Weston Lullingfields events

Sent by Anita Weeks

Here are details for our May, June and July events and a reminder about the Bridge Drive this Saturday.

WESTON LULLINGFIELDS CHURCH EVENTS

 BRIDGE DRIVE

Saturday 27 April, Ellesmere Town Hall – 2.00 to 5.00

£7.50 per person

There will be light refreshments and a raffle, in aid of Holy Trinity Church Weston Lullingfields.

Further details from 01939 261293 or 01939 261464.

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TABLE TOP SALE

Saturday 18 May, Weston Lullingfields Village Hall, 2.00 to 5.00.

Time for a spring clear out - do you have items to sell or things you don’t use or no longer need? Do you have too many plants or seedlings? You could sell them at our Table Top Sale

Please contact 01939 261293 or 01939 261464 if you would like to reserve a table, £5.00 per table.

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WESTON LULLINGFIELDS LOCAL HISTORY

Saturday June 8, Weston Lullingfields Village Hall, 7.30

This will be the third of our series to learn more about the village. Our speaker will be Shelagh Hampton from the Shropshire Archaeological and Historical Society. She will be giving a talk on The Berth. In addition Jan Ing will put up a display of local flora and Martin Richards has agreed to bring his Canals talk as it was rushed through at the first Local History evening (work schedule permitting).

£4.00 including refreshments, children free.

Further details from 01939 261293 (Anita) or 01939 261464 (Catherine).

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WESTON LULLINGFIELDS SUMMER FETE

Saturday July 13 – in the Village Hall, 2.00 to 4.30

We will be hoping for good weather and lots of visitors to share in the fun of another joint event with the School and the Village Hall. School, church and village hall are once again combining to run the village summer fete.  We would very much appreciate donations of cakes, empty screw-top wine bottles WITH lids, plants, produce and lots of help to set up and run games or stalls. The school are currently planning their activities and stalls. There will be a grand raffle, a barbeque, tombola, the very popular Water and Wine stall, Cakes and Produce, refreshments, Pimms Bar and much more. Further details from 261293 (Anita) or 261464 (Catherine).

 

 

--   Yoland Brown  Brownhill House B&B, Ruyton XI Towns, nr. Shrewsbury SY4 1LR  ShACC - Shropshire Alternative Car Club  www.eleventowns.co.uk  www.eleventowns.com  www.ShACC-uk.org  Tel:  01939 261 121       Fax:  01939 260626

Cliffe Garden Club May meeting

The May meeting of the

Cliffe Garden Club

will be on

Thursday 2nd May 2013

and will be

a guided walk on

The Cliffe

looking at herbs

with Natalie Morris

Members, friends and visitors

to meet outside the

Victoria Room at 6.00 pm

--   Yoland Brown  Brownhill House B&B, Ruyton XI Towns, nr. Shrewsbury SY4 1LR  ShACC - Shropshire Alternative Car Club  www.eleventowns.co.uk  www.eleventowns.com  www.ShACC-uk.org  Tel:  01939 261 121       Fax:  01939 260626

Superfast Broadband coming to Baschurch

A message sent by Colin Case.

I received the following up-date from Openreach last week:-

"We have had engineers building the network in Baschurch for the last three weeks, we also have the final areas being planned"

I have seen several Openreach vans busy on the "Moor Farm Straight" (Baschurch Straight) between Ruyton and Baschurch - even working on Sunday. Vans have been busy on the road to Weston Lullingfields as well, and I notice that the "coiled-up" fibre bundles that were near the top of several telegraph poles in the area have now been terminated near the top ready for the last few metres to each property to be connected.
So it is getting nearer every day - can't be long before orders can be placed.

I should emphasise that the system being installed in Baschurch is FTTP (Fibre to the Premises) This means that a fibre optic cable will be connected to each property - eliminating ALL copper from the broadband connection. This will make Baschurch one of the best-connected Villages in Britain - there is no faster connection system. It will offer up to 100mbps immediately with potential to increase to over 300mbps in the near future as technology improves. So this is even faster than the FTTC (Fibre to the Cabinet) solution that has been installed in Ruyton XI Towns. So although it is later than expected, I hope you all agree it is worth waiting for.

Part of the prize for winning the Race to Infinity is a superfast connection to a Public Building for a year. We already have a superfast connection to our Victoria Room (thank heavens - the Broadplace children can all be on-line to Roblox without slowing down the connection now) It is perhaps the right time to be thinking which Public Building in Baschurch might be appropriate for free Broadband for a year. I will take this up with Baschurch Parish Council in the May meeting, but if anyone has a suggestion just drop me an email. You will recall that the Baschurch Tennis Club has already been given some Video Equipment as part of the prize.

You will have read in local newspapers (and various other literature) that Shropshire Council has won funding for Broadband throughout Shropshire - excellent news. But this is nothing to do with our Race to Infinity Project - we are at least three years ahead of the County Scheme, and the proposed solution is FTTC - so still nowhere near as fast as Baschurch even when it is finished.

Interestingly, there is increasing evidence that a modern, fast connection has a beneficial impact on property values - another big PLUS for the Race to Infinity winners - so thanks for voting back in Christmas 2010.

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Colin Case
www.ruytonxitowns.org.uk
Tel: +44 1939 260628
Mobile: +44 7860 904006
Fax: +44 872 115 8730

--   Yoland Brown  Brownhill House B&B, Ruyton XI Towns, nr. Shrewsbury SY4 1LR  ShACC - Shropshire Alternative Car Club  www.eleventowns.co.uk  www.eleventowns.com  www.ShACC-uk.org  Tel:  01939 261 121       Fax:  01939 260626

Charity Walk Sunday 12th May

A message from Hazel Yates

The Rotary Club of Oswestry are holding a
Charity Walk - Men Walking 4 Men

Here are details of a Charity Walk taking place on Sunday 12th May, from 10.00am, starting from the Maes y llan, Oswestry School's playing fields, to raise funds for and awareness of male cancer charities.

Attached is the registration form giving more details of the route and the event.

Hazel Yates

for The Rotary Club of Oswestry

Men Walking 4 Men

Rotary Club of Oswestry's 'Men Walking 4 Men' Event

  The Rotary Club of Oswestry is holding a “Men Walking 4 Men” event on Sunday May 12th and hopes that many local men – and women too - will sign up to take part. Club President John Ward explains why: “Firstly, it is to encourage men to be more aware of gender-specific cancers in the same way that it has become second nature for women both to look out for warning signs and to do something about them if they appear. Cancer Research UK’s ‘Race for Life’ has been an excellent vehicle for breast cancer awareness as well as for raising funds for research.
   “So, secondly, the £10 entry fee is to raise funds for research into the most common male cancers – something of a poor relation in the funding stakes. More research is needed to find better methods of diagnosis and better treatments with fewer side-effects. At the beginning of the year, for instance, Sky News reported: ‘Research into the most common male cancer in the UK is chronically underfunded compared with its female equivalent, a charity has warned. New figures show that although it is the fourth most common cancer overall, prostate cancer lies 20th in the league table of annual cancer research spending.
   ‘The figures, published by Prostate Cancer UK , show that breast cancer - the most common female cancer which has a similar death rate as prostate cancer - received more than double the annual research spend. While breast cancer research received £853 per case diagnosed, prostate cancer research received £417.
   ‘Prostate cancer kills one man every hour. The number of men with the disease is rising and it is predicted to become the most common cancer of all in the UK by 2030, according to Prostate Cancer UK.’
   “Unlike breast cancer, where there is a highly regarded screening programme and much publicity for self-examination, the PSA test for prostate cancer remains controversial as a screening tool. Both prostate and testicular cancer (with nearly 2000 cases a year and increasing, the most common cancer in men aged 15 to 45) have excellent survival rates when diagnosed early.
  “However, early intervention is hampered by ignorance of the symptoms to watch out for and by both male inertia and men’s embarrassment surrounding ‘down below’ symptoms.”

   The main signs and symptoms of prostate cancer that should result in men seeking help from their GP are:
•    Weak or reduced urinary flow
•    Needing to urinate more often, particularly at night
•    A feeling your bladder not completely emptied
•    Difficulty starting to urinate
•    Needing to suddenly rush to the toilet
But other possible signs include:
•    New pain in hips, back or pelvis
•    Heaviness in the chest
•    Problems in getting or keeping an erection
•    Blood in the urine or semen

   In the case of testicular cancer, it is recommended that men examine themselves at least monthly and see their GPs if they detect:
•    Any lump in either testicle
•    Any enlargement of the testicle
•    A feeling of heaviness in the scrotum
•    A dull ache in abdomen or groin
•    A sudden collection of fluid in the semen
•    Growth or tenderness of the upper chest.

   Any of these symptoms could be innocent or relate to another treatable condition, but the need for early medical advice is a key message that men need to heed.
   John Ward added: “The Oswestry event on May 12th – details of which can be found on our website at  www.rotarycluboswestry.co.uk -  will directly support charities like Orchid and Prostate Cancer UK that do so much good work in this field but I hope that Rotary Clubs in the larger neighbouring towns like Chester, Wrexham Shrewsbury and Telford will latch on to this idea and run similar events next year so we can get some real momentum going. May 12th is our starting point and I hope many people, and especially men, will turn out to walk.”

--   Yoland Brown  Brownhill House B&B, Ruyton XI Towns, nr. Shrewsbury SY4 1LR  ShACC - Shropshire Alternative Car Club  www.eleventowns.co.uk  www.eleventowns.com  www.ShACC-uk.org  Tel:  01939 261 121       Fax:  01939 260626

Ann Johnson is Walking to China

This message comes from Ann Johnson.  Ann`s late husband, Bill Jones, was a pillar of RATS and the Village Hall Committee, always there to help when he could, even through those dreadful  six years.

BILL JONES MEMORIAL WALK

Many of you will be aware that just over 12 months ago, my lovely husband Bill died, having been battling a cancer called Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma.

Over the years Bill was being treated at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, his time was split between the clinic where he was an outpatient and Ward 23H. Almost without exception, the staff we met were outstanding; they knew their job, did it thoroughly and skilfully and at the same time became friends, whose presence and support made everything we went through, even at the end, bearable. During all that time, the charity Lingen Davies Cancer Relief was raising money to build a brand new outpatients’ centre, which opened last summer. Now the charity raises funds to keep it going to the standard that allows the staff to continue providing that level of care.

I wouldn’t wish our experiences over the 6 years on anyone, but it happens all the time and so what I would want to see (and I know Bill would feel the same) is that this professionalism, commitment and compassion is available to anyone who ever needs it. Lingen Davies provides the facilities that allows this to happen and so to support that, I have signed up to do a walk on sections of the Great Wall of China in April next year to raise money for the charity.

I want to try and raise around £3500 and so would very much appreciate it if you could contribute to that sometime between now and April 2014. I have a ‘Just Giving’ page, where you can donate directly -and as often as you like! You’ll find it at: http://www.justgiving.com/remember/61181/Bill-Jones
Thank you.

 

Ann Johnson

 

--   Yoland Brown  Brownhill House B&B, Ruyton XI Towns, nr. Shrewsbury SY4 1LR  ShACC - Shropshire Alternative Car Club  www.eleventowns.co.uk  www.eleventowns.com  www.ShACC-uk.org  Tel:  01939 261 121       Fax:  01939 260626

Tedsmore Model Railway

Just in case there is anyone who is not sure about the date of the Rotary visit to Tedsmore Charity Model Railway - SATURDAY 27th APRIL - here is a poster sent by Hazel Yates for you to stick up on a door, fence, wall, gate, or even a notice board near you.

Yoland

--   Yoland Brown  Brownhill House B&B, Ruyton XI Towns, nr. Shrewsbury SY4 1LR  ShACC - Shropshire Alternative Car Club  www.eleventowns.co.uk  www.eleventowns.com  www.ShACC-uk.org  Tel:  01939 261 121       Fax:  01939 260626

Tedsmore Model Railway SATURDAY 27th APRILl

Message from Hazel Yates of The Rotary Club of Oswestry.

This event is on Saturday 27th April

The Rotary Club of Oswestry invites you to come along to the Tedsmore Charity Model Railway Experience


Calling all Railway Enthusiasts

An opportunity to see what is probably the one of the largest ‘O’ gauge model railways in Britain.  The system is housed on the Tedsmore estate near West Felton, Shropshire.

The layout is equivalent to over 10 miles of main line track with10 trains running at a time, over 1,000 wagons, some 500 coaches and 150 locomotives.  There are 5 main line stations and 5 minor stations, the scenery includes a dock, a quarry and steel works.

Booking is Essential

Space is limited so admission will be in 30 minute slots from 10:00 am to 3:30 pm inclusive.  Numbers are limited to 15 per session.

Admission Adults £4, Children £2.
There will be some opportunities to drive a train (£1).
All proceeds will go to local charities and other good causes.

Booking

Telephone

David Davies on 01 691 650 246
Ian Haigh on 01 691 653 348

or use the email contact form on this linked webpage http://www.rotary-ribi.org/clubs/page.php?PgID=345623&ClubID=1091.

--   Yoland Brown  Brownhill House B&B, Ruyton XI Towns, nr. Shrewsbury SY4 1LR  ShACC - Shropshire Alternative Car Club  www.eleventowns.co.uk  www.eleventowns.com  www.ShACC-uk.org  Tel:  01939 261 121       Fax:  01939 260626