
President’s Blog – November 2024
I’m writing this having got back home following another fabulous matchday lunch at our spiritual home, Sandbach Rugby Club, where the OSA were once again sponsoring the matchball. I can’t praise the club too highly.
I’m writing this having got back home following another fabulous matchday lunch at our spiritual home, Sandbach Rugby Club, where the OSA were once again sponsoring the matchball. I can’t praise the club too highly.
It is said that a sign of a good time is that no one wants it to end. So the fact that there were more than half the guests still mingling when the night ended, was evidence that this was certainly the case at the Former Cadets’ Dining In Night!
Once again, OSA President Mark Bowland, and Vice President Jeff Lewis joined the annual Remembrance Sunday parade through the town, and jointly laid a wreath at the town’s War Memorial.
Once again the OSA will be joining the Sandbach Remembrance Parade this year, and new President Mark Bowland will lay a wreath on behalf of the Old Sandbachians’ Association.
Former Sandbach School headteacher, Colin Brown, last week completed a Memory Walk for the Alzheimer’s Society, in honour of his late wife, Christine, who sadly passed away in January 2022.
We are delighted to be sponsoring the match ball for Sandbach 1st XV v Winnington Park on November 20th 2024. As part of the occasion the Association will be hosting a lunch prior to the game in the club house.
Former Sandbach School Headteacher Colin Brown is taking part, in Tatton Park, in one of the Society’s fund-raising Memory Walks where there is always a large turn-out of folk undertaking the walk in memory of a deceased loved one who suffered from dementia.
Welcome to our Summer Newsletter, and to the start of the 125th year of the OSA! In The Sandbachian in December 1898 the editor wrote “the formation of an O.S.Club has become almost a certainty – and that in the near future! “
As I write this, it’s just over a month since our 99th annual Summer Reception. A huge amount of work went into putting this on, Jeff and I spent months planning, promoting and organising it.
On Saturday July 13th 2024, the OSA held a very successful and well attended AGM and Annual Lunch.
Our secretary, Jeff Lewis, has put together a timeline of the period leading up to the event
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