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Peggy Strode, AWS President (far left), and members of the AWS deliver the pillows to Consultant Surgeon Mr Tayo Johnson (second left), Lead Breast Care Nurse, Regina Santos (centre front) and the Breast Care Unit team
Big Hearted Help for Breast Cancer Patients The American Women of Surrey have donated 125 heart-shaped pillows to the Ashford and St. Peter’s Hospital Breast Cancer Unit. The special pillows are designed and shaped to suppor the armpit, to ease pain and increase comfort for patients after surgery. The Heart Pillow project was recently launched by AWS with the Federation of American Women’s Clubs Overseas (FAWCO) and the American Women’s Club of London. AWS held “sew, stuff and package days” over two days in a member’s house and the pillows were funded by selling specially designed heart cards and donations from local business in Weybridge and Kingston. The pillows were originally discovered in the United States at the Erlanger Breast Resource Center and were brought to Denmark by Nancy Ruth Friis-Jensenl. In 2006, she inaugurated the project at The American Women’s Club in Denmark. To find out more about the heart pillows, or get a pattern to make one yourself, visit www. heartpillow.dk
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John Washington’s final resting place, the family burial plot in Popes Creek, VA.
Independence Day at Washington Ancestral Home 350 years ago, the first American Washington ancestor of George, the First President, was born in Virginia at Pope’s Creek, the son of John Washington who left England in 1657. This year the sites at the beginning and end of John’s journey are uniting over Independence Day weekend to celebrate the anniversary. Two of the National Park Service Rangers from the George Washington Birthplace site in Virginia will join with their colleagues in the celebrations at the Washington ancestral home Sulgrave Manor in the heart of England. They will offering talks and presentations on the Pope’s Creek site to add a dimension to Sulgrave’s traditional celebration with Appalachian dancing, a visiting bald eagle and huskies. Independence Day itself will see almost simultaneous planting of a Virginian Dogwood at Sulgrave by
Baroness Knight and Tim Boswell MP and of an English Oak at Pope’s Creek by Congressman Whittman of Virginia. Sulgrave Manor’s Independence Day Celebrations open at 11am with last entry at 4pm on both Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th July, 01295 760205, www.sulgravemanor.org.uk
Sulgrave Manor, the home of George Washington’s father John and a great place to celebrate Independence Day.