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Woodland Management

Yesterday on the steep bank of the Papana Burn adjacent to the park in Garvald, the young trees received some annual maintenance work. Approximately fifty individual trees required some attention including the straightening of leaning trees, cutting of some intrusive weeds (e.g. gorse / brambles), replacing dead saplings and repairing damaged tubes and stakes. Photos taken by Graham Barnes.

Helping hands

A message from Emily Pattison: ‘I’m in between jobs at the moment and am available for baby-sitting, childminding, dog walking, pet-sitting, house-sitting, etc.’

Emily is aged 25 and based locally at Garvald Grange Steadings. If you would like to get in touch with her, please use the contact form and your details will be forwarded to her.

Vote for Haddington Table Tennis Club

A reminder to vote for Haddington Table Tennis Club to get them some funding from The People’s Projects.

Please help by voting for them before 3rd April, to win £50,000 for table tennis equipment and coaching in schools and community venues all over East Lothian. Click the link below and follow the voting instructions. You can also see our short film about the project.

https://www.thepeoplesprojects.org.uk/projects/view/table-tennis-east-lothian

They need as many votes as possible. Anyone with an email address can vote so please click now and pass on this message to as many friends and family as you can.

Link to our project on
Twitter: @tt_eastlothian
Facebook: @tabletenniseastlothian

More information and ‘Behind the Scenes’ videos can be found on the tabletenniseastlothian.co.uk website.

Thank you very much for your support.
Martin Hayman, Haddington Table Tennis Club

Mondays – 5.30-6.30pm for beginners, 6.30-8.30pm for all ages
Thursdays – 2.30-4pm Over 50s, 4-5pm Beginners, 5-6.30pm Juniors, 6.30-8.30pm Seniors
After School Clubs – Dunbar (Mon), Musselburgh (Tue) and Tranent (Wed)

Jumble Sale

The Return of the Great Garvald Jumble Sale!!

To be held on Sunday 23rd April

Save the date and save your jumble…bring it round to the Village Hall on Saturday 22nd April.

Details to follow…

Rogue’s Gallery Cabaret

Following the success of their March show in Haddington, Rogue Village will be hosting their next Rogue’s Gallery on Saturday 8 April at Tyninghame Village Hall – for tickets and more information, see the Rogue Village website.

“Rogue’s Gallery – a curiously curated cabaret. A monthly night of live music, dance, visuals, magic, circus and anything else that takes our fancy. A quality and captivating event transforming intimate venues across East Lothian.”

The Matinee is family friendly (4+) and very suitable for all ages, especially families with older children and teens. Evening show is 18+ only, a more laid back, social affair – a night-out, peppered with performance.

Garvald History Book

Following the successful local history night last summer, organised by the John Grey Centre Archives Department, local resident Tim Flinn suggested that Irene Anderson‘s book ‘Garvald, the history of an East Lothian Parish‘ could be digitised for archiving purposes and perhaps reformatted to make it easier to read. Heidi Ingram agreed this was a great idea, as there are few surviving copies of the printed book and the text may be of interest to village residents who haven’t seen it before. Due to the tiny print in the original book not being great for word scanning software, she dictated the work into digital format and scanned in Irene’s illustrations. She used these to produce a revised and updated second edition, including recent local projects and information from the 2011 Census. This edition has been published in her memory, knowing that she would have been delighted that her extensive and important research lives on and has been archived for posterity. Her sister has been sent information about the project. It is formatted primarily for online reading (but has been set to A5 page size so that it could be printed with two pages per A4 sheet). It can be found on the History of Garvald page.