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RR e e p p o o r r t t e e r r News and Views from around the area Volume 2 Issue 3 March 2010 www.milbornestandrew.org.uk/reporter WhatWhat aa loadload ofof JumbleJumble SeeSee pagepage 33 © Philip© Smith Welcome to the Reporter Team Wednesday Social Club THIS month the Reporter welcomes Kate Chastey to the team. Kate has experience within advertising and marketing, print and WE had our meeting on Wednesday 3rd February at the Village Hall communications and has just recently taken on her own business and George Cherry gave us a very interesting talk on his adventures ‘The Passionate PA’ offering freelance personal assistance to in Peru. Plus he brought his two motor bikes to show us, they were businesses and individuals across Dorset. Kate and her husband great big bikes. The whole talk was very interesting, especially Colin moved to the village in May 2007 and are now very proud Machu Picchu, how on earth they lived up there I do not know, to call it their home. They both love village life and very much especially growing their food on those slopes. Sooner them than me. enjoy being involved in the community here. For further Many thanks to George Cherry for a very interesting afternoon. information about Kate or her business please email We hope to see you at our next meeting. [email protected]. Eve Richardson Dates for your diary: 3rd March – Dorset Wildlife Trust, History of Brownsea Island and Balance Sheet ending 31st January 2010 Wildlife. The Reporter Team is pleased to publish its Balance Sheet for the 7th April – A.G.M and talk by Josie Wright ‘Mars and Bras’. year ending 31st January 2010. 5th May – Outing: Horse drawn barge on the Kennett and Avon Receipts £ Payments £ Canal – all welcome. £20 non members: £17.00 members includes Advertising 3,633.00 Paper 643.75 Coach, Barge and Buffet. Payments for next year 1,845.00 Printing 1,948.88 Donations 188.50 Repay Parish Council 250.00 Parish Council 250.00 Stamps 39.30 Bank Interest 1.69 Staplers, etc 39.79 Healthy Eaters Misc printing Hort Soc. 2.50 Thank you Evening 79.00 Weekly meetings commence again Thursday 11th March Total £5,920.69 Total £3,000.72 7.00–8.00pm Committee Room, Milborne St. Andrew Village Hall £5.00 to join and £1.00 per week thereafter Our group has a proven success rate with those who have attended Cash in Bank £2,841.02 regularly. Cash in Hand £78.95 We are a friendly, non judgmental, weight loss support group that Total in Hand at 31st January 2010 £2,919.97 lets you decide what weight loss plan to follow. Currently we are in negotiations to add a light exercise class and Net surplus after deduction of advance payments £1,074.97 nutritional advice to our weekly sessions. More details to follow. Looking forward to seeing you. This surplus appears to be large, however it must be noted that the Margo Kirk and Heather Gipps first three months were printed at a special lower rate. We now normally print 32 pages per copy and not 28 pages as previously printed. Outstanding invoices: £180. Note: donations were a one off. The Village Lunch Committee is pleased to invite you to the The Reporter Team would like to thank all contributors and volunteers for their valued input during The Reporter’s inaugural MARCH VILLAGE LUNCH year. Accounts audited by Robin Keller. To be held at the Village Hall on Local small-ads SATURDAY 27th March from 12.15pm Main Course :: Pudding :: Tea/Coffee :: Mints Small ads of less than 30 words from local, private, advertisers are published free of charge £5.50 per head (children £2.75) For Sale – Small clay pots – 5 × 5, 28 × 6 and 3 × 7 – any BOOKING ESSENTIAL! reasonable offer accepted – telephone 837584 Tickets available from the Drop-In Centre at the Village Hall from Friday 5th March The views expressed in this magazine are not necessarily Margaret Kirk 837749 or Melva Coe 837453 those of the Reporter team. Advertise with the Milborne St Andrew Reporter Your Reporter Team Distributed to over 500 homes 11 times each year Janet Allen, Kate Chastey, Ed Frost, Sue Gould, Full page £175.00 p.a. / £25.00 per issue Heather V. 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Hogg 01258 837392 Other community events at half the above rates Advertising copy MUST be received by the 14th of this month Copy for the next issue MUST be received by the 21st of this month [email protected] Enquiries and copy to: [email protected] Advertisers will also be listed in the Business Directory at E-copy as .doc or .pub files, pictures as .jpg or .pdf files please www.milbornestandrew.org.uk Paper copy to Sue Gould at 28 Stileham Bank DT11 0LE 2 Reporter March 2010 Jumble Sale Success Major eruptions at the Village Hall A HOPE of a good bargain and the thought of helping a local charity THE celebration to mark the end of the People’s Lottery Bid was an brought dozens of villagers to the Jumble Sale at the Village Hall absolute hoot and the Hall was packed out to the new rafters. recently. Organisers Di Harris and Val Hodges hailed the day a great Everyone left feeling that they had been to something very success, which raised over £500 for Julia’s House, the Dorset appropriate and special that marked a new era for the Hall. Children’s Hospice. It was a night of two halves. At 6.30pm the show got on the road There was a variety of goods on offer from bric-a-brac to books with some drinks and refreshments and an opportunity to take a and clothes to cakes, all donated by Milborne people. Val said, tour of the building, check out all the pictures representing the past “People came in with a box of things, and left with a box of different and the present and to actually get into the Tardis of a control room things – it’s a great way to re-cycle.” The cake stall proved popular and marvel at all the hi-tech equipment inside. The YETTIES were on and some of the bargains included a bicycle and helmet, fine china, a hand to have a chat and once those assembled realised that the guitar, an antique clock and a still-packaged pink feathery bra – refreshments had been provided free of charge for this part of the which was snapped up! The morning also included a raffle, silent evening, everyone tucked in to the drinks and the food provided by auction and an impromptu reading from a Jilly Cooper novel. trustee Margaret Evans. The jumble sale was conceived partly from nostalgia – Val said, Bob Walter MP did the ‘official’ honours bit in a short speech and “Years ago it seemed we had a jumble sale every week in the village. mentioned the extraordinary achievements over the past year of We did it for the village and the people came along and joined in”. being able to secure four separate funding bids against intense The feedback they received from everyone was very good and they competition. This included £52k Big Lottery, Peoples Millions; £9.5K were pleased by both the generosity and enthusiasm of people. Big Lottery, Awards 4 All; £16k from the Government Playbuilder Scheme (Zip Wire and Birdnest Swing) and £46.5K for a Multi Use Games area (yet to be delivered). He also went on to praise the hard work of all the trustees past and present for it was because of their efforts that the Hall is where it is today. A special photo was taken by the Western Gazette of all the current and past trustees present, together with Bob Walter and the YETTIES to mark the occasion. At 7.30pm the YETTIES with their own particular brand of local wit and music then took the place by storm. The jokes flowed thick and fast and had everyone in stitches and the music was brilliant with everyone joining in singing and waving their arms about, sometimes in tune with the music. © Philip Smith As well as all the goods donated, the organisers would like to thank everyone who came to help on the day. They said, “We’re very grateful to everyone – a great team turned up on the day and made it happen very quickly”. They would also like to thank those who made cash donations, including an anonymous donation to cover the cost of the Hall. And of course they are very grateful for everyone that came and bought, contributing to the total of £528.70 raised for Julia’s House. Windscreen Swiper After three ‘encores’ everyone trouped out extremely happy. The WHEN emerging from “The Retreat” to load his vehicle on the YETTIES packed up and went home. The Trustees settled down to roadside, Ian Joyce noticed the rubber was loose by the windscreen. getting the Hall ready for Saturday afternoon’s W.I Chocolate Having opened the rear door, he then noticed, as he stowed things, Extravaganza when the frenzy of activity and whoops of delight that the windscreen wipers were away from the screen which was outside came from the newly introduced Zip wire and the Birdnest so clean that .