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Woodbridge Library goes Creepy

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What a jolly morning I’ve had, judging the kids’ short story competition that Woodbridge Library has been running alongside this summer’s Reading Challenge. The theme for both was The Creepy House , and the stories were all so great it was hard to choose between them: huge amounts of beautifully descriptive writing and some very weird happenings indeed. We have a horde of budding writers in Woodbridge.

I can’t wait till the Awards ceremony on Sunday, when there will be creepy balloons and creepy awards for all and some very very VERY creepy crawly visitors..

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Woodbridge: how I used the County Councillor’s Locality Budget

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Each Suffolk County Councillor has a small Locality budget, to be spent at their discretion on things that benefit their own community. (There are rules – you can’t use it for entertaining, for example). The sum is dictated by the number of the electorate: the budget for Woodbridge was £8,630 a year – £34,520 for the last electoral cycle.

I try to spread the money to cover as many different groups  and needs as possible. Over the last four  years therefore I have given grants for – or towards – the following:

Farlingaye School: *Playground canopies

Woodbridge Town Pastors:  *Bicycles,  *Training

Woodbridge Cycling Festival: *Materials, first aid cover etc

St Mary’s Woodbridge: Repairs  to *Tower and to *South side of the church wall

Deben Swimming Club: *Poolside kit for competitions

Woodbridge RUFC: *Indoor activity area improvements

Woodbridge Town FC Under 8 Team: *Waterproof jackets

Woodbridge Bowls Club:  *Awning for the club house

Deben Players: *Costume store

Woodbridge Youth Centre: *Generator

Wickham Market & District Family Carers Support Group: *Training for respite care volunteers

Homestart Suffolk Coastal  *Laptop

Woodbridge Riverside Trust: *Feasibility study, Whisstocks project

Just 42: Materials for the Graffiti Project: *Hardstanding for Peterhouse  Green

1st Woodbridge Scout Group: *Mower

The Princes Trust: *Flowers/ pots for exterior of Woodbridge Youth Club

YP@ Woodbridge: *Cooking equipment, TV/DVD & Disco/Karaoke unit

Woodbridge Library: *Blackout Blinds; *Reading challenge – balloon modeller, & prizes; *Jonathan Allan illustrator to talk and draw with kids

Woodbridge Town Centre Management: *Walking maps  of Woodbridge;  *Printed jute bags

Woodbridge Town: *Bollards  for  Hasketon Road; *27 Grit bins; *Thoroughfare Bike racks ; *Bench for Petanque area Kingston Field; *repairs to Elmhurst Park wall/shed; *Funding for Jubilee Pavilion; *Bench at Hasketon/Grundisburgh road junction

Woodbridge Community Council: *Solar  panels Woodbridge Community hall

Tide Mill Trust  (by their earnest request)  match funding for *renovation of the Tide Mill

 

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Record number of young readers take over the Library

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Summer Reading Challenge at Woodbridge Library
The Summer Reading Challenge at Woodbridge Library attracted a record number of young participants

A record number of young readers signed up for the Summer Reading Game in Woodbridge Library this year – and a record 176 finished the challenge. So much for the theory that children no longer read books.

This afternoon, a horde of children  of every age from 3 to early teens, their parents – and most importantly, the volunteers who spend so much time every summer, hearing the children read as they progress through the game –  took over the Woodbridge Library  as they came to receive their certificates and medals –  and watch Dan the Balloon Man as he twisted ever more  interesting balloon creations for them to take away

Every child received a medal and a certificate.

It’s true you know.  Children LIKE libraries. Let’s make sure that we never lose ours