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President Madeleine welcomed everyone to the meeting<\/strong><\/em><\/span> on 6th February and gave a special welcome to several new members, especially Ann Daniel, who was celebrating her 80th birthday that day.<\/p>\n Our speaker for the evening was our very own Maria Williams. Maria is a professional musician and teacher. She has sung in various parts of the world during an extremely successful career. Music is beneficial to physical and mental wellbeing – this was stressed as we travelled through various breathing exercises. With her amazing voice Maria sang a popular love song, a spiritual song and a third song about peace, war and freedom. We all enjoyed joining in with Maria\u2019s singing and then we all sang HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Ann.<\/p>\n Maria concluded her talk with a story about her recent visit to a church in the centre of London. She has visited this church regularly and has sung there. This church has been involved in the founding of many charitable organisations, such as Shelter and Amnesty International. It has a reputation for compassion gained through many years of engaging with poverty and deprivation. Hence the story we heard was very moving.<\/p>\n During refreshments we all thoroughly enjoyed the delicious cake kindly donated by Ann to celebrate her 80th.<\/p>\n WI business began with the announcement of the Glamorgan Federation events. Members were informed of a quiz to be held on 6th April at Culverhouse Cross and a board will be available next month for signing up.<\/p>\n A letter has been received from the charity \u201cDogs For Good\u201d confirming that a local speaker will attend our September meeting, when we shall present a cheque – the result of our fundraising efforts this year.<\/p>\n Next month\u2019s meeting will be on Thursday, 5th March at 7pm at Wenvoe Church Hall. Our speaker on this occasion will be Pam Cockerill. 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