Chairman's Newsletter

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Again Walmsley is at the forefront with more exciting news for the society. Over the past few months John Tustin with the help of Diane has been digitalising our archives and all our history is now stored on a memory stick. This process normally costs well over ten thousand pounds but John has done this as a gift to the society from himself and Diane. This means that we no longer have to store our actual hard archives as through John, Bolton Museum has now become the custodian of all the archive material belonging to Walmsley Church AODS.

The Museum archivist was extremely impressed with the way our history has been lovingly kept and as it is the first time that they have also received a digital archive, it has been regarded as quite a coup and innovation for Walmsley.

All I can say is what a wonderful achievement by John, Diane and Paul (Duckworth) not forgetting our brilliant website by Steve (Benson) which  incidentally  featured highly in the Museum’s decision to take our archives.

If you would like to own a memory stick containing all our archives please contact John and he has said that he will update these with each future show. This will cost approx £40

Congratulations Walmsley AODS on yet another first.

AKT
Congratulations are also in order for our AKT who put on a great show in July with ‘Honk’. They are all eagerly awaiting to get stuck into their next production which is to be ‘Bugsy Malone’. Although having said that, the whole team is now busy rehearsing for the Operatic Church Service and the Christmas Operatic Evening.

Operatic Church Service
September 28th at 6.30pm is the date and time for this year’s service of thanksgiving for our society. Mike (Taylor) is the co-ordinator of the event and he has arranged the service a little differently from previous years. We look forward to seeing you there.

Hog Roast
It rained….but were we bothered? Not one jot. What a fantastic evening it was. Around a hundred people gathered at John and Lindsay’s for a superb hog roast. It was the first time that the social committee and Don and Audrey had organised such an event but I’m sure it won’t be the last. The wine and beer was aplenty plus burgers, sausage, salad and potatoes. Thank you John and Lindsay for your very generous hospitality. We raised £480 - a fantastic effort! click here for photographs

Social Membership.
We now have a very healthy social membership which is aimed at people who would like to be a member of our society yet not be obliged to be involved with the general running of the society. Membership costs £10 a year so if you know anyone who would be interested please give their name and address to our secretary Audrey.

Long Service Award
At our last Committee meeting, I had the honour of presenting to Anne Windsor a silver five year bar to add to her thirty year medal. Congratulations, Anne.

James Edgington
Always nice to hear about the success of our young members and James was in several of our productions both as a junior and a senior member. We are all pleased, I am sure, to hear that James will be performing at the Octagon Theatre, Bolton on Monday 15th September in a theatrical piece ’Didn’t We’ and also Thursday 25th September in his one man show ‘James E.’ Good luck to James. You can find out more details on the Octagon website.

Barnum
Hurry, hurry, hurry……..don’t forget your tickets for ‘Barnum’. Tickets for members go on sale on Saturday 20th September and public booking starts on Monday 22nd September.

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