20th Birthday Garden Party - page two

Presentations


Terry Groves, on behalf of everyone at STC and as a token of our appreciation, presented Julie Jones with a bouquet of flowers and a B&Q gift voucher for garden furniture. Julie stepped down as Manager in June after six years in which she had raised STC profits by 83 percent. Doesn't she look happy with her present - and a bit surprised as well by the look on her face. There is a full appreciation of Julie on a separate page.



To mark Nadene Crowther's retirement from STC Board of Directors, there were some special words to be said and a presentation to be made. Lady Haddacks presented Nadene with a bouquet of flowers and from Terry Groves, on behalf of STC Directors, a Covent Garden Opera voucher. Nadene was not expecting a presentation and had to borrow Terry Groves spectacles to read the voucher and cards. She was (almost) speechless but thrilled to bits and thanked all concerned and all in the Hospice Shops organisation for "their" twenty years. There is a tribute to Nadene on her retirement on another page.


Siobhan Ellison - Hospice Shops Office Manager - and Julie McLean, Senior Admin Officer, both based in our STC office, above the Shops in Bucks Road, receive a bouquet from Lady Haddacks.

The Raffle


Sir Paul Haddacks inspects the raffle prizes prior to the free-prize draw.	Tina Lawton, Hospice Shops Manager, holds the box of tickets while Lady Haddacks draws the lucky numbers.

A lucky raffle prize winner, and another winner lining up to collect her prize.

Time to say thank you and goodbye


Hospice President, Brian Partington with a final thanks to Terry and Janet Groves for a memorable Hospice Shops 20th Birthday Party. Pictured right is Janet Groves who received a bouquet from Sir Paul Haddacks. All the guests were wished a safe journey home.


"What a great Party," guests could be heard saying on their way back to buses or cars. Guests had made their way mostly by car but some groups of Volunteers had hired buses, as with this mini-bus photo.

Postscript

On all the tables and around the marquee, there were the most beautiful flower arrangements, much admired and appreciated; all the work of Janet Groves and her friends.

There were innovative floral arrangement ideas which many of the guests will have carefully noted for use at home.


Mr. & Mrs Groves have asked that, via this website page, we thank : Candy and John Atcheson of A3 Island Marquees of Peel; Mrs Sheila Deakin and her staff of Country Caterers of Peel; Mr Ian Henderson of A1 Cabin and Toilet Hire of Glen Vine; to John Cowan LRPS for taking all these super photos; and lastly but not least, Heron and Brearley for donating the celebratory pink champagne. All of these mentioned gave their services and lent us their property at no charge to either Hospice Shops or cost against patient care at Hospice Care.
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