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Sun Bee www.solwaybuzz.co.uk by CallumSolwaySolway Timperon from Holm Cultram Abbey School BuzzBuzz September 2016 local news - for you - by you - about you - free to you - local news FREEFREE PAPERPAPER Issue 148 Page 2 Happy birthday Billy Abbeytown Green Flag Carnival is Page 4 Yes - it is the Station Sign Small but awarded Mighty Page 5 to Silloth Riding for prostate cancer Green Page 6 John & Joan are winners! Page 7 Sheila & Gus 60th anniversary See the full story on pages 8 and 9 Page 7 2016 Events We have been judged! 26th to 28th August For the fourth year profile RHS visits to us. The the best possible outcome.” running Silloth Green has Cumbria in Bloom judges Regular events, organised Solfest gained the coveted Green have already visited us on 14 by volunteers, are held Flag Award. July and whilst we still await on the Green annually, 29th August Silloth Green in Silloth- their final report, it is clear including Silloth Green Day, on-Solway, Cumbria is one that they have been delighted Silloth Vintage Rally, Silloth Silloth Carnival of the very best in the UK – to find further progress. It is Carnival and the Silloth and that’s official! widely known that this year, Music and Beer Festival. A Councillor Bill Jefferson, Silloth has been nominated weekly Thursday market Page 14 4th September Chair of Silloth-on-Solway by the RHS to the national is also held along the edge Sandra is a Diamond Town Council’s Parks short list of finalists in the of the Green, along Criffel Food & Craft Fair Committee said “We are small coastal town category. Street. absolutely delighted to The national judges visited General information and 6th September receive a Green Flag Award us on 4th August and final more details about events for the fourth time running preparations are underway can be found on the Silloth Free Entry Live Music and this is already paving by the Silloth in Bloom Green website at www. 7th September the way for the two high community group, to ensure sillothgreen.co.uk. Page 15 Childrens Free Film Show Congratulate Bob 8th to 11th September Soldiers in Silloth Music & Beer Festival Open: Tues–Sun Toy Soldiers Admission: Under 16 - £1. Adults - £2 22nd October Fantastic for Family ticket (2 adults 2 children) - £5 Criffell St, Silloth, CA7 4BZ Silloth Bonfire Families! www.soldiersinsilloth.co.uk The Solway Buzz is a FREE community paper with a circulation of 5,500 copies for the area around Abbeytown, Skinburness, Silloth-on-Solway and Mawbray Page 2 Issue 148 Solway Buzz - local news - for you - by you - about you - free to you Happy Birthday Billy Get Online for FREE Causewayhead WI in Silloth Library Report by: Pat Froggatt of Europe which she had President Margaret made earlier. As you can Go online for free at your libraries are now providing Durham, welcomed imagine the smell in the hall local library free access to computers members and guests to was delicious and certainly You can now go online and the internet, which will their monthly meeting on tempted everyone’s appetites. for free at your local library especially help people who Wednesday 13th July which Following the process and in Cumbria, where free don’t have a laptop or PC at was held at St. Andrews Hall, listening to the explanation access to both computers and home. Silloth. She then introduced of all these recipes was a the internet is now available. “So much is done online our speaker for the fascinating experience, and Cumbria County Council in this digital age, whether evening, Gillian her expertise at has introduced free Wi-Fi at it’s searching and applying Harris who making the bread libraries in Cumbria and is for jobs, research for school gave a talk and was breathtaking. now rolling out free access homework or just keeping demonstration There were many to computers across the in touch with family and on ‘Bread Making questions for her county’s library network. friends through social media. around the World. to answer - too Visitors to libraries in This valuable free service She began by numerous to Cumbria can now use public in our libraries will give going through mention. We were computers free of charge for more people in Cumbria the basic recipes for lucky that we were up to two hours each day and opportunity to make the bread making. able to partake of library staff will also help most of the internet. You Her first loaf was samples after the people brush up their IT don’t need to be a computer English and she demonstration. skills. whizz either – staff in our explained the Thank you Gillian, Happy Public computers in libraries offer training and process as she was it was a superb libraries can be used for a support, like at Barrow making it. She evening. Birthday variety of purposes, from library which has won an also made bread containing A vote of thanks was searching for jobs, online award for digital excellence.” olives and a range of other given by Pat Bell. Billy Fearon was 80 on 10th August and all his family banking and tracing family Free access to PC’s breads including Jewish A supper had been want to send him their love and their are lots of them. trees, to developing IT skills and the internet is already bread and Soda bread. She prepared by members of So Billy, here are lots of love from Moira and Thomas, such as word processing, benefiting library users also had a number of other the Committee which was your six children and their wives and husbands, your creating spreadsheets, across the county. breads from various parts enjoyed by all. General nineteen grandchildren and thirteen great grandchildren. presentations and database In Allerdale, there has business followed after the Phew! applications. been a 25% increase in the supper. A number of county usage of library PC’s since Competitions: council services can also be the introduction of two A Jam Pot: 1st Pat Froggatt; accessed online, including hours free use. At peak times, searching and further study. 2nd Frances Jackson applying for a school place, all sixteen PC’s are now used They had already formed an Flower: reporting a highway fault, by library customers. informal support network 1st and 2nd Mona Kent booking an appointment Community Education before the two hours of free Wild Flower: with a registrar and applying uses the PC’s in Workington PC use was introduced, but 1st Jean Graham, for a blue badge. Library to run courses to the extension means they 2nd Pat Froggatt Councillor Ian Stewart, upskill people referred have more time to support Visitors: A Jam Pot: Cumbria County Council from the Job Centre. On each other, helping reduce 1st Doreen Hooking, Cabinet member responsible completing the course many the feeling of isolation and 2nd Brenda Powell for Community Services, of the attendees continue to building confidence in their Flower: 1st Shirley Wilson, said: “Libraries in Cumbria use the library PC’s for job skills. 2nd Hazel Jepison. are not just about books, they are community hubs offering all sorts of services and activities. 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