Open Gardens June 30Th 2013 Parish Council Fun Day July 27Th 2013
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The Seventeenth Newsletter has been produced thanks to funds raised from Village Events. A Full Colour Copy Is Available Via Email. Swinton Village Action Group 12 June 2013 Issue 17 Inside this issue: The Newsletter reserves the right to refuse or amend any advertisement or submission and accepts no liability for any omission or inaccuracy. From the Editor 2 Letters 2 Open Gardens June 30th 2013 Amotherby, plus the churchyard. News 2 If you are one of the Open Gardens we hope to make it possible for you to visit the other Articles 3- 4 gardens on the Saturday night preceding so you don’t miss out! Police Box 4 If you are not opening your garden, we do We are well under way with planning for our hope you will come and visit all the gardens Open Gardens, jointly with Amotherby, on and it will give you some new ideas for making Parish Council 5 Sunday 30 June from 12 noon – 6 pm. the best of your garden. Teas will be served in Swinton at the Bowling Admission is £3.50 to all gardens; accompanied Club and Community 6-8 Club, where cars can be parked as well. children under 16 years are free. Groups News Amotherby will be serving teas at one of the Any offers of scones or cakes for the teas will gardens in the village and cars can be parked at be greatly appreciated. Events and Adverts 8 the Village Hall. We can only allow assistance dogs into the If you are still undecided whether or not to gardens, so please don’t leave your dogs in your open your garden, it’s not too late , just give me cars, we hope it will be a hot sunny day! a ring and we’ll let you have all the details and Hope to hear from you soon, Jan Anderson include you in the programme. 01653 696544 We now have 6 gardens in Swinton and 7 in Parish Council Fun Day July 27th 2013 This will take place at the playground on Teas will be available in the clubhouse by cour- Saturday July 27th from 2pm-4pm. tesy of Swinton Bowling Club. Last year's entertainment proved so successful There will be burgers, hotdogs and a tombola. Colour Copies of the that once again this will be provided by Henri- Any prizes for the tombola would be much Newsletter are available on etta Rabbit in the form of a face painter, magi- appreciated and can be left with any of the the Parish Website. cian and balloon artist. following ;- Swinton Parish Website is Billy Bonkers will be bringing his bouncy castle Gail Cook, Angel House Middle Street available on the following Paul Cuthbertson, Pamanda, East Street link. http:// Matt Fenwick, Enfarmlin, East Street swinton.btck.co.uk/ Robert Harrison, 8 Pearson's Yard Victoria Farrow, RyeView, East Street To Advertise Peter Powell, Foxholme, Malton Road Contact Swinton News Letter Richard Davies, 4 Highfield Terrace by email. Just a reminder that there will be no parking Swin- 2012 Fun day facilities in the playground. Thank you in an- [email protected] ticipation of you support. Or Tel: 01653 697921 and music will provided by Swinton and Dis- trict Excelsior Band. Peter Powell Deadline for August Newsletter Articles. No Later than 9th August 2013 . Email us At. [email protected] The Seventeenth Newsletter has been produced thanks to funds raised from Village Events. A Full Colour Copy Is Available Via Email. Pa ge 2 Swinton News I ssue 17 Editorial This is our 17th edition of the Official opening. copies by utilising Email Newsletter since our launch in 3) Overflowing Drains delivery. If you are receiving a September 2010. Printed copy, but would like a 4) Dog Fouling Looking back to September colour copy sent via Email, Editorial 2010, we reported on the fol- The two areas that we have not please provide your House lowing items. seen any lasting improvements address and email address to in are the Drains overflowing your Newsletter deliverer. 1) Parish Plan Published, If any and Dog Fouling. new residents would like a copy Increasing the number of contact Jan Anderson. We also started with a house to Email copies will save on the 01653 696544 house delivery of the newslet- environmental impact and also ters, and have been gradually reduce the costs of producing 2) Swinton’s New Play Area reducing the number of printed the newsletter. Letters And News Anti Social Behaviour It also gives financial assistance The profit of £119.71 (which I have a complaint about two to persons under the age of 25 included a donation from the children throwing stones and who are resident in the Burger van which was in atten- swearing at my daughter while Parishes of Appleton-le-Street dance) was shared between the she was walking down the with Easthorpe, Amotherby, Sports Centre and the Reading village with her friend. Swinton (including Swinton Rooms, where four new chairs Letters Grange) and Broughton, to- were purchased. This is not the first time that wards their education or to The next Car Boot Sale will be this has happened, they were prepare them for entry into a also very rude and swearing held on Saturday 7 September trade or profession. from 8 am – 12 noon, again at and riding their bikes in the The Foundation also supports Letters Policy: the Sports Centre, so now’s the middle of the road sticking recreation in the Parishes. We reserve the right not their fingers up and not mov- time to start clearing your lofts to publish any letter. ing out of the middle of the Meetings are held three or four and garage for those unwanted Senders must supply road. times a year, and applications treasures. their name and address for assistance should be sent in Name and Address supplied. To book a pitch, ring Malcolm and be prepared to have writing to: Anderson on 01653 696544. them published. Mrs P Taylor, The Newsletter does not 2 Honeysuckle Cottage, Potholes RNLI. Lifeboat collection necessarily agree with Musley Bank, It was encouraging to see that any of the views In the Malton area £4061 was Malton, YO17 6TD collected, of which Swinton expressed on these pages. contributed £152.11 raised from collections over the last SWINTON VILLAGE few weeks. ACTION GROUP Car Boot Sale AMOTHERBY The most recent Car Boot Sale EDUCATIONAL was held on Saturday 4 May at FOUNDATION the Sports Centre on a bright the Highways Department The Amotherby Educational sunny, but a bit windy day. have started to fill in our many Foundation, whose origins go There were 21 cars and vans potholes. back to 1725, exits as a charity, and trade was brisk. Some of After a good start it would which is governed by the rules the sellers were the young peo- seem they have either run out of the Charity Commissions. ple planning a trip to Borneo of tarmac or have filled in only To provide special benefits for with Malton School next year the worst holes, leaving a num- Amotherby Community Pri- and trying to raise funds for ber to fill in and also West mary School. that. Grove to resurface? Deadline for August Newsletter Articles. No Later than 9th August 2013 . Email us At. [email protected] The Seventeenth Newsletter has been produced thanks to funds raised from Village Events. A Full Colour Copy Is Available Via Email. Pa ge 3 Swinton News I ssue 17 The Blacksmiths Arms very proud the pool team came fourth in Division B of the Mal- ton and Norton Pool League, thanks lads it was a great effort for your first season together as a team. We had 2 darts teams this year the ‘A’ team came third and the ‘B’ team came further down! Again, very well done to you all. We are always keen to welcome new members into our teams so give us a call or pop in and see us if you are interested in a fun night out! I have an idea it would be nice to see some of the ‘veterans’ in the village putting their old teams back together to either join the league or play for a charity against other veteran We have just come back from a well earned holiday with our teams what do you think? I am still keen to see dominoes played batteries re-charged and ready to go! It’s a good job too as we in the pub again so if you fancy a game give us a call and I will have a very busy weekend coming up both at The Blacksmiths put people in touch with each other it would be nice to hear Arms and The Lettered Board. We have Tapas Night on Friday that ‘shuffle’ again followed by the inevitable debate over who 14 June at The Blacksmiths Arms which is a total sell out to played what, when and why! date so we have scheduled further dates throughout the Sum- mer so everyone has the opportunity to join us. The dates pro- The pub opening hours are set to change very soon with a new visionally scheduled are 12 July, 16 August, 13 September and menu being launched at the same time, we continue to work 25 October. It’s the 60’s Music Festival in Pickering on the hard to try and make your pub an affordable place to visit so we same weekend and we have a singer on Friday night and a com- are due to introduce a Budget Buster menu priced at £5.95 per bination of a singer and karaoke from 3pm onwards on the Sat- dish.