St Mary's Middle School raises funds for the Haiti appeal (From Dorset Echo)

St Mary's Middle School raises funds for the Haiti appeal

6:24pm Friday 5th March 2010 in

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Puddletown

• STUDENTS from St Mary's Middle School have been busy raising money for the Haiti appeal.

As a result of a Hats for Haiti day, a cake sale and several sponsored events, plus around £200 raised from the raffle at a recent school Artsreach performance, a cheque for £1,031.07 was presented to the Dorchester Rotary Club.

Ron Wrigley and David Betts came along to receive the cheque, presented on behalf of the school by deputy head teacher Leif Pallister.

Ron Wrigley told the students that £35,000 has been raised for the appeal in Dorchester.

• COUNTRYWOMEN'S club members enjoyed a magical afternoon's travel to South Africa. Namibia and Zambia when Chris Shaw came along to talk about her travels.

The competition for a wood carving was won by Barbara Scanlon, second Shirley Hart and third Thelma Coombes.

The next meeting will be on Wednesday, April 14 at 2.30pm in the village hall.

The speakers are Mr and Mrs Hartle who will speak about Purbeck Ice Cream.

There will be a raffle and a bring-and-buy.

Everyone is welcome.

Affpuddle

• DORSET Maps is the title of an illustrated talk by David Beaton in Briantspuddle village hall on Thursday, March 25 at 7.30pm.

The author of Dorset Maps focuses on the county maps covering nearly 500 years of mapmaking.

With their striking colours and ornate decoration, the early maps are little short of being works of art.

Tickets costing £3 can be bought at the door on the night.

There will be a bar and tea and coffee will be available before and during the talk.

• BURNS Night celebrations were a great success with 56 guests attending.

The haggis was duly addressed, followed by the Selkirk grace Dancing to reels with the music of Rainbarrow followed the meal.

A profit of £315.13 was made for village hall funds.

Bere Regis

• A COFFEE morning in aid of the church will be held at the Drax hall on Saturday, March 27 from 10.30am until noon.

There will be cakes, plants, books and other stalls.

• A STEP Back in Time is a photographic exhibition to be held at the Drax Hall on Monday, April 5 from 10am until 4pm.

This is an event not to be missed.

There are a fantastic amount of old photographs, rolling slide shows, village organisation archives and photographs of Bere Regis school spanning many years.

There are many amazing photographs of the watercress industry in the village, world war 2 in Bere Regis and village carnivals.

The winners of the photographic competition will be on display, together with lots more including images never seen before.

Entrance is just £2, and refreshments will be available.

• COPPICING Bisom Brooms is the subject of a talk by woodsman Terry Heard to the gardening club in the Drax Hall on Tuesday, April 6 at 7.30pm.

The spring show will take place on that evening also, as it was cancelled at the March meeting due to lack of daffodils after the cold winter.

• CHRISTINE Whitfield reports for the scout group: Our cub leader, Greta Richardson, was recently presented with her five years service award by district commissioner, Alan Oxley.

We would all like to thank Greta for all her efforts over the last five years and hope that she will continue with us.

The Scouts have already started the ‘Remember Them – Phase 2’ project carrying out initial research on the computers at Bere Regis School.

During this project we hope to be adding more detail to some of the previous findings and also researching the names on the memorials at Winterborne Kingston and Briantspuddle.

We would also welcome any information that anyone has on any of the men listed on the three memorials.

If you can help in any way or would like further information, please do not hesitate to contact us.

It’s that time of year again when Tesco and Sainsburys are issuing vouchers which we are collecting to redeem for new equipment. Please help us again this year by collecting these.

The Scout Group Jumble Sale, organised by Kim Benjafield, raised £213 Thank you to everyone who supported it.

The Ladies of Bere Regis Women’s Institute organised a Pancake Race and Coffee Morning – despite the pouring rain!

We were thrilled to receive a phone call from Sally to say that the W.I. wanted the proceeds of this event, £161, to go to the Scout Group for the Remember Them – Phase 2 trip to Belgium and France later this year. We really do appreciate this.

Bet and her wonderful team continue to organise fortnightly bingo at the Scout Hut. The scout group really appreciates this support.

Any enquiries please contact Bet Moss on 01929 471186.

For further information about the scout group, contact Christine Whitfield on 01929 472159.