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Maurice Pring Your Berkhamsted editorial From the Editor December 2011 The Parish Magazine of Contents St Peter's Great Berkhamsted Leader by Fr Michael Bowie 3 Welcome to the December issue of Your Berkhamsted. Around the town: local news 5 Another year draws to a close and looking Berkhamsted in the news 7 back through the 2011 issues of Your Berkhamsted I am reminded of the events Festival of Light 9 that have taken place in our community in the past 12 months. We've celebrated 30 Dangerous Days in Dacorum 11 years of the Petertide Fair and 60 years of Ashlyns school, and arrived well and truly Christmas Recipes 13 in the 21st century with our very own internet television channel. We said an Parish News 16 unexpected goodbye to a local landmark when Birtchnell's collapsed one dark night, Friends of Ashridge 20 and were equally surprised when we lost our Royal Mail sorting office. Despite the Local history: Maureen Pring 21 economic gloom we've welcomed new shops to the town, including two art Local music: St Peter’s Choir CD 25 galleries, showing that even the financial crisis cannot dampen Berkhamsted's Days out for children 27 enterprising spirit. Whatever 2012 brings, Your Berkhamsted will continue its aims to Local People: Christopher Morris 28 explore the past, reflect the present and look to the future of Berkhamsted and its The last word 31 residents. If you'd like to share your Berkhamsted memories or tell us about news of local events or organisations, we'd Photo credits: Front cover: Ashridge by be delighted to hear from you. Mary Dodkins (© Mary Dodkins) I'd like to thank everyone who has Page 20: Golden Valley by Mary Dodkins contributed to Your Berkhamsted in 2011, (© Mary Dodkins) whether by supporting us as a reader, Page 21: Flight Sergeant Maurice Pring advertiser or sales outlet, or by contributing by JA O'Neill, courtesy of Andy Thomas articles, photos and letters, or by making Responsibility for opinions expressed in sure that the magazine is delivered each articles and letters published in this week to our local sales outlets and magazine and for the accuracy of any subscribers. The Your Berkhamsted team statements in them rests solely with the individual contributor. Your Berkhamsted wishes you a happy Christmas and all good has no affiliation with the Save Your wishes for the year ahead. Berkhamsted campaign. Ian Skillicorn, Editor 2 Leader Your Berkhamsted Leader by Fr Michael Bowie Canon Giles Fraser (who I when grown, urged us to love God and to notice I mentioned in last love our neighbour as ourselves. When year’s December leader) is asked the identity of our neighbour he told now big news. It was his a story about people meeting a traveller intervention and then who’d been beaten up: the one who helped him was a neighbour (the Good resignation, leading to other resignations, Samaritan). which ultimately ensured that St Paul’s Cathedral responded credibly to the Increasingly, we inhabit safe places where protesters outside its doors (and reopened we only know people like ourselves. God those doors). Before he resigned, one of does the opposite. Christmas is one time the things he said was that he could when we are reminded to look beyond our imagine Jesus being born in one of the closed doors and love those whom he protesters’ tents (implication, ‘and not in loves. Christopher Wren’s magnificent building’). Have a very happy and holy Christmas. That’s a good piece of polemic, a statement you’ll notice. Like most such sound bites, you can’t push it too far. I doubt that there is a natural link between the poor and insignificant circumstances of Jesus’ birth – the real point – and these protesters. But Fraser’s instinct is as correct as his intuition that the Cathedral’s response was misguided. Jesus, in his birth, life, ministry, teaching, death and resurrection did not align himself with the rich and the powerful. Unlike the Dean of St Paul’s he didn’t have the Prime Minister or leading financiers ringing up to put pressure on him. And when that sort of pressure was applied, before his torture and judicial murder, he ignored or rejected it. That’s where this problem started – listening to power rather than people. Christmas is all about putting people ahead of power: God coming to us in weakness to show us that true kingship resided in a defenceless child. That child, 3 Church View Funeral Service Independent Family Funeral Directors of Distinction ♦ Serving Tring, Northchurch, Berkhamsted & Surrounding Areas ♦ Traditional Values ♦ Fully Qualified Funeral Director ♦ 24 Hour Personal Service ♦ Independent Family Business ♦ Golden Charter Funeral Plans ♦ Home Arrangements Church Yard, Tring Hertfordshire HP23 5AE 4 Local news Around the town The latest news from around Berkhamsted World of East Africa comes much closer to the AIDS Day spirit of the season than more bath salts. There will be a Day of Events at St Peter's Church presented Prayer at by the Cowper Society All Saints' Saturday 3rd December at 7.30pm from 9am - CONCERT: Berkhamsted Choral Society 7pm on + Philharmonia Brass Christmas Concert. Thursday 1st December for World AIDS Ave Maris Stella Cecilia McDowall. Day. Works by Lauridsen, Williams, Warlock. Carols for choir and audience. Conductor Festival of Light Graham Wili. Tickets : £13 / £11 U16s This year's Festival of Light is on Sunday FREE from 07500 431643, Cole Flatt, 124 4th December. Come along to the High High St., Berkhamsted and at the door. Street for local music and food, and the switching on of the Christmas lights. Monday 12th December at 8pm More information on pages 9 and 30. RECITAL: Organ Recital - Steven Grahl, Director of Music, St Marylebone Church, Christmas at Oxfam London. To include parts of Messiaen’s Christmas is coming. This year why not La nativité. Free admission – retiring resolve to make all your giving give twice collection. – once to the recipient and once to those who benefit from charities like Oxfam Friday 23rd December at 7.30pm who have a splendid range of gifts and CONCERT: Chiltern Chamber Choir + cards on offer. Bridgewater Sinfonietta JS Bach Christmas Oratorio with Kathryn Jenkin In addition to the excellent selection of soprano, Jeanette Ager mezzo-soprano, new goods, many sourced from Fairtrade John-Colyn Geantey tenor, Christopher projects, the Oxfam shop will feature a Foster bass. Conductor Adrian Davis special window of donated gifts in mint Tickets: £15 / £13 U18s FREE from Cole condition. And of course there is the Flatt, 124 High St., Berkhamsted, choir tempting range of festive foods which members and at the door. make welcome presents as well as easing the catering burden. All its Christmas Christian Aid Big Sing cards are made of recycled materials and Come and sing carols on Saturday 17th the packaging can be recycled after use. December between 10am and 11.30am Much more appealing than an e-card. outside Tesco. Join voices to help the world's poorest communities lift Still stuck for an idea? 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Herts HP4 3ZQ www.berkhamstedovencleaning.co.uk 6 www.berkhamstedcarpetcleaning.co.uk Berkhamsted in the news Read all about us! Julian Dawson takes a look at varied and surprising references to our town on the internet Another interesting potpourri of topics in Hoddesdon had the largest drop in the this month’s Berkhamsted web roundup, country. which is inevitably dominated by the On a more inspiring note, a former boy of performance of the local football team. this parish has been named Geek of the However it is a new initiative which Week by GeekWire.Com. Robert Clarke, catches the eye of the local press with the whose parents were former members of St launch of Dee TV. Nope, not a Scottish Peters’ choir, founded OmniTechNews river flowing through our cable TV, or a with his friends at Redmond Junior High Welsh one for that matter. D is for in Washington State where the family now Dacorum. And this is a new service for live and work. He just loves technology, community groups to raise awareness by advises fellow geeks not to geek out in uploading videos to www.deetv.tv. public, and reckons the important Incidentally, TV is actually the internet technology of the year is the smart phone. country code for the Pacific nation of Youngsters like Robert are shaping how Tuvalu. They actually make a million technology will map our future. We dollars a quarter through leasing the name should pay them every attention! to organisations such as television The British Film Institute (BFI) continues broadcasters. And whilst we discuss to make the news.
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