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Editorial
Contents
Your Letters 5
Holiday Bible Club 6
New Town Clerk for Olney 7
MBE Award 8
2010 Winter Paralympics update 12 Ravenstone Village Fete 14
A Day In The Life . . . Icetwice 17 Mercury Report 18
Green Park School, Newport Pagnell 20 Olney U7s Rugby 20
News from Lavendon School 22 Extending the Fun at Tickford Park 26 Anyone for Tennis 28
Married Abroad 30
Turvey Lower School - Chickens 32 Olney Camera Club 34
Lovat Hall Playgroup 36
Sherington Spring Fayre 38
Olney Bells Project 38
Great Book Signing 40
Sherington CE News 42
Olney Raft Race 2009 42
Race for Life 44
Emberton & District Flower Club 45
The Buzz 46
Beatcheck 48
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Scarecrow Competition 48 Finance Matters 49
Councillor Corner 50
The Bikes are Back 52 Wolverton Town Band 53 Astonlee Vets presentation 54 Phonebox Photo Competition 57 MK Midnight Mooooo 57
Out and About with Mark Lancaster 58 A Month in the Garden 60
Dig for Victory 64
STSE 66
Juniper Hill to Buckingham 67
Ripping Yarns 68
Stoke Goldington Preschool News 68 The Pibworth Column 69
Olney Netball Club 70
Book Review 71
Newport Pagnell Local to Timbuktu 72 Churches Together in Newport Pagnell 73 The Vibe 74
Mountain Bike Event 75
Cream Teas in the Conservatory 75
Kidz Only 76
Kids Corner 77
Useful Numbers 78 79
May 2009
Welcome to the May edition of the Phonebox Magazine.
We have a bumper edition for you this month with plenty of articles and stories featured from money raising events to even a marriage!
The music scene is hotting up in the area with things taking off at quite a pace, one minute there doesn’t seem to be all that much going on and suddenly, with an idea and a bit of promotion, we have a lot more to do and listen to.
With the credit crunch affecting most of us, now is the time to shop local. If you can find someone local to do that job or provide that service you require then use them, they keep our local community going, we don’t want to see boarded up shops!
One not so local shop that has created a lot of letters in our mailbag, both for and against, is the new proposal in Newport Pagnell for a Tesco on the old Aston Martin site. We all have a voice, we just have to use it, it is our right. So campaign as you see fit. We also have the right to vote shortly on the European Election - It may be very wise to read Pibworth’s column on page 69 before you do so!!!
Ron Hall (Editor)
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