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Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine Issue 105 70 pence where sold Inside this Issue: • Welcome From the Chair • Ivinghoe Flower and Produce Show • Ivinghoe Pitstone Scouts, Brownies and Rainbows The Quarterly Magazine of Ivinghoe Parish Council The Team... Beacon Welcome from the Chair he Beacon Magazine would not reach your door without the kind CONTENTS hope by the time you read this we will be Thelp of the volunteer band of enjoying some warm weather after the distributors. Isnow this year. Many thanks to them all; Andy Welcome from the Chair 3 Thank you to the three people who Beezer, Les Hyde, Pat Roach, Geoff Neighbourhood News 6-21 replied to say they require/prefer the Karen Groom, Travis and Rob and Anne Cattle – printed version of this magazine, we just Chair, Ivinghoe it couldn’t be done without you! Ecumenical Enlightenment 24-30 wanted to receive your views, we will Parish Council If you have any skills that will help continue to have the magazine printed. Cultivation Clippings 36 us to keep the magazine going or you would like to submit an article, please School Stuff 42-43 Annual Parish Meeting – Ivinghoe Table Tennis let us know as we are always looking 16th May 7.15pm Ivinghoe Bucks County Councillor Anne Wight has for new and varied talents! Beyond the Boundary 44-49 Town Hall kindly granted the parish £630 towards an Sporting Scoop 52 The Annual Meeting of Ivinghoe Parish outside Table Tennis table which will be Council will be held on 16th May at 7.15pm located on Ivinghoe Lawn and available for Councillor Communication 56-63 in Ivinghoe Town Hall. This year because everyone to use. Table Tennis has many we have two new defi brillators in the parish benefi ts and engages people of all ages and we are pleased that our local NHS First abilities, we do hope that you enjoy socialising BEACON COPY AND Responders will be running a defi brillator and playing Table Tennis in Ivinghoe. ADVERT DEADLINES training session for us to learn some lifesaving skills. Thank you to the WI for their Pot Holes We aim to get the magazine distributed donation towards the Ivinghoe defi brillator. We have been busy reporting pot holes in around the beginning of every February, May, Everyone is welcome to attend this relaxed Ivinghoe, a Councillor counted 50 in Church August and November. To ensure your article evening and enjoy refreshments and an Road, Ivinghoe. Can you also report this Editor: Bridget Knight or feature makes the edition you would like opportunity to chat with your Councillors. direct to Transport For Bucks through the Tel: 07960 605393 please see the submission deadlines below: Bucks County Council website. Email: [email protected] Ivinghoe Flag Advertising Manager: Bridget Knight A special thank you to Brian Rogers for Village Tidy-Up 15th April Tel: 07960 605393 looking after the Ivinghoe fl ag pole and Thank you to everyone who took part in the fl ags throughout the year. Brian has Village Tidy Up/Litter Pick in April. Email: [email protected] August 2018 Edition – 4 July 2018 arranged for a brand new Ivinghoe fl ag to November 2018 – 4 October 2018 Design and Artwork: Laila Palfrey be custom made which should be fi nished February 2019 Edition – 4 January 2019 Bucks Best Kept Village Tel: 01525 222214 in time for our Annual Parish Meeting. Last year was our fi rst entry into the Bucks May 2019 Edition – 4 April 2019 Email: [email protected] Best Village Competition and we were Ivinghoe Lawn Railings highly commended. This year we have BEACON MAGAZINE ADVERTISING RATES: We are very pleased to have received entered again, and we would like to remind funding from the AVDC New Homes Bonus everyone to make an extra effort to help 1/4 page £58 per year NB: Rates are for 4 editions. to fund new estate railings around the keep the village looking lovely and litter 1/3 page £65 per year Lawn, these will look very similar and will free during the judging period June – July. 1/2 page £95 per year Artwork must be supplied replace the old, broken railings and make Please check in your area to make sure Full page £130 per year as a jpeg or a pdf fi le. the area safer and smarter. it’s tidy and looking good, especially u 2 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine May 2018: Issue 105 May 2018: Issue 105 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine 3 BEACON COMMUNITY CHOIR 10TH ANNIVERSARY YEAR In order to celebrate the Beacon Community Choir’s 10th anniversary year, they will be performing two exciting works by two well known and loved composers. ZIMBE! COME SING THE SONGS OF AFRICA Alexander L’Estrange’s phenomenal fusion of traditional African song and jazz, Zimbe! is at times touching and moving, at other times funky and grooving but if you live in the High Street and Church Old School Road area where the judging takes place. We look forwardalways to the incredibly Ivinghoe Showup-lifting in . We will report the results later this year. September. Please see the centre pages for the show and entry details. Thank you Ivinghoe Lawn Hire to the new committeePICTURES and AT good AN luck EXHIBITION to New Terms and Conditions are available on everyone that enters. the website ivinghoepc.org.uk. Website With Lyrics and Music newly written and Composed by John Cameron, Pictures at Ivinghoe Flower Show – Please checkan the Exhibition website for 2018 regular is a new take on the well-loved Mussorgsky Suite, taking 8th September, Ivinghoe updates: www.ivinghoepc.org.ukinspiration from an eclectic choice of 19th, and 20th Century works. The variety of COUNCILLORS NEWS artistic styles is matched with a kaleidoscope of musical genres, from ethnic to rock, jazz to rap to a capella choir. As Mussorgsky’sIVIN composition,GHOE some P ARISH COUNCIL BEACON COMMUNITYmovements CHOIR are linked by “Promenades”, but this time jazz flavoured, with increasingly unsettling time signatures. 10TH ANNIVERSARY YEAR In order to celebrate the Beacon Community Choir’s 10th anniversaryBoth year, worksthey will willbe performing be performed by Beacon Community Choir, will feature the two exciting works by two well known and loved composers. Annual Parish Meeting & Children’s Choir from Brookmead School, and will be accompanied by Jazz ZIMBE! COME SING THE SONGS OF AFRICA Quintet. Alexander L’Estrange’s phenomenal fusion of traditional African song and jazz, Zimbe! is at times Annual Meeting of touching and moving, at other times funky and grooving but always incredibly up-lifting. Don’t miss this wonderful musical celebration, so look outIvinghoe for further information Parish Council PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION in local press and advertising. With Lyrics and Music newly written and Composed by John Cameron, Pictures at an Exhibition 2018 is a new take on the well-loved Mussorgsky Suite, taking inspiration from an eclectic choice of 19th, and 20th Century works. The variety of artistic styles is matched withIf a you kaleidoscope would of like musical further details, please contact [email protected]. genres, from ethnic to rock, jazz to rap to a capella choir. As Mussorgsky’s composition, some Wednesday 16 th May 7.15pm movements are linked by “Promenades”, but this time jazz flavoured, with increasingly unsettling time signatures. Both works will be performed by Beacon Community Choir, will feature the Children’s Choir from at Brookmead School, and will be accompanied by Jazz Quintet. If you would like further details, please contact: Ivinghoe Town Hall [email protected] Meet your Councillors. Everyone is welcome. JOYCE HALSEY Enjoy cheese & wine, cakes and soft drinks. Former resident of Ivinghoe, Joyce Halsey passed away on 2 March 2018, aged 92. Joyce and her late husband Ron married in Ivinghoe in 1945, and moved into one of the new houses in Ladysmith Road in 1946. They lived Defibrillator training. there until 2010 when Joyce and Ron moved near Oxford to be close to their daughter Jen. Ron passed away in 2013. Joyce spent a happy final five months in Oaken Holt Care Home, near Oxford. www.ivinghoepc.org.uk 4 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine May 2018: Issue 105 May 2018: Issue 105 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine 5 RikkIAbout in Dunstable, which Albert had previously found it impossible to justify the Trust’s differently. Whatever, we need to be managed, then in the kiosk at the Grove continued fi nancial support when it has philosophical. There will doubtless be Farm PYO before becoming a full-time been increasingly challenging to generate occasions when we wish the hall was still mother, wife, gardener and village stalwart. suffi cient support from the village and available, but there’s no getting away from Margaret will be sadly missed by her funds from bookings to break even. the fact that maintaining such a facility friends and, of course, especially Albert. The Ivinghoe Aston Village Hall costs money, and the Trust cannot justify I am sure you would wish to join me in Committee would like to thank The Leslie running it at a loss indefi nitely. offering Albert, Shelley and Julie sincere Sell Trust for its support over the last Would anybody like to write a brief sympathies. May Margaret rest in peace. 40 years. It is hoped that a new owner of history of the hall for the next issue, so NEIGHBOURHOOD NEWS the hall will be found and that the building that its contribution to IA life is recorded Ivinghoe Aston Village Hall, will be put to good use. In addition, the for posterity? 1977-2018 Committee thanks those who became The Ivinghoe Aston Village Hall Committee regular users/bookers of the hall and the Litter had a special meeting on 22 January 2018 residents of Ivinghoe Aston who have Only the most insensitive can have to review the last 12 months’ accounts and given their time to maintain and upkeep failed to notice the appalling look to the future.