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Correspondent: Jean Watson Mob:
07966 361434 Tel: 01622 687053 Baptist Church: Sunday, July 9 at 10.30am, Café Church. An informal service with food, aimed at young families. Come and try it. Saturday, July 15 from 7-9.0pm, quiz with free entry. Bring a team or join a team and have some fun. Refreshments available. Contact Colin on 01622 729583 for information. Sunday, July 16 at 9am, early morning communion (short service); July 16 at 10.30am Morning service with Martyn Colley speaking on The Lord’s Deliverance. Get Together: The Wednesday ‘Get Together’ sessions at the Baptist Church are closed for the rest of July to allow the builders to demolish and rebuild the old annex building and with August being the normal holiday period, meetings will resume on September 13 at 2.30pm with a Tea and Chat afternoon. Garden club: Next meet in St Nicholas Church Hall on Thursday, July 6 from 7.30-9.30pm, when Hillary Newman will give a talk entitled The Lazy Gardener. Refreshments are available plus monthly raffle and bring and buy section. Throughout the year the club also offers outings and a competition evening as well as various speakers and talks on plants, gardening and gardens. Visitors £3 per visit and subscriptions £12 per year. Maidstone Flower Club: New members and visitors will be welcomed at this friendly club, which meets on the second Thursday of the month at Allington Baptist Church. Doors open at 7pm for a 7.30pm start. Free parking available. Membership £30 per annum. Visitors £6 per visit. AGM: The annual meeting of Allington Millennium Green Limited will be held on the Green at 7.30pm on Thursday, July 27. All interested people are invited to attend, especially those who live in Bridge and Allington wards, which are immediately adjacent to the Green. Ceilidh dance: In St Nicholas Church Hall on Saturday, July 29 from 6.30pm-10pm. Tickets £5 for adults, £3 for children with children under seven free entry. Strawberries, cream and shortbread provided. Take your own drinks and nibbles. Tickets from 01622 685984 or rbec_ uk@yahoo.co.uk Proceeds in aid of St Martins Church Maidstone. Play reading: URC and St Nicholas Church present J.B Priestley’s They Came to a City, an amateur dramatic play reading on Friday July 21 at St Nicholas Church and Saturday, July 22 at URC in Week Street, Maidstone. Both start 7.30pm. Tickets £10, concessions £5 available from: buytickets.at/ thewaypointproject or by phone from Ann Sargent 01622 764063 for St Nicholas Church and URC Church office 01622 686053 for URC Saturday Club: The next meeting at St Nicholas Church is on Saturday, July 15 from 10am-noon. All primary school children are welcome. Mums and babes: In St Nicholas Church on Friday July 21 from 10am-noon offering an opportunity to relax and spend time with other new parents. Thereafter meetings are held once a month on a Friday. Correspondent: Mia StockwellThompson Lifeboats quiz: On Friday, July 28 starting at 7.30pm, there will be a quiz in Fant Hall, Fant Lane in aid of lifeboats. Tickets cost £6 per player and include a cold supper- with a maximum of eight players per team. Take your own drinks and nibbles. To book tickets and meals contact John Ashbolt on 01622725435 or Alan Cocks on 761004. Barbecue date: On Sunday, August 20, St Margaret’s Church Men’s Group will sponsor a free barbecue from 1pm-3.30pm at the church. The event is open to all. Take something to sit on. There will be games for children. Correspondent: Steve Pearce, 97 Merton Road, Bearsted, ME15 8LR Mob: 07740 796002 Choral Society: The summer concert is on Saturday, July 8 at 7.30pm at On Sunday, the team travel to Upchurch. parish as the parish council paid for extra copies of the Downs Mail to ensure residents living in the North Ward were not left out. Cllr Butler thought it might be an electronic magazine. Cllr Hinder notified members that she had been receiving complaints about the overgrown vegetation and was attempting to locate the landscaping section of EDF because of trees growing over power lines in Boxley Road. She had also been dealing with a parking issue in Old Chatham Road, Sandling. Reports from councillors/office: Cllr V Davies and Cllr Sullivan attended the St John’s School Fair on May 13, with a display and were pleased with the number of residents who visited the stall and signed up to the community alert system. Cllrs I Davies and Bob Hinder attended the Maidstone KALC meeting and minutes were received by members. The Cllr Hinder notified members that he had been nominated for the position of KALC representative to the Maidstone Joint Transport Board and three nominations had been received and so an election would be held.