A Happy New Year to everyone as we enter our 51st year. We successfully completed our 50th anniversary celebrations at the October Lecture Meeting. Katie Gentry opened proceedings with a lovely folk concert. We then enjoyed a buffet & Tom Hughes, a past Chairman, and Ian Dodsworth, our retiring Treasurer, cut the Anniversary Cake. We concluded the evening with Brian Coley comparing 2017 Cockermouth with 1967 through photographs taken then & now. His conclusions were that Cockermouth has improved tremendously and there are now more trees!