There was good news recently for Sark’s Methodist Pastor Karen Le Mouton when she heard that she has passed all the requirements with flying colours and is well on the way to becoming a fully ordained minister. Karen has undertaken more than two years of study and training which has included a month long placement in inner city Birmingham. In September she will become a Reverend and has been guaranteed…
Monthly Archives: February 2015
Diners at Hathaways, the café and bistro at La Seigneurie Gardens, enjoyed a taste of things to come at the weekend when chef Andrew Tortice re-opened the restaurant. Andrew is a highly trained chef with a passion for using local meat, seafood and produce and last year Beau Sejour, the restaurant here he ran for four years, was voted as the best in Sark and fourth in the Channel Islands…
A team from BBC Radio were in Sark this weekend to record a dramatisation of the first meeting between the German forces and Dame Sibyl Hathaway at the start of the Occupation in July 1940. It is a part of a programme celebrating the Liberation of the Channel Channels due to be broadcast in early May this year compiled by actor John Nettles. The programme will also feature music and…
Sark School celebrated the end of Literacy Week and the start of the half term holiday by transforming the Island Hall into Wonderland on Friday and holding an enormous Mad Hatter’s Tea Party. The pupils have been studying the work of Lewis Carroll particularly the stories featuring the adventures of Alice. Guests entered through a specially made rabbit hole and the tables were laden with sandwiches, cakes and other treats…
La Société Sercquaise’s Heritage Room was packed on Sunday for a talk by military historian Eric Lee on Operation Basalt, a raid on Sark by British commandos in 1942 during the German Occupation of the island. Eric is writing a book about the raid which debates the success or otherwise of the event, the many untruths it inspired and its far-reaching implications. The raid took place on the night of…
A team of staff, parents, pupils and friends of Sark School worked together last weekend to turn the main room at the Island Hall into a huge jumble sale. The tables were piled high with clothes, toys, bric-a-bric and books and there were also raffles, a tombola and cake stall. The event raise £562 which will go to the Friends of Sark School fund that helps pay for school trips…
Sark’s Court sat recently to swear in the new and returning members of Chief Pleas (Conseillers) who stood for election in December last year. There were 16 seats available and as there were 16 candidates all were automatically selected without the need for an election. There were two two-year terms immediately available that, by ballot, were taken by returning Conseillers Chris Nightingale and Tony Ventress who were sworn in last…
A piece of Sark’s wartime history was uncovered recently when Kevin Adams excavated a German anti-aircraft gun emplacement on his land above Maseline Harbour. With help from Bailey Gill and Flynn Martin, around seventy tonnes of earth were moved to uncover the circular platform. Kevin uncovered a small section a few years ago but this is the first time that the whole area has been cleared. Sark was the least…
Islanders and visitors gathered at the Island Hall on New Year’s Day to celebrate the start of 2015 and raise some funds at the same time. Sharon, Sandra and their team at the Hall had laid on all kinds of games and a raffle to entertain both adults and children. The event raised £??? which will be used to buy a bench in memory of Dave Melling who sadly died…
Islanders and visitors gathered at the Island Hall on New Year’s Day to celebrate the start of 2015 and raise some funds at the same time. Sharon, Sandra and their team at the Hall had laid on all kinds of games and a raffle to entertain both adults and children. The event raised £??? which will be used to buy a bench in memory of Dave Melling who sadly died…
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