{"id":14027,"date":"2015-05-13T23:04:15","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T22:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=14027"},"modified":"2015-05-13T23:04:15","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T22:04:15","slug":"mayor-making-changing-of-the-guard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=14027","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Making &#8211; Changing of the Guard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15051309.jpg\" alt=\"Changing of the Guard\" \/><br \/>\nThere was a changing of the Guard at the Guildhall this evening. Malcolm Hill carried the Mace into the Mayor Making Ceremony for the final time this evening &#8211; having held the Office of Honorary Macebearer since 2003.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15051303.jpg\" alt=\"Changing of the Guard\" \/><br \/>\nNigel Luker became the new Honorary Macebearer and carried the Mace out of the Ceremony.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15051305.jpg\" alt=\"Changing of the Guard\" \/><br \/>\nMalcolm is seen here after the ceremony. He was presented with a certificate by the outgoing Mayor, Angela Lawrence.<\/p>\n<p>Angela gave Mayor&#8217;s awards to the chair of governors of the three state secondary schools in Abingdon:<br \/>\nLynn Fathers &#8211; Fitzharrys<br \/>\nPaul Brooks &#8211; John Mason<br \/>\nDavid Lever &#8211; Larkmead<\/p>\n<p>Angela commented that the position of school governor is a far more demanding role these days. Governors are held to account for how their school is performing, and need to come to grips with all kinds of data.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor&#8217;s Awards were also given to:<br \/>\nWendy Barratt &#8211; Abingdon Breakaway Club,<br \/>\nDr Tony Gillman &#8211; Abingdon, Didcot, and Wantage Talking Newspaper (DAWN)<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15051306.jpg\" alt=\"Changing of the Guard\" \/><br \/>\nThe incoming Mayor is Helen Pighills,<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15051307.jpg\" alt=\"Changing of the Guard\" \/><br \/>\nand her deputy is Alice Badcock.<\/p>\n<p>The new town council also had quite a few different faces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a changing of the Guard at the Guildhall this evening. Malcolm Hill carried the Mace into the Mayor Making Ceremony for the final time this evening &#8211; having held the Office of Honorary Macebearer since 2003. Nigel Luker became the new Honorary Macebearer and carried the Mace out of the Ceremony. Malcolm is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ceremony"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}