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The
Verwood & 3 Legged Cross
Twinning Association.
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Le Val Chantant
Verwood Concert Brass
In May the year was enlivened by a visit
which included 'Le Val Chantant' with their director
Nicole Chaussade, an adult choir from the Champtoceaux
area, when we hosted 107 visitors. The Leisure Centre was
hired and Verwood Concert Brass agreed to take part in the
concert. The whole evening was a huge success, the singing
most professional, and many people said that our Concert
Brass had never played better; standing ovations being the
norm. (A recording exists of
this concert and it is hoped that when it is digitised and
permission received that it can be included on the site.)
The following month, June, if you happened
to be in Potterne Park you may have seen an International
Football match - England v West Germany. No you wouldn't
have seen Hoddle or Muller, but you may have seen Jon
Palethorpe or Gunter Grimm in a Verwood v Niederheimbach
match when Verwood was visited by their football team,
which was great fun. Fortunately for us, several of them
wished to be accommodated in a hotel in Boscombe, which
eased the hosting problem.
The Niederheimbach
Football team with guests and hosts on departure.
In July, Julie Wadge Joined a Scout camp,
with other young people from Champtoceaux.
The Committee was saddened in March by the
sudden death of our secretary, Leo Roberts, a founder and
committee member and secretary for four years. The vacancy
was filled by Judy Higley. This very busy year ended with
the AGM when two new members, Brian Bowey and
Barrie
Habgood, were elected.
 We paid an official visit to Champtoceaux,
accompanied by the Ringwood Pipe Band, which proved to be
very popular, especially when they marched through the
streets. Not only were the pipers popular with the French,
but the French must have had a strong influence on the
Pipers, for the weekend saw an apparent Scottish retreat
from beer and whisky in favour of the products of the
vine. This visit marked the honouring of our town by the
official naming ceremony of the Rue de Verwood.
At the end of August, a small party of 13 people from Verwood travelled
to Niederheimbach to
repay the visit of the footballers the previous year. They
were treated to locally made wine, trips on the Rhine, a
visit to a beer cellar and an evening of beer drinking and
dancing at the village festival.
The usual two 'theme' parties were held in
the Spring and Autumn, and we had a very enjoyable evening
in June on a boat trip up the River Frome from
Poole
to Wareham . Peter Strugnell and Roy Homer joined the
committee in place of Mike Newham and George Oakley at the
AGM.
1989 was a quiet year with the usual
fundraising activities. The only significant event was an
approach by the English Speaking Society of
"Liederbach am
Taunus", a town situated some 15 miles west of
Frankfurt
towards
Wiesbaden.
It was at this AGM in October that our
hardworking Chairman, Jon Palethorpe, resigned, and the
Vice-Chairman elected in his place. The Committee was now:
Chairman: Geoff Higley, Vice-Chairman: Brian Bowey,
Treasurer: Ron Curd, Secretary: Judy Higley, Minutes
Secretary: Jenny Brown, Members: Dorothy Curd, Buster
Davies, Mike Daymond, Doris Hopkin, Roy Homer, Hilary
Noble, Jon Palethorpe, Olive Roberts, Daphne Saville,
Peter Strugnell, Gordon Thorne, John Wadge and Bill
Williams.
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