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The official date for celebrating the 80th Anniversary of VE, Victory in Europe, Day is Thursday May 8th.
A special meeting to discuss how we might celebrate here in Denton was held on Tuesday April 22nd
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The results can be seen in
"Coming Events"
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This year's Annual Parish Meeting is to be held in the Village Hall on Tuesday May 13th starting at 7pm.
The Agenda can be seen
Here.
All Denton residents are encouraged to attend and have their say.
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Denton Village Hall has gained two new important features.
A set of Photo-Voltaic Panels has been added to the roof, on both sides, together with a Battery to store the resulting electricity. This should cover all the Hall's needs from now on and will, hopefully, earn some income from the electricity exported to the Grid.
The other new feature is a Broadband connection and a Wi-Fi facility for users of the Hall.
Well done the Hall Management Committee.
The next planned improvement will be a Card Reader, connected via Wi-Fi, for payments at the Bar.
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Members of the Thursday Coffee Club have been celebrating their third anniversary.
As usual on such occasions a cake with candles was provided, but instead of the usual small piece of cake with a single candle for members' birthdays, this event, held last Thursday. justified a complete cake and three candles.
Further details of the Club's activities can be found Here .
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The Parish Council have announced the date of this year's Annual Parish Meeting.
It is to be held at the Village Hall on Tuesday, 13th May starting at 7 pm.
Further details can be found on the
Council Page .
The Agenda will be circulated in due course.
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The annual gathering, in the Village Hall on March 7th, began with an hour for younger players to get some time on the tables with small games and a chance to pick up some of the rules; plenty of enthusiasm on show.
Some new faces turned up for the tournament and from one of these came the words, ‘I think the table is short on your side’, as the ball sailed over the end by a significant margin.
Janet Howman saw off all-comers to win the ladies’ shield, whilst Gary McDonald chalked up a hat trick of tournament wins in the men’s section.
Thanks to Gary and Blake for helping out with the youngsters and to everyone who made it an enjoyable evening.
Special thanks to Annie and Steve Whiteman for organising this great event yet again.Details of previous tournaments can be found in the History Section.
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Following the recent repairs to Denton’s Village Sign, another one, nearby, has undergone similar treatment. However, this one, located in Broome, received rather more publicity.
On the evening of March 5th it featured on BBC1 during an episode of “The Repair Shop”, with a great local connection. The Sign had been constructed, as part of the Millenium celebrations, by the father of former Denton resident, sadly no-longer with us, Roger Dove.
Unfortunately Dad died before he could complete the Sign so Roger duly took over. A picture of him working on it appeared in the programme. Roger’s great carpentry skills will be remembered, with gratitude, by many current Denton residents.
A report of the restoration project and its featuring on "The Repair Shop" appeared in the EDP on March 11th with a picture of Roger's twin sister, Beverley Hansey of Ditchingham, who organised the project.
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Great News - Denton Carpet Bowls Club is returning.
After a long gap, the Bowls Club. is restarting operations, from Monday 3rd March
Obviously, the number of people who get involved will decide its future success.
All Welcome!
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The latest Denton Variety Club production, “Cinderella” staged over three nights last week, resulted in very positive responses from the sell-out audience each evening.
The traditional panto, directed by Chris Hutton, drew much praise for scenery, costumes and music as well as the acting. Lots of audience participation kept things rolling along in the great DVC tradition.
Full details of the participants, no less than 38 are listed in the Programme, a Review from Oldstager, and a selection of photographs, can be seen in the DVC History Section.
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Where were you on the 6th February 2000?
Many, if not most, Denton residents were hard at work starting the process of planting our new Millennium Wood. A picture of these activities appears at the top of this site's Home Page.
Later renamed Rogerson’s Wood after the former Rector, who gave the land on which it stands to the Parish, the project provided a brilliant way of marking the Millennium.
Full details of the way it was created, with the help of the Woodland Trust, appear elsewhere on the Website.
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As usual, Saturday’s Annual Village Quiz at the Village Hall was hotly contested with eleven teams taking part.
The winners of the “Brain of Denton” trophy were the “Ins and Outs” team and, at the other end of the table, the “Wooden Spoon” award went to “Half Sharp”. As happened last year, there were remarkably few challenges to the Question-mistress' decisions but she awarded the “Bone of Contention” trophy to Michael Fitzgerald.
Denise and Peter Grant had put together a challenging set of questions in a wide range of categories and, again as usual, the inter-round questions, all on “Dogs”, were suitably amusing.
Thanks must go to all those who contributed to the excellent meal provided and to the Bar staff. A great evening was enjoyed by all.
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As expected, we will all be paying more Council Tax in 2025/6.
Of course, most of our Council Tax goes to pay for the services provided by the County and District Councils and the Police Authority, but the fourth party involved is our own Parish Council. However, they are responsible for little more than 10% of the total sum we all pay.
The others have yet to declare how much they will be levying in the next financial year, but at last night's DPC meeting the Parish Precept, the sum required for parish purposes was discussed and set.
The Council decided that to meet inflation etc. they would set the Precept at £5,000, up from £4,500 in the current year,It is feared that the increases set by the three other bodies will be at least as large.
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They keep on doing it!
This morning’s ITV programme, “This Morning” included a quite lengthy item on the DB Calendar with six of the twelve months represented in person. They all responded to questions very well explaining how they got involved etc. Paul Wilby did a great job, explaining the purpose behind the project.
Here they are on the way into the studio -
And as they subsequently appeared -
Well done them for giving up their time to travel up to London for the show.
The great community spirit in Denton came over very well. However, we could perhaps expect several extra visitors to the Bar on Friday nights.
More important, let’s hope it raises lots more donations for the two hospitals.
UPDATE
Saturday's EDP covered the exposure very well; only one problem - their picture only included five of the six Dream Boys available. Commiserations are due to Wayne!