Birthday Bees www.solwaybuzz.co.uk by MaisieSolway Emmerson from Holm Cultram Abbey School Buzz April 2020 local news - for you - by you - about you - free to you FREEFREE PAPERPAPER Issue 183 Commonwealth Flag Raising L J Cheer Sweep the Board at the Cheerdance UK Finals Report is on Page 8 2020 Events 24th May Cancelled Silloth Green Day 13th + 14thCancelled June Silloth Vintage Rally 26th to 28th June Ragnarock Rally VII 27th June Cancelled Silloth Pride 20 27th to 30th August Solfest 31st August Silloth Carnival 10th to 13th Sept Music & Beer Festival 27th to 28th Nov Fimbulvetr IV Story & Pictures are on pages 10 & 11 Page 3 Page 6 Pages 9 Page 13 Page 20 COVID-19 RNLI Quiz Night Bobbies on the Beat Friends of the Green Silloths Greatest Loser Netherhall Girls Rugby Because of Coronaviris many events have been cancelled. Please check before attending an event. 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 183 Solway Buzz - local news - for you - by you - about you - free to you Silloth Youth Club Make a Will Month Report by: Owen Martin During the After being closed for over 18 month of April months, on the 29th January 2020 2020, Beaty & Silloth Youth Club was reopened. Co. solicitors in Thanks go to the work of a Wigton will be group of dedicated volunteers, who taking part in have now completely transformed a Will writing the club to an unrecognised level. scheme to raise A plea was put out for much funds for a local needed equipment and support charity. You and Silloth yet again failed to can receive a disappoint. With an overwhelming professionally response by people, businesses and written Will charities from far and wide. in return for A special mention must go a donation to to Silloth Rotary Club for over Eden Valley £700 of equipment, Silloth Town Hospice and Jigsaw. The suggested and also provide respite care and Council for continued support Closed Until Further Notice donation for a single Will is £130 Day Hospice services. Jigsaw is the and paying for the utilities and really enjoyed the night. The Youth have helped us achieve. I can’t and for a couple £200. There is no only children’s hospice in Cumbria the weekly bingo group for their Club will be open on Monday and believe we have managed to obligation to include a charitable and provides support to children generous donation too. Wednesday nights from 6-9pm for reopen, we have a great team of legacy in your Will, although the and young adults with life-limiting The children were welcomed ages 11-18. volunteers to help run the club and Hospice would be delighted if you conditions throughout the county, back to the new look club, Christine Ray youth club are looking forward to many happy chose to. Gifts to the Hospice in as well as offering support to their complete with new TVs, furniture, chairperson “ I am overwhelmed years at the club.” Wills accounted for approximately families. games consoles, board games by all the support we have received For more information find 20% of their income last year. Beaty & Co. solicitors are a and much more. Around twenty from everyone, we can’t thank the club on Facebook or email It is vital to make a Will if well-established local firm, having children came to the opening and everyone enough for what they [email protected]. you care about what happens practiced in Wigton for over 250 to your assets after your death. years. They have supported local Without one, your estate would charities including the valuable be distributed according to the work of Eden Valley Hospice and Silloth & District Pensioners statutory rules of intestacy, which Jigsaw for many years. Further Report by: Pat Bell would like to take this means that your relatives, friends details of the firm and their We were delighted to welcome opportunity to thank Stanwix or favourite charities may not services can be found on their a good turnout to our first coffee Holiday Park management and Small Bee benefit as you had intended. website www.beaty.co.uk. morning for 2020 on the 1st staff for allowing us to once again by Eden Valley Hospice and For more information about February in St Andrew’s Church hold the Annual Christmas Party TJ Furness Jigsaw Children’s Hospice in the charity Will scheme or to make Hall. Plenty of chat going on, as there. The staff do so much to help from Holm Cultram Abbey School Carlisle provide care for local an appointment please contact people caught up again after the us set up beforehand, entertain people with life-limiting illnesses Beaty & Co. on 016973 42121. Christmas and New Year Break. our guests, and do the washing We were pleased to welcome up. We are eternally grateful to poet Penny Stimson of Buzz fame them. The next Christmas Party is with copies of “That’s Life” which already booked there for Saturday she very kindly signed. Proceeds 28th November 2020. of which go to St Andrew’s Raffle prize winners were 1. Church. Marjorie Dockeray, 2. Annabelle Maureen asked the coffee Strong, 3. Isabel Gilmour, 4. Pat group if they would like the Froggatt, 5. Kathleen Hodgson, 6, committee to try to get a Margaret Mattinson, 7. Pat Bell, speaker to come to the March 8. Maureen Gilfillan, 9. Gerry Queen Bee or April coffee morning to talk Thorogood. by about Scams; telephone, bank, UPDATE Ruby Beverley computer, doorstep and postal We had to cancel the March from Holm Cultram Abbey School scams to name a few and to warn Coffee Morning because St us how to avoid being scammed. Andrew’s Hall boiler had broken Queen Bee This was greeted very favourably Send Your Bees to by down, so no heating. Daisy Armstrong by all present. We have booked Emma the Solway Buzz from Emma Loveridge has an Loveridge and her presentation There is a Bee Holm Cultram excellent presentation which, we about avoiding scams to come to Abbey School hope, will be sound advice to us the Coffee Morning on 2nd May. Shortage,we all when dealing with potential She is not available in April Need Yours! scammers. Cancelledunfortunately. Until Further Notice The Pensioners’ Committee All are welcome. FIONA’S Solicitors Footcare BEATY & Co. 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RNLI Quiz Night Raises £375 Derwent Brewery were proud to receive Solway CAMRA Beer of the Year for the second year running. The annual award, voted for by the members of Report by: Margaret English some time and once again we give The winning team came the Solway branch Once again, the RNLI Quiz our apologies to those teams that from Hayton once again calling of CAMRA was was held at Mrs Wilson’s in Silloth could not get a place. themselves the ‘Hayton Villagers’ given for Silloth on Friday 7th February 2020. A huge thank you to David with 70 points, narrowly beating Porter 4.5%. Thirteen quiz teams gathered and Carol at Mrs Wilson’s who ‘Who Cares’ with 67 points and Last year the to compete in the quiz. Geoff and welcomed everybody warmly ‘The Misinformed’ came 3rd with Silloth Based Sarah Betsworth were in charge and kept everyone well-watered 60 points. The final place was brewery’s Grune as usual setting the wide variety throughout the evening. At half taken by ‘The Wilkinsons’ who Point 4.6% took of questions, some hard and some time they put on a lovely hot were some of the Lifeboat crew. the accolade. easy. Our grateful thanks to them supper of Chilli or Macaroni £375 was raised which is £22 both for their hard work, which is Cheese, which went down very more than last year. Finally, a very very much appreciated as it isn’t well. The Silloth and District RNLI special thank you to everyone who easy to get the balance. Fundraising group thank everyone came along and joined in the fun The event was very at Mrs Wilson’s for making the testing their memories. See you all oversubscribed, being full up for evening a great success. next year and book early! Bingo to Benefit the Whole Community There are a group on every fortnight, of three ladies that if you would like a provide a bingo meal before you play session in Silloth Cafe you need to arrive once every fortnight between 6pm and for anyone to attend. 6:15pm where there The proceeds will be a meal option of each night go to which is different various charities in every week. Bingo Buzzy Bee the town; including starts at 7pm and all by the Lifeboat, Silloth Nursing monies go back in to pay for books, Busy Bee Liam Hornsby Home, Silloth Primary School, raffle tickets etc, prizes and money by from Rainbows and Brownies to name to local groups in the area.