Sunday 28 March 2010

April 2010 newsletter

Kingsley Park Working Men's Club.
Newsletter April 2010.

Editor Matt Wright
Email m.wright@ntlworld.com
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Kingsley Park Working Men’s Club and Institute
120 Kingsley Park Terrace, Kingsley, Northampton, NN2 7HJ
Phone 711002
Bar Manager 715514
Secretary 719800
Email Secretary barryslasberg@kingsleyparkwmc.co.uk

Chancellor hits us again.

In the recent budget the chancellor decided to raise the duty on a pint of beer by 2% above the rate of inflation. February’s inflation rate was 3% so that means that we will have to increase the price of duty by 5%.
He has hit the cider drinkers the hardest by increasing the duty on cider and alco- pops by 10% above inflation. We will not know the full extent of the increases until our next delivery The committee will then have no choice but to pass on the increases to our members.

On Good Friday and Easter Monday the club will be opened from 11.00.

Games News.


Cribbage Success.
Congratulations to Alan Coles and Ramesh Chudasama for finishing runners-up in the CIU National Cribbage Pair’s Knockout.
Our A team also won the league this year. If you are interested in playing cribbage for the club on Monday nights, please contact the team captains.

Snooker Success.
We are delighted to note that there is an increase in the use of our tables of over 30% compared to last year. It makes the table maintenance cost of almost £1000 a year worthwhile to see member’s enjoying this facility.
What a shame to see the benefit of the extra use being more than wiped out by vandals breaking cues; smashing the token box; stealing balls and even pinching the spots from the tables.
The cost so far this year is in excess of £350.
Could the people involved please activate their one brain cell (possibly between them!) and think about what they are doing to their own friends and workmates by perpetrating (Doing) these pathetic acts of vandalism?
Thank you
E.C.

Committee.

Following the AGM two of the committee have decided to retire. We would like to thank Stu Bee and Bob Horner for all their hard work in the past. And we are delighted that Bob will still be our quizmaster on Wednesday nights.
The committee that were up for re-election was returned un-apposed and Martin Moss has been co-opted on.
Your Committee Are:
President; Graham Burgess, Vice-President; Richard Shanahan, Treasurer; Dave Birch. Trustees Ramesh Chudasama, Brian Dollby and Dave Brawn. Finance; Pete Kirby and John Collins.
Welfare; John Carnegie-Brown and Pete Beaumont. Entertainment;
Paddy Mullally, Geof Bassett, Lew Sander and Martin Moss.
Newsletter, Raffle’s & Publicity; Matt Wright.
We have a vacancy; if you would like to serve the club, please get in touch with the secretary.

Games Room.

Following a request from our games teams it has been decided to provide cans of beer and lager for sale in the games room bar.
It has also been decided to move the lotto machine to the outside of the bar so that our members can purchase tickets when the bar is closed.

Members Notice Board.

Do you have anything for sale? Do you offer a service? Are there any items that you want? If so why not make use of our notice board.
You are invited to place a 6” x 4” postcard sized notice for anything legal.
Some of the earlier notices have had to be taken down as the tradesmen now have all the work that they can handle.
If you need help in designing an advert I will be glad to help.

Obituaries.

Norman Taylor. Our condolences to his children, grand children and great grand children and to his other family and friends.
John Frost. Our thoughts are with his wife children and grand children., his friends and family.

Cask Ale Weekender.

Easter Bank Holiday Weekend
From Thursday April 1st.
Choose from over 10
Different Ales.
Only £2-50 per pint.

Seafarers 3.6%,Bar Fly 3.9%Green Shoots 4%,Shoemaker 4.2%Young Mans Fancy 4.3%Pigs Do Fly 4.4%Hobgoblin 4.5%Natterjack 4.8%Captain Pigwash 5%Rugby Ball Sticker 5%

More men seem to drink cask ale than women because… women are conditioned from an early age that beer is a man’s drink. Beer is predominantly marketed to men (can you think of a female friendly beer advert?). Women also have the common misconception that beer is fattening, therefore avoid it – but it’s the least calorific alcoholic drink they can order across the bar.

A good cask ale is determined by… Temperature (too cold and all the flavour disappears, too warm and it tastes rank); Clarity (if a cask ale is cloudy it can be indicative that the beer is not fully conditioned); Aroma (must be fresh, appetising – vinegary, yeasty, chemically etc); Taste (all good cask ales have a natural CO2 content giving a slight tingle on the tongue. Good flavours include floral, grassy, citrus, peach, pineapple, banana, toffee, horlicks, biscuit, or coffee. Depending on the beer!

Due to lack of sales, it has been decided that Thwaits will replace Kingsley Smooth as our budget beer.

St Georges Day April 23rd.Doors open at 11.00 am. Sarah’s set breakfast will be on sale until 2pmThere will a raffle and a collection bucket for donations to Help 4 Heroes.Afternoon entertainment with Amy C& Book 'Im & Risk It From 2.30pm.

Fund Raiser June 5th Tickets for the Natalie Hill Charity fund raising nightStarring, Accrington Stanley. (Beatles Tribute.)Are on sale now from behind bar or from Vanessa Hill.Price £5

Suggestion Box.

You suggestion box is not being used as much as it once was, does this mean that we are doing everything that you want?
There have been many ideas that we have acted on in the past and also quite a few amusing comments. Please keep your ideas coming.

Buffet’s.

Please note that the price of our buffets start at £6 not at the price quoted in last month’s newsletter. Apologies for any confusion.



Win a Fish Supper.

To be in with a chance of winning a Fish-Supper for two simply buy a ticket for our Sunday evening raffle, only 50p for ten tickets.



April Entertainment.

Friday 2nd Red Thunder Rock n Roll, 60’s
Saturday 3rd The Mustard Band 60’s to 90’s
Sunday 4th Suzzi Vocalist
Monday 5th Johnny Red & The Rebel The Billy. Shaky& Elvis Show
Wednesday 7th Bluegrass Jam SessionB H Quiz Night
Friday 9th Tom Healy Show Band Irish & 60’s
Saturday 10th Red Alert 60’s to 90’s
Sunday 11th Ben Murphy Vocalist
Wednesday 14th B H Quiz Night
Friday 16th Louise Clair Vocalist
Saturday 17th Blow Out 60’s to 90’s
Sunday 18th Taylor John Vocalist
Wednesday 21st B H Quiz Night
Friday 23rd (Day) Amy C(Night) Keith Dee Vocalist
Saturday 24th Krayz 60’s to 00’s
Sunday 25th Damion Vocalist
Wednesday 28th B H Quiz Night
Friday 30th The Many Sides Of Gary 50’s & 60’s

Bingo. Monday 5th and every Friday & Sunday.

Tuesday 16 March 2010

Sunday 7 March 2010

Committee.

Vice President; Richard Shanahan.
Committee; John Collins, Pete Kirby,and Paddy Mullally.
Were returned unapposed. This leaveas two vacancies.
Any male member with at least six months membership that would like to fill the casual vacancies are invited to write to the secretary in the next 10 days.

CIU Crib.


CIU National Crib Pairs runners-up, Alan Coles and Ramesh Chudasama.