Newsletter December 2014 /January 2015 Edition No.74
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Husthwaite Newsletter December 2014 /January 2015 Edition No.74 A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to All our Readers Dates for your Diary December 1 /8/15/22 Dec 7-9pm Short Mat Bowls 2/9/16 Dec 9.15-10.30am Yoga in VH 4/11/18 Dec 9.15-10.15am Zumba in VH 6/12 Dec 10-12 am Prime Time in VH 1 Dec 12.30-3pm Book Exchange and Apple Tree Cafe 1 Dec Little Pippins Music 11am in VH 2 Dec 12pm Orchard Village Club Christmas Party 11 Dec 7.15pm Gardening Club 14 Dec 10am Table Tennis 17 Dec 7.30pm Film Club in VH 21 Dec 7pm Quiz Night January 5/12/19/25 7-9pm Jan Short Mat Bowls 6/13/20/27 9.15am Jan Yoga in VH 8/15/22/29 Jan 9.15am Zumba in VH 9/16/23/30 Jan 10-12am Prime Time in VH 5 Jan 11am Little Pippins Music 5 Jan 12.30-3pm Book Exchange and Apple Tree Cafe 6 Jan 12pm Orchard Village Club 8 Jan 7.15pm Gardening Club 11 January 7pm Quiz Night 15 Jan 7.30pm Film Club 2 EDITOR: Jan Coulthard Please send articles for the Feb/March 2015 edition to me by Jan 20 (this is the final date!) via email: [email protected] or by post to Aletheia House, High Street, Husthwaite YO61 4PX or tel. 01347 868130. Friends and family at home and abroad can receive this Newsletter if they have email and can download a pdf file. Let me know their email address and I will put them on the list! We now have many readers and contributors at home and abroad. Past and present Newsletters are available on the village website at husthwaitevillage.com The Husthwaite Newsletter is now sponsored by Orchards of Husthwaite, our local cider and juice- making community venture, as well as the Parish Council. We are very grateful for their support. As well, we get one third of our income from advertising, and the occasional personal sponsorship from individual readers. This enables us to keep going, despite rising costs, and to produce what we hope is a valuable asset to the community which keeps people in touch with what is going on. We are pleased that so many different people send in material, and yet we would like more articles and comments from those who don’t usually write in. We have a new email to which all correspondence to the Newsletter should be sent. This is: [email protected] 3 THE FAUCONBERG ARMS COXWOLD Open All Day Every Day For a Pint of Beer to a Pot of Tea ~ Breakfast, Luncheon & Dinner DECEMBER QUIZ: THE CHRISTMAS ONE! Wednesday 10th This Year’s charity is CRISIS AT CHRISTMAS START: 8.00 pm ENTRY £7.50 Per Team Member = Teams of 4 + The Scrummy Christmas Supper! MAMBO JAMBO Friday 5th 8.30pm Acoustic Roots duo LEATHERO Saturday 13th Gypsy Folk & Celtic ballads 8.30pm ROSIE AND THE BOYS Saturday 20th 9.00pm Six Piece Blues Rock Band Christmas gift of music from us to you: All the way from London, superb band. CHRISTMAS EVE HOUNDS MEET York & Ainsty Hunt Christmas Stirrup Cup 10.30 AM CRIB SERVICE at the church 6.00pm following with CAROL SINGING mulled wine & mince pies before Rudolf eats them all, plus a special seasonal guest appearance! CHRISTMAS DAY Open for drinks and nibbles from 11.00 am until the Bird’s cooked! BOXING DAY BUFFET 12.Noon 3.00pm 6.00pm After a good walk, family sports or a quick tidy round the home. Tradi- tional farmhouse buffet. NEW YEARS EVE with HOLY MOLY & THE CRACKERS £10 entry: * Band * Bubbly * Party Cannons * Breakfast * £40 = 2 people: Gourmet Sharing Party Platter Reservations only! JANUARY 2015 NEW YEARS DAY Breakfast all day! From 12.noon BURNS NIGHT Saturday 24th Recitals an singing, clatter an banter an the piping O tha wee haggis. www.fauconbergarms.com Telephone: 868214 4 BUS SERVICES - UPDATE The good news is that Stephensons are "pleased to confirm that all.....services will continue to operate as per the existing timetables" For how long? In fact the current timetables on routes 31 and 59 will operate until at least 31 January 2015. There continues to be great uncertainty about what will happen then as services are being reviewed yet again. Most journeys through the village are financially supported by the County Council. Last year NYCC consulted on proposals to slash over £1 million from its countywide support for public transport in 2014/15. Looking at the cuts then being proposed for services 31 and 59, local organisations and several individuals submitted comments and objections. It was easy to complain about the likely inconvenience of having fewer buses but more difficult to prove actual hardship arising from awkward timings or loss of essential journeys to get to hospital, doctor, work or education. So it was a very welcome surprise when it proved possible to continue with a reasonable timetable. There were even some minor service improvements introduced in April 2014. Thanks are due to Stephensons for this. Perhaps that was the easy bit. The April 2014 timetable was launched with an expectation that September would bring further review because, it is understood, NYCC had been unable to agree a satisfactory package of costs and service patterns with Stephensons before the start of the new financial year. Fares went up in September but no detailed review took place. Apparently NYCC was in the process of arranging to terminate its contract with Stephensons from 1 November 2014 while opening up a new tendering process for the provision of bus services in this area. The latest news is that this has resulted in Stephensons keeping the contract for the time being and NYCC confirming that services will stay as they are until the end of January 2015. This is very short term and could still mean changes and possible bus service reductions thereafter. A sting in the tail is that NYCC is currently putting operation of all the County's bus services out to tender yet again, prior to awarding new contracts to run up to March 2016. The quest for financial savings continues - so uncertainty prevails and there is still a real possibility of cuts. It would be unrealistic to expect Stephensons (or whoever wins the contract) to run many unsubsidised, fully commercial, bus services through Husthwaite. Last time that cuts were proposed some communities in the Wensleydale, Scarborough and other areas spoke up strongly and made their presence felt at County Hall but our local County Councillor said that she received few stirrings from Husthwaite. Will it need to be different next time ? October 2014 Phil Lawson 5 A lively Husthwaite Ho Down Candlelighters– the children’s charity in Leeds– was chosen by St Nicholas and the Methodist Chapel as their harvest charity this year. The new village hall looked very attractive with the tables laid and decorated . Plenty of laughter and conversation accompanied the meal which was followed by a lively round of dancing, expertly called by Brian Watt. A busy bar and raffle contributed towards £722 being raised for Candlelighters. Many thanks to everyone who contributed in any way to this very happy event. Juliet McDougall FOOD BANK NEEDS St Nicholas Church – open every day - Food box in front of Organ UHT Milk Evaporated Milk Tinned Ready Meals Tinned Meat Tinned Potatoes Packets of Custard Jams and Marmalade Small bags of Sugar Individual packets of cereal Toilet rolls Toothpaste and Toothbrushes Audrey Raper 01347 868688 6 Mowatt Financial Planning Help and advice in the following areas: • Holistic financial planning • Retirement planning • Pensions and Investments • Individual Savings Accounts • Life Insurance • Long Term Care funding Contact Will Mowatt for an initial meeting to discuss your needs: Office: 01347 868196 Mobile: 07777 663766 7 E-mail: [email protected] Parish Council meeting held in Husthwaite Village Hall at 7pm on Tuesday 18th November 2014 Present were Carol Fenwick, Paul Escreet, Barney Smith and Caroline Patmore Apologies from Peter Fox, Elaine Smith and Alison Gambles. Having only received back a dozen or so completed Article 4 Direction questionnaires the Parish Council announced that a decision on whether to strengthen the Conservation Area could not be made so it was agreed to extend the response time until Christmas. Please return your completed flyer (it only involves ticking one of two boxes!) to one of your Parish Councillors, or to the shop before Christmas! Orchards of Husthwaite has kindly offered to fund half of the Defibrillator Cabinet in which the village Defibrillator will be placed, the Parish council will be making up the difference. This will be positioned somewhere centrally within the village and will be available for anyone to use should the need arise (hopefully it will not!) Barney Smith will be talking with the Yorkshire Ambulance Service to arrange for the Defibrillator and Cabinet to be fitted. The Parish Council is aware that drains in Prospect cottages and Elphin View are STILL blocked, Caroline Patmore will chase! Hambleton has assessed our street name signs and will repair/ replace as necessary in the new financial year! The volleyball ground sockets have been installed by Chris Slater; however we all agreed that it would be better to erect the posts and net in the spring rather than have it up over the winter when no one will use it. The new Dog Warden is prowling the area so BE AWARE! The Parish Council have also requested a dog waste bin to be installed somewhere between the cemetery and the bridge near the stream down at Baxby , as dog waste has always been an issue here and was even before the campsite was built.