The Ullenhall Update MARCH 2012 St. Mary’s newsletter Services for March Dear Friends, at St Mary’s Well, the season of Lent has begun. ‘Lent’ is an old English word that th means ‘Spring’ – therefore, in the midst of the traditional Lenten 4 – 6pm Holy Communion 11th – 6pm Evening Prayer discipline of self-denial we can think happy thoughts of springtime! 18th – 10am Mothering Snowdrops give way to crocuses, and crocuses give way to daffodils. I Sunday Service remember years ago dedicated residents going round the village planting 25th – 6pm Evening Prayer daffodil bulbs; we now enjoy the fruit of their labour. Thank you! Congratulations to Richard Hughes 18th March is a special day for saying ‘thank you’ to mums. It is also a & Suzanna Worrall who were th day for standing up for traditional family values. Along at the Parish married at St. Mary’s on 17 February. Church we are planning to have a special Mothering Sunday service at 10 am instead of the regular 6 pm service. I very much hope that you will Fifty Years Ago . be there to celebrate with us. Maybe you are already thinking about Ullenhall Parish Newsletter what to do on 18th March. It would be great if you included the new March 1962 10 am Service in your plans. Bring mum along and thank God for At a special ‘Pack’ meeting on Feb her...and give her a bunch of daffodils with our compliments! Or if, like 5th, parents witnessed the me, your mum is no longer with you then come along and remember her enrolment of the first recruits of our newly formed Ullenhall Church with thanksgiving. Brownie Pack. Smartly dressed in their uniforms seven girls received I love to think of the relationship between the adult Jesus and his the handshake of welcome into the mother Mary. There was more than a generation gap between them. Pack from Brown Owl (Mrs B. Keeves) and Tawny Owl (Miss S. Often Mary completely misunderstood Jesus and yet there she was, Procter-Smith). Mrs Keeves dedicated and devoted, at the foot of his cross. That’s the kind of love together with Miss Procter-Smith we want to see in families – true love and faithfulness often despite have also started a Girl Guide Company and they extend a warm everything! Come and celebrate! invitation to girls to join either the Brownies or the Guides. Both Yours, in Christ, groups meet on Mondays at the Vicarage at 6 and 7.30 pm, John Ganjavi respectively. th Did you hear the bells ringing on Sunday 19 ? The tower was visited by the Shanklin Ringers, a group of Priest in Charge: Rev’d. John F. Ganjavi (792570) Bellringers from the Isle of Wight who were on the last day of Churchwardens: Derek Jones (792999) their ringing tour. We were able to have all eight bells ringing, Rosemary Tisor (792352) something we don’t often get chance to do. Lay Reader: Malcolm Aldridge (794019) 10am Mothering Sunday Service on the 18th March “If I have faith that can move mountains, but have not Love, I am nothing” 1 Corinthians 13:2 Ullenhall Parish Council At our meeting held on 1st February Warwickshire County Council FEBRUARY 2012 MEETING Henley Library will move to Mrs Ann Runacres welcomed The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee - the Methodist Hall and open members. Monday 4th June 2012. It was on 1st April, although the th Our entry for the Queen's Jubilee agreed to form a local official opening is set for 20 competition is now under construction. All the Committee to plan for the event. April 2012 entries will be displayed at the Spring Council A meeting to be held shortly for There will be no increase in Meeting which will be on Wednesday 28 those interested in helping. the Council Tax for this year March, when the main speaker will be Adam Parish Elections, will be held in The development of Henson from "Country File". May 2012 Broadband in Warwickshire Our speaker Mrs Ann Davenport spoke about Parish Assembly 2012, will be has seen a £3.7m grant "Life as a Coach Courier". Ann works for held on Thursday April 26th 2012. awarded Johnsons Coaches at Henley in Arden, and Dog Fouling on pavements, A new fund of £70,000 gives also lives locally so is well known to many of some dog fouling signs to be aid to residents through the us. She has worked for Johnsons for 22 ordered. The recent prosecution Warwickshire Affordable years and seems to have travelled almost everywhere. Ann has been to Norway 22 of a man living in a local village Warmth Group - contact for times and loves it there. who allowed his dog to foul a information - 0800 9882881 footpath and failed to remove Warwickshire schools have On her first trip she was sent to Scotland but the faeces, highlights the need given good exam grades while she was buying tickets the coach and passengers left on the ferry without her! for more diligence from county wide. residents. The Warwickshire Armed Ann also told of her experience on the Christmas Tree , it was suggested Forces Community Covenant "Weakest Link" programme. She felt that she a tree be placed in the grounds gives funding for veterans in was finally voted off not because her answers of the Village Hall with lights. the area were wrong but because the other Growing Places is a competitors considered her too old. Up -date on Outstanding issues Government initiative giving A good talk, even though Ann was suffering A few of the bollards on the funding of £9m, on a loan with a bad cold! traffic calming to the north basis, for projects in the area of the village are missing, Stratford-on-Avon District Council Carole Holt and some of the reflectors The Core Strategy will soon are also missing. The clerk be out for consultation, one MUSIC FOR EVERYONE has spoken with W.C.C initiative being the growth of Wootton Wawen’s Diamond Jubilee Highways and they are to be homes, with the District events in June will include five replaced as a matter of Council looking at ; 35% in urgency. the S-on-A area,35% in towns, concerts in St. Peter’s Church under It was agreed to monitor the 20% in rural villages, 10% in the banner of “Celebrations and verges by current Jubilations”. rural brown field villages. developments. This includes an estimated 90- All will take place during the week The Mount Pleasant Road 120 units in the Henley area, sign has been knocked off including the market commencing 10 th June starting with the posts and is awaiting development. an organ recital plus strawberry tea repair. Also the White Pump and concluding with a new Lane sign has been knocked PLANNING programme by the well-known Applications down. Streetscene are no “Armonico Consort” based on the 11/02664/ADV Crocketts longer using metal signs, Queen’s Coronation. There will be robust plastic is to be used Holdings Ltd., Henley Hotel, something for all tastes and ages. and the signs have been Tanworth Lane - Proposed replacement of existing signage ordered. Please keep the dates free in your and additional signage to be Chapel Barn, Church Road, diaries – if you would like a Ullenhall - alterations to erected. No objections raised. programme in due course please building being looked into by Returns Lech Kocon, Enforcement 11/01718/FUL Mike Tipping, 4 St. email with music in subject line Officer. Mark’s Close, Ullenhall - to:[email protected] Yew Tree Farm, Perry Mill Permission with Conditions and leave your name, address and Lane, Ullenhall - demolition 11/02689/FUL Malcolm Aldridge, telephone number. of original dwelling being The Bungalow, Deans Green - More details later! looked into by Gary Moss, Permission with Conditions - TH Planner. NEXT MEETING - TUESDAY 6 The Ullenhall Update can also be found at MARCH 2012 ullenhall.net/stmary Contact Mrs. Pat Hughes (Clerk) - 792338 Dates For Your Diary On Monday 4th June there will be 1st March WI – 7.45pm Village Hall African Oyster Trust – Schools & Hospitals To Gambia events in the afternoon & evening to James Holden celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Contact Ann Runacres 797970 Jubilee - watch this space . 13th March Henley Flower Club – 7.30pm Memorial Hall Floral Demonstration “An Auctioneers Lot” Nick Grounds Tickets on the door £5 Contact Paula Pugh 07974640994 An Appeal 20 th March Henley Wildlife Society – 7.45pm Baptist Hall “Nightrider is an amazing cycling event with Spitzbergen – Laurence Kimpton 3000 cyclists taking to the streets of London Contact Dave Evason 793260 overnight on 9th June 2012. Join Practical 27th March Gardening Club – 7.45pm Village Hall Action’s 250 strong team in the event and enjoy the 100km route that takes in some of the AGM – Cheese & Wine Supper capital’s major attractions and sights, passing Contact Penny Stott 792251 the London Eye, the Houses of Parliament and th 4 April Ullenhall Friendship Group – 2.15 pm Tower Bridge. This is the third year of this Helen Glen from the Redwings Horse Rescue Centre fantastic event with more cyclists than ever and Contact Ann Harris 795576 our biggest ever Practical Action team. 5th April WI – 7.45pm Village Hall Practical Action’s work helps almost a million Antique Buttons – Yvonne Brown people across the developing world support themselves out of poverty. Bikes are just one of Ullenhall Village Hall the technologies that we use in Nepal. Here bikes can be used with trailers for transporting goods th 17 May Village Hall AGM – David Waller 794543 and also as bike ambulances, ensuring people 26 th May Bridge Night – Terry Hill 742878 can get the urgent medical attention they require.