Clubs/societies

A CORNER of Chalfont St Giles was forever Scotland as Burns Night was celebrated, complete with a haggis.
Amersham and District Scottish Association and its invited international guests donned kilts to mark the poet's birthday at Harewood Downs Golf Club.
Guests were piped in by resident piper Alan Rouse before being welcomed by president Eileen Aitchison.
Traditions from north of the border involved the haggis was being addressed by Andrew Swann, and the Immortal Memory was given by Burns' enthusiast, Wylie White.
A selection of Burns' songs were sung by Phil Parkinson, and Leslie Gibson gave extracts from his favourite Burns' poem, Tam O' Shanter at the event on January 23.
The group's next event will be a Ceilidh to be held next month at Coleshill Village Hall. For more information contact the association's secretary on 01494 728729.

THE chairman of the Chiltern Arts Forum has hit out at the amount of grants arts in the area receive.
Jack Milner has been in contact with the Arts Council, the organisation that distributes government and lottery money for the arts around the country, and has been shocked to discover how little is given to the Chilterns and Buckinghamshire as a whole.

The Annual Meeting of the Chalfont St Giles Revitalisation Committee will take place on Monday, March 23 at 6.15pm in the Gardens Association Hall in School Lane.

The next coffee morning organised by the Chalfont St Giles Twinning Association will now be held on Saturday, January 31, a week earlier than originally planned.
The coffee morning will be held in The Reading Room from 10am - 11.30am and all are welcome. Changing market conditions mean that the association is no longer collecting aluminium foil at its coffee mornings.

More than 40 members of the Chalfont St Giles Twinning Association attended a dinner in the Reading Room on Monday, January 12, to celebrate 30 years of friendship with the Dutch town of Graft-De Rijp.
Committee member Eileen Carr said that her fellow committee members prepared a delicious supper and that a few former members of the association had travelled many miles to attend the event.
"There was a lot of laughter and chat, it was very noisy and we shared many happy memories of our twinning visits," said Mrs Carr.

A dinner celebrating three decades of friendship is being held to mark the Chalfont St Giles Twinning Association's 30th anniversary.
Since 1979, Chalfont St Giles has been twinned with the Dutch town of Graft-De Rijp, a former 17th-century herring and whaling port, now a world heritage site and a base for tulip cultivation.

by Kathy Miller
kathymiller@trinitysouth.co.uk

The Chalfont St Giles youth club is looking to expand to make sure all youngsters have something to do in the village.
Youth leader Suizan Jefferson said the club, which meets in Narcot Lane on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, wants to recruit a teacher of hip-hop and street dancing after the success of a previous dance course.

The Chiltern Society has warned that the Misbourne River could be lost forever after its plight was ignored by the Environment Agency.
The Chiltern Society has reacted furiously to a decision by the Environment Agency not to take any action to bring back the flow of The River Misbourne.

The Chiltern American Women's Club is celebrating its 21st birthday this year and last week featured in a Radio 4 programme entitled Lives in a Landscape: Stars, Stripes and Chalfont St Giles'.
On Sunday, November 23, it held now-famous bazaar at the BellHouse Hotel in Beaconsfield, an event which usually raises approximately £10,000 for charity. Club chairwoman Louise Fortier is confident that the sum raised this year will be equally healthy, with the money going to the NSE and Bucks Carers.

The talk by Alison Weir, the eminent historian, to the Friends of Chalfont St Giles Community Library Literary Group has been postponed due to the indisposition of the author.

Instead, Tom Isaacs will give a talk on his book 'Shake Well Before Use'. Tom Isaacs, diagnosed with Parkinson's disease at age 27, walked for 500 miles round the coast of Britain and this is the entertaining account of that walk on November 12 in the Memorial Hall, School Lane at 7.30 for 8pm.

Tickets £5 are available from the Community Library 01494 874732.