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Wed 26 Flower Club Westbury Village Hall 7:30. Pontesbury April Diary Sat 29 Pontesbury & District Gardeners Annual Sat 4 The Marches Choir Haydn’s ‘Creation’. St. John’s Show Pontesbury Public Hall 2:30. Church, Bishop’s Castle 7:30. CANCELLED Sept Mon 7 Lea Cross WI Visitors welcome. Cruckton Sun 5 Blakemoregate Cottages open 11:00 – 3:00. Village Hall 7:15. No information. Mon 14 Pontesbury WI Pontesbury Public Hall Mon 6 Pontesbury WI Pontesbury Public Hall 2:00. 2:00. Visitors welcome. Visitors welcome. CANCELLED Wed 23 Flower Club Westbury Village Hall 7:30. Lea Cross WI Visitors welcome. Cruckton Village Oct Mon 5 Lea Cross WI Visitors welcome. Cruckton Hall 7:15. CANCELLED Tue 14 Pontesbury Women’s Club Visitors welcome. April 2020 Issue no. 263 Public Hall 7:30. CANCELLED Sat 18 Dog First Aid Minsterley Parish Hall 1:15. Newsletter CANCELLED Parish Council/Corona virus Community Hub and Library Sun 19 Edge Villa opening CANCELLED Parish councillors continue to keep abreast of national Serving Pontesbury and the wider Rea Valley communities Wed 22 Flower Club Westbury Village Hall 7:30. and local NHS and other statutory guidance about the We are very disappointed to have to report that the official CANCELLED virus and the impact on our community and we will opening of The Pavilion on Monday 6 April has been postponed Mon 27 Apple iPad Essentials Workshop Pontesbury be keeping the parish council website up to date with until further notice. Details about whether Pontesbury Library Public Hall 2:00 – 5:00. CANCELLED links to relevant news, guidance or sources of support. will re-open on Monday 6 April from The Pavilion will be on Tue 28 Pontesbury Women’s Club Visitors welcome. We are lucky in Pontesbury to have so many active the Shropshire Library Service website www.shropshire. Public Hall 7:30. CANCELLED local organisations supporting the community. We also gov.uk/libraries and/or on the parish council website www. encourage you to think about who lives on your street and pontesburyparishcouncil.org.uk. These websites will also what support they have in place. If there are neighbours report information when we set another date for the opening. Future Events who don’t have local support please contact them and We would also like to give a warm welcome to Anna Lawson. I am leaving these events in for now. They may lend a hand. We need to look after each other and help We are delighted to welcome Anna to the Parish Council not take place depending on how things go. More wherever we can without putting ourselves at risk. team and this crucial role for the new Community Hub and information in next Newsletter. Editor We urge you to let your local councillor know if you Library (The Pavilion). Anna is a local resident who went Post your future events here to avoid clashes have strong concerns about any of your vulnerable to school here and returned to the village in 2009. Anna’s neighbours, or if you need help yourself and we will mum and grandparents were locals and Anna is keen, as her May Mon 4 Lea Cross WI Visitors welcome. Cruckton endeavour to put you in touch with sources of support. grandparents before her, to be very active in the local parish. Village Hall 7:15. We will keep you up to date about any community Anna has worked at Mary Webb and run her own cleaning Mon 11 Pontesbury WI Pontesbury Public Hall support initiatives using the parish council website. business and brings a wealth of experience to these important 2:00. Visitors welcome. These are some trusted websites to enable you to keep roles. Anna will be the main point of contact if you want Tue 12 Pontesbury Women’s Club Visitors up to date with news on the virus nationally and locally to use the building and will work alongside Beverley Link, welcome. Public Hall 7:30. Pick Up The Phone www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19 Library Branch Manager, the parish councillors and Friends Thur 14 Spring into the Garden Public Hall 7:30. https://publichealthmatters.blog.gov.uk/ of Pontesbury Library to keep the building running smoothly Tue 26 Pontesbury Women’s Club Visitors You Are Not Alone www.shropshire.gov.uk/coronavirus and ensure it is the vibrant community space we envisage. To help raise awareness of the range of support available welcome. Public Hall 7:30. Debbie Marais, Parish Clerk Debbie Marais, Parish Clerk to those who feel suicidal, a new Suicide Prevention Wed 27 Flower Club Westbury Village Hall 7:30. Zcard designed by the Shropshire and Telford Suicide Friends of Pontesbury Library June Mon 1 Lea Cross WI Visitors welcome. Cruckton Prevention Network (with representation from across Village Hall 7:15. health, social care, emergency and blue light services, The current situation regarding the corona virus pandemic There will also be posters around the village. In the Mon 8 Pontesbury WI Pontesbury Public Hall voluntary services, experts by experience amongst is rapidly changing how we live our lives. Sadly that meantime if you’d like to keep in touch with anything includes postponing the opening of the Pavilion, the new and everything to do with library matters, including how 2:00. Visitors welcome. others) has been launched. location for our library. FoPL was hoping to announce a to access books and reading material online, do visit our Tue 9 Pontesbury Women’s Club Visitors The Zcard provides; welcome. Public Hall 7:30. string of interesting and exciting meetings to be held in website: • Brief advice and guidance on how to address the new building. I’m sure you will understand that all our • https://pontesburylibrary.co.uk/ Tue 23 Pontesbury Women’s Club Visitors concerns welcome. Public Hall 7:30. plans are on hold for the time being. I can tell you that the • or the Shropshire Library services site: www.shropshire. • Contacts for a confidential, listening ear library shelving and book units are all complete and look gov.uk/libraries/find-a-library/pontesbury-library/ Wed 24 Flower Club Westbury Village Hall 7:30. • Primary contacts to seek immediate fantastic! It is an amazingly calm and interesting space to Library Lottery July Mon 6 Lea Cross WI Visitors welcome. Cruckton appropriate support read, research and contemplate, and equally appropriate Renew by emailing [email protected]. Village Hall 7:15. Useful Resources for meetings when we are once again able to socialise. The easiest way to join the lottery is by standing order Mon 13 Pontesbury WI Pontesbury Public Hall 1. Free online Suicide prevention training (20 min One event we don’t want to abandon is our Spring or bank transfer. Full details on the lottery page of our 2:00. Visitors welcome. video on see, say, signpost): www.zerosuicidealliance. Plant Sale. We are planning a way of setting up orders website www.pontesburylibrary.co.uk. It’s just £1 per Tue 14 Pontesbury Women’s Club Visitors com/training for plants and an individual delivery system so that we number per month, so £12 pa. welcome. Public Hall 7:30. This is a great resource on how to identify risk and abide by social distancing and the health advice the Congratulations to our March winners: Wed 15 Flower Club Westbury Village Hall 7:30. how to have difficult conversations, it has been widely government has asked everyone to follow to keep us all 1st Roy Bower, 2nd Catherine Trimby, 3rd Helen Sample. Tue 28 Pontesbury Women’s Club Visitors shared amongst our networks as safe as possible. When we have a final plan in place, We look forward to seeing you at the new library at the welcome. Public Hall 7:30. 2. Help Is At Hand: national resource for support you’ll be able to find the details posted on: Pavilion sometime soon. Keep safe and keep reading! Aug Sun 23 Garden open for National Garden Scheme after suicide (physical cards available to order direct FoPL Facebook page: Use Pontesbury Library FoPL Chris and Bill Neil. Edge Villa, Edge, from the website for free): https://supportaftersuicide. FoPL website: https://pontesburylibrary.co.uk/ Yockleton SY5 9PY. Home Made teas. Adm org.uk/support-guides/help-is-at-hand th £5 chd free. Plants for sale. 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