Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
#1
Alkham fete today at 2.00pm .River Flower Show 2.30pm.
Plenty to do this weekend hope weather holds
Guest 650- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 542
#2
Thanks! I understand there's the Noahs Ark Centre fete today too.
Hope all goes well
#3
V is dancing with CJs Cheerleaders at Alkham this afternoon while I stay at home cleaning and working
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#4
comunaty safety day in pencester gardens today.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#5
your mention of the community safety day, is an interesting one, brian.
a massive banner stretching from the town hall across the road and other very eye catching posters adorn the town.
lesson to be learned about promoting events?
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#6
exactly howard.
#7
Indeed
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#8
the best attended function of late has been the hellfire weekend, they had the best posters up.
that says rather a lot, i think.
that is no disrespect to other events that may not have the money to pay for such quality.
it is easy for us on here to be aware, roger keeps us updated on the forum and by e mail, there are many in our district that are not into all this interweb thingy.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 5,673
#9
I'd have thought that a DDC/Tourism site that sends a monthly events list out to a mailing list would be an easy idea (if only there were a tourism department !!) ?
Been nice knowing you :)
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#10
the tourism department will return at the same time as the anti social behaviour department paul.
trust that puts your mind at rest.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
- Posts: 10,540
#11
I think that is a good idea Paul (Scotchie), but the cost in postage would be enormous and think of all those dry toungues !
As Howard says not everyone is on email, but there is a growing number and the emails I send out are all blind, so no one can receive any spam or scam emails from them.
If anyone would like to be added to my email address groups they can email me and they would be added and sent out the information, in a safe way.
Very good Howard.
The Anti-Social Behaviour Unit (or Community Safety Unit as it's now called) was set up as a public response to what should have the support (ASB or Tourism), with the limited (DDC) funds available and naturally Anti-Social Behaviour won - it would now, six years later if put to the people again.
Not all tourism initiatives needs loads of money chucking at it, but the money that is spent on it now, needs to be re-assessed; what it also needs is a pro-active tourism body with a CAN-DO attitude.
Many initiatives can and often are, run on a shoe-string (like the Discover Dover leaflet, which through the forward-thinking Town Council, can now have a version printed in English and distributed far and wide), many of them could raise Dover's profile to a lot of people from over seas.
Making Dover a destination from a Group Travel point of view should also be followed up.
Ensuring Dover is a bright, clean, safe, welcoming, attractive, affordable Town with a good range of quality shops, pubs, cafe's and restaurants needs attending to as well.
We do have some very good pubs, shops, cafe, and restaurants, we just need more and more diversity.
Roger
Guest 667- Registered: 6 Apr 2008
- Posts: 919
#12
The River Fete is on today (Sunday) on the River Rec. It starts at 11 am so can only hope the weather gets better.
Come along and look for the not so little "green bear" and the Crabble Corn Mill stall.
H
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
#13
Yes folks roll up roll up to River fete .Im everywhere this week end .Alkham was packed .
After the fete im off for Strawberry tea .
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
#14
River fete very good ,well attended .I must have walked over three miles today getti ng from one event to another .Buses not so good on a Sunday .I bet Harry was hot under that outfit.