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Melbourn History Group
The many visitors to the Hub will have seen the new library desk which is opposite the Hub reception desk. This has made life much easier for the librarians as we no longer have to set up the computer at the start of each session. It is particularly pleasing that so many children, as well as their parents are using the library. This summer the County Library Service ran a reading challenge again. This year it was called the Mythical Maze. Children had to read six books over the summer holidays and received a sticker for each book read. There were 15 who managed to read six books and they were presented with a medal and a certificate at a special ceremony at the beginning of October. Younger children are also catered for. One of our librarians runs Story Time every Friday in term time from 10 to 10.30 am. All children from 0 to 4 years are welcome. They are read two or three stories and there is also lots of singing and rhymes in between. There is no need to book, just turn up and join in the fun. Jane Stevens
After the successful WWI exhibition held on 19th July at All Saints’ Church, and the subsequent publication of the booklet to accompany it, several long standing members of the group decided to stand down. We are very grateful for the years of hard work put in by Colin Limming, Eric Johnston, Sally Wright, and the late Terry Rolt: without them we would not have been able to produce our publications, ‘Melbourn 2000’, ‘A Glimpse into Melbourn’s Past’, ‘Pictorial Melbourn’, the guide to All Saints’ Church and lastly ‘1914–1918 The Great War’. The remainder of the History Group, Peter and Jan Simmonett, Mavis Howard and Ann Dekkers have now been joined by Tony Truett, Wendy Phillips and Mark Ponder, and are considering what our next area of study should be. If there is anyone interested in joining the group, or has ideas for future projects, then please let us know, we need more people. We have a lot of fun too!
The Hub Club The Hub Club – the lunch club for everyone – is held on the second Wednesday of each month. There has been a very positive response to this club and we have had some very enjoyable lunches with lots of conversation. Just turn up at 12.30pm and join in, no membership is required. Jane Stevens
Melbourn & Meldreth Women’s Group The Group is for all women of any age. Meetings are held at 7.45 p.m. on the 4th Tuesday of each month, except in December and we vary our venues between Melbourn and Meldreth. We charge £1 on the night to cover expenses and there is an opportunity to make a donation to the chosen charity of the year, which is the National Autistic Society. We usually have a guest speaker or some in house entertainment followed by a chance to have a chat over tea/coffee and biscuits. We do not meet in December and we start our programme of 2015 off with our AGM, which is held in All Saints Community Hall. We have a short meeting to conduct our formal business of electing committee members, receiving reports and selecting the charity, which we will support for the year. The new programme for the year will be given out at this meeting. Usually this proceeds very quickly and then we have our bring-and-share supper to which all contribute and it is usually a time to catch up and enjoy meeting with one another. The February meeting will take place on 24 February 2015 at All Saints Community Hall when we are looking forward to Anna Taylor talking about Hats and The Role of Women – Anna is a milliner and this should be an interesting talk. If you would like to know anything more about the group please contact Pat Smith (262575), Sue Toule (260955) or Anne Harrison (261775)
Ann Dekkers 01763 261144 email heisei110@ntlworld.com
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