Around Kingswear
Around Kingswear OSCARS FOR OSCAR
A bit of proud
parent stuff here – and quite right too - but we thought you might be interested in Oscar Jones’s latest achieve- ment in the Poole GMPD (Gymnastics and Move- ments for People with Disabilities) competition in October. He’s a member of the South Devon School of Gymnastics in Paignton and Oscar came away
from the competition with a silver medal in floor routine and bronze in vault. He also entered the Special Olympics GB 2012 National Gymnastics Artistic Competition held in Cardiff on 3/4th November and came home boasting 5 silver medals! Well done say we.
SUE HOLMAN Former Torbay JP and local businesswoman, Sue Holman
died peacefully in Torbay Hospital on August 15th, aged 86.
From the late 1950s until the mid 1970s she was a director of J W & A Upham in Brixham where they built many classic sailing yachts designed by her brother-in-law Kim Holman. Her family developed Darthaven Marina Ltd from small beginnings to the busy place it is today on the river Dart in Kingswear. She took an active interest in the Yacht Harbour Association – a section of the British Marine Federation. She was very involved in local life – at one time she was the Chairman of the Dart Harbour Commercial Users’ Group, a role she took very seriously. She was also on the selection commit- tee for the Harbour Board for many years. At one time she was sitting on the Magistrates’ bench in
Torbay for at least 2 days per week. She was particularly involved with the Juvenile Court and the Licensing Panel. In recent times she has not been mobile enough to get about much but many local people on both sides of the river and in the Bay will remember her with fondness. She was a dynamic character who will be much missed by her family and friends.
CHRISTMAS CREEPING UP Yes it’s nearly Bah Humbug time again and the village
is about to be dazzled by as many as several lights for the festive season. The switch-on time is 6:00 pm on Friday December 7th so do please make sure you are there in your thousands to hear the Kingswear schoolchildren sing carols and to see our streets cheered up by colourful light at this gloomy time of year. We may be in the village hall this year but if all goes well we’ll meet at the normal place outside the station. All will be obvious on the night. They tell me that Father Christmas is going to be there and if the children are all good – which of course they will be – there may well be presents in the village hall after- wards with drinks and biscuits. Adults may be cheered-up with minced wine and mulled pies to start the total descent into bacchanalian gluttony to ease us through the darkness and cold. Ah Christmas! See you there.
CARLOW LUNCH This year’s Carlow Bequest lunch for the more senior
members of our village is to be held on January 9th 2013 at the yacht club. There will be a three course lunch which will cost the diners only £6 or thereabouts. (Final financial decisions were still going to the Court of High Chamber as I write!) Entertainment is to be enjoyed from Elle’s Angels who will charm the event with seasonal singing. Tickets for this event can be bought at the Post Office
by Mike Trevorrow
FURNACE OF LEARNING This looks a bit like Gareth Malone 2 conducting the
Kingswear Kiln Choir! Well it wasn’t quite like that, what happened was that 50 children from Dartmouth Academy travelled over the water with their teachers and others to study the natural life in Waterhead Creek. Part of that life was Rob Lovell and Mike Trevorrow who turned into teach- ers for the morning in order to help the children understand a bit better what a creek was and how it was important to the local environment, and what the lime kiln was used for historically. There were ‘no wrecks and nobody drowned’ and the children were very interested as their letters of thanks testify.
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