Rebecca Bee www.solwaybuzz.co.uk SolwaybySolway Hannah Byers from Holme St Cuthbert School BuzzBuzz April 2018 local news - for you - by you - about you - free to you - local news FREEFREE PAPERPAPER Issue 163 Common- wealth Silloth There are 19 Easter Chicks in this edition counting the ones above. Can you find them all? Flag Golf Club Page 2 What a Burns Night Raised Another Accoladeis for 21st Silloth on Solway Golf Club Just as we thought the season for giving and Page 3 receiving gifts was over the £2,382 for hospital nice people at National Club Golfer Magazine compiled their Top 100 courses in England and voted Silloth number 21. There are over 2,500 courses in the UK. To be voted number 21 in the Top 100 courses in England is a fantastic thing for the golf club but also Page 8 for the town as a whole. Photographs wanted All of the accolades the club receives only helps to attract more visiting golfers to Silloth which benefits the golf club and many other businesses in the town. There are many different Top 100 lists out now and it is a privilege to be included. The list is topped by Royal Birkdale with Sunningdale Page 9 Old Course at number 2. someone who used to play receive discounted golf at Lawrence’s memories Full story on page 8 Silloth is number 21 which golf we would love you to many other top golf courses is the only Cumbrian join our wonderful golf including Moortown and entry ahead of the likes of club. As well as being able Blairgowrie. The main Wentworth West Course, to play our superb links benefit of course is the pride Southport and Ainsdale, golf course there are many you feel to be a member of 2018 Events Woburn and The Brabazon other benefits of being a Silloth on Solway Golf Club. Course at the Belfry. member of Silloth on Solway If you would like any 27th May As well as attracting Golf Club. You can enjoy more information on the visiting golfers to Silloth we great food and drink in golf club or membership visit Silloth Green Day would also like to attract our clubhouse overlooking www.sillothgolfclub.co.uk or Page 15 new members too. Whether the golf course and receive contact the office on Dan Foster leads the way 9th + 10th June you’re a new golfer or members discount too and 016973 31304. Silloth Vintage Rally 16th June Abbeytown Family Fun 24th to 26th August Page 16 Solfest Abbeytown girls are great 27th August Silloth Carnival 6th to 9th September Music & Beer Festival The Solway Buzz is a FREE community paper with a circulation of up to 5,500 copies for the area around Abbeytown, Skinburness, Silloth-on-Solway and Mawbray Page 2 Issue 163 Solway Buzz - local news - for you - by you - about you - free to you Burns Night in St Andrew’s Hall Lasting Power of Attorney West Cumbria Carers our office where we can talk Lasting Power of Attorney through the options and the Service: “I’d been thinking process on a one to one basis. about sorting out an LPA for The annual customer a while. 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This often New for 2018: 10% Supper on Saturday 20th starts with a chat on the discount available across the January 2018 in the church phone when our team help range of services, subject to hall. you identify the right option eligibility. The Scottish flags were for you, based on your Call us on 01900 821976 flying and the hall was circumstances. to find out how our service decked out splendidly. A Alternatively, you can can support you to register Scottish piper played the make an appointment to visit Lasting Power of Attorney haggis in, he was in full costume and the sounds songs. the piano-accordian which of the pipes filled the hall. We finished with the we all loudly sang along to. After a delicious traditional ministers wife playing a It was a very enjoyable meal of haggis, tatties and melody of Scottish tunes on evening. neeps, the piper and his family, who are one of the St Andrew’s ministers, entertained the guests with Scottish music and dancing. 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Jigsaw is the only April 2018, Beaty & Co. children’s hospice in Cumbria solicitors in Wigton will be and provides support to RNLI taking part in a Will writing children and young adults On Saturday 5th May, scheme to raise funds for a with life-limiting conditions UKES OF ALLONBY come local charity. You can receive throughout the county, as to St Andrew’s Church a professionally written Will well as offering support to Hall, Solway Street, Silloth in return for a donation to their families. at 7:30pm for an evening of Eden Valley Hospice and concert and singalong. Jigsaw. The amount you Tickets are £6 including donate is entirely up to you. a pie and peas supper. Bar There is no obligation to available. Please book early! include a charitable legacy Tickets available from in your Will, although the Little Gems, the Lifeboat Hospice would be delighted Shop or call Margaret on if you chose to. Gifts to the 016973 31502. Hospice in Wills accounted Do come along and for approximately 20% of share the enjoyment and their income last year. enthusiasm of the musicians. Report by: Alan Messenger Darren Irwin, Stephen receiving donations for It is vital to make a Will if Beaty & Co. solicitors are A group of local cyclists Pattinson, Martin Slack and handmade bracelets. The you care about what happens a well-established local firm, are shown handing over Kevin Dixon by cycling from money was given to the unit to your assets after your having practiced in Wigton a cheque for £2,382.90 to Carlisle to Glasgow over as a thank you for the recent death. Without one, your for over 250 years. They have the Radiotherapy Unit in three hard, gruelling, long treatment received by Alan estate would be distributed supported local charities Pensioners Cumberland Infirmary. days. Messenger. according to the statutory including the valuable work The money was raised A large sum of money A massive thank you to rules of intestacy, which of Eden Valley Hospice Coffee by Barry Matthews, Barry was also raised by Bella all who have supported and means that your relatives, and Jigsaw for many years. Wood, Brian Robinson, & Bo Keepsakes (Sian sponsored, helping to raise friends or favourite charities Further details of the firm Morning David Baker, Derek Wallace, Horsley) by making and this grand total. may not benefit as you had and their services can be Report by: Jean Day intended. found on their website www. Eden Valley Hospice and beaty.co.uk. Silloth Pensioners held Jigsaw Children’s Hospice For more information their first Coffee Morning Skinburness Road Cleanup in Carlisle provide care for about the charity Will scheme of 2018 on Saturday, 3rd The Great British Spring took place from 10am to signs, electrical cable and local people with life-limiting or to make an appointment February, in the Pensioners Clean is a campaign with a 12 midday on Skinburness garden equipment which illnesses and also provide please contact Beaty & Co. on Hall in the Playing Field. simple aim: to bring people Road, Silloth. All tools and was disappointing. Thanks to respite care and Day Hospice 016973 42121. Despite the inclement across the country together equipment were provided.