Village View Editors
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
INFORMATION Village Activities Hire of Rooms (All held in the chapel) Penpoll Methodist Church WI: 2nd Monday in the month Meetings, functions, parties etc 2.00pm: Cynthia Young 865433 contact Bridget 862662 Coffee Spot: 1st Friday in the month, 10.00—11.30 am Mobile Library Coffee, cakes, preserves etc Saturdays—fortnightly Lunch Club: one Wednesday Penpoll Bridge: 14.20 to 14.35 each month, dates vary. Con- Point Green: 14.40 to 15.10 tact Betty 863902 / Bridget Home Library Service 862662 Angela Spurgin, Truro Library ROCKs—Right On Church 0800 032 2345 (freephone) for Kids: every Sunday [email protected] Village 10.30—11.30 am in the school Bus Service rooms Sept—June School days only YOGA —alternate Thurs Trolver Penpoll 7.30pm Contact Diane 863989 8.35 am 8.36 am 4.01 pm 4.02 pm www.truronian.co.uk View Parish Office 01872-273453 Opening Hours Monday 9.30 am—12.30 pm Corlink Wednesday 1.30 pm—4.30 pm Taxi service to nearest Friday 9.30 am—12.30 pm appropriate bus route At other times please leave a Tel: 0845 8505556 The Village Magazine for Point & Penpoll message — 863333. POINT QUAY ASSOCIATION: From Penpoll Methodist Church Billy Trebilcock 864415 Kerbside Recycling www.pointquay.org.uk Alternate Tuesdays Issue No 19 • Cans, paper, cardboard, foil RESTRONGUET CREEK (13 December) SOCIETY: Antony Lane 870123 Christmas 2005 • Light Garden Waste (20 December) Village View Editors Ewan McClymont 862624 Website Tez Smith 865413 www.penpollchapel.ukonline.co.uk Gerald Nicholls 862875 Printed by Mid Cornwall Printing 12 grandparents resent the amount they Message from... feel they are expected to spend on chil- November, Remembrance, dren who already have their own ver- Advent, December, Christmas, help! sion of Toys’R’Us within their bedroom Own up. When the first person mentions walls. Christmas isn’t your first response a feel- So why don’t we, this year, do ing of dread? Whether you’ve got to something different? Let’s cut the prepare a meal which, on a normal day, amount of money we spend on pre- would probably feed the whole road, sents that will soon be out of fashion, ALMOND’S while at the same time exuding an air of soon be far from ‘cool’ or ‘wicked’ or Maintenance MOBILE NEWSAGENTS bonhomie to the disparate strands of whatever the latest word is, and buy a Repairs TEL. 01872 870477 goat or a can of worms or something Renovations your family, or you’ve got to struggle Extensions across half the country to be with people else that the charities such as Christian NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES with whom you’ve nothing in common Aid are suggesting. Let’s enable a fam- DELIVERED TO YOUR DOOR ily in a Third World country to have WE PROVIDE A FRIENDLY AND but a shared surname, wouldn’t you EFFICIENT SERVICE—WHATEVER THE really much rather be at home doing some clean water to drink. Let’s invite WEATHER, 364 DAYS OF THE YEAR something normal and un-seasonal? Or the awkward aunt to a meal more fre- Tel: TRURO 862361 quently than just the once a year on ST. DAY 820695 PLEASE CALL TO DISCUSS YOUR you would if the entire Western world REQUIREMENTS hadn’t conspired to suggest that the only Christmas Day, and get to know her a way to celebrate the Christian message bit better, we might find she’s not so that the greatest person ever born was bad after all. born into poverty, is through conspicu- And then let us listen to the ous consumption of worldly goods with song of the angels, let’s go to Bethle- our nearest and dearest. hem with the shepherds, let’s kneel in The Victorians had a lot of good awe and wonder like the Wise Men, ideas but creating the foundation of the let’s go to Penpoll Methodist Church and see this thing which has come to ALL ASPECTS OF modern festival was not one of them. It BESPOKE JOINERY was Prince Albert who introduced many pass. There are several services for such an opportunity, and then keep it ******** new customs into a day that before then Finest Fish from local in-shore fishing up all through 2006. See you there! boats, daily from Newlyn Fish Market. WINDOWS, DOORS & STAIRCASES had probably been more religious than festive. Charles Dickens did much to We provide a friendly and reliable door ANY TYPE OF FLOORING FITTED Have a really blessed, different to door service to Point & Penpoll once ALL HOME IMPROVEMENTS disseminate the idea of what a proper INCLUDING KITCHENS AND Christmas – Glory to the new- a week on Friday afternoons, carrying Christmas should be with the miserly a large selection of the finest sea- BATHROOMS born King. foods: cod fillet, white crab meat, ALSO MAINTENANCE Scrooge in A Christmas Carol finally AND RENOVATION plaice, scallops, lemon sole, turbot, seeing the error of his ways to join in the monkfish, haddock, smoked haddock, 15 YEARS EXPERIENCE fun. We’ve come a long way from the Love and blessings, the list goes on and on … coin tossed by him to a passing errand Or if you’re passing, why not pop in to FREE ESTIMATES our new fish shop at - CONTACT LASSE boy so that the Cratchitt family could have a goose for dinner. Today the pres- Islington Wharf, Penryn HOME: 01872 520631 Tel: David - 01326 378478 MOB: 07773313662 sure to buy expensive gifts for people, Reverend Margaret Barnes who lack nothing, is so intense that even 2 11 Village View page 4 Penpol/ll response 8 1 Move hither the entire as- Carols with the WI 5 ACE / Book of Remembrance 9 sembly of you who are stead- 9 In a distant place located in a Point Quay Association 5 Carol Quiz 10 fast in your belief feeding receptacle for live- Resident Focus 6-7 Adverts 11 2 Listen, the celestial messen- stock Pilgrimage / B*olders 7 Local Information 12 gers are vocalising 10 Jovial Yuletide desired for 3 Nocturnal timespan of unbro- the second person singular WHAT’S ON AT PENPOLL METHODIST CHURCH ken silence or plural by us December 4 Adorn the interior passage- 11 The primal Christmas Fri 2nd Christmas Coffee Stop 10:00 - 11:30 am ways 12 An emotion of delight infus- Wed 7th Lunch Club 12 noon 5 At 12 o'clock on a clement ing and inspiring the planet Thurs 15th Christmas Concert 7:30 pm followed by supper for every- night it arrived and its creatures one 6 Small principality in Judea 13 Omnipotent supreme beings Sun 18th Carol Service 10:30 am east of Jerusalem who elicits ecstatic respite to Sun 18th Nativity 6:00 pm 7 During the nocturnal obser- distinguished males Sat 24th Midnight Communion 11:30 pm. Revd. Margaret Barnes vation of collected wool bear- Sun 25th Sectional Service at Feock 10:00 am. Revd. Margaret ers by their caregivers Answers will be posted on the Barnes January 8 The first person nominative Boat House door after New Wed 11th Lunch Club 12 noon Year! plural of a triumvirate of far Sun 22nd Chapel Anniversary 10:30 am Revd. D.W. Nicholson of eastern heads of state Submitted by Shirley Still Liskeard followed by lunch at Crantock Bay Hotel February Fri 3rd Coffee Stop 10:00 - 11:30 am David Vowles Wed 8th Lunch Club 12 noon March ROCKS Interior and Exterior Fri 3rd Coffee Stop 10:00 - 11:30 am Wed 8th Lunch Club 12 noon Painting and Decorating Sun 26th Mothering Sunday 10:30 am taken by Mrs Christine Rob- erts of St. Agnes Right On Church for The Old Counthouse Kids Creegbrawse Dates for inclusion in the Easter issue should be with the editors by the middle of March. St Day Continues through Winter! Cornwall Join us every Sunday TR16 5QF 10:30—11:30 am at the Chapel Tel 01209 822575 Everyone Welcome! 10 3 announce that Ewan McClymont, Changes at Penny's husband has volunteered. Aid Conservation Through Education There should be a very useful link there! Village View Every other year, Jill de Saus- dilapidated with earth floors and holes Maybe we have not completely lost marez and Anne Nicholls run a coffee in the roof. As one of the originators of Penny! Many, many thanks Ewan. morning at Jill's home, Point House, in ACE helps, in particular, by Village View for Christmas 1998, along Thank you to everybody for aid of a national and/or local charity. providing free exercise books and pen- with Elizabeth Schofield and Lorraine your contributions over the years, and This year Aid Conservation Through cils for every infant child; building new Michell, I should like to acknowledge the for your encouragement and help. Good Education [ACE] deservedly received a classrooms, stores and latrine blocks; hard work of several people since then. luck to Village View - and come on to all much welcomed £700 as a result of supporting teacher training costs for a First of all Elizabeth and Lorraine in the the budding authors in Penpoll and their hard work, the labours of their number of teachers; and working with early launching days before Elizabeth Point! Your articles, thoughts and ideas many helpers and the generosity of the other organisations to provide clean moved to Helston. are needed! village residents and friends. water tanks. Almost uniquely, everything By the following Christmas Keep up your good work Ge- ACE is a small charity based in is voluntary, there are virtually no ad- Penny McClymont had joined us and I rald, Tez and Ewan and happy article Cornwall.