{"id":20472,"date":"2018-05-09T22:10:47","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T21:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=20472"},"modified":"2018-05-09T22:10:47","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T21:10:47","slug":"mayor-making-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=20472","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Making"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18050901.jpg\" alt=\"Mayor Making\" \/><br \/>\nThe <em>Abingdon Traditional Morris Dancers<\/em> were dancing outside St Helen&#8217;s Church before the Abingdon Town Council Mayor Making. They were led by the Mayor of Ock Street, Harry Knight.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18050907.jpg\" alt=\"Mayor Making\" \/><br \/>\nIn St Helen&#8217;s Church, Councillor Jan Morter handed on the chain of office of the Mayor of Abingdon to Councillor Margaret Crick.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18050902.jpg\" alt=\"Mayor Making\" \/><br \/>\nMargaret is an ex teacher who not only taught in England but also in the Bahamas. She became a member of the Town Council in 2007, and in the last year has chaired the planning committee, and been Deputy Mayor. She is a keen gardener and craftswoman, who behind the scenes  donates handmade jewellery to help raise money for town events.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18050904.jpg\" alt=\"Mayor Making\" \/><br \/>\nThe new Deputy Mayor is David Pope, seen here signing the oath of office. David is also district governor for the Rotary International.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18050905.jpg\" alt=\"Mayor Making\" \/><br \/>\nMargaret has chosen two charities that are close to her heart as the Mayor&#8217;s Charities. First is <em>Abingdon Carousel<\/em> who will soon take over running the South Abingdon Children&#8217;s Centre. Margaret said that a good start to life is so important for children. She also chose <em>Be Free &#8211; Young Carers of Oxfordshire.<\/em> Margaret was so impressed with how they bring together young people who have taken on the very adult role of caring for relatives.<\/p>\n<p>The outgoing Mayor, Councillor Jan Morter, gave Mayor&#8217;s awards to:<br \/>\n* Emma Beacham, the founder of the <em>Abingdon More in Common<\/em> group.<br \/>\n* Anne Smart, one of the volunteers for <em>Abingdon Cuts Plastic \/ Abingdon Carbon Cutters<\/em>.<br \/>\n* Shirley Thompson as a volunteer for 20 years with the <em>Abingdon Children Contact Centre<\/em>, at Abingdon Baptist church, which allows separated parents to meet with children in a safe neutral place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Abingdon Traditional Morris Dancers were dancing outside St Helen&#8217;s Church before the Abingdon Town Council Mayor Making. They were led by the Mayor of Ock Street, Harry Knight. In St Helen&#8217;s Church, Councillor Jan Morter handed on the chain of office of the Mayor of Abingdon to Councillor Margaret Crick. Margaret is an ex [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20472","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=20472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}