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Women’s Institute – September Report

Vice-president Pat Moran welcomed members. The August tea party in the Methodist Hall had been a great success. Bea Girkin will be our delegate at the Autumn County Meeting in Chelmsford later this month. Jan Lumb is now our sick visitor please inform her of any unwell members. Members voted to rejoin the Winsome Club. Quizzes will be available next month price 75p.  The Victorian Christmas Concert on 5 December 2.30pm and 7.30pm will be held at the Marconi Club Great Baddow and is open to non members, tickets £8.50. Names to secretary please.

Mrs Sue Gambling accompanied by her personnel manager gave an interesting history of how the supermarket ASDA evolved the name being derived from Associated Daries.

Next month is the Annual Meeting with WI Advisor Val Stone. The committee are looking for new members and officers.  The WI play reading group will entertain following tea.

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Autumn Glory

The next meeting of Colne Valley Flower Club is in the Orpen Memorial Hall Lexden Road on Wednesday 15 October beginning at 7.30pm. Members are invited to ‘Bring a Friend Free’. Alan Smith from Ipswich who was part of the NAFAS team to exhibit at Chelsea last year will demonstrate his arrangements entitled ‘Autumn Glory’.

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BHYFC – Under 15 Match Cancelled

BHYFC U15 Vs Royal Falcons – Match cancelled.

Please note that the U15s match in the 1st round of the Essex County Rosser Cup, due to be played this Sunday 5th October, has been cancelled. This is due to the Royal Falcons no longer being able to field a team. The U15s will now receive a bye into round 2.

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Orpen Players play with long title!

The Players’ autumn production is a comedy entitled ‘The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswoman’s Guild Dramatic Society Murder Mystery.’ 

Performances are in the Orpen Memorial Hall Lexden Road on Thursday 23rd, Friday 24th and Saturday 25th October. Doors open at 7.30pm with curtain up at 8pm. 
Box office opens at Ash’s store Colchester Road on Saturday 11th October with tickets priced at £5 for Thursday and £6 on Friday and Saturday. Tickets can also be obtained by calling Roger Milne on 01206 241048.

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Parish Plan Approved

At a recent meeting of the Parish Council the Parish Plan (issue 1) was formally adopted bringing with that the responsibility to prioritise and make decisions taking the parish plan into full account.

Parish councillor Chris Stevenson, who led the team responsible for creating the Parish plan, advised the meeting that “ECC are going to try and realise the top priority item from the Parish Plans within a year.”

You can find out more about the plan on teh village website here.

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Event Notices at Methodist Church & Hall

Coffee Morning

There will be a coffee morning in the Methodist church hall Chapel Lane on Wednesday 8 October from 10am to 11.30am. Gifts for cake and general stalls will be welcome. Greetings cards will be on sale.

Communion

On Tuesday 14 October the shared communion service with St Mary’s in the Methodist Church at 11am has been cancelled.

Women’s Fellowship

On Wednesday 15 October the Women’s Fellowship will meet at 2.30pm in the Methodist Hall.

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BHYFC – Results & reports 28th September 2008

  • Under 10, 9-0 Earls Colne 
    A Sabini 3, G Sabini, L Bloomfield 3, A Marley, 1 OG
  • Reed Hall 10-1 Under 13 
    J Banks
  • Elmden Rovers 0-1 Under 14 
    A Bartlett
  • Under 15, 3-0 Brooklands 
    J Wright, B Flower, A Ponsford

Next weeks fixtures – Sunday 5th October


All four of our teams are in action, three in the league and one – the under 15s – in the Essex County Rosser Cup. Three of the teams are at home, so please feel free to come along and support one or more of the teams!

  • Under 10s are away to AFC Sudbury
  • Under 13s are at home to Frinton & Walton Reds – Poors Field, kick off 10.30am
  • Under 14s are at home to Great Bradfords, also on the Poors Field, kick off 12 noon
  • Under 15s are also at home, in the first round of the Essex County Rosser Cup against Royal Falcons. This is at the Lorkin Daniell Field (Orpen Hall), kick off 10.30am.

Under 10’s Match Report


The 9-0 result looks a little one sided, but the main damage was done in the first half when the boys passed the ball brilliantly and made scoring look easy against a team that looked a little shell-shocked!   7-0 up at half time courtesy of the Sabini twins. Antonio scored a hat trick including 2 in the first 3 minutes (one from the half way line), and Gianni added a 4th before the others started getting in on the act.  Aaron added one at the near post from a corner and two superb shots from Luke on the left finished off the half.

The second half eased off a little with our passing, which had cut Earls Colne open time again in the first half, drying up a little – maybe the boys all thought they could score from the halfway line! Another from Luke and a deflected own goal (from Luke’s shot), were the sum of the second half scoring. At the other end our goalkeeper had a couple of saves to make including one from a header, but apart from a few corners the whole match was played out in the Earls Colne half. As last week, the oppositions man of the match was their goalkeeper who was responsible for stopping the final score resembling rugby or cricket!

Final score: Bergholt Heath 9 – 0 Earls Colne

Goals: A Sabini x 3, G Sabini, L Bloomfield x 3, A Marley, O.G.

Man of the Match: Antonio Sabini

Team: J Bowden (A Sabini); J Holden, H Dixon, J Adams (G Sabini), G Sabini (A Marley), A Sabini (J Adams), L Bloomfield (J Bowden)

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Colchester Council Open Day

Colchester Borough Council are holding an Open Day at the Moot Hall on 3rd October as part of their engagement with National Customer Service Week.  Running between 10am – 4pm residents are invited to visit the Moot Hall and meet representatives from the council and many others involved in the provision of local services:

  • Essex Police
  • Essex Fire and Rescue Service
  • Age Concern Colchester
  • Colchester Borough Homes
  • North East Essex PCT – health improvement services
  • Leisure World
  • Museum Service
  • VIC
  • Street Wardens
  • Planning and Regeneration & Building Control
  • Food & Safety & Smokefree
  • Environmental Control
  • Animal Control
  • Parks and Recreation
  • Institute of Customer Service
  • Helpline
  • Emergency Planning

Visitors will also be able to enter a free prize draw.  Read more here.

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Proposals to amend MUGA use

The Parish Council are considering proposals to extend the use of the Multi User Games Area (MUGA) for the community at large and the new Bergholt Youth Group (BYG) in particular.

Before putting these forward formally, the Parish Council would like to invite residents to an Open Meeting to be held in the John Lampon Hall at 7pm on Wednesday 22nd October. Please be there to ensure your views are heard.

More information is available as follows:

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BYG is getting BYGger

With diary dates now set until Xmas what started as an idea is now growing into reality.

About forty young people came to the activities session on 5th Sept and had a good time. The table tennis was particularly popular. We were also pleased to see a number of adults who are volunteering to help. Twelve have now put their names forward including an ex-professional footballer who played for Norwich and Spurs and now lives locally. (Guess who!).

Any more interested would be welcome and should contact Harry Stone through the BYG E-mail address, [email protected], or on 241026.

A training session for volunteers is being arranged for volunteers on Sat 11th Oct at 10am at the Orpen Hall.

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