WE are holding another of our popular Quiz nights on Saturday, January 23 at 7pm.

The winners of the last two are setting the questions this time.

It is always a good night, so come a long make new friends, we can make teams up on the night if you are on your own.

WITH the New Year lots of things are happening at the Park Community Centre and we hope to have a Newsletter out in Mid February with lots of details.

Grace has started her Street Dancing classes again on a Wednesday night at 6pm. Come along it is great fun.

Grace has worked with several groups on Portland to help celebrate the Olympics in a short space of time, and the results have been tremendous. This time I really think that we are going to see great dancing, and later on in the year we hope to organise a concert and hope that all the residents of the park district will join us.

We are close to announcing our ‘Cant Sing—neither can we’ an exciting project.

More details later, so watch this space and the reality after two years hard work the dance mats could soon be installed!

It takes a great deal of work to raise the funds and I would like to thank Julie Hursthouse, Weymouth & Portland Community support worker for her tireless efforts.

Talks are on going about restarting the Youth Club and we hope to appoint a new leader shortly, again details will be announced ASAP.

THE results of the Christmas raffles are as follows:

Home-made Christmas cake, Doreen from Stretch Relax and Breathe; bottle of Malibu, Angela from the Art Class; Chardonnay Rose from Brunswick terrace; Lambringa, Olive Carroll; Sangria and teddy bear, Paul from the Railway Tavern; Shortbread biscuits, Doug Milne; candles, Penny Ingleheart; box of nougat went to Bon Bon; Queens Street (Coals to Newcastle?) Perfume Set, Pauline from the Art Class.

Our Thanks to Rose Brooks who made the cake and all the people who gave the prizes, Lennox Street Stores, Railway Tavern and individuals. We raised £178.

A PUBLIC meeting will be held at the Park Community Centre, Friday, January 22, 6.30pm.

Jim Knight MP will be there to discuss any issues concerning residents.

FINALLY, thank you to all who wrote in about the Dorset County Council Transportation Plan, at the meeting on January 6, some points were changed BUT not enough, we still have to keep writing.

It seems that the DCC are determined to stop the residents from driving directly to their homes and insisting on us making journeys, sometimes up to 25 times further, and of course putting more traffic on to the Esplanade, which seems to defeat the object of reducing journeys etc.

The most important thing is that we want DCC to look at a legal way of residents driving up Kings Street and into Queens Street and then into the Park District, even if it is a one lane local traffic only.

Otherwise I can see us all breaking the law and travelling through the railway as a short cut.

The next meeting is on Tuesday, February 2, so please continue to write in and try to make our councillors see sense and convince Dorset County Council to consult with the residents and get a plan, which works for everyone.