Beacon Villages
Under Cosdon Beacon Dartmoor Devon UK
Tennis coaching With a tennis court available in South Zeal on the Recreation Ground the opportunities for anyone to enjoy or be introduced to the game are readily available. Adding to those opportunities is the potential for beginners or improvers to gain personal tuition from individual or group lessons being given by a qualified coach. Anyone in the South Zeal - Belstone areas that would like to learn more should contact Bob Weaver on 01837 840549. |
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Pre School sale South Zeal Pre-School has organised a 50/50 sale to be held in Victory Hall, South Zeal, on Friday, 4 th March from 7.30 - 9.30p.m. Childrens' clothing of high quality will be included together with toys and nursery equipment. Refreshments, wine and cheese and a raffle will all be available and everyone will be made welcome. |
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Replenishing funds RAPID UK, the Okehampton based and internationally renowned search and rescue group is continually faced with the need to replenish its funds. To help with this a rescue operation is under way to find redundant toys that can be found new homes, for a small fee, and in being given a bright new future help the cash flow that is necessary for RAPID UK to be ever ready to respond to calls and continue its work. The careful collection of toys can be arranged and a call to Christine McFee on 01837 840660 will set the ball rolling. |
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Guilty of great entertainment The Belstone Players have a long established reputation for good shows but with their production, 'Dame Agatha's Greatest Case,' the company, presenting a whodunit and intermittent musical that becomes a who-couldn't-have-dunit, was undoubtedly guilty of presenting entertainment of the highest quality. The library setting on stage would have been envied by any professional repertory company, thanks to design and construction by Ross Gammie and Arthur Herbert and artistic director Caroline Jones made every use of the benefit it provided to the cast and especially to three little maids led with comic confidence by Eileen Birch. Their near G & S introduction to a night of murder, mystery and music set the seventeen performers off at a pace that most maintained as the complexities of the killing of a Government Minister during one evening in a guest filled Brandling Hall were considered by that cantankerous Queen of super sleuths, Dame Agatha Crustie herself. Margaret Martin avoided the trap of trying to recreate a Tv tec and wiped the floor with the official investigator, Inspector Corner (of Scotland Yard) John Birch, and made mincemeat of the hapless detective as she considered who might want to murder Humphrey Yewtern, a government minister whose clouded background seems somehow familiar? While Robert Reddington and Jim Goodwin portrayed two gangsters Ronnie Bigg and Barry the Hatchet in a manner that made them murder suspects an outstanding contribution by Peter Radlett and the Butler was very much appreciated. But, did the butler do it? There was Elsie Nore, a lady of the night capable of theft at least since Janice Goodwin stole every scene she appeared in. But there were many more suspects that appeared beneath the beady gaze of Dame Agatha before she solved her greatest case and, judged by the audience, the entire company was found guilty of making this a top rate production. |
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Rockpools to Rockies Richard and Anne White will be giving an illustrated talk in Belstone Village Hall on Saturday, 5 th March, at 7.30p.m. on two trips they made to North America's pacific coast visiting British Columbia and California. On the way they amassed lots of photographs and Richard will be using some of these to show the stunning scenery of coast and mountain, and the challenges of photographing whales, elk, pelicans and the rest of the region's fascinating wildlife. Donations offered on the evening will be donated to DEC Tsunami Appeal and to the Belstone Village Hall funds. |
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School charity The objective of the Sticklepath and Belstone School Charity is to promote the education, including social and physical training, of persons who are under the age of 25 and are residents in the parishes of Sticklepath and Belstone notwithstanding that incidental benefits may accrue to other pupils in any school or educational establishment supported by the charity. The trustees invite applications for grants from, or on behalf of, qualifying persons. Applications, to arrive by Thursday 31st March 2005, should be sent to the charity's clerk, Robin Tilley, Battershay, South Zeal EX20 2JP Tel.- 01837 840654. |
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