What’s happening in your area
WHITWICK and District U3A:
The next monthly general meeting is tomorrow.
The speaker will be Tom Newton, with a presentation entitled Scams and how to avoid them.
Tom is one of the team at Leicestershire County Council Trading Standards Department.
The team have a wide remit to encourage honest enterprise and business and help to safeguard the economic, environmental, health and social wellbeing of consumers.
Tom’s talk will help people become aware of what to watch out for and how to avoid being tricked whether via e-mail, post, online, over the phone or by someone knocking at your door.
The meeting is at St David’s Church Hall, Broom Leys, Coalville, at 2pm.
COLD Ashby:
An open gardens takes place on July 28 and 29.
The event will raise money for the church and other village groups.
Thirteen gardens will be open, along with a selection of stalls including arts and crafts, crochet, photography, bread and pork pies, cream teas, Pimms, and more.
There is a barbecue at the Black Horse pub from 5.30pm on Saturday. The cost is £3.50 for adults, childrens under 12 free
LUTTERWORTH Round Table:
Members recently helped part fund a mobility scooter for a Lutterworth resident who suffered a severe stroke in 2013.
This left him severely disabled and dependent on the support of his wife, who has given up her job to become a full-time carer, and his teenage daughter.
The scooter will enable him to take part in family activities again such as dog walking, shopping and socialising and to ease the burden on his wife.
The Round Table has also continued its support of Kids Cancer Charity which offers respite care and holidays for children affected by cancer.
A family from the area was helped to receive one of these breaks.
COLEORTON WI:
The June meeting began with a presentation to Judith S to celebrate her reaching a birthday milestone.
Delia Bennett gave Reflections in Rhyme of her childhood spent growing up in Coalville.
Most poems were delivered with a deadpan expression but usually culminated in a humorous event.
She recited a poem about her pet budgie, which had unfortunately lost his feathers when caught on the flypaper and could fly no more and there were tales of the rise and fall of wrinkly stockings until the advent of tights and the mini-skirt.
NEW Barkby WI:
The July meeting was a members’ evening.
Under the instructions of Mrs M Sewell and Mrs A Wright, everyone was given lengths of stripped willow which had to be bent and manipulated into the shape of a fish.
Mrs Sewell and Mrs Wright had attended Denman College for a course on willow weaving and brought their skills back.
The vote of thanks was given by Mrs J Brutnall.