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SILKSWORTH AND RYHOPE Ring Olive Thompson on 0191 521 4960 or 07758439449 email olive16thompson@hotmail.com
Silksworth British Legion will be holding an Irish Night on Thursday. Singer Gerry Garsia and the Lisa Clinton Dancing School will entertain. Tickets are £1 from the club.
BOLDON Ring Margaret Davison on 536 7388 or email margaret-davison1@sky.com
Reception children at Hedworth Lane, Boldon Colliery Primary School visited South Tyneside Hospital recently. They first went to the Plaster Room and saw how a cast is made then to Endoscopy and looked up their noses, and on to X-ray and saw pictures of the bones inside their bodies. The children dressed up as doctors and nurses and put plasters, bandages and slings on each other. The visit was a great hit with the pupils.
Hedworth Lane Primary School has a Chocolate Egg Donation Box in the school hall for children to donate chocolate Easter Eggs, which will be donated to The People’s Kitchen – a charity based in Newcastle which supports the homeless in and around the region, based near St James’ Park. The children hope to put a smile on a face that perhaps has not had a great deal to smile about and send love and kindness to those less fortunate than themselves.
East Boldon Library Group will meet in the library building in Boker Lane, East Boldon, tomorrow at 6pm.
If you live in and around Boldon Colliery and could do with being fitter then why not go along to The Stables, which is attached to Boldon Independent Methodist Church on North Road in Boldon Colliery. For fitness from a chair, chat, chill-out and refreshments, pop along to Sit ‘n’ b’ Fit on alternate Fridays from 2pm to 3pm. Pay on the day, for date of next session. Ring Iris on 0798 4008773 for details.
Four Students in Years 10 and 11 at Boldon School will be taking part in a once in a lifetime charity expedition to Borneo this July. While there they will help the local people build schools and homes as well as support the local wildlife through a conservation project. In order to partake in the challenge they have had to raise over £3,500 each which is no mean feat. They recently held a Borneo Blitz Charity Punk Fest in Gateshead to help them achieve their goal.
March 19 to 23 will see Boldon School take part in various fundraising activities for Sport Relief including the Sports Relief Mile, a Swimathon, staff versus students physical challenges, bake sales, leg waxing and much more. They raised £3,000 in 2016 and hope to smash that record this year.
If you would like to join members and friends of St George’s Church, Front Street, East Boldon, on their spring trip to Woodhorn Colliery Museum in Northumberland plus a visit to Morpeth on Friday, April 6, contact Barbara Collins on 0191 5363162. The coach will leave from outside the church at 9.30am. The cost is £18(to be paid by March 29).
Join a group of local friendly walkers, based in Boldon, for a Sunday walk or an arranged midweek walk or weekend trip to youth hostels and lodges. For further details, contact Syd, Boldon Outdoor Activities Club-Local Walking Club, on 07768119702.
Boldon Churches Together will hold a short midday Lent service followed by a light lunch on Thursday at noon in St Nicholas Church in West Boldon and at The Sacred Heart RC Church on New Road in Boldon Colliery on Thursday March 22. Donations requested in aid of Christian Aid and CAFOD.
HENDON Ring Connie Bulmer on 548 6066
Bishopwearmouth Choral Society present its spring concert, Maurice Durufle’s Requiem, at Sunderland Minster on Saturday, March 24, at 7.30pm. Tickets are £12.
Sunderland Antiquarian Society’s next talk will be on Tuesday, March 20, in the main hall at Thornhill School. John Tumman will give a talk entitled“Ashbrooke – A Walk Around a Victorian Suburb. Doors open at 7pm and the talk starts at 7.30pm. There is ample parking. All are welcome.
The next Lovell Lecture will be on Monday, March 26, from 1pm to 3pm in Donnison School, Church Walk off Church Street East. Bill Greenwell will talk about The History of Rock Lodge 1790 -1800. Entrance, £3, will include refreshments.
Sunderland Old Township Heritage Society will hold a Dame Dorothy Dole service at Holy Trinity Church, Church Street East, on Thursday, March 29, at 2pm. Maundy Thursday is the beginning of the threeday celebration of Easter. The service will be followed by the giving of token Maundy Money to a group of local pensioners. This tradition began in 1699 following the bequest by Dame Dorothy Williamson.
Hendon Karate Club meets in Cheers public house on Wednesdays and Fridays from 6pm to 7pm. For further details, ring 07932724720.
Want to learn how to make a clippy or hooky mat? Donnison School will be holding a hooky mat work-