Issue 154 - the Pembury Village Website

PEMBURY GARDENERS SOCIETY
e Pembury Gardeners Society held its Spring Show on Saturday 30th March at the Village Hall, Pembury.
e quality of the exhibits was of a good standard considering the difficult growing conditions. We considered
ourselves lucky as other societies had to cancel their shows due to lack of entries after all the freezing snow, rain
and frosts we have all recently endured.
e entries in the daffodil classes were slightly down on last year which was expected, but the increased entries
in the other classes more then made up for the loss.
e cookery, floral art and novice floral art entries were way up on last year. We now allow floral art novices to
enter three shows as novices.
e trophies winners were as follows:
e Hextable Cup for most points ~ Steve Jones;
e Daffodil Medal for Best Exhibit ~ Derek Parks;
e Daffodil Certificate ~ Brian Fryer;
e Kent Federation Certificate for Best Blooms ~ Derek Parks and Mrs L Carr;
Floral Art
e Doris Downs Cup ~ Mrs B Penfold;
Certificate for Best Exhibit ~ Mrs B Penfold;
Cookery
Society Cup for most points ~ Mrs. C. Riley;
Kent Federation Certificate Runner Up to Cup Winner ~ Mrs H Wood;
Handicraft
e Michael Pavely Memorial Cup for Best Exhibit ~ Mrs R Dewdney;
Junior Certificate ~ Imogen Riley.
We look forward to seeing you at our Summer Show which will take place on June 29th at the Village Hall.
e Summer Show Schedules are available from the Show Secretary on Pembury 824877.
John Wood
ST. PETER’S PEMBURY MOTHERS’ UNION
Our Branch Leader, Mary Adams, has come to the end of her term of office and members showed their
appreciation of her service by presenting her with a rhododendron. Tina Walters has been elected as the next
Branch Leader. Tina has been a Mothers’ Union Member for over twenty years and has previously been Branch
Leader at St. John’s, Tunbridge Wells, a Deanery Chairman and a Diocesan Trustee.
She takes over the running of a Branch with twenty-two members, which includes men and women, married,
single and divorced. All are Christians but not all are members of the Church of England. We are part of a
worldwide organisation working through four million members in 83 countries to fight poverty, injustice and to
tackle family issues. As a grassroots community based organisation, members see and experience the impact of
social injustice upon relationships and family life. We will seek justice in our communities for the family and in
relationships. is may be through our campaigning, such as our stance against the inappropriate
commercialisation and sexualisation of childhood, or it may be through our activities, where we seek to enable
communities to identify those issues that adversely affect healthy, flourishing and respectful relationships, and then
engage in finding appropriate and effective solutions to those issues.
In our Branch we actively support all baptisms and we are represented in most church based activities. Our cake
stall at last year’s Pembury Fun Day raised £50 which was sent to the Emergency Relief Fund, we also sent
£150 for Mothers’ Union Overseas work and we collected over £200 for the Make a Mother’s Day Appeal this
year. What we try to do is what our God requires of us: “Love mercy, seek justice and walk humbly with our God”
(Micah 6:8).
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