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St Bees Priory Church Rev’d Becky Gibbs, Priest in Charge (01946 822279 or 07460 990631 [email protected] Retired Clergy with the Bishop’s Permission to Officiate: The Rev’d Jim Marshall (01946 64259) Rev’d Canon Jim Baker MBE and Rev’d Anne Baker (01946 822498) The Rev’d David Cox The Rev’d Canon Dr Trevor Park MBE The Rev’d Richard Lee - 07841 398088 Sunday Services 10.30 a.m. 1st & 3rd Sundays 9.00 a.m. 2nd & 4th Sundays They are also Live Streamed via YouTube See www.stbeespriory.org.uk for details For weddings, baptisms, funerals and other religious occasions, please contact 01946 822279 or email [email protected] Priory Web Site - http://www.stbeespriory.org.uk Hire of Priory & Halls The church, Old College and New College halls are all available for hire for meetings, functions, lectures, concerts and recitals, etc. Contact booking officers for details. Booking Officers Ian & Rosalie McAndrew - 01946 822326 or [email protected] Priory Secretary - [email protected] Magazine production & distribution This magazine is free but production costs are about 50p per copy. Contributions from the Parish Council and our advertisers, to whom we are most grateful, pay much of the costs. However this leaves the balance to be paid by the PCC. Donations to the Treasurer* or your Magazine Distributor are most welcome. Circulation - 900 households in St Bees, Sandwith, Rottington, Linethwaite, Coulderton, Middletown, Nethertown. * - Treasurer - Norman Killip, Honeybee House Seamill Lane, St Bees, CA27 0BD. DTP & Final Editing - Ian & Rosalie McAndrew 22 i St Bees Parish A B C Area Visitor / The parish is divided into 30 small areas each with an official History Group works towards improving knowledge of local history. Lectures Good Neighbour Church Visitor whose task is to welcome and help people in the arranged periodically. Details from Chris Robson 822468. Scheme name of the Priory. Co-ordinator - M Westhead (822674). Over 60’s Club meets in Hodgett’s Club on 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of each month: 2.00 - 4.00 p.m. Details - Gill Richardson Tel. 822394. Arts Society meets every two months on the last Wednesday of the month at Parish Council The Clerk to the Council is Mrs Jane Donaldson, East House, 8.00 p.m. Venue to be arranged. Details from Dilys Brownrigg Coulderton. Tel. (01946) 822560, e.mail [email protected], who (822584) or Chris Robson 822468. will answer queries on civil parish matters. Bellringing The Priory has a ring of 8 bells. Those interested in ringing or Parochial meets 10 times a year. Elections for 20 members are held in March at learning to ring, contact D Sim, 31 Main Street. Practice Church Council the A.P.C.M. Its task is to spearhead the mission and ministry of the Wednesdays, 8.00 pm. Sundays, ring at 10.00 a.m. church in the Parish. PCC Secretary - Jon Mellor, [email protected] Brownies Brownies meet on Tuesdays. Further details can be obtained Playgroup meets every Wednesday in term time only, from 9.30 - 11.30 a.m. in from Leanne Cherry, contact 07805154408. (Toddler Group) New College Hall, St Bees Priory. Details from Amy Linton - Cubs, Scouts, Cubs for children aged 8 - 10, meet on Thursdays, 6.30 - 8pm. Email - [email protected] Beavers Beavers meet on Thursdays (term time) from 5.00 - 6.00 pm. Pop-in Cafe Every Thursday from 10.30 a.m. to 12.00 noon - Pop-in Cafe in New Details from Graham Young. They meet in CCF Hut, College Hall. Everyone welcome - Coffee and homemade cakes. St Bees School. Scouts meet at Egremont. Pre-School meets in the new building next to the Village School, All day, 5 days Choir rehearses on Sundays at 9.30 a.m. Details from Frank Bowler, the a week. For children of 2 years upwards. Contact on 823880. Organist (Tel. 825307). Prayer Group meets on Thursdays from 1.45 - 3.15 p.m. in New College Hall . All Churchwardens are leading lay Church members who will be pleased to help and denominations welcome. advise on church matters. Rosalie McAndrew (822326), Priory Singers rehearse in Old College Hall, Mondays at 8.00 p.m. Details from Malcolm Lightfoot, Wendy Mellor, & Derek McGee Frank Bowler. (Temp). (01946) 825307. Not meeting at present. Councillors Copeland - Cllr Jeffrey Hailes- 01946 814819, 7.00 to 9.00 p.m Priory Web Site The Priory web site has up to date information on the ministry team, Monday to Friday. Cumbria - Cllr Chris Whiteside, 01946 67575 or church services and activities. See http://www.stbeespriory.org.uk 07798667678. E-mail [email protected] Seagalls meets first Tuesday of month at 7.30pm in the Seacote Hotel. Contact Lynne Smith - Tel. 822285 - or Judith 07772523742 Electoral Roll is the list of all church members qualified to vote at the Annual Parochial Church Meeting. E.R. forms are available in church St Bees Triers Friendly running club for all abilities. Every Thursday 6pm & 7pm. Finance The Church Treasurer is Norman Killip, Honeybee House, Seamill Email [email protected] Tel. 823497 Web www.triers.co.uk Lane, St Bees, who will explain our Christian Giving system. St Bees Youth meets 1st and 3rd Fridays of the month at 7.00 p.m. in New College Group Hall. All youngsters of secondary school age are welcome. Contact First Responders provide Basic Life Support in association with the Ambulance organisers on 07518 394297. Service. Contact Andy Brock 823497 Sunday Club Children’s activities and toys are available in the Baptistery. Football Contacts - Seniors Tony Barnett 590640. Contact – R McAndrew (822326), Association Juniors (U-12) - Alec Morton 823992 & Alastair Billson. Village School exists to raise funds for the school and to foster links between school Freemasons St Bega Lodge meet 7:00 p.m. On 2nd Wed of each month, Village Association and community. Secretary - via School - Tel. 822392. Hall. Details: 01946 64275 or www.cumbwestmasons.co.uk. Village Hall Management Committee administers Hodgett’s Club. For details and Friends of the assists in the conservation of the Priory and encourages interest in booking contact Phil or Valerie Turpin (Tel 823772). Priory its historical and architectural heritage. Contact Philip Barratt or Village in Bloom Details from Eileen B Todd, 14 Main Street. St.Bees. (Tel 822522). Tom Rice, Treasurer, Green Ghyll, Greendykes, Egremont. Village Web Site Information for inclusion should be sent to Ian McAndrew (822326) or Garden Society Dtails from Mark Hewertson, (Tel. 01946 825468). Flower Show is [email protected] Address is http://www.stbees.org.uk held on the 3rd Saturday in August. Women’s meets 2nd Monday of month at 7.30 p.m. usually in New College Hall Guides meet on Tuesdays from 7.00 – 8.30 p.m. Further details can be Institute (see program). Contact Roxanne Benson Tel 823137. obtained from Amanda Smith or email [email protected] ii 21 Parish Council News (Continued) St Bees News September 2020 Boat ramp – the Parish Council is very grateful for the help received from Network Rail It’s September; a month of new beginnings for some of us. Some of our young people in repairing the Lifeboat slipway at the Main Beach will be relieved to be starting at college or university after a rather uncertain few days in Street lighting – some lights within the parish are classed as highway lights owned by August. Others will be meeting their teachers for the first time, writing their names on the front of exercise books with empty pages, putting on new uniform. Whether you are CCC and others are categorised as footway lights owned by CBC. This is simply an excited about the prospect of a new term or wishing the holidays could last a little longer historical anomaly and is not based on any logic. CBC has made a policy decision that it there’s no denying that September has come upon us. And you can’t escape it. Although, will no longer meet the costs of running and maintaining its street lights from April 2021. that did happen, once. In effect, this means that these lights will disappear unless parish councils (or CCC) agree to CBC’s request to take on the costs. The parishes outside the main towns are In 1752 the British Empire followed the rest of Western Europe and moved from the disproportionately affected as more of the lights are CBC-owned. In St Bees/Rottington Julian to the Gregorian Calendar. In order to make the dates work the powers that be cut we have 58 such lights which would mean an additional annual cost of at least £7500 eleven days from September. A popular myth is that the change caused riots and shouts (excluding repair/replacement costs) to be funded from the parish precept. The 58 lights of “give us back our eleven days”; some people worrying that their lives would be eleven are spread across the whole parish and include Sea Mill Lane, Nethertown Rd, Station days shorter as result. On the other side of the Atlantic, meanwhile, Benjamin Franklin Rd/Coach Rd and Main Street from the Village School entrance to Abbey Corner as well welcomed the change, writing, “It is pleasant for an old man to be able to go to bed on as Rottington. The Parish Council believes that this is an unacceptable situation and is September 2nd, and not have to get up until September 14th.” working with other parish councils to find a way forward. Some people might argue that it’s not just eleven days in September but the whole of Calendar for September 2020 that could do with being wiped from the calendar.