Our speaker this week was Roger Sykes who is the Coroner for Maidstone, Medway and Mid Kent. We were fortunate that he was able to spend an evening with us and his talk about the work of the Coroner’s office was interesting and enlightening. It was frightening for example, just to know how many deaths there are due to unnatural circumstances in our area. A busy man indeed having to oversee a huge amount of work.
I also had the sad duty to announce the resignation of Tony Lush. Tony was our very first president and has played a significant role in the life of Riverside throughout the years. He now has other interests to pursue so we wished him well and he was thanked for all he had done for our club.
Our attendance (25) was a bit better this week but we are still not getting the commitment to take part in some forthcoming events. Maria and Clare are organising a social evening soon and we could do with a lot more people to come along and join in. Hopefully, as the saying goes, it’ll be alright on the night.
Once again I emptied the wishing well on Tuesday. Sticky lollies played a major part in the rubbish fished out, along with the usual chips, crisps sweets etc. Coupled with that our notice highlighting the charities we are supporting has disappeared. Having said that after washing the money (thank you to whoever was the smart…. who asked if this was money laundering) it does appear that we have a slight increase this week. Tony is counting and we await the outcome.