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November 2018 November 2018 THE PARISHES of BERE REGIS and DATES FOR AFFPUDDLE with TURNERSPUDDLE Reverend Canon Charles Masheder YOUR DIARY The Vicarage, West Street, Bere Regis, 2018 BH20 7HQ 01929 472883 November 6th Gardening Club, Strange, Bizarre and True Our Mission: 7th Mothers’ Union AGM and Bring and Buy 2.00p.m. To encourage awareness of the 13th Floral Group, Michael Bowyer, (Tarrant Keynston) presence of God through worship 14th Autumn Leaves, Hilary Foggo music and the arts; Fundraising Raffle for Children in Need To encourage everyone in the 21st WI, Christmas Sweets and Treats Christian faith through example, learning and spiritual growth; Our Vision: December To make Christ’s love To make our churches open and 4th Mayhem, Mutiny and Murder-successful search for wreck in Patagonia known in the world today welcoming to all, and supportive of 5th Mothers’ Union Christmas Party 2.00 p.m. and to live out his teaching those in need; 11th Floral Group Christmas Lunch, Athelhampton To challenge injustice at home and 12th Autumn Leaves, Christmas Afternoon A LETTER FROM abroad and to balance our care for 14th Pop in Performers Christmas Show 7.00pm the environment. 15th Pop in Performers Christmas Show 2.00pm YOUR VICAR 17th Pop in Place Christmas Party, Lower Hall 2.00pm My dear Friends, 19th WI, Christmas Festivities 100 years ago and the Great War ended at 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. We are often shown much on our screens and elsewhere of some of the horror of that conflict and yet realistically we cannot really begin to understand what all those soldiers and sailors – and yes member of the Flying Corps which became the RAF in 1918 – went through. This was to have been ‘The war to end all wars’. There will be very few people alive who really have any memories of that terrible conflict as one would have to be at least 105. So what is it that we are called upon to ‘remember’? Perhaps some would say we remember the events of the Second World War but here I am, well into my ‘pension years’ with no memories even of rationing, having been born in 1949, so even those who have memories of that conflict will become fewer each year. Church website: www.bereregiswith affpuddle.org.uk 84 1 November 2018 November 2018 I must admit that history is one of my special interests and I do believe that the past should instruct our present and future as we seek to learn the lessons of days CHURCH AND VILLAGE gone by. If the right lessons had been learnt in 1918 and afterwards, perhaps there would have been no WW2. I appreciate that is a moot point. ACTIVITIES, SOCIETIES, CLUBS, ASSOCIATIONS and CONTACTS Winston Churchill, though a wonderful leader in time of War from 1940 to1945, used to say “it is better to jaw-jaw than to war-war”. In 1920 the League of Nations was established to try and maintain peace but it was obviously sadly rather Association Contact Tel Address E-mail Meetings/Info unsuccessful. After WW2 , the United Nations has been, thankfully, more effective. So what is this ‘remembrance’? Is it about looking back? Take yourself back to Mothers’ Union Nancy Gibson 472105 15 White Lovington NancyEGibson Monthly. Turberville Court your childhood days and weren’t there times when your parents or teachers told BH20 7NF @msn.com 1st Wednesday. 2.00 p.m. you to remember to do something ? ‘Remember to make sure your laces are well tied, remember to do your homework.....’ So you see Remembrance is about the Mobile Library Dorset County 01305 dorchestermob Alternate fortnights Car Council 224440 ilelibrary@dorse park present and, more importantly, about the future as well as the past. So what is it tcc.gov.uk Mondays 9.20- 9.50 that we remember to do? Fridays 10.50 - 12.15 Neighbour Car Brenda House 01929 stockleyfarmpa Community run transport I am deeply warmed to see the way that, in recent years, Remembrance Scheme 471255 [email protected] option observance is for all ages. We can only hope that it remains so, well into the om future. Human beings often portray a lack of tolerance and understanding for Pop in Place Alison Bennett 472023 3 Rye Hill Close popinplace@g Weekly. Drax Hall those of other cultures – or even of their own culture. This lack of tolerance can be BH20 7LU mail.com Monday and Friday the beginning of war. We may well feel dismayed sometimes at the way that mornings politicians hold each other in such little respect and with an apparent lack of 10.00 - 12.00 loyalty but we have to ask ourselves if we are really any better in our daily life. Purbeck District Peter Wharf 472246 The Old Vicarage peterwharf@ho Monthly surgery. Turberville Councillor West Street tmail.com Court, Communal Lounge As we gather around our War Memorials on November 11th, let us look at our 1st Saturday @ 9.30—10.00 poppies and let them speak to us their own message. At the heart of each, there Bere Regis Pre-School 471334 Southbrook preschool@ber Providing care and education ‘Pebbles’ Bere Regis eregis.dorset.sc for children from 2 to 8 years, is the black button and our Acts of Remembrance will certainly contain an including breakfast club from h.uk BH20 7DB 7.45 a.m. and after-school club element of sadness, particularly for older people who remember former until 5 p.m. comrades who died. The most dramatic of colours is the redness of the poppy Rotary Club of David King 01929 Hyde Woods, Hyde david.king@gb itself and that is the colour of love, of thankfulness to those whose lives were cut Wareham 471087 Wareham, BH20 7NT pltd.co.uk horribly short. Please notice also the ‘stalk’ which is green, the colour of growth www.wareham and of the future. The Kohima Epitaph will be read out ‘When you go home, tell rotary.co.uk them of us and say for your tomorrow, we gave our today’. Perhaps that may Salt and Pepper Lunch Brenda House 471255 stockleyfarmpa Monthly, Scout Hut, 3rd Club [email protected] Thursday. 12.30p.m. awaken in all of us a desire to be people of peace in all our dealings with others. om Our nation, as has been said frequently is, at this moment, very much a divided Table Tennis for Adults Pauline Pitfield 01258 Mondays 7.00 to 9.00 pm Society. Let us commit to promoting respect for people of other opinions than our 839123 own and that could be the very best way to respond to the sacrifice that our military personnel have made in the past and who are willing to make today. Twinning Association Jackie Ahern 07876 Jackie.ahern@hot Meetings and events 577012 mal.co.uk arranged as and when. Jesus himself spoke of his own great sacrifice that he would make in dying on the cross when he said “Greater love has no one than this that people lay down their W.I. (Bere Regis) Mrs Dian Pitts 471322 pitts.dian Monthly, Bere Regis Sports lives for their friends” (John 15:13). He above all is the one who shows us the power @gmail.com Club of loving self-sacrifice....can we be ready to learn! 3rd Wednesday @ 7.30 pm Woodbury Hill Singers Mrs Kath Jeeves 471175 10 Turberville Court Weekly Turberville Court Your loving Priest and Friend Mondays @ 2.00 p.m. 2 83 November 2018 November 2018 BERE REGIS CHURCH AND VILLAGE CHURCH ROTAS Sidesmen ACTIVITIES, SOCIETIES, CLUBS, ASSOCIATIONS and CONTACTS Readers 4th 10.00am Mr Bates/Mr House Chalice Mr House/Mr Ward Intercessions Mrs Bayliss Parish/Benefice Association Contact Tel Address E-mail Meetings/Info 6.00pm Mr Gibbs Communion Bere Regis Scout Neal Unitt- 01929 Mondays 7.30 - 9 pm 4th Mr Smith 12th 10.50am Mr Scott and others Group (Scouts) Jones 472273 10½ or 11 to 14 years Scout Hut, Elder Road Mr Croom General or group 01305 18th 10.00am Mr Smith/Mr Croom enquiries Chris Gall 772634 Chalice Mr Smith/Mr Wharf Bere Regis Scout Kate Willis 01929 Thursdays 6.30 - 8 pm 18th Mr Croom Intercessions Mrs Pitfield Group (Cubs) 472787 8– 10½ or 11 years 6.00pm Mr Gibbs Scout Hut, Elder Road Mrs Cox Kingsbere Explorer Helen Unitt- 01929 Tuesdays 7.30 pm-9.30 pm. 26th 11am TBC Scout Unit Jones 472273 14-18 years, male and female. Scout Hut, Elder Road Bere Regis Scouts Andrea 472588 2 Old Barn Cottages andrealynnmar Hire rates from £7.00 per Scout Hut Hire Marshall or 07884 West Street [email protected] hour 226445 om Briantspuddle Book Jenny Beedle 471002 6 Bladen Valley, angie@ptalbot. 2nd Saturday 10 - 11 am Cleaning and Dusting Swap Club Angie Talbot 472483 19 Bladen Valley plus.com Briantspuddle Village Hall Cleaning Dusting Chapel Toddlers Suzie Gee 472484 Rose Cottage, Butt suziegtitus3v4@ Tuesdays - 9.15 a.m. - Group Land talktalk.net 11.30 a.m. at the 5 & 12 Mona Comben Gertie Miller Congregational Chapel, Butt Lane November Diana Ventham Claire Close Cyril Wood Court 1st Saturday of every 19 & 26 Bernie Lightfoot Sylvia Bayliss Monthly Coffee Stop month from 10.00 - 12.00 November Vikki Mayo Philip Robbins Drax Hall Lyn Simmonds 471528 3 & 10 Nancy Gibson Cecilia Clarke (hire) December Sue Steggals Dave Clarke Dorset County Peter Wharf 472246 The Old Vicarage peterwharf@ho Councillor West Street tmail.com Sanctuary Flower Guild Kingsbere Quilters Mrs Diane 472331 10 Boswell’s Close Monthly Scout Hut Edmonds BH20 7JE 1st Wednesday 9.30 am - 3rd Mrs Leigh and Miss Stone 12.30p.m.