Great Ouse Branch
Ouse News - Summer 2022 Newsletter covering the Great Ouse and tributaries Welcome to this unique, I hope, News sheet As you will read in the Chairman’s report our Ouse News editor is out of action for a short while hopefully. Please read the Winter programme carefully as we have had to make changes to it. Apart from the Chairman and Carole one other committee member has also had to step back for a short while. So this leaves us with only 4 committee members (In 2003 we had 9 committee members!!)– we would love to have more to help us out – even if only for a short period.
Chairman’s Corner Please accept my apologies for the reduced format and content in this edition of Ouse News. Unfortunately Carole Alderton, our Newsletter Editor had a serious accident over the Jubilee weekend when she fractured 2 vertebrae in her neck, resulting in a 10-day stay in hospital. However, I am pleased to report that she is now feeling more comfortable and is back home, but will have to limit her activities and wear a neck brace for at least 3 months. Carole and I are therefore stepping back from IWA duties for a while. Meanwhile other committee members are filling the breach and I am sure that you will give them your full support. We hope to be able to publish the autumn edition of Ouse News in the normal full format in due course but in the meantime are pleased to provide details of the branch programme arranged so far. Our spring branch programme concluded with our usual presence at Reach Fair where we once again manned our stand to inform the public about our local waterways and provide WOW (Wild over Waterways) activities for children. Our autumn programme will proceed as planned, with a waterways themed quiz and fish and chip supper on Thursday 27th October. We are breaking with tradition for our November meeting when instead of a lecture meeting we will be holding our annual away-day to see the return of the whooper swans to their winter feeding grounds at the Welney Wetland Centre on Thursday 24th November. It looks as though our boating activities will be severely curtailed this year, but I hope that you are all able to enjoy the summer afloat. Keith Alderton
Branch Programme Winter Meetings are at 8.00 pm at the North Lodge Pavilion, North Lodge Park, Milton, CB24 6UD. THURSDAY 27 t h October 2022 Fish & Chip Supper, together with a Waterways Quiz .
THURSDAY 24 t h November 2022 NO MEETING AT MILTON Outing to Welney Wildlife Centre 15:00 Gathering at WWC for Swan feeding session 17:30 At Lamb & Flag, Welney for Sausage & Mash supper THURSDAY 23 r d February 2023 Talk by a Waterways Chaplain, Sallyann Ford, on the work undertaken by the Chaplaincy THURSDAY 23 r d March 2023 Our Annual General Meeting, together with an update from the Environment Agency