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Post Office
GARDENING CLUB
You may be aware that Janette Woodhouse, the proprietor, has announced that
the village post office is likely to close soon. The Parish Council, together with our
Dorset Councillor, are working closely with our MP and with Janette, and, once we We had a marvelous outing to Tarrant
receive clarification regarding various issues raised, we will be in a position to take Keynston mill last month looking at the
the matter up with the main Post Office. In the meantime, we have made contact layout of the gardens and listening to the
with customer services at Post Office Ltd and hope we may be able to find a plans for development of this project. We were shown the fragrant plants and
solution. how they are distilled to make the oils for development of fragrances.
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Next Month back to the Drax Hall on Tuesday 7 May for a talk on intimate
Minibus Garden plants by Andrew Humphris. The meeting starts at 7.30. all welcome.
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The minibus is now available for hire by village groups and a huge thank you is On Saturday 11 May we have the Garden Club plant sale. We will be selling
extended to Goodwin Graphics for making such a wonderful job of sign-writing surplus plants, Garden bric-a-brac, books, and some produce . this time we are
the minibus free of charge. If you would like to hire the minibus, please contact Cllr holding this event at Bridge House Shitterton . Please can members bring their
Brenda House on 01929 471255. excess plants and stuff the evening before. The sale will start at 10.30 so you can
go to the Scout breakfast at 9 am and get to the plant sale later

Christmas Trees

This initiative, we believe, is unique to Bere
Regis and we very much hope to keep it
going. The scheme was originally set up so
those properties with external brackets would
be able to have a tree which would benefit
the whole community. West Street looks
extremely festive when all the trees are lit on
the run-up to Christmas. Over time, the
scheme has evolved into the Parish Council
enabling residents to purchase a 4’ to 5’ tree
at cost price. Until last year, this worked well.
However, residents are booking trees without
paying up front for them and then not
collecting them. As a result, there were quite a
few trees left uncollected last year which
meant a cost to the Parish Council. In order to
prevent this from happening this year but to enable the scheme to keep running,
no trees will be ordered unless they have been paid for in advance and the
request slip has been passed to the Clerk. The tree order must go in by the end of
June. If you haven’t ordered your tree by then, you will not be able to have one
so, please, put your order in NOW.

Parish Council Grants
As many groups know, the Parish Council sets aside a portion of the Precept each

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