Last Millennium concert

Saturday, December 16, sees the final Millennium concert at St Mary's Church with the Callington Singers. On Monday members of the church will be carol singing and handbell ringing at Chyvarhas Residential Home at 6.30 pm. On Wednesday at 2.30 pm they will be at St Therese Residential Home and on Thursday the singers and ringers can be found at Spar supermarket at 7 pm and at Pioneer Supermarket at 7.35 pm.

St. Mary's Church Christmas Bazaar raised £600 which will be divided between a charity and the church improvement fund - this fund is to provide new facilities and toilets.

Safaris so good

LUCKETT-based tour operator Aardvark Safaris has celebrated its first birthday with a place in the list of the Top 20 Safari operators compiled by The Times. The list of specialist operators acknowledged those companies offering high quality African holidays.

Aardvark's managing director is Richard Smith from Luckett who lived and worked in Africa for many years. Richard says the whole team is delighted with the recognition: 'I think that this award is a sign of the hard work we have all put in.'

Donation to 17 charities

RUSSELL Deacon presided at Callington Brotherhood's meeting. The guest speaker was William Stacey from Bude, who spoke on a text from the Bible on using one's talents.

The reading was given by Basil Bunkum. Soloist Andrew Williams sang hymns from Mission Praise and the organist was Barry Higgins.

At the brotherhood's In-as-much Committee meeting, members agreed to donate £750 to be shared among 17 charities. These included the three Westcountry hospices, the MacMillan Nurses, Cornwall talking newspaper for the visually handicapped and the British Heart Foundation.

Childhood talk

AT the guild meeting held at Callington Methodist Church, Howard Tamblyn was the speaker. He gave a talk about his life growing up on a farm in the country and how young people enjoyed themselves so differently from the present day. Many events were focused around the chapel and village hall.

Barry Higgins was in the chair and the Rev Anne Curnow played for the hymns. Tea and biscuits were served by Mrs G Olvers and Mrs P Pengelly.

Sisterhood lunch

CALLINGTON United Sisterhood held their Christmas luncheon, cooked and served by Nelly's Nest. Afterwards they were entertained by Marianne and Maureen with their accordions playing favourite carols and showing a video on Obermmergeau. The party ended with mince pies and a cup of tea.

Detached home plan

for village

A PROPOSAL for the construction of a detached dwelling for a site in Rilla Mill was due to be discussed by Caradon council's planning control committee (west) last night (Thursday).

The plan, by Highwell Corporation Ltd, is for West Acre, Rilla Mill. Outline consent has already been granted for a single dwelling at the site. The application to be considered last night was for a second dwelling.

In their report, planning officers said: 'It is considered that the site can accommodate a second dwelling without harm to local amenities.'

Contribution to dome?

A CONTRIBUTION to the Callington sports college tennis dome is number 10 of a list of proposed uncommitted growth items identified by Caradon council's community and economic regeneration advisory panel.

The contribution, if approved, would comprise a one-off payment of £10,000 in 2001-02.

Other such items include the provision and servicing of an extra 29 dog waste bins, seagull proofing litter bins in coastal areas, constructing a disabled toilet at Draynes Bridge and giving a one-off payment of £2,000 towards the Association of Market Towns Convention to be held in Liskeard in September 2001.

Station site appeal

AN appeal has been lodged following a Caradon council refusal of an application for a site at the former Gunnislake railway station, Sandhill..

The proposal, by Axis Properties Ltd, was for a modification of a condition of planning consent - to permit a surface water drainage system for the estate road to discharge to soakaways.

The council considered the proposal unsatisfactory due to the characteristics of the site and the absence of sufficient information to demonstrate that the proposed estate road surface water scheme can provide a satisfactory long-term means to dispose of surface water.

Primrose Appeal

A TOTAL of £101 was raised for the Primrose (Breast Care Unit) Appeal through selling cakes at an art and craft fair held at Callington Town Hall. Money raised so far for the appeal is being used to build the new Breast Care Centre at Derriford Hospital in Plymouth.

Skittles evening

Committee members and friends of Callington Colts Football Club held a skittles evening to raise money towards Tommy's wheelchair fund.

A total of £130 was raised on the night and has been paid into the fund at Barclays bank.

The organisers would like to say thank you to all those who made the evening a success, and send best wishes to Tommy for the future.