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Dining for success
Here is a suggestion for a fund-raising method which really works. It not only generates money but also community which is part of our OS21 mission.
Invite as many people for a meal as you like to host in your place (or anywhere else appropriate. Could be a nice picnic in the woods or a breakfast on a canal boat or high tea in a mansion...).
Let them kno ...
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Food, glorious food…
This was sent by a "Food Lover" (aren't we all!)
For all food lovers in and around Oswestry - there are some exciting signs of a renaissance in food selling at Oswestry Market. Two new arrivals at the Wednesday market on Bailey Head are cheese and bread stalls (at last!). The cheese seller has a pretty good selection, from cheddar, cheshire, etc t ...
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Appendectomy!
Neil Phillips CD was reviewed by Kate Mossman in the February edition of 'The Word' magazine. Neil is a local musician who has been active in promoting music in Oswestry for many years. His next 'Eclectic' event will be at 'The Ironworks' on Friday March 11th. ...
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The People’s Supermarket C4 Sun. Feb 6th 8 p.m.
The People's Supermarket Sunday night at 8 on C4,
While we see the loosely bolted wheels of the Big Society start to fall off before it's moved an inch (see news from Merseyside) due to the exclusion of a growing proportion of society from the opportunities for economic activities that make society actually work - here's a programme about an attempt to c ...
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Regional premier for award winning film in Oswestry!
But we don't have a cinema! Well, not yet. We do however have Kinokulture - who have been running informal film nights at The Workhouse in Llanfyllin and now seek to do the same in Oswestry, with a screening every month. On Thursday October 14th @ The Attfield Theatre, Kinokulture are screening the regional premier of RESTREPO - the critically aclaimed Sunda ...
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Red Square Information Stall
It's always interesting to spend some time in the sunshine talking to shoppers in town. I've done this two or three times this year and though it's not something I particularly look forward to I usually enjoy it and find it encouraging. Today I met shoppers from Wrexham and near Shrewsbury who prefer to shop in Oswestry. The overwhelming majority who stop to ...
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Some stories of Oswestry traders
From Pete Lloyd:
I’ve just finished talking to four traders for four short films in which they tell their stories. They’ve been made as part of Take to the Streets, Oswestry’s traders’ day, coming up on Saturday 31 July.
I’m asking Os21 to post this here on their website after some hesitation, because these videos are not intend ...
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Supermarkets & Health by Angus Hannagan
This is the transcript of a talk given at a public meeting in the Memorial Hall, Oswestry, on Sunday 28th Sept. '08.
Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, my name is Angus Hannagan. I would like to talk to you about the effects of the proposed supermarket developments on the health and well being of the local community. I would stress that I am giving this ...
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Alternative medicine: a new ‘Clinic’ in Oswestry, by G Miller
I noticed in a recent Advertiser that an Army Recruitment Clinic has opened in Oswestry. A Clinic is a place you normally go to for the benefit of your health. This one could seriously damage your health, and even cost your life.
290 British service personnel have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. The MOD gives the rate of serious injuries ...
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BBC Midlands Today
There was a nice little piece about Oswestry on BBC Midlands today from reporter Giles Latcham. If you missed it go to http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7521820.stm
If you go to the BBC website and find the Midlands Today homepage you can look up Giles Latcham under 'reporters' and send him an e mail. ...
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Real England
“Whether a high street is a patchwork of independent businesses or a dreary mess of corporate pottage has an impact on the kind of country we live in. It makes a difference to the character of neighbourhoods, the quality of jobs, the diversity and quality of products. It makes a difference to the kind of country we end up living in.” (Paul Ki ...
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Oswestry in the Guardian, Saturday 31st May
Oswestry is featured in the Let's Move To...... piece in the Guardian colour supplement. It comes over as a town with qualities and character that are sought after, and which make one feel lucky to live here. All the more reason to maintain and improve those qualities rather than to negate and diminish them by overscale, edge of town retail development. ...
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