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The big red can bin in Tesco car park and paid for by Rotary, collects cans that can be recycled for use and generate funds for the buillding of hospital helipads! https://helipadsforhospitals.org.uk) Pictured Rotary President Mary Martin

A planter crafted from a pallet found in the West Deeping layby and a wreath from a cycle tyre in the King Street ditch! These by Nicky Bowling. Any more ingenious uses for discarded items out there? Hearts and flowers have found their way all over the Deepings this month! The hearts on the Green School railings with Esme and Luna!

Sisters Holly Workman (15) and Amber DavisBradshaw (17) decided that the best way to defeat home learning blues was to spread some joy around the Deepings! So for the last month they have been busy making Hama bead animals and keyrings and leaving them for people to find while out walking. Since then Facebook has been alive with pictures of their creations with messages of thanks from grateful recipients! Making good use of a riverside walk, Lily (5) and Lucy (10) and the Ward family have their litter pickers to the ready!

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Rose Lodge Care Home was one of the first in the Deepings to be part if the vaccination roll out when Practice Care Co-ordinators Denise Holden and Helen Greenwood worked hard to vaccinate residents and staff with the Oxford Astra-Zeneca vaccine.

The Fisher Family were just one of over 100 who took part in the Deepings Library Half Term 2 mile Trail of the Deepings. The Deepings Foodbank and the Exotic Pet Refuge have been the beneficiaries of support from communities in West Deeping and Frognall. West Deeping have been supporting the Deeping Foodbank for some time at the Church Harvest festival and also at Christmas with a donation box in the Church all year round. Collections have been stepped up during the pandemic and currently the aim is to deliver a boot-full of supplies to the Deepings Foodbank at least once a month.The group will collect if necessary. Interested in helping? email janetj1425@gmail.com In Frognall a weekly food collection has been underway to support the Exotic Pet Refuge since October with support from Tallington Farm Shop. A collection bin is outside Disa Cottage on Saturday mornings. Yet more examples of the tough getting going!!

The Deeping Business Support Group are delighted to announce that local business woman Louise Sampson is one of the winners of the Small Business Awards 2020 organised by Lloyds Bank. They supported Louise when she approached them for help in diversifying her business when her salon was closed due to the pandemic. Working with business mentor Emma Lannigan Louise developed the Bijou Box subscription box working in co-operation with other local businesses. “Her go - getting, collaborative attitude of supporting others has really appealed to consumers, making her a very worthy recipient of this award” - Gareth Oakley, Managing Director of Business Banking at Lloyds Bank. Help is still available for other businesses in the Deepings - call 07780854119 A Selfie Scavenger Hunt organised by DYG encouraged young people to get out in the fresh air! Pictures came in from the bridge, a post box etc. Ben Sanford was first to complete the hunt with Rhiannon Peasonall runner up - they both won some Amazon vouchers.

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Andy Cardell (pictured) was appointed as the new Chairman of the Deepings Swimming Club at their delayed AGM. In his annual report to members, Cardell described 2020 as “one of the most challenging years in our 44-year history”, but added: “We have a strong club with great volunteers, supportive parents and, most of all, a fantastic bunch of friendly and talented swimmers.” There were achievements such as at the Lincolnshire County Championships held in January 2020, where the club’s top swimmers came away with 46 medals, seven club records and multiple regional qualifying times across the three weekends of competition. In February, a squad of 27 younger swimmers competed in the Grantham Grand Prix and achieved 64 personal bests across 81 races. It turns out that actor, Hugh Bonneville has been volunteering at a vaccination centre as are a whole collection of people from the Deepings! Including John Dolan (pictured) Dave and Olwyn Turner, Debbie Woollard, Sarah Bickford, Sarah Devonport, Allison Carrington, Ros Veator, Marion Alexander, Carol Holland and Barry Guy to name just a few! Once again - well done the Deepings!

Who would have thought that a maintenance job at The Cross School, Deeping St James, would reveal a floorboard signed by a previous craftsman assigned to a similar maintenance role in 1899? Carpenter Ernest Hare had the foresight to sign the board before nailing it back into place! The firm of which he was undoubtedly a member was sited at the back of The Imperial Cafe (issue 33) in the Market Place until it finally closed down in 1977. The current leaseholders of the school, Tracy and Simon MacCullum of the Ministry of Dance, took the opportunity to place a time capsule under the floorboards before Phil Mills replaced them. The capsule includes a feature from I’d rather be in Deeping about the Youth Group which has met here for 50 years, along with information pertaining to building owners, DSJ United Charities and pictures, poems and letters submitted by local children. This included these words from Freya: ‘I don’t know what the world will be like when you are reading this, but please enjoy it because you only get to live once.’ The signed floorboard will be framed and placed in The Cross School for all to see.