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• CALMORE • CADNAM • ASHURST • WEST TOTTON • LYNDHURST • your ISSUE No. 176 TOTTON TOWN CENTRE • SALISBURY ROAD • local September 2016 Magazine Forest Edge Gazette Your free local community magazine – Reaching over 30,000 readers every month CALMORE • CADNAM • ASHURST • CADNAM • Vouchers See page 5 I t s time! SALISBURY ROAD • CADNAM • ASHURST • WEST TOTTON • LYNDHURST • TOTTON WEST • ASHURST • CADNAM • ROAD SALISBURY See page 16 • W E S T T O T T O N • LY N D H U R S T • T O T T O N T O W N C E N T R E • C A L M O R E • E R O M L A C • E R T N E C N W O T N O T T O T • T S R U H D N LY • N O T T O T T S E W • Transform your home with Britannia Windows Call 023 8027 0606 for your FREE quote or visit our Chandlers Ford showroom To advertise please contact Linda Armstrong www.britanniawindows.co.ukon 07500592584 or [email protected] 1 interesting things to see including plenty local businesses looking to discuss your Welcome of exciting things for the children like marketing strategy, so please do email us to the September edition Punch and Judy shows plus much more. using [email protected] Please of your local Forest Edge To find out all about it, do turn to pages also provide any details of local events Gazette community This month, we cover the recent you would like advertised on our website magazine opening of the Poppy Pods by the (www.mlggazettes.co.uk) or in our It's officially the end of Duchess of Cornwall for respite for army What's On section in the publications. Summer Holidays for our personnel and their families plus we Enjoy September and the Autumn of young people and the also have an article about a local group 2016 ! weather may start to get Craft2Craft, who get together to enjoy READ ALL a little colder now. However, their hobby whilst raising money for ABOUT IT! there is still so many things Africa. If you've got any stories like this - Looking for help to publiciseLinda a for you and your family to do especially please do contact us about adding them community or charity event? Forest as the Romsey Show is this month and to our publications, website and social Edge Gazette’s Facebook page has many we've plenty of other events listed in our media. followers and posts daily news, an ideal What's On section too (pages 36/37 ) We are always happy to connect with platform for charitable organisations. 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To advertise please contact Linda Armstrong 2 www.mlggazettes.co.uk on 07500592584 or [email protected] 3 Community News & Events Duchess of Cornwall has officially opened Hampshire County Council's Poppy Pod Village for Armed Forces Her Royal Highness also visited St Nicholas’ Church to visit the Commonwealth war graves of the soldiers who were treated at Tile Barn during the First World War. Her Royal Highness also saw a commemorative stained glass window inside the church which was recently installed, honouring those who were connected to New Zealand No.1 General Hospital, 100 years ago. The solar-powered and accessible Poppy Pods have been funded by £250,000 from the Armed Forces Community Covenant Grant scheme and £50,000 from the Brockenhurst branch of the Royal British Legion. Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cornwall has Each Poppy Pod is named after a battle from officially opened Hampshire County Council’s Amiens to Ypres, and pine seeds from Gallipoli Poppy Pod village for the Armed Forces at Tile have been planted nearby. Barn Outdoor Centre on the 26th of July. The creation of the Poppy Pods was inspired The Duchess unveiled a poppy shaped plaque by the BBC programme ‘The Choir’ with Gareth and met military families who are currently using Malone, which provided an insight into the fears the 20 wooden camping pods. The pods are free and isolation of military wives as their husbands for service personnel, veterans and their families and partners served in Afghanistan. to use during holidays and at weekends, in the heart of the New Forest near Brockenhurst. The Poppy Pods renew Tile Barn's historic role of offering respite for the Armed Forces where more than 21,000 troops from New Zealand and India were treated at the former hospital site from 1916 to 1919. The Duchess was welcomed by Her Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of Hampshire, Nigel Atkinson Esq, the Chairman of Hampshire County Council, Councillor Keith Chapman MBE, and the Leader of Hampshire County Council, Councillor Roy Perry. CONSERVATORY & OUTDOOR FURNITURE SPECIALISTS London Road, Kingsworthy, Winchester, SO23 7QG 01962 883776 www.kingsworthycane.co.uk Any regular 6” Sub, regular dispensed drink (hot or cold) and a cookie or bag of Any two footlong Subs, two cookies or crisps Buy any six inch or Footlong Sub off the menu, crisps for £3.49 and two regular drinks for £10 get a second Sub free. 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Is there anything for See how artists passionately children to do? portray elephants Learn unusual facts about 29-30 Oct 2016 You will be able to buy elephants paintings, sculptures, textiles Create & decorate elephant ceramics, and small artefacts 10am - 5pm artwork in craft workshops There will be short films and Children’s competition prizes Lyndhurst Community Centre interesting information at 3pm Sunday 30th Oct for Lyndhurst, The New Forest Live African themed music the best elephant sculpture Tickets on the door Café open for refreshments Help by donating or adopting a baby elephant Help save elephants from extinction! 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