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Wainfleet St Mary Parish Spring/Summer 2024 Newsletter

By the time this drops through your letter box we hope the sun will have found its way to Wainfleet St Mary.....

Plans for 2024....

First on the list is The Annual Parish Meeting – this is where any WSM resident can come along to the meeting and tell us what you think of us – good and bad!! Or just to put a name to a face and see what we look like. The date is Monday 13th May at 5pm - we could even run to a cup of tea and a biscuit...the meeting lasts for as long as it is needed to and covers parish council aspirations and works over the last 12 months – plus a district and county report from Wendy – our ELDC and LCC Councillor.

The Annual Council Meeting follows on as the Parish Meeting concludes which is when a new Chair and other Officers are elected for 12 months to carry on with parish duties and responsibilities. If you have ever wondered what a Parish Councillor does come along and find out – who knows you might consider joining us – always room for volunteers and helpers!!

Rocking Around Wainfleet goes from strength to strength and will feature at the D Day commemoration on June 6th and again with the Village Show on 1st September as well as popping up at other events such as the Wainfleet Weekend....keep an eye on their Facebook page to see where they are and what they are doing...

In the planning is .......

Wainfleet remembers – 80th anniversary of the D Day landings.

Flyers and banners will shortly be seen around Wainfleet with the beacon due to make its arrival into the St Mary’s field behind the Hall very shortly. The beacon lighting is at 9.15pm with the hall and field open from 8.30pm with hot drinks and hot dogs also available. The programme currently includes a competition for all children to take part in designing a medal and writing a poem with prizes for the winners – check out the Hall Facebook page for more details – or message the clerk – wsmpclerk@btintermet.com. The Hall will have WW2 music and various items from WW2 invoking memories and questions. There will be an International Tribute read out along with the names of the fallen from WW2 from both St Mary’s and All Saints. The evening concludes with the lighting of the beacon and a bugler with a rendition of the Last Post.

If you can’t make the Beacon lighting, then hop along to the Coronation Hall on the Friday for a wartime dance – further details from wastc@btinternet.com- or have a look on WASTC FaceBook page.

The Jubilee Orchard

Now in it’s second full year since the formal landscaping and looking beautiful – nature has smiled through the rain and winter and produced blossoms and a peaceful place to sit – with your scarf and woolly hat and gloves for the moment however...further planting as time and weather permits is on the cards – all budding gardeners and green finger volunteers welcomed...

The Village Show - Sunday 1st September

Building on the Show last year plans are well under way for the Show this year – all we need is for the Summer to arrive – which by September it surely will have...

First up is the Sunflower competition...open to all residents of St Marys – who can grow the tallest – or the biggest width of head?

Any type of sunflower is fine – and now is the time to get the seeds in and germinating ready to plant out and grow, grow, grow.....Judging will be in August.

The show schedule with all details of classes and entries is available for collection from Wainfleet pets – you can leave your entries there as well to make it easy – as well as posting/dropping through the hall letterbox, or send to the clerk on wsmpclerk@btinternet.com

Mobile Phone Photography Competition

The number and standard of entries has been exceptional – some very talented snappers in the parish – and just lovely to see – especially when the weather is not inspiring posted up on the Community Hall Events FB Page....the finalists will be decided by a panel of judges with the public invited to vote at the Show.

There will be a programme available on the day of the Show so nothing is missed....live music, bouncy castles, bar, refreshments, craft stalls, tombola and raffle are all there again – pop the date in your diary or calendar....

And finally a huge vote of thanks to our knitters who continue to surprise and delight us with their creations....we love them!!

And if we can ask please our winners from 2023 to return their big shields to the Clerk by the middle of August ready for presentation on the 1st September......you may of course be a winner again and take them home for another 12 months....