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Price £1.00 to non-residents February 2019 ISSUE 114 OVER KELLET VIEW Warton Crag through the winter mist.Photo: Photo: Peter Peter Clinch Clinch Editorial Board: Peter Clinch, Paul Budd, Jane Meaden (Advertising) BOARD OF MANAGEMENT Chairs of the Parish Council and Parochial Church Council We are grateful to the above organisations for their financial support HOW TO PREPARE A CONTRIBUTION We are happy to receive electronic, typed and legible hand-written contributions. For a copy of the OK View Notes for Contributors please e-mail [email protected] Electronic text contributions should ideally be in Microsoft Word format, but we can accept most other formats. Please set the page size to A4 and use 14pt Arial font. Photos and illustrations should be sent as separate files, NOT embedded within documents; most are reproduced in black and white and benefit from good contrast. Pictures intended for the front cover should be in portrait format. Please telephone if you need help or advice: Peter (734591), Paul (732617), Jane (732456). WHERE TO SEND IT Hard-copy contributions should be sent to The Editors c/o Tree Tops, Moor Close Lane, Over Kellet, LA6 1DF; electronic ones to the e-mail address: [email protected] DEADLINE For each issue the closing date for contributions is the fifteenth of the previous month, but earlier submissions are always welcome. ADVERTISING Please e-mail us at [email protected] for an advertising style sheet, rates and guidance. We are unable to offer a design service and will only accept material electronically. DISCLAIMER The views expressed in this magazine are those of the contributors and not necessarily those of either the Editorial and/or Management Board. Every care is taken to provide accurate information, particularly in the Village Listings, Directory and Local Services. We apologise for any errors and would be pleased to have them pointed out to us. Over Kellet View is published monthly except for January and August; it is distributed to all homes within the parish of Over Kellet and is available for purchase at the Village Store. Each issue can also be seen in a colour version on the Over Kellet village website www.overkellet.org We are grateful to Gordon Galloway, the webmaster, for his expert help. ©2019 Over Kellet View, Tree Tops, Moor Close Lane [email protected] Find us on overkelletview Printed by Bay Typesetters, Morecambe Tel: 01524 850056, 07710 405864 [email protected] 2 The February View New Year – New Futures The New Year brought a number of initiatives and developments to Over Kellet. The Eagles Head was sold to Trust Inns Ltd on 1st October, after being part of the Mitchell’s of Lancaster estate for more than thirty-five years. As our article on page 24 explains, the sale occurred just in time; Mitchell’s went into administration on 13th December and the premises remaining within their ownership face an uncertain future until a buyer can be found. Trust Inns intend to put money into improving our village pub and painters and decorators are at work as I write (in mid January). More work will take place in February requiring the closure of the pub for a few weeks – check with The Eagles Head for the precise dates. Information about the work of the Parish Council has been available on the village community website for a number of years. Central Government initiatives to make local government more open and transparent have resulted in money being allocated to Councils to set up their own websites. The new Over Kellet Parish Council website went live at the start of 2019. The aim is to make it easier for local people to understand what the PC does, what its policies are and, through interactive features, make it easier to contact the PC and to report concerns to the appropriate authority. On page 19 we review what the site offers. On page 4 we publish a job advert for our distribution coordinator which will need to be filled with some urgency. Please make this a happy new year for OK View by volunteering for this role. If we are unable to appoint someone to the distribution role soon it could significantly affect the future of the publication. Our future is in your hands. Either contact us at [email protected] or call Jane on 07968 723592 for more information. Peter Clinch Advertising in Over Kellet View Be seen in over 300 homes! Please contact Jane Meaden on 07968 723592 email [email protected] for further information. 3 Church News Our series of ‘Tough Questions’ finishes on Wednesday 6th February from 7.30pm to 9pm in the Village Hall. Our final topic is “Isn’t just being a good person enough?” People of any faith or none are welcome to join us for informal, friendly conversation. Our usual Bible study will then restart on 13th February and continue each Wednesday evening at 7.30pm in the Village Hall. All-Age Worship Service Alteration From February the pattern of services will alter slightly. All-Age Worship services will now be on the first Sunday of the month. This will include the Fish Club for children and young people from 10.30am. Refreshments for adults will be served during the children’s activities. Church Services All services start at 11.15am and will be taken by the vicar, Rev Paul Boulter, unless otherwise indicated. Coffee and tea are served at St Cuthbert’s before the services, from 10.45am. Everyone welcome! Rev Paul Boulter rd Feb 3 All-Age Worship (children meet in church at 10.30am) th Feb 10 Holy Communion th Feb 17 Holy Communion th Feb 24 Morning Worship (Rev Clive Duxbury) rd Mar 3 All-Age Worship (children meet in church at 10.30am) th Mar 10 Holy Communion th Mar 17 Holy Communion th Mar 24 Morning Worship st Mar 31 Morning Worship (Mothering Sunday) 4 Letter from the Vicar I’m excited about seeing my first spring in Over Kellet. As I write the first snowdrops have appeared in the churchyard, and it won’t be long before daffodils pop up around the village green. The late winter and early spring flowers are a wonderful reminder that no matter how long the cold, dark days have been, new life is just around the corner. Our journey through life can often be compared with the seasons. Sometimes we find ourselves in Spring, with the hope of new beginnings and plans unfolding excitingly before us. Sometimes we find ourselves in Autumn, when a phase of life seems to be drawing to an end. Even in the times of life which seem akin to winter, we can receive encouragements, like the pushing up of the snowdrops through the cold ground at the turn of the year. The bible is very realistic about life. It rarely glosses it, or promises an easy ride for those people who follow Jesus. The bible characters in the Old and New Testament experience the same problems as we do today: relationship and family breakdown, childlessness, loneliness, bereavement, illness and disease. So much has changed over the years, but the reality of life itself has stayed the same. The apostle Paul speaks of suffering as a reality of life, but that “suffering can produce perseverance, perseverance character, and character hope.” (Romans 5:3- 4). Sometimes we have to work hard to find hope in the midst of our difficulties and struggles. Sometimes it might be only a glimmer which we see faintly. But God wants to bring us hope. Just like the snowdrops, and then the daffodils, giving us a sign that even the darkest situations can be transformed and changed. With God we know that whatever we are dealing with, however hard it might seem, there is hope because of Jesus. Jesus’ life, death, resurrection and ascension offer us hope. Jesus knows what it means to live, to suffer, to be abandoned, rejected and to die. His death offers us forgiveness and reconciliation. His resurrection offers the hope of new life, both now and in eternity. And his ascension offers the hope of his Holy Spirit, sent to be his presence with us every day. “And hope does not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.” (Romans 5:5) Rev Paul Poulter World Day of Prayer Service Written by the women of Slovenia on Friday 1st March at 2pm, at Over Kellet Village Hall The School choir will be taking part ALL WELCOME For further details please contact Angela Halsey (732972) 5 Parish Council – December 2018 & January 2019 The December and January Parish Council meetings were held with a full turnout of Parish Councillors with just six and seven members of the public, respectively, attending. The District and County Councillors were unable to attend the December meeting but gave useful up-dates to the January meeting on planning and budget matters – see below. Planning matters New applications: There were no new applications. Application refused by Lancaster City Council: 18/01342/FUL – Castle View Caravan Park, Borwick Road, Capernwray. Change of use of fields to create an amenity area, a caravan display area, etc. The PC agreed to object to the present scheme for the same reasons as it did for a similar application that had been subsequently withdrawn early last year. The decision of Lancaster City Council was still awaited on the following application: 18/01207/FUL – Erection of two 2-storey houses on the site of the former chicken sheds off Kirkby Lonsdale Road.