The Village News March 2021 Edition
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THE VILLAGE NEWS MARCH 2021 EDITION INSIDE THIS ISSUE 1 – COVER 2 – PARISH COUNCILLORS 3 – STAFF & LOCAL COUNCIL 4 – COUNCIL WORKING GROUPS,COMMITTEES & REPS 5 – REVEREND MANDY Cover Photo 6 – ST EDMUNDS CHURCH The greater spotted 7 – KEITH NICHOLS woodpecker, courtesy of Sam 8 – LOCAL CONTRIBUTIONS Auger-Forbes 9 – LOCAL CONTRIBUTIONS 10 – LOCAL CONTRIBUTIONS 11 – UPCOMING EVENTS 12 – UPCOMING EVENTS 13 – PHOTOS FROM LOCALS 14 – VOLUNTEER GROUPS 15 – LOCAL NEWS 16 – LOCAL NEWS 17 – FUN & GAMES 18 – COMMUNITY GARDEN 19 – AFRICA ALIVE! 20 – KESSINGLAND LIBRARY 21 – KESSINGLAND LIBRARY / ENTRIES BEACH POST OFFICE, CIRCA 1920’S MARCH’S UPCOMING MEETINGS FULL COUNCIL – 10/03 @10:30 HIGHWAYS – 03/03 @10:00 PLANNING – 10/03 @10:00 & 23/03 @10:00 LEISURE – 15/03 @11:00 PERSONNEL – 22/03 @14:00 FINANCE – 24/03@11:00 EVENTS – 25/03 @10:00 1 YOUR PARISH COUNCILLORS CHAIR COUNCILLOR SID JAMES POSITION VACANT Tel: 01502 740521 Email:sjames@kessinglan dparishcouncil.org.uk VICE CHAIR COUNCILLOR DAVE BOYLE JULIE MCLEAN Tel: 07707201300 Tel:07539696904 Email:dboyle@kessinglan Email:jmclean@kessinglan dparishcouncil.org.uk dparishcouncil.org.uk COUNCILLOR COUNCILLOR ALAN GREEN DAVID MOTTRAM Tel: 07789644645 Tel: 07377624686 Email:agreen@kessinglan Email:dmottram@kessingl dparishcouncil.org.uk andparishcouncil.org.uk COUNCILLOR COUNCILLOR CHRISTINE COOK BARRY BURDEN Tel: 07592555345 Tel: 01502 742442 Email:ccook@kessingland Email:bburden@kessingla parishcouncil.org.uk ndparishcouncil.org.uk COUNCILLOR COUNCILLOR BILLY NICHOLLS BOB SAUNDERS Tel: 07584168200 Tel: 07901530770 Email:bnicholls@kessingla Email:bsaunders@kessing ndparishcouncil.org.uk landparishcouncil.org.uk COUNCILLOR COUNCILLOR IAN GRAHAM MARTIN DUNNE Tel: 07985462200 Tel: 01502 741945 Email:igraham@kessingla Email:mdunne@kessinglan ndparishcouncil.org.uk dparishcouncil.org.uk COUNCILLOR KESSINGLAND PARISH CLAIRE GOWER COUNCIL Tel: 07747441061 Tel: 01502 744367 Email:cgower@kessinglan Email:clerk@kessinglandp dparishcouncil.org.uk arishcouncil.org.uk Kessingland Parish Council Hall Road Kessingland, Lowestoft Suffolk, NR33 7PP 2 YOUR PARISH STAFF CLERK & RFO DEPUTY CLERK NEIL COLEBY SHELLEY HOGG Telephone: 01502 Telephone: 01502 744367 744367 Email: Email: clerk@kessinglandparish deputyclerk@kessingland council.org.uk parishcouncil.org.uk Office hours: Office Hours: Mon – Thu 9-5 Mon – Thu 9-5 CLEANSING OPERATIVES GENERAL FACTOTUM NIALL MCLEAN RUTH ORRIS PAUL REED YOUR LOCAL COUNCILLORS COUNTY COUNCILLOR DISTRICT COUNCILLOR MICHAEL LADD LETITIA SMITH Tel: 01502 724337 / Tel: 01502 512862 / 07714597994 07596812358 Email: michael.ladd@su Email:Letitia.smith@easts ffolk.gov.uk uffolk.gov.uk EAST SUFFOLK COUNTY COUNCIL www.eastsuffolk.gov.uk Automated payments 0300 7900509 Out of hours emergencies 0800 440 2516 Find us on Facebook & Twitter 3 PARISH COUNCIL WORKING GROUPS, COMMITTEES & REPRESENTATIVES EVENTS & COMMUNICATIONS COMMITTEE FINANCE & GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE CHAIR – D.Mottram CHAIR – B.Burden MEMBERS – D.Boyle, J.McLean, C.Cook & C.Gower MEMBERS – D.Boyle, I.Graham, S.James & B.Nicholls LEISURE & ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE PERSONNEL COMMITTEE CHAIR – B.Nicholls CHAIR – I.Graham MEMBERS – D.Boyle, B.Burden,J.McLean C.Cook & MEMBERS – D.Boyle, C.Cook & A.Green M.Dunne PLANNING COMMITTEE EMERGENCY PLANNING WORKING GROUP CHAIR – M.Dunne CO-ORDINATOR – D.Boyle DEPUTY – S.James MEMBERS – I.Graham, A.Green & B.Saunders MEMBERS – A.Green HERITAGE WORKING GROUP HEALTH & SAFETY WORKING GROUP CHAIR – A.Green CHAIR – D.Boyle MEMBERS – M.Dunne MEMBERS – C.Cook, J.McLean & B.Nicholls MARSH WARDEN – D.Boyle HIGHWAYS & FOOTPATHS WORKING GROUP ALLOTMENTS – B.Nicholls CHAIR – M.Dunne GREENER GROWTH – J.McLean MEMBERS – A.GreeN & B.Saunders HIDDEN NEEDS IN YOUTH & ELDERLY BEACH WARDENS C.Cook, C.Gower & D.Mottram NORTH – M.Dunne SOUTH – S.James KSSC – C.Cook CLEAN UP TEAMS – D.Boyle BENACRE & KESSINGLAND FLOOD GROUP M.Dunne KESSINGLAND IN NEED TRUST M.Dunne COMPASS SUITE TRUST COMMUNITY ACTION SUFFOLK B.Burden & M.Dunne C.Cook 4 REVEREND MANDY From the Rectory Revd Mandy writes about MOTHERING SUNDAY. There are some places that speak to our hearts very powerfully. For me there are bits of Hampshire where I was born, twenty houses and a farm in a rural village. The village has memories of my grandmother’s house, of cold winters and a fire, of security, of summers messing about in fields, the woodland and the lakes. Good memories, with a sense of community, belonging and being loved. In the same way, Mothering Sunday is about place, about knowing where we are rooted, what gives us life, how we are related to others with a sense of community, belonging and being loved. Mothering Sunday is a place for starting from and returning to, because Mothering Sunday is about the Mother Church as a place and the “Mothering” of those we love. Mothering Sunday began as an explicitly religious event of the 16th Century, with no connection to mum’s at all. The word "mothering" referred to the "mother church", which is to say the main church or cathedral of the region. Here in our Benefice of Gisleham, Kessingland and Rushmere, it is Kessingland that would be termed the Mother Church, simply because of its size and the geography of the people it serves. It became a tradition that, on the fourth Sunday of Lent, people would return to their Mother Church for a special service. This pilgrimage was apparently known as "going a-mothering", and became something of a holiday event, with domestic servants traditionally given the day off to visit their own families as well as their mother church. Today many of us are disconnected from our roots, from our mother place. Lacking roots we now have to find ways to make a place of safety and welcome for other people at a difficult time. Lent began on February 17th, and on Good Friday that will culminate in the crucifixion of Jesus. His crucifixion was one of three that day, and in his most difficult time and theirs, Jesus created the first Christian community even while he was hanging on the cross. There were others who were finding it difficult because of the horror of Jesus crucifixion, his mother and his closest friend. All four, through Jesus find a new place and a new hope. You see, even in the darkest moments Jesus comes to us and makes a new place of nurture and hope for us. We are all invited. All we have to do is, listen to him, as John was guided to take Mary as his mother and Mary to take John as her son, Jesus draws them together in community. They were all fearful, alarmed, traumatised, and Jesus draws them together in community. This past year has brough so much fear, alarm, many struggles and much suffering; how can we find consolation in and from that? Many people would say through our parents, often through our mothers. A mother is another who “Mothers”us. God is like a mother. Jesus(God the Son),like a mother gathers his people, and is gentle with us as a mother with her children. All love has its source in the immeasurable, wonderful love of God. All consolation comes from God, through being loved, and it comes to us abundantly, so that then, we can give it to others; As we share our MOTHERING love of God with our community. As we love the struggling through Kessingland Church foodbank, as we share the mothering love of God to our FOTO’s (Folks On Their Own), perhaps do another’s shopping, lets us start or continue to pray with and for them from a distance. Then we will find that we are deeply consoled by our own gift of consolation. Not so long ago your mother Church, appealed for the community to come together, give food, write letters, draw pictures, call each other.....Most of whom were filled with understandable anxiety themselves....the response has been overwhelming. The “mothering” we see is wonderful. Strangers responding to each other, mothering each other. Hope began and is very much present in these villages. It is through these small acts of “mothering” we make new communities as Jesus did with his mother and the beloved disciple; and bring about hope in a time of despair and sickness. Happy MOTHERING Sunday, TOGETHER WE CAN DO IT Revd Mandy Bishop Tel:01502 743154 Co Rural Dean Lothingland. Rector Kessingland Benefice (Gisleham* Kessingland*Rushmere) YOUTube: The True Kessingland Benefice https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmEt_FioJstFJO77-ZGV8Vg/playlists?view_as=subscriber Facebook: Kessingland Benefice - https://www.facebook.com/groups/639319923637673/ Website: kessinglandbenefice.uk https://www.kessinglandbenefice.uk/home-benefice 5 ST EDMUNDS CHURCH Photos: Left – St Edmunds Church, Kessingland. Top right – Gisleham Church, Bottom right – Rushmere Church. 6 LET KEITH LEAD YOU DOWN THE GARDEN PATH! March, and our gardens have started to wake up! Even in February, there were the odd signs of growth and in some cases blooms too, all the usual appearing to brighten the darkest days, like say the Daffodil ' FEBRUARY GOLD', and this year quite a few others in bloom end part of February and very early March. Also l have some superb Hellebore, like Helleborus ' Niger' the word Niger referring to the plants black roots. We treated ourselves to some real beauties this year as we were not spending money on petrol because of lock down, so cheered ourselves up by buying plants, bulbs etc. Aubrieta, is a very welcome sight on rockeries and hanging over old walls and between paving, Calendula 'pot marigold' never seems to stop blooming,, hence its name... referring to the calender, and blooming 12 months of the year, especially if given shelter or on warmer winters. Like the snowdrop, the Aconite is an early bird, with its green ruff surrounding a buttercup type bloom, a poisonous plant if eaten, I'd like a pound every time l hear gardening experts get the name wrong, calling it Aconitum, which is of course a perennial plant , called by its common name of MONKS HOOD, because each bloom looks like a monks cowl...