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PLayground at the Village Hall
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- Category: Community
- Published on Monday, 26 March 2012 19:22
- Written by Tina Schwarz
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Congratulations and thanks to all who made Saturday's playground building such a happy and productive day. Thanks to the labour, donations, kit and food, all supplied by villagers, much was achieved in a short space of time.
Special thanks go to Dave Mitchell of D.M. Tree Services for the donation of a massive beech tree trunk and to Mike Gooderham for hauling it into place!!
Hope all the aching limbs have recovered!
Joan Maughan
Tina Schwarz
Help Needed
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- Category: Community
- Published on Friday, 16 March 2012 16:44
- Written by Tina Schwarz
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Saturday 24 March
9am to 4pm
Thornham Magna Village playground at the Village Hall
Help needed!
Put on your working clothes and join the village in rebuilding and landscaping the playground
All ages very welcome
hearty refreshments will be served
Work In Progress
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- Published on Wednesday, 19 October 2011 11:09
- Written by Mark Hatton
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This is very much a work in progress, but welcome to the new improved www.thornhams.org. What you see currently is a first draft which should retain the bulk of the content from the old site. It's all built on the very latest version of Joomla and is several generations on from our old site which really was creaking on old bones. It was a rather tortuous upgrade unfortunately and has taken FAR longer than anticipated... hopefully it will be worth it.
You should now be able to login and add new content / comments - please do try out the new system and This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. so that we can get the site working properly for us. Once we have the basics in place, we can start to add new functionality... suggestions very much welcomed.
One thing I would recommend is the use of Google Chrome as your default browser - when submitting conent it works much better than Firefox for example which can leave you in "dead ends".
Community Recycling Centres
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- Category: Community
- Published on Tuesday, 06 December 2011 16:13
- Written by Tina Schwarz
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From Roy Barker, Mid Suffolk DC portfolio holder for the environment.
The Brome and Bramford community recycling centres are being excellently run by Bolton Bros, who have now been operating for 3 months. The tonnage of recyclable*, which can be received ‘free of charge’ is slowly growing, but they still want more to offset the landfill element. They are recycling 91% and 97% which is very encouraging considering that previously the sites were 61% and 67% respectively.
The more we can encourage the public to use them the longer we will maintain these precious facilities on our doorsteps, thus saving the carbon footprint travelling to the next nearest facility, and the cost to the council of clearing fly tips in our district countryside.
It is about ‘Use it or lose it’. Please support the Bolton Bros in make these community recycling centres financially viable. Please spread the word that they are open and welcoming, and you might even find something useful for yourself from ‘the reuse stall’, which each site has!!
Yours Roy Barker.
Mid Suffolk DC portfolio holder for the environment.
MSDC Budget Challenge
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- Category: Community
- Published on Friday, 16 September 2011 16:13
- Written by Administrator
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Please follow this link to see a leaflet from MSDC on the Budget Challenge and how you can engage with it.
You are also invited to a presentation in relation to this consultation: it will be included in the agenda for the next Gislingham Parish Council meeting on Monday 19th September 2011, in the Gislingham Village Hall at 8.45pm. This will take half an hour and will end at 9.15pm.
