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Fundraising
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May
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Click
picture to Watch Marie "Free Fall" for MS
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MS
Awareness Week.
Saturday 21st May until Saturday 28th May 2011.
On Tuesday
24th May at 2 pm Tim, our Island Chairman passed the scissors to Jane
to open the Shop at the Shanklin Centre. Speeches were kept to a minimum.
Tim expressed his pride in, and gratitude to, all the people who made
the Centre such a success. His thanks were particularly addressed to Jane
who, planted the idea of a 'Centre', ensured that it germinated and flourished
to become such an asset to everyone on the Island touched in some way
by MS. He passed the scissors to Jane who thanked everyone who pulled
together to make things work. She then cut the ribbon to declare the shop
officially open.
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Friday
20th May is the date for the MS fundraising Cake Break. This has been
a very worthwhile event for several reasons. It does increase awareness
of MS. It encourages very friendly social interaction, raises substantial
funds nationwide and the most important part, makes great cakes!
Just make a nice cake, invite family and friends to do the same and then
invite them all round to eat them with copious supplies of tea and coffee.
Donations for the refreshments along with funds from selling raffle tickets
for surplus cakes can be paid into our local branch or sent to MS headquarters.
I'm looking forward to some Lemon Drizzle cake! If you would prefer, we
will have extra supplies of delicious home made cakes in the shop in Shanklin.
www.mssociety.org.uk/cakebreak.
OK - OK . . . . I know we have passed the cake break
day - but that's no reason to stop making cakes! Why not have a cake break
day once a month! I have found that people don't need much of an excuse
to eat cake. Why not invite family and friends to your own cake break,
sell them tea/coffee at a reasonable price and for a donation, everyone
gets a tombola ticket and takes home a delicious home made cake. At the
cake break I visited, there was good company, good conversation and great
cakes!
If
you organize a cake break of your own, tell the newsletter editor about
it and maybe share the recipe with us all so we all make one too!
Oh
yes - The lemon drizzle cake was amazing!
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Wight
Fair Writers' Circle
Wight Fair Writers'
Circle organized a writing competition on the Island as previously reported
on this page. The competition was well supported and I had the privilege
of attending the prize giving at Newport. It was very encouraging for
Carol Bridgestock and her husband Bob to see so many excellent entries,
particularly from young people after all their hard work to organize the
competition.
We have good cause to
be grateful to the Wight Fair Writers' Circle as all entry money from
the competition was donated to three local charities. These were The Barely
Born Appeal, Love Russia and our local branch.
Our sincere thanks go to Carol and Bob, both accomplished crime writers,who
took time from their busy schedule to come along on Saturday 5th February
to our shop to present us with a cheque for £125. They spent a good
time inspecting the centre and were very impressed with everything they
saw. We enjoyed their conversation, company and enthusiasm over several
cups of tea and coffee.
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Pictured at the presentation are from left, Trudy, Sue Smith, Carol Bridgestock,
Jane Dollery and Tim Smith.
To read some of the winning entries, click on either pen above.
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NEWS LETTER
Lezley is making a great effort to produce our Newsletter. Her efforts
have been rewarded by the quality. But here comes the part where
you do your bit. PLEASE SEND US STUFF TO INCLUDE. As the deadline
date approaches for sending to the printers, the pressure increases
to find stuff. It would be great to have so much material that some
has to be held over to the next issue.
If you have any interesting stories, travel news, good news, favorite
recipes, bus trips, photographs, embarrassing moments, heart warming
moments, claims to fame or all of the above, please send them to
any committee member and share them with the rest of us!
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FASHION SHOW
CLICK THE MODEL TO READ ALL ABOUT THE
ISLAND'S MS SOCIETY FASHION SHOW.
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Recycle
'Old Mobiles'
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Click
the aeroplane to read
one members experience of
long haul air travel
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GALLERY
Proposed
- but will only work with the support of members
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I think it would be good to have a 'Gallery' page. It could include anything
relevant to the MS Society. Some examples.
Members and their family
holidays or adventures. (In the crows nest maybe)
New transport or equipment.
Pets
Hobbies - Sailing, carriage driving, cross stitch - whatever.
Or just people. We have some very good looking members and helpers.
Just to get the ball
rolling - and because I have the photos - Click
the camera to have a look!
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REFLECTIONS
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Alf
Murdoch has occasionally put pen to paper to record some of his thoughts.
'Reflections' represent a collection of his memories of life now and
then. |
"ARTICLES
FOR SALE"
We
can include an ARTICLES FOR SALE and a WANTED section on these news pages.
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DID
YOU KNOW?
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The
Island MS Branch has nearly 140 Members; I suspect that many of
them use a computer. However, less than thirty members have provided
an email address.
We
would like to have email addresses for the database.
Why???
Well, with your consent, we can use your email to speed up communications.
The best way to demonstrate this would be to send your copy of the
Isle of Wight Newsletter by email.
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As
webmaster I know many people are cautious about giving their email address
out to any Tom Dick and Harry. I understand this as I am careful too.
However, MS Central Office already hold details of your name, address
and maybe telephone number. I can assure you that they treat security
very carefully. It would also mean the local branch could make a considerable
saving in postage.
If
you are happy to disclose your email address, then I would suggest that
you let us know by using something along the line of the following
I am happy to disclose my email address to all areas of the MS Society.
I would like my email address to be kept by the local branch only.
I only want my email address used to send me my Newsletter.
Please indicate your wishes.
No sensitive matter would ever be dispatched by email; personal contact,
telephone or 'snail mail' being the method used for such communications.
If
you are happy about the above, then please send your preference, along
with email address to me at
peter@iwcn.co.uk or Jane, the Island branch secretary, janeanniw@gmail.com
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Newsletters and some other documents. You can download Adobe Reader
by clicking the logo along side.
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© Isle of Wight Branch 2009 - Registered Charity Nos. 1139257/SCO41990
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