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February 2009 No. 344
The Stradbroke Monthly Down Your Lane - Up Your Street!
Inside this issue: Local Churches
3, 4
Parish Pump!
6
Organisation News
9, 10, 12,
Letters to the Editor
14
Forthcoming Events
17, 20
Can you help?
18
Sports
23
Village Diary
36
Stop Press! The Festival Committee are sorry to announce that there will not be a Village Festival this year. We would like to thank everyone who has contributed in past years and maybe next year it will be resurrected.
If you are looking to book an entertaining act for your fete, get more going on your village hall or want to organise an event for your community but are not sure where to start, then this event is for you. The one day seminar “Down Your Lane – Up Your Street”, will take place on Thursday 26 March at The Cut in Halesworth. The day aims to give people ideas for developing events in their communities across Suffolk and think about doing something extraordinary in 2009. The seminar will include inspirational speakers from street fairs to village festivals. Arts interludes will also take place throughout the day, offering snippets of shows from performers who will be available to book for events. There will also be the opportunity for people to pick up practical hints and tips through workshops and an interactive arts market whereby performers will be on hand to talk about their work. Zoey Furzer, Arts Officer at Mid Suffolk District Council said: “We hope this seminar will provide people with ideas on what’s possible in programming arts in their communities. We have a wonderful line-up of speakers and performers, all of whom have a great deal of experience delivering amazing work and wowing audiences”. The event is being organised in partnership by the arts services at Mid Suffolk District Council and Suffolk Coastal District Council with generous support from Suffolk County Council. The cost to attend is £10 including lunch, with concessions available. To book your space, please telephone: 01394 444538 or email: arts@suffolkcoastal.gov.uk
Your Editor Speaks... I had many interesting discussions over the Christmas period about many things and one of them I would like to bring to your attention. A gentleman spoke to me and asked me if I would include an article about the “Middy”, which is the nickname of the Mid Suffolk Light Railway. He told me something about its history, how it was closed prior to the Beeching massacre and how he thought that the memories of its trains and its foibles would slowly be lost from the memory of local people. So, if any local people can remember riding on the “Middy”, or seeing it pass through Stradbroke Station, or have any amusing tales about it I would love to hear from you and use them to create an article about the railway we used to have! On another topic, I was sent a book about King Edmund of East Anglia, which I had intended to tell you about in this edition of the magazine but, as space in this magazine is particularly short, I will include it next month. Editor