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Stretton FFebruary 2014OCUSCommunity Voice of the Strettons £1 New Look • Full Colour • 52 pages • Every Month Feb 2014 mag.indd 1 17/01/2014 12:03 Stretton Focus (founded 1967) Average monthly sales 1,450 copies In Focus (About 60% of households in Church Stretton) What’s On in the Strettons in February Chairman Barrie Archer 01584 841641 News Editors 46 Amnesty Group News If you wish to know the times of regular meetings of societies and groups, please consult the list of societies and contacts in the yellow pages. Gay Walker 722257 46 Choir Master Wanted Nigel and Liz Strachan 724442 42 Churches Together – Lent Discussion Grps Gill Morrell 33 Classrooms in the Clouds 2 SUNDAY Janet Martin Cover Editors 42 Community Wellbeing Update – Final Score St Andrew’s Church, Hope Bowdler Dave Draper 724911 16 Concord College Literary Festival Candlemas Celebrations (Replaces Choral Yvonne Beaumont, Jane Davies 12 Coppice Leasowes Proposal Evensong at St James,’ Cardington). Computer Production 16 CS Rotary Club Barrie Raynor 723928 10.00am St Andrew’s Church Rowland Jackson 722390 24 Cycling Fleche de France Richard Fillenham 723119 29 Dark Skies Distribution 46 Flood Protection 3 MONDAY Richard Carter 724106 24 Long Mynd Search & Rescue Advertising Community Wildlife Group Chris Whitehouse 723890 35 Long Mynd Camera Club News (SACWG) Finance Director 21 Mayor’s New Year Message Annual General Meeting Richard Fillenham 723119 33 Medical Centre Texting Service Web Editor 45 Start All welcome Chris Moores 722940 Secretary 38 Tree Group 7pm CS School Chris Moores 722940 39 Violin Recital at Picklescott 45 Women’s World Day of Prayer Flicks in the Sticks Church Stretton Directors 46 Yorkshire BS Donation Barrie Archer (Chmn), Sandie Johnson, Pat Oxtoby, ‘Hunky Dory’ Seats £4 children £2 Barrie Raynor (V Chmn), Richard Fillenham, Lesley Richards, Richard Hickman, –Tom Beaumont Enquiries 724330 Advertisements Forthcoming Events 7.30pm (Doors open 7pm) CS School Rates for block and occasional 34 All Stretton Pantomime advertisements may be obtained from 46 Cancer Care News the Advertising Manager, Chris 4 TUESDAY Whitehouse, 15 Stretton Farm Road, 39 Engaging Issues Engaging Issues Church Stretton, SY6 6DX , tel: 723890 or 21 Flicks in the Sticks email to [email protected] 18 Friday Night at the Horne ‘From religion: Good Lord, deliver us’ by to whom copy should be sent. 41 Gardening in February John Annetts The Stretton Focus Management Board cannot 38 Pit Stop 7.30pm URC accept responsibility for any product or service 42 RSPB advertised. Acceptance of an advertisement does 25 Scrappies News not imply any form of approval or recommendation. 5 WEDNESDAY Advertisers are required to comply with the British Code 35 Shropshire Wildlife Trust of Advertising Practice. 30 Wildlife Group Methodist Network Group 35 Women’s Business Club Rev Richard Hall Submission of articles If possible, please submit material by 2.30pm Methodist Church email to [email protected] as an attachment with a pertinent title, Regular Features CAMEO not simply ‘Focus Article’. Typed or 33 Anglican Voice legible handwritten copy, discs, CDs with Craft with Sally Cooke original unimproved digital photographs 5 Birdlife in your Garden or good quality glossy photographs may 18 Catholic Voice 2.30pm Parish Centre be left at Wrights, Estate Agent, Sandford 4 CSTC Community Matters Avenue clearly labelled ‘Stretton Focus’. 38 Focus on Faith All copy must be received by noon on the Long Mynd Camera Club date below. 7 Letters Chairman’s AV Evening ‘California Road Trip’ 12 Mayfair Lottery Disclaimer & ‘Venice’ Stretton Focus prints a wide range of articles and 11 Mayfair News letters. The views expressed in these are those of their 30 Methodist Voice 7.30pm URC Hall authors and not necessarily those of the Management Board. The Editors exercise their right to edit any 15 Parents’ Corner articles, letters etc submitted for publication at their 39 Police Report discretion without consulting the author. 12 Post Office Refurbishment Copy day AND DEADLINE 8 Quaker Voice is normally the first Monday of the month. 41 Recipe of the Month For the March issue it is Monday 3rd February (12 noon). 41 Thank You For the April issue it will be Monday 3rd 15 Trivia Answers March. 5 Trivia Corner The March Stretton Focus will be 45 URC Voice distributed on Friday 27th February 22 VideoGame Review Outlets 2 What’s On Stretton Focus may be purchased by annual subscription (delivered) or directly 4 Where is it? Photo Quiz from Newsworld Sandford Avenue, Co-op, Spar, Visitor Information Centre (Church St), Mayfair and the Churches. Other 27 Colin’s Comment www.strettonfocus.co.uk 28 Great War Memorials and the Hippy Hall Berrington Generation © 2014 Stretton Focus Limited 45 House Information Required Registration No. 6237590 Inc in England Beaumont Yvonne Photo: Registered Office: 8 High Street, 36 Winter’s Tales from the Mynd Church Stretton, SY6 6BU ISSN 1479–7356 Printed by WPG, Welshpool 2 February 2014 Stretton Focus Feb 2014 mag.indd 2 17/01/2014 12:03 What’s On in the Strettons in February If you wish to know the times of regular meetings of societies and groups, please consult the list of societies and contacts in the yellow pages. 7 FRIDAY RSPB South Shropshire Group 18 TUESDAY Mayfair ‘Panoramic Panama’ illustrated talk by All Stretton WI Meredith Vivian talks about ‘Clinical Hypno- Barry Oxley. Enquiries: Alvin Botting 01547- ‘Living in China & Mongolia’ therapy’. Drinks and nibbles available. Free 540176 7.30pm at Culmington Village Hall by Joan Liebrecht. Visitors welcome 7pm Mayfair 7.30pm AS VH Methodist Wives and Friends 8 SATURDAY ‘Keeping Alpaca as a hobby’ talk by Engaging Issues Methodist Church Jean Huff. Everyone welcome ‘Religion and Human Rights - are they in Drop in to enjoy a coffee and chat in the hall 7.30pm Methodist Church Hall harmony or conflict?’ by Mike Bourke. All or quiet time in the church welcome. 7.30pm URC All welcome. Flicks in the Sticks All Stretton 10am-12 noon ‘The kid with a bike’ £6 Flicks in the Sticks Acton Scott 8pm AS VH ‘Undertaking Betty’ Scrappies Seats £4 children £2. 7.30pm Acton Scott VH Valentine’s DayDrop-inWorkshop for chil- 12 WEDNESDAY dren. Activities Mayfair Daycare 19 WEDNESDAY 10.30am-1.30pm. Valentine’s afternoon tea dance Women’s Business Club All Welcome ‘Pricing your Goods or Services’ St Laurence’s Church 2pm Mayfair Contact Christine Williams National reaffirmation of marriage vows [email protected] or on service. All welcome Methodist Network Group 07801 482656. 12noon-2pm. Mayfair 5pm St Laurence’s Church Rt Rev Mike Bourke on ‘The Sky at Night’ 2.30pm Methodist Church Methodist Network Group Quiz Night with Ken Willis Stephen Dalton on ‘Meaning of surnames’ For Blind Awareness Amnesty Group 2.30pm Methodist Church 7.45pm start. CS & District Club 7.30pm SHI Strettons Branch Wildlife Trust 9 SUNDAY Flicks in the Sticks Hope Bowdler Baz Fewster debates ‘Man – Friend or Foe of St Laurence’s Church ‘Summer in February’ the Environment?’ Pitstop. Games: craft activities, songs & a Tickets £4. Refreshments Tickets £2 members, £3 others meal. For info: Suzan Williams 722588 7.30pm. Hope Bowdler VH 7.30pm Methodist Church Hall [email protected] 3-5pm Parish Centre 14 FRIDAY Long Mynd Camera Club Drop-In sessions for Volunteers The 3rd Wrekin Salon of International 10 MONDAY Want to volunteer or groups seeking vol- Photography Stretton & Shropshire Cancer Care unteers please call in for a chat with Clive 7.30pm URC Hall Dr Marilyn Owens. Leworthy. 2.30pm Mayfair 10am-12noon CS Library 20, 21, 22 THURS, FRI, SAT All Stretton Amateur Dramatics Shropshire Literary Society 15 SATURDAY Pantomime ‘Mother Goose’ Michael Basnett ‘The Teaching of English PACT Surgery Tickets £4 for adults, £2.50 children from Literature in Schools Today’ 9am-12noon CS Police Station Burway Books, John Thomas & Caroline 7.30pm CS Library Crump (Tel 01694 723283) RSPB South Shropshire Group 7.30pm & Sat matinee 2pm AS VH 11 TUESDAY Wildlife walk by the River Lugg Church Stretton Women’s Institute Leader: Hazel 01568 770770 20 THURSDAY Tony Crowe ‘The History of the Ditton Priors 10am Meet at Lyepole Bridge (SO 398 654) Mayfair to Cleobury Mortimer Light Railway’ David Thomas talk ‘East to West across two 7.15pm SHI. Ticklerton Folk Dance. continents - from Beijing to Moscow by rail’. Contact No. 01694 722418 7-9.30pm. Mayfair 8pm till late Ticklerton VH. If you submit articles to Focus by e-mail, you should always get an acknowledgment. If you don’t get a response within 24 hours, please phone an editor! Stretton Focus February 2014 3 Feb 2014 mag.indd 3 17/01/2014 12:03 21 FRIDAY Church Stretton Town Council SHI Events The New Rope String Band Community Matters Tickets £10 adult, £6 children, £30 family ticket. From Burway Books, John Thomas Church Stretton Town Council Consultation: Florist or Council Office. Employment Land Allocation to 2026 7.30pm.SHI Background 22 SATURDAY Central Government requires that provision of employment land be identified Methodist Network in Shropshire Council’s Site Allocation & Management of Development Coffee and Hobbies morning. £1 entry (SAMDev). A meeting recently took place in Church Stretton between 10-12noon Methodist Church Hall representatives of local and national bodies to discuss the inclusion of New House Farm in Shropshire Council’s SAMDev proposals. These proposals suggest 23 SUNDAY that 85 dwellings, employment land, holiday log cabins and an archery centre be Open Garden: Snowdrops & Hellebores built on this prominent farmland which forms part of a protected landscape. In aid of the MS Society The Patch, Acton Pigott, SY5 7PH The Town Mayor, Cllr Michael Braid, invited representatives of the National 11am-3pm Entrance: £3 per person Trust, CPRE, Shropshire Hills AONB Partnership, Strettons Civic Society, Church Stretton & District Chamber of Trade, Strettondale Area Partnership, 24 MONDAY All Stretton Village Society, Church Stretton Community Group to this CS Parkinson’s Support Group inaugural meeting.

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