Enstone Village News
Coffee morning on Saturday 28 November
Tuesday, 24 November 2009 19:59
Saturday is a coffee morning, bring and buy sale with a christmas flavour. From 10 to l2 noon we serve coffee, tea, mince pies , also there is a secondhand book stall , second hand rather good clothes - two Caroline Charles outfits, lovely handbags and very good coat plus a lot of good hardly worn shoes and lots more.
The coffee morning will be held at St. Kenelms Church for more info click here
Yellow Hat Tribe poetry book to be launched in Chipping Norton
Tuesday, 24 November 2009 19:57
IRENE Tyack’s popular Yellow Hat Tribe paintings have inspired 67 poems that have been written by Chipping Norton School pupils and printed in a book that will soon be published.
Local primary school pupils also wrote some of the poems included in the book, entitled From 4 to 40 Lines, to be launched at Jaffé and Neale Bookshop and Café, Middle Row, Chipping Norton at 6pm on Monday, November 30.
Television presenter Rob Bonnet, Chipping Norton School headteacher Simon Duffy, author Fiona Mountain and Cornbury Festival director Hugh Phillimore, the book’s sponsor, will be among orators who will each read one of the 13 poems that judging panels have decided are the best in the book.
Each of the 13 poets will receive a prize, with the top two each getting a signed print of the painting that inspired their poem.
Ms Tyack, who will sign copies of her pictures on the night, began painting at the age of 50 after being inspired by her husband’s tales of Africa.
Doodling on the envelope of a bill she could not afford to pay, she drew a picture of a tribe living in a desert and all wearing yellow hats.
She is now based at Brookfield Ostrich Farm Gallery, Church Westcote and has sold many of her paintings for up to £20,000 each.
Donation boosts disabled computing project
Tuesday, 24 November 2009 19:50
AN OXFORDSHIRE charity that helps severely disabled people communicate with the world has been given a helping hand.
Printing firm Webmart, in Wedgwood Road, Bicester, has donated £12,000 to Charlbury charity Special Effect.
The money will be used to pay for a specialised computer system that will open doors for a child or adult to play games and communicate.
Special Effect has developed computer hardware that allows people to operate the equipment by simply moving their eyes.
A basic computer costs about £12,000 – the biggest cost is a camera built into the screen which tracks eye movement.
Webmart’s donation will pay for a computer that will be loaned to people until a personally-tailored computer is ready for installation.
Special Effect director Mick Donegan said the equipment could be used by a people with a wide range of disabilities, from paralysis and stroke victims to those with cerebral palsy.
The charity is also appealing for donations for a project to create the world’s first fully accessible games suite at Helen and Douglas House, in Oxford.
Another £30,000 is needed to complete the project. Anyone who can help should call 01608 810055 or see specialeffect.org
By: Oxford Mail