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I came across this poem called Tell the Teenagers written by Donna Ashworth this week. You can find her work here https://ladiespassiton.com The poem is called ‘Tell the Teenagers’
Tell the Teenagers That this will not go on forever, that very very soon, their life will begin again, and it will begin in glorious technicolour.
Tell the Teenagers That they are not being left behind, that all the other young people are waiting too, this stress is collective.
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Tell the Teenagers Church house 100 Club That we may not understand how this is affecting them but we can Results of the February Draw imagine, and we can worry. We don’t know what to do for the best 1st Prize £ 30 Mrs A Holden but we are here. 2nd Prize £ 20 Mrs M Harrison
3rd Prize £10 Mr N Grundy Tell the Teenagers
That one day they will look back on this and realise it made them a far better human somehow. They will seize the moment, face the Bob Lock: Thank You fears and take every opportunity with open arms. And when tough times come, they will remember they survived. Jill, Bob and their three little boys arrived in Milborne Port on Thursday 24th February 1966. The next day there was a knock on the Tell the Teenagers front door, and it was Rev. Buxton welcoming us to the village. He To find a little purpose every day and hang onto it, like a life raft. learned that we were bellringers and invited us to come to the church Anything, no matter how small, can keep you afloat. that evening and he would introduce us to the other ringers. Mainly men. That was over 50 years ago, and I will always thank the Rev. Tell the Teenagers Buxton for that welcome. We have appreciated the village ever since That what they are enduring right now is not fair, it’s not easy and it and felt at home. is hard. But great things are coming, if they can just hang on and I want to thank so many neighbours and friends for the flowers, cards, wait... letters with support and love they have given me through a difficult Wait... time. Just a little longer. Milborne Port is a very special place and we are very lucky to be part of Rev Sarah it. T hank you all most sincerely.
Jill Lock and family.
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We welcome your photo submissions of scenes in and around the village for consideration for future covers. Please email high-res FuFunFunnenerneraneraleral February 18th Irene Chant images (landscape format) to
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News from the Parish Council Council Tax Freeze Sadly, this headline is not as it may seem, as Somerset County Council New hedge plants at Gainsborough are going to increase their part of the Council Tax bill by 4.99% and Some allotment tenants and local South Somerset District Council by 2.91%. As these two organisations’ residents were concerned about the gap taxes make up the vast majority of your Council Tax bill you will be in the hedge on Gainsborough so we hope seeing an above-inflation increase to it this year. However, the Parish that all residents are happy to see that 30 Council’s portion of the bill will not be increasing this year, as members hedge plants are now in situ, thanks to of the Parish Council voted in January for a freeze. our ranger, Martin. This photo was taken on that very cold, snowy and windy day In No Time At All on 9th February. It was reported back in the late summer that the clock was to be repaired, then the clock face disappeared, and we had some horrid Crackmore Crossing boarding to cover the gap. Since then, time has marched on and Good news from our Somerset County Councillor, William Wallace. seemingly nothing has been happening. Well, in fact a lot has been The plans for the creation of safer crossing arrangements near the happening and slowly but surely the clock face has been restored and Crackmore/Goathill junction are progressing well and are now in the the workings behind tested. We are now at the stage where we are detailed design stage; the safety audit is scheduled for some time in ready for the installation and are aiming for the end of March. March. We don’t want to get our hopes up too much but there is a potential start date of early June, subject to Covid-19 restrictions, of Annual Parish Meeting st course. The Annual Parish Meeting will take place on Thursday 1 April at 7 p .m. This year, no matter what the Covid restrictions are in April, it Town Hall Roof will be taking place on Zoom. The Parish Meeting is a meeting of the It started off as a trickle, turned into a dinner plate full and eventually Parishioners; it is not a meeting of the Parish Council. However, it is the floor was an inch thick. That just about sums up the progress of the Chaired by the Chairman of the Parish Council and organised by the leak in the Town Hall roof. First spotted before Christmas, the leak has Parish Clerk. All local groups will be invited to attend and submit a in a short space of time snowballed and has now damaged the upstairs report; there will also be a general forum at the end for exchanging of room in the Town Hall. Further damage has been prevented by Cllr. ideas and comments. The Zoom Meeting ID: 889 1799 3444 & Lock and his daily bucket-emptying regime, along with his mopping Passcode: 245619 - see the Parish Council website nearer the time for skills. further details. Listed building experts have been engaged and scaffolding erected so that the issues can be accurately assessed. Unfortunately, the initial Simon Pritchard, Parish Clerk, Nathalie Hetherington, Deputy Parish prognosis isn’t good, and it seems that the final bill could be in excess Clerk, Milborne Port Parish Council of £20,000. Find us on Facebook! Search: Milborne Port Community Council
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A Message from Mrs Eyres Rewilding Project Hello to everyone in the community! I hope that you The school is fortunate to own a are all well. At the primary school we began the year field in Wheathill Lane. with approximately one third of our pupils in school Historically, this was a sports and the remainder taking part in remote learning. It has been a pitch, but it has not been used challenging time for parents, carers, pupils and staff; but we feel effectively for a good number of confident that we have been able to support our families. years. We are hoping to create a I want to personally thank all of the members of this wonderful village wildflower meadow here, who have made this support possible. Local organisations, businesses, working alongside Operation Future Hope (a not-for-profit charities and individuals have generously donated money to the school. organisation that has already worked with other local schools, see These donations have been for clothing, shoes, food and technology. It www.operationfuturehope.org). Our aim is to provide an area for the is has been tremendous to see these children to immerse themselves in nature, which supports the acts of kindness. We have also been development of their physical health and emotional wellbeing. The given iPads and Chrome Books. In project compliments South Somerset’s Environment Strategy and will the photograph you can see add ecological value to the local community. Councillor Sarah Dyke, Ward We have already received much encouragement and support from Member for Milborne Port, handing individuals and organisations within the village. If you would also like me over (in an ingenious manner) a to be involved, by volunteering your time or through sponsorship, then refurbished Chrome Book. Sarah please contact the school. We look forward to updating you on our has set up the #laptops4learners progress. initiative ( see page 25). Mrs Blake The technology we have been able to purchase and have been given, has enabled our pupils to access their learning at home, through Tapestry and Google Classroom. Google Meets, enable our pupils to see their classmates and teachers online on a regular basis; this has made a HUGE difference. On behalf of all of the pupils and families that have been helped, I want to send out a heartfelt Milborne Port Thank You: THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU VERY MUCH! Good Friday April 2nd 2-4 p .m. We so look forward to being able to welcome all of our pupils back to An event for children outside Milborne Port Church school. One day in the future we will open our doors again to the Come and visit the Easter Garden. Bring a decorated stone to place community and have a wonderful Open Day. by the tomb. Take care everybody. Rebecca Eyres, Headteacher Follow the Easter Trail, to find your Easter Egg and sticker
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The Spirit of Milborne Port To take part in the trail:
Firstly, thank you to Toomer Tree Services, who kindly offered to shred 1. Collect an entry form from the Co-op, Wayne’s or the front the village Christmas trees for mulch, and, as a result, donated £75 to porch of 26 Wheathill Way. These will be available from th the SOMP, which will go towards village causes in the future. Saturday 27 March. 2. Visit the streets/roads where the windows are located from Easter Window Village Trail: To celebrate Monday 29th March, spot the number of the bunny, and write Easter, and, following a dark and anxious time the name of the road where you have found it on your form. over the winter months, to look forward to 3. When you have found all the bunnies, and enjoyed looking at brighter times ahead with hope, the SOMP the wonderful window displays, return the form to 26 Wheathill would like volunteers to decorate a window in Way, by Friday 9th April. There will be a prize for the first two their house. Let your creativity and correct answers out of the hat. imagination loose to make a display that Thank you all in advance, and have fun. reflects the new growth and re-birth associated with this important springtime festival. Will you choose eggs, or A Defibrillator for the Village chicks, or lambs, or flowers? Whatever, it must be colourful, bright and The village has been discussing the installation of a defibrillator for a cheerful, be visible from the street, and will provide an exciting Easter few years and, with your practical and/or financial support, we hope to trail for villagers, young and old alike. If you would like to take part by make it a reality. decorating a window, this is what you need to do: The WI has been making To take part in the window display: enquiries with other local towns 1. Go to the front porch at 26 Wheathill Way. who have successfully installed a 2. Pick up a numbered paper Easter Bunny (available from defibrillator for their community. Monday 15th March). This will need to be incorporated in your The most helpful contact was a display. gentleman from Taunton, who 3. Write your name and address on the pad provided in the porch has installed defibrillators locally, so that we know where that numbered bunny will be displayed. via a company called Heartstart. 4. Decorate your window by Sunday 28th March ready for people Heartstart is a joint venture to come and find them. Don’t forget the bunny. between the NHS and the British 5. There will be a prize for the ‘best’ window. Heart Foundation.
Through Heartstart the total cost of supplying and fitting a Defibrillator would be £2,245, with a ten-year warranty and a direct link to the emergency services. The defibrillator includes a medical
grade battery which should last at least five years, or 200 shocks, and
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Somerset Sight is a local charity which has been supporting sight Obviously, this is an expensive project and it would be great to involve impaired people across Somerset for over a hundred years and in 2019 as many village people, groups and the Parish Council to make won the Queens Award for Voluntary Service. everyone feel that they had participated in such a worthwhile project and certainly one that would benefit the whole community. One of our services is the Volunteer Visiting Service whereby If you would like to be involved in this in any way - whether as an volunteers are matched locally with a sight impaired person for regular electrician, through fundraising, personal donations or in any other visits for company and support, and also helps alleviate their loneliness practical way, we would love it if you would get in touch with us and isolation. either by email: [email protected] or telephone: 01963 251549 or 07480 143678. Volunteers help with a variety of tasks such as reading, correspondence, or making appointments, going out for a drive or just It would be very nice to have two in the village and it would be great to a cup of tea and a chat. Many volunteers get great satisfaction and hear from you so that we can make this a reality! enjoyment from their voluntary work, many friendships are formed Lyn Harrison and the people they support very much look forward to their visits. At President, Milborne Port WI the current time, as face to face visits are not permissible, the service continues with regular phone calls until such time as a visit is allowed again. Save the Date! 31st July 2021 For anyone who is sight impaired and would like to know more about our services or if anyone would like to volunteer for the Visiting St John’s Church Summer Fete Service, please contact us on 01823 333818 for further information.
and Grand Draw We look forward to hearing from you soon!
Will we be able to put on a “Back to Normal” Fete? Who knows?
But there will certainly be a Grand Draw,
and as much of a summer event as restrictions permit!
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These service times are aspirational. Services will only take place if Monday 29th they are deemed to be safe, depending on the Covid situation at the 6.00 p .m. Stations of the Cross open in Milborne Port time. In the absence of services in our churches, there will be a
Sunday service online via Zoom. To be added to the email list and receive details, email [email protected]. If services do take Wednesday 31st March place, please do not attend if you have any Covid-19 symptoms (a 10.30 a .m. Mid-week Communion Milborne Port temperature, continuous dry cough, or loss of sense of smell or taste).
Please remember to bring a face covering with you. Thursday 1st April: Maundy Thursday Sunday 7th March: Lent 3 7.00 p. m. Benefice Holy Communion – Charlton Horethorne 1 Corinthians 1. 18-25/John 2. 13-22 10.30 a .m. Sunday Service via zoom Friday 2nd April: Good Friday 10.30 a .m. Good Friday Service Sunday 14th March: Mothering Sunday of readings and music Milborne Port Exodus 2.1-10/John 10.25-27 10.30 a .m. Sunday Service via zoom 2.00 -4 .00 p. m. Children’s Easter Egg Trail Sunday 21st March: Lent 5 – hoping to meet in Church again Milborne Port Jeremiah 31.31-31/ John 12.20-33 10.30 a .m. Holy Communion Milborne Port 6.00 p.m. Holy Communion Charlton Horethorne Saturday 3rd April: Holy Saturday 7.00 p.m. Easter S imnel Cake and fizz Milborne Wick Holy Week Followed by the lighting of the Easter Candle
Sunday 4th Easter Sunday Sunday 28th March: Palm Sunday Acts 10.34-43/John 20. 1-18 Philippians 2. 5-7 /Mark 11.1-11 9.00 a.m. Holy Communion Goathill 9.00 a .m. Holy Communion Charlton Horethorne 10.30 a .m. Holy Communion Milborne Port 10.30 a .m. Passion Reading Milborne Port 10.30 a .m. Holy Communion Charlton Horethorne 3.00 p.m. Evensong Goathill
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What’s in a Hymn? Laptops4learners: Donate your old IT and support lockdown learners and vulnerable people One of things I have learnt about myself during this last year is that I Cllr Sarah Dyke introduces her support scheme miss hymns. Now I have been associated with choirs since I was eleven and greatly enjoy listening to and singing choral church music. The The Coronavirus pandemic has thrown up a digital divide for many surprising thing is that it is the words I miss. Much as I like modern people, which is excluding them from vital home education and social worship songs and could easily throw out Victorian poetic imagery support due to a lack of suitable IT equipment at home. Too many (and maybe we should), it is the poetry of hymns which I miss. One of people are on the wrong side of the digital divide and a new scheme, the reasons for singing is to take us beyond the words to express “Laptops4learners” has recently launched across Somerset to help ourselves without their limitations but we can begin to forget the words people cross it. altogether if we are not careful. For children in families that have no computer or just share a single th Yesterday (14 Feb) Maureen led the prayers of thanksgiving and laptop, or that have poor internet access, keeping up with schoolwork intercession in the Zoom service at 10.30am. She used from home can be difficult or impossible. Some of our elders also need as a framework the hymn ‘O love that wilt not let me go’. assistance to get online, enabling them to socialise again, especially as It was written by George Matheson, a Glaswegian living many have not been outside their homes since March last year. th at the end of the 19 century (died 1906). Whilst training for ordained ministry he became blind and his Cllr Sarah Dyke says, “We are asking fiancé left him because of it. Later, his sister’s wedding people to donate their old laptops, brought the grief of that freshly to him. In that grief he computers and other electronic items, wrote this hymn with its plea, ‘O love that wilt NOT let which can then be renovated or broken me go. I rest my weary soul in thee.’ down to be reinvested into the scheme The language is not just old fashioned, it is obsolete. In English we no and appropriate IT equipment donated longer use the intimate form. ‘You will’ becomes ‘thou wilt’ in intimacy, back into the community where it’s ‘you’ becomes ‘thee’. It is still there in French. ‘Je vous aime’ becomes needed. This initiative is friendly both ‘Je t’aime’, I love you general, to I love you, intimate. for people and for the environment, as reusing and recycling reduces demand Modern hymn books iron out the obsolete language on the whole and for new IT products and reduces the CO2 and the environmental it is generally a good thing, though meanings can be lost. When I sing, impact in making and buying new. These IT products will have their ‘O love that wilt not let me go’ it is deep and from the heart, much more life extended, reducing the need to produce more.” than a simple statement of hope or belief. Whatever happens to me I am resting in a love which is unconditional, healing and complete. Sarah has engaged the support of local resident and business owner Loved by one who knows me better than I will ever know myself. Simon Barfoot, and they are appealing to local community groups, PTA’s, sports and social clubs, and individuals to donate their Rev Frank
- 24 - - 25 - unwanted laptops, tablets and other ICT products. Simon’s business, Hedges and the Nature Recovery Network D o get in touch if Blackmore IT – a specialist in IT recycling since 1995, will collect your you’re interested in joining a project on hedgerows in the parish. donated IT, wipe all data before upcycling and renovating the Hedgerows are potentially an important wildlife habitat throughout equipment ready to donate it back to the community group to make the year for feeding, breeding and sheltering insects, birds and sure it gets to where it’s needed most. You too can have a say on who mammals (think hedgehog!) in their own right, and also act as an gets help, if you know someone in need where you live. important corridor for wildlife to move about safely. In addition, they help store carbon. Without rejuvenating management, they can Simon comments, “In our area alone there are probably enough PCs become leggy and uninviting, age and die. Initially we hope to map all and tech to make sure every child who needs a computer can have one. the hedges in the parish from the internet and then seek permission We still need many more laptops to meet demand for the campaign.” from landowners to survey them to record their width, height and Simon is encouraging anyone, whether individuals or organisations, condition and the hedgerow shrubs within them. No prior knowledge with laptops they want to donate to get in touch with him on email : needed! It might be fun for families to take part. [email protected] Equally, roadside verges are For more details about how you can help promote the scheme, contact important as wildlife habitats and Cllr Sarah Dyke [email protected] . corridors, and letting flowers grow (where safety is not compromised) on
road verges saves councils money, Milborne Port CAN: Climate and Nature Action saves burning fossil fuels, boosts biodiversity and provides interest and Solar Streets scheme We arere pleasure. Please help nature thrive by excited to announce that the Solarr writing to Somerset County Council in Streets scheme (for cheaper solarar support of minimal mowing during panels on roofs) is coming soon too spring and summer, and / or signing Milborne Port, Sherborne and Plantlife’s petition – search for Plantlife’s road verge campaign online. nearby villages! A similar scheme Nature – our life support system - is in trouble; we can help restore it. has been run in Frome for We hope, coronavirus permitting, to have some family-friendly wildlife example. We hope to have the official launch and Q&A on zoom in April and there will be lots more and geology walks around the village in the summer. Watch this space. on this shortly. If you can, it’s a great thing to do to help fight the We’d be glad to rent an acre or so of land on which to create a hay climate crisis. The nation’s need for electricity is expected to double meadow for wildlife and as a source of wildflower seed-rich hay to with demand from renewable heating and transport; having solar supply other sites. Any possibilities – please get in touch. panels installed on your roof is a great way to help with decarbonization.
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Global Climate Strike 19 March Young people are asking for our support for everybody’s future on 19th March, as governments continue to deliver only vague and empty promises for dates that are much too Country Freedom late. We need immediate action in-line with science before our carbon budget runs out. The climate crisis is already here and will only get I feel closer to God in the country worse, so if we are to avoid the worst-case scenarios, the people in Wandering out in the green , charge have to prioritize annual, short-term binding targets for a safe It is all truly beautiful climate that factor in justice and equity. Join young people in standing Many things often unseen, up for a secure future, by emailing our MP I study the trees up above me [email protected], or joining what will So different and some very old probably be an online climate strike (taking a photo of a gallery of Each leaf and trunk is perfect people with / without placards asking for climate action). Keep an eye They could tell stories untold. open on Milborne Port News and Everything Facebook page for details. Or email us nearer the time. Peace and stillness surround me Just listen and what do you hear? [email protected] Insects buzzing so busily https://network23.org/milbornecan/ Bird songs filling the air, Milborne Port Weather Station Report The crackle of sticks underneath me Wind blowing over my head January 2021 So many different experiences Average temperature for the month was 4.3 C, just a little below All missed if indoors instead. normal, with a minimum of -6.3 C on the 1st and a maximum of 12.8C on the 28th. A total of 14 days with air frost were recorded. I thank the Lord God for creation , A very changeable month with very cold spells It's all so perfect and pure interspersed with warm and wet spells. Everything works out exactly Rainfall was about 25 % above average, totalling Even though often obscure, 90.4mm, wettest day was 20th with total of Looking into the distance 22.4mm. What a wonderful scene, Finally, the highest wind speed recorded was God will be there in the sunset 36mph on the 20th, with a mean wind speed of Keeping us quietly serene 4.5mph for the month.
“Jenny” Alan Whitewick
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Friends of Milborne Port Library Milborne Port History At the time of writing this, the Jolly Book Bus remains closed. However, and Heritage Group this might change over the next few weeks. Somerset Libraries have Memories of the Pandemic announced that any items on loan need not be returned until 31 March 2021. Somerset Libraries are continuing to run ‘Cub Club’ which offers As we are all now beginning to receive our children daily activities, including The Great Playdough Bake off. Visit vaccinations, hopefully the pandemic will the Somerset Libraries Facebook page for more information. soon be a thing of the past. The Milborne Story Time continues on our Facebook page on Port History & Heritage Group would like to gather together some of Saturday mornings. Last week’s story was Perky your memories, both good and bad. Perhaps how you have coped, Little Penguins by Tony Mitton and Guy Parker- kindnesses shown by your friends and neighbours and how the village Rees which was very apt considering the freezing has kept going throughout the past year. temperatures in mid-February. How has your daily life been affected by the restrictions and what are I am shortly moving to Sherborne so this is the last the things that you have missed? Did you develop new interests and month I shall be producing this report. The role hobbies? Were there things that you may have noticed for the first time has been taken over by Mary Clothier so I know it will be in safe hands! around the village while you Thank you to everyone who has offered me support and advice over the took your daily exercise? Do past few years. take the time to put them down on paper; you may well Stay safe and well everyone. have written a poem about Jill Spring [email protected] the pandemic. Please let us have them.
FOOTNOTE The Friends of Milborne Port Library and the library staff would like to This has been an unprecedented time and one that we should keep a wish Jill all the best for her move to Sherborne, and thank her for all record of for future generations to see. Please let us have anything that her magazine reports, help organising Summer Reading Challenge you have written. They can be forwarded to either parties, providing computer training, and everything else she has done [email protected] or [email protected] , we would love to to support our library over the years. receive them.
Lesley Wray
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What to Watch for in the March Night Sky March 2021 Astronomical Events First week: the planet Mars passes just south of the Pleiades; they are A constellation visible in the winter and early spring night sky is Taurus closest to each other on the evenings of the 3rd and 4th. (Latin for “the Bull”). The constellation depicts a bull charging toward 13th: New Moon. Orion and it is easily recognised by the V-shaped cluster of stars that 14th: This evening look low just above the western horizon where you mark’s the bull’s head. This cluster of stars is an example of what is may be able to spot a very thin waxing crescent Moon. known as an open cluster. An open cluster is a group of stars all about 20th: The Sun crosses the celestial equator marking the Spring the same age that were made from the same cloud of gas and dust. The equinox. The length of day and night are equal. stars are loosely bound to each other by gravity. 28th: Full Moon and British Summer Time begins (clocks go forward by an hour). The brightest star in the Sunrise and Sunset constellation Taurus is 1st: Sunrise 06.52 UT Sunset: 17.51 UT Aldebaran and it is visualised 31st: Sunrise 06.45 BST Sunset: 19.41 BST as the bull’s eye, bloodshot The first day of March is 10 hours, 59 minutes long. The last day of the and staring menacingly at month is 12 hours, 55 minutes, so the length of the days gets 01 hours, Orion. Aldebaran is a giant 56 minutes longer during the month. red star, cooler and about 40 Good Viewing! - even though the planets are too poorly positioned this times larger than our Sun, month to be seen with any clarity. and over 400 times as bright. Ganymede The name Aldebaran is derived from the Arabic for ‘follower’ because it follows Are you fed-up with doing the same old walks? another open cluster of stars – the Pleiades, located in the shoulder of Walking in Somerset www.walkinginengland.co.uk/somerset is Taurus. To the naked eye, six stars are normally visible within the the website for you! With hundreds of walks to download and print, Pleiades and it looks like a fuzzy patch that resembles a small version free, it also has books of walks, contact details for all the walking groups of the Plough constellation. The word Pleiades translates to Subaru in in the county and much more. Whether you want to walk on your own Japanese, and you might recognise the grouping of the six stars from or with a group, all the information is there in one place. the car manufacturer’s logo. Through binoculars, the view explodes With walks from half a mile to twelve miles plus long, and a note of into dozens of stars. The Spitzer Space telescope suggests that the suitability for pushchairs and wheelchairs, everyone can find a walk to Pleiades is made up of over 1000 stars. enjoy. So home or away, check out the website and get walking!
John Harris
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BlackmoreB Vale U3A MILBORNE PORT CONTACTS PARISH CHURCH: ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST Staff Vicar Revd Sarah Godfrey 250248 Reader Mrs Pat Elliott 250353 Churchwardens Mrs Jacquie Hall 250328 Mrs Nicki Edwards 251505
Other Useful Church contacts We are continuing to have regular talks on Zoom. Our next will be Organist Mrs Rachel Willetts 01935 813958 nd Vergers Mr & Mrs Ronnie Goodman 250964 Tuesday 2 March Magazine Editor Mrs Linda Mumford 33495 Magazine Advertising Mr Robin Bawtree 251359 ‘The Century of Deception; Birth of the Hoax in the Eighteenth & Magazine Treasurer Parish Secretary [email protected] 250326 Century’ by Ian Keable. This entertaining talk demonstrates how Tower Captain & Sec: Mr & Mrs David Wales 250660 the English in this period were especially gullible and the hoaxes PCC Secretary Mrs Susan Wales 250660 Church Treasurer Mr Robert Hall 250328 are memorable for their imaginative nature and the motives of & Stewardship Recorder the tricksters. Church House Treasurer Mr Ben Grundy 01747 854873 Parish Church of St Peter, Goathill: Church Warden: Mrs Trudy West 01935 815342 Milborne Wick Church: Prowarden: John Sprake 250243 These talks are open to everyone, so if you are not a member please Church House Bookings: www.mpchouse.org.uk or Christine Porter 250821 contact Susan Kidd on 01963 362107. OTHER LOCAL CHURCHES Roman Catholic Church (Wincanton) Father Louis Beasley-Suffolk 34408 MAGAZINE DEADLINES ReBorne Community Church Minister Adrian Bright 07975 755032 OTHER INFORMATION Doctors Drs Beattie, Bulley, Wyer, Smith, Esteves and French 250334 All entries for the April issue of the magazine to Vet Southhill Veterinary Group, The Old Glove Factory, the editor please by Saturday 20th March at 12 1-2 North Street, Milborne Port 250255 Primary School Mrs R. Eyres 250366 noon latest. Clerk to Parish Council Mr Simon Pritchard, Town Hall 251268 District Councillor Sarah Dyke 07979 535542 Registrar Ms S Shire 435008 Distributors on Friday 26th March at 2 p.m. Spirit of Milborne Port Claire Andrews 07729 582 669 Andy Maidment 07973 987523 Village Hall Booking Clerk: Mr M Lancaster 251217 Editor’s email : WI Secretary: Mrs Pam Burr 251757 Police Non Emergency 101 Emergencies 999 [email protected] PCSO on duty (Wincanton) 101 Library The Jolly Book Bus in East Street Car Park 07396 587767 Linda will acknowledge all email contributions. If you do not receive Tuesdays 9.30 - 12.30 and 2 - 4; Fridays and Saturdays 9.30 - 12.30 a reply, or if you are unable to use email, please ring her on 01963 Pharmacist Ty and Mansur Lawal, Milborne Port Pharmacy 250259 Over 65s Tuesday Lunch Club Maureen Lock 250433 33495 Sue Scott 250333 Milborne Port community website and diary www.milborneport.org.uk www.milborneportpc.org.uk Parish Council website Benefice website: www.milborneportchurches.org.uk To have a copy of this magazine delivered to your house each month, Please contact Mrs Liz Redman, 4 Higher Kingsbury Close (251145)
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