PARISH NEWS September 2015
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Summer Visits Gardens and Photography ...more inside Aley Green Pepperstock Slip End Woodside PARISH NEWS September 2015 Editors’ Notes Do you have an event to publicise or something you would like to say to other We hope everyone has had a good summer residents? Let us know and we will include it break. It hardly seems any time ago that the in a future issue. last magazine was being prepared for print! Below is a picture of Logan (Lainy Clark’s However we do welcome the month off in grandson) enjoying the baby swing in the order to spend time on our own activities. recreation ground. Lots of children have This month seems to be all about “people”. been enjoying Following on from birthday congratulations the playground last month there are a few photos from one during the of the 90th birthday celebrations. summer break, Congratulations must go to another well despite the known resident. David Kingston and his wife weather not Marion celebrated their Golden Wedding being as (see the article later in the magazine) summery as Congratulations to them both! hoped. One sad piece of news to report is the recent death of Brian Minnighan, former publican in 1st Woodside Brownies the village and father of Parish Councillor You are invited to join with us on Sarah. Our condolences go to Sarah and her Wednesday 30th September mother Jackie. Many residents will have fond memories of Brian—myself included. He at the Village Hall made us very welcome when we arrived to Slip End sample a local pub, prior to moving in to Slip from 6:15pm End almost 30 years ago. for a Coffee Evening Note: If you have any comments about the road changes and traffic calming, please with cakes and entertainment plus contact the Parish Council before the next a raffle meeting. in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support Later in the magazine there are a few photos Please give us your support from the School Summer Fair back in July. Pictures on the cover this month are from outings made by the Gardening Club and the Wear something green! Photography Group. 2 3 4 Slip End & District Neighbourhood Watch Community Projects Scheme - Carol Brennan is our Area Coordinator and Group (CPG) we always have room for more Street Coordinators. The Projects Group is here to be the Eyes and ears are important, if you voice and support for all the groups and would like to join the NHW please associations in the Parish. We meet on contact Carol on 07979 402847 or the second Tuesday of the month and [email protected] welcome any resident of the Parish. You don’t have to come along every month, Slip End Youth Club but your ideas and views are important The Youth Club has now closed. to us. Pop in, we are a relaxed bunch Numbers dwindled towards the and there is drink available! end of the season and other factors meant that we had to decide to The Good Neighbour close the doors. Scheme is going from strength to strength. More I would like to take this opportunity to thank Caroline, Martin, Lise, Ursula, Zoe volunteers have joined the team and & Sejal for their commitment and hard they are eager to keep up the help within work over the last three years. Without the Parish. If you are over 18 and need a them giving their time each week the hand with doctors appointments, club would never have lasted as long. prescriptions, lifts to hospital then give We will be discussing the them a call. Please don’t think that you future of the CPG at the are not entitled! September meeting. At this point I can confirm that I will be 07513 372 415 stepping down as Chairman at the end of this year. My Vice Chairman and Facebook Page— find us, ‘like’ Secretary are joining me, so if anyone in us and be kept up to date with the Parish would like to take on any of these roles, come to the meeting on information about the Parish - Tuesday 8th September at the Social Slip End Parish Community page. Club. The Parish website is a great Next CPG Meeting - Tuesday 8th source of information on clubs, September 2015, 7.30pm, The Social groups, local news etc - check it Club out at www.slipend.co.uk Sarah Minnighan - CPG Chairman 5 6 The Slip End of Yesteryear! Derrick Worsley—90th celebrations Ken Crossett has told us he belongs to a group on Facebook entitled “The Luton I Remember”. The group talks about Luton from years gone by and often post photos dating from the days when photography first started up to the late seventies. A few months ago Geoff Cox joined the group, Geoff was a photographer with Luton News and he has been posting a lot of very interesting pictures. The photo on the opposite page is a photograph Geoff recently posted, it is an aerial shot taken during the ceremony when Derrick and Josie would like to send their thanks to everyone who helped with the the then Transport Minister, Harold surprise party to celebrate Derrick’s 90th Watkinson, began the work on the birthday at the Social Club and for all the construction of the M1 on the 24th March friends and family who helped make it such 1958 - Inauguration Day. The marquee a special occasion. where the ceremony took place, is probably in the line where the bridge in Church Road is today. Stockwood House is towards the top left and in the bottom left, the roof of the lych gate at the Church can be seen. The photo also shows the old line of Church Road going down past the Church and the field past the trees of the Church, which is now the Peter Edwards playing field. The photograph is shown courtesy of the Luton News Archive. Thanks to Ken (and to Geoff). Does anyone else have any interesting old views of the Parish? If so let us know… 7 Dates for St Andrew’s Church— September Sun 6th: 10.30am: Informal Communion – Sharing God's comfort Sun 13th: 8.30am: Said Communion – Clean and Unclean Sun 13th: 10.30am: Morning Praise – Clean and Unclean (band) Fri 18th: 2pm: Woodside Care Home Service Sun 20th: 10.30am: Holy Communion – Faith of the Syro-phoenician Woman (organ & singers) Sun 27th: 10.30am: Harvest Festival Family Service – Rejoicing in the good things the Lord gives us (organ & singers) Little Stars for September Summer Holidays—out and about ; Please aim to meet up at 10.30am, meeting inside if the weather is bad. There will be activities for older children, so big brothers and sisters are welcome too! Weds 2nd: Stockwood Discovery Centre Term Time—at St Andrew’s: Weds 9th: Refreshments from 10am with a 10.30 start: Little Stars: Learning – Jesus teaches the people to pray Weds 16th: Refreshments from 10am with a 10.30 start: Little Stars: Celebrating our Queen's long reign Weds 23rd: Refreshments from 10am with a 10.30 start: Little Stars: Harvest – the story of the sower Weds 30th: Refreshments from 10am with a 10.30 start: Little Stars: Animals in the Bible - Serpent ************************ Little Singing Stars meet Tuesday mornings at 10am prompt 8 A Message from St Andrew’s Forgiveness is the means Dear all, by which broken relationships are healed Is good news, news? and community is I was visiting someone the other day (not restored, this is very someone in the Parish) when the news valuable indeed. Our whole experience of came on as Vincent Uzomah was shown the love of God is based on the reality being interviewed outside a court. He that when we come to had been stabbed by a 14 year old pupil him and ask him, he and the pupil had just been sentenced. forgives us. Vincent was saying that he had forgiven Forgiving others should the boy and that he prayed for the boy, be a natural response to being forgiven. It that he would become a changed person is the means by which we let go of our with a positive future being able to make indignation, our anger, our desire for a good contribution to society. However, revenge and begin the he recognised that justice still needed to process of healing and be done in a society – to send a message moving on from past hurts. about what was right and wrong, to protect When we forgive as lives and to give Christians we are opportunity for change entrusting the very right and human need and regeneration. for justice into God’s hands knowing that he knows all things and will be completely The person I was visiting was quite angry fair and right in both his judgment and with this interview and said, “That is not punishment, that he will be merciful both news!” and switched the television off. with us and with others who are open to Yet forgiveness is news, it is not the receive his mercy. Forgiveness in any norm, and Christians know that it is shape or form is news it is very good very good news indeed. news indeed – good news that we as Being on the receiving end of forgiveness Christians are very thankful for indeed is like being let off the hook, or let out of and we would love everyone to jail. It gives us a fresh start. Christian faith experience it in their begins when we realise that Christ lives. secured our forgiveness by taking on Every blessing, himself the consequences of our sin when he died on the cross.