'Christmas Window Spotting' heads a busy time for Hayling's BEST M.T.I.
- Sun 29th Nov 2009
Christmas as always will be a particularly busy time for Hayling’s Best volunteers, with the ‘Playing on the Plaza’ team embarking on their annual collaboration with the Hayling Island Churches Together group, for ‘Carols on the Plaza’. An opportunity to join with the congregations of all of the Island’s churches for a musical celebration of the joy of Christmas, due to take place on the Liveability Plaza at Eastoke Corner on the afternoon of Sunday 13th December from 4pm. All are welcome.
Another Island gem fast becoming integralpart of the ‘Hayling’s BEST Christmas’ is the Hayling Island Window Spotting Competition. Now in its third successful year the idea behind it is simple yet ingenious. Shopkeepers and business folk around the magical Isle of Hayling have undertaken to to display a single ‘item of incongruity’ , something which you would normally be very surprised indeed to find lurking in their shop window. Your mission, should you agree to accept it, is to collect a FREE trail sheet from any one of the many participating outlets throughout Hayling Island, as signified by a special ‘Hayling’s BEST Window Spotting Sticker’, in order to track them all down to identify their secrets and win a highly sought after prize. Namely one of two unique Hayling’s BEST gift vouchers valued at £25 and £50, redeemable at ANY of the participating Island businesses.
For 2010 the Hayling’s BEST Market Town Initiative are already working on a full and exciting calendar of Island community events. As you may have already read in the November Hayling Islander, the volunteer historians and archivists of the Discover Hayling team have been busy unearthing yet more about the important role played by the Island, in the D-Day Landings of World War 2 and the subsequent liberation of Europe. Already well known are the brave exploits of the ‘Cockleshell Hero’s’ and Hayling’s vital role in training exercises in the run up to the Normandy Landings. Less well known is the role played by members of the Special Forces billeted at the Hayling Island Sailing Club, in a series of audacious clandestine raids to survey the beachheads, without which the planned invasion might easily have been a fiasco!
More on this and no doubt many other fascinating insights into the social history of Hayling Island, are due to feature in a special exhibition to be held at the Hayling Island Library from Saturday 16th January. Details of all of these events will be publicised on our website and via these pages as soon they become available.
The Hayling’s BEST group are continually on the lookout for new blood to add to its pool of talent, both on the MTI Core Committee, and working with its many subgroups which currently include the Scarecrow Festival, Playing on the Plaza, Discover Hayling, the Christmas Window Spotting Competition and the Hayling Community Youth Centre Project. If you would like to join our growing team of hard working community volunteers, please contact our new Chairperson Dale Norman on 023 92 462192 or by email via our website. http://www.haylingsbest.co.uk/
Ian Edwards,
Volunteer P.R.Officer,
Hayling’s BEST M.T.I.
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