Ascension : 1st Ascension Girl Guiding Unit - Fun Day
Submitted by The Islander (Cheryl Anthony) 20.08.2009 (Article Archived on 03.09.2009)

Sunday 9th August, in the vicinity of Garden Cottage, Green Mountain the 1st Ascension Girlguiding Unit’s Fun Day took place, from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Sunday 9th August, in the vicinity of Garden Cottage, Green Mountain the 1st Ascension Girlguiding Unit’s Fun Day took place, from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.  This was yet another successful event with just on 130 people joining the girls and Leaders in an afternoon of fun, food and drink.  There were miscellaneous stalls, Feeding of lumpy custard blind folded, tug-of-war, games and races galore and I’m sure a few of the Twister Game participants are still a little twisted since they took part!!!  The Duncan sisters and nieces with their families sure made the afternoon went with a swing and got everybody into the mood of the races.

There was a bar of beer and soft drinks and mixed music by Freddy.  On sale was soup which was made on the open fire by Karen (Joe) Thomas who is here on holiday and volunteered to give us a helping hand.  In addition to this was hot dog and onion on roll, fishcake on roll, tea, coffee, popcorn, cakes, sandwiches and savoury.

Noddy, entertained everyone and even at some stage was auctioning the children off but no money was received!!!  I don’t really think many could understand his language but he made everyone happy!!
The day started off lovely and sunny and then by 5:15 it drizzled with rain for 10 minutes and nothing more.  So to top it we had a splendid afternoon.

WINNERS OF THE DAY WERE:-

Barbara Greentree – ticket 8510034  -  Food Hamper
Alex Gordon         -  ticket 8510043  -  Ornamental Plate with stand
Krystal Phillips     -  Weight of Cake – 5lbs (the cake was 4lbs 10ozs)
Nyreeka Lawrence -  Name of Bear – Cuddly
Alberta Knipe        -  Name the Bunny – Poppy
Aiden Leo              -  Dummy in Maggie Simpson’s mouth blinded-folded
                                  (right in the Gob!!)   
Toni Bendall          -  Guess what’s in the box – Wind Chimes

Please collect your prize from my home after 5 p.m.

Thank you goes out to:-
AIG and Conservation for the landrovers and especially Nicky and Kimbo our drivers
IDL for the soup pot
Obsidian for the Garden Cottage
Wilson Scipio and Pedro for lending a helping hand from start to finish
Freddy for the music
Adam and Robert – the bartenders
Billy for chilling the drinks
Debbie for the cake
Aaron for shopping in the states for the bear
Annis for donating the wind chimes and bunny
Annie, Nan, and Sharon – the kitchen staff
Karen Joe holidaying on Ascension but roped in to cook the soup and even supported us throughout the day
All who donated towards the tea table especially a HUGE thanks to Adam (Titch) Fowler who baked and iced a sandwich cake to perfection all by himself
Last but not least all who came along to support us.

Our incomes from the last two events are:-
MAKE ‘N’ MIX SHOW       -  £864.50
FUN DAY                     -   £591.70

We are now just on half way to our target so thank you for your contributions and hopefully continued support – at this rate we will meet our target before July 2010.

Next in the diary is our Run Way Dash………….which will be a shared event with Cancer Awareness in St. Helena and the Guides.