Rye & Winchelsea Rotary Club have presented cheques for £500 each to Jo Kirkham on behalf of Rye, Winchelsea & District Hospital League of Friends and to Marcia Dart on behalf of St Michaels Hospice. Continue reading Hospice & Hospital Presentations by Rye Rotary
Month: October 2012
Editorial
Many people have asked about the artist who provided last months cover picture of Mermaid Street . Beat rice Cloake from Hythe is the artist, she has been described as a romantic in modern times who writes poems in watercolour. We could not improve on this description of one of our favourite artists. Continue reading Editorial
Lions Aid Orphanages Again
For the thirteenth year, the Lions Clubs in the Southeast have sent vital necessities to orphanages and families in need in Belarus. Rye and District Lions have assisted Judy Pope, wife of Rye Lions Stuart Pope, who has collected most of the items, by transporting the boxes of donated goods from Rye to Queenborough. Continue reading Lions Aid Orphanages Again
Rye Medieval Conference 2012
“These Conferences were begun eight years ago as part of a joint bid by Rye Castle Museum and the Rye Partnership to get a grant to stop the main Rye Castle – Ypres Tower leaking. One condition was to get Rye acknowledged by the academic world as a centre where the latest research in Medieval topics could be presented. Continue reading Rye Medieval Conference 2012
Sad Month for Rye
By Jim Hollands
This job of Editor of “Rye’s Own” has many great moments. I am able to share in the good times enjoyed by Rye and Rye people, support the town when outside forces threaten to change our way of life and enjoy victories and achievements of Ryers young and old. But there are bad times when I have to report the loss of friends and contemporaries, and this is a very sad time. Continue reading Sad Month for Rye
Tilling Green Centre
Rye Town Amateur Boxing Club are now affiliated with the Amateur Boxing Association of England and will be competing across the UK as early as November. Continue reading Tilling Green Centre
Rubbish
By Tony May
As ‘The Clean Up Man’ I have now been ‘patrolling’ the streets of Hollington for well over a year and the amount of cans, bottles, crisp bags, cigarette packets, fag butts and other items I have personally picked up and ‘escorted’ to a public waste bin must now run into thousands. Continue reading Rubbish
Ambrette’s Tobias in Final of Restaurant Manager of the Year
Ambrette’s Tobias in Final of Restaurant Manager of the Year The Academy of Food & Wine Service (AFWS) has named the four restaurant managers that have made it to the final of the 2012 UK Restaurant Manager of the Year competition. Continue reading Ambrette’s Tobias in Final of Restaurant Manager of the Year
Late News Extra
Bike It You’ll Like It
We all cheered on Bradley Wiggins, Chris Hoy, Vicky Pendleton and all those other great cyclists who have helped to restore our national pride and depleted gold reserves. Tears of joy and emotion, the like of which has not been seen since 1966 when England won the World Cup, erupted on Olympic rostrums and in the front rooms of Britain. Continue reading Late News Extra
Rob’s Graduation
Sylvia Hewitt Nee’ Sperring from Oragon USA who went to school in Rye and still has many friends here was a proud lady when her Grandson Rob Neal was accepted into the US Air Force Academy by no less a person than President Obama recently – Sylvia writes . Continue reading Rob’s Graduation