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Theletcombe Register The Letcombe Register The Letcombe Regis Parish Newsletter January 2019 Diary January Mondays 14,21,28 7.30 - 9.00 pm Voices in the Vale (In the Pavilion on WI nights only) Village Hall Tuesdays 8,15,22,29 9.30 - 10.45 am Hatha Yoga with Beth Village Hall Tuesdays 8,15,22,29 9.30 - 11.00 am Ridgeway Handbell Group East Challow Thursdays 10,17,24,31 9.30 am Pilates with Rachel Lock Village Hall Fridays 11,18,25 10.00 am / 11.00 am Tennis Cardio Class / All ability Coaching Tennis Courts Saturdays 5,12,19,26 9.00 am Tennis - 1 hour Cardio Tennis Courts Wed 2 8.00 pm Book Buffs Greyhound Inn Sun 6 10.00 am Matins - lay led St. Andrew’s Sun 6 3.00 pm Film Club - special free screening - ‘Paddington 2’ Village Hall Mon 7 Greyhound Closed until Friday 18th January Wed 9 8.00 pm Film Club - ‘Lady Bird’ Village Hall Thu 10 2.30 pm Knitwits Mill Bank Sun 13 10.00 am Holy Communion - B St. Andrew’s Mon 14 7.30 pm WI - ‘The Yeomen of the Guard’ - Shaun McCormack Village Hall Mon 14 7.30 pm Photographic Club meeting (in the Warborough Room) Village Hall Wed 16 7.30 pm Gardening Club - AGM, slideshow and refreshments Village Hall Fri 18 3.30 pm Richmond - Tea Dance with Ron Barry & dancers Richmond Fri 18 3.30 pm Greyhound re-opens Greyhound Inn Fri 18 7.30 pm Bingo! - jackpot £100 - all welcome Sports Pavilion Sat 19 1.30 - 4.30 pm Nature Reserve Work Party Nature Reserve Sun 20 10.00 am Matins - lay led St. Andrew’s Sun 20 8.00 pm Greyhound - Pub Quiz Greyhound Inn Mon 21 8.00 pm Parish Council Meeting Village Hall Thu 24 2.30 pm Knitwits 9, Brook View Sun 27 10.00 am Holy Communion - A St. Andrew’s Sun 27 4.00 - 7.00 pm Greyhound Folk Club Greyhound Inn Thu 31 10.00 am Richmond - ‘Powernap’ recliner and adjustable beds demo Richmond Thu 31 3.00 pm Richmond - Reminiscence Café Richmond Holiday Waste Collections Monday 7th January - the Green Recycling bin and Food Monday 31st December - The Grey Landfill bin and Food th nd waste bins will be collected the next day on Tuesday 8 waste bins will not be collected until Wednesday 2 January. (On this occasion there will be no Brown Garden January. waste collection). February Sun 3 10.00 am Matins - lay led St. Andrew’s © 2019 Francesca Engelmann for Letcombe Regis Parish Council Issue 161 The Letcombe Register January 2019 Letcombe Regis Parish Council Bones, dairy products, vegetable peelings and all other cooked and uncooked food can be recycled; used to generate electricity for 9,000 homes and fertiliser for local The Parish Council wishes you all a very Happy and farms. Healthy New Year. The first Council meeting for the New Year is scheduled for Monday 21st January 8pm, in the Unwanted presents can also be given a new home through Village Hall. All are welcome. the county council’s Reuse scheme at all the Household Waste Recycling Centres (HWRC). This includes the newly In recent weeks a number of villagers have raised launched scheme at Dix Pit, near Witney. Before placing concerns at the very low levels of water flowing through the reusable items into the skips, speak to a member of staff for advice. stream along the Warborough Road and South Street. As a result the Parish Council has invited representatives of Oxfordshire County Council’s top-tips, to help reduce waste Thames Water to an open meeting from 7pm on 21st and recycle more during the festive period, are part of its January in the village hall where this, and the progress of Thriving Communities initiative. They include: the new pipeline, will be discussed. If you are expecting to attend please try to let the Parish Clerk know so that we Buying charity gifts or vouchers for events or experiences. are aware of numbers. They come without any packaging. • Buying your new outfit for a Christmas party from a As ever there continue to be a number of potholes on charity shop, and returning it afterwards. This will save village roads. The Parish Clerk remains vigilant and will you money, you’ll be supporting a good cause, and avoid report them but it is extremely helpful if you also report any the need to throw away a garment you might never wear that you are aware of - [email protected] again. (More information on electronic reporting of potholes can be found at https://fixmystreet.oxfordshire.gov.uk) • Many shop-bought decorations come with lots of non-recyclable packing and will have travelled thousands Whilst on street matters if you are parking on the roadway of miles. Why not make your own? There are plenty of please try to face the direction of traffic, and if you are online tips for anyone who isn’t an arty-type. having to park close to foot ways please be sure to leave sufficient space for pedestrian, including those with Home -made cards and presents are much more personal, buggies and wheelchairs. so keep the Christmas ribbons, paper and cards you receive this year and re-use them next year as gift tags, or Finally, a huge thank you to Francesca and the team of make them into cards again. volunteer 'posties' for yet another year of compiling and • Look out for Christmas trees that can be replanted, but if delivering the Register through all weathers to us all. yours can’t, take it to any recycling centre so it can be composted. Jeanne Lapsley Chairman, Letcombe Regis Parish Council • Artificial Christmas trees that need a new home can be donated to a charity shop, or if no longer in good condition, can be taken to a Household Waste Recycling Centre. Dreaming of a green Christmas? • If your recycling bin is struggling to cope with all the extra bottles, cardboard, plastic and paper, put any that can’t fit Residents are being given some simple tips by Oxfordshire into the bin in a clear plastic sack or cardboard box. Place County Council to help reduce the environmental impact of it next to your bin on collection day. festive waste. Don’t forget that your bin collection day might change due Christmas is a busy time for Oxfordshire’s bins – residents to the bank holidays. Check with your district council to generate nearly 2,500 extra tonnes of waste over the make sure you don’t miss it! festive period – that’s the same weight as 400 elephants... or around 25,000 reindeers! The HWRCs will close at 3pm New Year’s Eve and be New Year’s Day. Otherwise they will be open as normal from Oxfordshire County Council provides services that enhance 8am-5pm. quality of life in the community and protects the local environment. Becky Kenton-Lake, from Oxfordshire County Council’s Its Waste Recycling team works on initiatives to reduce Waste Recycling team, said: waste and encourages recycling. It manages the treatment and processing of household waste collected by district “More and more people tell us they are planning to have a councils. Oxfordshire has seven Household Waste ‘ greener ’ Christmas this year, so we hope these tips will be Recycling Centres (HWRCs) The nearest being: useful and help to reduce the huge amount of extra waste generated during the festive period. Drayton household waste recycling centre Steventon Road, Drayton, Near Abingdon, OX14 4LA “Reducing how much we throw away and recycling food that can’t be eaten are some of the easiest things we can Stanford in the Vale household waste recycling centre all do to help the environment.” Faringdon Road, Stanford in the Vale, Faringdon, SN7 8L For further information about recycling over the festive From turkey to sprouts, the county council encourages period, visit the website www.oxfordshirerecycles.org.uk/ residents to put anything that can’t be eaten into their food christmas caddy for recycling. © 2019 Francesca Engelmann for Letcombe Regis Parish Council 2 The Letcombe Register January 2019 St Andrew’s Church Letcombes WI The WI had a very jolly meeting in December, when we The weather could hardly have been worse as storm were visited by the Lord of the Manor of Sulgrave - a.k.a. Deidre lashed the country with rain and gale-force winds. Martin Sirot-Smith – who told us all about a Tudor About an hour before St Andrew’s Carol Service was due Christmas. This month we are expecting Shaun to take place, there were fears that few people would turn McCormack to tell us about the Yeomen of the Guard, the out on such a night. But Letcombe Regis villagers are queen’s bodyguard at the Tower of London. made of sterner stuff! The church was packed. It is one hundred years since the first Service of Nine Lessons and Can I remind members to look at the resolutions article in Carols was devised by Eric Milner-White, the dean of “WI Life”, and come prepared to vote for the one they like King’s College, Cambridge, following his experience as an best? And another reminder: subscriptions are due this army chaplain in WW1 . Our own service also reflected the month. Bring your cheque books along if you haven’t paid centenary of the armistice, with appropriate poems and already. music by English, French, German and Austrian composers. Friends Of Letcombe Valley Community On such a wild night, it was particularly apt that our thoughts went to those sleeping rough.
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