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27 JAN	VILLAGE NEWS ITEM SUBMITTED Hello, I run a small company called Tender Care Pet Services. I am looking for active retired people to care for dogs while owners are on a holiday, a small daily fee is payable. The carers would need to have been dog owners and used to handling them, they would also need secure gardens. I can be contacted on 01322 439784 for more info. Regards Briony.
26 JAN	VILLAGE REPORT - KAY DRAKE 522727 Otford Players invite you to ‘A perfect wedding’ by Robin Hawdon, directed by Christina Edwards, at 8.00p.m. in the Memorial Hall on 16th, 17th and 18th March. The play is a tale of farce and wedding day fiasco with mistaken identities which build to a hilarious crescendo. This promises to be a wedding day not to be missed and tickets are available from the box office 01959 525404 Thursday £5, Friday and Saturday £6 including a programme and refreshments.
26 JAN	VILLAGE REPORT - KAY DRAKE 522727 Aqua fit classes are being offered by Rebecca Bridges on Thursday evenings at St. Michael’s School between 7.30 and 8.30 at £6 per class. This is an opportunity to exercise in the water to music, is suitable for all levels and ages, and you don’t have to be a swimmer to participate. You can pay as you go or buy a course of 6 classes and get one free. Rebecca also teaches at Combe Bank on a Tuesday night. If you are interested ring her to book your place 07710 318041.
26 JAN	VILLAGE REPORT - KAY DRAKE 522727 Otford Folk Dance Club will be dancing to records tonight (Thursday) in the Church Hall with Graham Cole calling. There will be the usual range of folk, square and barn dances of English, American, Scottish and Irish origin and after a first night free visit it costs just £1.50 per night including refreshments. Everyone welcome.
26 JAN	VILLAGE REPORT - KAY DRAKE 522727 Can you help Otford Guides with their Rainbows, Brownies, Guides or Ranges or perhaps with some administrative tasks. The existing thriving units are looking for volunteers or perhaps two or three friends might like to train to reopen the recently closed Brownies. Please phone Caroline 01959 523200 or Jeanette 01959 5423617 if you can help in any way.
26 JAN	VILLAGE REPORT - KAY DRAKE 522727 Badminton is an excellent way of keeping fit and the Otford club play at Combe Bank school on a Friday evening. They are a small, friendly, non-league club looking to welcome new members. Please telephone 01959 522009 for more information.
26 JAN	VILLAGE REPORT - KAY DRAKE 522727 Otford Gardeners’ Society meets for the first time in 2006 on Tuesday 7th February in the Memorial Hall for a cheese and wine evening and indoor bulb show. Visitors and new members are always welcome and please contact Janet Finney 01959 523760 or visit www.otford.info/gardeners for more details.
26 JAN	VILLAGE REPORT - KAY DRAKE 522727 2006 is the Centenary year of the Embroiderers Guild and at Sevenoaks branches first meeting of the year Nikki Tinkler will be telling ‘A Tale of Twenty Quilts’, at 2.00p.m. in the Memorial Hall this Saturday (28th) For more information phone Jane Barratt 01732 833588.
26 JAN	VILLAGE REPORT - KAY DRAKE 522727 ‘An opportunity to explore the meaning of life’ is the title of a ten week Alpha Course offered by Otford Methodist Church. This course is beginning in a local home next Monday (30th) and the evening includes a meal, video and discussion. Further details from Kath Pawlett 01959 522196.
24 JAN	GARDENERS' SOCIETY Our January 2006 Newsletter is now on-line. For more details about Otford Gardeners' Society, please contact our Secretary by e-mail or telephone 01959 523760.
20 JAN	VILLAGE NEWS ITEM SUBMITTED Otford Primary School had a blitz of fundraising events last term. These were all organised and run by the children themselves. Money was sent to the Monkey World in Dorset from Pluto class. Mars class managed to purchase two goats, immunise a child, provide a water purification system and several other benefits for developing countries. Saturn class raised £92 for the childrens charity NSPCC. Well done to the younger generation of our village.
20 JAN	VILLAGE NEWS ITEM SUBMITTED Otford Nursery School has been developing their garden area. We now have a lovely secret garden full of herbs for the children to smell, homes for our local wild life and an all weather surface with a large wooden sandpit. If you are loooking for an excellent pre-school education for your child, why not come and visit us in the grounds of the local Primary school or phone us on 01959 522364.
19 JAN	VILLAGE REPORT - KAY DRAKE 522727 Otford Badminton Club would like to wish everyone a healthy and happy New Year. If you are thinking of exercising but don’t fancy a gym why not try badminton? They play on Friday evenings at Combe Bank school which is just a short drive from Otford. It’s a small, friendly, non-league club and they would welcome new members. For further information please ring 01959 522009.
19 JAN	VILLAGE REPORT - KAY DRAKE 522727 Joy Watts of EnerJoy offers exercise to music and body conditioning classes, if badminton is not your game, on Monday and Wednesday evenings at Dunton Green school between 7.00 and 8.00p.m. and at Farningham village hall on Thursday mornings between 10.00 and 11.00a.m. Just go along, you will be made welcome by the friendly participants, or ring Joy 01959 525364.
19 JAN	VILLAGE REPORT - KAY DRAKE 522727 2006 is the Centenary year of the Embroiderers Guild and at Sevenoaks branches first meeting of the year Nikki Tinkler will be telling ‘A Tale of Twenty Quilts’, at 2.00p.m. the Memorial Hall, Saturday January 28th. Everyone is welcome and for more information please phone Jane Barratt 01732 833588.
19 JAN	VILLAGE REPORT - KAY DRAKE 522727 Otford Oast WI meet this morning (Thursday) at 9.30a.m. in the Memorial Hall to hear Caroline Pickering’s talk ‘Style my Home’. If you want to refresh your home for selling, or re-style to live in and enjoy, go and listen to Caroline’s creative and experienced advice on interior design. Your first visit is free, second visit £3 and annual membership is £22 with a free crèche and coffee and biscuits. 01732 454693.
19 JAN	VILLAGE REPORT - KAY DRAKE 522727 ‘An opportunity to explore the meaning of life’ is the title of a ten week Alpha Course offered by Otford Methodist Church. This course is beginning in a local home on Monday January 30th and the evening includes a meal, video and discussion. Further details are available from Kath Pawlett 01959 522196.
19 JAN	VILLAGE REPORT - KAY DRAKE 522727 Parcels of Love, deadline 18.02.06, are being made up for refugee children/families in the former Yugoslavia. The parcels will be transported via Oak Hall and should be left in St. Bartholomew’s church under the table by the font. Each box is handed over personally and requested items to include: a tin of tomatoes, a tin of fruit, toothpaste and toothbrush, 4 cup-a-soups, a packet of biscuits, bar of chocolate, 16 paracetamol, notebook and pen, packet of sweets, pair of men’s socks, ground coffee or fruit tea, a handkerchief, plasters or antiseptic cream and a bar of soap (wrapped in foil) with a contents list on the top. Or, if you would like to donate one or more individual items from the above list these will be amalgamated with others. So far 648 boxes have been sent and it would be great to make 2006’s total the biggest yet.
13 JAN	PARISH COUNCIL - JANUARY NEWSLETTER The January edition of the newsletter is now on-line, with Otford being invited to enter the 'Best of the Best' Village of the Year competition details, feedback on Xmas fundraising events, requests for help, business news and much more. You can contact the Parish Council at The School House, 21 High Street Tel: 01959 524808, e-mail parishcouncil@otford.net with office hours 08:30 - 12:30 Mon to Fri.
12 JAN	VILLAGE REPORT - KAY DRAKE 522727 Welcome to Denise Thompson Designer Florist Ltd who is opening in the former Otford bakery premises in the High Street in early February. This is a brand new business which Denise, an experienced florist with over ten years experience is opening having progressed to become a floral designer, offering a bespoke service specialising in unique displays of the highest quality, contemporary, cutting edge, design and classic elegance. All her current work stems from referral recommendation, including corporate work from large organisations. Denise & her husband Keith searched for a location to showcase her work and decided Otford was the perfect place because of its natural beauty alongside its buildings steeped in history.
12 JAN	VILLAGE REPORT - KAY DRAKE 522727 Everyone who attended the Otford and District Wine Club Christmas social agreed that it was a wonderful evening with a delicious Christmas dinner provided by Catercraft and fantastic music to dance to. The club now want to announce that the festive season is not yet over as on Wednesday 25th January at 8.00p.m, the actual birthday of Robbbie Burns, they are holding a Burns Night party in the Memorial Hall. Frank Haggarty has kindly agreed to sing and those who attended last year will remember his great voice. There will also be other Scottish music, a Scottish raffle, and possibly a Scottish Quiz. Mulled wine, whisky, haggis and oat cakes will be provided, so there is no need to take your own wine. This promises to be an entertaining evening out amongst friends. Members free, visitors most welcome at £4 per head, more details from 01732 761359.
12 JAN	VILLAGE REPORT - KAY DRAKE 522727 Otford Brownies and Guides wish to thank everyone who supported their Christmas post service and also the library staff who made it possible. Over £230 was raised from the sale of ‘stamps’ which will be divided between the two nominated charities Hospice in the Weald and Kent Air Ambulance Trust.
12 JAN	VILLAGE REPORT - KAY DRAKE 522727 Otford Guides have also had an excellent response to requests for help over the past two years but are now once more looking for volunteers to help with Rainbows, Brownies, Guides or Rangers in existing, thriving, units or perhaps two or three friends might like to train to reopen the recently closed Brownies or you might be able to offer some administrative support. Please phone Caroline 01959 523200 or Jeanette 01959 523617 if you are prepared to help in any way.
12 JAN	VILLAGE REPORT - KAY DRAKE 522727 St. Bartholomew's church would like to thank everyone who made their Christmas worship so special especially the choir, musicians, flower arrangers, cleaners, caterers, church secretaries, churchwardens and sidesmen for all that they did this season and throughout the year.
5 JAN	VILLAGE REPORT - KAY DRAKE 522727 Happy Christmas and thank you to everyone who contributed information throughout 2005 to keep us abreast of Village events.
5 JAN	VILLAGE REPORT - KAY DRAKE 522727 Otford Scouts would like to start the New Year by thanking all of their supporters for their help in raising over £900 at the Bonfire Night in November. All funds raised so far will be used in the continued refurbishment of the scout hut and they look forward to seeing everyone at this years events.
5 JAN	VILLAGE REPORT - KAY DRAKE 522727 Otford Folk Dance Club will be dancing the night away tonight (between 8.00 and 10.00p.m. in the Church Hall tonight (5th). There will be a range of folk, square and barn dances of English, American, Scottish and Irish origin and after a first night free visit it costs just £1.50 per night including tea/coffee and biscuits.
5 JAN	VILLAGE REPORT - KAY DRAKE 522727 Otford Heritage Centre, at the School House, have a number of videos associated with the village as well as 2005 events on sale. If you didn’t get a calendar for Christmas they also have some from the Sevenoaks Round Table featuring scenes of Otford for £3 or 2 for 5 with proceeds going to local causes.
5 JAN	VILLAGE REPORT - KAY DRAKE 522727 If you are associated with any village organisation and would like to keep me abreast of forthcoming events I can be contacted on 01959 522727, email drake_kay@hotmail.com or fax 01959 525522.
1 JAN	ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S The January edition of the Parish Magazine is now on-line, with details of events and services for January. Christmas Thanks to all those who made our Christmas worship so special. We thank our choir and musicians, flower arrangers, cleaners, caterers, church secretaries, church¬wardens and sidesmen for all that they did for this season and throughout the year. On a personal note, the Vicar thanks all those who kindly sent Christmas wishes to her. The Parish Magazine contains sections also from the many village groups and organisations. St. Barts Church Office and the Vicar, Rev. Pat Hopkins, can be contacted at st.bartholomews@otford.net or 01959 523185.
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