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April 2013 Stibbington, Sutton, Wansford, Water Newton & Thornhaugh Living Villages April 2013 Stibbington, Sutton, Wansford, Water Newton & Thornhaugh Plants Posh Pooches Gifted Grooming For Your Furry Friends Specialist Clipping and Trimming, Bathing and Drying, Hand Stripping, and more All Breeds BIG or small Welcome Near Maxey Call Hannah on Tel: 07562499223 www.plantsposhpooches.co.uk Kit and Clobber Pre-Owned & Loved Clothes, Accessories, Sporting Equipment-From tots to teens +! See http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Becs- Kit-and-clobber or email Bec Wilson at [email protected] S K CONTRACTS Award Winning Builders & Carpenters Winner LABC 2009 Awards Family run business offering high quality workmanship and customer satisfaction with over 33 years of experience. • New House Builds • Commercial Conversions • Domestic Extensions • Loft Conversions • Stone Property Renovations • On Site Joinery • Orangeries • Conservatories 6 Old North Road, Wansford, Peterborough PE8 6LB Tel: 07970 700767 [email protected] www.skbuildersandcarpenters.co.uk 2 EDITORIAL CONTENTS April’s magazine includes rather more news from our churches than usual, with the announcement of Worship lists . 4,5 a new priest in charge for Wansford and Reflections . 7 Thornhaugh (p9), and a report from the newly Church news 9, 11 formed Friends of Stibbington Church (p11) on their News reports: exciting plans for the future. There is also news of the first in a series of community entertainment Friends . 9 events at Wansford church (p35). Horticultural Soc . 13 WI . 15 Crime reports have been noticeable by their RBL . 17 absence from the past few issues, but this month Communicare . 18 our Police Community Support Officer (PCSO) Lottery . 25 introduces herself and two residents who have been victims of crime report on their experiences(p20/1). Parish Councils: The support of our advertisers is essential for Stibbington . 23 maintaining the quality of this magazine, and for Thornhaugh . 24, 25 many, their current advertising year is drawing to a Wansford . 27 close. Our Advertising Manager, Carole Whincup will be very pleased to liaise with existing and new Special features: advertisers who would like to reserve space from Crime report . 20, 21 May onwards. Sacrewell Mill . 29 Our front cover photo of magnolia blossom was Nature Notes . 31 Younger readers . 33 taken by Charlie Brown in March 2012. This year, Wansford dig . 34 wintry conditions dominated the coldest March for The Home Front . 35 50 years. Let’s hope that magnolia blossom, along Letters to the Editor with Spring, will soon be with us in April. 36, 37 And finally, congratulations to our young blogger Marcus on becoming a teenager (p33)! Diary Dates . 38 Rosie McDonnell Editorial team and contacts Advertising manager: Carole Whincup Tel 01780 783055 Editor: Rosie McDonnell Email [email protected] Tel 01780 783639 Distribution manager: Rod Sortwell Email [email protected] Tel 01780 783403 Regular features writers: Email [email protected] Reflections: Canon William Burke Reporter: Viv Thorley Local history: David Stuart-Mogg Tel 01780 782616 Nature Notes: Graham Blagden Email [email protected] Younger readers: Marcus Arnold Printing and collation: PPS/Print Photographer: Charles Brown Tel 01733 380809 Read your magazine on-line at www.livingvillagesmagazine.co.uk 3 WORSHIP St Andrew’s, Thornhaugh St Mary’s, Wansford Our churches exist to experience the love of God and to share that love with others. Date Time Location Service 7th April 10.00am St. Andrews Parish Communion Thornhaugh 14th April 10.00am St. Mary’s Parish Communion Wansford 21st April 10.00am St. Andrews Parish Communion Thornhaugh 28th April 10.00am St. Mary’s Parish Communion Wansford Every 10 am St Mary’s Wansford Morning Prayer Wednesday Every Wednesday Morning Prayer St Marys Wansford 6th and 13th at 10am 20th and 27th at 11.30am CHURCH CONTACTS Churchwardens: Stuart Foreman 6 Russell Hill, Thornhaugh, PE8 6HL 783220 Liz Kemp Bonemill Pumping Station, Old Oundle Road, Thornhaugh PE8 6NW 782333 Paul Tate 2 Yarwell Road, Wansford, PE8 6JP 782965 Alan Jones 10 Bridge End, Wansford PE8 6JH 783205 PCC Treasurer: Judith Rogers 1 Robinswood, Wansford, PE8 6JQ 783441 4 APRIL 2013 St John the Baptist, Stibbington St Remigius, Water Newton Please see table below for venues and times of services Date Time Location Service 7 April 10.15 am St. Kyneburgha, Castor Holy Communion Morning Worship 14 April St. John the Baptist, 9 am Flowers/brasses Sue Stibbington Kudlinski 21 April 10.15 am St. Kyneburgha, Castor Holy Communion St. John the Baptist, Holy Communion 28 April 10.15 am Stibbington Flowers/brasses Carol Lindsay 5 May As for 7 April For weddings and baptisms or the arrangement of Holy Communion for the sick or housebound please contact Canon William Burke on 01733 380244 or email [email protected] or contact the Parish Office on [email protected] Services in All Saints, Elton take place on the first and third Sunday of each month at 9.15 am CHURCH WARDENS St. John the Baptist, Stibbington Richard Winfrey 01780 782431 Carol Lindsay 01780 782338 5 ANNA FORBES WANSFORD HAIR & BEAUTY COMMUNITY HALL Peterborough Road, Wansford Ladies and Gents hairdressing in the comfort of your own home This hall accommodates parties of up to HAIR EXTENSIONS 36 people seated. Ideal for Meetings, Workshops, Aerobics etc CUT & BLOWDRY, COLOURING FACIALS, WAXING & MASSAGES GREAT VALUE AT ONLY £4 per hour FOR BOOKINGS TELEPHONE TEL: 01733 891032 or 07743 087241 John Stannage 07879 485330 GOOD NEWS VAN New to the area: PAINTER and DECORATOR Free Lending Library of Christian Books, Videos, CDs 40 years experience Reasonable rates 2nd Monday of every month excluding January Free estimate 17 Russell Hill, Thornhaugh Call Jo on 2.30 to 4.00pm 07880907068 CONQUER TREE SERVICES All aspects of tree surgery covered: Pruning Re-shaping Felling Topping Hedge trimming FREE no obligation quotation — Fully insured Shaun Burnett (NPTC Fully Qualified Arborist) Telephone 01780 764049 Mobile 07905 317315 At Pure Health & Beauty we offer all aspects of Beauty & Holistic Treatments in our spacious, warm, luxurious treatment rooms and you will receive a free full consultation with every treatment. We also have excellent monthly discounts and offers. Contact us on 01832 272310 or email [email protected] The Old Stables, Church Farm, Main Street, Glapthorn, Oundle, Peterborough, PE8 5BE 6 REFLECTIONS By Canon William Burke CHRISTOS ANSESTE! “Christos anseste!” (Greek) “Christ is risen!” All the services throughout Eastertide (that is all of April and much of May this year) will start with this acclamation: “Christ is risen!” and the response “He is risen indeed Alleluia!” This will be a worldwide acclamation, called out in every language of the world. But there will be many places where the call will be made in fear, or secretly as the increasing persecution of Christians especially in many Islamic countries becomes more intense and brutal. There is no point is beating abut the bush in this matter; it is a well attested fact which many of our western governments try to ignore as they like to think we have all “grown out” of religion in the west. It is also true that the Arab Spring has become an Arab nightmare for many of the ancient Christian church communities of the Middle East and North Africa, some of which have their origins during the days of the New Testament. There is much misunderstanding, confusion and indeed misinformation about the nature of Christianity and its existence in the Middle East. The balance in these former Christian countries started changing from the 12th century as a result of forced conversions, wide scale extortion, forced migrations and massacres in some cases on a genocidal scale. Such statements may make uncomfortable reading in today’s multicultural society, but what I have just written is a widely accepted fact by historical scholarship. You may wonder why I should mention this now and how history can be relevant to us today I feel that there is sometimes a lack of gratitude for and a taking for granted of much that is important to us in our own country – a lack of grace in the proper sense of the word and part of that gratitude should include an understanding and appreciation of the roots of western culture in what is sometimes called the Judaeo-Greek Christian culture. Christianity grew and developed in a synthesis of ancient Greek classical culture and Jewish culture. It produced a culture that set great store on education, scholarship and learning but also on exploration of ideas, the value of the individual and the right to express oneself. It is equally important that we take the trouble to discuss and ascertain what is valuable in our cultural Judaeo-Greek Christian inheritance and have the courage to speak out in defence of it. Sadly it seems that many of the great institutions that would have been involved in such discussions are held in such a low regard (Parliament, the press, the police and the church all as a result of recent scandals) or with great degree of scepticism, that a prevailing cynicism undermines their role in our lives. My concern is of course that this cynicism or indifference applies to attitudes to the church on the part of many people. The church gets it wrong on many occasions; it is bound to, comprised as it is of fallible human beings. People have the right in this country to choose to support the church or not, but what we cannot do is just assume it will always be there, when needed or there to speak out on behalf of certain values, especially values we consider non-negotiable, about what it means to be human made in the image of God. The lesson for us can be seen in the Middle East where Christian culture has virtually been extirpated from its original home.
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