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Bingo for Strangways Hall!
A NOTE through my door from Mary tells me that she is holding a fundraising Prize Bingo session on Friday, April 11th in aid of the village hall funds. Doors open at 7.00pm, eyes down at 7.30pm in Strangways Hall, Abbotsbury. There will be a raffle and refreshments too.
DOES Abbotsbury Have Talent is the title of a poster seen in the window of the Ilchester Arms, Abbotsbury. During the evening of Friday, April 11th they are holding a talent show - can you entertain, dance, sing, juggle, tell jokes or play an instrument or even have a novelty act. If so pick up an entry form from the pub.
ABBOTSBURY and Portesham Diamond Club will be holding a Bingo session in Strangways Hall on Friday, April 18th. Doors open at 7.00pm, eyes down 7.30pm.
POST Office closures - in an email received from Councillor Nigel Melville from Abbotsbury, I note that everyone from the Chesil Bank area are invited to a special meeting organised by Chesil Bank Parish Council in Portesham village hall on Wednesday, 23 April at 7.30pm. Decision day for our rural village post offices is looming. The Post office proposals are to be published on July 15th, with the final decision being made on September 2.
We now have seven weeks to make our case for keeping our offices open.
Our representatives Ron Nash from Dorset County Council, Tom Bartlett from West Dorset District Council, Simon Thompson from Dorset Community Action a representative from Postwatch will attend the meeting.
Our MP RT Hon Oliver Letwin has sent a message of support.
ST NICHOLAS Church has gone green. Bags of compost are available free from the east end of the church at various times of the year. There are a few available now. If they have all gone why not wait a month or so and try again. St Nicholas Church manages its churchyard as part of the Dorset Wildlife Living Churchyard Project.
Certain areas are not neglected as they may appear but carefully managed to encourage wildlife and wild plants, however, tended graves are respected whatever area they are in. You are invited to look at the notice board inside the church for details of the management scheme.
ANNUAL General meeting time is here. St Nicholas Church's is to be held on Sunday, April 20 after morning service. All are invited.
ROGATION Sunday service for the benefice of Abbotsbury, Langton Herring and Portesham will be held at 3.00pm on Sunday, April 27 at the little church of St Bartholomew at Corton by kind permission of Ann and Michael Lasseter.
ARC, Abbotsbury Residents Corps, is researching an oil-purchasing cooperative for the villages along the lines of that recently reported on TV in the Eggardon area.
The villages have been letterboxed and residents asked to register their interest, they will not be committed at this stage.
The advantages should be both financial and environmental and would probably work on a top up basis.
It is thought that 200+ members would be needed to make the Cooperative viable. Log on to www.abbotsbury-residents-corps.org.uk/ for more details or to download a form.
WESSEX Water is investing £2.1m in improvements to its Abbotsbury sewerage treatment works. The plant is located between Abbotsbury and Portesham and treats sewerage from both villages.
From Wessex Water's recent report published in our Chesil Magazine we learn that effluent discharges into a watercourse that eventually flows into the Fleet Lagoon.
Work has been agreed with the Environment Agency as part of the national programme to improve the effluent quality.
Much of the existing plant is being replaced with new inlet works, settlement tanks, chemical dosing for the removal of phosphorus, and tertiary sand filters. The new scheme is due to be operational by the end of the year.
11:46am Tuesday 1st April 2008
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