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OPENING CEREMONY PARALYMPICS 2012
Local dancer/choreographer Helen Parlor who lives in Ravenstone will be very much on the inside for the Paralympics 2012. She has been appointed as Assistant to Director of Movement & Choreography for the Opening Ceremony on 29 August, and has already started the long car journeys to Paralympics HQ in East London.
Helen, ex-Ousedale School pupil, trained at Swindon Dance and Northern Contemporary Dance/University of Leeds. She’s well known in contemporary dance circles in UK and beyond, recently choreographing dancers in Dar es Salam, Tanzania, and performed with Motionhouse-Leamington Spa, and Panta Rei Dance Teater-Oslo, throughout Norway.
For more information see www.helenparlor.co.uk
Helen is also involved locally as one of the choreographers for MK Raw over Easter 2012, when local youngsters get to perform on the main stage at MK Theatre.
The photograph shows Helen in front of Goodrich Castle, near Ross on Wye, when she choreographed 150 professional and local dancers.
Among other things, she’ll also be involved at Swansea Marina for the local Olympic celebrations in summer 2012.
Stoke Goldington Preschool update
There’s lots going on at the moment with us busy planning some fantastic fundraising events for the coming spring to help raise much needed funds for the Preschool.
The first is a Kickabout Cup to be held at Stoke Goldington Village Hall and Field on Saturday 31st March. It will kick off at around 11am with a footie match for the pre-schoolers and then a Kickabout Tournament for the dads and friends. Teams are to be made up of 6- a-side to include a girl or a child, battling it out for the honour of the Cup. The day's activities will include a BBQ, Bar, Bouncy Castles and Games, Lucky Dip, MK Dons prizes, and a Kids Penalty Shoot Out. For all those aspiring Rooney’s out there we are holding a Crossbar Challenge and for the pets a ‘Best Looking Dog in the Village’. This is going to be a great event for all the family so fingers crossed for good weather!!
We are also holding a 5K Fun Run on Sunday 29th April that some of the mums from Preschool have agreed to take part in. We have a
target of £800 so really need lots of support to reach it. We will be setting up a ‘Just Giving’ site to make donating easier, a link will be on our website www.stokegoldington-preschool.co.uk soon. We’d like to say a huge thanks to Phil at Energie in Newport Pagnell for giving us lots of great advice and support, we certainly needed it!
Looking forward to next term, the area of learning is going to be ‘Knowledge and Understanding of the World’. This will be explored using the theme ‘Spring’ and ‘Life Cycles of Living Things’ and is to include some exciting activities such as making bird cakes, a Spring walk, planting sunflower seeds, and making Mother’s Day card’s of course!
Preschool has just started taking children from 2 years of age all five mornings a week. If you are interested in our setting we’d love for you to come and have a look around, to arrange a viewing or for more information call Preschool Mobile 07716 967723 any weekday morning or pop in for a chat.
C’mon Mums (and Dads if you think you can handle it!). Put your best foot foward for the pre-school. Get the year off to a great start, get fit and help a good cause in the process. Take part in the Stoke Goldinton 5km fun Run. (We’ll even organise training to help get you up to speed). Contact Judit Prime (01908 551694) for details and to get your sponsorship form today.
Afloat in a Lifeboat
It has been suggested that I put forward an anonymous hysterical rant – Mr and Mrs Farmer in February issue.
I must answer those charges one by one, the first is easiest for the piece carried my
usual GB subscript.
Let us understand that around Christmas
time politics enters into a phony war, a preliminary prelude to the May elections for which real campaigning begins in mid March. Mr and Mrs Farmer live in NP South where
the Lib-dems are anxious to retain one of their remaining toe holds and so Douglas McCall has recently appeared in Phonebox as Newport Councillor Corner.
At his time last year Sam Potts was playing a similar game, but Sam went down by some 400 votes! Phonebox magazine has always found space for all shades of opinion excepting only blasphemy and sedition.
The editor has never been asked to endorse my views, Ron Hall has always adopted a hands off stance. Yes, this is silly season so Douglass McCall may speak but dare anyone disagree with him.
Now to hysterical. Around the time of the Treaty of Rome I shared something of the dreams and hopes which were unfolding and
when Ted Heath invited us to join the Common Market I voted in favour.
Had we been told that we were to lose our fisheries and given some detail of the C.A.P. I might have voted otherwise. But Europe has grown and become a thoroughly nasty unelected bureaucracy.
My dream along with many others has become a nightmare within a house of cards which is soon to be blown away along with its artificial currency. Yes I shared the dream, I am not hysterical about this, to the contrary I am very very sad.
The likes of Merkel and Sarkozy pretend that they cannot fail. People of their ilk would have advised us to stay aboard the Titanic. GB
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