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	Click picture to Watch Marie "Free Fall" for MS

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.

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!

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.

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.

FASHION SHOW
CLICK THE MODEL TO READ ALL ABOUT THE
ISLAND'S MS SOCIETY FASHION SHOW.

GALLERY

Proposed - but will only work with the support of members

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!

REFLECTIONS
	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.

We can include an ARTICLES FOR SALE and a WANTED section on these news pages.

DID YOU KNOW?

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