KEMP TOWN John Randall

Kemp TOWN CRICKET CLUB: The club is looking for new members. They play at East Brighton park every Saturday and Sunday, nets on a Thursday.They need to recruite new enthusiastic players for this year's season. If you can bail them out contact Henry Wood on 01273 50068 or Bob

Vinicombe 01273 552268, for more details.

U3A IN KEMP TOWN: U3A Stands for University of the Third Age. The Brighton and Hove Branch has recently been awarded a £1000 grant under the National Lottery Millennium Festival awards. This will enable them to launch their new centre in the new Kemp Town centre in the crypt of St George's Church in St George's Road. For more details contact Bob Gunnell on 01273 554590.

COMMUNITY PARENTS PROG-RAMME: This is a way for parents in their own community to get together to help each other out. Community parents will be volunteer parents nationally trained to deliver the programme. The idea of the programme is to offer an encouraging listening ear and to share tips on the ups and downs of parenting in complete confidence. For more details contact Christine Wade on 01273 703100.

LEWES AND OUSE VALLEY

Pauline Cherry

LAUGHING MATTER: Our local pub, the Abergavenny Arms, Rodmell, is holding a comedy evening on Sunday. Three top comedians from the London circuit will be appearing. Tickets are £6 on the door and £5 in advance. Call 01273 472416.

SKATING ON THIN ICE: Lewes Jazz Club held a great evening of entertainment last week with The Rupert Cobb's Jazz Four. Rupert, Andrea, Andrew and Berny are so amusing and laid back that it has a good relaxing effect on the audience who thoroughly enjoyed themselves. I hope Thin Ice with Paula Bell and Pauline Cherry have the same effect this week.

The Jazz Jivers are also going to entertain us, hopefully as well. They are fascinating to watch.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT: According to a letter in the Argus recently, the site at Falmer for the proposed football stadium is a muddy site just right for development. It is, in fact a field that was ploughed in the autumn to become a field of wheat or flax. Those of us that live in the countryside despair at the lack of understanding of it by town dwellers at times. Will all our 'muddy fields' become buildings site we wonder? I hope not! Food does not magically appear on supermarket shelves, it has to be grown.

HOVE TO FISHERSGATE

Frank Blake

ATE FOR THE DIARY: The first Wednesday Organ Concert of the year takes place at Portslade Town Hall, Victoria Road, on Wednesday, with local organist Michael Wooldridge. The concert is presented by Friends of the South Coast Organ Society and will commence at 8pm. Tickets available at the door.

WOODINGDEAN

Ray Blakwood

AT YOUR SERVICE: If you are housebound in Woodingdean, there are a number of useful facilities available. For example, DFC Greengrocers in Warren Way offer a delivery service on 300441 and Woodingdean Community Library on 296928 can arrange library services in association with local volunteers. If you can get to Woodingdean Library on the three days it is open (Monday, Thursday and Saturday) you might like to ask about the new free reading group or pick up the information on the website (http://www.libraries.brighton.co.uk). Readers who belong to Woodingdean Library can borrow up to six books, four videos, four audio items and two CD Roms from the library. There is also a wordprocessing service available and access to the internet, which costs £1.50 per half-hour session. Do you have ten top reads about which you would like to write a review for Woodingdean Library News Desert Island Books feature? If so, let a librarian know.

SUB POST OFFICES: Woodingdean is keen to retain its Cowley Drive and Falmer Road sub post offices at which residents are able to collect their Benefits. ACT (Automatic Credit Transfer) as the main way of paying benefits is due to start in the year 2003 and will be phased in over two years. The important news is that people will still have the option of collecting their full benefits in cash from the Post Office if they want to do so.

EASTBOURNE

Mary Barlow

SPRING Book Sale: This is on at the Central Public Library in Grove Road until April 8. Besides books there will be some videos and reference items available.

LUNCHES: The Old Town Lunch Club is on Mondays from noon-1pm at Greenfield Road Methodist Church in Old Town. Soups, sandwiches and desserts with waitress service and friendly company. All are welcome every Wednesday until April 12 at Our Lady of Ransom Parish Centre (entrance in Meads Road) from noon-1.45pm and every Thursday until April 6 at St Agnes Church, Whitley Road, for bread, cheese, soup and coffee in aid of Mother Teresa's work. At the Wednesday lunches there will also be a bring and buy stall and a raffle.

CHILDCARE: Since October 1999 there has been a free service available in the Childcare Information Suite in Eastbourne Central Library, Grove Road, to help parents to find childminders, nurseries, playgroups, holiday and after school play schemes. Telephone 01323 737294 or call in at the library.

CHILDREN'S Fun Camp:This is on tomorrow at Lloyds Lane (near Sainsbury's) from 10am-4pm for ages 8-13, £12 for the day. Book on 01323 509999.

SEASIDE Library: The organisers of Friends of Seaside Library urge people to use the replacement services at St Aidan's Church and Parker House as this could still be threatened by closure in the future. The money raised will be donated to Kidzone, an after school care and holiday play scheme at St Aidan's church hall. Lesley and Debbie wish to thank everyone for their support.

EASTBOURNE Film Society: The AGM and final film were on Wednesday but there is a 'mini season' of four films, three British and one French, on Wednesday, April 12, May 10 and May 17 at the Curzon Cinema in Langley Road, which are all open to the general public. The new season starts in

September but there will be a special screeing on June 21 of the German film Run, Lola, Run. New members are always welcome. Telephone the Curzon on 01323 731441 or the secretary on 01323 504176.

CONCERTS: Moira House School

presented a most enjoyable Easter Concert last Friday, combining classical, secular and religious themes. On Tuesday, the Eastbourne Concert Orchestra is performing a concert at

the Town Hall at 7.45pm entitled

Classics and Coffee, conducted by

Bryn Bridges and with young violin-

ist David Price.

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