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The presentation of prizes for the front garden competition of 2009 has now taken place and the main category winners are:
Small Garden - Mrs K Kissane-Rogers, 1 Glenfrith Gardens
Large Garden - Mr & Mrs Holmes, 26 Rothley Road
Business Premises - Mountsorrel Guest House, 217 Loughborough Road
Congratulations to all finalists.
Below is a selection of the winning gardens.
MOUNTSORREL YOUTH ACTIVITY DAY
After forecasts of rain and clouds, Saturday 15th
August turned out to be a warm and sunny, if not entirely cloudless,
day and there was much activity on Halstead Road playing fields,
Mountsorrel.
The day had been chosen for the Summer Youth Activities
Day organised by the Mountsorrel Youth Development Group (MYDG), a
working party of the Parish Council as part of a programme of events
which take place during the summer holidays for the young people of
Mountsorrel. This programme consists of a range of sporting activities
at the Soar Valley Leisure Centre, with at least one event taking place
every day. The Youth Activity Day takes place mid-August.
An estimated 300 people, including some parents and
onlookers, turned out to enjoy the mixture of fun events and
informative displays that made up the day. These attractions comprised
of a huge inflated slide, and a gladiator “ring”, bar football (similar
to table football but with human players), a rodeo buck, and a bouncy
castle for younger children. A “splat the rat” game offered sweets to
successful contestants which had been kindly donated by the
Co-operative stores in the village. A tug of war also took place.
Additional presentations were made by the Jessica
Michelle School of Dance who entertained the audience with a fine
display; birds of prey; Charnwood Arts; Leicestershire County Council
Youth Service; Leicestershire Fire & Rescue Service; and Charnwood
Borough Council Anti-social Behaviour Unit.
Refreshments in the form of teas, coffees and cold
drinks with a range of sweets were sold by the football club and hot
dogs were made by the scouts.
MYDG are extremely grateful to Lafarge Aggregates and Concrete UK who contributed £740.63 to pay for expenses of the day and Leicestershire County Council and Charnwood Borough Council who gave £1,000 and £200 respectively towards the whole summer programme. Thanks are also expressed to all the people who helped make the event such a success.
NATURE RESERVE - MOUNTSORREL MEADOWS
The Leicestershire & Rutland Wildlife Trust (LRWT) has acquired
a 13 hectare parcel of land adjacent to the River Soar in
Mountsorrel. The reserve will be known as Mountsorrel Meadows and is on
the other side of the By-pass to the Mountsorrel Marshes, which is
owned by the Parish Council. The strategy of the LRWT is to manage an
extensive area of the Soar Valley floodplain for the benefit of
wildlife and people. The nature reserve at Cossington Meadows is nearby
and will provide a much larger reserve more able to buffer the effects
of adverse conditions such as prolonged dry periods than smaller ones.
The LRWT's plans for the Mountsorrel Meadows involve
creating a mixture of wildlife habitats such as wetland scrapes and
ponds,
wet woodland and grassland. Public access will be improved by the
provision
of public paths, kissing gates and a wildlife viewing point. For more
details
on the LRWT see their website at www.lrwt.org.uk.