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and events : midsummer fair :
reports archive : february 2003 Reproduced from The Glenside News (Feb 2003) ... " It always seems strange to be thinking about a warm June day when suffering the winds, rain, snow and frost of winter and wondeirng when the first heavy snowfall is due. Nevertheless the Fair Committee does excatly that when planning next years event. The difficulties in staging public events grow year on year as legislation and, what the bureaucracy that all government breeds, the lesser "rules" consume a forest worth of paper as they try to tell us what to do and not to do. The defence of the spokespeople for all this nonsense is that it is for our "own good" and that "they know better". A direct result of all this is the need to take out insurnace for all sorts of unlikely things and the Fair is no exception to this. The point fo this is that the Fair costs money simply to out on. Insurance is only one of the inevitable costs. over the winter we aim to raise funds to underwrite the costs on the day. If by some mischance that the Fair had to cancelled or it poured with rain on the day and no one came, we would still have to pay certain costs. Our first event this winter was the Bingo Night in October, a special thank you to Sue Keiff for organising the prizes and to Jayne for helping us to get it right on the night and a big thank you to those of you who supported us. The turnout was disappointing compared to previous years but the £150 we made will all help to make this years Fair go ahead. Soon we will be organising our Pub Quiz Night so watch out for the notices and come along and support us. Our last Fair article mentioned that the Fair committee had decided to brighten up the Village by planting a few daffodil bulbs; I think we managed to bury nearly 70 kilos of bulbs in the end. We live in one of the nicest villages in the country and we hope our small efforts will help keep it that way. " |
