Our last proper meeting of 2012, on Monday 26 November,
was very busy, and very well attended. Firstly, Julie Brett, Fundraiser from
Demelza, one of the charities we support, gave us a short presentation of the
work of the charity, and collected the final cheque for sales of our 2007
publication ‘Diamonds’. The total raised is now a pleasing
£3,150.
Next, we heard the results
of our recent journalism competition, held in memory of long-standing member and
award-winning Fleet Street journalist David Buchan, who sadly died last year.
We were pleased to welcome David’s widow Anne to the meeting. To start the
proceedings, a friend and former colleague of David, Richard Holdsworth, read
out a short piece celebrating his life. Our judge, group member and journalist
Angela Everitt, then took us through
the results. She said all entries had been of a high standard, and it had been
hard to choose the winners. Highly commended was John Cole,
with ‘Barack Obama versus the Flip-Flop Man’, and in fourth place,
Ron (Nick) Nicola, with ‘Memories of
the Second Parachute Regiment’. Third was Rosemary Bartholomew, with a lively
piece with a local slant, ‘The Uniform Debate’. In second place, Steph Gaunt,
with another topical piece about a local issue, ‘Hastings Recycling falls
short’, and the winner was Jill Fricker with the excellent ‘Paved with Gold? The
Olympic Legacy in Tower Hamlets’. Jill received a bottle of wine from Anne
Buchan as her prize.
For the last part of our
evening, Angela, our judge, delivered a brief workshop on how to write a good
article. All thanks to Angela for her efforts.
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