Guest 679- Registered: 7 Sep 2008
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#1
Will your business sponsor this year's Paper Boat Race?
The London Road Community Forum is once again staging the ever popular paper boat race as part of the fun and festivities of the Pencester Gardens Horticultural Show, but with a slight difference this year: normally this event takes place during school term time and we can drum up participation from large numbers of schoolchildren who enter the event as part of a school project.
This year the event falls during the school holidays and, although we anticipate a good number of children will enter privately, we are hoping that the funds we can raise will be boosted by attracting entries from local shops, pubs and businesses. Andy Cooper's The Fabric Fairy business, for example, has already purchased 5 paper boats @ £1.00 each and pledged further support by way of sponsoring the event with a similar amount of cash on top of that; business sponsorship can be as little or as large as you can afford - sadly, we are living through difficult times money-wise, so we have to realise that businesses are, like all of us, struggling for cash. However, for just a few pounds, you can show tremendous support for The London Road Community Forum and our endeavours to rejuvenate our catchment area.
We can't promise your business will get a prime time ad in the middle of Coronation Street, but we'll give you an acknowledgement on this forum and we'll try to get the local press to cover the story; more than that, though, you'll be supporting a genuinely local group and that will be noted by local people. No matter how much you can afford, your sponsorship will be greatly valued, so please let me have your contact details and someone will be back to you to snap up your money!
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Terry Nunn
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#2
Soundsgood (me) is also sponsoring some boats as well. To save the embarrassment of winning however I have decided that they shall be submarines!
Terry
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Guest 695- Registered: 30 Mar 2010
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#3
Jeanette
This is taking place 8 August is it? Do we have to make the boats ourselves? I'm not good at Origami
Also, what participation is involved?
Guest 693- Registered: 12 Nov 2009
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#4
Hi Tony - good to see you at The White Horse last night....in answer to your questions, the event is indeed on 8th August, part of Dover Town Council's Horticultural Event in Pencester Gardens. You don't have to make the boats yourself, which is good news for the origamically challenged amongst us (like me!) and the participation involved amounts to parting with your £50.00 note (well, you are a wealthy man!) and standing on the bank of the River Dour throwing missiles at the opposition's flotilla. Oops, I mean cheering your boat on to glorious victory!
(Except one of mine is going to win.
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#5
I can only back it now by geting aboat and hope it floats the right way up.
Ross Miller
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 17 Sep 2008
- Posts: 3,709
#6
Hi Jeanette
If I can get down to your end of town this weekend will happily drop a tenner in to sponsor some paper hats, sorry boats
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Guest 679- Registered: 7 Sep 2008
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#7
Hi Ross,
Thanks for that. Will be nice to see you, seems an age since I saw you last. The kettle will be on!
Jeanette x
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#8
will you be wearing that erm er uniform that you had on last sunday jeanette?
colin and myself eagerly await your reply.
Guest 679- Registered: 7 Sep 2008
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#9
No Howard, think we're dressing as sexy pirates that day!
Sorry to disappoint....
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#10
no disappointment jeanette, we shall look forward to that.
can you arrange for vic to walk the plank, will bring more spectators in.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#11
Thanks for that Howard if it will bring more funds in for them I will do it,and I mean that.
I did go in the stocks in your ward years ago it was in all the local press and the kids loved it and so did I.
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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#12
Not sure about a pub, looked more like a boat building yard earlier this afternoon up the White Horse. Nice to meet you Ross up there today, another off my list.
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Guest 656- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#13
Just one more week to the fun and frolics of the DTC's Horticultural Fun Pet and Dog show on Sunday 8th of August at Pencester Gardens. Don't miss it anyone, its always an awesome event, not to mention the annual paper boat race hosted by our sexy pirated clad White Horse Landlady, none other than the delectable Miss Jeanette Harper herself, definitely not to be missed
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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#14
Why does it seem that every interesting event is held on a Saturday when I am working.
BTW. Does anyone know what time the carnival starts this year?
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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#15
I did not mean to infer the Horticultural Show was not interesting. Sorry.
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Terry Nunn- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#16
It was utter chaos, but I enjoyed it!
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Terry Nunn- Location: London Road, Dover
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#17
Brightened it up for you Colin.
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Guest 672- Registered: 3 Jun 2008
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#18
Re post#14.
The 8th August is on a sunday Jan.
grass grows by the inches but dies by the feet.
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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#19
Terry, thanks mate but just a little over exposed. It was a bit darker inside and outside today, so the lighting was a little indifferent, and now you can`t see the swimmer`s names on the wall.
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Terry Nunn- Location: London Road, Dover
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#20
Agree Colin, but I couldn't see Madam Chairman properly. I won't mess with other people's pictures again.
Hope to see you next Sunday.
Terry
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