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ST DENNIS AREA COMMUNITY NEWS
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Saturday 1st December. 11.00 a.m. Carne Hill Chapel Fayre at Claytawc.
Monday 3rd December. 7.00 p.m. W.I. Xmas Party at WMC.
Tuesday 4th December. 7.00 p.m. Loose Threads at ClayTAWC.
7.30 p.m. Bingo at Bandroom.
Thursday 6th December. 7.30 p.m. Prize Bingo at St Dennis AFC.
Friday 7th December 10 a.m. W.I. Xmas Fayre at St Dennis WMC.
Saturday 8th December. 8.00 p.m. Fancy Dress Disco at St Dennis AFC
Sunday 9th December. 7.00 p.m. Prize Euchre at St Dennis WMC.
Monday 10th December. 7.30 p.m. St Dennis Old Cornwall Society Xmas Party at Claytawc.
Tuesday 11th December. 10 a.m. Cancer Research Coffee Morning at St Dennis WMC
Wednesday 12th December. 6.45 pm Prize Bingo at Claytawc.
7.00 p.m. STIG Executive Meeting at St Dennis WMC.
Thursday 13th December. 7.30 p.m. Prize Bingo at St Dennis AFC.
Friday 14th December. 7.30 p.m. Prize Euchre Drive at St Dennis AFC.
Saturday 15th December. 10 a.m. Cancer Research Table Top Sale at Claytawc.
6.30 pm. Carol Singing with St Dennis Variety Company
Sunday 16th December. 9.00 p.m. Christmas Quiz at St Dennis WMC.
Wednesday 19th December. 7.00 p.m. STIG Open Meeting at St Dennis WMC.
Saturday 22nd December. Dynamo Christmas Party at St Dennis AFC.
Sunday 23rd December. 12.00 p.m. Ladies 6 a side Football Tournament at St Dennis AFC.
Monday 24th December. Christmas Disco at St Dennis AFC.
Wednesday 26th December. 10.00 a.m. Fun Run/Walk at St Dennis WMC.
Saturday 29th December. 7.30 p.m. “Deal or No Deal” Evening at St Dennis WMC for Newmoor Rovers.
Monday 31st December. Big New Years Party at St Dennis AFC.
Letter from the
chairman
We hope you enjoyed the November edition of St Dennis Community News. They certainly disappeared from the shops and other outlets in no time at all.
Many thanks to Debbie Rowe for all her hard work in compiling and editing our first magazine. (stdennisnews@hotmail.co.uk)
Thankyou also to the other St Dennis News group members who are Mr Ken Holden, Mrs Ann Chapman, Mrs Ginny Edwards and Mrs Julia Clark.
We were very grateful to be presented with two cheques for the St Dennis news group's funds. The first for £500 was presented by Councillor Fred Greenslade on behalf of St Dennis Parish Council.
The second was presented by Restormel councillor, Mr John Wood, on behalf of the China Clay area Community fund, and was for £250.
We have received several suggestions for other items to be added to the magazine. Among them are special occasions, e.g. births, marriages, and anniversaries. If you would like something like this added, just email the address above, or write it down and leave it in the box at Claytawc, with your contact details.
We have also been asked to make all the articles available on-line, each month. We will do this and they can be found on http://stdennis.netfirms.com/news.htm
If you do not wish your item to be put on the internet, please let us know when you submit it.
Jenny Ellacott
Letter from Councillor Fred Greenslade
First things first, congratulations to the team behind the new St Dennis Area Community News publication.
Very much needed and I’m sure appreciated by those who will read it. Use it, contribute to it and make it a positive tool for communication in our area.
Good communication is after all a great way to share our views and make known our concerns that surround the important issues in our community.
Whatever our views a ‘new’ system of local government is to be introduced in our County. The Parish Council will quite possibly be
encouraged to take on some extra duties that are important to our area. For example: the general maintenance of our local area. This of course will need to come with the required funding to make it possible. The nuts and bolts of such schemes are being formulated at County as I write these notes.
A Parish Plan………Why do we need one?….What is it for?
Don’t we have one?……..Why should we bother?
Although called a Parish Plan it is not the views of the Parish Council that are sought it is your views as a resident that are important.
Firstly we all need to know what our Parish’s aspirations are so we can work towards achieving them.
The need for such a document is to be able to get an up to date list of our needs and how important each need is to us the local residents. Better for us to recommend what we want than have decisions thrust upon us by some distant committee.
Despite the best efforts, a few years a go, to produce a Parish Plan we do not currently have one.
We should bother to start again, building on what was achieved before and make our wishes known in a document that will be accepted by Restormel and the new Unitary Authority.
Most Parishes in our locality have a Parish Plan in place or are working toward one.
My contact details are:
Phone: 01726 822789
Email: cllr.frederick.greenslade@restormel.gov.uk
Fred Greenslade
Restormel and Parish Councillor
ST DENNIS BOXING DAY FUN RUN/WALK
Race 4 Miles. Start 10am Walk/ 10.30am Fun Run
Registration at St Dennis WMC from 9.30am.
Entry on the day of the race only.
Entry Fee £2 per lap.
Monies to go to charity.
Entrants must be medically fit to enter the race/walk.
Organizers will not be held responsible for any injury, damage or loss.
Enquiries to Roger Hawken:- 01726 822736
Celebration and Memorable Dates
Goodbye
Tom
Mr Tom Westlake
passed away recently aged 81 years. Tom lived for many years in St
Dennis although he considered himself a Nanpean Boy. He had served the
village well and was always a welcome sight at Cancer Research coffee
mornings. He served as vice chairman for several years and was a member of
the committee for 43 years, a fact of which he was very proud. He will be
sadly missed by everyone who knew him and our thoughts are with Clarice (also a
long serving member of the Cancer Research Committee) to whom he was married for
56 very happy years.
Ginny
Edwards
Secretary
St Dennis Cancer Research
Committee.
Happy 80th Birthday
Mrs Betty Sweetman, former member of St Denys Old
Cornwall Society, celebrated her 80th birthday in November as did Mr Stan
Goodman, chairman of St Dennis Cancer Research Committee. We hope they both had
an enjoyable day and we wish them many more.
Happy 90th
Birthday
Mrs Betty Bell, secretary of
St Dennis Cancer Committee for 25 years, recently retired, celebrated her
90th birthday in November. Congratulations Mrs Bell, we hope you had a
marvelous day.
| If you would like a special birthday, anniversary or birth of a child printed in the St Dennis Community News please contact the editor with details. Or if you would like a memorium to commemmorate a loved one who has passed away, please let us know. We can help with wording if requested. |
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St Denys Old Cornwall
Society
We will be holding our
Christmas Party on Monday 10th December at ClayTAWC starting at 7.30pm.
Our guest speaker will be Hilary Keam a local Cornish Poet who will be
entertaining us with her hilarious observations on life in Cornwall. There
will be refreshments and you are welcome to join us, even if you have not been
to Old Cornwall before. Come along and see what we get up
to!
The St
Dennis Women's Institute
The St Dennis
WI are holding their Christmas
Party in the
Working Men's Club on Monday 3rd
December at 7.00 pm
when Mr Les Merton will be entertaining us all. Members and guests
are all welcome. We will be holding our
Christmas
Fayre on Friday
7th
December at 10am in
the Women's Institute Room, downstairs in the Working Men's Club, with all the
usual refreshments, raffle and stalls. Please come along and support us
and enjoy a refreshing cuppa and a good old natter.
The St Dennis Cancer Research Committee
We meet on Tuesday 11th December for our coffee morning at the Working Men's Club starting at 10am. There will be plenty of bargains, refreshments including hot pasties, a raffle and our Christmas "Name the Dog". We also meet on Saturday 15th December for our table top sale at ClayTAWC, again starting at 10am, for more bargains, raffle and refreshments. Come and join in all the fun. Help raise money for Cancer Research and, at the table top, you can even make a little money yourself.
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF ST DENNIS SCHOOL
|
TIME |
Event |
CHLOE |
BRANDON |
|
09:05AM |
registration |
I like registration because I can answer in Spanish “hola” |
I hate registration because you have to sit in silence |
|
09:30am |
maths |
I bit my nails all the way through because I did not understand how we had to half the decimals |
I enjoyed maths because I got to play on the computer because I was good at decimals |
|
10:40am |
break |
I really liked this break time because we was aloud to play with the football but in the past we were not aloud |
I did not like this break because I got trampled on in foot ball “it hurt” |
|
11:00am |
literacy |
I liked literacy very much because we all played a mini football match and I had to write everything that happened for a newspaper report. |
I hated literacy because I scored a own goal and had to write about the bad thing I had done |
|
12:00am |
lunch |
I played hide and seek tag at lunchtime “you can’t play with me Brandon” |
I hated lunch because nobody would play with me |
|
13:00pm |
I.C.T |
I hated I.C.T because I forgot to save my work and had to start all over again “boo hoo” |
I liked I.C.T because we was learning about the Victorians |
|
14:00 |
Assembly |
Assembly was boring because I wanted to make the cup of tea but Brandon was aloud “shut up” |
I loved assembly because I got to make a cup of tea for Miss Norris “ha ha Chloe” |
|
14:10 |
play |
I liked playtime because I was aloud to ring the bell |
I liked playtime because I played caterpillar |
|
14:30 |
art |
I loved art because we made bird cages. |
I liked art because we made bird cages out of clay |
|
15:30 |
Home time |
“Yahoo!” |
“For once she is right” |
|
15:45 |
Football club |
I didn’t like football because I got kicked by Brandon “I will do it to you next time” |
I absolutely loved football because I was man of the match “for once” |
St Denys Church
Services for December
Sundays 2nd and 9th December
9.30am Parish Communion
Sunday 16th December
10am Christingle and Gift Communion Service
(suitable for all ages a service where Christingles are distributed and where we collect gifts for a charity helping families in need)
6pm Christmas
Readings
Tuesday 18th December
7pm Carols led by St Dennis Youth
Band
Sunday 23rd December, 10am
10am Family Communion Service
we prepare to celebrate Christmas
Christmas Eve
11.45pm Midnight Mass
Christmas Day
9.30am Parish Communion
Sunday 30th December
10am Parish Communion
There will be Communion Services at 10.30am on
Wednesdays in December except 26th.
For further details please contact Revd Paul Arthur on 822317.
On Monday
17th December 2007
Canon Tim
Russ
will be celebrating 40 years of being a
priest. Tim will be celebrating with a service at
St Denys Church at 7pm
on 17th December. ALL
WELCOME.
The St
Dennis Male Voice Choir
The
St Dennis Male Voice Choir was formed in 1922 with Marsh Kessell as the first
Musical Director. Upon his retirement Captain Hedley Martin took over
until the outbreak of World War II forced the choir to disband.
The choir was reformed in 1946 after the war by Stanley Treloar,
whose son Harold took over as Musical Director. From the late 1950s a new
approach to the choir's repertoire was adopted under the guidance of Harold
Treloar, introducing individual arrangements of music from shows and even
current pop songs of the day. This brought an entirely different style and
change from the traditional male voice programme. Since Harold left for
Canada we have had several excellent Musical Directors including David Hendry,
Garfield Craddock, Valerie Willcox, David Tidball and, at present, Brian
Craig. Over the years these have all been ably supported by our faithful
accompanists like Doris Bullock, Helen Ardagh and now Rico Gerber. The
choir has also been very fortunate over the years to have had, amongst others,
Jean Camps and Alison Harvey as our Guest Soloists and many will remember Harold
Treloar on his saxophone.
In the past the choir has
broadcast on both radio and television and has made three recordings. As a
concert choir a considerable amount of money has been raised for charity in the
85 years of existence. St Dennis has enjoyed notable success at festivals
and championships : twice winners of the West of England Championships at
Bournemouth, winners at the South West Championships at Paignton, winners at the
Cornwall Music Festival and second place in the International Eisteddfod at
Llangollen in the advanced choir section. The choir has been invited to
sing at many major festivals in Cornwall and has also taken part in exchanges
with male voice choirs from other areas such as Honley in Yorkshire and Dursley
in Gloucestershire - often miles from home, making music for the enjoyment of
themselves and a variety of audiences. Other great highlights have been
singing with the Federation Choirs at the Royal Albert Hall.
With diminishing numbers the Choir regrettably feel that this will be their
final concert. The end of 85 years of male voice singing in St Dennis.
The final concert will be held at Hendra Road Chapel on 16th December at 2.30
p.m when Alison Harvey will be the Guest Soloist and Jeanette Eathorne of
Radio Cornwall will compere.
Clive Jago
St Dennis Male Voice
Choir
Note From The Committee : It is so sad to see that the choir has to disband after so many years. Everyone is welcome to attend for a last chance to hear the St Dennis Male Voice Choir at Hendra Road Chapel on 16th December at 2.30pm. Let's show them our appreciation and give them the send off they deserve.