News from Coverack

More August News 2008
Such a busy month needed two pages!
Coverack Singers
Performances of "The Orient Express" summer show began in July, and continued through August every Tuesday evening. Passengers were taken through Europe in song, visiting six countries en route to Istanbul. The nineth show is for Charity, to benefit the Cornwall Air Ambulance. Departure is at 8pm on Saturday September 13th, adult fare only £4.
Photograph of the cast by Steven Wood.

Singers Show
You can hear the cast singing "The Old Bazaar in Cairo".
The MPEG file is 3.5MB so you need Broadband.
Listen to "The Old Bazaar in Cairo"

Presentation to Coverack

Eleanor McGillie, representing The Western Morning News, presents Joan Jearsley with Coverack's certificate of commendation.
Calor Cornish Village of the Year Competition
The Calor Village of the Year awards for Cornwall were made on Friday 29th August in Truro. Coverack was one of the five Cornish villages to be short-listed, and Joan Kearsley was invited to attend the award ceremony. Patty Murphy, Jan Coombe and Peter Wood, went over to Truro with Joan.

A plaque was presented to St Day, the winning village, by James Addison representing Calor, and now St Day will go forward next year, to the regional competition for the best village in the South West. The other villages on the short list were Coverack, Week St Mary, Kingsand and Cawsand, and Wilcove. They all received a framed certificate of commendation, presented by Eleanor McGillie. Each village was also given individual suggestions of what they might do, to further enhance their own local community.

See past news items:
Electricity Poles July 2008
Beach Clean 27th May 2008
Good Friday Cross on the beach
Storm Damage (10th March 2008)
Pancake Day (February 2008)
The Bay Hotel (January 2008)
Christmas Day swim 2007  
RNLI Christmas Fair (December 2007)
Christmas Card Making (November 2007)
Theatre Comes to Coverack (August 2007)
Coverack Tide Challenge (August 2007)
Coverack School PTFA Coffee Morning (June 2007)
Graham and Brenda Daw's Golden Wedding Anniversary (February 2007)
Getting ready for Christmas (December 2006)
Craft Fair (25th October 2006)
Sandcastle Competition (August 2006)
The Information Kiosk is opened (August 2006)
Basking sharks in Coverack Bay (July 2006)
Christmas Day swim 2005
Autumn Update 2005 (5th December 2005)
Wendy Galbraith's 90th birthday party (17th June 2005)
Angela and Sarah in the London Marathon (17th April 2005)
Parties at the Paris and new ramp at St Peter's (20th March 2005)
The Tsunami Shelter Box appeal in Coverack (8th January 2005)
Volunteers prepare the Christmas lights  (December 2004)
The road reopened after the storm (12th November 2004)
October storm closes road to village (28th October 2004)
"Goodbye" Dennis and Margaret Cooper (19th Sept 2004)
Penny Parton abseils down County Hall (23rd May 2004)
  

Updated September 2008