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Scarborough Life
Scarborough Review
August - Issue 36
All aboard for Seafest! Words and photos by Dave Barry A raft of activities with a maritime theme feature at Seafest, starting today (29 July). The usual Seafest fare - live music, cookery demonstrations and fireworks – will this year be complemented by a couple of boats. Free tours of the Royal Navy’s HMS Explorer will be on offer, on the north wharf (near Ask). Based in Hull, the Explorer is an inshore patrol and training craft. Members of the Coble and Keelboat Society will show visitors around a traditional coble fishing boat and offer an insight into 10,000 years of fishing history in the North East. The Maritime Heritage Centre will mount displays of maritime history, with model boats and net-mending demonstrations. Scheduled to play in the music/beer tent are Tonight: Nowhere Now, the Fuzz Junkies and the Sub Gents. Tomorrow: Billy Nielsen, Emma Button, Danny Firth, Tom Watton, Alastair James, the Railroad Hobos, the Rockin' Hillbilly Blues Band, Lottie Holmes, Tom Townsend and Stone Penguin.
Sunday: Frankie Dixon, Jesse Hutchinson, Tony Grimaud and the Baytown Rattlers. Saturday will feature a fireworks display at about 9.30pm. Sunday kicks off with a religious service at 11.15am. Cookery demonstrations will be given in a separate tent by top chefs Harrison Barraclough of the George in Wath, near Ripon; Kathy Breckon of Westcliff primary school in Whitby, voted Britain’s school dinner lady of the year in March; Rob Green, a former national seafood chef of the year and a winning contestant on Britain's Best Dish on ITV; Dan Hargreaves of the Grainary in Harwood Dale; Martin Hyde of Scarborough’s award-winning Eat Me café; Rebecca Palmer and Christian Taylor of the Plough in Scalby; Richard Pawlowski of the Copper Horse in Seamer; cookery student Debbie Raw of Yorkshire Coast College’s Fledglings restaurant; and Steve Swift of Mainprize’s Seafood. Other Seafest attractions include over 35 stalls selling craft and local produce, a face painter and children’s entertainer, pirate
A ukulele show was a big hit last year dance displays Cllr Janet Jefferson, who chairs the Seafest steering group, said: “Seafest is a fantastic maritime celebration for all the family, whether visiting or living at the Yorkshire coast. We’re delighted to have secured so many talented chefs for this year’s Food
Theatre, both established and aspiring, and the sights, sounds and smells of their culinary creations will be a real treat that should not be missed!” n Further information about Seafest 2016 is available at scarboroughseafest.com
Vince Townsend and Rich Hodgson of the Deckchairs on the pier at the 2013 Seafest Railroad Hobos, who play on Saturday
Jesse Hutchinson and Frankie Dixon play on Sunday
The Maritime Heritage Centre display at last year’s Seafest
HMS Explorer
Chef Martin Hyde of Eat Me café
Strawberries on the lawn help trainee doctor in Africa Words and photo by Dave Barry Twenty punnets of strawberries were consumed at an outdoor tea party which raised £651 to support a trainee doctor in Africa. Kath Minghella opened her spacious garden at 37 Hackness Road in Newby to the public. The tea party was organised by Kath’s mother, energetic octogenarian Val Humphreys. The strawberries, doused with a couple of litres of double cream, were supplemented by 100 scones baked by Val and various cakes baked by her friends; all washed down with gallons of tea. Besides Val and her daughters, the other workers included Val’s grandchildren, Alex Minghella and Imogen Chaplin, and friends Rosemary Monsey and Pat McEvoy, who ran a raffle and card stall. Val will send half the proceeds to a charity called Aiding Conservation through Education (Ace). The other half will go towards trainee doctor Denis Musasizi's fifth-year fees at Kampala International University, where he is studying medicine. Val befriended Denis on a nature trip to
Organiser Val Humphreys, back right, with daughters Kath Minghella, left, and Jane Creaser, grandson Alex Minghella, vicar Mike Leigh and a few friends. Uganda in 2010. "Denis was my porter and helped me to climb up to see a family of gorillas,” Val explains. “Ace checked him out for me to see if he was
genuine and from a poverty stricken family,” Val says. “Then I offered to support him through a senior boarding school where Ace send their
most intelligent sponsored children to. He scored very high in his A-levels”. Denis, 25, is now training to be a doctor, with financial help from Val. “Out of 215 students in his year, he and three others were equal top,” says Val, who has returned to Uganda twice to see Denis and meet his family. “He is now in his fifth year studying on a bachelor of medicine and bachelor of surgery course which takes five and a half years to complete.” Ace, a small charity based in Cornwall, supports nine schools and 5,000 impoverished children in remote areas bordering the national parks in south-west Uganda. It builds classrooms, latrines, water tanks, etc. In one school, a class has 186 pupils and one teacher. “Funds need raising to build more classrooms,” says Val, who has visited all the schools. n The Ace website is at www.ace-charity. org.uk