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November 2019 November 2019

was a truly amazing experience which created memories and made me friends I BERE REGIS WILDLIFE AND
will retain throughout my life.
ENVIRONMENT GROUP

Events With the onset of Autumn we have had some cooler
days (but no frosts yet, thankfully) and some very wet
Remembrance Parade – Sunday 10th November – The parade will leave the scout weather. With cool and wet days we have turned our
hut at 10.30am to march behind the band to the church for the Service of thoughts to furnishing little bugs with a good home for
Remembrance. All are welcome to join the parade and return after the service to the winter and also to the health of our river.
the hut for refreshments.

Our next fund raiser for the Borneo Expedition is the Breakfast Café on Saturday
23rd November from 9am to 1130am. Please do come along and enjoy a freshly Bug or Insect Hotels
cooked breakfast and support the young people travelling to Borneo in 2021. It is all too easy to forget how
beneficial many insects or bugs
are. They are vital for pollination of
Contact us
our flowers and crops, they prey
If anyone would like further information about Bere Regis Scout Group or the on aphids and other pests and
Kingsbere Explorer Scout Unit, all the contact details for the individual sections small invertebrates are a vital food
(Beavers, Cubs, Scouts and Explorers) are available in the village directory at the source for birds and other animals.
back of this magazine. General enquiries and offers of help/assistance: Neal Unitt- It is probably impossible to
Jones on 01929 472273. quantify just how valuable these
creepy crawlies are, but suffice to

BERE REGIS MOT and SERVICE
Could the ALEXANDER CENTRE
TEL: 01929 472205
TECHNIQUE help you? MOTs say we and the natural systems we
(No Re-Test Fee within 10 working days) rely on are hugely indebted to
Learning the technique will enable you to SERVICING them! So, we thought we ought to
realise that the way you stand & move can REPAIRS do our bit to provide them with
BRAKES * EXHAUSTS some free accommodation. As
be the cause of pain & tension part of an exercise to help earn a

conservation badge the village
COMPUTERISED DIAGNOSTICS
The BMJ gave LATEST EQUIPMENT FOR Beaver, Cub and Scout packs
MOST MAKES AND MODELS assembled and put up a number
AT positive of bug hotels – look out for them

alongside the streamside path.
results in their OVER 30 YEARS’ EXPERIENCE
Back Pain trial IN THE MOTOR TRADE They did a marvellous job and we are very thankful to them. And, no doubt, so
will the future occupants with a cosy mixture of straw, pine cones and hollow
01929 298 323 Proprietor: Bill Greer sticks to nestle into. We can expect the hotels to provide great hibernation space
Unit 1 Townsend Business Park for various bugs, such as ladybirds, and they’ll continue to provide a valuable
0770 441 9200 Bere Regis, BH20 7LA
haven come next Spring and Summer as they can provide home to solitary bees,
(At rear of Shell Petrol Station)
Jeannette Martin MSTAT lacewings and a wide range of other beneficial insects.

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