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Anne thanks community for their support
ONCE again sympathetic support has been forthcoming from the Martinstown community to someone in their hour of need.
This particularly valuable these days when family members are so widespread as was the case with Anne Robertson.
She greatly appreciated such help , especially that of her fellow WI members, on the recent death of her husband Jack after his long illness.
Time flies and it is hard to believe that Anne and Jack came to make their home in the village some ten years or so ago for in fact they fitted into local life so well that it felt that they had always been a very long established part of the community.
Jack loved to have a chat with everyone he met as he strolled through the village with a lovely contrast between his Scottish accent and the local Dorset dialect.
Like so many of his fellow Scots Jack was one of those highly competent engineers who become involved in worldwide projects to do with building roads, dams and bridges in every continent. His speciality was the vital necessary logistics to ensure that materials arrived at the appropriate destinations, no small achievement in the back of beyond'.
Anne made a home for them in conditions that would have driven most women to despair and back home to mother - lack of clean water being the least of these which may have seemed odd when Jack had the building of a water project to oversee plus the fact that he covered every continent in the world.
Fellow WI members and other friends joined Anne and her family for the service at Weymouth crematorium where the recordings of Scottish pipe band music provided a most apt background to the moving service conducted by the Rev Rosemary Basset.
This simple service spoke volumes about the wonderful rapport enjoyed by Anne and Jack providing much to commend it to the frivolous outlook of many in this day and age.
Anne extends her heartfelt thanks to all, especially her great friend Rita,who have given her so much support not only at the funeral service and the gathering at the Brewers Arms afterwards but also in those days when she needed the back up in order to carry on in difficult circumstances.
TO FORTHCOMING events in the village diary, many of which concern fundraising for the extension of the village hall:
This Saturday, March 8, there will be a quiz night in the village hall at 7.30pm for a 7.45pm start.
There will be tables of four at £1.50 per person.
Refreshments at half time but if anything stronger than tea or coffee is required people are welcome to bring their own beverages.
EARLIER on the same day from 10am-2pm Bruce and Maggie will be holding a Fairtrade coffee, cake and chat for a £2 donation to Tearfund.
There will be Tearcraft goods for sale.
ON MONDAY, March 9 at 7.45pm Martinstown WI will be enjoying a talk by Ann King entitled a frolic down the Frome', which sounds most intriguing.
Lady visitors are always most welcome to attend these meetings.
MARTINSTOWN Parish Council would appreciate comments from residents concerning those cattle troughs in situ throughout the village.
At the moment they present a somewhat rusty as opposed to rustic appearance and the resident pansies are almost invisible.
Hopefully everyone will respond and be completely honest in their opinions, after all the parish council is there to carry out our wishes for the benefit of the community and all are welcome to attend meetings and say their piece during the democratic period which is available for comments from any resident.
7:54am Monday 3rd March 2008
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