Congratulations to Michelle Fripp who has won the £100 prize.
Her Balloon was found by Will & Jake O’Mahoney in Pottersbury, Northants.
They will be receiving a thank you gift for returning the tag.
Here’s the winning tag and receipt:-
Into the second week of a 16 week fitness programme leading up to my trek in October.
Here’s the plan
Thanks to everyone who supported this event.
I raised £320 towards my charity trek fund.
It was a beautiful day and at times the sky seemed to be full of yellow balloons heading off to who knows where.
I’ll announce the £100 winner on 25th June once the return slips are in
What a fabulous day we had.
A huge thanks to everyone that took part and a special mention to Dean and his team at Manor Of Groves for being such fantastic hosts.
Congratulations to the the Prizewinners:-
Len Greaves – Champion
Robin Trott- Runner Up
Len Greaves- Longest Drive
Matthew Burgess- Nearest the Pin
Dave Pickard- Mr Blobby
I managed to raise a massive £1,216 towards my charity trek
WOW !!
Here’s what happened in June 1991. You can click on the links to go to Wikipedia for fuller details
- June 3 – Mount Unzen erupts, killing 43 people as a result of pyroclastic flow.
- June 5 – STS 40: Space Shuttle Columbia carries the Spacelab into orbit.
- June 9 – A major collapse of ground at the Emaswati Colliery in Swaziland traps 26 miners 65 m below the surface. The men have access to a safe refuge chamber and are all rescued by a drill hole 30 hours after the rescue unit is first alerted.
- June 12 – Boris Yeltsin is elected President of Russia, the largest and most populous of the 15 Soviet republics.
- June 13 – A spectator is killed by lightning at the U.S. Open.
- June 15 – In the Philippines, Mount Pinatubo erupts in the second largest terrestrial eruption of the 20th century; the final death toll tops 800.
- June 17
- Apartheid: The South African Parliament repeals the Population Registration Act, which had required racial classification of all South Africans at birth.
- U.S. President Zachary Taylor is exhumed to discover whether or not his death was caused by arsenic poisoning, instead of acute gastrointestinal illness; no trace of arsenic is found.
- June 23
- Mesut Yılmaz, of ANAP forms the new government of Turkey (48th government)
- The first Sonic the Hedgehog game published by Sega. It’s also the starting point of the Sonic the Hedgehog series ever since.
- June 23–June 28 – Iraq disarmament crisis: U.N. inspection teams attempt to intercept Iraqi vehicles carrying nuclear related equipment. Iraqi soldiers fire warning shots in the air to prevent inspectors from approaching the vehicles.
- June 25 – Collapse of Yugoslavia: Croatia and Slovenia declare their independence from Yugoslavia.
- June 28 – COMECON is dissolved.
