Town Talk
Diabetes charity benefits from STARAsupport
SNODLAND Town Active Retire- ment Association has been doing its bit for charity and has made a donation to the Paula Carr Diabetes Trust. STARA chairman Alan Elphick presented a cheque for £2,530 to trust chairman Gary Fagg. Thanking the club for the “magnificent sum of money” it had raised, Mr Fagg told STARA members: “You can lead a good life with diabetes but uncon- trolled diabetes is the biggest cause of blindness, amputations and dialysis.” The money will be used to-
Local news for Snodland and Halling
Sanctuary open for all A BIRD and wildlife sanctuary which was opened in 2009 is available for residents to enjoy. The Edgeler Sanctuary in Recreation Avenue, next to the entrance to the recreation ground, is named after Gerald Edgeler who died in 1997, aged 80. He lived in the house adjoin- ing the site and left a provision in his will to pay for bird seed and maintenance of the land. Martin and Brenda Turnbull
Gary Fagg, chairman of the Paula Carr Diabetes Trust, receives a cheque for £2,530 from Alan Elphick, chair- man of Snodland Town Active Retirement Association (STARA), and Sheila Last
The club runs a number of fundraising activi-
wards buying and running a machine that helps fight gangrene.
LONDON attractions are the theme for the floats and walkers for this year’s Snodland Carnival on Saturday, July 7 and plans are in hand for a full pro- gramme of events at Potyns Sports- ground. Money raised will be given to the com- munity centre and S.T.O.P youth club. Anybody interested in taking part in
the carnival is invited to attend the next meeting at the Moyeuvre-Grande Suite, Devonshire Rooms, Waghorn Road at 7.45pm on Friday, March 9. More details from the town council on 01634 240228. The annual Twenty20 cricket match, real ale festival and musical evening will
ties for charity and this year it is supporting Macmillan Cancer Support.
Town’s residents get set for carnival capers
Summer in Snodland will include carnival, Twenty20 cricket and beer festival fun
take place in the cricket meadow on Sat- urday, June 30 and the Picnic on the Patio at the Monks Head, Constitution Hill, is on Saturday, August 4. A Holmesdale Technology College In-
vitation XI, including staff, pupils and par- ents, will take on the Snodland Select XI, while the real ale festival will provide a wide selection of Kentish ales and the Goosebumps, a jazz, swing and jive group, is the musical attraction, as last year. The Fecks are returning to the Monks
Head. Last year, they entertained about 250 people, helping raise £560 for Kent Air Ambulance.
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