Summer 2008 Archive
30/9/08 - Soft Toys Request
St. lawrence resident Theresa Noble from Ventnor Lions has made an appeal for donations of Small and Medium Soft Toys for a forthcoming charity fundraising event. Theresa can be contacted on 854760.
30/9/08 - Buddle Concert Tickets Now available at St. Lawrence Post Office, Duggletons
16/9/08 - Riverdance Fiddler To Perform Concert at Buddle Inn
World class Irish fiddler Zoe Conway - accompanied by John Mc Intyre on guitar - delighted the audience greatly when they appeared at Quay Arts, Newport last autumn.
The good news is that Zoe and John are returning to the Island agian, this time for two concerts. They will be at Quay Arts on Sunday, October 12th, and at the Buddle Inn, Niton Undercliff, the following night - Monday, October 13th.
Full details of Ticket prices etc. are on the What's On page
8/9/08 - Peace Garden and Well Dressing News
Peace Garden tidy ups will be monthly. Next one-23rd sept 10-12, and a bulb planting day on oct.18th from 10am. Any bulb donations can be taken on day or left in either of the churches. Thank you.
Also our well dressing donations enabled us to give £40 to water aid and buy several bags of bulbs for the Peace Garden and have enough to do next years dressing - yipee. We even got our report in the County Press this week, at last!
Jill Fothergill
27/8/08 - Fishers Mystery Solved?
Doug Nettleton has solved the mystery of why Fishers is so called - See Your Letters/Rants
18/8/08 - Tea Party 9th August Report
We managed to raise £164.25 from the sale of cakes, raffle tickets and bevereges despite the appalling weather but I did sell some at work the previous day as well which raised the first £66. The monies raised are going to be split as £100 to the David Hide Asthma & Allergy research centre based at St
Marys Hospital and the £64.25 going towards the Village Hall Funds. Thanks for your support by the way, much appreciated. Please say thanks to all those who attended and to Ian Ridley for his generous donation and to the lovely
ladies who baked cakes for me.
The 1st prize of the Hamper went to June a St Lawrence resident.
Fran
As editor in chief I felt it my duty to sample the excellent cake on offer - The Ed.
18/8/08 - PEACE GARDEN WORK PARTY 12th AUGUST 2008 Report
Many thanks to the eight stalwart villagers who supported this work party and gave up their morning to carry out essential maintenance work in the Peace Garden.
The weather (unusual this summer) was very kind to us, even hot on occasions and the group managed to weed around most of the individual tree and shrub plantings.
The donated wheel barrow proved to be very useful in transporting weeds to the new compost heap so kindly constructed by Janet and Doug Nettleton.
The good news is that most of the plantings are getting well established, but equally with this rather wet summer so are the weeds!
It was agreed to hold another work party on Tuesday 26th August 10.00-1.00 to continue the weeding tasks. We will not be advertising this one except on the website so do pass this on to anyone who may be prepared to help. You do not need to stay for the whole morning!
Dave Trevan and Jill Fothergill.
13/8/08 - Church Services and News
Ann Faulkner, the new priest in charge at St. Lawrence has sent in the service times and news of the Parish Church re-opening - See Church News Page
10/8/08 - Andrew Turner MP to Visit Village
Our MP Andrew Turner will be visiting St. Lawrence, standing outside the Village Hall, on Monday 18th August from 14.00 - 14.20 hours, which is part of his itinerary of summer surgeries to meet residents and listen to any issues or concerns
they may have.
3/8/08 - Normal Service Resumed
The website has been having some technical problems over the last week, with the loss of the What's On page data and our Broadband Connection going down for a few days, but we are now back like a coiled spring. The Ed.
30/7/08 - Whitwell Road Closure
Whitwell Road will be closed for resurfacing from Monday August 4th until September 5th. The road will be closed from its junction with Gills Cliff Road in Ventnor all the way through to Whitwell according to the signs.
29/7/08 - Well Dressing
St. Lawrence Well Dressing is now on display, the Well Dressing Photo gallery has now been updated to include this years photos. CLICK HERE
27/7/08 - Its all gone Horribly Wrong
The What's On Page has been corrupted and all the events listed have been lost, if you have any events coming up please email them to me again - Sorry, I will try to put back the items I can remember - The Ed.
27/7/08 - Well - Dressed and Blessed
The St. Lawrence Well is now dressed and can be viewed in all its glory just off Undercliff Drive, it will remain on display for the next week or so.
The main well dressers this year were:
Judy from St.Lawrence and June, Jill, Jamie, May & Geoff from Niton
22/7/08 - Local Resident plans Portsmouth Exhibition
Debbie Robins from Fishers in St. Lawrence, has been very busy putting together an exhibition for the Skills Heritage in Portsmouth (SHIP) - see What's On section CLICK HERE
Debbie needs to put together the financial part of her business plan and is asking if anyone in the village would be willing to assist. This needs to be worked on the first 2 weeks after the show finishes, at the beginning of September.
She has worked for 3 years on this project and it is a large project involving English Heritage and Portsmouth Historic Dockyard.
Debbie can be contacted at skillsheritageportsmouth@yahoo.co.uk
21/7/08 - COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION NEWS
There were fewer litter pickers than usual at the Binnel Bay Beach Clean on Saturday 19th July but there was less rubbish than usual too, so we were able to leave this beautiful spot - well, spotless.
Special thanks as always to Martin and Loretta Goodyear for transporting the rubbish away.
We have another genuine Rant on the Letters/Rants Page on this subject - CLICK HERE - The Ed
16/7/08 - How about a St. Lawrence presence at VENTNOR CARNIVAL this year?
A simple walking entry with the theme:
GALLOPING GARDENERS of ST. LAWRENCE.
We would need a minimum of 10 entrants and 4 wheelbarrows. Wear any costume that brings gardens or gardeners to mind and decorate you
wheelbarrow in any garden related way : the photo is just an idea. It could be full of giant veg, a shed, weeds, snails, gnomes…or even be beautiful.
We would need only one meeting before the carnival.
If you’d like to have a go, please contact Christine on 852 466 before 19th July.
Carnival date: Wednesday 13th August.
13/7/08 - Shipwreck!!
Its Not Quite "Jamaica Inn", but the picture below shows a yacht foundered on rocks between Ventnor and Steephill Cove.
Its apparently been there for a few days, I hope nobody was injured, does anyone have anymore details?
10/7/08 - Local Writer's New Book Launch
Wendy Harris has a launch date for her new novel, Rocken Edge. 29th July at 6.30 pm at Waterstones. All are welcome to help her celebrate and have a glass of wine. There is also a booksigning on 2nd August, late morning, same venue. There will be another local signing at Niton Books (date to be arranged).
This third novel has been published by (www.coachhousepublications.co.uk) and printed (www.crossprint.co.uk) on recycled paper on the Island as Wendy wanted to support the Eco-Island Project. Husband, Terry, took the cover photo which was shot at Binnel Bay. 
So as well as encouraging tourism it is very Island-friendly. The whole Undercliff Series is packed with enticing descriptions of The Undercliff from Blackgang to Bonchurch.
Wendy K Harris [www.wendykharris.com] Author of THE UNDERCLIFF NOVELS:The Sorrow of Sisters, Blue Slipper Bay and Rocken Edge.
9/7/08 - £100 Donated to Charity.
The Committee of the Community Association are delighted to announce that we have just sent a cheque for £100, part of the profit from our recent Gallop Round the Gardens event, to the charity WaterAid.
We share WaterAid’s vision of a world where everyone has access to safe water and sanitation and are very pleased to be able to support their work.
Thank you to everyone who helped by visiting the gardens.
7/7/08 - COLLEGE COUNTRYSIDE STUDENTS GET REWARDED FOR WORK ON PEACE GARDEN
Students from the college countryside department who helped create the Peace Garden in St. Lawrence have been rewarded with the gift of a quality digital camera by Doug and Janet Nettleton from St. Lawrence Post Office.
Doug and Janet commented that they wanted to give something long lasting that could be used in the curriculum.
Dave Trevan, course coodinator for National Certificate courses in Horticulture, Countryside and Practical Environmental Studies commented:
“Students on all our courses build portfolios of evidence. Photographs of students carrying out practical activities provide excellent evidence for portfolios that always impress our external verifiers, so the gift of the Fuji Finepix is more than welcome and will be used to gather evidence for students on all courses in the Countryside Department. It will also be used for close up photography of plants and animals”
Doug presented the camera to Pippa Burton, who is a National Certificate Countryside Student, at a ceremony that included all the students who had worked on the Peace Garden.
Also present were college assistant principal Roland White, Rob Mew,countryside section leader, Dave Trevan and John Allen (course coordinators) and Paul Coleman, curriculum technician.