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Your PCN Digital Champion will be available for drop in appointments at Over Surgery on Thursday 18 April 2024 between 0900 and 1100.
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Celebrate Easter with the Churches in Over
Here are the planned Easter services and activities in our three churches. Good Friday is 29th March and Easter Sunday is 31st March. Methodist Chapel Good Friday: 11am service with Deacon Sue Roberts. Tea and hot cross buns to follow. Easter Sunday: 6pm service of Holy Communion with Rev James Bamber Over Baptist Church Good Friday: 3pm service with Communion Easter Sunday: 6.15am Easter Sunday sunrise service in the Orchard, followed by bacon rolls at the Chapel. Meet at the Chapel at 6.15am to walk to the orchard together. Easter Sunday: 1100 Easter Sunday morning worship at the Chapel. St Mary’s (Church of England) Prior to the Easter weekend itself,…
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Councillor Lentill’s Report on SCDC meeting of 27 February 2024
On 27 February South Cambs met to discuss the budget. The debt ceiling, taxes, and council house rents went up. All those promised savings from the Four-Day Week Trial haven’t amounted to much. You’ll be glad to know that remuneration for us councillors is also going up (backdated), despite a verbosely elegant speech from your not-especially humble correspondent arguing that this might tend to annoy residents. As with last year’s rise, my ill-gotten gains will go directly to registered charities in Over & Willingham. With the exception of three late-arriving rays of sunshine, it was a bleak and gloomy picture overcast by the botched Four-Day Week Trial, the elephant in…
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5 Pub Challenge for Over Day Centre
Keep the date free! 12th May 2024. See details on the poster.
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Village Runner Fundraising for EACH Sets Sights on World Record at London Marathon
A fun-loving fitness fanatic is setting her sights on a quirky world record by running the fastest marathon by someone dressed as a videogame character. Teacher Alison Stewart will be going for glory in the guise of Chun-Li, from 90s hit Street Fighter, when she pounds the streets of London on 21st April. The 44-year-old needs to beat the previous-best time of three hours and 56 minutes and is raising funds for East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH). She previously ran for EACH at the 2019 London Marathon – in the process setting a record for the fastest runner dressed as a fairytale character. “I must be mad but love a fun,…
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Over Community Festivals Update
The Over Community Festivals AGM took place at the Community Centre on Tuesday 6 January. The Co-Chairs Jane and Jeanette took the opportunity to say the following thank yous: To all the committee members past and present for all their help with the Christmas Lights Switch On in December and with the planning for the next Carnival on Saturday 13 July 2024: Disco Dave, Annie and Nicky, Deanne, Nichole, Tasha, Natasha, Vicky, Jamie, and Madeleine To all those who generously sponsor our events and attend with stalls and food trucks, and all the musicians/singers/entertainers (and Father Christmas!) To all our friends behind the scenes who make these events possible especially:…
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Over Day Centre – Cancellation of Abba Event
Sadly the event planned for March 9th has had to be postponed until later in the year, The date has yet to be confirmed
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Dementia Support Service in your GP Surgery
If you need dementia support, we’re here for you. Our Dementia Advisers work with people with dementia, their families, and carers to provide a highly responsive and individualized information, support, and signposting service. This service is based at your GP surgery, it’s free and confidential. As trusted experts in dementia, our advisers offer advice and support with all aspects of dementia, including: To see a Dementia Adviser Speak to the receptionist at your GP surgery who will book an appointment for you. Cambridgeshire Dementia Support Email: cambridgeshiredementia@alzheimers.org.ukTelephone: 01223 620962 National Dementia Support Telephone: 0333 150 3456Opening hours: Mon – Weds: 9am – 8pm, Thurs – Fri: 9am – 5pm, Sat…
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Major Edward Lachlan
MAJOR EDWARD LACHLANMrs Elizabeth Lachlan and family have asked that we share the very sad news of Edward’s death tothe many friends in the village who knew him.The funeral will take place in Little St Mary’s, Cambridge, on Wednesday 6th March at 1pm.A Thanksgiving Service will also be held on Friday 8th March in Over St Mary’s at 2pm.Those who would like to attend are welcome to either or both services.
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Swavesey and District History Society – Reports for Jan/Feb 2024
Swavesey & District History Society January 2024 meeting. Dr Caroline Shenton, former Director of the Parliamentary Archives at Westminster, spoke on “National Treasures: Saving the Nation’s Art in WW II”. The little-known story of how the priceless exhibits of Britain’s museums, gallery and library collections were protected and preserved. These included Old Masters, the Magna Carta, the Crown jewels, the Parthenon Marbles, rare books, numerous marble statues and hundreds of tons of national archives from the Public Records Office. Winston Churchill ordered that all would be stored at home because the risk of sending to Canada, for example, was too great. So, they were stashed in ingenious hiding places across…
