Rugeley Mercury from Rugeley, Staffordshire, England • 21

The Mercury July 15 1993 21 Road is Mrs Frances Kennedy Streetway House Watling Street Shenstone Tel Shenstone 480 1 46 on council There will be a parish council meeting on July 15 at 8pm in the village hall This is a special open meeting concerned with the proposed new road Go along and make your views other agenda known and listen to points of view as well MPI1 ANTIQUES ONAL SOLID PINE COUNTRY FURNITURE Up to £100 OFF Wardrobes and Dressers £50 OFF Chests of Drawers and much more! WOOD STRIPPING SFRVICF A VA II A Rl jJQj 34 Swallow Croft Lichfield (0543) 257253 Members from local Wis (l-r) Shenstone Wl Marna Willson Wall Wl Margaret Southall Doveside Wl Audrey Wolfenden Lichfield Afternoon Wl Pat England Hammerwich Wl Barbara Jarvis and Whittington Wl members Jackie Perry Glenda Ball and Hazel Roberts L5459 I I Mil I show success THE fifth annual Vale of Trent Wl Show was a 'great success with eight local groups locked in competition Lichfield Afternoon Lichfield Evening Shenstone Afternoon Shenstone Evening Hammerwich Whittington Wall and Doveside Wis competed in categories including handicraft produce flower arranging and display and presentation battling for prizes donated by local busi- nesses And this year's overall winner was Wall Wl followed by Shenstone Wl then Whittington WL More pictures next week 'jUOLESA sss st wins review AN EXTRA git0 conductor and director of the American Choir which visits Barton some summers He was on his way to Llangollen and hopes to bring the Glee Club to England and Barton next year Congratulations to Mrs Jean Gaskin and her friend who made a street collection for Cancer Research The total raised in excess of £466 Thanks to all who gave and those who did the hard work of collecting Another charity event was the Garden Lunch organised for the Birmingham Children's Hospital Cancer Research Fund It managed to dodge the rain and raised £13225 Once again thanks to those who did all the hard work The Wis 75th Birthday celebration day was a magnificent success but I will tell you all about it next week when we have got our breath back This is going to be a very important week for the three Barton schools for on Friday July 16 the 400 anniversary of the death of Thomas Russell by whose will the first Barton school was founded ill be celebrated by the visit of ten members of Drapers' Company They will unveil a plaque on the infants' school and visit the other two schools The procession leaves the centre of the village at 1 45 pm to walk to the school led by a town crier and the Drapers in their ceremonial robes Continued from page 20 Preparations are going well for the parish counciKs centenary in 1995 The Civic Society is generously lending the money to purchase a badge of office for our chairman to wear on civic occasions Barton is one of the only councils not to have such a sign of the pride of the olTiee and the committee feels certain that public-donations will gladly be made by villagers and local groups to make up the cost They also hope to produce a 'Barton calendar' for 1995 If you have a photo which you think might be suitable please send it to Mrs Saddington 26 Ashtree Road by September 28 Please put your name and address on the back so that it can be returned lo you Last Sunday's concert by the Gnosall Handbell Ringers and the Recorder Consort was a huge success It moved to St James' Hall to give the ringers sufficient space to set out the bells but what a magnificent sound they made Their prowess left everyone amazed especially in the Sousa marches and the William Tell Overture The Recorders showed their great versatility the quartet changed instruments with ease from the great bass recorder to the tiny sopranino and from medieval music to modern It was an evening to remember I was delighted to meet and have tea with Harry Langsford the OUR EXISTING DISCOUNTED Delivery sen ice availableJg PRICES UNTIL 21st 100's of roll ends to clear FREE Estimate ServiceJ JULY 1993 FITTING WITHIN 12 HOURS ON OUR £40000 STOCK 9x13' £1208 15x13' £21 64 FOAM BACKED FOAM BACKED GOOD SPORTS 14 13 CORD £30 DEEP AMERICAN 7 COLOURS £750 sqyd 18 13 FLORAL was £133 now only £69 50 WOOL TWIST now only £675 sqyd 13 13 DEEP SHADOW was £197 now only £87 GENUINE HEAVY DOMESTIC TOP WILTON £1099 sqyd WITH FREE UNDERLAY WORTH £250 sqyd 16x12 FLORAL DESIGN was £131 now only £67 VELVETS was £699 sqyd now only £375 sqyd WYi 13 80 WOOL was £265 now only £118 CORD CARPET 4m Wide Foamback Suitable anywhere in the home WAS £199 NOW 99p SQYD £40000's of End of Rolls inc Axminsters Wiltons 8020 Twist Contracts Many Many More at Vz PRICE Mrs CR Warren Hopwas Hill Hopwas MANY MORE BARGAINS AXMINSTER DESIGNS Hessian Backed and Foam Backed 1 0 Designs WAS £3 99 SQ YD SQYD WITH EXTRA 5 OFF ANGLESEY BUSINESS PARK wmoasxm fe WE ARE OPENING HOURS: twU Lll TAKE a schoolful of sporty children a playgroundful of parents and fieldful of bounces castle and trampoline variety Add a barbecue a bar and a large pinch of PTA power and family fun flavouring and you have the recipe for Thomas Barnes Summer Sports Tournament School head Mr Nick Price and teacher Mrs Madeline Barron worked and whistled their way relentlessly through a series of races and knock-out championship games of five-a-side football and ben-chball with children's teams playing under exciting names from Warriors Unbeatables and Barbarians to the Dream Team Cool Dudes and Jets Many parents helped during the evening with refreshments supervision crucial team-managing and manning of the tombola and raffle stalls Amazingly a number of mums and dads still had enough energy by the end of the evening to compete in a football match No sexism here of course although the game did appear to change to net-ball halfway through when the mums were losing to give them a final victory over the dads Their goalkeeper Adrian Keen still had a brave smile on his face despite the LITTLEW0RTH ROAD HEDNESFORD number of ladies' tackles! Meanwhile the children were bopping indoors to Mike Farnon's popular disco House points all round for an excellent evening! A rubbish skip will be positioned in Hints Road over the weekend of July 16-18 It is solely for the use of Hopwas residents and may NOT be used for the disposal of garden refuse Hopwas Methodist Church held its summer garden fete last Saturday afternoon when the event was opened by Mr and Mrs Cliff Weston Hopwas Open Golf challenge was just one of a number of games in between showers in the grounds of the Hints Road chapel while in the schoolroom there were stalls and refreshments for visitors to enjoy Thomas Barnes children has a splashing time at the village cluster schools' fun swimmmming gala held at Tamworth baths last Wednesday Hopwas school gained eight first places and eight seconds throughout the 22 events culminating in a nail-bitingly close finish with the raft race which Hopwas team won by a whisker MON 8am-8pm OrtVll "SBSU1I 'j 1.