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What's on in Your Parish Seer Green & Jordans MAGAZINE October 2020 Holy Trinity Harvest Celebration Historic October Local artists 8 8 8 g 1 i z 1 8z 1 Parish Magazine i one pound g 1 From the Editors The autumn months offer us invitation to discover fairy doors in Excellent opportunities to reflect on all that has Green Wood. happened over the summer before We would like to thank all our we start to make preparations for advertisers for their continued Local Property the winter season. In this edition of support. Most of them are local the magazine we have details of the and often they can provide a local church Harvest Festival which this reference for their services which Knowledge year is supporting One Can Trust. many people find helpful. Thank you There are also images of some of also, to everyone who contributes an 36YEARS YEARS8 11 14 15 YEARS 3 15 YEARS 1 YEARS the scarecrows from the Seer Green YEARS 7 3 2 YEARS 1 YEARS 8 YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS 14 1 20 YEARS article. If you have any news please 5 YEARS YEARS YEARS Gardeners competition which were YEARS email us at editorseergreen@gmail. greatly enjoyed by children and com adults alike. Plus there are more book reviews and an intriguing Sue Puttergill and Andrew Westlake Next Month's Magazine Please send all contributions for the November issue to: [email protected] by 7 October. Diary dates for the next two or Our team has 164 years of experience three months would be very welcome. in property and an average of 7 years Articles should be 300 words max and photos should be jpeg format, at Ashington Page. preferable 300 dpi. Please note any items submitted may be edited for space, content If you are considering putting your home on the market, or style. call us now and speak to our expert team. Are you a subscriber? Sales 01494 680018 You can buy an annual subscription to this magazine for only £10 a year Lettings 01494 685518 (for 10 issues) and it will be delivered free of charge to your door. Please email: [email protected] with your name, address and Visit our website for an instant phone number and one of our distributors will contact you. ONLINE VALUATION www.ashingtonpage.co.uk Contents 10 Harvest celebration 15 Jolly Cricketers Award 11 Action on the climate 18 Crime reads emergency 22 Historic October 14 Seer Green School 24 Local artists 2 Parish Magazine Parish Magazine 3 Church and Community Organisations Thought for the Month Vicar Jordans Village Hall Office 10.00 - 1.00 During the warm summer mornings we experienced Cassa Messervy 01494 672496 Chris Jenkins | Booking Secretary 01494 875177 back in August, I thoroughly enjoyed heading off Licensed Lay Minister and Prayer Group Jordans Village Lunch Club walking around the local area and in particular the Linda West 01494 673821 Catherine Robinson 01494 873193 walk that was included in the May Parish Magazine. As the berry season began, part of the route Churchwarden and General Enquiries Jordans Village Nursery School Jane Spoerry 01494 677328 Julie Leonard 01494 875603 had hedgerows full of blackberries, and having Janine Dunnell 07525 322955 spotted these earlier in the week, one morning Jordans Meals On Wheels I remembered to take a tub with me to be able to Parochial Church Council Eli Merchant 01494 873471 pick some. Whilst blackberries aren’t a particular Audrey Hardy | Treasurer 01494 672592 Jordans Picture House favourite of mine, I know the children in my support Church Flower Guild Alan Sealy/Box Office 01494 873205 bubble love them so thought they would enjoy them Pam Britton 01494 678466 for pudding that Sunday. Jubilee Hall Magazine Distributors David Howkins 01494 857760 As I was picking them I looked at the berries Jen Lomas 01494 671281 growing on each branch and the difference in how Jenny Scott 01494 674081 Jordans Quaker Meeting House and Centre Alex Wildwood 01494 876594 ripe they were. On each branch some were ready to Children’s & Family Leader and SGKIDS be picked and some were nowhere near. Despite Janna Holder | Family leader 07764 490960 Seer Green Allotments Barry Richardson / Chairman 01494 673407 being in the same place and experiencing the same Scouts | Explorers | Cubs | Beavers conditions, they were all reacting differently and [email protected] Seer Green Baptist Church ripening at a different pace. Andrew McCausland | Minister 01494 677266 Seer Green Brownies and 1st Seer Green This got me thinking about the last 6 months and Rainbows Seer Green Bridge Club how each of us have experienced and reacted Irene Machin | Secretary 01494 676321 Carole Wharrier 07977 423555 differently to the circumstances we have found Eight O’clock Club Seer Green Church of England School ourselves in. This picture of the blackberries Monica Sado 01494 677851 Sandra Park | Head Teacher 01494 676344 reminded me that each one of us is dealing with our changing world in different ways, and that’s ok. Girl Guides Seer Green Gardeners Brenda Orr | District Commissioner 01753 887209 Philip Newton | Chairman 07941 215433 Some may be ready to go ‘out out’, to visit shops and restaurants, to go back to the office, others Jordans and District Rotary Club Seer Green Lunch Club may not be, and that’s ok too. As we continue Gill Roberts 01494 677281 Naomi Arnold | Secretary 01753 663305 to emerge into whatever’s next, the words Paul Jordans Horticultural Society Seer Green Parish Council wrote in his letter to the people in Colossae remind Emma Pegram 01494 874574 Liz Bates | Parish Clerk 01494 874233 us to “clothe yourselves with compassion, Shan Liu 01494 730312 Seer Green Pre school kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.” Faith Key 01494 870039 Kirsten Pole | Manager 01494 730060 (Colossians 3:12). Jordans School Seer Green Montessori School May the parable of the blackberries remind us to Hannah Bancroft | Head Teacher 01494 874217 Libby Wilson | Director 01494 672209 be kind and show understanding to one another Jordans Music Club as we navigate this new world together. Seer Green Village Choirs Marion Pell | Chairman 01494 872875 Jane Smith 07759 841205 Janna Holder 4 Parish Magazine Parish Magazine 5 Church Events | News those hard of hearing to hear well. This information is needed to We also need software so that we complete the gift aid claim. It is Church News can move between the ‘live’ service in surprising how often the postcode is the church and pre-recorded videos virtually unreadable. October - Gift Month Why do we need to do this? of prayers, sermons, or interviews. The envelope can then be put in In October we are inviting people The lockdown forced us to move What are the benefits? the green collection box in church to contribute to the Church for the online using a temporary set up, Anyone can access church wherever on a Saturday, or popped through online project. We need to raise which consists of the vicar’s phone, they are and at times that suit our treasurer’s door - 58 Chalfont approximately £6000 to upgrade the her 4G, and a ramshackle set up them. It enables us to broadcast Road. If you need your gift collected church building to be able to stream with tripods and screens. We have baptisms, weddings, and funerals for from your house please ring Cassa services and events online so that seen so many people join us for those unable to attend the service, Messervy, our vicar on 01494 672496 people unable to attend church can services both locally and from all which will be a long term benefit and she can arrange collection. access them. The church does not over the world and they have brought after the Coronavirus pandemic. If you would like to make an online receive any funding and is entirely comfort at a very difficult time, Special services like our November donation please check our website reliant on the generosity of those enabling people to keep connected. remembering service for those who seergreenandjordanscofe.org or who choose to support us. This So now we need a long-term more have died, Remembrance Sunday, speak to our treasurer Audrey Hardy support ensures that the church professional set-up with wifi in and Christmas services which may on 01494 672592. We will have building and a minister are there to the church and proper cameras be affected by the restrictions will be an online ‘Wall of Gratitude’ so if provide services and support for our which link into the sound system to available to everyone to access. It you would prefer your gift to be communities. ensure the sound quality enables also means we can run online coffee anonymous please let us know. mornings, and advice sessions with Thank you for the many ways you people like GP’s to support those who have supported Holy Trinity Church are housebound. There are many in the past and thank you for your possibilities and benefits. consideration of giving a gift for this How can I give? project in October. Gifts of any size would be very All good wishes, gratefully received and you can pop Cassa your gift into the orange envelope in this magazine. Please fill out the form if you are a tax payer as, because the church is a charity, we can claim gift aid from the government. When filling in the orange envelope please write the name of the taxpayer and the house name and/or number very clearly. The church online for a recent wedding 6 Parish Magazine Parish Magazine 7 i i g g z 1 z g z 1 1 g z 1 1 1 1 8 g 8 Weekdays in October Church Calendar - October 2020 z z Morning Prayer, 9am Tuesday and Thursday, Facebook.