The News Magazine of the ‘Heart of Eden’ Benefice St. Lawrence, Appleby and St. John, Murton-cum-Hilton; St. James, Ormside; St. Peter, Great Asby; St. Cuthbert, Dufton; St. Margaret & St. James, Long Marton; St. Cuthbert, Milburn St. Columba, Warcop and St. Theobald, Musgrave St. James, Temple Sowerby; St. Michael, Kirkby Thore & St. Edmund Newbiggin. with additional information from Methodist Churches at The Sands, Appleby, Great Asby, Warcop and Dufton with Knock The Church of Our Lady of Appleby The Local Communities and Organisations of Appleby and the Mid-Eden Valley What’s On in The Heart of Eden this Month?
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Godfrey(61007) Mr. Leigh Harding (52078) 6.30 a.m. Easter Day Sonrise Service Secretary: Christine Braithwaite As usual the local churches between Shap, Tebay, Orton, PHASE .1.The PCC have accepted a quotation for the Ravenstonedale and Appleby are sharing in a short open-air installation of a toilet for the church. We have been busy service to greet the risen Lord Jesus on Easter morning. raising funds, but are £2500 short of our target. If anyone st would like to make a donation, this would be much So set your alarm! Easter Day is Sunday 1 April. The service appreciated. Cheques can be made out to Milburn PCC and starts at 6.30 a.m. and the sun will rise over Cumbria at 6.44 sent to Mike Godfrey, Treasurer ,Glendene, Milburn CA10 a.m.! Wrap up warm, and come out to Raise Howe on the 1TL or via Internet banking to name of account “Parochial east side of Orton Scar (just above the cattle grid on the way church council of Milburn” account. no. 40649163 sort code down to Appleby). And pass the word around to Christians 40-08-29. PHASE.2.Work on the kitchen will begin when funds allow. from all churches. Appleby Town Band will be there to accompany the hymns. St. John, Murton-cum-Hilton Speaker and leader to be arranged! Churchwardens: Jean Hutchison Breakfast: All worshippers are invited to come back John Tillotson (53349) afterwards to the home of David and Christine Merritt, at Secretary: Jo Ayres (52017) Rookery Barn, Raisbeck. From now on informal Worship on the 2nd Sunday of each month will be at 10am . St. Lawrence Appleby St. Edmund, Newbiggin Churchwardens: Jean Hutchison Churchwardens: Mrs. M.P. Sawrey-Cookson (61574) John Tillotson (53349) Mrs. M. Marsh (51098) Secretary: Jo Ayres (52017) Please note our Coffee Morning at Appleby Supper Room St Lawrence’s Church 2018 Plant Sale on Saturday April 21st in aid of church funds The Plant Sale will be on Friday 27th April and Saturday 28th April 9 am – noonish. If possible, please bring your St. James, Ormside plants to the churchyard on Thursday 26th in the morning. It Churchwardens: Mr. A. Denton (51889) would be helpful if the pots were labelled with the variety & Mrs. M. Parry (51043) colour. Perennials, annuals, bulbs, indoor plants everything Secretary: Mr. R. Parry welcome. Thank you very much. Information from Jo 52017. St. James, Temple Sowerby Churchwardens: Anne Farmer and Angela Cleasby From the Stalls. Secretary: Helen Morgan A very happy Easter to you all. Our Sister Churches During April there are a few different services which you Roman Catholic Church might like to come to. Firstly, if you feel brave then come and join us at 6.30am Church of Our Lady of Appleby on Raise Howe, Orton Scar for the Easter Sunday morning Garthheads Road, Appleby, Sonrise Service, see above. Fr. Peter Houghton (51474) Secondly, on April 8th the 10.45 service will be one of hymns, music and readings based on the Easter theme, so that Methodist Church will be somewhat different to the usual service of Morning Prayer. So come along and have a good sing! The Sands Methodist Church nd Rev. John Morton (51244) Then on April 22 we have a service of Choral Evensong at General Enquiries Linda Taylor (53448) 6.30pm. This will be the First Evensong of St George’s Day, Were you, or anyone you know, married a traditional service from the much-loved Book of Common at Sands Methodist Church, Appleby? Prayer. The Church is celebrating it’s 130th Anniversary in May We look forward to welcoming you at St Lawrence’s. Come 2018 and we are staging an exhibition of memories. We and have a look at the result of the recent building work. would love to include wedding pictures or any other St. Peter, Asby memorabilia of those Happy Days over the years! Please Churchwardens: Mrs. P. Bevan (53433) contact the Secretary, Linda Taylor 017683.53448 or Mrs. Denise Frisby (01539 623542) [email protected] Secretary: Karen Royle 07966 371044 Come 4 Lunch. St. Cuthbert, Dufton “Come 4 Lunch” @ Sands Methodist Church on Friday 6th Churchwarden: Mrs Gillian Bryan (51414) April, 11-45 - 1pm Come & enjoy Home made Soup + Roll, Secretary: Mrs Louise Stewart Sweet, Tea or Coffee. If you haven’t been before please Thank you to all who baked for, gave donations to or came come along & enjoy new company. After expenses,donations and enjoyed our Coffee and Cakes on 17th February, and goes to local Charities. helped to raise £340 for church funds. Bring & Share Meal. St. Michael, Kirkby Thore The Sands Methodist Church “Bring & Shared Meal. Churchwardens: Mrs M Davidson (01768 361699); Sunday 15th April (Approx 12-15pm). Please come along Mrs M Moore (01768 362005) you don’t have to be a member or belong to any Church. Secretary: Mrs M Higginbottom (01768 362910) Just come as a family or on your own you will be made to Looking ahead a bit, 7:30pm May 2nd in Kirkby Thore feel welcome & part of our Church Family. Memorial Hall, the Mothers Union have an Open Meeting Quench Youth Group help. We are also looking for volunteers to befriend an At Appleby Methodist Church every Tuesday during term time elderly person by phone or home visits all our volunteers are 3.30 – 5pm . Contact Kristy on 07480 935119 DBS checked and trained or [email protected] for more info. Eden Carers Playgroup Do you care? If so Eden Carers may be able to help you. Contact Wendy Walker ([email protected]) We are a charity providing free support to unpaid Carers; throughout Eden, who look after a family member, relative, Dufton with Knock Methodist Church friend or neighbour who could not manage without their help. Rev. John Morton (51244) We support over 850 individuals (170 of whom are young Secretary: Avril Swinbank (53102) Carers aged 5 to 18 years). We provide statutory carers’ Steward: Dacre Swinbank (53102) assessments: information and signposting; 1 to 1 support; benefit information; newsletters, support groups including Appleby Nichiren Buddhism after school clubs for Young Carers; social events; training and activities. Contact us on 01768 890280 or enquiries@ Appleby Nichiren Buddhism Discussion Meetings at 2:15pm on edencarers.co.uk the last Sunday of the month (this month 29th), at Jen Kirby’s home Tel 017683 52921. Fun and inspiring dialogue. Come Let us help you care. and join us. East Cumbria Family Support East Cumbria Family Support are in need of more volunteers News From The Area in Appleby, Kirkby Stephen and surrounding villages, to help GENERAL us support families going through a difficult patch. We’d like to hear from you if you have an interest in the wellbeing of Citizens Advice Carlisle & Eden families, and have a couple of hours a week to spare. Citizens Advice Carlisle & Eden needs YOU! The Citizens Advice service is looking for volunteers to train to be advice Could you … help out with children, provide a parenting role workers in the Eden area. model, help families attend important appointments, or offer Whilst specific qualifications or experience are not required a listening ear to a family having a difficult time? to train for the role volunteers need to be good at listening, After 20 years of supporting families and volunteers we have a good manner when talking to people, be open think we’ve got it sussed! If you’d like to know more please minded and non-judgmental and enjoy helping people. It is contact me, Sarah Craig, at East Cumbria Family Support also necessary to be committed to volunteering for one day on 01768 593102 for an informal chat. a week and have competent skills in using a computer. All volunteers are given free training. There are many great Cancer Information and Support in Eden reasons to volunteer including to boost your confidence after “Come for Coffee” drop-in sessions in the Bolton Lounge a life change and put your talents to a good use, to meet at the Voluntary Sector, The Riverside Building (The Health new people and to do something interesting and challenging Centre) in Appleby on the 1st and 3rd Mondays of each month while making a real difference to your local community. from 10am to noon for those affected by cancer (whether Seventy five per cent of the people who work in the Citizens patients or carers of any age). In addition to coffee and a Advice service are volunteers, and we simply wouldn’t be chat, a gentle exercise class is available from 10.30 to 11.00 here for our clients without them. If you are interested in in the adjoining Pennine Suite. If you require any further volunteering, please send an email to volunteer-recruitment@ information regarding these groups please telephone the ca-ce.org.uk with a daytime telephone number, or call in to Age UK Carlisle & Eden number 017683 54918 on a Monday our office at 2 Sandgate, Penrith and leave your details morning. Appleby FIrst Responders The Appleby & District Arthritis Research UK Any questions regarding the CPAD’s we are happy to come and talk to you or your group; if you would like to have If you can spare a few hours, have a great idea for a a Heartstart course delivered in your workplace, home, fundraising activity and would like to help us in the fight village hall, it is a free 2-hour basic life skills course, which against arthritis, please contact Mrs Margaret Atkinson, consists of the Recovery position, CPR, use of AED / defib, Group Secretary on 017683 51047. For more information bleeding and choking, we are happy to discuss and arrange on arthritis visit www.arthritisresearchuk.org for you; if you are interested in becoming a community first News from the TIC responder, we can answer any questions you may have. Keith Bainbridge, team leader, email, applebyresponders@gmail. The Moot Hall, Boroughgate, com also facebook and twitter. Appleby in Westmorland CA16 6XE Age Concern Appleby Website: http://www.applebytown.org.uk Moving to Boroughgate has been a considerable change for Tel: 017683 51177 (press 2); Fax: 017683 54200 us and I do hope that all those who have supported us in the Winter opening hours: past will continue to do so in the future so that we in turn can continue to make grants and donations to local groups and Monday to Saturday 10am to 2pm (Friday 3pm) charities to enhance the work that they do for folk in Appleby Sundays closed and the surrounding villages I would also like to encourage anyone who would be Lost and Found. interested in helping as a volunteer assistant in one or other Please drop in to the TIC if you have found or lost any items. We of our two shops or to help in the task of sorting through the will record your details and hopefully reunite you with said items. many generous donations of goods in readiness for selling Please note that Cumbria police are no longer recording lost pets. in the shops, to get in touch with myself on 017683 52133, Please contact the local vets. or to call into either of the shops and ask for Joy or Audrey. At Age UK Carlisle and Eden we are fighting for the Caritas Care - helping the hard of hearing. rights and welfare of our elderly neighbours. Free help and advice for people with hearing loss. We give free advice on benefits and will visit at home and Appleby Health Centre, complete forms on their behalf , inc attendance allowance, pension credits, blue badge applications etc. We have a Riverside Building, Chapel Street helpline of 01228 633331 and can take referrals from anyone 1st Thursday each month 1 to 3:30pm; concerned that their relatives or neighbours may need some Also at other venues....Sound Advice Pot Holes Your nearest drop-in venues are at: The variable winter weather has played havoc with road surfaces all over Cumbria. The County Council is dealing Kirkby Stephen, with them as fast as it can, but there is a huge backlog of Local Links Office, Vicarage Lane jobs. If you notice a problem in your vicinity, the quickest 3rd Tuesday each month 10am to noon and easiest way to report it is on-line, using the Cumbria Highways Hotline. Penrith (ring 01768.895553 - Sandgate, in the (pink) Age UK building. The entrance is by the zebra crossing at the bus station 563 Appleby - Penrith Bus every Thursday 4 to 6pm & Friday 10 to 3; The 563 bus service will continue to and Carlisle operate until at least September (2018), following the decision by Stagecoach t o 2, Long Lane (off Castle Street), Carlisle CA3 8TA, give the opportunity for passenger numbers to increase
This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA tel.01228.5945937. We can also visit you at your home if you further, particularly as the weather improves. So please can can’t get to us. For more information or to request a home visit we ask if you are already using the 563 to continue to do contact: Hugh Stirling on 01228 562691 so (and perhaps to use it even more) and if you haven’t or visit our website at www.caritascare.org.uk used the service yet, to take the opportunity to start to do so. We are getting closer to establishing the 563 service so it is Penrith and District Red Squirrel Group really important that people make full use of it. Your native red squirrels need you! Just to remind you, the 563 service consists of 3 return Become a member of Penrith and District Red Squirrel Group Penrith - Appleby journeys, between 9.15 to 15.00, Monday for £20 a year. If you see a grey, red or sickly red please ring to Friday, calling at Kirkby Thore and Temple Sowerby and Gary Murphy on 07974788434 Visit our website at www. runs all year including school holidays. penrithredsquirrels.org.uk to donate If you would like a talk for The first Appleby - Penrith journey leaves Appleby Moot your club/group we can arrange them. Coffee mornings and other Hall at 9.50, turns right onto Bridge Street, then turns right fundraising events would also help. Find us on Facebook. onto the Sands then goes up Bongate (past the Royal Oak) turning left by Appleby Grange onto Cross Croft, going past the entrance to Orchard Place and then turns left onto YYYYYYYYYYY Drawbriggs Lane (going past the Old Creamery site) and Coffee Mornings turns left at the roundabout near the entrance to Rivington Appleby Public Hall, Supper Room Park going under the rail bridge onto Drawbriggs Lane and Saturdays - 9:30am to 11:30am down Drawbriggs Lane onto the Sands turning right to go th up Battlebarrow past the Grammar School and onto the 7 Church of Our Lady A66. The final Penrith - Appleby journey leaves Penrith Bus 14th Appleby-in-Westmorland Society Station at 13.40 and comes into Appleby along Battlebarrow, st then along the Sands and up Bongate and then along the 21 Newbiggin Church same loop (via Cross Croft and Drawbriggs Lane) as the 28th Leprosy Mission 9.50 outward service, then onto the Sands, turning left into Bridge Street and then going into Boroughgate and stopping at Moot Hall (correction here about route of 13.40 Appleby Town Council Report service from item in March newsletter). More bus stops are Mayor’s Lunch for Senior Citizens going to be installed, on Bongate, Cross Croft and at Moot The heavy early March snow forced postponement of this Hall. Where there isn’t a bus stop, the bus will stop to let you annual event, but the Tufton Arms was able to host us six on if you hail the driver and also drop you off if you request days later, and a good time was had by all. One Appleby this (although this is at the discretion of the driver for safety lady wrote to the Mayor and Council: ‘I would like to thank you reasons). The same two services go into Sandersons Croft for a lovely day. The food was excellent, the entertainment in Kirkby Thore. was excellent and the company was great’. During school terms, the 563 is complemented by the Town Meeting Stagecoach operated weekday 506 Appleby - Penrith - Residents are welcome to meetings of the full Council Kendal College bus service, leaving Appleby Moot Hall and its committees, with an opportunity to ask questions. (outward) at 6.55 and leaving Penrith bus station (return) Additionally there is the annual Town Meeting, at which the at 18.32. main business is to hear from members of the public. This Tickets are interchangeable between the 563 and 506 will take place in the Moot Hall at 7 p.m. on Wednesday 25 services and for frequent users who are not eligible for April. concessionary cards, the Stagecoach weekly megaGold rider is available. Leaflets containing details of the 563 and Market Arcade Toilets 506 services are available at various venues in Appleby From April the maintenance and servicing of these facilities including the TIC, the Hub and the Rail Station and on online will pass from Eden District Council to Appleby Town eg on the Stagecoach website. Council, the owners of the premises. Several other services 561 Appleby - Kendal Bus Service and properties are expected to revert to Appleby ownership This service runs on Wednesdays, operated by Robinson’s. in the near future. It leaves Appleby Boroughgate at 9.15, arriving in Kendal at Robinsons Buses 10.10. The return service leaves Kendal at 14.00, arriving at Robinsons of Appleby operate two scheduled bus services. Appleby Moot Hall at 14.55. The Friday 573 Appleby shopper, as previously reported, The numbers of passengers on this service has reduced, has for several years required a weekly subsidy from a and the operator is now having to consider withdrawing this dedicated fund. Age Concern is a generous supporter, and service if usage doesn’t increase over the next few months. various parish councils contribute. Individual Contributions The 561 service does not receive any subsidies so it from businesses and individuals are also welcome, and will is essential that more people use it if the service is is to be appropriately publicised at the donor’s request. The continue to operate. Wednesday 561 Kendal service, via Orton and Tebay, has Other Bus Services successfully operated commercially since Cumbria CC The Cumbria Classic Coaches 574 Kirkby Stephen - Penrith ended bus subsidies in 2014. But the past year has seen continues to operate on Tuesdays including Long Marton on saw a decline in fare revenue to the point where, unless its route. there are more passengers week by week Robinsons will The Friday 573 Appleby local service operated by withdraw the service. Please ride the bus and support this Robinson’s continues to operate (detail as reported in the historic public transport link efficiently provided by a popular March newsletter). local company. Rural Wheels Service Upper Eden Food Bank People not living on a particular bus route (eg in one of During the first 2 months of 2018 the Food Bank has the villages) are encouraged to contact the Rural Wheels continued to be extremely busy and has fed 75 people. service managed by the County Council (Tel 01228 226428) These people are referred to us by GP’s, Social Workers, to see if this service could provide transport to the nearest Mental Health professionals and other agencies who have bus stop on the route. recognised that there is a need to help them by supplying Fundraising Nights for Appleby Carnival food, on a short term basis, until they are able to support Theme this year is Cartoons and Animation Please support themselves and their families once again. some of the fundraising nights We are extremely grateful to the many individuals and local organisations who support the food bank, either by supplying th Pudding night at the Midland Friday 13 April 7pm, Hotel £15 each food, monetary donations or who give of their time in any (Please call in at Midland Hotel to purchase tickets before way. this date) We have collection points for food donations in Appleby Sponsor one of us, on a 13 mile Co-op, The Sands Methodist Church (Tuesday mornings 19th May 9am, walk 10 to 10 30am), Murton Institute and Appleby Grammar Starter night at Appleby Midland School and others further a field. The collection point at St Friday 25th May 7pm, Hotel £15 each Lawrence’s Church, however, is not in use at present while (Please call in at Midland Hotel to purchase tickets before renovations are taking place at the church. After Easter they this date) will be back to normal, taking donations on Friday mornings Saturday 26th May from Coffee morning at Appleby Public between 11 and 12. 9am Hall supper room. Current shortages are; Packs of fruit juice, Smash type All have raffles and possible other prizes to be won (except instant mash potato and tinned rice pudding. Sponsored walk of course.) Please support and hear more For more information please look at out website Carnival news at these fund raisers. Thank you. upperedenfoodbank.org.uk where you can read more about Appleby Chamber of Trade the Food Bank, donation points and the food we require. The Chamber of Trade are planning the Taste Appleby Event Heritage Action – March Update for 2018 and are looking for the support of all businesses to get involved. Please contact the Chamber if you have any The railings at St Lawrence’s churchyard are finally going to suggestions or ideas. be replaced. All the funding is at last in place, the contractors The Business Hub (behind the Library) is now taking bookings have been selected, and we just need to get into the frost through the Library. It is still free to use the facilities, and free period of the year and the job can be done. You will there are 4 computers, printing facilities and meeting room see security fencing going up and when works commences, facilities. there will be some noise, we will stop works for any services, To book the Hub, just call into the Library and speak with but hope to be finished before the horse fair. There will be a the Librarian. public ‘open day’ and a training session about the techniques Latest information from the Chamber of Trade and all used. Look out for notices. business details can be found at www.applebycumbria. The Moot Hall is also coming under closer scrutiny. Repairs co.uk are needed, but there is also a chance to improve the facility. This must be done in keeping with a very important building. Appleby Edibles Its importance is being uncovered by some research and Community gardeners of Appleby are looking for space dendrochronology (tree ring dating of timbers). If it is as old (or spaces) to expand their activities. For a mixture of (or older) than the date stone suggests (1597) then we have planting; vegetables, herbs, fruit and flowers, to be used as nationally important structure. a social space, within walking distance of the Town Centre, I have continued to engage with people around the town and from which to provide supported practical workshop sessions I hope to get a group together and have a public meeting for community groups and edutainment for general interest, about what else we need to do to use heritage to improve to learn about growing for food, wildlife and wellbeing. the town and drive up visitor income. See the facebook RHS It’s Your Neighbourhood and Cumbria in Bloom page and twitter feed for more up to date information 2018 and volunteering opportunities. Twitter @Appleby_HAZ Gardeners of Appleby, it is that time of year again when we Facebook Appleby HAZ; use# ApplebyHAZ or contact me, are thinking about entries in our various competitions and Adrian at [email protected] assessments in the summer, open to Residents, Voluntary Organisations, Schools, Industry, Retail, Hospitality, Cumbria Easter Rally Residential Homes and Sheltered Housing, Young People’s If you are looking for something to do over the Easter Projects, Churchyards, Allotments and more. weekend, the Cumbria Easter Rally is returning to south east Cumbria on 31 March and 1 April 2018. Let’s have pride in our Community and claim some rewards Taking place over various sites between Brough and Kirkby for environmental responsibility, community participation Stephen the Easter Rally is free for visitors and exhibitors and horticultural achievement. As you all know, Penrith has alike. been shortlisted for this year’s National Award. There will be a remarkable exhibition of historic, commercial For more information rhs/org.uk/bloomregionnsnations vehicles including a 100 year old military truck used during Tourist Information Centre 017683 51177; tic@applebytown. The Great War as well as Cumbrian food/drink stalls, auto org.uk, or phone Lucy Teather on 07710405357; vegpatch7@ parts stalls, jewellery and ceramics and a mini-roundabout. gmail.com The popular donation-only classic bus rides stopping at all Appleby Smarter festival sites will start and finish at Kirkby Stephen station Appleby Smarter consists of a group of volunteers who meet courtesy of the Friends of Settle-to-Carlisle Railway so you primarily on Monday afternoons but sometimes on other can leave your car at home. days during the week as well, with the aim of smartening An annual highlight of the Cumbria Easter Rally is the amazing road run through the fells taking place on Saturday and cleaning up the town of Appleby. st Among the many tasks we carry out are planting bulbs and 31 March. The evening procession is a delight with the fells trees to provide colour and greenery to the local environment, of the Westmorland Dales creating a spectacularly beautiful picking up and disposing of litter, general gardening and backdrop for the procession of classic vehicles. painting anything that has not been painted for quite a while; www.encountereden.com generally to prevent the town from appearing shoddy. W e s t m o r l a n d unattended vehicle at the Sands, Appleby, whilst the driver Dales Landscape was loading supplies. 27th February burglary to the dwelling of a deceased person Partnership Scheme at Glebe Road. Drop In Session 2 reports of anti-social behavior in Appleby. A chance to find out more about the Westmorland Dales There have been a number of suspicious incidents and Landscape Partnership Scheme, what’s happened to date, vehicles reported to Police this month, we thank you for this, the plans for the future and how you may get involved. please continue to report anything suspicious via 101 or Please just turn up and say hello! email [email protected] th Friday 20 April 6:00 pm - 8:00pm, Market Hall, Orton Country Watch Eden Westmorland Dales Landscape Forum Consisting of a sheep marking paint that contains thousands Organisations and the general public are welcome to of numerically coded microdots, TecTracer aims to help come along to find out more about how the landscape has prevent sheep theft as well as assist in identifying the owner been shaped over time and the area’s rich natural and of any sheep suspected of being stolen. cultural heritage. Find out what our preliminary studies into Cumbria’s Police and Crime Commissioner Peter McCall geology and archaeology have revealed, and our plans to said: discover, conserve and restore the area’s heritage during the “The fight against stock theft is one we must take and are scheme’s 4 year delivery stage from 2019 to 2023. taking seriously. This new technology will be a great help to Saturday 21st April, Market Hall, Orton: 10 - 12: track and trace stock, and will help to prevent theft, and also help to bring criminals to justice. Morning Talks and Presentations: 10:00 am – 12:30 pm Lunch 12:30-1:30pm “I am really grateful for the great work that Country Watch Eden are doing to help roll this out, keeping our rural areas Afternoon Heritage Walks, Archaeological Test safe from crime.” Pitting and Other Activities: From 1:30 pm around Orton The product is available by ordering direct from Tectracer www.tectracer.com or by contacting Amanda Wallbank at Further details to be published. Booking for both the morning Appleby NFU. and afternoon sessions will be essential. Cumbria Police and partners are taking another step forward Tell Us about Your Favourite Places in the Westmorland in the bid to tackle sheep theft. Dales Officers, along with Amanda Wallbank from the NFU, have The Westmorland Dales is the area of Cumbria to the north handed over new product ‘TecTracer’ to farmers at a meeting of the Howgill Fells which lies within the recently extended in Appleby on February 8th. Yorkshire Dales National Park. As part of the Westmorland 40 farmers will receive a pot of the sheep marking product, Dales Landscape Partnership Scheme we are asking people thanks to funding from the county’s Police and Crime to map the places they value within the area using a newly Commissioner. developed web-based tool. Your input will help inform our PCSO Karen Dakin said: “As part of the Country Watch application to Heritage Lottery in July for funding to deliver Eden Scheme, we have been working with farmers to tackle the scheme over the next four years. Please follow the link the issue of livestock theft. The theft of these animals is a on the front page of our website: www.thewestmorlanddales. big problem for the farming community in Cumbria, and the org.uk If you would like to get involved generally please impact on farmers is hugely significant. contact David or Nicola on 01539 540046 or email [email protected] “I am pleased that we have been able to work with TecTracer to find yet another tool in our armoury against this type of Garden Blitz Group crime. It is also a great way to thank the farmers that have We have re-started our group for the Spring and Summer. - 2- th helped us and worked with us from the beginning of Country 3pm second Tues of month (10 ) weather permitting. Watch.” Enjoy gardening or need help/ motivation with yours? In the fight against sheep theft, police and the NFU have also Contact for further information: Tel: 07419372882; arranged training days for officers, where they have learned Email: [email protected] from farmers, set up a Facebook page which is successfully Facebook: @EdenTimebank used to share information, and organised the trial of Selecta Police Update. DNA. If you are interested in this product we are going to do a Bulk Incidents Of Note in Appleby Order ( best prices ) so please call NFU Appleby and give us Crime figures can be obtained via the your details and how much you would require. Cumbria Police Website: Colours available at the minute are Blue, Red, Orange, https://www.cumbria.police.uk/Your-Area/Your-area.aspx Green and Black. Alternatively use the following link: It does have a paste like consistency, but they are looking at https://www.police.uk/ developing a branding fluid. “TecTracer” consists of proprietary sheep marking paint containing thousands of numerically There has also been a report of a break in, in Maulds Meaburn coded microdots. The code identifies the owner of the sheep. this is currently being investigated, and regular patrols are in The sheep are marked in the fleece with the mixture and the this area. coded microdots adhere to the fibres. “TecTracer” consists On the 25/02/2018 there was an incident where a tractor has of proprietary sheep marking paint containing thousands of been taken without the owner’s consent, it has then been numerically coded microdots. The code identifies the owner used to tow an unknown vehicle. The tractor has then been of the sheep. The sheep are marked in the fleece with the recovered nearby. This was in the Crackenthorpe area. mixture and the coded microdots adhere to the fibres. Between 16 and 25 Feb 45 Cheviot and Texel cross mixture of Where suspected stolen sheep are found, police can breeding Ewes, possibly in lamb were taken from a common recover the microdots via ‘taping’ using Sellotape, or via near Scout Green, Shap. The ear tags are UK103919 and the a small magnet, or simply by cutting the coloured marked Ewes have a red pop on their loin. Anyone with information area of the fleece. The microdots can be read using a hand ring 101 or Crimestoppers on 0800555111 our ref is no 196 - held microscope or via a digital USB microscope. This is of 26/2/17. a simple task for Crime Scene Examiners but can also be On 20th February theft of a charity bag from outside a dwelling easily carried out by other police staff. Providing normal in Appleby was reported to police. rules of evidence and exhibit handling are followed there are no continuity or contamination issues. 21st February theft of a drill set and an angle grinder from an When sheep are marked with “TecTracer” the farmer will input details of the number and breed of sheep; the code on Neighbourhood Watch Association. If you do not have the microdots; the colour of the paint; details and location of internet access, contact your local PCSO and they will aid the owner, into the database. in registering your details on the system. Police Officers will be able to gain access to this database If anyone is interested in becoming involved particularly in via contacting Trace-in-Metal Ltd (John Minary or John Barr farm watch and taking part in nights of action, please contact see below for details) and interrogate it should they come PCSO 5206 Karen Dakin or PCSO 5169 Janet Allinson on across suspected stolen sheep. Tel 101 or [email protected] us on Community Speed Watch. twitter and facebook Cumbria Police are seeking to implement a Community www.twitter.com/cumbriapolice; www.twitter.com/ulvpolice Speed-Watch Scheme throughout the EDEN area. https://www.facebook.com/cumbriapolice; https://crimestoppers-uk.org/ Volunteers are being sought. Would you be interested? For Contact police on 101, but for emergency always call 999 further details please speak to your local Police Community Support Officer, or contact Scheme co-ordinator PC493 Hollies Recycling Colin BAILIE directly Don’t throw it out – help a charity Tel 101 ext 40493 or [email protected] The Hollies, Roman Road, Appleby now collects Partner Agency Messages a. Stamps now go to Bone Cancer Research Trust. RNIB Cumbria Trading Standards are warning residents to be on made £24,605 last year, so let’s help a smaller vital their guard after receiving reports of a doorstep seller going charity. door to door in the Penrith area. b. Printer cartridges & toner; CD’s, DVD’s, Mobile The male was seen knocking on doors and offering ‘roof and `phones & chargers for GNAAS gutter cleaning services’. This follows further information that c. Tools for Tools With A Mission (www.TWAM.co.uk) ‘fish sellers’ are marking gates and lamp posts throughout – old tools get refurbished and sent to give people work the County. and therefore an income. Trading Standards advises never to deal with anyone who d. No more bottle tops, please, as there is no transport. cold calls at your property offering to sell something. It is possible this cold caller may continue to move to other locations in the Eden area. If you are looking to have this type of work done only deal YYYYYYYY with reputable companies you have researched and chosen Appleby Clubs yourself and have obtained a written quotation from. Trading Appleby-in-Westmorland Society Standards always advises that you obtain at least three TWICE-YEARLY EVENT AT BOWLING CLUB quotes. Birdbaths made by one of their number, a retired groundsman, They are also warning people to continue to watch out for were a feature on the Appleby Bowling Club’s stall at their ‘free trial offers’ being promoted via social media and online premises on Sunday last. Occasion was the Appleby-in- adverts. Westmorland Society’s Table Top Sale, held twice a year to Common examples of ‘free’ trail offers include skin care raise funds for the archive they are creating on the town. products, slimming pills and nutritional supplements. Evelyn Milburn and Stephanie Parker were busy selling Pat Many consumers report that they responded to an advert Newsham’s marmalade in aid of Arthritis Research. Last online offering a ‘free trial’ and were then asked to give Year Pat won at Dalemain World Marmalade Festival for her credit or debit card details believing that there is only a small produce, but at the time of writing is waiting for the 2018 charge to cover postage and packaging. results to be announced. However, if the consumer fails to cancel the “free trial offer” Gail Charnley and her daughter Issy were doing a brisk trade within a set time they are deemed to have agreed to an as usual and their stall included some trademark Wedgwood ongoing supply of the product, with a monthly charge which pottery, but in the less common black finish. is taken directly from their account. Consumers report Nonagenarian Doreen Holland and her friend Ann Preston- payments ranging between £50 and £300. Green shared a stal to sell some of Doreen’s handmade If you have responded to these offers or are concerned jewellery. As in previous years, all the proceeds were due about possible rogue trader activity in Eden please contact to be donated to Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool. Trading Standards through our partners the Citizens Advice ‘My great grand daughter Isobel wouldn’t be alive but for consumer helpline by telephone on 03454 04 05 06 or visit their efforts’ said Doreen ‘and I just can’t stop making www.adviceguide.org.uk so your complaint can be referred necklaces’. to Cumbria County Council, Trading Standards. Jac Osman had taken a stall ‘just to get rid of some junk’ which included some WW2 medals. The Ivinson family were Cumbria Community Messaging more ambitious, having sold the moon in the form of a globe If you would like to join Cumbria Community Messaging then but still looking for a sale for the more conventional earth please contact us or visit: www.cumbriacommunitymessaging. – ‘and we are the stars’ said stallholders Sandra and Dawn. co.uk More down to earth, they had a record player for 45 and 78 It is managed by the Cumbria Neighbourhood Watch records on offer. Association and offers you and other members of communities Veteran table-topper David Johnson was there without his across Cumbria the means to receive crime information mother, his regular partner in fund-raising, who wasn’t well. from Cumbria Police. You can select which information At the end of the month David plans to be promoting another you wish to receive by managing your own settings, and it of his interests – vintage cameras – at the Old Airfield Carlisle is completely FREE. Anyone can join, you do not have to and at a Steam Gathering at Grange-over –Sands, all in aid be a member of Neighbourhood Watch (NHW), or become of favourite charity Help for \heroes. a member of NHW to join. Farm Watch, Church Watch All this activity, including Mr Atkinson from Brough on an and Camping and Caravan Watch are a small example of overflow stall in the carpark, was supported from the kitchen the schemes that you can register for. You can join as an with a steady supply of tea, coffee and biscuits, by event individual or as a group. If you want to receive information organiser Judith Sowerby and helpers Vivienne Gate, but do not wish to be responsible for a larger group, you are Heather Hullock and Millie Dargue together with Bowling still welcome to make use of this messaging system. Club members Eric Dent and John Parker. Chairman As well as Cumbria Constabulary the partners providing Davina Osman reported a profit of £73 after all expenses information are Cumbria County Council, Cumbria Fire were accounted for. and Rescue Service, Environment agency and Cumbria Appleby Archaeology Group The Arts Society Second Thursday of the month in the Supper Room of the On April 11th at Appleby Market Hall at 11 am. Coffee served Market Hall, Appleby at 7:30pm. Members free, visitors from 10.15 am. This lecture is given by Dr Christopher £3 th de Hamel FSA FR HistS and is entitled “Elephants April’s meeting is on the 12 , and is entitled “The late and Archbishops: Matthew Parker and his Medieval Iron Age royal site at Stanwick, North Yorkshire - new Manuscripts” Members free, a small charge of £8.00 for perspectives”, and is given by Professor Colin Haselgrove non-members. of Leicester University Appleby Badminton Club Appleby Lace Group Looking for a new sporting interest? Please come along. Appleby Lace Group. Do you have an interest in learning a Lace Craft - Tatting, Crochet, Bobbin Lace or Knitted We play Wednesdays 7.30pm – 10pm and Mondays 8 - Lace. We meet every other week on a Thursday morning 10pm. in the Pennine Room of the Riverside Medical Building We also have Junior Coaching Sessions on Mondays 6.30 for terms of six weeks. If you would like more information – 8pm for children aged 8 years old and over. please contact Barbara Smith on 017683 51157 or email All new members are very welcome. Please come along [email protected]. and give badminton a try, we are a very friendly club with a wide range of ages and abilities Hospice at Home A date for your diaries: Hospice @ Home Carlisle and Please contact Sheila, [email protected] for North Lakeland future event. Saturday 1st September further information Edwardian themed Summer Serenade at Crackenthorpe Appleby Bowling club Hall. Further details to follow. Saturday 28th April 7-30 Prize Bingo and coffee. Good prizes in aid of club funds. The outdoor season starts on Ladies Friendship Group th If you missed the Bryce Street Strummers Ukulele group Sunday 15 April at 2pm,new members welcomed. Just last year they are back by popular demand. come along and have a go th th They are performing at the Sands Chapel on April 19 at There is also a Table Top Sale on Sunday 29 April from 1:30 pm. 10am till noon. Tables £5, or £6 on the day. Admission Refreshments are available. No door charge but donations £1 includes refreshments. This one is in aid of Brampton towards costs appreciated. For more details please contact Village Hall and Long Marton Church. Ring Louise 51562 Anne Bell on 51547 or Barbara Parkin on 51492 or Carol 51221 st Lights, Camera, Appleby 1 Appleby Brownies Moonlight (Cert.15) Saturday 28th April If you are interested in joining Brownies or becoming a helper; please contact Alison Taylor on 017683 61241 or Released in 2016, Moonlight is a coming of [email protected] age drama. It is the story of the childhood, adolescence and burgeoning adulthood Curry Aid of a young African-American gay man growing up in a tough neighbourhood Curry evenings to raise money for orphaned children in of Miami. The Guardian described it India have been resurrected by the charity Curry Aid. as a heartbreaking, uplifting, minor-key Founder Jessie Oddy has over the past year or so had to masterpiece. This Oscar nominated film take a break from her role as chief chef at events due to “turns a tale of conflict and hardship into ill health, though fund-raisers have still taken place on a a symphony of love and friendship that endures.” smaller scale. We will serve an authentic Cuban-style supper (the However, Jessie is now keen to host the events again. prominent flavour of Miami!) with vegetarian option Anyone who is interested in booking such an event, at available. Tickets £10 for food and film. Please book food which Jessie, who hails from Tamil Nadu, demonstrates tickets in advance. Film only tickets, £4 available on the how to make authentic Indian cuisine, before her audience door. Doors open 6pm, food served 6.15-6.30pm. Film tuck into the results, can contact her by calling 017683 screening at 7pm. Pay bar, raffle and interval ice-cream 51227. from the Jersey Ice Cream Farm, Melkinthorpe. Friday Club Food tickets must be booked in advance from Appleby In late February we had an “Exercise evening” in The Tourist Information Centre or the Courtyard Gallery, Guide Hut. This involved some seated exercise routines, Appleby. For further information please tel: 07903 858093 which were suitable for all the members. Then we had or email: [email protected] some dancing, which is always a firm favourite with the Make Remote cinema night your regular monthly social club members. The refreshments came as a much needed and support us! Our new bespoke equipment now gives break!! us fantastic quality sound and picture. All future profits will Unfortunately, the Inner Wheel Supper had to be support further film and cultural events for Appleby. postponed due to the “Beast from the East”, which was Remote in Appleby is run by volunteers and is a not-for- a shame because everyone was looking forward to it. We profit organisation. Remote Cinema is a scheme funded have been assured it will be re-arranged for later in the by the Big Lottery and offered to villages in Eden, by Eden year though. Arts and Cine North. Follow us on our Facebook page: Anyone who might like to join the club please phone Pete Appleby Remote Cinema Scheme Ivinson on 61650. Diary date in April:- 7:30 pm on Monday 23rd - Friday club North West Arts AGM at the Crown and Cushion The last concert this season – ‘Travelling by Anyone interested in joining us please contact Pete Ivinson Tuba’ – is on Sunday, 25th March at 7.30pm in on 61650 Appleby Public Hall, given by Chris Cranham Appleby and District Gardeners’ Society (tuba) and Stewart Death (piano). ‘Tickets’ - Thursday, 19th April. Trip to Houghton Hall Garden Centre, £12 at the door. & Ivy House Garden, Brampton. Depart: Appleby 9.30 am, As Stewart says: ”It is not just a tuba T.S 9.45am, Penrith 10am. Group Admission to Ivy House recital but a multi instrumental extravaganza dispelling the £5 to include tea/coffee & biscuits. Lunch at Houghton idea of the proverbial ‘oompah’. Travelling by Tuba invites Hall Garden Centre you to join them on a fascinating voyage through the weird and wonderful world of the tuba. Discover instruments programme of speakers, run workshops and organise outings. ancient and modern Didjeridu, conch, sackbut, cornett, We meet on the first Tuesday of every month 7pm to 9pm, serpent, Sousaphone and their amazing homemade at The Guide Hut . Non-members welcome, entrance fee £6 hoseaphones plus many more…. (including raffle ticket & Refreshments) ... and, for members Music from classical to jazz, hear how composers would only, on the third Wednesday, Sew-ins in the Pennine Room, have written for the tuba if it had been around while they Riverside 9.30 to 12.30 were composing!! What’s more, music is not everything. For further details please contact Barbara on 017683 51157, Humorous anecdotes and informative chat also combine Sandra on 01768 899795 or email
March Crossword Solution The road to Emmaus He was diagnosed with motor neurone disease while at university. One of the best short stories in the world As a teenager he had enjoyed horse-riding and rowing but while at Cambridge he was diagnosed with a form of motor neurone The story of the two disciples walking the road between Jerusalem disease which was to leave him almost completely paralysed. and Emmaus on the first Easter day is ‘one of the immortal short As he was preparing to marry his first wife, Jane, in 1964 his doctors stories of the world’ (W. Barclay). Their encounter with the risen gave him no more than two or three years of life. But the disease Christ is also a model for how we can meet him in our lives. (You progressed more slowly than expected. The couple had three can find the story in Luke 24: 13 -35) children, and in 1988 - although Hawking was by now only able to Hearts Opened. The disciples displayed ‘downcast’ faces (17), speak with a voice synthesiser following a tracheotomy - he had as their hearts were preoccupied with grief. They felt let down by completed A Brief History of Time - a layman’s guide to cosmology. God, as well as bewildered by all they had heard. No doubt their It sold more than 10 million copies, although its author was aware emotions prevented them from recognising Jesus walking with that it was dubbed “the most popular book never read”. them, even though their hearts burned within them. Despite our He received honorary degrees, medals, prizes and awards feelings, Jesus is still with us in situations of loss or desolation, as throughout his career and was honoured with a CBE in 1982. He well as when we feel let down by God or other people. was reportedly offered a knighthood in the 1990s but later revealed Minds Opened. Although this pair knew the Scriptures, they he had turned it down over issues with the government’s funding didn’t understand what they said about the Christ. Therefore, for science. Jesus opened their minds to make sense of the events they were Hawking discovered the phenomenon which became known experiencing. The Holy Spirit also brings God’s word alive for us, as Hawking radiation, where black holes leak energy and fade as He challenges our preconceptions about Jesus. to nothing. He was renowned for his extraordinary capacity to Eyes Opened The couple only recognised Jesus when He visualise scientific solutions without calculation or experiment. broke the bread as they ate together. The turning point came when But it was perhaps his “theory of everything”, suggesting that the they invited Jesus into their home, and allowed Him to take charge. universe evolves according to well-defined laws, that attracted If we are to recognise Jesus’ presence with us, we need to open most attention. “This complete set of laws can give us the answers our lives to Him. What part does Holy Communion play in this? to questions like how did the universe begin,” he said. “Where is it going and will it have an end? If so, how will it end? If we find Open eyes, minds and hearts will lead to open mouths. Having the answers to these questions, we really shall know the mind of discovered Jesus, the disciples can’t keep the news to themselves. God.” The Christian message is never truly ours until we have opened Hawking’s celebrity status was acknowledged even by The our mouths and shared it with others! Simpsons - he was depicted drinking at a bar with Homer, Bonhoeffer and the Nazis suggesting he might steal Homer’s idea that the universe is shaped like a doughnut. He appeared in a special documentary The renowned German theologian and anti-Nazi Dietrich Bonhoeffer about BBC comedy series Red Dwarf during which he spoke about was arrested by the Gestapo 75 years ago this month, on 5th April why he enjoyed the show and also starred in Star Trek: The Next 1943, at the age of 37. He was executed in April 1945. Generation as a hologram of his image. The rock group Pink Floyd Born to a distinguished family in Breslau, now part of Poland, used his distinctive synthesised voice for the introduction to Keep Bonhoeffer was strongly influenced by time in the United States, Talking, on their 1994 album The Division Bell. where he was associated with a church in Harlem and formed a Undeterred by his condition, he continued his work as lifelong love for African-American spirituals. It was here that he Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University, began to see things from the perspective of those who suffer and in 2001, his second book - Universe in a Nutshell - was oppression. published. Offered a parish post in Berlin in late 1933, he refused it in protest at the nationalist policy, and accepted a two-year appointment as He believed his illness brought some benefits; he said before a pastor of two German-speaking Protestant churches in London, he developed the disease he had been bored with life. But aiming to obtain support for the Confessing Church in Germany, his condition inevitably made him dependent on others. He which resisted the Nazis and aimed to preserve traditional beliefs. often paid tribute to his wife, who had looked after him for His success was limited. more than 20 years, and friends and relatives were shocked During the war Bonhoeffer was harassed by the Nazi authorities when he left her for one of his nurses,Elaine Mason, whom he and forbidden to speak in public, to print or to publish. He joined married in 1995. The couple later divorced in 2006. the Abwehr, and under cover of this Hawking later went on to marry one of his nurses, Elaine Mason, served as a courier for the German resistance movement, trying to in 1995. They were married for 11 years before they divorced. By gain support for it abroad. He was ignored by the UK government. 2000, Hawking was a frequent visitor to the emergency department of Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge, seeking treatment Bonhoffer’s famous quotations include: for a variety of injuries. Police questioned several people about ‘In a world where success is the measure and justification of allegations that he had been subjected to verbal and physical all things the figure of Him who was sentenced and crucified abuse over a period of years. remains a stranger and is at best the object of pity. . . . The figure He was known to be an erratic, almost reckless driver of his electric of the Crucified invalidates all thought that takes success for its wheelchair, and Hawking insisted his injuries were not caused standard.’ by abuse. No action was taken. In 2007, he became the first ‘The Church is the Church only when it exists for others . . . not quadriplegic to experience weightlessness on board the so-called dominating, but helping and serving. It must tell men of every “vomit comet”, a modified plane specially designed to simulate calling what it means to live for Christ, to exist for others.’ zero gravity. He said he did it to encourage interest in space travel ‘The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it and booked a seat on Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic sub- leaves to its children.’ orbital space plane. “I believe that life on Earth is at an ever-increasing risk of being His Letters and Papers from Prison and Cost of Discipleship have wiped out by a disaster such as sudden nuclear war, a genetically become landmark books. engineered virus, or other dangers. I think the human race has no future if it doesn’t go into space. I therefore want to encourage Stephen Hawking: public interest in space.” 8th January 1942 – 14th March 2018 In 2014, the film The Theory of Everything was released, based on Stephen Hawking - who died aged 76 - battled motor neurone Jane Hawking’s account of their courtship and marriage. Hawking disease to become one of the most respected and best-known himself met Eddie Redmayne as part of the actor’s preparation scientists of his age. A man of great humour, he became a popular for taking on the role of the scientist. In a series for the Discovery ambassador for science and was always careful to ensure that the Channel, he said it was perfectly rational to assume there was general public had ready access to his work. intelligent life elsewhere but warned that aliens might just raid His book A Brief History of Time became an unlikely best-seller earth of its resources and then move on. although it is unclear how many people actually managed to get Hawking also predicted the end of humanity from global warming, a to the end of it. He appeared in a number of popular TV shows large comet or a new virus. He collaborated with Russian investor and lent his synthesised voice to various recordings. Stephen Yuri Milner in 2015 to work on projects to find evidence of alien life. William Hawking was born in Oxford on 8 January 1942. His father, He once wrote that he had motor neurone disease for practically a research biologist, had moved with his mother from London to all his adult life but said that it had not stopped him having an escape German bombing. attractive family and being successful in his work. “It shows,” he Hawking grew up in London and St Albans and, after gaining a said, “that one need not lose hope.” first-class degree in physics from Oxford, went on to Cambridge for postgraduate research in cosmology. April Crossword Script Reading Group
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