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A ROTARY club has dug deep to make a big effort to raise money for those effected by the Haiti earthquake disaster.
The Rotary Club of Gerrards Cross and Chalfont St Peter, has managed to raise £2,500 to assist the victims of the devastating quake.

Believe it or not there are a few people left in the civilised world who have not seen and still refuse to witness the theatrical phenomenon that is Les Miserables. I suppose it must be the same kind of stubborn perversity that stops me watching East Enders or Waking the Dead on TV.

THE chairman of the Chiltern Arts Forum has hit out at the amount of grants arts in the area receive.
Jack Milner has been in contact with the Arts Council, the organisation that distributes government and lottery money for the arts around the country, and has been shocked to discover how little is given to the Chilterns and Buckinghamshire as a whole.

THE Chalfont St Peter and St Giles branch of the Royal British Legion have joined forces with the village's air training corps.
The union was celebrated at a special ceremony last week attended by senior officers and parents of the cadets.

THE president of Chalfont St Peter's chamber of commerce organisation has been re-elected to the position.
Michael Day will enjoy a second stint in the role after other members of the chamber voted for him to carry on at their annual general meeting on April 8 at the village's community centre.

Several clean-up days organised recently by Misbourne River Action have proved particularly successful, with several volunteers from Chalfont St Giles joining group chairman Bob Older and his son Paul in an operation to encourage the flow of the river.
Volunteers made temporary repairs to river banks that were leaking into adjacent fields, painted the bridge over the river by the Chalfont St Peter community centre and eased the flow of the river past the duckpond in Chalfont St Giles.

A youth club in Denham is set to have re-launch to encourage a new group of youngsters to join up.
The Zone group is sending out a use it or lose it message to Denham teenagers who are stuck for ways to spend their evenings.
The group started in 2005 following a long history of graffiti and other vandalism at the area surrounding Denham Cricket Club in Cheapside Lane, due to the apparent boredom of youths in the village.

The Chalfont Fine Art Association is set to celebrate its 40th birthday.
The group, formed in 1969, will hold a celebration for its members on Wednesday, March 18 at the village's Community Centre.
The event will include dinner and a speech from members of the group.

A fund raising group is to launch a huge money making blitz throughout March by hosting a series of events in Chalfont St Peter.
The group, called Making a Difference, links South Bucks with a variety of children's projects in Kampala, the capital city of Uganda.
They are inviting people across South Bucks to join together throughout March by taking part in their fund raising schemes.

Chiltern American Women's Club paid a visit to the National Society for Epilepsy to hand over a special gift.
The group visited the site in Chesham Lane, Chalfont St Peter, on Friday, to hand over a cheque for £6,453.82, all of which was raised from CAWC's Christmas bazaar.
Barb Brandt handed over the money to Bridget Gardiner, the NSE's director of fund raising, at a special ceremony.