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August 2019                                                                          August 2019

                                                                                           their   highest   resolution   and    in   landscape    orientation   to
                                                                                           bryan@cheapprintingdorset.co.uk

                                                                                           Volunteer work party for the play park
                                                                                           We will be holding a volunteer work party in the play park in the coming months in
                                                                                           order  to  try  and  get  some  of  the  more  niggling,  time  consuming  repairs  and
                                                                                           improvements carried out. If you wish to be involved with this, and hopefully further
                                                                                           improvement  work  around  the  village,  please  contact  Robin  Pitcher  at
                                                                                           robinpitcher@btinternet.com.

                                                                                           Open Spaces
                                                                                           The wildlife group organised a 'bioblitz' - that is a recording event with experts, to
                                                                                           identify some of the wildlife that we have on our nature reserve and the edge of
                                                                                           Mays Wood around the school.

                                                                                           The records are not completely listed yet but our counts so far are  - 14 varieties of
                                                                                           butterflies, 20 other types of insects, and 80 plants. These records are being sent to
                                                                                           the  Dorset  Environmental  Record  Centre  and  we  will  put  them  on  the  Parish
                                                                                           Council  website.    Thanks  to  the  experts  for  taking  the  time  to  come  along  and
                                                                                           help.


                                                                                                                                        Communibus
                                                                                                                                        We have had a great response
                                                                                                                                        to our trips for the community in
                                                                                                                                        our  new  bus,  with  more  trips
                                                                                                                                        planned in due course.
                                                                                                                                        If  you  are  interested  in  hiring
                                                                                                                                        the  bus  as  a  group,    please
                                                                                                                                        contact  Brenda  House  on
                                                                                                                                        01929 471255.




                                                                                           Drax Hall

                                                                                           We  were  delighted  that,  at  their  recent  village  meeting,  residents  voted
                                                                                           unanimously  for  all  proceeds  from  any  future  sale  of  the  Drax  Hall  being  used
                                                                                           towards the building of a new Community Hall. We would like to express our thanks
                                                                                           to Alison Bennett for chairing a  complex meeting.

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