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February 2005 Vol 5 No 2 TBSUNoAMxI APPREALiRvEACeHErS £4N100eANwD STs ILL GROWING The collection being made in the Boxford Post Office had reached £2162 at the time of going to press and contributions DEDHAM VALE SEEK TO INCREASE FLIGHTS OVER SOUTH SUFFOLK continue to be made. At the combined Benefice service in Readers may have heard on BBC Radio Suffolk that a Mr T. Hill Groton on 2nd January the collection, gift aided, reached of Bentley has been awarded a judicial review of the NATS £1350 and Boxford School have collected £600. With the decision to transfer flights from the Dedham Vale from March of collection in the Post Office on-going and the cake stall being 2004 to fly over South Suffolk instead. It seems that only about held in Mary’s House on 1st February we will keep you 50% of the flights were moved from Dedham Vale after March informed of progress. and the Dedham Vale Society have now joined forces with Mr Donations can still be made to the fund not only at the Post Hill and are seeking an agreement with NATS for all flights over Office but Donations to the Disasters Emergency Committee the Dedham Vale to be diverted, presumably over South Suffolk. may also be made via your church. All the churches in the A nice friendly and neighbourly gesture on their part. The result benefice are collecting and donations will be sent to the appeal of the review is expected early February Ed fund, or please visit www.dec.org.uk SHOPPERS PARKING TO REMAIN 3 HOURS DO YOU KNOW THIS CHILD? The Strategy Committee of Babergh District Council are to recommend that the shopper parking in Sudbury and Hadleigh should remain 3 hours as at present. It is expected that the long term car parks will carry a charge probably in the region of £1.50/£1.65 for parking in excess of 3 hours. This has to be good news for shoppers and the shops in the two towns. Ed DEPUTY LORD LIEUTENANT VISITS BOXFORD This young boy, about two years old is a Tsunami survivor found at Khoa Lak and is missing his parents. Nobody knows what country he comes from but if anybody out there knows who he might be please e.mail [email protected] BoxCopRy deilivverey proinNts aree: ws Eddie Kench, Kiln Cottage, Stone Street, Boxford CO10 5NR or left at ‘Boxford News’ in Broad Street Boxford marked for the ‘ Box River News’ Include pictures together with stamped addressed envelope for their return L to R Vic Rice, Chairman of 3PR, Joanne Spicer, Henry Engleheart Telephone: 01787 211507 On Tuesday 11th January Joanne Spicer, Deputy Lord Lieutenant e.mail: [email protected] of the county of Suffolk accompanied by Henry Engleheart, past Sheriff of the county visited Boxford to meet with members of Closing date for copy for the March 2005 Issue is: 3PR to discuss their nomination for The Queens Award for voluntary Service. February 16th @ Noon Delivered Free to every home in Boxford, Groton, Edwardstone, Newton, and Little Waldingfield and Box River available to residents in Assington, Leavenheath, Gt Waldingfield, Polstead, Lindsey, Milden News Stoke by Nayland, Kersey, and parents of children at Boxford School. work and Cliff and Penny Baker at the Edwardstone White Horse A NEW WOOD IN EDWARDSTONE for vital sustenance during breaks from planting! Also to Barry and Marilyn at the White Hart Boxford for the use of their car park when selling Christmas trees. We would also like to thank the support of the local community in buying our Christmas trees - there will be plenty more on sale next year. Richard & Ineke Morris L to R Wybe Epema, Edward Morris, Wayne Hudgel, Richard Morris, Ronny Farthing. THE GANG OF FIVE We have just recently planted another five acres of deciduous trees at Mill Green, Edwardstone. This is a variety of Oak, Ash, Lime, Wild Cherry, Hazel, Hornbeam, and Alder with woodland shrubs on the edge. This is contiguous with another five acres planted in 1998 and 1999, so will eventually grow into a ten acre woodland. We are currently fencing it off to prevent damage by rabbits and deer but as it is bounded by two public footpaths, the Photo Peter Hibben intention is to remove the fence once the trees are large enough and allow public (and wildlife) access. This was Boxford Postman, Andrew, getting into the spirit of things The gang of five also planted another two thousand Christmas whilst delivering post in the Running Waters Estate on Christmas trees in a separate area of the field to keep a source of supply Eve. What will he be wearing on February 14th and can we expect going for future years Many thanks to my helpers for their hard our valentines cards to be delivered with cupids arrows? Charles) and Derek Nash - (Sax Appeal, Protect the Beat, Tom Jones, Jules Holland) for a passionate evening of jazz and blues. Supported by Pete Adams (keyboards), Winston Blissett (bass) and Frank Tontoh (drums). Friday, 25th February, 8.30 Ticket £11 Bobby Wellins Quartet Bobby Wellins is an original saxophone giant of the British jazz scene. He has his own distinctive sound, phrasing with immense elegance, every note being meant, none wasted. He worked with Stan Tracey's quartet during the early sixties playing on the classic 'Under Milk Wood'. Since then he has Friday, 4th February, 8.30 Ticket £11 gone on to produce a string of excellent albums. With Liam Kirk Lightsey Trio Noble (piano), Robin Mullarkey (bass) and Seb Rochford Kirk took up the piano at the age of five and became a full time (drums). jazz musician in his late teens.In the mid sixties he became a sideman for Chet Baker, which resulted in five great albums. Friday, 4th March, 8.30 Ticket £14 However it was his work with Dexter Gordon that brought him Jacqui Dankworth to the attention of a wider jazz public. Truly a jazz legend, Kirk Jacqui started out as an actress with the RSC and has gone on is accompanied here by Steve Watts on bass and Dave to become one of the finest singers in the UK regardless of Wickins on the drums. category. Her voice has conspicuously English enunciation and an irresistible low register. Her work for the Candid record label Friday, 11th February, 8.30 Ticket £14 has resulted so far in two fine albums, the latest being 'Detour Norma Winstone Ahead', that have been much jazzier than her previous work Norma Winstone, a singer of brilliant virtuosity and flexibility, with Field of Blue and put the emphasis firmly on the singer. can handle very complex lines and wide intervals, improvise with the fluency of an instrumentalist and also breathe life into a simple song. ʻIf Iʼd known Norma Winstone was in the Friday, 11th March, 8.30 Ticket £10 audience, I would have been very nervousʼ - Diana Krall. Brian Dee Quartet With Tony Coe (saxophone), Nikki lies (piano) and Chris 'The Centurion', aka pianist and composer Brian Dee, returns Laurence (bass). with his Quartet of Alex Garnett (saxophone). Alee Dankworth (bass) and Ralph Salmins(drums) for another storming gig. Friday, 18th February, 8.30 Ticket £12 To buy tickets for any gig, obtain further information or add your name Sexy Saxes in Suits to the mailing list please telephone the BOX OFFICE: Definitely one for the ladies - Sexy Saxes in Suits features the 01787 211865 UK.s top soul saxophonist Snake Davis - (M people, All cheques (with S.A.E. please) to: Eurythmics, Paul McCartney, George Michael, Cher, Ray Jazz at the Fleece, 18 The Causeway, Boxford, Suffolk CO10 5JR NEWS FROM CLUBS AND ORGANISATIONS Wanted BOXFORD PARISH COUNCIL Jumble, Toys, Bric-a-Brac, Books, Furniture for a jumble sale in SPEEDING LIMIT 20M.PH. aid of SESAW Animal Rescue. IN THE BUILT UP AREAS OF BOXFORD VILLAGE Collection can be arranged. Phone Rosie on 01787 210888 or Boxford Parish Council is re - affirming its policy on in drop off at 27 Crossfields, Stoke by Nayland appropriate speed of traffic in the village. No doubt many of you Flora London Marathon 2005 will have read recently in the national press and elsewhere that If any local runners have a place in April’s marathon and would speed is the cause of the greater number of deaths and serious like a training partner please give me a call. This is my first year injuries on our roads today. and I would certainly welcome company and motivation for the In a community like ours it is surely quite reasonable to expect forthcoming 16 weeks training. Ian Fovargue 01787 210031l for each of us to look out for one another, so the Parish Council is requesting that all drivers respect the 20 m.ph. Voluntary speed Suffolk to Commemorate limit. If we as residents act accordingly it will help slow down 60 Years since end of World War II those who enter our village and use it as proverbial "rat run". Suffolk will be commemorating the 60th anniversary of the end When driving slower you also give others time to react, therefore of the Second World War in 2005. The Lord Lieutenant's office is please think of others as well as yourself and SLOW DOWN. co-ordinating arrangements for a special service of thanksgiving When you see the marking in the road "SLOW" it is there for a at St Edmundsbury Cathedral on Sunday 10 July. This will be reason, namely that there is a hazard ahead like a road junction.