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1 2 FEBUARY Diary Contents Allotments p8 Can You Help? p8 Tues 2nd 12.30am Lunch Club Village Hall, Church Services p4 Back Room Family Service p6 Feckenham Flower Show p7 Wed 3rd 7.30pm Stock & Bradley Bradley FeckenOdeon p12 Gardening Club Village Hall Food Bank p9 Gardening Club p18 Sat 6th 7.30pm “End to End” Village Hall Lent Course p9 Local Matters p6 Tues 9th 7.30pm Feckenham Forest Feckenham Mission Morogoro p15 History Society Village Hall Newshound p5 Parish Council p7 Wed 10th 2 - 4 pm Defibrillator Train- Back Room Small Ads p5 ing Village Hall Square Management C. p13 Super Sessions p18 Thurs 11th 7.30pm Feckenham WI Back Room Thought for the month p8 Village Hall Village Hall p12 Village Shop p7 Fri 12th 8pm FeckenOdeon-2 Back Room W.I. p18 Village Hall W.W.1 p14 Tues 16th 7.30pm - Lent Course Catholic Church, 9pm High St. Production Team Ian Bellion – What’s On 892130 [email protected] Sun 21st 10.30 am Allotment Open Moors Lane Chris Fletcher – Newshound - 3.30pm Day 894568 [email protected] Antonia Pulsford – Reviews Tues 23rd 7.30pm - Lent Course Catholic Church, 892268 9pm High St. Jo Warrilow – Advertising, Mags by post 892059 Jane White – Editor 893281 Thurs 25th 7.30pm Flower Show Village Hall [email protected] AGM Sat 27th 7.30pm FeckenOdeon Village Hall www.feckenham.com Many articles in Feckenham News are contributed by members of the public. They Front Cover remain the responsibility of the writers and neither the production team nor the Crocuses on the Square. publishers can be held responsible for the views and Photo by Ian Bellion assertions contained therein. 3 Church Services PARISH CHURCH FEBRUARY of ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST Priest-in-Charge: Rev Wyn Beynon Churchwarden: Ann Matthews 01527 892180 Church website: www.feckenhamchurch.org.uk • • Email: [email protected] Parish Office: Telephone: 01905 778181 Email: [email protected] Open Tues., Wed. & Thurs. 10am-1pm & 2-5pm: Mon. & Fri. Closed at - The Bowbrook Group, The Parish Centre, St Andrew’s Street, DROITWICH, WR9 8DY Readers & Intercessors Sunday 7th 11.00am Sung Eucharist Sunday next before Lent Exodus 34:29-end David Street 2 Corinthians 3: 12- 4:2 Angela Fletcher Intercessions Erica Dilger Wednesday 10th ASH WEDNESDAY Holy Communion with imposition of ashes 10.30am Wychbold 8.00pm Oddingley Sunday14th 8.00am Holy Communion 1st Sunday of Lent 2 Corinthians 6: 1-10 Antonia Pulsford 11.00am Family Service Open the Book; Presentation of Jesus in the Temple Sunday 21st 6.30pm Evensong 2nd Sunday of Lent Genesis15 :1-12, 17-18 Richard Hillman Philippians 3: 17 – 4:1 Carol Onions Intercessions Lin Preece Sunday 28th 11.00am Family Eucharist 3rd Sunday of Lent 1 Corinthians 10: 1-13 Fiona Carter Intercessions Tony Mortimer “Mixed Bag” Will be held in Church on Sunday 7th February - a group for young people and activities for younger children. All children will be warmly welcomed. Feckenham Roman Catholic Church St John Fisher & St. Thomas More Mass is celebrated every Sunday at 10.15am in the Church Fr. Anthony Rohan, The Presbytery, Redditch. Tel. 01527 63096 Local contact—Phyllis Mott, Feckenham. Tel. 01527 893898 4 and St Thomas More were welcomed to a joint Newshound service at Feckenham Parish church. This was at the beginning of the week of prayer for Chris- tian unity 2016. The service was led by Rev Sue Welcome to new residents Barratt and the preacher was Rev Fr David Doran. This year's liturgy was arranged by the More Stylers move into Feckenham! Dave and Christians in Latvia and their theme was "Salt of Sarah Styler, who come from longstanding the Earth". This was reflected in the choice of Redditch families have recently moved to the readings and hymns. The Catholic community High Street from Webheath. They have three would like to thank the Feckenham parishioners children, Katie, Jake, and Sam, only Sam is still for their hospitality and warm welcome. at school. They also have three dogs! Sara works part time for the NHS in Redditch and Bromsgrove but has already volunteered to Village Hall help in the shop and is currently being trained. Improvement Fund 2015/16 Dave is Engineering Manager at a Redditch January Winners company. They are looking forward to life in 35 Phyllis Mott £25 Feckenham and we hope they will be very 84 John & Sue May £15 happy here. 17 Katie Styler £10 Canal boat enthusiasts come to the High The February Draw will be held in the Village Hall Street! Liz and Howard Bellaby, and Charlie at 8.00 pm on Tuesday 2nd February 2016 the cat, have moved in to no 20 High Street, having downsized from Astwood Bank. Although their new house is fairly small the Small Ads. shrinkage is not quite so drastic when you factor in the acquisition of a sixty foot narrow ooking to buy 2 or 3 bed property with boat on the nearby Worcester and Birmingham Lparking in Feckenham or surrounding Canal! Liz is a local and works in Housing. She area. Alison 07714209463. was at the forefront of recent work to drive down anti-social behavior in Redditch. She an anyone help please? I am anxious to enjoys cooking, entertaining, Caribbean Cmove back to my grassroots so am beaches and talking! Howard works in actively looking to buy a property in procurement and supply chain management Feckenham. I am a cash buyer and would allied to the construction equipment industry. much appreciate a phone call if you are He has travelled extensively and enjoys reading thinking of selling your property. I do need a the classics anything relating to history, politics . or biography. We wish them well in their new garden. Many thanks 07812586530 life on land and water. A belated but warm welcome to Erica and Phil Guise who moved into Bramley Cottage last July having spent the previous 32 years in Fin- stall, Bromsgrove. They enjoyed their first Christmas in Feckenham and are now looking forward to getting more involved in what they describe as "a very friendly and vibrant commu- nity". Phil and Erica wish everyone a very happy 2016. On Sunday January 17th, worshippers from the Roman Catholic chapel of St John Fisher 5 are included, go to Local Matters http://www.superfastworcestershire.com/when -where and put your full landline phone number into the search box. When we will get am grateful to Jen Cary for updating us (in fibre though is a bit up in the air still but when Ithe December News) on the projected we hear more we'll update you. resurfacing of the B4090 through the village. It Although getting fibre is great news for the certainly needs doing but I would take some village, with the added choice and enhanced issue with Highways in their conceding that the performance that it brings, unfortunately it's red-brown surface was a mistake. The reason likely that not everyone will be able to benefit for the choice of this particular material was as the technology stands at the moment. If you part of an effort to reduce traffic speed - the live right at the end of line, as it were, it is colour and texture gave the visual impression unlikely that the signal will be able to reach of a 'lane', and this in combination with the you. However, Openreach is developing new deliberate omission of a central white line was technology to effectively 'boost' the signal but to create a certain caution among drivers, thus this will take time to roll out. inducing them to slow down. To some extent it As Q and I find out more, we'll be back in worked but was then ruined by the addition of touch and in the meantime, if you have any white lines down each side. This had the questions about broadband either by landline adverse effect of making the road look longer or over Airband, please do get in touch with us and straighter again, cancelling out the via Parish Cllr Cary by this email address advantage gained (long straight roads means [email protected]<mailto:quintus@2 'put your foot down' to some people!). The 8highstreet.co.uk> or contact the Parish other big benefit of the red-brown surface Council - we have put ourselves forward to (which has been pretty durable, given time (5 - represent Feckenham on Worcestershire's 6 years at least) and heavy usage) has been a broadband forum. Jen Cary significant reduction in road noise (tyre noise) and I think most fellow Droitwich Road residents would agree that this should be a significant factor in the choice of a replacement surface. I would also make a plea that no white lines of any kind will be used. Back in 2006 the former Feckenham Traffic Group, of which I was a member, prepared detailed proposals to calm traffic speed and generally improve road safety, but unfortunately these have been largely ignored by Worcestershire Highways. There is a suggestion that the Feckenham Traffic Group should be reinstated to get something done about traffic nuisance through the Village. If anyone feels that they would like to take part please communicate this to the Editor. • David Rowe t's official, we're definitely getting fibre! IIt's been an interesting 2-year struggle but WCC has now formally confirmed that Feckenham is getting fibre. Cabinet 6 on the Square is now definitely in the plans. Feckenham 6 Parish Council Village Shop Jeff Matthews YOU COULD SAVE A LIFE! At the back of the Village Hall you’ll find a t’s gone cold now – logs, hot chocolate, defibrillator - a device for resuscitating people Icake… who have suffered a cardiac arrest.