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Sutton Bonington Normanton on Soar Kingston on Soar VILLAGE NEWS January and February 2020 GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CHARITY QUIZ NIGHT on behalf of Riding for the Disabled will be on Saturday 29th February at 7.00pm in Normanton-on-Soar Village Hall. Light refreshments provided. Cash bar. Raffle. Ticket price £10 per person. Come on your own or bring your friends. Team size maximum FOUR people. Everyone welcome. For more information e-mail Sally at [email protected] or call 07733 251578 CANCER RESEARCH UK : CHRISTMAS CARDS Sutton Bonington Friends of Cancer Research UK would like to thank everyone who purchased Christmas cards in 2019. The sum of £174.17 was raised and has been sent to the charity. HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM SUTTON BONINGTON PRIMARY SCHOOL! We had an eventful autumn term with many highlights. One particularly proud achievement was being chosen to produce backdrops for The Snow Dragon, a theatre production, which was shown at Nottingham Lakeside over the Christmas period. The children in the Reception class up to Class 3 showed superb collaborative skills to produce some stunning artwork which successfully got all of the theatre-goers into the Christmas spirit! If you managed to visit the production, you will have (hopefully!) spotted the amazing artwork! SUTTON BONINGTON SHOW’s Annual General Meeting will be held on Tuesday 11th February at 7.30p.m. in Sutton Bonington Village Hall Library Room. All welcome. SWAN COURT The Sutton Bonington and Normanton-on-Soar Social Services Association has a vacancy at Swan Court. The property is a one-person bungalow consisting of sitting room, kitchen, bedroom and bathroom. It has gas central heating and an emergency communications system. There is a warden who visits the site daily and is able to assist tenants in certain circumstances. The site has a community room for informal gatherings and all the garden and grounds are maintained by the Association. The rent is £175 per fortnight with the tenant being responsible for all utility bills. These properties are designed for and aimed at older members of society. Potential tenants must already live in either Sutton Bonington or Normanton (or have previously lived in those villages and wish to return) or new residents who would like to live closer to relatives who do live in the villages. If you are interested or know someone who might be please contact Miles Raven (01509 672160) or Rosie Hopkinson (01509 672811). SOAR VALLEY U3A’s next general meeting will be at 2.00pm on Tuesday 28th January when speaker John Todd’s subject will be The Dire State of the NHS. John's career spans forty years with the National Health Service and he'll focus on the triple pressures of rapidly rising demand, severe workforce challenges and the need to recover from the deepest funding squeeze since its inception. If you're retired you're welcome to join us. Refreshments provided. Soar Valley U3A (University of the Third Age) provides relaxed learning and leisure activities for retired people in your area. For more information, phone Membership Secretary Lorna Orton on 01332 811030 or visit our website - http://u3asites.org.uk/soar-valley SUTTON BONINGTON MUSIC SOCIETY runs four ensembles on Sutton Bonington Campus; the SB Symphony Orchestra, SB Singers, SB Big Band and SB Folk Band. We are always looking for new members in our ensembles and we are particularly keen on getting the community involved! Why not try something different this New Year and give one of the groups a try? We aim to accommodate all standards of playing and singing so come and give it a go! Please contact Maria on [email protected] for more details. The Sutton Bonington Big Band is again hosting Jazz in the Barn on Saturday 15th February in the Barn on Sutton Bonington Campus. Come and join us for a relaxed, informal evening of jazz and swing, showing the very best of what the SBBB can do! Doors open at 6:30pm for a 7:00pm start. Tickets may be purchased on the door for £3 with free entry for under 16s. Please contact Maria ([email protected]) if you have any queries. The Sutton Bonington Singers will be performing their annual Songs in Spring on Saturday 21st March at 7:00pm in the Barn, Sutton Bonington Campus. Refreshments are included in the £4 ticket price and will be available on the door. For more information please contact Maria ([email protected]). The SB Singers will also be performing with the SB Symphony Orchestra at SB Fest on 9th May. More details to follow! SUTTON BONINGTON BOWLS CLUB On the night of Thursday 21st November we were broken into via the gate adjacent to the tennis club and we have several thousand pounds worth of lawn mowers stolen. They caused severe damage to most of the outer sheds, checking to find where we kept the mowers, which we will now need to repair and replace where necessary. These people were very determined and went through two wooden doors with locks and bolts plus an inner iron cage similar to a gaol. I have been in touch with Security at the University who saw nothing! The police have visited and have given us a crime number, but if anyone saw anything suspicious on the night of Thursday 21st then they should contact the officer who attended, PC Tony Davies 07702 141572. We are looking for a van or flatbed truck with a double wheel rear axle as they left tyre marks in the mud. They would have been parked outside the tennis club for around an hour. Unfortunately for us we have no CCTV and No insurance so this loss comes as a great blow to the members of the club. 2 LADIES’ WALKING GROUP 2020 Covering walks planned to June 2020, a new programme is available to print from http://www.normanton-on-soar.co.uk/ladies-walking- group. In the meantime, the plan for January and February is as follows: Thursday 9th January. Outwoods 3 to 4 miles. No stiles, easy walking. Meet Sutton Bonington Playing Fields car park 09:30 or start point - Outwoods car park – 10.00am. Leader Pat Gassor 01509 827028 Tuesday 21st January. Trent Lock 3 1/2 Miles. Easy, flat walk. Meet Sutton Bonington Playing Fields car park 09:30 or start point - Lock Lane car park NG10 2FY – at 10.00am. Leader Bonnie Holland 07484 658749 Monday 10th February. Dishley Pool, 4 1/2 miles of flat walking alongside canal. Meet Sutton Bonington Playing Fields car park 09:30 or start point - Canal Basin Loughborough – at 10.00am. Leader Carolyn Brock 07720 661351 Friday 28th February.Woodhouse Eaves. Four to five miles. Meet Sutton Bonington Playing Fields car park 09:30 or start point - Village Hall car park, Main Street, Woodhouse Eaves LE12 8RZ - at 10.00am. Leader Gill Coates 07870 124039 This group is open to all ladies of any age. As you will see from the above, the walk days vary each week and it is free to join our very sociable group. If you would like to be added to the e-mail list of contacts simply send your e-mail address together with a contact number to [email protected] or telephone Pat Gassor (01509 827028). The walks are in various locations at fortnightly intervals throughout the year and, usually, between three and five miles. Walks are about two hours in the mornings and are followed by lunch. We do car-share wherever possible. All the listed walks show the start point and times. TEA ON TUESDAY at the Methodist Church 2.30pm - 4.30pm on the third Tuesday of each month. Join us for sandwiches and cakes, catch up with friends and meet new ones. Next dates: 21st January and 18th February. Everyone welcome. SUTTON BONINGTON CRICKET CLUB is looking for new players for the 2020 season and would be delighted to hear from you if you’re interested in joining. Please contact Frank Lester (843364), David Appleby (07855 934777) or Patrick Hood (07508 326009). LUNCH CLUB Don't forget the dates for the new year. January 9th and February 13th. Tea and coffee are available from 11.30 and lunch is served at 12 noon. The price will stay the same - £3 – which includes a raffle. So if you are a senior and would like to have a great value lunch with good company come and join us in Sutton Bonington Village Hall. Don't sit at home alone! If you live locally ring Sue James (673460) for more details. HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY On Thursday 16th January, Sally Smith will tell us how to get the best out of the herb garden in her talk Introduction to Growing and Using Herbs and on Thursday 20th February, Gail Summerfield returns to give advice on growing Ornamental Grasses, her speciality at Westmore Nurseries. Both meetings will be held in Sutton Bonington Village Hall at 7.30pm. 3 SUTTON BONINGTON AND DISTRICT TENNIS CLUB Following a very successful quiz night held at Normanton Village Hall in November we are going back for another fundraising and social evening. This time it’s a Ceilidh with the brilliant Charlie’s Ant Band on Saturday 1st February in Normanton Village Hall. Tickets are £15 each to include buffet supper with bring-your-own drinks. For more information and tickets contact Rod 07785 263152. Junior coaching remains the same times during the winter on Saturday mornings and Wednesday late afternoon with adult social play on Tuesday evenings. For more information find us @Sutton Bonington tennis club THANKS FROM ST MICHAEL’S & ST ANNE’S CHURCHES to everyone who contributed to the following events.