The Village Edition, February 2025

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Making More Than Just Sawdust

The Hadleigh Men’s Shed is more than just a workshop - it’s a hub of creativity, camaraderie and community spirit. Our group comes together to share skills, learn new ones and produce a variety of handcrafted items that not only bring joy to their makers but can also bene t the wider community. ood is at the heart of many of our projects and while we joke that we are experts at making sawdust, we do make some nice items; bird boxes, planters, wooden toys and much more. None of us are experts, but there is enough shared experience to turn our hands to anything. e are also proud to give old items a new lease on life. e up-cycle items like old tools and refurbish cherished heirlooms.

These projects not only reduce waste but also preserve stories and memories.

hile many of our projects are practical, we also embrace the artistic side of making. Members experiment with carving, pyrography and other crafts, producing unique decorative pieces. These projects allow members to explore their creative potential.

Though the tangible items we make are impressive, the real “product” of the Hadleigh Men’s Shed is the friendships and connections forged along the way. orking side by side, sharing advice and celebrating accomplishments bring us together, helping to combat isolation and foster Continues p2

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a sense of belonging. If you’re curious about what we make, or if you’d like to make something with us, then why not pop in for a visit?

hether you’re an experienced maker or a complete novice, there’s a place for you at the Hadleigh Men’s Shed. Together, we can continue creating not just items but also a stronger, more connected community.

Wali Noori

ali is a remarkable man, n fghan patriot who on leaving school at 18 wanted to do something to help his family survive in his war-torn countryas simple as putting food on the table. He got employment with the British rmy as an Interpreter which included guidance to the cultural aspects of the fghans. nlike the British soldiers, who had rest periods between patrols, ali was in constant action. fter months in-post he was blown up by a landmine with horri c results wounded and blinded. He was extracted and now lives in Colchester.

ithout sight he nally found something to occupy his time and returned to his hobby of running. s a result he has won many medals including Gold at the Invictus Games.

Come and hear his extraordinary story of determination that has proved what can be achieve against all the odds. The Pavilion, Raydon, 14 March, 7 for 7.30pm. Price £12 including wine/snacks.

GoStart Team Update

Editor: Jason Holder 01473 823366 comnews@keithavis.co.uk

To place an advert: Matt Barber 01473 823366 Mobile: 07799 313838 matt@keithavis.co.uk

Jonathan Moore joins as General Manager and recruitment for an administrative assistant begins. Sudbury’s community transport charity, GoStart, is excited to welcome Jonathan into our team. Jonathan brings a wide range of experience from organisations such as the National Council for Voluntary Organisations and is already getting to grips with our mission to get people to important medical, appointments, shops and social events, in our specially adapted busses.

s we plan for the retirement of a key member of the team, GoStart is looking for an dministrative ssistant. The role will be part time and based in our Sudbury o ce.

If you, or someone you know, would like to nd out more about this position or volunteering as a driver or passenger assistant, or if we can help you with a journey, please get in touch at 01787 242116, GoStart. ct@gmail.com or visit GoStart.org.uk.

HADLEIGH NATURALISTS SOCIETY

Winter Programme 2025

Monday 3 February

7.30pm - Wild Flowers of the Italian Dolomites - Roger and Tina Loose

Monday 3 March

7.30pm - Ladybirds Adrian Knowles

Meetings held in the Seminar Room upstairs in Hadleigh Library. Visitors £3.

Saturday 12 April

10am-noon - Annual Spring Fayre - Ansell Centre, Hadleigh

Exciting News from Elmsett and Aldham!

e are aware that lots of people from Hadleigh and surrounding villages came across to lmsett to use the shop and post o ce. Since the complete closure of the shop in March 2024 a group have been meeting regularly to look at the viability of setting up a community shop and, after a considerable amount of research, we are pleased to say that we decided to go ahead with the project.

The structure was already in place, a store area at the back of our Village Hall, and this has now been completely refurbished to bring it up to the standard a shop requires.

Of course there are huge nancial implications to this and we ideally need to raise £ 0,000 to enable us to open. e are registered as a Community Bene t Society which means that we can o er shares for sale as an additional way of fundraising. Shares are available at £1 each with a minimum of £10 purchase so if you are interested in investing please email us and we will get a Shares Booklet to you. elmsettcommunityshop@gmail.com. If you would prefer a hard copy lets us know your address and we can deliver to the door!

Our fundraising team have been putting busy putting on Bingo and ui nights and a huge Christmas Ra e, all of which have been very successful thanks to the support and generosity of villagers. e are very much hoping that the shop will soon be open very soon with our part-time manager, supported by a group of willing volunteers! atch this space!

Hadleigh Garden Club

t our Christmas Meeting we held our annual quiz which was cleverly put together by committee members Fiona and Nicola. Questions were general knowledge which also included some questions about Hadleigh and Lavenham to which the answers gave us interesting local information. There was of course a few gardening related questions and a much enjoyed music recognition section. This was an informal fun evening with lots of laughter and a nger bu et and mulled wine provided by the Committee. Each month the competition is won by the person with the most votes and at the Christmas Meeting the “ ggregate inner over the ear” was Carole Cranston who produced some excellent entries. Carole was presented with the trophy by Maggie Miller, (Chairperson) and will keep this for the following twelve months.

The super Christmas ra e prize of a hamper was won by Jan Moyes. Our next meeting will be on Monday 17 February at 7.30 pm in the Guild Room opposite St. Mary’s Church. The speaker will be The Plantsman in Residence at Beth Chatto Gardens talking about Bees, Bugs and Rewilding.

The competition is “ vase of Hellebores”. There will be the usual ra e, tea/co ee and natter. Members £2 per meeting and visitors are welcome for a fee of £4 per meeting.

Female reindeers, bowling and fantasy dreams

ell Christmas has long gone leaving many bowlers looking forward to their presents coming later in the year. They’re the ones who wrote their lists for the man in red with dreams like “Please, please let me win something this year” or “ t least let me beat Christine, i and Sue for once”. Sadly I suspect some will be disappointed and demanding their carrot and glass of brandy back, but too late my friends, the man in red left the building weeks ago. Meanwhile indoor bowling carries on with Spinners and eavers winning more league games and dangerously close to doing well. Come on boys and girls….. getting our hopes up? ou know better than that. nd since we’re still in post Christmas trauma recovery, did you know that male deer shed their antlers in autumn, and that only female deer keep theirs in winter. Makes you wonder who was pulling Santa’s sled, eh? I’ll leave you to comment on who does the work and who gets the credit. But it‘ll be no time before Spring, warmth and the new outdoor season’s upon us and bowlers can at last smile again. ell, maybe apart from the bowlers who wrote those begging letters to Father Christmas.

Meantime, if you fancy a try, do contact either of the members below who will arrange it for you:

gets o to a great start at Travel Stop

e are delighted to have, at long last, reopened the doors to our Hadleigh shop full time (Monday to Saturday 9.30am to 5pm) and have been thrilled with the number of people popping in to say hello and to comment on our re-decoration! nd we have been kept busy with so many of you kicking the New ear o either researching exciting holiday plans or making bookings for 2025 and even 2026!

Following our well-attended series of specialist client presentations in 2024, we are continuing with a variety of events planned for 2025. e are particularly excited to have our colleague from ‘Inside Japan’ joining us on ednesday 26 February to give a presentation on the many options they o er guests wanting to ‘get beneath the surface’ of Japan. Charlie Orr who, prior to joining the ‘Inside Japan’ team, lived and worked in Japan for several years and has his rst-hand knowledge of the country, along with the ‘must-do’s’ to share with you.

‘Inside Japan’ was founded with the speci c intention of sharing their ‘love of Japan’ which they call their ikigai (the Japanese word for ‘reason for being’), focusing on both the popular and the little-known aspects of Japanese culture. In the presentation, Charlie will bring to life a trip to this extraordinary country and tell us about how they create tailormade travel packages for independent travellers and also present in depth information of some of the small group travel tours that they o er. There will be two presentations to choose from: 4pm and 6pm.

Making Sense of Fruit Trees

s I sit here making plans to transform my bare garden (and by bare, I mean the uneven sea of grass the landscape contractors presented us with when we moved into our new house last year), my mind drifts to fruit trees. I have always loved the exciting wait for juicy fruits, from watching the bees pollinate the newly opened owers, to seeing the little fruitlets swell and ultimately change colour. I think every garden deserves a fruit tree, for there is nothing like the excitement of harvesting and eating your very own ripe fruit!

In the , the most commonly cultivated fruit trees can be separated into stone fruit and pome (or core) fruit. The rst one’s name says it all, fruit that has a stone inside like peaches, apricots, plums or damsons these bene t from pruning right after the harvesting period around late Summer, when the weather is dry and mild (although some years that might prove di cult to wait for under our British weather…). This is to avoid the silver leaf disease infecting or spreading through the cuts made while pruning, as the spores of this fungal disease actively spread during the winter months.

Pome fruit are your apples, pears and quinces and these trees bene t from being pruned two times a year: once in summer and another in winter. round July, it’s bene cial to restrict the growth of the new shoots so the tree can redirect its energy to the fruits instead of growing out of reach (it also helps to control pest populations, aka aphids, as they like to concentrate on the juicy, tender tips). This can be done by pruning all new growth in half. Then, in winter, you should give your trees a proper prune, taking out any damaged or diseased wood and pruning to encourage the development of fruit spurs (the swollen buds that will develop into owers and consequently into fruits). This is done by pruning all growth back to one or two leaf buds from the branch’s base. Of course, this is all simple enough (is it?!) if we’re dealing with a young or well-managed mature tree it can all become a bit more complex otherwise. nd don’t get me started on cordons, espaliers and fantrained trees that’s a whole di erent game! But if you have no clue what to do with your fruit trees or are too afraid to make that rst cut, hold your secateurs now is the perfect time to give a professional a call for some advice.

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The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru

There has been considerable coverage in recent weeks, both in the press and on ITV news, about a documentary called The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru.

The poignant lm, directed by Fang Li, sheds light on a forgotten chapter of orld ar II. In October 1942, the Lisbon Maru (a Japanese transport ship secretly carrying over 1,800 British prisoners of war) was torpedoed o the coast of China by an merican submarine unaware of its human cargo.

Through rare archival footage, survivor testimonies, and expert interviews, the documentary uncovers the harrowing journey of the prisoners as the ship began to sink, leaving them trapped below deck.

The lm also highlights local Chinese shermen who risked their lives to rescue as many prisoners as they could.

Many men from the Su olk, Cambridgeshire and Norfolk Regiments found themselves PO s in the hands of the Japanese army - amongst them my father. I felt this lm would be of special appeal to their families or indeed anyone with an interest in this, often forgotten, period of history.

Thanks to the lm’s distributor, O ton illisham Village Hall have been granted permission to screen the lm at our village hall on Friday, pril 11, 2025.

e will be raising funds for the Lisbon Maru Memorial ssociation. Tickets are £5, and may be booked via ticketsource.co.uk (search O ton illisham Village Hall) or from James Crickmore on 07900 266145.

East Anglia Potato Day

Potato ay is returning to Otley College (Su olk Rural) for the third year. e will have 40 varieties of Scottish Seed Potato available to buy per tuber as well as a variety of stalls including Tamar Seeds, Onion Sets,Master Composters, Bee-keepers, Street Forge orkshops, BTO, llotment ssoc, Ipswich ildlife Trust, Seedswap, Su olkTree ardens, Climate Change Gardening and Refreshments.

Bob Flowerdew, President of Norfolk Organic Gardening Club and Radio 4's 'Gardeners Question Time' organic gardener, and will also be on hand to answer gardener's questions.

E P is organised by volunteers from three organic gardening clubs and 2025 will be our 28th year. list of the varieties ordered is on the website. If you have six pots on your patio, you can have a di erent variety for eachpot and only buy six tubers!

Hadleigh and District Flower Club

The ecember meeting, which now seems a long time ago was enjoyed by many members and friends. rinks and mince pies were served and the beautiful arrangements by Jane and Janet gave us much to look forward to for Christmas. They are very popular with our club and always gives us a fun evening.

Next month the committee will be demonstrating, which is always good to watch. e welcome anyone that wishes to come along and enjoy the evening with us. s usual it will be at the RC at 7.30 pm on Tuesday 11. February. e wish all members and friends a very happy and healthy new year and lookf orward to seeing you in February.

Hadleigh Walkers

Our walk on Saturday 8 February will be a circular one of 10 miles starting at Somersham. e will leave from the uke of Marlborough at 9.30 am and proceed on a clockwise direction via errick Hill, Crow Hall, Cha nch ood, Lt Blakenham Hall and Somersham Park. The distance of the entire route is around 10 miles and we should be back in Hadleigh around 1.30 pm.

e aim to maintain a not-too-demanding 2.5 mph (4 km/hr). alkers should be aware that any weather is possible so strong shoes or preferably walking boots should be worn as the ground will be muddy or rough in places. Everyone is welcome, including well-behaved dogs. It may be of interest to know that The uke of Marlborough pub serves breakfast from 8.30 am on Saturdays. Of course they will also be open for refeshments when returning from the walk!

s usual, route maps can be requested from the website.

THE SEARCH FOR CEDRIC MORRIS’S IRISES

Sarah Cook & Jim Marshall

Hadleigh Old School Welcomes A Plant Detective & Live Theatre This March

Hadleigh Old School, the arts and entertainment venue, at 3-5 Bridge Street Hadleigh (IP7 6B ) will be hosting two ticketed events in March. The rst a special talk by renowned gardener Sarah Cook, and the second the return of leading Su olk theatre company Eastern ngles with an original play Sophia: Princess, Su ragette, Sister.

‘The Search for Cedric Morris’s Irises’: Told by Sarah Cook The Horticulturalist etective and her plantsman husband Jim Marshall, at 7pm on Thursday 13th March 2025.

chance nd at the gardens of Sissinghurst led Head Gardener, Sarah Cook, to develop a passion for the tall bearded irises propagated by Cedric Morris at Benton End in Hadleigh. There in her rst winter she saw a label for Iris ‘Benton Nigel’ and it made her think of home.

hen Sarah was a child in the 1950s, growing up in Hadleigh she visited Benton End on open days for the Red Cross. t the time Cedric Morris was a world-famous plantsman, credited with breeding the rst ‘truly pink’ irises, including one called ‘Strathmore’, as well as being a renowned artist and co-founder of the East nglian School of Painting and drawing with his partner rthur Lett-Haines. But by the time Sarah retired from her duties at Sissinghurst in 2004, some 30 years after Cedric’s passing, many of his Irises were lost.

Sarah will recount how she tracked down the missing cultivars, with a hunt that took her around the world. She will also give an insight into Morris’s plant breeding skills that, produced 1,000 seedlings per year. long the way, repatriating over 30 of Cedric’s 90 named Irises, including ‘Benton Baggage’ named after a cat, Sarah has scaled the heights of British horticulture. Sarah’s husband Jim, enlisted Howard Nurseries to grow the irises commercially and together they took their discoveries to the Chelsea Flower Show in 2015, winning a gold medal. Sarah has also established the Plant Heritage Historic Collection of Iris (Sir Cedric Morris introductions).

fter the talk, Sarah and Jim will be able to take questions on where to acquire and how to grow Irises, as well as some of the many other plants in their care.

‘Sophia’ by Hannah umani is a new play performed by Eastern ngles Theatre Company. Sophia uleep Singh was born into royalty and grew up to be a revolutionary. Sophia’s father was the last Maharajah of Punjab, dethroned by the British as a child and exiled to England. The family made a home in Elveden in Su olk, until bankruptcy and a new mistress swayed the dispossessed Maharajah to make a secret new life abroad and plot to take back his kingdom.

Back in England, the young Princess faces years of loss and mourning before embarking on a lifechanging journey to her family’s homeland in India. Returning with a bold new sense of bravery, Sophia uses her status to become a beacon in the ght for women’s su rage and Indian independence.

Hadleigh Old School, 3-5 Bridge Street, Hadleigh, Suffolk IP7 6BY

Ready, Steady, Grow Your Dough!

My iSH Charity’s Grow our ough is back for 2025 and we are looking for teams to sign up and join us as we see who can ‘rise’ to the challenge of this imaginative event.

Last year Grow our ough raised more than £31,000, which helped us provide an activity coordinator for elderly patients, many of whom live with dementia. Gemma, who is now working on G4, is making a remarkable impact with both patients and sta every day. So, this year we are asking teams what service they want to support. Each team will receive a £50 starter donation, thanks to our sponsors, nights Lowe, and will have three months to prove themselves as the ultimate Grow our ough champions!

Fundraising o cer, Tanya Fi eld, is the event organiser and said: “Our teams were just brilliant last year. They found so many innovative ways to raise money. Clarkes of Walsham based their fundrais-

and The Big Fat Quiz of the Year. Quality Eats in Moreton Hall held a host of fundraisers including a quiz night and the Bury Town FC bar

The event will run from 1 pril to 30 June and entry is free. Teams can be businesses, schools, family and friends or it can even be an individual challenge. There will be four trophies up for grabs: Most ough Raised, Community Engagement, Most Creative Fundraising and Most edicated Team.

Tanya added: “This event couldn’t take place without the support of Knights Lowe. We can’t thank them enough for supporting us for a second year. We know they were as thrilled as we were with the

irk Vaughan, director at nights Lowe, said: of the brand new ‘Grow Your Dough’ event and thanks to its overwhelming success, we are delighted to sponsor it again for 2025! This year, teams can choose exactly where they would like to support. This could mean they fundraise for our iSH pon Star Children’s ppeal, our iSHing ell ppeal which enhances adult care, or maybe they want to choose a speci c ward such as the Stroke nit or the Macmillan Cancer nit. The choice is theirs, what they raise is open to how creative they can be, but the di erence they make will be huge.

Doors

CHRIS COULL’S BLUE NOTE SEXTET

Chris Coull  – Trumpet, Andy Panayi – Sax, Mark Bassey – Trombone

Terry Seabrook – Piano, Dan Sheppard – Bass, Peter Cater – Drums

WED 26th February 2025     8pm      Price £20

TRISTAN BANKS:  VIEW FROM ABOVE

Tristan Banks – Drums, Paul Booth – Tenor sax John Crawford –  Piano, Davide Mantovani – Bass

Hadleigh and Boxford Patient Particpation Group (PPG)

Need a doctor when the Health Centre is closed, including weekends? Call 111 for advice and details of your nearest ‘out of hours’ duty doctor.

In 2025 all GP Practices nationally are contractually required to adopt digital consultations to improve patient access to services. On 29January ’25 the Hadleigh Boxford Group Practice introduced nima, a secure and easy to use online system to help patients get the care they need more quickly and conveniently. nima seamlessly and con dentially integrates with your medical record bringing improvements to how you request appointments and how our sta assess your condition.

nima allows our team to continue to improve access times by helping us to direct you to the most appropriate care for your medical needs. This ensures we make use of our limited resources in the most safe and e cient way. ll appointments will continue to be o ered according to the clinical urgency and need. By this triage system, it means that patients will manage more equitably and e ectively, connecting our patients e ciently to the right person for the right service.

Patients can register with nima via the surgery website, by using your NHS app login details or create your own unique nima username and password. t the moment each patient needs their own email address. shared address will not be accepted. o not worry if you do not have access to a computer or the internet or you are unable to register yourself , if you telephone the surgery a care navigator will complete the form on your behalf.

ll requests for an urgent on the day appointment, a routine GP appointment, home visit or a mediation review can be submitted online. ppointments for nurses and blood tests etc. can still be arranged over the telephone.

lthough the Practice appreciates change can feel unsettling, especially for those less familiar with technology, as more patients use nima it will reduce demand on the phone lines, making contact easier for all. This is a massive undertaking and there may be some teething problems as the Practice implements the changes. Please be patient during this time. If you have to use the Babergh’s Toppes eld Car Park when you have a Health Centre appointment you can register your car inside the Practice and have 2 hours free parking. The relevant machine is inside the Practice near the medical memorabilia cabinets. This only applies to patients visiting the Practice for an appointment or medication. Blue badge holders do not have to pay but must clearly display their badge.

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111 also online www.111.nhs.uk www.nhs.uk/nhs-app www.hadleighhealth.co.uk/opening-hours www.hadleighhealth.co.uk www.facebook.com/Hadleigh-BoxfordGroup-Practice102959274690621/ www.hadleighhealth.co.uk/anima or www.animahealth.com/patients Jan evey deveys@btinterenet.com 01473 827091 or 07881 798999

Claiming a piece of registered land by occupying it

e have all heard of ‘squatters rights’ and, indeed, the high-pro le cases which go with it whereby someone had occupied a rather nice house for long enough, and then been able to go on and claim it as their own. This is all based on an area of law which is referred to as dverse Possession that is, being in occupation of a piece of land to the exclusion of the true paper owner for long enough to obtain some sort of legal title to it.

here the land is registered, the occupier needs to show that they have been in occupation for 10 years or more. They must also show a reasonable belief that the land belongs to them. hen the Land Registration ct 2002 came into force, the intention was that it made it much harder to bring a successful claim. This is because where the land being claimed is registered and an application has been made, HM Land Registry will then notify the registered owner. If the registered owner objects, the occupier can only succeed when very limited circumstances apply.

There is still a reasonable amount of land in the Mid Su olk area that has not yet been registered for one reason or another. Broadly speaking, if a property has not been sold since 1990, it has not been compulsory to register it at HM Land Registry (and where property has just been transferred by way of gift, this only applies since 1997). One of the reasons that we advise clients to think about registering their land, where it is not, is that it makes it much more di cult for someone else to occupy part or all of it and then make a claim.

Home Visits - no stress!

POLSTEAD FILMS

Small Things Like These

Friday 21 February at Polstead Village Hall - Doors open 7 pm

The film starts at 7.30pm and will finish at around 9.30pm

Starring Cillian Murphy and Emily Watson. Small Things Like These, a sensitive, beautifully shot and quietly moving adaptation of Claire Keegan’s acclaimed novel, about one man’s stand against the evils of Ireland’s infamous Magdalene laundries, the church’s homes for unwed mothers.

“It tells its story in a gentle but powerful way.”

“Cillian Murphy is exceptional as a man wrestling with his church and his conscience.”

or buy in Polstead Community Shop

All proceeds in aid of Polstead Village Hall Charity No. 304933

LPAs – Home owners alert

e have written hundreds of LP s (Lasting Powers of ttorney) for clients over recent years. People say they are more important than ills and it’s true that not having an LP can hurt you nancially in your lifetime if you are a property owner.

Nowadays, people tend to live longer lives and this sadly increases the possibility that mental capacity will be lost with old age. Here is a real life recent example:

Two elderly couples lived in neighbouring houses but they needed to downsize. Let’s call them the Smiths and the Blacks. In each case the wife had sadly lost mental capacity. The Smiths had LP s for property and nance, registered with the Public Guardian. Their daughter (their appointed attorney) automatically took the place of her mother, whose loss of capacity had prevented her from signing legal documents or managing the bank account. The Smiths happily downsized within six weeks.

The Blacks did not have LP s and because Mrs Black had lost mental capacity it was too late for her to sign an LP . Instead, the Blacks had to postpone their plans to downsize. They took the only available choice, an application to the Court of Protection to appoint a guardian in place of an attorney. This involved an unwelcome year’s delay and endless worry, capped by Court and Guardianship fees in thousands of pounds.

This explains why our very strong advice is that every property owning client (whether the ownership is sole or joint) must sign an LP now for Property and Finance.

The second type of LP which deals with Health and Care is normally required when a person is moving to a care home or requires help with care including daily routine, medical treatments and decision making about life sustaining treatment.

Both types of LP are around 20 pages and in quite similar form. They have to be completed accurately (like passport applications) and certi ed by us that the donor (‘the applicant’) understands the LP , has not been put under pressure to make it and that the LP has not been completed fraudulently.

Every LP only becomes a valid legal document once it has been scrutinised and formally approved by the O ce of the Public Guardian. Because of the volume of LP applications sent for registration (around 1,000 per day) the Public Guardian’s o ce is not slow to reject applications which fall short of their requirements for accuracy. e submit each registration application as soon as the LP has been signed and witnessed and the validated LP is returned to us within 2-3 months. e check it and then send it to the client for safe keeping until it needs to be activated.

LP s are hugely bene cial because they enable you to appoint your own team to look after your a airs and always act in your best interests when you get too old or frail. Once registered, LP s continue to be e ective despite any loss of the applicant’s mental capacity.

I’m setting out some of the queries which we typically get:

•How many attorneys? sually 2 to 4 selected from your spouse or partner, children, other relative or good friend. void any ‘new’ business approach there is a trend for people searching for fees trying to worm their way into LP s.

•Any comments about the attorneys? Try to select one from the next generation. lso it’s preferable if one of the attorneys is based locally. ppoint the attorneys on a joint and several basis so that whoever is available can take decisions in the absence of others.

•What information is needed about them? Their (and the applicant’s) full names, addresses and dates of birth.

•When should the LPA be signed? Before the applicant starts losing mental capacity (years before that is O but a last minute signing could be challenged).

•What will it cost? e currently charge £300 per LP and its registration and the OPG’s fee is £82. There is no V T on these fees.

•Are home visits available? es. They can be arranged locally with no extra charges. Just phone 01206 263420 or email trevordodwell@aol.com.

Spear Plumbing

avid Spraggons, sole irector of Spear Plumbing Ltd, has been working in the plumbing industry since leaving school at 16 after following in his father’s footsteps. He has over 30 years plumbing experience having worked for a local rm for 10 years where he carried out his apprenticeship. t 18 he came runner up as apprentice of the year.

avid prides himself on his high standards having been taught the correct ways of the trade. His philosophy is to treat customer’s homes like he does his own. He is meticulous in his trade and leaves customer’s homes clean and tidy as he nds them.

He works with both Huws Gray and Plumbmate, local merchants based in Hadleigh. Both have their own showrooms and a wealth of experience in products, ensuring only quality materials are supplied. free design service can also be provided.

In addition to his bathroom renovations, avid is a fully quali ed registered gas safe engineer of more than 20 years and carries out gas and oil boiler installations. He is NIC EIC accredited in energy e cient heating systems, water regulations and unvented hot water systems

He has built an outstanding reputation for his bathroom refurbishments in Hadleigh and the surrounding villages and most of his work comes from existing customers recommending him. He can o er basic installations to a full upgrade including plastering, electrics and ooring working with a team of fully quali ed experts in the appropriate elds.

Renewables and under oor heating are also on his list of expertise, for which he is an approved N -Heat renewable and under oor heating installer. The smaller plumbing jobs must also not be forgotten such as changing a set of taps, changing a ball valve or installing a washing machine, for which avid is more than happy to assist with.

Telephone & request a brochure or book a free demonstration

French’s Care Haven

Hello to our readers, I hope as always you have all been keeping well. date for your diary: Friday 28 February 7pm at The Fleece in Boxford for a curry night, £16pp veg and meat choice, desserts included. To book your table for a good night with tasty food, Please contact Sharon at: Frenchs.100club@gmail.com or call her on: 07999051401. If you are single that’s ne you can join us on a table.

Pictured this month is George who is 14yrs old and in ear 10 at Hadleigh High School, he has just nished his 10 weeks with us doing his uke of Edinburgh awards. George helped with maintenance and general all round jobs at the rescue. In the photo with George is Brian, who is 82 years old and a great help to us as a volunteer. Teens can do their awards with us and choose to either help with maintenance and odd jobs or work with our rescued animals. So if you have a teenager in your family that would like to do their awards with us, let their high school know and then contact us.

Our Christmas ra e went well and we reached our target this year of tickets sold, we had some great prizes and would like to thank some of the companies who gave the prizes to us. They are: Stoke by Nayland Golf and Spa, Riverhill Spa, Perrywoods, Go Banana’s, Jimmy’s Farm, didas Noble tattoo, Elsinorevet physio and Old Joe’s dventure golf. In the other photo is Coco our dear little boy who can be a cheeky monkey. Coco came to us in 2012 as a 3 year old who was no longer wanted by his owner and was going to be unnecessarily put to sleep. Reason being they said he had a heart murmur and could not be ridden so was of no use. I had his heart checked at our vets and they said there was not a problem. Coco has had 13 happy years with us and come to many events when we had a charity stand and at our care farm he was hacked out, which he enjoyed and also worked with vulnerable children and adults. For all our readers, please consider making a personal donation to us if you can. our help will keep us going in our time of nancial struggle, and would be very much appreciated by our team and of course our dear rescued animals. lso contact me if you would like any information about becoming part of our small team, caring for our lovely horses and donkeys, by either helping hands on with our animals or with our Fundraising.

Mar uis Su olk Fundraiser for Jude

Over Christmas, the owner of Marquis Su olk, Steven O’Leary chose to fundraise for a local family who’s 6 year old son su ers from a rare muscle disease called Nemaline Rod Myopathy. Jude has already been in two comas because of his condition and has various complications with his lungs and heart but his dream is to swim with dolphins which mean he needs substantial medial support to undertake such a trip. Steven and the team at Marquis Su olk are so proud to be able to support this cause and make a di erence for Judes family.

Ed Seeley Gardens & Grounds

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Favourite of ing James 1 Chief Minister to Charles I, this talk throws light on the life and possessions of a beautiful man who surrounded himself with beautiful things.

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SECOND SATURDAY

EVENTS 2025

Elmsett ldham Village Hall, IP7 6P Co ee Mornings 10-12pm Craft Fairs 10am 1pm

8th March Community Co ee Morning

12th pril Easter Craft Market EE hunt

10th May Community Co ee Morning

14th June Indoor Craft Market

12th July Community Co ee Morning

9th ugust Community Co ee Morning T M

13th September Garage Sale around the village

11th October Indoor Craft Market

8th November Indoor Craft Market

13th ecember mas Community Craft Market.

Raising money for the new Elmsett & Aldham Community Shop and Cancer Research UK

Look out for more details of each event in your Village Magazine or on Facebook

How can you help end hygiene poverty in 2025?

2024 was a huge year for Toiletries mnesty. e reached 1000 directory members, supported nearly 6 million people, and our work spread across the globe, welcoming new organisations from the North merica, ustralia, Europe and more. e're really proud to have been able to support so many people in need, and look forward to doing the same this year.

Now that the holiday season is over, you might be looking around your home at all the things you've accumulated and be thinking 'what am I going to do with all this?'

ell, here's an option! If you've received some new goodies to replace existing products you own, or you've received ten soap gift sets and aren't sure what to do with them - why not donate? From toiletries, to jumpers, to electronics, there are organisations that would love to receive items for their communities. hile we might not be able to help you get rid of your old TV, we can de nitely help you make someone's day brighter by donating toiletries you don't need.

In January, Toiletries mnesty founder aren Harvey MBE was invested at Buckingham Palace and received an MBE from the ing, for services to those living in hygiene poverty, to considerate consumption and to the environment.

2024 has marked 10 years of Toiletries mnesty, a decade of hard work, a self-funded project, built from a couple of spare bottles of shampoo, now a global NGO giving millions of people access to the toiletries they need and diverting thousands of tonnes of beauty industry waste from land ll. Not a bad e ort!

Today we can celebrate and look back at what we’ve achieved, but we are also looking forward - what more can we do, and how can we fund it?

Bigger things coming in 2025. e hope you’ll be on board!

hether you’re an individual, a small business or a huge brand, there’s something all of us can do to get involved and make a huge di erence to the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in the and abroad and be kind to the planet at the same time.

Thank you,

The Toiletries Amnesty Team e in Elmsett and surrounding villages would like to continue to support this amazing cause. ou were so generous in 2024 and if you would like to continue to support or indeed haven’t had your clear out yet, please bring your unwanted toiletries, used or unused, down to our “Second Saturday” Co ee mornings / Craft markets starting on March 8th 2025 (see separate sheet for ongoing dates).

Hadleigh U3A

Our next monthly meeting will be on Monday 10 February, 2.30pm at the nited Reformed Church in Hadleigh. This month we have Roger Hance with a talk entitled, ‘ ildlife through the Seasons’.

If you are retired or semi-retired and would like to know more about the u3a and the events we run please feel free to come along to the talk, pick up some information and meet us all. Or contact us through our website at https://hadleigh-su olk.u3asite.uk

Community Indoor Craft

Market 2024

In 2024 we held 10 events including some new ideas some were successful and some we won’t be repeating because they didn’t seem to be as popular.

Jenny’s jewellery • Carol’s scented candles • Sharon’s cards and glass

Amy’s beautiful hand-drawn cards

Alison’s amazing gifts from Uganda

Julia’s Spotlight textile items • Sabrina’s Tropics range

Sue’s plants • Jan’s Jams

Philippa and Ali • Winnie Ward • Jackie & Jim Sefton

PCO Johnson and the TWAM team

Overall I was able to send £1,000.00 to support Cancer Research , so a huge thankyou to all who supported us.

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Citizens Advice

Join n us s at t St t Peter's s Church, , Monks s Eleigh, , to o hear r Joel l Cooper r & Tia a Eagle, , perform m an n enchanting g concert t of f British music, , and d favourites s from m musicals s & film

SATURDAY 8TH MARCH

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ou’ve done the right thing by reporting the issue to your letting agency. It’s not always easy to work out the cause of damp and mould, and your landlord might suggest that something you’re doing is contributing to it. However, your landlord will be responsible for the issue if it’s being caused by structural problems or disrepair such as a leaking roof or bad insulation.

amp is when an area of your property doesn’t dry out, often because it’s cold. amp can lead to mould, which is a fungus that grows in areas where warm damp air condenses on cold surfaces, like window frames. On our website you can nd information which will help you work out what type of damp you have, who is responsible and what you can do about it. ou should also check your tenancy agreement for mentions of repairs and damp.

our landlord is responsible for xing a damp problem if it’s making your home unsafe to live in. For example, this could be if it’s a ecting your health or the health of someone living in the property with you. our landlord will also be responsible if the damp is related to repairs they should have carried out, for example if the roof is damaged. They would also have to cover the cost of repairs to any items damaged by the damp, including carpets and furniture.

One of the things that can contribute to damp and mould is condensation. One of the best ways to prevent condensation is to keep homes well-heated and ventilated, but high heating costs and cold weather can make this di cult for lots of us. If you’re nding it hard to insulate and heat your home, check our website to see if you’re eligible for support.

There are steps you can take to make sure you’re not contributing to a damp problem, and making it worse. Our website has advice on what to avoid, like drying clothes on heaters, blocking air vents, or using portable gas heaters. However, showering, cooking, and laundry are the kinds of things everyone expects to be able to do in their homes. If the property can’t be heated and ventilated adequately to cope with normal day-to-day living activities, then it's the property that’s the problem, not your behaviour.

If your landlord is responsible for the damp in your home but doesn’t do anything about it, there are steps you can take, like reporting them to the local authority. nd as a private renter, if you’ve got evidence from a health professional that damp is making you ill, you may be able to get free legal advice through Legal id.

s a last resort, you might decide you just want to leave the property but getting out of a tenancy agreement early can be di cult. There’s information on our website about how to go about this but remember this can be hard and there might be things you haven’t tried yet.

Tickets available from Monks Eleigh Shop, Carol Bines (07875 088836), Jenny Hood (01449 741475), Pat Braithwaite (01449 740813)

St Mary’s Renewal - A Community Project

Key - RT: Renewal Team C of E: Church of England

The 28 ay Notice for the Heating and Lighting is on display on the church door. e hope to receive the sealed Faculty, by the end of February. Once the Faculty (the equivalent of C of E planning approval) has been granted, we can then order the heating and lighting units.

Our application for funding from the Su olk Historic Churches was successful so the fund-raising committee has been awarded a grant of £5,000. e have also just received £9,959 in Gift id. So that means with donations now received from all the pledges and committed grants our Heating Lighting Fund totals £100,952. This is an amazing sum and meets our dreams and aspirations when we started this project back in January 2024. Sincere thanks to all who have generously contributed to this impressive sum. It’s never too late to make a donation. avid Hoyle is the man to help you. See below for details.

e have two grant applications still being considered so we will share news of these when we know more. There is more good news. e have been invited to re-apply for emonstrator Church status. If successful, we would be the rst Church in this diocese to be granted this accolade as a trail blazer in moving our Church to a Carbon Net Zero footprint. Just by replacing those old gas heaters removes a staggering 6.589 tonnes of CO2 emissions a year. In addition to this prestigious status we would also be entitled to apply for a capital grant from the Church of England; up to 25% of the project costs and a further 17.9% of the project cost from The Benefact Trust.

The holes, left by the removal of the old Vestry, have been repaired. nishing coat will complete the work.

part from the special one-o events, Caf Church o ers a warm welcome and a drink to all ages every Friday morning. Come for a chat and treat yourself to one of ndrew’s delicious breakfasts or a piece of Jan’s traditional bread pudding. There is an added attraction on the rstFriday in every month when a variety of craft stalls appear laden with lots of attractive treasures. Happily, our relaxing lunchtime music recitals are returning this month and can be enjoyed on the 2 ednesday of every month thereafter. e hope you will support St Mary’s whenever you can and enjoy the company of others at the same time.

The Hadleigh Historian

Issue 86

(February – March 2025)

new occasional series is introduced by Mark Lawrence concerning buildings that were formerly public houses in Benton Street beginning with ‘ The ing’s rms or The Old Monkey’. Mark has already brought us accounts of wartime heroism, orld ar II’s rst R F casualty and the history of his home and its associated malting house, so this new series follows on with the thorough research that we have come to expect behind his writings. New to the pages of The Hadleigh Historian is Colin Botwright who, after a busy working life, has returned to the place of his birth. He has consulted many sources of information in order to trace his family history, which has so many branches as his grandfather had two wives and sixteen children. In ‘Tracing a Botwright family in Hadleigh’. Colin follows his own direct line back 250 years to the mid-18th century.

t the 2024 John Bloom eld Memorial Lecture for the Friends of St Mary’s Church Hadleigh, Mark Bailey spoke on ‘Coping with a Global Pandemic and Climate Change in Su olk and Hadleigh, 1300-1500’, which was much appreciated by the audience as there were many comparisons with events occurring in the world today. My report entitled ‘Professor Mark Bailey identi es a medieval Su olk commuter’ follows a consequence of the Black eath of 1349, the eventual breakdown of serfdom in England. One individual, ustin Crembell was highlighted by the speaker as the medieval Su olk commuter, who spent a period of his perambulations living in Hadleigh.

Members of Hadleigh Local Studies orkshop are currently researching the biographies of those people memorialised in St Mary’s Church, one such person being ‘John Gaell: rst mayor of Hadleigh’. Since 1571, the Chief Inhabitants has aspired to corporate status, which would give legitimacy to their governance of the town, which was eventually achieved in 1618. Eight men became aldermen of the borough from who John was selected as mayor. hen he died in 1642, his son George put up a memorial on one of the columns in the nave but by the mid-19th century, such plaques were thought to dis gure the building so it was moved to the north-aisle wall.

I have always been keen on sharing my research hence this magazine and now The Old Hadleigh Picture Show, in association with The ing Guthrum Group, gives me the opportunity to spread the word about Hadleigh’s history. There are to be two new shows held at the nsell Centre in the Market Place on Friday 21 March and Friday 9 May at 7.30pm. The rst will look at almost everything between the High Street and the river (with a few excursions) and the second will feature the turnings o High Street to the east.

Aldham Common Charity

Rowland Taylor Service of Commemoration

The 470th anniversary of the death of r Rowland Taylor, Hadleigh’s Protestant martyr, will be marked on February 9th with a service at St Mary’s Church, 3pm.

Rowland Taylor became Rector of Hadleigh in 1544 where the new Protestant reforms of Edward VI’s reign were adopted. However, when in 1553 Mary Tudor became Queen and re-instated the Roman Catholic religion, Taylor, and others, refused to give up the Protestant changes and beliefs. His arrest was ordered in March 1554 and in January 1555 he was excommunicated and sentenced to be burnt at the stake. He was returned to Hadleigh and on February 9th burnt on ldham Common. The Common was enclosed in 1729 with the income to be used for ‘the poor of Hadleigh’. Today, the ldham Common Charity administers the land and the money raised is distributed in grants.

ll are welcome to attend the service and join Trustees for tea and cakes after the service.

Second Saturday Events

Elmsett & Aldham 2025

s you will see from our schedule of planned events, this year we are raising money to support the opening and running of our new village shop. The Community Shop co ee mornings will be held in the village hall from 10-12 on March 8, May 10, July 12 and ugust 9th. t these events you will be warmly welcomed to join us for homemade refreshments and catch up with the latest development and o ers in the shop. If you have any ideas or items you have made and would like to sell to raise money for the shop, please get in touch. e will also be holding Indoor Craft Markets on 11 pril, 14 June, 11 October, 8th November and 13 ecember to continue our support for Cancer Research , where we will continue to serve homemade refreshments but also have amazing hand-made gifts for you to peruse, from local artisan crafters. t all the events we will continue to collect for the “Toiletries amnesty” as well as recycle batteries and “Jan’s Jams” jars. On 13th September we are planning another Garage Sale around Elmsett village so please look out for more details in your monthly news magazine.

Jan King 07712424901

Pauline, Tina and Sue (Second Saturday committee)

Community Shop Co ee Morning

Saturday 8th March, 10am - 12 noon

Elmsett & Aldham Village Hall, IP7 6PA

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Ebony’s Blog Life at The Shelley Centre

atching a Riding for the isabled session you may think all the horse has to do is walk round quietly and that it isn’t too physically demanding for them. This is far from the reality! They have to be able to stand square and as still as a rock while up to four people stand around them to mount one of our physically disabled riders. The horse may have to cope with wheelchairs and crutches nearby and having two people walking alongside whilst in use. It may have to cope with sudden noises or unexpected movements and walk freely and balanced even if the rider on top is far from balanced. They also need to be calm to handle and get on with other horses in close proximity, as well as being happy to be alone. ll this makes you realise that our R horses are very special.

Of course, we have to have a range of ponies and horses of di erent sizes to suit our child and adult riders. Many of the horses are not as young as they once were, having been with us for several years. For this reason they have regular visits from a specialist horse chiropracter and a massage therapist to keep them t and comfortable. The farrier comes to visit all the ponies every six weeks and we have vets available at short notice if any of the horses show signs of being unwell.

Our youngest horse, Ghost, is undergoing training and an introduction into R work. Firstly he was lead out to get used to tra c and other sights; then ridden out with other ponies, then introduced to working in the arena with all the equipment we use for our session and nally ridden in a session by one of our calmer more able riders. He is doing very well and will gradually be used more as appropriate.

ll this costs money and if you would like to support us, our rst fundraising event of the year is Cash Bingo on 1 February, 7-7.30pm at Hadleigh Football Club. £5 per ticket. Must be prebooked by contacting fundraisingshelleyrda@gmail.com.

Hadleigh Cricket Club

Happy New ear! e hope everyone is wintering well. It might not feel like cricket weather at the moment, but the new season will be here before you know it. To blow away those cobwebs senior winter nets start on 10 February at St Joseph's College, Ipswich, and continue for eight weeks every Monday night. Sessions run from 7-9.15pm and are open to existing and new members.

Ghost in the centre getting used to being ridden out with other ponies and coping with distractions such as the dog.

Hadleigh Society

From humble beginnings as the son of a local butcher, Thomas olsey, Ipswich’s greatest son became churchman, patron of the arts and England’s leading statesman in his service to ing Henry VIII over 14 years.

In his talk, Cardinal olsey The ntold Story, r Phil Roberts, history lecturer and author, explains how, thanks to olsey, his Lord Chancellor and friend, the ing played a greater role in European politic than had been seen for over a century.

olsey had extraordinary diplomatic and administrative skills helping him to ful l governmental roles equivalent to modern-day Prime Minister, Home Secretary, Foreign Secretary and all the other positions of o ce!

“You cannot understand Wolsey without Henry, but you cannot

Polstead Gardening Club

Our Spring season of meetings is starting in February and we have some very interesting speakers lined up:

Tuesday 11 February at 7.30pm: Snowdrops with Marc McHearne from Beth Chatto’s Gardens

Tuesday 18 March at 7.30 pm: Growing from Seeds with Peter Miller from ings Seeds, elvedon

e look forward to seeing you at the above events.

ll meetings will be at Polstead Village Hall on The Green in Polstead (CO6 5 L). Free to members. Non-members are welcome £5 (cash or cheque please). Entrance includes a drink and nibbles. Membership Subscriptions are due in February - Single Membership £20, Joint Membership £35. Queries to gardeningclubpolstead@yahoo.com.

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The club has some very exciting events coming up. e are looking for weekend kitchen support every Sunday (9am-12.30pm) when there is training and/or a home game.

• Prepare, serve and sell hot/cold drinks, snacks, breakfast rolls and post rugby match meals for our age grade teams

• Clean and tidy up working space/kitchen after use

Bildeston Carpet Bowls Club

Hello, it's me again, Brenda from Bildeston Carpet Bowls Club. I just cannot believe that I am already going to tell you about February's xtures. here is the time going?

e are still top of our league but still have a few tough matches to play, so who knows. Below is our xture list for February.

ednesday5th FebGreat Blakenhamaway Tuesday12th Febroll up (practice in Chamberlin Hall) Monday17th FebBurstallaway Tuesday25th Feb hat eldaway

e would still like to see some new members. Bowls is really a good game that keeps you t. Very competitive and is good fun. good social evening, good conversation with a very friendly group.

Lavenham Carpet Bowls Club

The rst Carpet Bowls session of 2025 was eagerly awaited by our members, and most of them were in attendance on ednesday 8January. e also had an merican visitor that day, who had own in from Japan. He is a S marine and was brought along by friends of his, who are members of the Club. good time was had by all as members and visitor got into the swing of Carpet Bowls. Visitors are always welcome at the Club, and the merican visitor, shown bowling, was fascinated that the round block in the middle of the mat, was called ‘the cheese’. He did manage to hit it a few times until he got the hang of using the natural bias of the bowls to avoid it.

If you would like to nd out how to miss ‘the cheese’ or more about Carpet Bowls, and even give it a try yourself, come along to one of our weekly sessions. e are at Lavenham Village Hall on ednesday afternoon 2pm until 4.30pm and Thursday evening 7pm until 9.30pm. First two sessions are free, so you can see how much fun it is! Look forward to seeing you.

Hadleigh Hares

The winter sees the Hares running predominately in the Su olk inter Cross Country League. Our second xture on 1 ecember 2024 took us to Sutton Heath near oodbridge. It was a bleak, drizzly day, but mild for the time of year. It was quite a treat to run on sandy tracks and paths instead of mud, but there were massive puddles to contend with while pigs watched us along the way.

den Bell (31:37) nished overall in 18th place. Close behind him came Stuart Price (31:39). Samatha Theobald (38:51) was 18th female to cross the nish line. Completing the team Steve Cox, Paul Lacy, Steve Hunt, Elaine Turner, Ryan McNeill, Neil Holloway, Nathalie Hooper, Stuart Hunt, Fiona Holland, Rachel Bodsworth, Joanne Sargent and Geraldine Suckling. fabulous turn out for the day.

2025 kicked o with the Cross Country Championships held at Horseheath Racecourse, near Haverhill. It was questionable as to whether it would go ahead with the threat of snow overnight. s it turned out the snow was sparse, but getting to the venue proved more challenging with oods along the country lanes. The course proved to be very tough with lots of mud and challenging hills, but fortunately runners didn’t have to get wet feet going through the splash!

e had a small, but strong team of Hares attending. den Bell and Ryan McNeill ran the longer men’s course of 10km and Fiona Holland, Vicky Tapp, Ellie Langridge Brown and Nathalie Hooper ran 8km. den made it look easy and nished 16th with a fabulous time of 35:25. Vicky stormed round the course with a great time of 36:39 with Ellie not far behind.

t the end of the day Hares came away with two trophies. Congratulations to Fiona who came 2nd in the V65 age group and Nathalie who nished 1st in the V55 age group.

Sunday 12 January and a nice local venue for the cross country. Stowmarket Striders hosted the third xture at Haughley Park. beautiful setting taking us through the woods with a technical hilly section along the route. The below zero temperatures added to the beauty with the woods resembling Narnia. This meant that the mud had frozen solid and careful footing was essential. This didn’t seem to deter den and Stuart Price who made easy work of the course with den nishing in 19th place. ell done to the rest of the team, Paul Lacey, Neil Holloway, Elaine Turner, Crystal Murray, Nikki Vince, Nathalie Hooper, Jo Sargent, Sarah atkins, ay Oxford and Fiona Holland who enjoyed the well deserved tea and cakes afterwards. ith three more xtures to go, Hadleigh Hares are doing well and with the points accrued to date, are in the middle of the results board. ell done to all!

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Issuu converts static files into: digital portfolios, online yearbooks, online catalogs, digital photo albums and more. Sign up and create your flipbook.