On
Saturday 2nd November, John Evans, John Pragnell, John Stevens and
John P’s friend Terry made a start on putting up the Romsey Christmas lights.
Progress was slow because a malicious fairy had re organised everything since
last Christmas. Several bulbs needed replacing, mainly green ones, and lights tested;
which is difficult in day light.
The
switch on is Sat 23rd November, which doesn’t give us much time to
finish the installation.
The donation that
the Scouts/Fire Service Benevolent Fund received last year was again
reduced by Romsey Chamber of Commerce, without
discussion and agreement; which we were no happy about. Romsey District Scouts
have the Scouting money for 2012 which should be distributed of over the next few
days.
Romsey
Town Council have now taken over running of the Christmas Lights and have
confirmed that donations to volunteer organisations will be restored to the
originally agreed levels.
If you are free next Saturday and the
following Saturday and Sunday to help put up the lights, your help would be
greatly appreciated. Not only can you raise money for your Group but it’s also
good fun and visitors to Romsey like to see Scouts working in the community.
Updates
will be on the Christmas lights page of the District website, password
available from John Evans.
Hope
to see you soon! Please do pass on this message to anyone else who may be
willing to help.
No comments:
Post a Comment