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April 2018 The Snailbeach District News hopes you all had a ‘Good ol’ Charlie Brown’ Easter Snailbeach District News, Issue 347 Page 1 April 2018 News in Brief Snailbeach resident resources for the area; from Forest Community Land Trust helps publishes novel. covered sandpits, digging pits and to manage the small orchards and water walls to promote messy play meadows within the forest. Snailbeach resident Michael Dennis and communication, mark making Refreshments will be available. The writes, “Most people, even most of panels to encourage letter talk is free to members of the my friends, don’t know I’ve been formation to sensory gardens, veg Marches Meadow Group and £3 for busy writing a novel for some time. patches, reading areas and non-members. For more information Well, now it’s published, and it is science equipment. please contact Richard Small on called ‘A Trinity of Ages’. For want The children have created a wish list 01743 791476 or email him at of a better classification I would call of ideas but your input would be [email protected] it science fiction. greatly received. If you have any thoughts or ideas please feel free to The five year project If you are interested, you can find contact her on comes to a close. details on my website which goes [email protected]. under the slightly pompous name of uk The Stiperstones and Corndon Hill ‘michaeljohndenniswriter.co.uk’, Country Landscape Partnership from which, if you are so minded, They trained, they rowed, they Scheme received initial approval in you can go to my publisher, made history! July 2011 from the Heritage Lottery ‘FeedaRead’, where there is a bit Fund. A detailed Delivery Plan was more information and, yes, the Nearly 200 people turned out to submitted in December 2012, and the opportunity to buy a copy.” Go buy it welcome Di Carrington home to Scheme started in Spring 2013. and read it! Pontesbury. Beaming at the crowds Project Coordinators, Joy Howells Di sprang out of the car looking and Helen Fairweather were Worthen with Shelve radiant even after her 60-day epic appointed to develop the Partnership, Parish Council voyage rowing across the Atlantic consult widely with local people, Ocean. BBC Radio Shropshire’s groups and organisations and prepare On the 14th of February 2018 Johnty O’Donnell covered the event a five-year programme of activity. Worthen with Shelve Parish Council as Di chatted to everyone about her That five year programme is now announced 2 casual vacancies for the achievement and posed for ending in April 2018. Heath ward due to the retirement of photographs with community Jane Price and Caroline Jones. If the members. Jessica Lawrence and Stephanie Hayes writes, “Community Returning Officer has not received a Catherine May presented her with involvement has been vital to the request for an election by 10 Electors flowers and champagne on behalf of success of the Scheme. Many people of the Heath ward Parish within Friends of Pontesbury Library. Di have been involved in the Scheme in fourteen days of this notice, that is 6th thanked the FoPL committee for many ways. We wish to thank you all March 2018, then The Parish Council organizing the event at such short for sharing your knowledge, giving must, as soon as practicable after the notice. (See pictures at your time and getting involved over expiry of this fourteen day period, co- pontesburylibrary.co.uk) If you’d like the last five years. opt 2 persons to fill the vacancies. If to make a donation to the team’s you are interested in serving as a charities visit atlanticladies.co.uk and We are in the midst of wrapping up, councillor please contact: simply click on the Make a Donation finishing off and clearing out the box near the top on the left-hand side. office! As the Scheme comes to a Sarah-Jane Smith Di has accepted an invitation to give a close, our projects are evolving Clerk to the Council talk in Pontesbury sometime soon. A through other groups and The Cart Barn, Worthen, SY5 9HN date is yet to be confirmed, so organisations. For data protection 01743 891438 WATCH THIS SPACE! reasons, we cannot move your details into these other groups. Instead, we Stiperstones School Marches Meadow Group will shortly send out a separate email asking you to re sign-up to those Mrs Rondel (KS1 and EYFS teacher) There will be a talk by Tim Selman, groups of interest to you. Look out is looking to improve the outdoor area CE of the Wyre Community Land for this email and make sure you sign to the rear of the KS1 classroom at Trust on Sunday April 22nd from up to keep in touch with what’s going Stiperstones C of E Primary. She is in 10.30 am until 1.00 pm at Norbury on locally.” the process of applying for a National Village Hall. Lottery Grant and if successful this Tim will talk on the natural history of could be spent on a wide variety of the Wyre Forest and how the Wyre Snailbeach District News, Issue 347 Page 2 April 2018 Notes from the Editor Regular Local Activities Stiperstones Brass Rehearsals Snailbeach Village Hall Mondays 6. 30pm How many of you have noticed the slight change of name to the SDN? After a meeting of ‘the committee’, it was decided by a very narrow margin to revert Bingo Night back to the original name - ‘Snailbeach District News’. By dropping the Stiperstones Inn ampersand (&), we now carry the name we have carried for the last 30 years 2nd Monday - 8.00pm and more. The ‘ampersand’ was only added when David Wallace took over as Quiz Night editor for 3 years. I always felt slightly uncomfortable with the change of name Stiperstones Inn and feel that the dear old SDN deserves her original name back. This lady is Last Monday - 8. 00pm not for turning, as another old institution once said. Knitter Natter Caroline Jones called me on March 1st to ask me to apologise for the late Stiperstones Inn delivery of the SDN this month on her ‘round’ due to the appalling weather Tuesdays from 10. 00am conditions. I assured her that she wasn’t the only one struggling to deliver the March edition of the SDN. It once again brought home to me how much we Yo ga owe to the dedicated band of delivery people who volunteer to get the SDN to Snailbeach Village Hall you, regardless of weather conditions, month in and month out. Thank you! Tuesday & Wednesday 10am On a personal note, I must thank all those that helped Maria and myself over Iyengar Yo ga the two days when we were completely snowed in. Jo from next door and Snailbeach Village Hall Dave & Sonja, but mostly my good neighbour Jacko. His patience and hard Tuesday 7pm work got me and my car out onto the lane, and so on to the road through the village. Jacko, you are a star! Thank you. Ballroom Dancing Snailbeach Village Hall 1st & 3rd Thursdays We’ve given over our centre spread this month to the Snailbeach Play Area From 7.30pm Project. This safe and secluded play area that nestles behind the Village now desperately needs funds to help maintain what equipment is there, and to Snailbeach & Stiperstones replace items that have simply fallen apart due to age, wear and tear. Baby & Toddler Group Because of all the Health and Safety issues that surround the construction Snailbeach Village Hall and installation of equipment for children’s play areas, the costs of even Thursdays 10am-12pm simple things like a see-saw are quite eye watering! The Village Hall and The Stiperstones pub will be running various fund raising events throughout the Snailbeach WI rest of the year in order to buy a see-saw at a cost of some £2000. Lara Snailbeach Village Hall Sproson-Jones has also set up a crowd funding website. If you can help out in 2nd Thursday - 7. 30pm any way, no matter how small your contribution, you’d be helping to make a difference. You can donate here: www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/lara- Fit Club sproson-jones. Stiperstones School Playground Sunday 9 am Please do keep letting us have your news and articles. Without you the SDN Kids Football Training is nothing! 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