South Cerney

Mike Stuart

mikestuart@southcerney.com

  • PREPARATIONS for the South Cerney festival and street fair are well advanced and everyone is expecting this year’s weekend to attract even more participants and visitors. Of the three main evening events being held in the marquee in the gardens of Atkyns Manor tickets are selling rapidly with Saturday’s event totally sold out. Get your tickets for the Friday, May 27 dance where the music will be by ‘Sound and the Sirens’ plus an Elvis tribute by phoning Wendy on 07793 741240 or Mike on 860636. For the Sunday evening family barn dance with the Bees Knees, tickets can be obtained at the post office, the Spar or from Ann Edwards School.
  • AT THE street fair, Liza, Anth and Jacob are running a bottle tombola stall and are begging for donations of almost anything in a bottle to keep the stall stocked all day. Anything from ketchup to kirsch, water to wine accepted. Please leave anything you can give either in the porch at 42 River Way or at the back of All Hallows Church.
  • TO RUN this ever enlarging Festival helpers are desperately needed. Even if you can spare only an hour or two, please contact Katharine on 862206 or on 07821 093763.
  • GLOUCESTERSHIRE Deaf Association are holding a hearing aid clinic on Monday, April 25 in the United Church in Clarks Hay between 10am-12pm. Please call 01452 372999 for an appointment or just turn up after 11am to have your NHS hearing aid checked, the tube replaced and to top up on your supply of batteries. This is a free service.
  • THE village hall management committee AGM is on Wednesday, April 27 at 7.30pm in the committee room at the hall. Members of the public are always welcomed to this event.
  • COFFEEPOT is on Saturday, April 16 at the United Church in Clarks Hay starting at 10am. No charge but donations to The Churn Project welcomed.
  • THE South Cerney Thursday Group meets this evening, April 14 in the village hall at 8pm when Carrie Rose, a counsellor and life coach will be speaking on 'Seven Simple Ways to Live a Happier Life'. Visitors always welcomed and for more information about this group call Lesley 869054 or Jill 860152.

Siddington

Alison Wagstaff

01285 655838

awsiddington@yahoo.co.uk

  • FURTHER representations have been made to Gloucestershire Highways and our county and district councillor to highlight the state of Siddington Road from the junction with South Cerney Road all the way to Bridge Road. More patching has been carried out to deal with the worst potholes but this can only be a temporary measure. The most recent news is that the utilities company planning to dig up a wide stretch, with ancillary pipes into properties along the road, should complete that work by the end of June, leaving the way clear for Highways to carry out the resurfacing. In the meantime residents are urged to report potholes via the Gloucestershire County Council website, gloucestershire.gov.uk/reportit/potholes.
  • SIDDINGTON Sports FC fixtures this week are an away game for the first team at Poulton this evening (Thursday) and two away games for Siddington Vets, the first at The Beeches on Saturday, April 16 and the second at Kingshill on Tuesday, April 19.
  • HOLY Communion takes place at St Peter’s Church on Sunday, April 17, starting at 10am.
  • THE St Peter’s flower arranging team would like to thank everyone who came along to the coffee morning on Saturday, April 9. A total of £270 was raised, which will be used to buy flowers and foliage for the flower festival in June.

Down Ampney

Melanie Fouracre

dastandard44@gmail.com

  • FRIDAY, April 15 is the deadline for ticket sales for the St George's Day Wine and English Cheese tasting event, presented by DAFFERS on Friday, April 22 from 7.30 pm to 11.30 pm in the Village Hall.  Tickets can be purchased from the Village Shop.
  • SUNDAY, April 17 is the village spring clean.  If you would like to join in please contact Julia Job, 01793 750532, juliagjob@btinternet.com. Volunteers are asked to meet at 11.15 am in the village hall car park, where they will be split into groups, each to cover a small area of the village.
  • PARISH Communion will take place at Ampney Crucis at 10am on Sunday, April 17. There will be informal worship at Poulton at 6 pm.
  • GARDENING club members learned about climbers and wall shrubs, when to prune, the best way to plant, and what to feed them with, during an interesting talk given by Andy Pedrick at their meeting on March 17. The next club meeting is on Thursday, April 21. Mr J Ludlow will talk about The Zonal Pelargonium.  The competition will be:  a pressed flower.  The March 17, small foliage arrangement competition winners were:  1st - Julia Job, 2nd - Christine Bruce, 3rd - Bob Goode.