Letters to the Editors
Christmas Holly
Dear Editors,
I would just like to say thank you very much to Elisabeth and Alastair Everitt for once again organising the advertising, cutting and sale of the Christmas holly in aid of the Church Flower Fund and the church. Each year they do all this, cheerfully and willingly, and those of us involved with the Church flowers, as well as all the happy customers, are very grateful.
WANTED! Arthur Rank Hospice Volunteers
Dear Editors,
The Arthur Rank Hospice in Mill Road has about 200 volunteers who have a huge variety of jobs which include cake making, flower arranging, driving patients to appointments, shopping, helping on the tea bar, taking drinks around to the patients and helping out with clerical work or fund raising. I know I have missed out numerous services they provide! Some people are able to offer an hour a week, some a couple of hours a month. At the moment Chris Mulvey, the Voluntary Services Co-ordinator, is in urgent need of more drivers and flower arrangers. I am one of the flower arrangers and it simply involves taking in some fresh flowers and arranging them in vases in the public areas and then freshening-up the patients’ flowers. If you have ever been unwell and had lots of flowers given to you I am sure you can appreciate how nice it is for the dead flowers to be removed and remaining flowers generally tidied up!
If this sort of voluntary work appeals to you and you have a little time to give please call Chris Mulvey on 01223 723145/6. If you would like to know more from me before you ring her, call me on 743720.
We do hope you can help this worthwhile cause; they are such a friendly group of people.
Bike on Dyke
Dear Editors,
On Sunday 2nd January we saw fresh tyre tracks on the Devils Dyke footpath, then a lad with a yellow helmet on a yellow motorbike displaying no registration plates and no road fund licence. He went along the Reach road towards Lower End. In the event of any large claim for damage or injury against a juvenile without insurance, those responsible for him/her could lose a lot, maybe their home. That would be an expensive bit of fun.