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| Published date | 22 June 2022 |
| Publication title | Loughborough Echo |
The annual event draws any people to the village and raises hundreds of pounds each year for various charities, some situated in the village and some outside.
The plea for more help to run the very busy café service on show day comes from Sue James, who be contacted on 01509 673460 or sueliljames@yahoo.com - who has confirmed they do need more volunteers to serve drinks and food as well as those who could be available on the day previous to the show to help make sandwiches or set up the room.
Says Sue: "If you are not able to do that could you make a cake, or two, for use on Show Day.
It would make a great deal of difference if i get a few more helpers" she said, giving thanks in advance to those who can and do help.
COMMUNITY SHOP. Sutton Bonington's Community Shop and Post Office is building up on the service it gives to the village and is providing a broad range of postal and everyday banking service. It has Euros available in branch and can also offer a next-day bureau de change service.
Many of the cards on sale in the shop are locally made, hand-made or Fairtrade.
The show opens six days a week, Monday to Saturday 9am to 12.30, and on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday also from 1.30pm to 4pm.
GARDEN WALKABOUT.
Two days of kind weather conditions - it was warm and sunny for much of the time - helped make this year's Sutton Bonington and Kingston on Soar Garden Walkabout event in aid of Cancer Research UK a success, and for four hours on both the scheduled days of the weekend event there was a steady stream of cars and people moving around the village as visits were being made to the wide variety of gardens in the two villages that were open for people to look around.
This was the 40th year the event had been held and was welcomed back with lots of enthusiasm and support after the enforced two-year break imposed by the UK's pandemic situation. It was a coincidence that in this 2022 year for the event as well as it being the 40th time it had taken place, there were over 40 gardens that were open for visits.
As well as a straight forward visit to the gardens that were open, refreshments were available for purchase at some, including the Village Hall on St Anne's Lane, 6 Willow Poole Lane and 10 The Paddocks at Sutton Bonington and at 5 Long Row and the Hall grounds at Kingston.
Charnwood Fields, Park Lane, Willow Poole Lane, Orchard Close, Main Street, Gables Lea, The Paddocks, St Anne's Lane, Pasture Lane, and College Road in Sutton Bonington and Long Row, The
Green and Kegworth Road in Kingston had gardens open to visit along with St Winifreds Church which is one of the top 100 churches in the UK and where the Babington Chantry Chapel (c. 1540) is considered to be the most remarkable chantry in the country. The village halls in both villages were open as were the grounds of Kingston Hall on the second day. Jane Smith at 45a Main Street in Sutton Bonington had her usual busy and well stocked cake stall operating and where the volunteers were kept busy serving customers. Maureen and Michael Lord had a well stocked bric-a-brac stall outside their home at 58 Park Lane Carol and Rob Ereminowicz at number 70 in the same area. There were a number of new gardens this year on the visiting list in Sutton Bonington including at the home of Ann Dickens at 29 Charnwood Fields, Joe and Mel Bradley at the Hungary Lane Farm, Jane and Dan Ginty at 32 Main Street, Emma and Peter Mitchell at The Orchard, Pasture Lane and Amy Twomey-Wood at 19 Landcroft Lane. The village primary school were also taking part for the first time where its new Garden Club helps the youngsters learn about gardening, nature, team work and fundraising and where there were flowers and vegetables for sale.
ANNUAL REPORT. The efforts made in Sutton Bonington, by both parishioners and members of the parish council, to ensure the high standard of life in the village is maintained was praised by parish chairman Julie McMullen-Kerr in the annual report presented to the recent parish meeting held in the village hall.
The chairman said:"The year 2021 was certainly a very different year to 2020 and also a long way from the 'reality' or 'new reality'that so many craved.
"As is often the case with challenge, individuals and...
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