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ISSUE 270 June 2017 SHAPWICK NEWS 1st Poldens Celebrate Somerset Day Adam and Brin Did you know that Thursday 11th May was Somerset day? 1st Poldens decided there was no better place to celebrate our beautiful county than by seeing it from the top of Glastonbury Tor! So armed with drinks, snacks, cameras and waterproofs, our pack of 19 together with leaders and some parents set out from Dod Lane, Glastonbury to climb up one side and down the other. We also invited some Chinese students from the Somerset Cultural Exchange Centre at Knowle Hall to join us.....not a match perhaps for the Great Wall but a significant landmark in our area. The cubs were tasked with taking photos along the walk for our photographic competition, which will be judged at half-term. Shapwick & Polden Cricket Club Alistair Barr The club welcomed villagers to view the new clubhouse on the evening of Friday 12th May and received lots of positive feedback on our efforts to date. There will be an official opening of the pavilion on the evening of Tuesday 18th July when the club will play a Somerset County Cricket Club XI as part of James Hildreth's Testimonial year. James will formally open the new building as part of the event. This should be a great evening and all Shapwick residents are invited to attend. As part of our ongoing project to continue to improve our facilities and the environment of the ground we have applied for a grant from Tesco's "Bags of Help" scheme. The money derives from the 5ps everyone pays for a plastic bag these days. We plan to spend the money on further improving the protective netting round the ground to save us all time and frustration looking for lost balls and reducing the risk of damage to property outside the ground. The grant application was put in at the end of last year but has progressed to the stage of being voted on in store. if you shop at Tescos in Glastonbury you can collect a blue plastic token when you pay and then put it in our slot in the Bags of Help display behind the check out tills on your way out. Voting goes on until the end of June and you can vote as many times as you shop there over that time. So if you do a bit of shopping in Tescos in Glastonbury please vote for the Shapwick Community Playing Field Project. Spectators enjoying the recent 20:20 match. Thank you to Fin! Due to commitments Fin Dawes has decided to give up editing the Shapwick News. Thank you Fin for the time you have committed to the Shapwick News over the past couple of years. Good Luck for the future. Volunteers wanted! Can you help out editing an edition of the Shapwick News? If, so please contact Sue Williams on 210749 or at [email protected] Shapwick Starlets WI Sue Sellick This month's meeting was our AGM and there is nothing like the lure of fish and chips to ensure we had a full house! Thank you to Amanda for collecting our order and West End Fish and Chip shop for supplying our supper. Well done to the Herons for winning the first quiz, who obviously know their food and drink. We have lots of exciting plans for the forthcoming year including setting up a Needles and Natter Group, a Theatre Group, a Days Out Group and a Walking Group. The highlight of the month has been winning the first round of the Polden Group Skittles tournament. We won by one point so commiserations to Puriton for being a gallant second. Bizarrely, we were knocked out by Puriton in the first round, by one point last year! Well done to Angela, Amanda, Debbie, Shelley, Sheila and Pauline. We will next be playing Woolavington in June. Fund raising events in the pipeline are a Driftwood Workshop, a Felting Workshop, Kurling and a Shapwick Starlets Roadshow! We will be joining Bridgwater Firecrackers on their next walk around Glastonbury, and helping out at the Bath and West Show. Courtesy of Shelley, we will be trotting down to Hill Farm Equestrian Centre, where they have purpose built, high quality equestrian yards, highly rated by The British Horse Society. And finally we will be limbering up for a zumba session in July. This month's competition was an Acrostic Marine Life poem: Sometimes when you are paddling, and the waves are lapping round your feet, Energy is sapping and you need something nice to eat. Always looks around you, you'll be amazed at what you'll find. Why leave the cooling waters, and the beaches far behind? Edible seaweed will be close by, sea veg to be exact. Eaten in a salad, full of minerals, that's a fact. Delicious and fulfilling, you will need to take a seat, Sit down and pop the bubbles as it will moisturise your feet! Next month's speaker is Nigel Garnsworthy, The Work of the National Trust in Somerset - Taking care of our Coast and Woodlands. Nigel is the Countryside Manager for West Somerset and will be talking to us about wildlife on the Quantock and Blackdown Hills, as well as current projects on the Holnicote Estate. The competition is a favourite woodland plant or animal (any medium). Come and join us at 7.30 pm Tuesday 13th June, Shapwick Village Hall. Sue Sellick 01458 210357 Parish Council Sue Williams Chair and Vice Chair— Brian Norris was elected as Chair for the forthcoming year with Ben Ruffell as Vice-Chair. Highways— Following concerns raised over the increase in the number of accidents at the Lime Kiln junction County Councillor David Huxtable is going to investigate what more can be done to make drivers aware of the junction. Housing Needs Survey— The PC is going to carry out a housing needs survey for the village—more information to follow. Lorries Through Shapwick— Thank you to those who have sent me vehicle registration numbers—in future please can the haulier also be named in addition to the registration number. Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2017— the accounts were presented to the meeting and accepted. A copy can be found on the Parish Council website. Audit—The date for the annual audit is 12 June 2017. Please see notice on noticeboard and website regarding electors’ rights. Date of Next Meeting— Tuesday 18th July 2017 at 7.30pm Shapwick Village Hall. VIRIDOR & SOMERSET WILDLIFE TRUST LAUNCH ‘VIRIDOR WILD WALKS’ TO IMPROVE PHYSICAL & MENTAL HEALTH, NATURALLY Somerset residents are being invited to get out and enjoy their green spaces as Taunton-based Viridor and Somerset Wildlife Trust proudly launch ‘Viridor Wild Walks’ - a set of three walks introduced to mark Mental Health Awareness Week The walks, which take place in Viridor’s core sites in Taunton (at Priorswood, Blackbrook and Youngman Place), encourage the public and staff from Viridor and neighbouring businesses to get outdoors and connect with the natural environment and their local green space, improving both their physical and mental health. Walkers will be able to pick up or download an exclusive wild walk card http://www.somersetwildlife.org/wildwalks.html which includes route directions and wildlife spotter guides highlighting some of interesting and unusual species that can be found – even in an urban setting. Letter from the Vicar Rev’d Rich Tweedy Hi folks, The General Election in early June will continue to occupy many newspaper column inches over the next few weeks. In recent years this has tended to put me in a quandary – which way to vote? In the 19th century the Anglican church was regarded as the Conservative party at prayer; in recent decades church leaders have more often been berated for left-leaning sympathies. In a recent letter to the churches, the archbishops wrote that “The United Kingdom, when at its best, has been represented by a sense not only of living for ourselves, but by a deeper concern for the weak, poor and marginalised, and for the common good… We must affirm our capacity to be an outward looking and generous country, with distinctive Choices, choices… this was a sign outside contributions to peacebuilding, development, the environment and welcoming the a church polling station a couple of years stranger in need.” ago in Edinburgh. Photo: Alan Ainsley Some journalists think the letter marked a shift to the right by the church, which seems strange when reading it in full. I think a more recent comment by Archbishop Justin is particularly relevant: “Christian faith doesn’t fit on to a left/right spectrum. You can pick bits out and say ‘oh, that’s very rightwing’, you can go to the next bit and say ‘oh, they’re a bunch of trendy lefties’, and you keep going to and fro. We’re not on the same axis.” Whatever your own political leaning – if you pray, then pray for the election, for wisdom for our future political leaders, and for peaceful relations with our international neighbours. Every blessing Rich Tweedy [email protected] Shapwick School Sue McAuliffe Four Winds Dora Watkins The Summer Term is always a busy one with so much to fit in before the A warm soft breeze brushes the branches whispering end of the academic year. Making music as they gently touch lovingly The hard work continues for all our students as exams for our older Like soft sound of the sea as it ebbs on the shale students begin. We wish them all lots of luck.