Monique Curé presents the Friends of the Beach program for 1997 At the general meeting of the Friends of the Beach, in front of about thirty people, Monique Curé was presented as the new president to replace Jean Olard. Roger Curé was treasurer, Jean-Jacques Françoise deputy treasurer, Georgette Racine secretary, Claudine Boisnel deputy secretary and Jean Desmottes member of the council. On May 17, a rally was to offer about sixty kilometers to motorists and twenty to cyclists. The registration cost fifteen francs to the driver and five to the passenger, ten francs to the cyclist. The award ceremony was set around 7:30 p.m., before a cold buffet open to all in the communal hall, at seventy francs per adult and thirty-five per child. The calendar announced the fire of Saint-Jean on the beach on June 28, a fireworks display and a ball on July 12, the fair at all on August 10 and a postcard exhibition on August 15. Beach games had to be set according to the tides; a scrabble meeting per month was also envisaged. The annual fee was forty francs. Archive image: https://vierville.cordelle.eu/PhDoc10/1997mai9-AmPl.jpg