Community Association
St. Lawrence Community Association
Dates for your Diary:
Grand Pumpkin Festival 2010
To be held at St. Lawrence Village Hall
On Saturday 30th October, 2010
From 1.00pm until 3.30pm
Free Admission
What to expect: A Pumpkin Competition! Lots of Categories for Adults & Children. Certificates awarded. Prizes for the winners. Games including the amazing Human Fruit Machine. Tasty Toffee Apple Tree (yum yum), Tombola (try your luck), Raffle with superb prizes, Refreshments: Join us for Lunch - delicious home-made Soup and Crusty Roll as well as mouth-watering home baked Cakes, Teas & Coffees.
Please note the following timings:-
10.00am to midday - The Village Hall will be open receive entries (no entries permitted after midday!)
Midday – 1.00pm - Judging to take place !!
1.00pm – Doors open
3.00pm – Prize giving
3.30pm – entrants may remove their exhibits
For those wishing to donate their exhibits, rather than take them home, we shall be happy to hold an ‘Auction’.
Any profit surplus to Community requirements will be donated to various charities including PATCH, Ventnor Together’s Café 34 and the Hampshire Air Ambulance Service.
Details of some of the superb Raffle prizes and their very generous donors:
Lunch for Two – donated by the Newclose Cricket Club, Newport
Free Club Membership for 2011 season – donated by Newclose Cricket Club
Guided Tour of the Island for Two plus Cream Tea – donated by Alan
Stovell (chairman of St. Lawrence Community Association)
Exquisite glass pumpkin – specially made and donated by Isle of Wight Glass
Pumpkin Entry Forms are available from: The St. Lawrence Post Office or from one of the following committee members (Liz 855908, Maggie 852051,
Sue 855848 ) or on the door at St. Lawrence Village Hall between 10.00am
and midday on the day.
Further details of this fantastic festival will be published on the
St. Lawrence Village website over the coming weeks. Also at the St. Lawrence
Post Office and notices around the village.
There will be an Appeal for Cakes and an Appeal for Help on the Day
during the week leading up to the event.
More details regarding these events will be available from: The Chatter, The Chronicle, The Beacon and via village Posters and, of course, this website. Keep your eyes peeled!
Prefer to speak to someone? Then just call one of the following members who will be happy to talk to you: Ann Dedman – 855279, Liz Fox – 855908, Maggie Ridley – 852051, Christine Russell - 852466
Community Association
Treasurer’s Report
Our Treasurer’s report has revealed that the events held in 2009 were a great success and while it must be said that although fund raising is not the purpose of the Community Association, it has resulted in a surplus of £200 which we are pleased to announce will be donated to the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance Service.
Thank you again to everyone who has contributed to the successful planning, execution and attendance of the St. Lawrence Community events and thereby made possible this charitable donation to a very worthwhile organisation.
The St. Lawrence Community Association Christmas Party and Variety Show
It was a SELL OUT with 61 tickets! After many hours of preparation, practising of dance steps, repetition of scales, throat clearing, mince-pie baking and wine tasting, the Variety Show took off on Friday 18th December and what a wonderful variety of talents and skills the audience enjoyed. The evening started with a selection of home-baked seasonal fare and a glass of robust wine and the mingling of guests.
At 7.30pm the show started with everyone singing heartily ‘Deck the Halls’ and ‘Ding Dong Merrily on High’. Versatile Mary Thomas gave two monologues:- ‘The (w)hole story’ with a dulcet Welsh accent and ‘She washed out an undie on Sunday’ with a beautiful lilting Scottish accent! Debbie Comber and Tony Ridley coaxed us into a wonderful by-the-fireside Christmassy mood with their harmonious rendering of ‘Baby it’s cold outside’. After more community singing followed a shimmering, colourful, veil waving and hip swaying vision as the “Bellybabies” sashayed and swivelled across the stage to great applause.
The Interval consisted of more mingling, festive food and wine followed by an encore of eastern promise with the Bellybabies. Tony Simpson and Joan Robson created a wonderful scene of nostalgia with their tender duet, ‘Yes, I remember it well’.
Mo Latham and Dave Eldridge took to the stage in classy black and red trimmed outfits and then took our breath away with their ‘Sizzling Salsa’ which included some spicy moves, pretty fancy footwork and agile turns and twirls. Lithesome Rita Leonard displayed another piece of glittering footwork with her delightful ‘42nd Street’ tap dancing.
Before our final community sing-a-long, the X-Pheonix members gave us a beautiful harmonious rendition of ‘In the Christmas Mood’ – and so we all were!
Our Treasurer is yet to give us exact figures but it is thought that the evening’s profits are in the region of £300 and will be divided between our own funds, the Village Hall and Barnardos. Exact amounts will be anounced as soon as possible. On behalf of the St. Lawrence Community Association I extend a big “Thank you” to:- all the talented individuals who took part in the show, every member of the audience, all the enthusiastic ‘back-room’ boys and girls, all the excellent bakers of mincepies and savouries and cakes and to each and everyone who contributed to making the evening so successful.
Liz Fox (Publicity)