4 New Stour & Avon, June 30, 2023
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Free help with your devices
Need help with your digital device? Do you have a technical issue you’d like solved? Want to learn more about online services? Then a number of digital champions are on hand to help you. The Dorset Council volunteers hold free face-to-face sessions at Corfe Mullen Library on Mondays, between 10.30am and 12.30pm. You can book an appointment by going into the library or calling the Digital Hotline on 01305 221048. You can also call the hotline if you prefer to receive advice over the phone. If it’s wanting to learn how to use a laptop, tablet or smartphone, or finding out how to use online banking or to book a doctor’s appointment via the internet, no problem is too big or too small.
Check out your family’s history If you’ve ever watched the Ancestry website’s TV adverts and wished you could learn how to use it to uncover your family history, you might want to get along to Wimborne Library. They are running free, one-toone Family History sessions with guided research and tips. They are on the first and third Saturday of the month, from 2.15pm to 3.15pm, but booking’s essential as spaces are limited. For more information call the library on 01202 882770, or email wimbornelibrary@ dorsetcouncil.gov.uk.
Get a pizza the action
The new pizza oven at the family-run Avon Country Café in Avon Heath Country Park will be launched on Saturday, July 8, from 12pm-3pm. Visitors are invited to sit back and enjoy some live music as they sample the new lunchtime fare. The café is open from 8.30am to 4.30pm every day.
Thirty get together after 40! Thirty ex-pupils who left Corfe Hills Upper School in 1983 joined together after 40 years in Wimborne on Saturday, writes Anne Oliver. Pupils travelled as far afield as Northern Ireland, Cornwall, London and Stirling as well as many of those who stayed local. Stories and memories were swapped and shared and names were guessed on entry to the Wimborne Community Centre. One teacher, Mrs Wazekewski, the pupils’ history teacher, also joined in the fun, finding that one of the pupils followed her into teaching at Corfe Hills. Mayor Diane March popped along to the event to accompany by Town Crier Chris Brown who gave a specially written shout to the ex-pupils. A video message was received from a pupil in Diego Garcia and others who could not join sent old photos and emails.
Everyone had a great time chatting over tea and cake catching up on the last 40 years, and as it was Wimborne Folk Festival, many continued to party into the evening and one poor pupil volunteered to organise an event at the Festival next year - he has been passed all the contact details! I would like to thank everyone who came along and supported the event.