Celebration Day

On January 2nd, 2000, 'Christians Together' in Callington are organising a special event to be held at Callington Primary School from 3pm - 6pm. Entitled "Let's Celebrate" the day will include live music and drama, a bouncy castle, side-shows, hot food and a Millennium themed fancy dress competition.

The day will conclude with a special screening of the film 'Jesus' at 5pm.

Band in town hall

After a busy year with over 25 engagements Callington Town Band are rounding off the Millennium with a concert in the town hall on December 17 at 7.30pm.

This is part of the town's 'Music for the Millennium' festival and the band, under the baton of Maurice Bennett, will be joined by the Callington Methodist church choir and saxophonist Leah Rickard.

The audience will be able to request their favourite carols and Christmas tunes. The proceeds of the event will be donated to charity.

Church Services

Our Lady of Victories Church, Callington, Sunday Mass 5.00pm; Wednesday Mass at 6.00pm.

Methodist Church, Haye Road, Callington, 11.00am Rev V Honey, 6.30pm Christingle.

Methodist Guild

The Guild meeting was held on Monday evening. Rev Valerie Honey was guest speaker, with a programme called 'Surprises' Secretary Mrs Hope presented a gift voucher to Mr and Mrs K Badcock who will be leaving us soon. Mr B Higgins played for the carols and tea and biscuits were served by Mrs Wilkins and Mrs Badcock. Next week the speaker will be Rev T Fuller.

Talk on Kosovo

Pastor Martin Bunkum was the speaker at Callington Brotherhood's Sunday service recently.

He gave an account of his visit to Albania to take aid and work among the Kosovan refugees. The 2,000 mile journey was fraught with many problems, especially getting past armed police. During their stay, when they helped construct a kitchen, they lived with 200 Kosovan Muslims for 11 days and ate the same food which was very poor quality.

David Jones was the guest soloist accompanied by Barry Higgins. Russell Deacon gave a Bible reading and the chairman was Don Mutton.

Co-op for a play

After weeks of rehearsals members of the Morley Tamblyn Lodge Centre in Liskeard were given the opportunity to perform a play at Callington community college in front of an audience of Year Nine students.

The cast of 16 had been helped on a weekly basis by Sue Former who runs a drama workshop with them. The idea developed from a trip to watch 'Titanic' when it was in the cinema.

Head of drama, Jonathan Plunkett, was so pleased with the co-operative venture he is already planning close links between Morley Tamblyn Centre and the college

Loose change for charity

Year eight students at Callington college have spent the last few weeks raising money for Children in Need, taking it in turns to collect any loose change from pupils and staff.

Simon Stevens and Shane Hennessey raised over £60 in a sponsored basketball shoot-out, while Jennifer Reeves put her culinary skills to the test and baked a Pudsey Bear cake which she raffled, raising over £110. On the day itself the sixth form wore super smart clothes to college and raised over £107.

On the night of Children in Need members of the Year eight committee, accompanied by Sally Humphries head of year eight, travelled to Plymouth to present a cheque for over £600 to the charity - they even made it on to television.

Awards night

Students and staff from Callington college, together with friends and family, will be celebrating success on December 16 at the college's annual presentation evening.

Pupils will be presented with examination certificates and further awards and prizes will be made for other achievement made during the past year, be it academic, sporting or community based.

Trolley dash winners

The draw took place on Tuesday December 7 to determine the winners of the Callington Trolley dash, organised by the Lions club of Callington.

Cash raised from the sale of tickets for the dash will enable a community services project of four large granite blocks, which will be sited at each of the town's four approaches.

They will be suitably inscribed 'CALLINGTON', entombed beneath each block will be a time capsule.

This project is planned to mark permanently the new Millennium. To enable the project to continue a 'Trolley dash' has been arranged at the Pioneer store in Callington.

The lucky ticket winners were: First- Allison Hearne of Plymouth, who has won two minutes of 'dash' time; second- Jean Collins from Callington who has won a £50 in-store voucher and third- Tania Jarvis also of Callington who has won a £25 in-store voucher.

The dash and secondary prize givings will take place at 8am on Monday, at the Pioneer store in Callington.