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Roast raises cash for church windows
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| Paul & Betty Sutcliffe |
A BOOST to waistlines and the appeal for funds to restore the windows of St Laurence Church was enjoyed by 60 people at lunch in the Old School Village Hall on Sunday.
Betty and Paul Sutcliffe had offered to organise, cook and serve a full-blown roast dinner and there was no problem selling the tickets!
With the tables arranged for sixes everyone had a chance to chat, make new friends and share a splendid event.
Thank you to Betty and Paul and can we please have another one soon!
Rita and Jane are inviting you to a tea party in the Old School on Monday, March 3, 2.30-4pm.
Tickets are £5, there will be a marvellous spread of favourite cakes and biscuits, and again, the proceeds go to the windows restoration appeal. Call Rita on 813130.
When all the eating's been done, some of us will need to consider trimming the extra inches away again.
Sue Glenn has been running a Slimming World group at the Memorial Hall on Tuesday mornings, at 10am.
The group has been going since September and is helping us overweights to turn into healthy sylphs in time for the summer.
Several participants have already achieved their target weights and feel heaps better for it. Contact Sue on 822162 or just turn up.
After two years, the Newborn, Crawler and Toddler Group is still going strong, now under the expert eye of co-ordinator, Rebecca Harris.
There have been a few changes since the earlier days with now regular craft activities and a sectioned-off area for babies. Mums, dads, grandparents and babysitters regularly attend with the little ones and there's tea and cake to keep them going.
The group runs on Mondays, 10am-noon at the Memorial Hall, contact Rebecca on 816624, or just turn up.
Upwey and Broadwey Women's Institute is thriving. At the February meeting 24 members attended and two guests; and after the business bits, the ladies were invited to sort out old WI photographs to prepare an album.
The speaker was Andrew Cowling, who described some of the healing plants to be found on Portland and how he uses them in prescriptions, sadly the number of useful medicinal plants is declining.
The speaker at the next meeting on Thursday, March 13 will be Sheila Bird on The History of Buttons.
The 90th anniversary is being celebrated this year with a lunch to mark the occasion and preparations are being made to ensure this special birthday is well and truly marked.
Our WI meets on the second Thursday of the month at 2.30 in the Memorial Hall, and also runs a whist drive on the last Monday afternoon of the month.
New members and visitors are always welcome and should contact Mrs. Jean Streatfield on 812203, or just come along.
Soon it will be necessary to cut the grass in the St Laurence's churchyard to ensure that it remains a safe, attractive and restful place to visit.
This does mean that anything which may impede the mower, such as artificial flowers, freestanding vases etc. should be removed if possible by March 1st.
There are some regulations regarding what is permitted on graves and anyone who tends a grave there should contact the Rector, Rev Richard Simmons, on 812542, for information.
The Rector has also asked us to park in the church car park if attending services on Sunday or Tuesday mornings; it's an awkward shape, but can accommodate a lot of cars if they're parked carefully.
Using the car park does mean that more space is left on the road for other users at those times.
The Tudor House in Trinity Street between the Harbour and Brewers Quay in Weymouth, will be open this coming Sunday, March 2 from 2-4pm.
It's a delightful small merchants house some 400 years old which at one time fronted onto the water and is fully furnished according to the times.
It's worth a visit, the charge is £3.50 for adults and £1 for children and for that you get a guided tour and description of life as it might have been lived in days long gone by.
1:01pm Monday 25th February 2008
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