The Link, October 2008, Volume 2008, No. 10

Caton and Brookhouse have been awarded a number of prizes in the Lancashire Best Kept Village Competition and everybody should be justly proud of our achievements.

Caton was runner up in the Medium Village Class and Brookhouse was third with a Highly Commended Certificate. Caton was also named as most improved Medium Village.

Could we remind people with hedges that it is your responsibility to cut them back and ensure that they don’t overhang footpaths, ginnels and pavements.

Thanks

The Parish Council in conjunction with the Gardening Club have been round and judged the Village Garden Competition. This year there was a very high standard, and luckily judging was completed before the worst of the rain!

This year’s winners were:

Best Commercial Premises :- Station Hotel Bowling Club

The meeting was held on 10th September and the Committee were voted in en-bloc. The treasurer gave us an up to date view of our finances, and from this information we gave the following organisations a donation:- The Scouts; St Paul’s PTA; St Paul’s Pre-School; Churches Together, and Caton Cricket Club. We also purchased 10 new tables and 70 new chairs.

Public are most welcome.

The watercolour painting group will meet at Brookhouse Methodist Church on the 10th & 24th October from 1-3pm. All are welcome, whatever your level of skill.

The trip to Bury Market will be on Wednesday 22nd October, leaving the Victoria Institute at 10.00am. This is the last trip of the season so please be thinking about where you would like to go next year, so we that we can arrange the programme in due course. Your ideas are a great help to us when the committee meet to decide where to go. Please see your representative to book your seat.

A very warm welcome back to all our pupils, especially our new reception pupils and to all members of our school community!

If your child is due to start school in September 2009, please take the opportunity to come and look round our friendly, successful school.

To arrange a convenient time, please ring Jane on 01524 770104 during school hours.

We meet every Tuesday morning during term time from 10am-11.30am at the Victoria Institute.

New mums/dads are always welcome.

Once again we went to Ormside Mill over the summer and everyone had a great time. As the nights are getting shorter we will continue to open on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 7-9pm. So you young people why not come along and check out what we can offer!