DISTRICT NEWS: DINNINGTON

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ADULT AUTISM + ADHD MEET-UP Rotherham Adult Neurodiversity Support Service, Friday Morning Monthly Meet-up at Dinnington Resource Centre for all neurodiverse adults (autistic and/or ADHD) 10am-Noon Friday July 1, Friday July 29 and Friday August 26, contact Debra West on 01709 296262 or 07494 519040 or email [email protected]. Booking essential, see www.ranss.co.uk/events

SK58 BIRDING group records the bird life of the single SK58 10km square between Sheffield, Rotherham and Worksop, please view the website www.sk58birders.com or contact 01909 563108. Recent sightings include four willow tit, six chiffchaff, five blackcap, seven willow warbler, two lesser whitethroat, four common whitethroat, eight lapwing including one on a nest, two reed warbler, two sedge warbler, one pair of yellow wagtail, two barn owl hunting, two little owl, 58 stock dove, one quail, one grasshopper warbler, one red kite, 24 starlings and many juveniles on a member’s back lawn jostling with the resident blackbirds, house sparrows, four woodpigeon and a pair of collared dove, lots of swift and loads of skylarks singing over the fields. 

LITTER PICKING: Thursdays meet 9am-9.30am volunteers wanted, contact Linda 01909 565319. June 16: Monksbridge Farm on grass verge next to roundabout; June 23: Church Lane/Athorpe Road junction; June 30: Dinnington Market and car parks near bus station entrance.

DART: (Middleton Hall) Barleycroft Lane S25 2LE, general contact 01909 567439.

DINNINGTON ART SOCIETY: Practice sessions Tuesdays 6.30pm-9pm in The Lyric Theatre, 62a Laughton Road, Dinnington, S25 2PS, contact 01909 562961. Thursdays 9.30am-12.30pm in Firbeck Village Hall, New Road Firbeck, S81 8JY. Demonstration evenings: June 14, Paul Talbot Greaves Creating distance in a watercolour landscape; July 19, Amy Jones Portraying Animals with Painterly Pastels; August 9. Keith Fish landscape in oil.

BADMINTON CLUB: New players welcomed, Tuesdays 7pm-9pm, at Dinnington High School, Doe Quarry Lane, S25 2NZ, contact 07833 493796.                                                   

DINNINGTON & DISTRICT HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY on May 9 74 members present at our evening meeting were given an interesting and excellent talk on Chesterfield Canal by Michael Edwards. Meetings restart on Monday September 12 at 7.15pm in the main hall of Anston Parish Hall, Ryton Road, North Anston, S25 4DL with a talk on the ‘Life of Bees’ by Arlene Bull. Existing members enjoy free entry, non-members pay £2.50, membership is only £5 per year for new members, contact 01909 564494.

METHODIST CHURCH: Laughton Road, Dinnington S25 2PS. Sunday services 10.30am, Rev Angela Pothecary, 07399 606166. Room Bookings: Graham Thomas 01909 563574. Website www.trinitycircuit.net/churches/churches-in-rotherham-south-yorkshire/dinnington      

DINNINGTON OPERATIC SOCIETY: The Addams Family, October 4-8 in The Lyric Theatre, continuing our 100th birthday celebrations. Please view the website www.dinningtonoperatics.org. Tickets - contact the box office on 01909 569340 or www.ticketsource.co.uk/dinningtonoperatics.,

RESOURCE CENTRE: 131 Laughton Road, Dinnington, S25 2PP, Dinnington Library opening hours are:- Monday and Wednesday 9am-5.30pm, Tuesday and Friday 9am-7pm, Thursdays 9am-2pm, Saturdays 9am-1pm, Sundays closed

The BUFFS: (RAOB) Sundays, 7-8.30pm, in the Dinnington Resource Centre, 131 Laughton Road, S25 2PP, contact 01909 567554.

BRITISH LEGION: Wednesday, June 29, at 7pm for 7.30pm start (last Wednesday of each month). Meet in The Lyric Theatre, 62a Laughton Road, S25 2PS, new members are most welcome. Contact [email protected]

ST LEONARD'S CHURCH: Church Lane, Dinnington, S25 2PQ. Garden Party Saturday June 18 10am-1pm at 6 Borrowdale Crescent North Anston. Plants and cakes on sale, tombola and refreshments. Summer Fair on Saturday July 2, Jubilee themed.

LOCAL NEIGHBOURHOODS: Team contact Andrea Peers, senior neighbourhood coordinator for South Rotherham, email [email protected] or Tel. 07717 450973

DINNINGTON ST JOHNS TOWN COUNCIL: Monday, July 11, council meeting at 7pm in the Lyric, Laughton Road, S25 2PS, email [email protected] or ‘phone 01909 564169. Planning applications can be viewed on the website dinningtonstjohns.org.

RAVENFIELD FETE: Saturday, June 18, 2022, 12pm-5pm on Jubilee Field in Ravenfield, email Toni at [email protected] for further information.

 

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