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PCSO walking the beat
I HAVE met our new Police Community Support Officer Sarah and can vouch for the fact that she will have covered every inch of her new beat.
At the time she herself was delivering a handbill to every single dwelling place which no doubt included all the mobile homes at Morngate - no wonder she looked a very fit young lady.
Anyone can meet up with PCSO 5410 at the Martinstown Stevens Farm Shop for a coffee and a chat, so what better way is there to make Sarah feel welcome than to go along on the following dates.
Wednesday, April 9, from 2.15pm-3.30pm or Wednesday, April 23 from 10am-11.15pm
Sarah can also be contacted by phone on 01305 226815.
HOW very rewarding to read my Echo and see that other folk have been enjoying the wonderful display of daffodils blooming throughout the village .
Thank you to Joann Pearce for those heart warming words of praise to which I must also give thanks to our parish council, who have been doing this planting in progressive stages throughout a good many years.
If I have got my facts right this was first started in around 1981, when John Marsh was on the Parish Council and I was Akela of the Martinstown Cub Pack.
John went along with a crowbar to make the holes and the Cubs followed behind dropping a bulb in each hole. Cannot remember any soil following but a lot of stamping seemed to be on the agenda, all this work fulfilling requirements of the then new World Conservation badge.
Any ex-cubs reading this may like to be reminded that they were the very first Cubs in the Dorchester District to gain this badge, for which they worked exceedingly hard.
All those trees by the side of the road up to Ewelease farm were planted by Cubs.
THE village indeed is looking quite spruce and I am keeping my fingers crossed since the recent occasion when I noticed a man measuring the layby opposite St Martins Field.
Since he had emerged from a little road surfacing van there is hope that this area of mud and puddles will give way to a much safer area for both bus passengers and users of the mobile library.
The mobile library turns up in the village every second Wednesday afternoon - the next date is April 16.
THERE will be an Artsreach presentation in Martinstown village hall this coming Saturday, April 5 at 7.30pm, when the C-Scape dance company presents a work about the Cornish Mining Industry with tales of above and below the mine and those hard working Bal Maidens.
Tickets from Ann Salmon on 01305 889059 or in the pub, shop or farm shop.
I GATHER that both the Brownies and the Scout group made the highlight of their pre-Easter meetings the making of pancakes.
The Brownies chickened out of tossing theirs but not so the Scouts, with a 99 per cent success rate.
ON THE subject of Scouting it may be an appropriate time to congratulate an old' ex-Cub who has recently had a book of his pastel and water colour paintings published.
Well done indeed Justin Cooke - you have captured the very essential spirit of the Ridgeway.
1:23pm Tuesday 1st April 2008
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