1:46pm Monday 4th January 2010
The Preston Table Tennis Club held an energetic fun evening to mark its first ever Christmas season.
There were competitions such as Beat the Robot, playing against a machine that can deliver 100 balls a minute, Running Round the Table - once you've hit the ball you have to run round the other side of the table - and Round Robin Doubles, where your partner is chosen by pot luck. Derrick Smith beat the robot, Danny Chambers was the fittest runner and Geoff Webber and Keith Thompson won the doubles.
Dave Clegg, Ann White and John White were presented with prizes as winners of the weekly Handicap Ladder League.
The club now has 25 members and two teams in the Weymouth League Div 2. The B team is sixth and the A team thirteenth, but has two games in hand.
New players, and beginners, are always welcome on Wednesday nights at Westfield School sports hall, so if you would like more information, give Stan a ring on 07801 621870.
There will be a Team Walk on Saturday, 16 January along the Rodwell Trail, meeting at 1pm at the beginning of the trail in Abbotsbury Road.
This will be a good opportunity to shed a few of those pounds that you might have put on over the festive season, with a nice walk in pleasant company and the chance to enjoy some of our best local views. Why not make a New Year resolution and go along - you will be warmly welcomed.
I am pleased to see that Jason Hemming of Portland Sea Bass Ltd is still selling his fresh locally caught fish from Chalbury Wine Stores car park between 12 and 6.30pm every day.
Obviously he has received enough support to continue into the New Year. In addition to bass he sometimes has cod, pollock, red mullet, sole or scallops, depending on what has appeared in the nets on the last fishing trip.
The mobile library visits our area on alternate Wednesdays, the next being Wednesday, 20 January.
It stops in Sutton Poyntz between 09.55pm and 10.25pm in the lay-by outside the Dolphins and in Preston between 10.50pm and 11.45pm at Eadon Close just off Oakbury Drive.
During the recent bad weather the Library staff contacted as many people as possible to let us know that it would not be able to come that day, which is excellent service. Well done to all concerned.
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