetings at The Staddy. It's not a complicated job, just organising enough of the volunteers to attend on the meeting day to help with serving coffee, scanning, and so on. There is already a list of the volunteers so it would simply be a matter of contacting them to see if they are available. If you think you could take over this role and would like to know more about it please either contact Sue Stoker our Vice Chair

Mission Aviation Fellowship - MAF - Postcard Donation Charity

Instead of recycling or discarding postcards which you receive, mostly during the holiday season, you may wish to donate them to the above charity - when you have finished enjoying them of course. This charity flies into remote areas of the world, such as Papua New Guinea and Sierra Leone delivering education, supplies, and health workers to the poorest communities. More details can be found on their website. https://www.maf-uk.org. It is a Christian charity which may not suit everyone, but the work they do is vital and life saving. In order to raise funds, picture postcards are collected - written on or not, old or new - and sold by the charity.

A MAF box for the collection of your post card donations will be available at our monthly General Meetings.

UPDATE ON USED POSTAGE STAMPS - Used stamps now in aid of in aid of Devon Air Ambulance

Once again thank you to those of you who have been bringing in your used stamps. We are now no longer able to donate our used stamps to Young Lives vs Cancer and from now on will be taking them to Devon Air Ambulance. So please carry on saving but it would be much appreciated if you could possibly trim the stamps of most of the excess paper.

PLEASE KEEP ON BRINGING YOUR STAMPS