2004 Village Day Olympiad
From Lacey Green History
Report by Joan West, (President of the Sports Club)
Village Day 2004 turned out to be the last Village Day. The Village Hall had failed to get a committee to run it. They decided to ask the Sports Club to take it on for just one year, thinking they had the biggest membership. They said they would ask Lacey Green Church to do it next. That never happened. I think that maybe permission to close the road for the procession could not be obtained.
What the Village Hall Committee did not realise was that the members of the Sports Club actually belonged to three separate clubs for cricket, football and tennis, whose members were represented on a general Sports & Social Committee. There was absolutely no enthusiasm for organising Village Day.
Thinking it would be a good advertisement for the Club (having talked to several people in the village who knew nothing about us, some not even where it was or even of its existence.) The reports in Hallmark obviously didn't paint the whole picture!).
Three of us took it on - myself, Jane Oakford, secretary of the Main Committee, and Linda Gaffin, who was actually on the Main Committee as liason with Lacey Green School next door. It was the year of The Olympics, and being a sports club it seemed appropriate to make that the theme. Click Chris & Jane Oakford and Vic & Linda Gaffin for more about Jane and Linda.
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