A very warm welcome to West Cumbria U3A

Lillian McKinlay completed a successful year by winning the 2011 Knockout trophy and the League Shield with the U3A Indoor Bowling Club. In the Photo she receives the cup from the beaten finalist Keith Irving

 
The next main event will be held in Whitehaven Civic Centre at 2pm on Wednesday 30th May. The talk is entitled Bells and bell ringing by Ron East who is the bell major of Carlisle Cathedral. it will cover the history,casting, tuning and mathematics of English "full circle" bells.

Incidentally for information, the Olympic torch will be in whitehaven on 21st June

The next Science Group meeting will be on Monday 21st May at 10am in the Chase Hotel, Whitehaven. The topical talk by Prof Terry Sloan of Lancaster University will be on the topic of Neutrinos - faster than the speed of light. This is a very topical and controversial topic in the scientific sphere at the moment. speeds faster than the speed of light would break Einstein's theory and open the possibilty of time travel

The Science group is planning an excursion to the Carlisle Canal on 25th June with David Ramshaw. This will be car based and will visit a number of sites along the canal between Carlisle and the coast. Numbers will be limited to about 20. Mervyn Dodd is organising the trip and those interested should get in touch with hin at mervyn.dodd@gmail.com

The summer lunch will be on 27th June - see activity page for details

Mary Moss has obtained tickets for a televison recording of Countdown in Manchester on 18th June. She is planning to hire a coach at a cost of perhaps £12. If you are interested please contact Mary before the end of May.

Norman Moss appealed for people who have old tools and impliments which they no longer need which could be refurbished and sent to third world countries