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The Cleobury Clarion SERVING CLEOBURY COUNTRY FEBRUARY 2019 A4117 ROADWORKS ALL FOR CHARITY Mae Foundation, who cooperate There will be significant with hospitals to support any roadworks on the A4117 starting bereaved parents. People in on Monday the 11th of this need of understanding and month and scheduled to last support for their loss. until March 5th. It’s all about Their service includes the the installation of a pedestrian supply of Memory Boxes, with crossing at the Midland teddy bears in pink or blue and Counties Co-operative store and commemorative jewellery with attendant work on the road the child’s fingerprint. surface and neighbouring Amanda’s target this year is to footpaths. fund ten of these boxes and so This means there will be lights far she’s raised enough money for three. “My way of putting restricting traffic flow to one Amanda Clugston. All the something back,” as she puts it. lane. They will operate from commission she earns from Body She’s available to give talks to 9.30 until 3.00, which will mean Shop goes to her chosen charity. clubs and institutes, will take minimal interruption during the Amanda Clugston and her space at local events or can busiest traffic times. husband moved into Stottesdon simply supply Body Shop The resurfacing of the road last December and have fallen products to individual orders. will mean a complete closure, in love with the place and its Call her on 07411 557 550 for a again from 9.30 until 3.00, on strong feeling of community. catalogue or try Facebook at Thursday and Friday, February She works as a freelance busychicksviptips. 21st and 22nd. There will be a education consultant, after a diversion signed during these career in teaching that saw her THE TRADE CARD two days. The contractors do hold down four headships The 2019 Cleobury Country advise that this timetable is before opting to operate for Trade Card is out and readers in subject to weather conditions. herself, advising schools on the the villages outside Cleobury Shropshire Highways are to be development of children with can pick up a copy with their congratulated on the way they special needs. She’s a bundle of Clarion. It’s a very handy guide distributed clear letters to every energy with a big heart. to local services and trades, free house in the surrounding area. She wanted to give some of of charge and just right to keep It does make life easier if we all her time to help people who near the phone for information know what’s happening and have lost babies. 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And On Other Pages…. 5 - Knowle Sales are Back. 32 - The Social Calendar - Part One 7 - In Praise Of x 2 33 - The Social Calendar - Part Two 9 - From The Bandroom 35 - Defibrillators and Training 11 - Jazz at Rock Village Hall 37 - A Dementia Friendly Town? 15 - The Clarion Jobs Page 39 - February in the Wyre Forest 17 - Farming Family - The Robinsons 41 - School Bus Drivers Wanted 19 - Neen Savage W.I. 45 - Serious Sustainability 21 - Cleobury Mortimer Benefice 47 - Steve Todd is Back! 23 - Severn Edge Vets Pets Page 51 - Hobsons Win More Awards 25 - We Have Otters 57- Town Council News 29 - Letter from Westminster 59 - Local Information DOES THE CAR NEED A SPRUCE FOR THE WINTER? ! GIVE ASHLEY A CALL FOR A QUOTE ! FULL OR PART VALETS TO YOUR BUDGET (BOOKING ESSENTIAL) "# Cleobury Clarion - Page 3 - February 2019 '( # ## $%&**&)$)$& ͞ZĞĚ,ĂƌĞŶŽǁŽĨĨĞƌƐĂƉƌŝǀĂƚĞŚĂŝƌĚƌĞƐƐŝŶŐƌŽŽŵ͘! ! 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The venue is the your own children have of doing things and sharing tips. well established Knowle Sports outgrown and donate them to Non-members welcome to any Ground on the Tenbury Road the sale. You can also shop monthly meeting. The annual below Clee Hill village and the around and possibly find new subscriptions are now due for starting time is 7.30am if you outfits for the summer. the coming year, membership want the pick of the stock. Admission is £5.00, or £3.00 if £10. Membership also entitles Organiser Mrs Audrey Taylor you are donating clothing. All you to a discount at garden tell us that they welcome proceeds go to the Scout Group centres listed on the card which donations of good clothes, funds. needs to be shown before any shoes, handbags, bedding and CLOWS TOP purchases. large jars suitable for pickling Our next meeting will be on onions. You can leave them in GARDENING CLUB Wednesday 27th February, when the open shed on the sports February is a wonderful month, the speaker for the evening will ground any day of the week. when we see the first shoots of be Bill Saunders with a talk SING, LAUGH, spring nudging their way into entitled ‘River Garden School’. the world. First the snowdrops, Pauline Bowen BREATHE then aconites. Next the crocus The Christmas Farmers Market and grape hyacinth. The garden INDEPENDENT LADY was made even better by the is no longer dormant, it’s I bought a new fairy to crown singing of Kate’s Sing, Laugh, bursting with life. It’s taken a my Christmas tree at the Breathe community choir. They battering over the winter, so Farmers Market in December. A not only entertained, they raised when time and weather permit, neat little figure that added a £110.50 for the Singing for Lung do a little tidying of beds to touch of golden thread amongst Health group in the process. keep them weed free. Don’t cut the light. They are back upstairs in the all vegetation back, but leave It was made by Sally Andrews, Market Hall every Wednesday some as there might be who trades as Noahs Ark Crafts morning this month from 11.00. hibernating invertebrates. Dig with the sub-title ‘Selling A friendly gathering in a great up perennials that are getting anything I fancy making.’ A neat atmosphere. big, to divide and replant independent approach that CHILDREN’S elsewhere. Now is an excellent means she’s not showing the same stuff for long. As we CLOTHES SWAP time to put up new bird boxes and clean out old boxes. suggest in the headline, an The Beavers, part of the town’s Gardening is one of the few independent lady. Scout Group, have a Children’s hobbies that are relaxing, Clothes Swap on Sunday the 3rd Cleobury Clarion - Page 5 - February 2019 x Fully insured qualified professional x Excellent workmanship and quality customer care x From hanging doors, fitting kitchens to bespoke projects Cleobury Clarion - Page 6 - February 2019 Clarion Clippings - The Local News MORTIMER FOREST donations from all stakeholders really can’t face cleaning the associated with the school who oven, I highly recommend calling SERVICE may wish to contribute: on his services. This is a rather special service, a www.justgiving.com/ Diane Waddington multi-faith occasion to celebrate crowdfunding/baytonprimary and give thanks for the Mortimer BAYTON’S CONCERT Forest. It will be at Saint IN PRAISE OF 1… The ninth Annual Concert for Laurence’s church in Ludlow. at We needed to send the balance of Christmas organised by Brian 11.00 on Sunday March 17th. The a friend’s estate to her daughter Link was another huge success. former Bishop of Liverpool, the in America. After two frustrating Bayton Church was filled to near Right Reverend James Jones, who and unsuccessful attempts to do capacity with people travelling is also an eminent this directly from TSB, where it as many as 100 miles to be at this environmentalist, will officiate.