Issue 116 - the Pembury Village Website

PEMBURY BLOOMS AGAINTHE FINALISTS of Pembury in Bloom2003 gathered at Notcutts GardenCentre, Pembury on 28 August for apresentation tea and to find out who had wonthis year’s competition, a secret much-guardedby the judges until the day.Notcutts Garden Centre manager, Jon Kempand Gill Pavely of Pembury Parish Councilawarded prizes and certificates to the followingfor their floral feats. The winners are:Best Front Garden1st Gary Lawrence, Middlefield – £100 inNotcutts vouchers; 2nd Patrick Campbell,Henwood Green Road – £50 in Notcuttsvouchers; 3rd John Beech, Camden Avenue –£25 in Notcutts vouchers.Best Hanging Basket1st Sarah Burnham, Heskett Park – £70 inNotcutts vouchers; 2nd Shirley Steel,Tonbridge Road – £30 in Notcutts vouchers;3rd Melanie Hambleton, Woodhill Park – £15in Notcutts vouchers.Best Children’s Container1st Bethany Greagsby, Hastings Road – £20 inNotcutts vouchers; 2nd Keanu Juson,The Forstal – £10 in Notcutts vouchers;3rd Catherine Tanner, The Gill – plant.Best AllotmentFredrick Barden, Pembury Close.Most attractive Commercial PropertyThe Camden Arms, High Street.At the presentation GillPavely of Pembury ParishCouncil congratulatedeverybody for all the timeand effort that they hadput into making Pemburybloom this year and said,“The judges enjoyed judgingthe competition and there wereso many lovely floral showsthat we had an extremelydifficult task on our hands,especially as there were moreentries than ever this year.I do hope you will all takepart next year as the morepeople who enter the morePembury will bloom!”Left to right back row: Sarah Burnham, Fredrick Barden and Jon Kemp. Front row: Gill Pavely ofPembury Parish Council, Bethany Greagsby, Carol Cunningham and Gary Lawrence.COPY FOR NEXT ISSUEAny news items or articles for possible inclusion in the next issueof this magazine must be forwarded to the Editor before1 February 2004.If you use a computer to type your article, it would be extremely helpfulif you could send it in on disk or by e-mail. If you do not have a disk,we can supply you with one.3