FIRST of all, members and guests of the WRVS Welland Over 60’s Cordery Club should meet outside village hall on June 4 for the Outing to Evesham Country Park. Details can be obtained from Margaret Smith on 01684 833252.

Car boots for Welland this year are all commencing at noon and all the organizers request that visitors and booters obey the parking marshalls. The dates for May are May 24 and 31. The first one of the season (last week) in aid of Pre-School was a great financial success.

Kids Klobber returns on May 16 to the Village hall; Sellers 10am – buyers at 11am. For information or book a table, please contact Jo Horrobin on 01684 310256 The Welland Farmers Market Co-operative will once again visit us at the Village Hall on Sunday, May 17 from 10am-1pm. Any enquiries can be made to 07764 261263 or 01242 621326.

Plants 4 U is returning to the Village Hall on Saturday, June 6 from 9.30-11.30am. There will be arrange of hardy plants and shrubs. Enquiries to Annette Ward on 01531 650208.

Sunday, May 17 (Rogation Sunday) sees a Joint Church Service at Lawn Farm, Drake Street, Welland at 11am. Further details can be found at WWW.stjameschurchwelland.org.uk.

The last item for this week is to remind you about the Parish Annual Meeting, which will be held in the Village Hall this coming Monday, May 18, at 7pm. There will be guest speakers and all residents are encouraged to attend and ask the Parish Council, District and County Councillors and Guest Speakers questions. There follows the regular monthly meeting of the Parish Council. Following on from this, at the parish Council Meeting held last night, our District Councillor talked about the ongoing consultation process regarding waste in the District. Do you want Wheelie Bins or not, etc. The process is open until October/November time, so contact your District Councillor or the District Council, through the Hub either by phone, letter or website. On a linked topic, I have been approached by members of the village who have raised suspicions that ‘all councillors who have been elected at one time or another to represent their Parish, District, County or Parliamentary Constituents are tainted by the recent Expenses fiasco’. I can speak as a Parish councillor for many years and a District Councillor for fewer years that to my knowledge expenses are not milked by the lower levels of Government representation. Indeed, the lower the level, the more rigorous are the rules and the Code of Conduct that we all subscribe to, is considered sacrosanct.