The Cleobury Clarion SERVING CLEOBURY COUNTRY REMEMBRANCE MONTH 2018

A VERY SPECIAL YOUNG LADY A WATERFALL OF POPPIES

Sienna Collett, with some of the bags she’ll be filling Just a sample of the poppies knitted by volunteers for with Christmas gifts for the homeless. the Remembrance Day display at the Parish Church. Sienna Collett is like a lot of children in this People have been knitting, crocheting and felting in community, living in nice house, feeling secure. And at groups and nattering as they created. Some preferred just eight years old, bright enough to realise that many to stay at home and concentrate on the job. The result around her do not have that; some of them are is a growing harvest of poppies that will tumble down homeless. So Sienna decided she should do her best to the Parish Church steeple on Remembrance Sunday. It help them at Christmas. will be spectacular. At school she asked for discarded bags to be given to Kate Pearce is one of those leading the drive and tells her and she wanted gifts to fill them. Mum Julie us they’d like all who have helped to gather in the estimates she’s spent £70 of her own pocket money Market Hall on Saturday the 10th, from 10.00 to 12.00 buying gifts and then hand them out over the first noon to have a coffee and cake and admire their great weekend in December at , and handiwork. “We’d like to thank you for your support,” Worcester, where she’ll help in the soup kitchen, too. she said, adding: “What an incredible community we It’s the live spirit of Christmas. Truly wonderful. live in.”         ‘           ’ 

               

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The Cleobury Clarion, November 2018 Volume Thirteen - Edition Eight

Normal people take their dog for Weren’t you taught not to play No room in this issue for the a walk. These are not normal with fire young lady? It’s safe on ever successful Kudos Blends. people. See Page 63. Page 65. See December’s Clarion.

And On Other Pages…. 5 - Record Big Coffee Morning. 37 - On The Buses 7 - Catherton Common Update 39 - November in the 9 - Clows Top Gardening Club 41 - Cleobury Patients’ Voice 11 - ‘The Thankful Village’ 43 - A Dementia Friendly Town? 13 - Brown Clee Medical Trust 47 - ‘Battle’s Over’ in Stottesdon 15 - The Clarion Jobs Page 51 - The Hub Needs YourVote. 17 - Cleobury Carer’s Christmas Bazaar 53 - Clee Hill’s Remembrance Weekend 19 - Cleobury Mortimer Benefice 55 - Car Crime Outbreak 21 - The Christmas Shoe Boxes 57 - Domestic Abuse Concern 25 - Adam’s Aid - A Great Start 61 - Town Council News 29 - Letter from Westminster 63 - Bill Evans 31 - The Social Calendar - Part On