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    Staffs Wildlife Trust Food and Beer Festival

    Wolseley Food & Beer Festival 2009 Saturday 6th June 11.00am to 11.00pm At The Wolseley Centre (Off the A51, 1.5 miles north of Rugeley) Food Stalls: 11.00am to 5.00pm A unique opportunity to come and enjoy the tastes and but some of Staffordshire’s finest local, organic and fair trade...
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    'Nanas

    From noon on 6 March to noon on 7 March the Fairtrade Foundation are trying to break a world record for the number of people eating a Fairtrade Banana. Lots of schools, busineses etc are taking part and you can too! There is an event outside St Chad's church on Saturday morning or you can join...
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    Festive Green Drinks

    There will be a Festive Green Drinks at the Vine tonight (9 December) from about 7:30pm. So if you would like to get involved with the green side of Stafford life please come along for a little tipple with some of the people from groups like Sustainability Matters, Green Party, Friends of the...
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    Free Cycling Course

    There is a free Cycling for Health course starting on Saturday 22 November and there are still a couple of places left if you're quick. It's a 10 session course for people who want to cycle more but lack confidence or need to refresh their cycling skills. You don't even need to own a bike as...
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    Family Fun Cycle Day

    There will be a 'FAmily Fun Cycle Day' on Sunday 16 November from 10am - 2pm. There will be rides to follow, a cycle treasure hunt, a chance to get Dr. Bike to give your bicycle a safety check, bike displays, lots of info and much more. It will all be happening at teh Back-2-Bikes unit on...
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    Stafford One World Jamboree

    There will be a One World Jamboree on Saturday 18 October at the Church Lane Evangelical Hall - opposite the Soup Kitchen - from 10am - 3pm. There will be food from Burma, India, Thialand and the Caribbean, live music and henna tattooing as well as a Fairtrade cafe, games to play for young and...
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    MAPLIN in Stafford

    For all the geeks out there MAPLIN is opening a new store in Stafford on Saturday :D It's on the Huff retail park ar what ever it's called - where B&Q now is on the Lichfield Rd. Best new store to open in the town since...?
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    The Sustainablility Thread

    Admin edit: This post has been moved from a different thread, so is out of chronological order! We actually have jchiltz to thank for starting this thread - please read his post, underneath, first. :) Cutting congestion does not have one single answer but cutting car use is part of it. To...
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    circuits de Stone - Bike Race

    There is a bike race on in Stone this evening (18 June) with proffessional riders including some that are off to the Olympics. It's a criterium round the closed streets of Stone. There is loads of other stuff going on to make an evening of it too - events start at 6:30pm and the race sets off...
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    Stafford Area: Save Your Energy

    A new project has been set up to help all us Staffordians :stafford: save our energy, called Stafford Area: Save Your Energy. The idea is to bring together info on what practical things we can do to save energy, real life examples from people that have done things and links to local companies...
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    Big banana Give Away

    It's the Stafford Half Marathon, Fun Run and Junior Mile on Sunday (16 March) and Stafford's Fairtrade group, Stafford Area Action for Fairtrade (SAAFT), are giving away 2500 Co-op FAIRTRADE bananas :banana: - one to every runner. As you can imagine this is a big task so we are looking for...
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    Breaking the Silence: Rachel Carson

    Hopefully some of you good people will be well aware of the book 'Silent Spring' by Rachel Carson. It's not often that a book really does change the world but this is probable one of them. Back in the early 1960's it brought the world's attention to the way that pestesides were being used in...
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    Climate Change discussion thing

    There's a big discussion thing going on at the moment across Staffordshire called Our County, Our Climate, Our Choice©©© (or OC3). It's all about getting the views of people generally on climate change. There are discussion events all over the county but the one for Stafford is on Monday...
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    One World Jamboree

    Saturday 27 October 10am - 3pm One World Jamboree Lots of food to try - Indian, Caribean, Polish - cooked in traditional manor by local people. Fairtrade cafe, fun and games for all the family, world music and dance (hopefully). Come along and see what's going on, stay for a brew and get some...
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    Sunday - a day to improve your local environment

    This SUnday (21 October) there are two, count them - 2, chances to get out and make the world a better place, or at least Stafford anway. First off there is a morning of environmental work going on at Kingston Pool Covert (south) Local Nature Reserve. That's the one out on the Weston Rd. just...
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    Which DSLR

    I bought a fairly cheap digi camera back in March and have been having some fun with it (www.flickr.com/photos/zenzinnia/) but that's now in a thousand pieces after a little disagreement (www.flickr.com/photos/zenzinnia/1451518181/ ). As i've been enjoying the photo lark again (used to do loads...
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    Stafford Film Theatre

    Just a reminder to anyone who likes a good film, Stafford Film Theatre's Autumn season starts on Tuesday (11 September) at The Gatehouse. http://www.staffordfilmtheatre.co.uk/ First film is The Lives Of Others. http://www.livesofothersmovie.co.uk/ Full season tickets (22 Films) £46 (£35...
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    Fight Hunger. Eat Out

    I've noticed that there are quite a few restaurants, cafes, pubs who serve food and the like now checking out the forum and would just like to bring this charity campaign to their attention and I hope that lots can be done in Stafford to help it along...
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    20 Years in the Swamp

    This month marks 20 years since I moved to Stafford. The Lady of the Swamp dug her tallons firmly in me and I've not been able to leave her loving embrace since. So, if you wern't born here, how long have you lived in the Swamp and what brought you here? I came to go to the old North Staffs...
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    Bins and Stuff

    I know that bins/ recycling/ waste etc is a big issue with folks so if you want to put your quieries and complaints to people in the know there is a exhibition in Market Square at the moment (and all day) with people from both councils promoting recycling and the Zero Waste to Landfill...
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