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wedding in Cana. He really keen amongst you there is more information on the Briantspuddle
spoke to about four Community website. Although the Post Office is small, it does provide all the usual
questions: What does PO services (other than car tax) such as postal services, foreign currency and the
my Mum teach me? facility to pay bills and draw cash.
How does my Mum
help me? When did I The Shop has an agreement with Sainsbury’s which allows us to sell Sainsbury’s
last thank my Mum? own brand goods at a very small mark-up. We hold a small selection of meat and
How can I thank my other essentials such as bread and milk. If there is something special you would
Mum? There were like we will do our best to source it for you. Any financial surplus made by the Shop
some good answers is kept solely for use by the Shop to buy more stock and meet the Shop’s few
including to the final running costs, ie electricity, insurance etc.
one giving a card,
chocolates or flowers So, one of the direct benefits of every purchase is that it allows the Shop to
but most of all to say continue to meet many of the needs of those residents who do not have private
‘Thank you’ and I love transport as well as providing a local opportunity to purchase those items which
you!’ you forgot in your ‘Big Shop’. We were very popular during the recent bad
weather! As well as being a useful amenity, regular customers see the Shop as an
The service moved on important social "hub" of the community, the place for local news. So please
with the acting song Great, Great, Brill, Brill in which the children at the front did come and support us.
extremely well. Amazingly only three people owned up to having a birthday in
March but we sang to them anyway. After the Affirmation of Faith and the time
of Prayer, we sang the final hymn Once in Royal David’s city (Yes, actually very BLADEN SOCIAL CLUB
appropriate as we sang about the mother of Jesus, Mary, whose greatest gift to
the world was giving birth to him on Christmas Day. Some junior puppets then
joined the older ones in Tell him, a song which reminded us to speak to Jesus of The Race Night on Saturday the
our desire to be forgiven. The final part of the service was the giving out of the 24 February attracted an
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lovely plants for the children (of any age) to give to their mums! Our thanks to all audience of forty six race
who took any part! spectators, some of whom
were persuaded by the race
stewards to become jockeys for
BERE REGIS PARISH CHURCH the evening.
GUIDED TOURS .. The competition between
jockeys franticly winding their
“model” horses to the finishing
….. starting in May line in eight races through the
evening created humour and
We intend to start tours again in May on Tuesdays at excitement for the spectators as well as aching arm muscles for the jockeys.
11.00 and Thursdays at 3.00. Thanks to those who
have agreed to help out. All said they had an enjoyable and fun evening, some leaving with less in their
pockets, and others with rather more, than when they started.
Fliers and posters will be available in the church once
it is back to normal and we would appreciate However though there were individual winners and losers the overall aim of raising
anyone who will distribute these to TIC’s, camp sites, B & B’s or any other centre money for local charities was achieved with £300 raised for local charity Employ
for visitors to the area. My Ability and £50 for Wareham Rotary to donate to a charity of their choice.
The social club wishes to thank all those who made this such a successful evening,
in particular Mick King and Tim Reed (the horse trainers) for organising the races

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