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SCommunitytretton Voice of the Strettons FocusFebruary 2007 £1 A Winter Day in Cardingmill Valley Cover Feb 2007.indd 1 11/1/07 14:00:38 STRETTON FOCUS Contents (founded 1967) News Average monthly sales: 1,450 copies. Morning After Walk/Run . 4 (About 65% of households in Church Stretton) Focus Weatherman Retires . 5 Town Design Statement Draft . 5 Chairman Mike Edmunds . 723961 Church Stretton School News . 11 Vice Chairman David Jandrell . 724531 Mayfair News . 15 Co-Editors Alan & Sue Cummings . 724266 C S A Partnership News . 16 Norma Taylor . 723617 SW Shrops Gardening Club Weekend . 19 Pat Oxtoby . 723199 Choral Society Concert . 27 Barbara Vickery . 724179 Bereavement & Loss Befrienders . 33 Gay Walker . 722257 Carols & Tea . 33 Cover Editor Yvonne Beaumont . 722533 Arts Festival . 37 Computer Production Barrie Raynor . 723928 Tourism Group News . 37 Rowland Jackson . 722390 Local Elections . 38 Tony Nicholls . 722003 Paul Miller . 724596 Forthcoming Events Distribution Jon Cooke . 723205 Advertising Graham Young . 724647 Acton Scott Gardening Club . 39 Treasurer John Wainwright . 722823 All Stretton Quiz Night . 39 Secretary Gloria Carter . 724106 Lent Groups – Set All Free . 7 Little Stretton Fun Quiz Night . 25 email address: [email protected] PACT Meeting . 38 Pancake Day Race & Lunch . 39 Advertisements Rates for block and occasional RNLI Fish & Chip Supper . 25 advertisements may be obtained (send s.a.e.) from the Advertising Manager, Graham Young, 30 Alison Road, Regular Features Church Stretton, SY6 7AT, Tel: 01694 724647 to whom All about – February . 39 copy should be sent. Catholic Voice . 19 Focus on Faith . 8 The Stretton Focus Management Board cannot accept Gardening In ……February . 16 responsibility for any product or service advertised. Letters . 30, 31, 34 Acceptance of an advertisement does not imply any form of approval or recommendation. Advertisers are required to Mayfair Lottery Result . 11 comply with the British Code of Advertising Practice. Methodist Voice . 16 Plant of the Month – Gorse . 8 Submission of articles Material on 3½˝ discs or CDs, and Recipe . 27 typed or handwritten copy together with unimproved digital Town Council Minutes . 22, 25 or good quality glossy photographs should be handed Thank You . 27 directly to Stretton Focus c/o Wrights, Estate Agent, Trivia Corner 39 . 19 Sandford Avenue, by noon on the date below. Material Trivia Answers . 37 may also be sent by e-mail to [email protected] as URC Voice . 33 an attachment by the same copy date. What’s On . 3 Where is it? (Photo Quiz) . 37 Disclaimer Stretton Focus prints a wide range of articles and letters. The views expressed by signed articles are Other those of their authors and not necessarily those of the Focus is Forty . 20, 21 Management Board. Green Transport! (Cover Article) . 4 National Trust – Caterer Needed . 4 Copy day is normally the first Monday of the month. For the The Volunteers of Church Stretton . 34 March 2007 issue it is Monday 5th February (12 noon). For The Winter of 1940 . 7 the April issue it will be Monday 5th March 2007. The March Stretton Focus will be distributed on Friday 2nd March. Outlets Stretton Focus may be purchased by annual subscription (delivered) or directly from Newsworld (Sandford Avenue), Whinberries (All Stretton Stores), Co-op, Longmynd Filling Station (A49) and the Churches. © 2007 Stretton Focus ISSN 1479-7356 The Official Church Stretton web site is at Stretton Focus is printed by WPG, Welshpool www.churchstretton.co.uk Cover Photo: Yvonne Beaumont Stretton Focus - 2 - February 2007 February 07 mag .indd 1 12/1/07 12:33:33 What’s On in the Strettons If you wish to know the times of regular meetings of ♦ Friday – 16th February societies and groups, please consult the list of societies Shropshire Wildlife Trust and their contacts in our ‘yellow pages’. Illustrated Talk on the World of Insects by Roy Mantle 7.30pm URC Hall. All Welcome ♦ Thursday – 1st February Talk and Slides by Tony Crowe ¨♦ Tuesday – 20th February ‘Church Stretton and its History’ Pancake Race 2.30 – 4.00pm Silvester Horne Institute. Admission £2 12.15pm from the Library. Entry 50p Chursh Stretton Methodist Network Group Pancake Lunch Speaker: Revd Joan Warner. 2.30pm Methodist Church Hall 12.30pm at the Parish Centre. Tickets £3.50 See Page 39 ♦ Monday – 5th February PACT (Partners and Communities Together) Meeting Flicks in the Sticks – ‘The Third Man’ 7pm Silvester Horne Institute £3 (£1.50 Children) Interval Refreshments See Page 38 7.30pm Church Stretton School All Stretton Women’s Institute. ‘Humorous Policing Incidents in the 60s and 70s’ by Ian Paterson. ♦ Tuesday – 6th February 7.30pm All Stretton Village Hall Mayfair Winter Talks Sue Davies: Stripping for Action ♦ Thursday – 22nd February 7.15pm for 7.45pm Mayfair Jubilee Room. £3 Church Stretton Methodist Network Group See Page 15 Slides of Paraguay : ‘United Under God’s Tent’ – Mrs Iley Hearle ♦ Wednesday – 7th February 2.30pm Methodist Church Hall Long Mynd Camera Club Talk and Slides by Tony Crowe Club Competition No 3. Subject: Open ‘Church Stretton and its History’ 7.30pm URC Hall 2.30 – 4.00pm Silvester Horne Institute. Admission £2 ♦ Thursday – 8th February ♦ Friday – 23rd February Church Stretton Methodist Network Group Farmers’ Market ‘Circle Dancing’ – Pam Rush 9.00am – 1.00pm Market Square 2.30pm Methodist Church Hall Church Stretton Senior Citizens Club Talk and Slides by Tony Crowe ‘Visiting China’ by E Johnson. 2.30pm URC Hall ‘Church Stretton and its History’ The Friends of St Laurence’s Church AGM 2.30 – 4.00pm Silvester Horne Institute. Admission £2 7.30pm in the Parish Centre (preceded by Evensong in the Acton Scott Gardening Club church at 6.30pm) ‘Trees’ – speaker Nick Coull 7pm Acton Scott Village Hall ♦ Saturday – 24th February See Page 39 Ceilidh – Dancing to The Melomanics 7.30pm All Stretton Village Hall ♦ Friday– 9th February Farmers’ Market ¨♦ Monday - 26th February 9.00am – 1.00pm Market Square Shropshire Ornithological Society Church Stretton Senior Citizens Club ‘Seychelles’ by Peter Carty AGM 7.30pm Methodist Church Hall 2.30pm URC Hall Fun Quiz Night with Ken Willis ♦ Wednesday – 28th February 7.30pm Little Stretton Village Hall. Tickets £5 ‘Poles Apart’- talk by Michael Leach, Wildlife Author and See Page 25 Photographer 7.30pm Hope Bowdler Village Hall. £4 (£2 child) ♦ Tuesday – 13th February Countrywomen’s Guild ♦ Thursday – 1st March ‘Life in Church Stretton’ – Percy Tarbuck Talk and Slides by Tony Crowe 2.15pm Parish Centre ‘Church Stretton and its History’ Church Stretton Women’s Institute 2.30 – 4.00pm Silvester Horne Institute. Admission £2 ‘Pictures in Harmony’ –images set to music 7.15pm Silvester Horne Institute ♦ Friday – 2nd March RNLI Fish & Chip Supper ♦ Wednesday – 14th February 7.15pm for 7.30pm Silvester Horne Institute Flicks in the Sticks -‘The Queen’ See Page 25 Tickets £4 (£2 child) 7.30pm Hope Bowdler Village Hall. ♦ Saturday – 3rd March Quiz Night – Teams of 4 - 6 People ♦ Thursday – 15th February 7.30pm All Stretton Village Hall £2 per person Church Stretton Methodist Network See Page 39 ‘My Adventures in Taiwan’ – Mrs Wendy Mackay 2.30pm Methodist Church Hall Stretton Focus -3 - February 2007 February 07 mag .indd 2 12/1/07 12:33:39 Morning After – Charity Fun Run/Walk Following a night of continuous County Air Ambulance, and rain, a dry sunny New Year’s the Severn Hospice morning in Church Stretton The event has now become witnessed a record 240 plus firmly established as one of the runners, walkers and dogs taking regulars in the fun running/ part in the 9th Morning After walking calendar so we look charity event of over five miles forward to our tenth event next for runners and three miles for year on Tuesday 1st January walkers. Immediately after the 2008 – so put it in the diary start the heavens opened and and start training now!! drenched those taking part. Publicity Officer John Corfield Within a few minutes the rains stopped and the sun appeared for Left: Church Stretton’s Ashley the rest of the event. The majority Wells crosses the finishing line to of entrants were from Shropshire. win the Junior Boy trophy. As in the past, the route contoured Below: Local family winners the lower slopes of the Long Nick, Megan, Alison and Mynd. All participants returned Matthew Coles cross the finish. safely to soup and trophy presentation at the Church Stretton Social Club. The fastest runner was the County champion, Mike James from Shrewsbury AC, in a record time of 28.52 minutes closely followed by Mercia runner, Tom Owens, and in third place, taking the first Local Man Trophy again was Church Stretton’s Ian Hughes. The first lady was another Shrewsbury AC runner and County Champion, Anna Bartlett. The second Veteran lady was Julie Cowley from Church Stretton and the first Veteran man was Church Stretton’s Andrew Davies (Mercia). The first junior boy was Ashley Wells from Church Stretton The first man walker was Ken and his son Adam Williams from (Church Stretton) and the family trophy went to the Coles family from Church Stretton, Nick, Megan, Alison and Matthew The organisers wish to thank the sponsors and the hardy walkers and runners for their regular support which raised a total of £600 which will be divided between the Stretton’s Greenest Form of Transport! The National Trust (as seen on the cover) Chalet Pavilion, Carding Mill Valley, Church Stretton We bought Tinker our Welsh cob just over two years ago. He was four years old then and had lots to learn about Catering Supervisor Required working in harness and in road traffic. Thanks to the kindness and patience of motorists Carding Mill Valley attracts many visitors to this area of around this area he has done this and has safely taken us outstanding natural beauty.