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Help keep
Speak up
and help
town’s carnival
improve
services
tradition alive
Ever wanted to speak up about a
health or social care service in
Carnival queens, marching bands, a procession with floats and fancy dress,
your area but not known how?
duck races and sand building competitions… These are some of the vital
It might have been to offer an
ingredients and expected activities at a seaside town’s successful carnival. But
opinion on how things could be
carnivals don’t happen without the help and support of the local community.
improved, or talk about an
experience – good or bad. Well,
Bournemouth Carnival will take place from 2-9 August this year and it will
now you have the opportunity.
again be a wonderful occasion to be enjoyed by people of all ages. The
Carnival is also a way of raising funds for deserving local charities and good
A LINk (Local Involvement
causes.
Network) listens to what people
like you have to say about
To kick start the planning for a successful 2009 event, Bournemouth Carnival
health and social care services
Committee will be hosting an open evening on Tuesday 10 February
and then tells councils and the
from 7.30pm at the Marsham Court Hotel. Are you an interested
NHS so that services can
company, organisation or volunteer helper? If so,
get better.
come along for some light refreshments and a
chance to hear plans for this year’s event and
the 2010 carnival in Bournemouth’s Have your say on
bicentenary year. The Committee will also
0300 111 0102 or email
be looking to hear your ideas and find
contact@makesachange.org.uk
new sponsors.
Find out more at:
To be added to the open evening guest
list, please contact the Carnival Committee
www.makesachange.org.uk
secretary, Tony Fail, on 01202 510198 or email
him on tonypat@rfail.fsnet.co.uk, before Monday
9 February.
CULTURE CALENDAR
25. . . Burns Night (Scottish) -
Celebrating
celebrating the birthday of
February
Bournemouth’s
Scotland's national poet
14. . . St Valentine’s Day - the
diverse communities –
Robert Burns. This is a
traditional day when lovers
some notable dates. special year as it will be the
express their love for each
250th anniversary of
other by sending cards,
January
Burns’ birth.
presenting flowers or
26. . . Chinese New Year – 2009
offering chocolate.
5. . . Birthday of Guru Gobind
is the year of the Ox.
24. . . Shrove Tuesday (Christian) –
Singh (Sikh) - the tenth and
27. . . Holocaust Memorial Day –
also known as Pancake Day.
last of the Sikh Gurus.
see page 5.
25. . . Ash Wednesday (Christian) –
6. . . Epiphany (Christian) – a
Lent begins, marking the
feast day which celebrates
time Jesus spent in the
the revelation of God in
wilderness.
human form in the person
of Jesus Christ.
March
14. . . Makar Sankrant (Hindu) –
an important festival
1. . . St David’s Day - the Welsh
celebrating the sun’s
feast day of Saint David.
journey into the northern
hemisphere.
Chinese New Year
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