{"id":18583,"date":"2017-05-10T22:40:19","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T21:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=18583"},"modified":"2017-05-10T22:40:19","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T21:40:19","slug":"new-mayor-of-abingdon-on-thames-for-201718","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=18583","title":{"rendered":"New Mayor of Abingdon-on-Thames for 2017\/18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17051001.jpg\" alt=\"Mayor Making\" \/><br \/>\nThe Mayor Making began in a non-traditional way &#8211; Mr Hemmings Abingdon Traditional Morris Dancers have now been joined by some young ladies.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17051006.jpg\" alt=\"Mayor Making\" \/><br \/>\nFor the second year in a row the ceremony took place at St Helens Church, and Reverend Paul Smith began and ended the Mayor Making with some prayers.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17051002.jpg\" alt=\"Mayor Making\" \/><br \/>\nAbingdon Town Band played music before, during and after the ceremony.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17051003.jpg\" alt=\"Mayor Making\" \/><br \/>\nThe new Mayor is Jan Morter &#8211; a well known councillor, and music teacher in these parts.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17051004.jpg\" alt=\"Mayor Making\" \/><br \/>\nAlice Badcock, the previous Mayor, is seen here with some past Mayors (from left to right) &#8230; Lorraine Oates (2007-8), Alice Badcock(2016-17), Julie Mayhew-Archer (1997-8), Helen Pighills(2015-16), Jeanette Halliday\u00a0(1998-9). And behind them Duncan Brown(2010-11) with child, and Samantha Bowring(2013-14).<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17051005.jpg\" alt=\"Mayor Making\" \/><br \/>\nThe new Deputy Mayor is Margaret Crick &#8211; a very hard working councillor.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17051007.jpg\" alt=\"Mayor Making\" \/><br \/>\nNigel Warner, our excellent Town Clerk, officiated, and is seen here watching as Margaret signs the oath of office.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17051008.jpg\" alt=\"Mayor Making\" \/><br \/>\nThe Mayor Making is conducted as a ceremonial Council Meeting, where: Mayor, Deputy Mayor, Committee Chairs and Vice-Chairs, for the next year, are all voted in.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17051010.jpg\" alt=\"Mayor Making\" \/><br \/>\nAt the end everybody was invited to the South Aisle for a drink. This is the official photographer who will send pictures to the papers and  post some on The Abingdon Facebook page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mayor Making began in a non-traditional way &#8211; Mr Hemmings Abingdon Traditional Morris Dancers have now been joined by some young ladies. For the second year in a row the ceremony took place at St Helens Church, and Reverend Paul Smith began and ended the Mayor Making with some prayers. Abingdon Town Band played [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exhibition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18583","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=18583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}