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• Stawley Under Fives Pre-school: tele: 01823 672873 Contact : Rachel March
  
  
• Langford Budville Pre-school: Contact: Cathy Verrall, Pre-school leader tele : 01823 400588
  
  
• Culmstock Pre-school Contact: Mrs Kirsty Harris, Chair. tele : 01884 849332/840356
  
  

The Rural Housing Trust have confirmed that their Chief Executive, Moira Constable, will come to the 2.9.2008 Parish Council Meeting to give a presentation to the Memberssubject: Affordable Housing in the Parish

Fernhill will be open on the following dates:

• Sunday July 6th
• Wendesday July 9th
• Sunday August 3rd
• Wendesday August 6th
• 2:00pm till 5:30pm

SAMPFORD ARUNDEL PARISH COUNCIL

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This year's fete will takeplace on Saturday 12th July, on the villagegreen with the flower show in the villagehall.
The fete will be centred around apirate theme, with a pirate fancy dresscompetition for the children and a JollyRoger flying from the flagpole.
Thescarecrow competition this year also has apirate theme. As usual scarecrows shouldbe placed in your garden or at the frontof your house in the week leading up tothe fete. Music on fete day will beprovided by Top Brass who will playthroughout the afternoon.
In the eveningwe hope to have a barn dance with abarbecue on the village green. Thebarbecue will also be available during theday. We are trying to make the fete biggerand better and to do so we need morestallholders and stalls. Anyone who wouldlike to run a stall or help to run one pleasecontact Lorraine on 664301 or Margareton 672080.
We also need people to helpwith the setting up and clearing up of thefete. If you can help please contact theabove numbers.

This year's Fete will be on 12th July.
The village "Songs of Praise" will as usual be at 6.30pm the following evening.
We hope this year that the weather will be kinder than last year, so that this event can take place outdoors.
Can you please begin to hand in requests for hymns to members of the Church Council or, better still, send them direct to Mandy Rowley at christopherrowley@uwclub.net
The theme for the scarecrow this year is pirates.
Scarecrows should be placed in your frontgarden or at the front of your house byWednesday July 9th.
Please phoneMargaret on 672080 if you are taking partso that the judge will know where to visit.Consultation on the Proposal toFederate Stawley and SampfordArundel Primary Schools.
The governors of Stawley and SampfordArundel Primary Schools are consideringworking more closely together to makethe best educational provision forchildren in the local community.
Afterdiscussing the options, their preferred oneis to form a federation between theschools. This would involve a singlegoverning body having responsibility Forboth schools each of which would retainits own separate identity. Governors ofboth schools have begun a publicconsultation on this proposal and areseeking responses by 2nd June.
Furtherinformation is available form the school.

Friday 13th June 12.30pm to 4.30pm and Sunday 15th June 1.30pm to 4.30pm plusFriday 27th June 12.30pm to 4.30pm and Sunday 29th June 1.30pm to 4.30pmat Gardd Owen, 16 Owen Street, Wellington.The garden of Carole and Tim Lomas will be open to the public in aid of the National Garden Scheme (which supports Macmillan Cancer Support and Marie Curie Cancer Care) and All Saints Church (which will receive 25% of all the money raised).

• Service 9A: Wiveliscombe - Milverton - Wellington - Taunton
• The route between Greenham and Wellington is revised and buses will now operate via Sampford Arundel.
• Minor alterations will be made to the timetable as a result.
• The service will operate on Fridays in addition to the existing Tuesday operation.

The newweekly bus service from the village toWellington and Taunton is starting on June1st. The 9A bus operated by Cooks willpick up outside the Church at 10.25amon Tuesday and Fridays and will returnleaving Castle Green Taunton at 1.10pm.Free bus passes for O.A.P's will beaccepted. We have fought hard to get thisservice and hope that it will be well used.