• SOME time ago Mrs Susie Colenutt gave Wyke Regis Sisterhood three bin bags full of assorted wool and set members the task of knitting six inch squares to sew together to make blankets.

Members of Wyke Methodist church and the Thursday morning coffee mornings joined in with the challenge and also donated more wool.

Four ladies managed to produce a whole blanket each.

87 year old Sisterhood member Mrs. Eileen Smithson sewed together more squares than could be counted in her own marathon contribution to the effort.

The 21 blankets eventually produced by the ladies in total will now be sent to an orphanage in Romania.

Wyke Sisterhood meets on Tuesday afternoons in Wyke Methodist church hall and welcomes new members of all ages. For further information telephone 01305 770595.

  • THE NEXT meeting of the Friends of Wyke Gardens will take place on Thursday, April 23 at 7pm upstairs in the committee room at the Working Men's Club in Portland Road, Wyke. Everybody who cares about the gardens and wants to be involved in helping keep them in good order as an asset to the community or has suggestions how to enhance and look after them is welcome to this meeting.
  • THE EASTER bunny was out and about at Fiveways on Easter Saturday handing out Easter eggs to over 60 local youngsters outside Alfs fish and chip shop. The event was organised by John and Karen Pearce.

Joan Hallett, chair of the Co-op Guild was the lucky winner of first prize in the raffle which raised £56.80 towards the cost of coach outings for local people over the coming months.

  • THE SOCIETY for the Protection of Markham and Little Francis invites you to send in pictures taken on the Town Green. Who knows, yours might be the one chosen for ‘Picture of the Month’ to be displayed on the society’s website http://www.weymouth.gov.uk/home.asp?sv=1176 Photographs may be submitted to any committee member or emailed as a jpg directly to Michael Daniel at michael-p-daniel@supanet.com.

For further information telephone Michael on 01305 789634 Those of you who turned up to the society’s Easter egg hunt on the Town Green will be pleased to know the event raised £208.26. Thank you everyone who joined in.

To receive the town green newsletter by email and thus keep up to date with events contact Sue on markham.littlefrancis@virgin.net