Dear Editor,

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU..…
It seems so inadequate to express our gratitude to everyone for the fantastic fund raising to enable Jack to have a Home Choice Kidney dialysis machine!
As well as enabling us to go to Minehead for the Bank Holiday to stay with Grandma and Grandad, Jack's bedroom seems to have doubled in size and now looks a bit more like a bedroom and less like a hospital ward.
We really enjoyed the Race night at the Recreation Club and the brilliant Grand Auction of Promises.  It enabled Jack to meet so many of his friends who care so much about him.
Jack's placement onto the transplant list has been delayed by the fact that he has not had chicken pox yet!  So he has now had the vaccination.  Apparently if he were to contract chicken pox post transplant it may cause him to reject his new kidney!
We wish good luck to Frank and the Red Watch lads for the Three Peaks Challenge in June.  We hope they beat their record.
Those of you who know Jack will realise he is really enjoying his 'celebrity status' in the village and if you meet him he will almost always give you a beaming smile.

Love from,
Clive, Maggie, Louise and Jack Goodland

Dear Editor,

May I on behalf of my wife and

myself and I am sure I speak for many villagers, wish Edith Taylor a very happy retirement.  She will be sadly missed on our visits to the surgery.  The friendly welcome, good advice and efficiency along with her fund raising for the surgery and at other events in the village are well known.  May I say that I speak from the time Edith came to work at the surgery at 14 years of age, when the West Coker 'turn bus' cost sixpence return (old money) and the surgery was at the Doctor's house in the Square.
I say thank you Edith, you've done us proud!  Enjoy life knowing you have many grateful friends in West Coker.

   Jack Stroud.

Jack's letter speaks for us all I think.  Ed.

Dear Editor,
May I through Ropewalker thank my husband Denis, my family and friends from Bristol and West Coker for all their hard work in making my surprise party such a big success.  Also many, many thanks for all their lovely cards, gifts and beautiful flowers.  It was indeed a big shock for me when I entered the Recreation Club that evening.  It was a party I will never forget and for which I will always be grateful.  Many thanks to Doreen and her staff.
I am now getting used to the village and am glad to be living down West Coker Way, South of the Border as Denis would say.
Mrs Ivy Hockey

Dear Editor,
Just to let you know, The Royal George Football Club, for which both Jamie and I play have just completed a very successful season winning both the Divisional Champions Cup and the Division Challenge Cup. The success has not gone to our heads as unfortunately the news hasn't filtered out to any of the Premiership Clubs and so we will be playing for The George again next year and hoping to do the Double Double.  I believe that if we continue this successful streak and get promoted every year for the next twenty years we will get into the Vauxhall Conference and Coker can start to challenge Yeovil for local supremacy.
  Steve Nolan

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