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BERE REGIS NEWS MILBORNE MOVIES

BERE REGIS PARISH COUNCIL The Windermere Children
Friday 17th May 2024 at 7.30pm
Village Hall, The Causeway, Milborne St Andrew
Chairman: n Park 07970 727792 jonparkparish@btinternet.com DT11 0JX
Jo
Doors and bar open 7.00pm
Vice Bryan 07969 770890 bryan@cheapprintingdorset.co.uk
Chairman: Benjafield Tickets cost £6, which includes a drink or an ice-
cream.
Parish Amanda 07855 396073 bereregispc@gmail.com
Clerk: Crocker
The Windermere Children

Websites: www.bereregisparishcouncil.co.uk www.bereregis.org The War is Over. For These Child Holocaust Survivors It Is A New beginning. A film
based on the experience of these child survivors.
One summer’s night in 1945, 300 children are in transit from Prague to the Lake
The Parish Council met on Thursday 11 April 2024 in the Village Hall. There were District, a remote and picturesque corner of the English countryside. They are child
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five members of the public present. Members of the press and public are survivors of the Nazi Holocaust that has all but wiped out Europe’s Jews – and for
welcome and there is a period for public participation at the start. If you are these particular children, their entire families too. They are some of the 1000
unable to attend but wish to submit a comment or question, please contact the children the British government has granted refuge to, giving them a place where
Clerk or any member of the Parish Council.
they can rehabilitate and grow strong after the devastation of the war.

They carry only the clothes they wear and a few meagre possessions, along with
Village Meeting the physical and psychological scars of all they have suffered. They do not know
Due to the up-coming local elections, we have been advised by Dorset Council what awaits them in Britain and naturally they are fearful: they don’t speak
that the Annual Village Meeting should be postponed. It will now be help on July English, and having spent many years living in death camps, have missed out on a
20 , when we hope to have a draft of the Neighbourhood Plan Review available proper education. But the children are also excited, for the war is over, and there
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to the public to read and discuss, together with proposals for the location of the is always hope that the future will be kinder to them than the past.
new community hall. We will announce more details in the coming weeks. This moving and ultimately redemptive story follows the children and the
remarkable team who were responsible for helping these children rebuild their

lives as they forge friendships that will become a lifeline to a better future.
D-Day Events
We are currently planning for the 80 Anniversary of D-Day in June, and intend to
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light the beacon on the evening of Thursday 6 June at 9.15pm and have some
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refreshments available. If you would like to be involved in helping organise any
additional events to commemorate this, please contact the Clerk on
clerk@bereregisparishcouncil.gov.uk.

Dog Mess
We have again noticed an increase of dog mess being left on paths and

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