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The Villager June 2017 Sherbornes and Pamber 1 04412_Villager_July2012:19191_Villager_Oct07 2/7/12 17:08 Page 40 2 Editorial the Villager CONTACTS Editor: Would it be possible to remind villagers that it is inconsiderate to have a Julie Crawley bonfire during the day. Thank you 01256 851003 [email protected] As our villages are so local to Basingstoke Hospital and in North Hampshire, I wondered how many people know about the new Ark Cancer Advertisements: Treatment Centre to be built in North Hampshire www.arkcancercharity.org.uk ? Emma Foreman Listening to Mr Merv Rees, a cancer surgeon from Basingstoke, give a very strong 01256 889215/07747 015494 and moving speech with regards to cancer and how it will effect one in three of us [email protected] who was present in that room, it really hit home! Also the many people you have known who have gone through the dramatic experience. In brief, once people have cancer they have to go for treatment, and the nearest treatment centres are Distribution: Southampton and Guildford for radiotherapy - this can mean a journey every day George Rust for up to six weeks when patients are feeling unwell and vulnerable. 01256 850413 [email protected] So I thought, right, let’s get off my back side and do something to help this worthy cause! On the back of riding the London to Brighton last year, this year on July 12th -15thJuly I will be riding from the Ark to L’Arc de Future Events: Triomphe (Basingstoke to Paris) in aid of the new Ark Cancer Centre. Lindsay Berry The new centre will take on an approach to ensure that all support services 01256 850495 and complementary therapies are available alongside the chemotherapy and [email protected] radiotherapy treatments in one unique local cancer centre. For the last few years Mr Rees has worked painstakingly and tirelessly to get a Pamber Correspondent: site and planning to build this treatment centre in North Hampshire, but to do so Ann Ellis the Charity has to raise £5 million pounds on their own. Please can you consider [email protected] helping me to help others by donating to this really worthy cause. Here is a link to our Just Giving page http://www.bike4cancer.org/Ark-to-Arc-2017-perry-champion Be part of knowing you helped! Kind regards Perry Champion Contents Future Events 4 Rev. John Hamilton 6 Perry with Mark Jones of the Ark Cancer Centre Church Services 7 Parish Council Reports 9, 10, 11 Our Schools 18, 19 Whilst we are happy to publish items and opinions in this magazine it should be noted that the views expressed by the contributors are not necessarily endorsed by the Editorial team. Readers should also make their own enquiries about, and Local Events & issues assessment of, claims and services made by advertisers in this magazine. 13, 21, 23, 25, 27, 28, 29 Contact us at [email protected] Bert’s Blog 27 Cover: Julie Crawley Legal Issues 31 3 Future Events June 2017 5 Pelican Film Society, Queen of Katwe, The Ark Conference Centre, Guests welcome £6 7.30pm 6 SSJ Women’s Fellowship, Stained Glass SSJ Village Hall 2.00pm 12 60+ Coffee Morning at SSJ Village Hall 10.00-11.30am 17 Sherborne St John Village Fete 26 60+ Coffee Morning at SSJ Village Hall 10.00-11.30am 26 Sherborne St John Parish Council Meeting, Chute Pavilion. (Planning meeting 7pm) 7.30pm July 2017 3 Pelican Film Society, Suite Francaise, The Ark Conference Centre, Guests welcome £6 7.30pm 4 SSJ Women’s Fellowship Strawberry Tea SSJ Village Hall 2.00pm 8 SSJ Village Party CREAM TEAS FROM 3PM 3.30pm onwards 10 60+ Coffee Morning at SSJ Village Hall 10.00-11.30am 24 60+ Coffee Morning at SSJ Village Hall 10.00-11.30am 24 Sherborne St John Parish Council Meeting, Chute Pavilion. (Planning meeting 7pm) 7.30pm August 2017 1 SSJ Women’s Fellowship ‘Where & What is That in Hampshire’ SSJ Village Hall 2.00pm 7 60+ Coffee Morning at SSJ Village Hall 10.00-11.30am 21 60+ Coffee Morning at SSJ Village Hall 10.00-11.30am September 2017 4 60+ Coffee Morning at SSJ Village Hall 10.00-11.30am 4 Pelican Film Society, Sully, The Ark Conference Centre, Guests welcome £6 7.30pm 5 SSJ Women’s Fellowship - Annual Outing Location to be advised 16-24 Sherborne St John Village Scarecrow Competition 18 60+ Coffee Morning at SSJ Village Hall 10.00-11.30am 25 Sherborne St John Parish Council Meeting, Chute Pavilion. (Planning meeting 7pm) 7.30pm October 2017 2 60+ Coffee Morning at SSJ Village Hall 10.00-11.30am 2 Pelican Film Society, The Eagle Huntress, The Ark Conference Centre, Guests welcome £6 7..30pm 3 SSJ Women’s Fellowship ‘A Year in the Life of a New Forest Pony’ SSJ Village Hall 2.00pm 7 Dads and Tots, Sherborne St John Village Hall, £2 per family, Tel. Scott 416272 8.00 – 9.30am 16 60+ Coffee Morning at SSJ Village Hall 10.00-11.30am 23 Sherborne St John Parish Council Meeting, Chute Pavilion. (Planning meeting 7pm) 7.30pm 30 60+ Coffee Morning at SSJ Village Hall 10.00-11.30am November 2017 6 Pelican Film Society, Lion, The Ark Conference Centre, Guests welcome £6 7.30pm 7 SSJ Women’s Fellowship ‘The Miracle Flower’ SSJ Village Hall 2.00pm 13 60+ Coffee Morning at SSJ Village Hall 10.00-11.30am 27 60+ Coffee Morning at SSJ Village Hall 10.00-11.30am 27 Sherborne St John Parish Council Meeting, Chute Pavilion. (Planning meeting 7pm) 7.30pm 4 “Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, The SSJ and I laugh at them whenever I can” – Jane Austen 'RQ·WPLVV Neighbourhood Plan )ROOLHVDQG1RQVHQVH SUHVHQWHGE\WKHODGLHVYRFDOWULR The Neighbourhood Plan %HOO%HOOH&DQWH&DQWH&DQWRR Referendum (under the control of the BDBC Electoral Department) was held on 4th May. Voting was organised alongside elections for a new County Councillor and was %HOOH&DQWRZLOOKDYH\RXODXJKLQJFU\LQJDQGWDSSLQJ\RXUWRHV WRWKHLUH[FLWLQJPL[RIKDSS\URPDQWLFDQGVKRZVRQJV strictly controlled. DOOLQWURGXFHGE\VKRUWUHDGLQJVIURPWKHZRUNVRI-DQH$XVWHQ 3RSLQDIWHUZRUNRUDIWHUDVKRSSLQJVSUHH The turn-out was 58% and the vote: :HGQHVGD\VW-XQ:HGQHVGD\VW-XQHH Yes - to adopt the Neighbourhood Plan: SPSPSPDKHDUW\EXWHOHJDQWDIWHUQRRQWHDSP 346 SPSPSPSP´)ROOLHVDQG1RQVHQVHµFRQFHUWSP No – to reject the Neighbourhood Plan LQWKHEHDXWLIXOVXUURXQGLQJVRIRQHRIWKHROGHVWEXLOGLQJVLQ%DVLQJVWRNH Plan: 242 &KXUFK&RWWDJH A majority of 104 in favour of the Plan. EHKLQG6W0LFKDHO·V&KXUFKLQWKHWRZQFHQWUH &KXUFK/DQH%DVLQJVWRNH5*4: Following this success at Referendum, the )UHHDGPLVVLRQEXWGRQDWLRQVUHTXHVWHGIRUUHIUHVKPHQWV 3URILWVWR´-DQH·V)XQGµUHVWRULQJ-DQH$XVWHQ·VKRXVH Plan now takes on “full material weight Which Jane Austen heroine was “So in Love” and who “Caint say No” And who was “Putting on the Ritz” for (planning) decision-making purposes”. Come along and find out! ZZZEHOOHFDQWRXN ZZZIDFHERRNFRPEHOOHFDQWRWULR ZZZEDVLQJVWRNHIHVWLYDOFRXN It is expected to be formally adopted by BDBC Council on 18th May 2017. Thank you for your support! Julian Crawley for the SSJ Neighbourhood Plan Team 5 Church Matters June How many hours per week do you at Six” meetings called “Teach and And here are some disadvantages and reckon you spend on the internet? discuss”. dangers: And, just to narrow it down a little bit, Facebook was the first of the trendy Cyber bullying • Time consuming/ what percentage of that time goes on social media. When you join it you wasting • Fake news • Hacking • the “social media”? To define what I’m are given a “page” on which you may Faceless communication • Paedophiles talking about, the internet is the global post all sorts of information about you – grooming • Terrorism • Poor language network of “servers”. These are large and what’s happening in your life. You skills • Security & privacy • Information computers which store information also have a register of “friends” who are overload • Anxiety.......... (“data”) and make it readily available to sufficiently interested to want to read other servers which are connected with We went on to consider some things that info / see that photo or whatever them. These servers “talk” to each other, that it would be useful for us as you may be “up-loading” to your page. so that it is just as easy for me to find the Christians to bear in mind in our use Facebook sends them all a notification weather conditions on Table Mountain of the social media. First, they are whenever you put something new up so as on Snowdon. Provided I know the no substitute for real relationship. “I you know your “friends” are seeing it. right website to access that information want to see you face to face” wrote the Again it is clear the effect may be good (which I can locate through a “search apostle John, “so that our joy may be or bad, it all depends on the users. engine” such as Google) then I can complete.”1 Another thing is to be aware find the info virtually instantaneously. At our evening on this we asked people of the danger of misunderstanding – we Obviously such a facility has huge (who were sat round tables with a cup can so easily be interested merely in potential, both good and bad. of tea!) to list what they saw as the firing off our own response. We should positives and the perils of the social remember that “A fool takes no pleasure The “Social Media” are applications media. They produced more than 15 in understanding, but only in expressing (“apps”) of the internet which enable for each; here is a selection of what they his opinion.”2 One more, accumulating people to communicate with each came up with.