Bohemia Village Voice

Surviving Christmas

WAVES in Bohemia Road will re-open as a hairdressers in September – if things go according to plan. The new salon manager will be 19-year old Rachel Martin, fresh out of college. She’ll be trying to woo back some of Waves’ old customers as well as attracting younger women into the salon. Why isn’t the shop opening sooner? Apparently, the main reason for the delay in opening is the necessary wait for planning permission for a new shop front. The name of the business has yet to be decided – it might be ‘Hairdays’ [to rhyme with Mundays, Alldays and Frydays] or maybe  just ‘Kutz’. Meanwhile, a sign on the door says simply ‘Closed for Refurbishment’.
PARENT & TODDLER GROUP at St Peter’s Church Hall in Cornfield Terrace meets Fridays during term times 1pm to 2.45pm. Cost is £1 per family. There’s no waiting list – just turn up for play, chat, raffle, sing song. Contact Rosemary Noble: 445117.
BOHEMIA VILLAGE VOICE has booked its stand at this year’s ‘Bohemia Village Fayre’ – to be held on Sunday 17 th August. See you there!
HONEY STILL FOR TEA? Maybe not. Mr Harbord, who sells honey from his home in Clarence Road, is having to restrict sales to one pot per customer. It’s apparently been a very bad year for bees and he’s lost four of his hives in the park. It seems the little creatures need a temperature of at least 50º Fahrenheit to be able to fly, and spring this year was very cold.
ACQUISITIVE CRIME The Voice has been invited to join an ‘Acquisitive Crime* Focus Group’. We’ve been promised free marker pens to give away from our office, but the first meeting isn’t till September, so in the meantime, it’s probably wise to keep your doors locked.
*Presumably police Newspeak for ‘burglary’; dictionary: acquisitive = inclined or eager to acquire things, especially material possessions.
SURVIVING CHRISTMAS The burgeoning leaves on the trees in the full luxuriance of midsummer may make it seem an odd time to think of next Christmas, but the Surviving Christmas team has been planning for their 2008 event since February. It takes nearly a year of planning, ten weeks of hard work behind the scenes, and a week of preparation at the YMCA to organize the annual project, which  provides food and company for those to whom Christmas is a time of hardship and loneliness. Up to a hundred and fifty needy people come to the three day event, and hampers and food vouchers are distributed to others. Surviving Christmas will hold its AGM at the YMCA, St Paul’s Road, on Tuesday 3rd June at 7. 30 pm. Further information from Surviving Christmas, PO Box 290, Hastings TN34 9TD or phone 424550