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18 THE NEW COUNTESTHORPE HERALD
OCTOBER 2023
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We hope to meet you at some of the community events we will be attending during 2023/24. If you need any assistance with your own local charity projects, or have suggestions for a community project we could work on with you, feel free to get in touch.
HUNCOTE FIELD
FOOTPATHS REOPEN
Fencing which has cordoned off the public footpath and bridleway is being taken down allowing public access for the first time since the overall closure of the site in November 2021. The closure came after the discovery of elevated landfill gas. The Huncote Leisure Centre site sits on top of former landfill and since the closure constant monitoring and extensive remediation has taken place to reduce levels. A significant amount of work and more than £500,000 of capital investment has taken place during the closure period to ensure the safety of the site.
Lowering of gas levels allowed the main leisure centre to open in October last year. Up until recently, gas levels have remained too high on the wider site for it to be considered safe to use.
Our specialist contractor has now confirmed these specific areas are now safe and can be reopened to the public.
BLABY & DISTRICT LIONS
CLUB NEWS
Club members were at Asda Fosse Park to promote Lions Clubs and answer questions about what our members do for your community. Thank you to everyone who made a donation and who stopped to chat to us.
Volunteers from local Lions clubs helped to run the Leicester Lions Beer Festival at the end of July. This was a great event and we have now helped to raise over £28,000 for local prostate cancer charity Prostaid (over the last 5 festivals). If you are interested in helping out next
year (volunteers to help pull pints at the bar are always needed!), contact info@ LeicesterLionsBeerFestival.uk
COMMUNITY MOVIE NIGHTS RESTART
We will be restarting our community movie nights, at the Countesthorpe Village Hall, on the third Friday of each month, between October 2023 and April 2024. The first movie of the season will be ‘A Good Person’, starring Morgan Freeman. Come and join us (for free, as a guest of our Lions club) at 7.15pm on Friday 20th October. Movie details can be found on our website www.BlabyLions.co.uk
POPULAR QUIZ NIGHT
You are also invited to join us for our next charity Quiz Night, on Saturday 21st October 2023 (at 7.15pm), held at the Blaby Social Centre. Bring a team (4-8 people) or just come along and join another team. The ticket price (£12) includes a fish’n’chip supper from the Blaby Chippy - you can choose steak or vegetable pie instead of fish. Tickets can be bought from our website: www. BlabyLions.co.uk/charity-quiz-night.php Would you like to be a ‘Friend of Lions’? If you join our mailing list, we will let you know about service projects and community events (as well as upcoming social outings) that you may wish to get involved with. If you would like to learn more about your local Lions club, give Leonie a call on 0344 963 2449. To join our mailing list, please email us at ask@
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