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DECEMBER 2011 Editors Letter Welcome to our DECEMBER edition of LINK-Magazine.
Is it already our last edition of 2011? How time passes when your having fun. Its been a great year and must first say THANK YOU to all of you that have supported your local magazine over the last few months ! All of us at LINK wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, and hope you get time to spend it with people you care about.
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LINK-Magazine is looking forward into the new year as we’ve many exciting things planned. Due to feedback we will be delivering our first Jan/Feb magazine on Jan 20th bringing our distribution back a whole two weeks so you get it a little earlier for the targeted month, with ongoing deadlines changing to the 15th of each month. Were having good feedback all the time now. Ian from UltraClean “It worked last time we used you, then we tried something else that did’nt and now we are back its working again after just the first month” Paul Johnson part of Disco Inferno “would like to say a massive thank you to yourself and your magazine for advertising our bbc children in need event in your oct and nov issue! The event was a huge success and was sold out! We raised a brilliant £1400 and a excellent family night was had by all , cheers again martin”
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Blockbuster musical ‘Annie’ arrived at Blackpool’s Grand Theatre at the end of November and its star, actress Su Pollard, took time out to back Blackpool Council’s drive to recruit more foster carers and adoptive parents. The actress, who plays the scheming Miss Hannigan in the popular musical, met local super foster carer Sue Mansell, who has fostered 27 children in recent years. Su said she was overwhelmed by the support Sue Mansell had offered, saying: “I’m not saying it’s not hard, but can you imagine the joy and pleasure of giving somebody a chance in life. I think even fostering one child is a heck of a commitment and Sue has done it 27 times over. I’m sure you get a lot more back than you put in.” The actress, also well known from her role in TV comedy ‘Hi-de-Hi’, is in charge of an orphanage in ‘Annie.’ She added: “It’s marvellous - in ‘Annie’ I struggle with 12 children.” Sue Mansell recently contributed to a North West Big Book of Fostering with the comment: “I love fostering: never boring, highly rewarding, life changing, truly fulfilling.”
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Blackpool Junior Rugby Club Welcome to Blackpool Junior Rugby Club. We are situated on Fleetwood Road, just after Mossom Lane. We welcome boys and girls at the club and are always looking for new players. Children can start playing rugby from the age of 6 and continue to play right up to becoming an adult where they can join the adult game at 18. The rules change as the children grow up until they play on a full pitch and with full rules. Forthcoming game for the teams are 27th November Bolton Away kick off at 11am. The club is looking for new players to come and join us with our existing teams and for players for other age groups, any child coming to the club with the link magazine who has not registered with us this season will receive a free introductory training session, this offer is only on through the months of December 2011 and January 2012.
If there is anyone interested in joining our coaching staff whether you are already qualified or not come along to the club and have a chat, the RFU run courses for new coaches and we can pass dates on to you so you can become qualified, more coaches are always welcome. We welcome players of all abilities, whether you have played before or not come down and join us. It’s a great way of meeting new friends, learning new skills, joining in on social nights. Parents are actively encouraged to stay at the club and socialize with other parents while the children are training, get involved and join in on social nights. If you would like to come and play come down on a Sunday and meet the coaches and players or give Simon a ring on 07980320061 or visit our website; www.pitchero.com/clubs/ blackpool for more information.
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Support “SandAid” and lets help them get to Number One for Christmas! Money raised goes to even experience the happiness and values of the festive season.
SandAid are a collective of amateur unsigned musicians who have recorded an original Christmas song, which is due for download release on the 5th December through iTunes and other leading download retailers. The song has been nearly 12 months in the planning, and was the brainchild of Rob Hulme and his wife AnneMarie Hulme who were fed up with the tradition of Christmas songs being ruined by the X Factor. Rob was involved in writing the song We’ve Still Got Christmas along with co-writers Ian Hooper and Jeff White, and we wanted to write a song which had a traditional feel, without being too cheesy, and incorporated many of the styles and talents of our fellow Blackpool bands. We live in uncertain times at the moment, and the lyrics try to establish that no matter what pain, suffering, hardship, or loss touches our every day lives, the one thing which remains constant, is how we try to celebrate Christmas, which we hope helps to consider our perspective of life and create opportunities for change. We are also donating 50p from every 79p sale to BBC Children in Need through sales over the entire Christmas period, as we feel that the song also has a meaning for disadvantaged children, some of which don’t
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We decided to call the band ‘SandAid’ following on from the inspiration of Bob Geldof’s Band Aid. The song was recorded back in June at West Orange Studios near Preston, famous for recording the number one hit ‘Brimful of Asher’ by Cornershop, and is a mix of genres, which represent both the modern and traditional styles of music listened to today. Bobby Ball and Black Lace also kindly donated their time, and feature alongside the many amateur musicians and singers who represent a selection of the many talents which perform in the local bars and pubs in and around the Fylde coast area. There are also some up and coming singers involved, along with children from St Chads and Carr Head Schools, Poulton. It has been twenty one years since an original Christmas song reached the number one position in the music charts, and for that fact we would like to try and get the tradition of a true Christmas song into a pole position this year.
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International Travel and Holidays Association We meet at 7.30pm in the Concert Hall at Blackpool’s Sixth Form College, FY3 7LR. Membership is £15 for the season and visitors’ fees are £4 per meeting. Details from Joan Gaffiney 01253 700799. Weds 7th December 2011 Tonight is Members’ Evening, when our own travellers tell us their stories. John & Yvonne Bleazard describe “Brazil Naturally” including Brasilia and the Iguassu Falls. John and Lynne Collier give us a whistlestop tour of “Canada” as they visit the west of the country. Ann McCarthy illustrates the story of “Tunisia’s Ancient History” with her images taken on a journey across the country.
P.A.C.T Meeting The next P.A.C.T. Meeting is 6th Dec at 4-00pm, Venue: ‘RETRO’ on St. Leonard’s Road Forest Gate Baptist Church (near Stanley Park) Services Marton, Blackpool. (Next door to the Launderette). If you every Sunday at 10.45am and 6.30pm. For full details of are unable to attend, the meeting there is a secondary other activities, please see our website P.A.C.T. Meeting/ Councillors Surgery held, every second www.fgbcblackpool.co.uk’ Thursday of the Month, 8th December at 6.00-6.30pm. At The United Reformed Church Hall, Preston Old Road, Hospice Fundraising Group - We meet in the SHIPPON Marton, Blackpool (entrance, rear building on Kingsley room at All Hallows Church Halls in Bispham the first Avenue) www.fyldeneighbourhoodwatch.co.uk/marton Thursday of every month at 7.30pm. We are a lively bunch! Only a small team but we raise a lot! We organise fairs, bag packs, store collections, car boots, quiz nights, Friends of Stanley Park Christmas Fair - Sun 4th Dec 10am - 3pm Come & see Father Christmas, Kiddies murder mysteries. We make crafts, bake cakes, face paint, do tombolas, raffles, dress up, do fetes...you name Bran Tub, Books, Craft, Bric-a-brac, Card stalls, Tombola,Grand Raffle, Music & Carols with sixth form it! Call Sheila on 867276 for more information college students. Held at the visitors centre by the art PARKINSON”S UK Monday Dec 5th 7.30pm Cleveleys deco cafe. Park Methodist Church Hall, West Drive Cleveleys FY5 2BL. Brian Brodie {Vocalist Mr 60s}. Please note a Claremont First Steps Community Centre, North later finishing time of 9-15pm. Monday Jan 9th 2012 Shore Methodist Church Hall, Dickson Road, Blackpool 7.30pm Talk & demonstration of the Lee Silverman Voice Tuesday December 6th, Tea Dance with live music 2pm Technique, given by a Speech and Language Therapist £3 inc refreshments. Wednesday December 7th Monthly in our area. Support, advice and info is provided for Afternoon Concert at Layton Institute 2pm. Starring Jan & people with Parkinson”s along with their partners, Steve Brett, Husband & Wife Singing Duo, just returned family members and friends, and all new members from summer season in Spain, Preston Based Comedian will be made most welcome. Further Info Marjorie Des Day. Also features Bingo, Fully Licensed Bar and Fleming 01253 868086 Email: marjoriefleming@talktalk. Refreshments. ADMISSION ONLY £1. Further info from net Chris Whyham 01253 893571 Email: whyham@ Alan Hebden 01253 592159. January. NO TEA DANCE. talktalk.net Wednesday January 4th. Monthly Afternoon Concert Layton Institute 2pm. Featuring 3 Top Class Entertainers. Lung Cancer Support Group - This meeting is for Lynne Fox, Lovely Female Vocalist, David Windle, Brilanyone affected by Lung Cancer. They meet of the 1st liant Organist/Keyboard Player and Eddie Leather, Great Wednesday of each month at 1pm, Whitegate Resource All Round Entertainer. Bingo, Licensed Bar and RefreshCentre, 259 Whitegate Drive, Blackpool FY3 9JL. This ments available. ADMISSION ONLY £1. Further info from group has nursing input. For further details contact Alan Hebden 01253 592159 Donna Sheridan on Telephone: 01772 647040 or Mobile: 07508 375679 or e mail donna.sheridan@lsccn.nhs.uk Blackpool Geographical Association - Dec 5th at 19.00 hrs at Blackpool 6th Form College -’Ireland-A terrible UNISON retired members meet at Blackpool Town Hall beauty-The famine landscapes of Cork and Kerry’; the first Saturday of each month at 11am. Next meeting a lecture by Alan Crosby, Hon Research Fellow at will be the AGM on the 3rd December. All welcome. Lancaster and Liverpool Universities. Contact Nita on 07943986030
St Bernadette’s Players amateur dramatic group meets every Thursday evening at 7.30pm at St Bernadette’s Church Hall, All Hallows Road, FY2 0AS. Contact Bernard Melling on 07846 629766 Lytham St Annes Music Circle Friday 9 December: Powell Piano Trio playing trios by Haydn, Beethoven and Dvorak. Enquiries 725155. Table Top Sale, the Round Church St Anne Greenlands Salmesbury Ave, Bispham. 3rd December 2011. 10am 3pm. Refreshments available. To reserve a stall contact ENA on 592198 or just come along and shop.
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BJFF - Fund-Raising and Social Events... Our Fund-Raising and Social Team are always on the lookout for donations of Raffle Prizes, Auction items, and items which are suitable for a Tombola...no matter how large or small...if you would like to contribute to our fundraising efforts by way of donating a raffle prize or an item we could auction at one of our events, please contact Kelly on 07780 856252 to arrange for collection.
In the Sunday action, our Under 14’s Girls have staggered us all with their improvement in such a short space of time under the new coaching regime – a 4-4 draw against Lytham YMCA, winning us our first point of the season, was then followed up with a stunning 7-1 success away to Haslingden, Megan Whiteley scoring a hat-trick. The 2 games since have produced narrow defeats in games the girls really competed in, and we witnessed another fabulous hat-trick, a first ever for Kathryn Lomas, in a 3-5 defeat to Westbury Diamonds.
Our Fund-Raising team held our Annual Children’s Halloween Party on Sunday 30th October, with over 100 children enjoying themselves, and some incredible fancy Our Youth team have stormed to the top of the Premier Division table with 3 consecutive wins, hot-shot striker dress costumes on display. Aaron Fleming scoring 7 of the 17 goals scored in those In the next month we will be holding our Annual games. Christmas parties – with our Children’s and Adults’ In the Blackpool & District Youth League, we go from Christmas parties being arranged. Date for the diary youngest to oldest, with our Under 11’s Blades starting for the Adults is Saturday 10th December, with our community partner, The Red Lion Beefeater Inn, hosting the summary, and turning the corner this month with 3 consecutive victories to climb up the table. Our Under our event, with Live Music Entertainment and Party games – tickets on sale from the Club Shop, Snack Bar 11’s Predators, our newest team, astounded us all by winning their first ever competitive game 4-3, which is and Squad Fund-Raising Reps, or call Kelly Barber on way ahead of schedule, goals from Joshua Brown (2), 07780 856252. Ben Waters and Tom Burrows taking the 3 points – WELL BJFF - Football for ALL SKILLS Academy Initiative DONE…!! Re-Branding... Our Football for ALL initiative has now been re-branded Our Under 12’s Blades have won their last 2 games, a Joe Barratt hat-trick to propel them to a 7-2 victory “Football for ALL Skills Academy” and welcomes against AFC Blackpool. In the previous game goalchildren who are new to football, or who would just like keeper Lewis Turner signed off with a MoM performance some extra training, with the emphasis on a fun and in a 5-2 victory, prior to taking up a contract with friendly environment. Headed up by Level 2 coaches, Blackpool FC Centre of Excellence. We wish Lewis all the Joe Rooney and Adam Monk, we have two age-group sessions on a Sunday morning. We welcome Boys and very best with Blackpool FC. Our Under 12’s Predators experienced a couple of defeats in a month of only 2 Girls aged between 4 and 8, each and every Sunday, fixtures. from 10:00am - 11:15am, and then from 11:15am until 12:30pm we welcome Boys and Girls aged between 9 and 13. Trainers, Football Boots, Shin Pads and a Drink In the Under 13’s, our boys had 3 wins against 1 defeat, recommended. The BJFF Club House is on the corner of taking us up to 4th in the table, but 2 of the victories came by large margins, a 9-2 win and an 11-0 win in Kelvin Road and Carr Road. consecutive weeks, with new signing Adam Murphy Training will be mainly indoors during the winter months, scoring a hat-trick in both games, and Ryan Walsh also but when the weather permits we will take the boys and hitting a treble in the 11-0 success. girls outside. Newcomers will be given a warm welcome Our Under 14’s remain unbeaten and top the Pizza and ALL SQUAD children are encouraged to attend. Each regular participant will be presented with their very Division table, with 10 wins and 1 draw in the opening 11 games. During the month 3 wins and 1 draw have kept own Skills Academy tangerine training kit. If you are up our promotion charge, and we have high hopes that interested in coming along, with your son or daughter, our boys, under the management of Phil and Tracie Wing you can simply turn up at the Club House on Sunday morning, or pre-book with our Chairman, Andy Griffiths can carry on their run. We wish you well…!!! on 07884 476954 (or e-mail - andygriff71@yahoo.co.uk). In the Under 15’s, now a single division, our Whites The first session is FREE, and then it’s £3 thereafter. top the table with 9 wins out of 10, heading county champions YMCA (currently unbeaten with a game in BJFF – On the Playing Field – November Review… hand), county runners-up South Shore, and a strong At the younger end of the spectrum, our Development challenge so far from Foxhall, also unbeaten with a game Squad (ages 3 and 4) and Under 6’s continue to train in hand. With it being so tight at the top, each game once a week, on a Saturday morning, whilst our 4 x Under 7’s teams, and 4 x Under 8’s teams are enjoying is vitally important and during the last month victories have come 2-0, 7-2, 12-0 and 19-1 with Simon Timothy their first seasons of organised football, in a noncompetitive environment, as part of the Poulton & District notching 3 hat-tricks, and Jack Crawford 11 goals including 5 and 4 in consecutive games. Unfortunately, Primary League friendly fixture programme. We are unable to publish results of these matches, but our boys our Blues have still to register a point, but continue to battle gamely. and girls are doing very well. In the Under 16’s, we have moved into the top half with In the Under 9’s, our Blades will go top if they win 2 wins and 1 defeat in a month which has seen recent their game in hand having remained unbeaten during signing Jack Staff find by the back of the net 6 times. November, scoring 36 goals with only 2 against, Olly Burgess scoring an incredible 9 goals in 3 games. Our Summary... Predators are maintaining their promotion challenge with information and contact details - see 3 wins and 3 defeats in the B Division, whilst our Vipers www.clubwebsite.co.uk/bjff are sitting in a mid-table position, with their monthly highlight a creditable draw with table-topping St Annes, If you would like to bring your child down to BJFF, or would like to get involved in coaching / fundraising / an outstanding achievement. voluntary work of any kind, or you are a business who In the Under 10’s, our Blades have enjoyed (or could support us with our numerous sponsorship and endured…!) 6 very close games during the month, advertising opportunities, or you could donate a raffle and with 2 wins, 3 draws and 1 defeat sit in a mid-table prize / auction item, please do not hesitate to contact position in the A Division. Our Predators are also midour Chairman, Andy Griffiths on 07884 476954 (e-mail table in the B Division, with 3 wins and 3 defeats during andygriff71@yahoo.co.uk). the month, Kallum Sellers scoring 4 times and picking up 2 MoM awards.
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