e-mail: catherinelcorkery@yahoo.co.uk. Closing date for applications: Friday 9th August. Hanging fee - £2.00 per painting (fees waived for artwork by children under 16). Entry for visitors £2 (children under 1 6 free). Light refreshments available each day Proceeds in aid of Church funds, and in support of our link missionaries, Dick & Caroline Seed in Kenya.
Belfry News @ St Peter & St Paul, Olney
Saturday 31stAugust, from 11.00 to
Visiting ringers from Shambrook will ring the bells at St Peter & St Paul, Olney.
Olney and District Historical Society @ the Main Hall, Olney Centre, High Street, Olney
August - ODHS Summer Outing - Please get in contact for details.
Coffee Morning and Table Top Sale @ Westbury Grange
Saturday 7th September 10 00am to 12 noon.
In the Limes Atrium (next to Westbury Grange).
Newport Pagnell Horticultural Show @ United Reformed Church, High Street, Newport Pagnell
Saturday 7th September
NADFAS - Local branch of North Bucks DFAS @ Lovat Hall, Silver Street, Newport Pagnell on the second Thursday of each month. We are a friendly society and would be pleased to meet you at one of our lectures. Wealsoholdspecialinterest days and have visits, the next being to the Pompeii exhibition at the British Museum. Further details at www.northbucksdfas.co.uk
Times of Meetings: Coffee at 10.15, chairman's notices 10.50; lecture 11am. Thursday 12th September: Professor Andrew hopkins - The Sacred Spaces of St Peter's in Rome. Info:
Professor Hopkins was the Assistant Director of the British School in Rome until 2002 and since 2004 is the Associate Professor at the University of L'Aquila. Part of his PhD on Venetian architecture was awarded the Essay Medal by the Society of
Architectural Historians (GB). He was a Fellow at Harvard University's Villa I Tatti in Florence and in 2009 was the Paul Mellon Senior Visiting Fellow at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. He has also written books on The Origins of Baroque Art in Rome and Baldassare Longhena and the Venetian Baroque.
Lavendon Annual Village Show on Saturday 14th September Schedules are available in the Village Shop, the Green Man, the Horseshoe and other outlets in and around Lavendon and on line at www.lavendonconnection.com
Have your Say Meetings: NAG @ Costa Coffee
Every fourth Monday at 10.30am NAG with Tina Lewington, your local Police Community Support Officer. You can discuss local issues and concerns. The next meeting will be held on Monday 23rd September.
Hackleton and District Wl's Annual Community Project 2013
The Roman Challenge Mountain Bike Event
www.romanchallenge.co.uk
Book early as places are limited Sunday 1 3th October 8am-5pm. Adules £15; 5 to 1 6 years £5. Under 5s free.
Choose from three circular routes departing from Hackleton Village Hall. • Family route - suitable for children, 8 miles around Salcey Forest.
• Chariot Route - 22 miles for those who like more of a challenge. •GladiatorRoute-30miles,a tougher ride for the more experienced cyclists plus some extra miles around Milton Keynes if you wish to ride the Maximus. Superb ploughmans and WI home-made cakes included for all entrants.
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