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Groby & Field Head Spotlight • MID-APRIL 2019 • Tel: 01530 244069 • Email: info@grobyspotlight.co.uk
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NEXT ISSUE OUT ON: 18th May 2019 DEADLINE: 4th May 2019
Groby Community Library News A Happy Easter to you all.
Annual General Meeting
and ‘you’re not scared’. There will be reward for completed sheets back at the library. Why not pop in to the café for a drink and cake after you’ve been exploring. Craft session - Tuesday 16th 10.00-12.00pm, we will have an Easter themed craft session. 50p per child. Construction - Following the success of our first construction session we’re having another one on Wednesday 17th April 2.304.30pm. Any donations of Lego will be very welcome. World Book Night is on Tuesday 23rd April. Did you know that this is the date that Shakespeare was born and died? It’s also St George’s Day. We don’t have any World Book day books to give away this year but we have lots of books for our Book Sale or Swap.
The AGM was held at 7:30pm on Tuesday 19th March. The minutes of the meeting and income and expenditure accounts for 2018/9 are available in the library. Refreshment were provided by the Stamford Arms.
New Trustees Needed
At the AGM the Chairman Janet Bishop resigned and stood down as a Trustee. The remaining six trustees are: Christine Fowler, Janet Harrison(Vice Chairman) John Martin, David Robinson Roz Smith(Secretary) and Sue Yates(Treasurer). There are approximately 6,000 residents of Groby and six of us - we’re a very small committee doing a big job. To ensure the future of the Library and provide Groby with a safe and social asset, we need more help. We are in need of up to 4 more Trustees. If you think you would like to help run the Library and Café, please leave your details at the Library desk or email: volunteers@grobylibrary.co.uk You will be very welcome to join us. Being a Trustee is a very rewarding and interesting activity. There’s a lot going on at the library over the Easter holidays Janet Bishop may not be continuing as a Trustee but she is not leaving Groby Community Library. Janet will be running lots of Children’s activities.
We’re going on a ... nature hunt! IT’S THE 30th anniversary of the much loved children’s book ‘We’re going on a bear hunt’ but there are not many bears in Groby! Come down to the library during the Easter holidays Monday 15thSaturday 27th April to take part in the Great Groby Nature Hunt in the Meadow. Collect your Hunt sheet from the library for £1 each and see what you can find. ‘Swishy swashy’, ‘Squelch squerch’ but watch out for bears! Let’s hope it’s a ‘beautiful day’
MONSTACADEMY! Do you want to see and hear a real author in person? Do come along on Wednesday 24th April 2.30-3.30pm to meet local author Matt Beighton who will be presenting ‘Story time with a difference!’ It’s exciting and interactive. Children’s tombola - We will be having a children’s tombola with some great prizes to win. Tickets 50p each or 3 for £1. For all activities children must be accompanied by an adult.
Dr. Janet Harrison Vice Chair, Groby Community Library.
Fair Trade Lucky Dip at the Co-op THE CO-OPERATIVE Food Store, Laundon Way generously hosted a Fair Trade Lucky Dip during Fair Trade Fortnight recently. Sean, the manager, provided a display of the large range of Fair Trade items now stocked. Alongside the more well-known Fairly Traded tea, coffee, and chocolate, the store sells sugar, wine, roses, bananas and even tomatoes. After finishing their shopping, customers were invited by the Churches Together in Groby volunteers to take a ticket and try to win one of the many prizes donated by the co-op. At Groby Tasters, hosted at the United Reformed Church a week later, more lucky guests enjoyed Fair Trade prizes whilst relaxing over their breakfast treats with friends. The real winners of Fair Trade are undoubtedly the farmers who receive fair payments for their work in producing our food and flowers. Sean and the volunteers present roses to lucky winners. We invite you to buy these products all year round. Jane Cox on behalf of Churches Together for Justice
As I get older and remember all the people I’ve lost along the way, maybe a career as a tour guide wasn’t for me.