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Quorn Village News
Young News If you have a little time on your hands and can spare a Monday evening once a month, there's a group called Townswomen's Guild here in Quorn who would love to meet you. Perhaps you would like to meet more village people or just sit quietly and be entertained by a variety of speakers. There are about forty ladies at present in The Townswomen's Guild and some of these have been members since its conception thirty-eight years ago by Mary Edgar. Quorn TG's programme for 2002 has included special events to celebrate this Golden Jubilee year. The Tombola game held at the village May Fair proved so attractive that it quickly sold out. This year a change was made from the usual summer coffee evening, and as a special treat all members were invited to a strawberry tea in our Chairman's pretty garden one warm August afternoon. You can see a photograph of our Golden Day Out at Blenheim Palace in the centre section of this issue. On December 16th TG are holding a Christmas meeting in Rawlins Staff Room, to which you are cordially invited to join us for some seasonal fun. This might be a good time to start but if this doesn't appeal, our first meeting of the New Year is on January 20th when Mrs Val Williams will give a talk called "The Shetland Islands". Following this, other intriguing talks include "Farming with Emus" on March 17th and "Scrap Booking" on the 14th April. If any of these meetings might be of interest, please consult
the Village Diary in "The Quorndon" for further details or phone
Quorn 412100. Look out for the monthly posters around the village and
come along. The Sketch Club concluded the 2002 season with a get together at The White Hart at the end of October. During the spring/summer season, the sessions were reduced to monthly events, and we have concentrated on more local venues. Thankfully the weather improved in the last half of the season. Although we have not had an events organiser, the informality of the group meetings seems to have worked reasonably well, and everyone has helped to keep the club functioning. Please do think about joining if you like the idea of sitting in a peaceful atmosphere with paints and sketch book. Beginners are always welcome. Look for the list of venues and dates for 2003 in the Spring issue of "The Quorndon". Happy Christmas to all our members - Joan The membership continues to grow and at our AGM in November we were able to look back on a happy and successful year. We have a full programme for 2003 starting with our annual lunch in January when, as a change from our usual arrangements, we shall be at Rothley Park Golf Club with a magician as our after lunch speaker. In March we shall be hosting the Annual Meeting of The Beacon Group, when we look forward to entertaining members from five other local WIs. Monthly meetings are held on the 2nd Friday of each month at 2.15pm in the Church Rooms. If you are new to the village and looking for local contacts, please come and share a couple of hours with us. We are a friendly lot and you will be made most welcome. Your first visit is free. Details of meetings are displayed on the notice board at Quorn Cross and listed in "The Quorndon's" Village Diary. Wishing to learn new skills? The Leicestershire and Rutland Federation runs day schools at WI House on Loughborough Road in Leicester. None WI members are welcome to join the classes. Contact Jessie Turner on 01509 412850 for more information. Quorn Disabled & Over 50s Group When you read this, the pool will be open again and ready to use, with lovely new modern tiles with added grip to stop you slipping. This time of year is a great time to start exercising and
work off the Christmas feasting, and of course get fitter for the New
Year. Swimming times for this group are Wednesday 1.15pm to 2.15pm. There
is a hoist for anyone who needs it to get into the pool - so there is
no excuse? The committee and members of QLTC would like to thank everyone who has contributed or supported the recent fund raising activities in and around Quorn. The club is still trying to agree a long term lease with the current owners of the land and facilities. This would enable the club to then have a new clubhouse and courts, through grants, and your support and contributions. The club hopes that you will continue to support the fund raising efforts and maybe you would like to consider joining this very sociable club. All enquires to Noel Tyler on 413404. Rawlins Community College Badminton Club WANTED established badminton players to join this club, that has been in operation for 28 years. This is a friendly, social non-league club, that meets on Tuesday nights at 8.00pm until 10.00pm in Rawlins. For more information call Pat Stroud on 554882, Mick Shonk
on 413009 or Malcolm Chamberlain on 0116 230 2994. The highlight of the Club's demonstration team during the Golden Jubilee year was on 4th June at Calke Abbey in Ticknall. The team had been invited to dance there as part of the Calke Abbey celebrations to mark the Jubilee year. You can see the team in action in the Golden Jubilee Year in Quorn article in the centre of this issue. The day was bright and sunny which seemed to bring out crowds of people to come along to a typically English venue and to watch, and even join in, a series of very English country dances. The Club's junior members gave their first public performance in the natural amphitheatre in front of the house at Calke and their spirited version of some well-loved favourites was well received. The scene was reminiscent of "ye olde England" when the dancers donned their Playford costumes of long flowing dresses for the ladies and long jackets with knee breeches and lace adorned shirts for the gentlemen. They displayed a series of dances from the late 1600's in the setting of the courtyard behind the house, with visitors sitting in the sunshine having afternoon tea and enjoying the entertainment. The audience applauded warmly after each demonstration and the convivial atmosphere continued all afternoon. The unique occasion of the Queen's Golden Jubilee had been well and truly marked that day and the memory of the celebrations will long remain with us. The Club continues to meet weekly on Wednesday evenings from 7.30-9.30 pm in the Village Hall, with the Junior Club (7-11 year olds) meeting from 6.00- 7.00 pm. Details of forthcoming Barn Dances are in the Village Dairy. For more information contact Pauline Kinch on Quorn 413726. For the elderly cricketer this is the perfect time of year. A chance for the body and soul to recover, the prospect of an ashes tour to Australia to enjoy (yes, I know, it always ends in tears!) and nothing vital to do at the ground until spring has sprung. 2002 was a fantastic season. Both 1st and second XI's ended as runners up in their leagues and gained promotion. Becoming champions depends as much as anything on a slice of luck, and when it really counted it went against the 1st team. Having topped Division 2 all season the penultimate match was rained off whilst our competitors missed the rain. In the end we lost the last match and failed to lift the championship by a mere 2 points. Very Disappointing! The second XI trailed Newtown Linford all season, went ahead on the penultimate game only to lose the final match. Newtown Linford was deserving champions. The Juniors all performed well without winning anything
and they are first in the starting blocks with nets during the winter.
If any juniors or adults wish to join our net sessions or play for us
next season please get in touch. As the number of players has increased
over the last year or so, and as the juniors become older and more capable
we have decided to resurrect our Sunday team, after several dormant years,
so there are more opportunities for everyone next season. Please contact
Jon or Brenda Cox on 237771 or coxes@coxnet.co.uk Quorn Mills Park Bowls Club - Half price membership! With a successful 2002 season behind them, the Club is looking to increase membership in 2003. For those who are considering taking up the game, it has never been a better time to do so. For the 2003 season, the club is offering half price membership to prospective new members. The club had a number of successes in competitive fixtures in 2002. The Men won Division 3 of the Loughborough and District Triples League for the first time, and the Ladies won the majority of their matches, with some notable results in county competitions. For the first time the club decided to use the services of a professional green maintenance contractor for the complete season. The investment paid off, with many bowlers from around the county saying what a delight it was to play on such a good green in such a pleasant location. Needless to say the members now feel the green itself is matching the already excellent other facilities they have come to expect. The season, however. was tinged with some sadness at the death of former President and Secretary, Morris Coverdale. He will be sadly missed, but often remembered. If any readers are interested in becoming a member at the
new half price first year fee, contact the Secretary, John Ventham on
01509 416390. As Christmas approaches once more, the QMF look forward to their annual Social at the Quorndon Fox. This year we are fortunate to have Peter Jones as our guest speaker who will be giving us his reminisces on his career as a football referee. The New Year programme starts off with a visit to the BBC studios in Nottingham where members will be able to watch the Midlands News being presented and have the questionable opportunity to try their hand at reading the News with the autocue! Later events include a Music & Poetry Evening, a trip to Australia (talk & slide show) and a presentation on 'A day in the life of a Vet.' A very variable programme with something for everyone - why not come and join us? The group meets every second Monday in the month at St. Bartholomew's Church in the Wesley Room. The meetings start at about 7.15pm with coffee and finish about 9.00pm. If you are interested and want more details telephone Quorn
568959. Caves Field - A Start to a New Era? In 1994 Quorn Cricket Club first approached the owners of caves field with a proposal to apply for a lottery grant to build a combined Scout and Guide hall and cricket pavilion on Cave's Field. 8 difficult years later, and with a change of ownership, we feel we can at last move our proposal forward and are now starting the process of establishing exactly what is possible. The Cricket Club and the Scouts and Guides (including Beavers, Brownies etc.) would still like to develop a modest building, in keeping with its location, on the site of the present wooden cricket pavilion. We would hope to be able to accommodate other community groups within such a building. Can your organisation dovetail with us in the new accommodation? Our basic requirement is for a 12m x 12m hall with a floored loft and a 30 m2 bar opening on to it. A catering quality kitchen of about 28 m2, toilets, cricket changing facilities and enough storage for both organisations, about 50 m2. The cricket club require, between May and September, the use of the entire building on Saturday and most Sunday afternoons, and the changing facilities most evenings. The Scouts and Guides need all but the changing facilities every weekday evening throughout the year. The rest of the time the building should be available for use. Might your organisation be able to make use of it? If it might, please talk to us. If our initial thoughts need a little modification to accommodate you, let's see what is possible. After we have found the interested parties and got an idea of what we might be able achieve we can make a start. These are early days and much can go wrong. We may not get the funds, planning permission or approval from the Parish Council but we will make the effort. If you have an interest in our scheme please Contact Jon Cox (237771 and coxes@coxnet.co.uk) or Byron Chatburn (416299 and byron@chatburn.org.uk). Ed: This article has not been edited at the request of the
author. CRRAM - Quorn Church Rooms (Church Rooms Refurbishment and Modernisation) In Jubilee Year - a face lift for the exterior! This year saw the completion of the second phase of the work plan, comprising new guttering, new external doors, new double glazed windows and new cladding. Also, due in December, are 80 new, comfortable chairs. We already have, from last year's work, a superb cloakroom with facilities for the disabled, and a new hall floor. All this would not have been possible without your generous support. Together, so far, we have raised £40,000 - and spent £40,000! This sum has been raised half by your generous support, the other half from six grants. Many, many, thanks for your support. The next stages will be the refurbishment of the kitchen
and central heating, with some external and internal tidying. This will
cost in the order of £30,000. We need detailed design advice, designs,
quotes, grants, and funds in general. In fact we have almost to start
again! The CRRAM Committee: David Mizen, (413263); David Bodicoat
(554230) Derek Snelling (414172), Neil Fuller (413726) and Tom Pick. Charity Bike Ride for Rainbows
On this trip they cycled 870.7 miles over 9 consecutive days, with no particular problems. However, the support vehicle was involved in a car accident in heavy rain on the third evening and the riders had to direct traffic in the rain for 30 minutes whilst the police arrived after covering 106 miles! After being towed in, the riders arrived at the hotel in Chester at 10.00pm. thankfully there were no injuries in the accident but the vehicle had £3500 worth of damage, and instead of a minibus the riders had to make do with a transit van, which meant travelling back from John O'Groats in deck chairs in the back. There were three other riders who did the trip raising £8000 for other charities. Unfortunately, one of these riders had to give up on the last day and stay in Wick Hospital overnight due to a small but painful injury. According to Peter and Russell, the highlights of the trip were: the stretch from Chepstow to Ross-on-Wye, Glencoe Valley and The End. Many thanks to everyone who supported them in this enterprise,
and congratulations from "The Quorndon" for their magnificent
fund-raising efforts.
The rivalry between the two houses of Capulet and Montague was brought home by clever use of colour - azure blue and silver for the Montagues and ruby and gold for the Capulets. These were highlighted in the use of flags, banners and costumes to make the production glow under the stage lights. Appearing in Shakespeare for the first time, Sid Kettle who heads the House of Capulet, found the experience "somewhat masochistic". This comment was accompanied by a wry smile, which belied the implied criticism! While he had enjoyed his first experience, he had found it time consuming - but admitted that he could be tempted to taking part in future production. Appearing as Romeo, Anthony Middleton had his first leading role in a Shakespeare production. He said that Romeo was a very difficult part as you had to act at complete extremes, as the character moved from a love sick youth to a man driven to suicide. Before the production, he watched as many different productions of the play as possible and found it most helpful to compare different performances. All performances played to full houses, and the audiences
obviously enjoyed the action. One member of the audience said that normally
he would be asleep by Act 2, but he enjoyed this, and was awake and alert
until the final curtain. The quality of acting was lavishly praised, with
some people remarking that these amateur actors were as good as many of
the professionals. Young Quorn News The last week in August saw St. Bart's Church being taken over by a group of wildly excited children, teenagers and adults as the Quorn Churches Holiday Club happened again. After three years of working together, it seems that the people from the two churches are really working together as a team - it's great to be part of this. This year, we decided that we would redo the Holiday Club 'Going Bananas' (which we did 5 years ago) as it worked well then. The idea was that each day we meet someone who has 'Gone Bananas' (that is, done something out of the ordinary) for God. We changed from the Scripture Union set of notes as we decided to concentrate this time on 5 people who met Jesus while he was here on Earth. These 5 were Zacchaeus, the boy with the 5 loaves and 2 fish, the leper who returned to thank Jesus for healing him, the Soldier at the cross and Mary Magdalene. As in recent years we ran the club from Wednesday through to Sunday and were again pleased to see a lot of parents, friends and family come along for the final session. They must realise by now that there is a chance that they are going to get wet - and they still come! We had four age-groups running from 5 up to 13 and it was good to see quite a good balance in the number of children in each group. Following the success of last year we decided to run it again at St. Barts because there are better rooms to meet in, and because the church is more central to the village, and therefore more visible. We even managed to move the Holiday Club out of the Church into the Church Rooms on the Saturday to accommodate a wedding that had the prior booking. I wonder if they were a little confused when they saw some very strange people dressed up in clothes of Jesus time around the village, and even loitering at the back entrance to the Church. The barbecue on Saturday evening was also very enjoyable - good food, good weather and again a good number of children and families coming along. We praise God that during the week there were no serious accidents and that we were able to tell 70+ children and their parents something about the wonder of the love that was shown to each one of us by Jesus coming to be our Saviour. Please pray that the words that they heard during that time will be fed and watered by the Holy Spirit and come to fruition in His time. During the week, some video was filmed and we hope to show this one evening fairly soon. I guess this will be of most interest to those who were involved, but if you would like to come and get an insight into what goes on (in relative safety!) do please feel free to come along. Who knows, you may even want to get involved next year. Colin Shipway This year's Playscheme was attended by over 300 children who took part in a wide range of activities. However, volunteers were very thin on the ground. Without volunteers it is almost impossible to run Playscheme. Many people had good intentions and said that they would volunteer for the week, unfortunately they never turned up. For those who did volunteer, a huge thank you is in order as without your help Playscheme may well have been cancelled. Let's hope that more of you are willing to spare some time next year. Contact Marcia Douglas, Playscheme Organiser at Rawlins
on 01509 622816 for more information. Children who enjoyed taking part in Quorn Library's "Reading
Planet" promotion over the summer can now continue with a new reading
incentive scheme at the library. From now until June 2003, children can
collect a planet sticker every month when they read a book, starting with
the planet Mercury. If you haven't tried the Reading Challenge before,
why not join this time? It's not too late to start. Whichever month you
start collecting, if you collect planets up to June, you will get a special
certificate. Brook Clean At Stafford Orchard
We hope that this will become an annual event to ensure the brook remains as clear as possible. However, if this is to happen funding will be required to employ the skills of the British Trust Conservation Volunteers. May I take this opportunity to thank Crimebeat, AstraZeneca, 3M and Quorn Parish Council for funding the event and Britvic for their very generous donation of soft drinks. If anyone is interested in volunteering for the next brook clean or is willing to support in a financial way please contact: Marcia Douglas, Youth Tutor, at Rawlins Community College on 01509 622816.
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Peter
Shaw and his son, Russell, cycled from Lands End to John O'Groats in July
this year to raise money for Rainbows. To date a cheque for £3616
has been sent, and in the end the total should be between £4000
and £4500. Peter has raised money for Rainbows before as this is
his third trip to John O'Groats, and Russell's second. In total over £10,000
has been raised for Rainbows over these three rides .
The
New Shakespeare Company was formed in January 2002 with the aim of presenting
good quality productions of Shakespeare and other classic plays. The Company
has a wide membership range with actors ranging from 70 to 10. Their first
production was Romeo and Juliet, which was successfully staged at Rawlins
in October. This was a lavish, colourful production with plenty of action.
Director Sharon Scott aimed for a fast moving, colourful production with
scenes flowing into each other and, in some cases, overlapping to create
a seamless story. 
This
took place on Sunday 13th October on the local park and was carried out
by the young people of Rawlins Youth Club and the British Trust Conservation
Volunteers. Although numbers were few, those that did turn up were brilliant
and the rubbish that was cleared from the brook almost filled the skip.