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STOGURSEY NEWS ! November 2016 Please send email articles to : [email protected] Please put handwritten or typed copy in the News box in Post Office. Deadline for November Copy: 10 a.m. on Tuesday November 15th Editorial All contributions are welcome: This month’s cover photo of a hard hatted 21st century abseiler renovating the old church tower is a striking Put handwritten or typed contributions in the box in the image of the blend of past and present. Alongside Post Office please. Stogursey News Team reserves the reports from the regular Village clubs and activities and right to edit contributions for length & layout. firmly in the present is a fascinating article from Stogursey Please limit yourself to a maximum 500 words. Please School explaining how children learn about Maths. It supply your contact details so that editing may be agreed sounds much more interesting than it used to be. with you if necessary and if time allows. There is a look back at the success of the Stogursey Arts We cannot guarantee to repeat non-routine copy from one Festival demonstrating once again the “diverse nature of month to the next nor to adapt it accurately if adaptations our local talent” and a nod to the future with information are required. If you want repeat publication please send in about stirring Christmas puddings and Operation your text by each relevant deadline. Christmas Child. Electronic copy: This month the Editorial Team would like to thankLesley Flash for the work she has done as the person responsible Please send all emailed articles to this address: for the layout of the magazine. Over the past three years [email protected] she has steadily raised the standard of this publication and Please send them as document attachments to emails and we are deeply grateful to her. We send both Lesley and not as email text, and neither as nor including text boxes. Phil our very best wishes as they leave Shurton for their new home.We are very pleased to be able to report that Please do not use Word On-line. Attach a document, as Teresa Miller will take over Lesley’s role and we welcome above. Please. her and look forward to working with her. Editorial Team Do not include hyperlinks. Type out links yourself, please. If using illustration or pdfs in your contribution please be certain that they are free of copyright. Stogursey News will not be liable for costs resulting from prosecution if this Stogursey News is an independent voluntary initiative. It condition is ignored. is printed free of charge as a contribution to the community by Hinkley Point B (EdF). The News offers an extra page monthly for the use of Hinkley Point C (EdF) to Stogursey-Online.uk is the parish website; it hosts keep local residents well informed. The magazine is pages for events, societies, community links, parish distributed to every household in the parish by a team of council news and an electronic copy of the current magnificent volunteers. We are most grateful. Stogursey News. Editorial Team Distributors Distributors Aubrey Knowles Jane Cassidy Jackie Lucas Catherine Hawkins Catherine Hawkins Jan Ford Steve Stoneham Deborah Robins Joy Burt Teresa Miller Dick Blomfield Liz Dyer Paul Welbourne Dorothy Carpenter Paul Welbourne Dulcie Touchin Pauline Webber Stogursey-Online.uk Heather Hallett Peter & Barbara Oates & Anon E Mouse Jo Cavill Directory Jeremy Wilson Archive Phil Griggs Paul Welbourne Please send email articles to : [email protected] Please put handwritten or typed copy in the News box in Post Office. Regular Events MON Stogursey Fun - bumps, babies, toddlers 10.00-12.00 noon Victory Hall Short Mat Bowls 7.30 - 9.30 pm Victory Hall TUES Parish Council Meeting 2nd Tuesdays every month 7.15 pm Victory Hall Bingo Afternoon 2.00 pm St. Audries Centre Tennis 6.00 - 10.00 pm Quantock Musical Theatre Company 7.30 pm Youth Club WEDS Community Hub (Employment Support fortnightly) 9.30 am - 12 noon Church Rooms Craft Group 1st Wednesdays every month 1.00 - 5.00 pm Church Rooms Movement to Music (Age Concern) 11.30am -12.30 pm Victory Hall Women’s Institute Meeting 2nd Wednesdays 7.30 pm St Audries Close THURS Toddlers Group 10.00 am Church Rooms Bingo Evening 7.30-9.30 pm Victory Hall FRI Coffee Shop 10.00 am Church Rooms EdF Monthly Drop-In for details see Contact Page & Look Ahead Venue specific See details within St Andrew’s Church Junior Youth Cub 6.00 -7.30 pm Church Rooms for details contact Nicky Morgan Line Dancing (not December) 7.30 pm Victory Hall SAT Football - Men September-April Football - Boys September-April SUN for details & fixtures for men & boys football contact Steve Dixon 2.00 - 3.00 pm Village Diary November 1st Royal British Legion Bingo (details within) Victory Hall 7.00 pm . November 3rd FOSS Fireworks Display (details within) Stogursey School 6.00 pm November 4th EdF Drop-in Church Rooms 11.00 - 12 noon November 6th Giant Christmas Pudding Mix (details within) Church Rooms 12 noon November 8th Mobile Library (details within) November 9th WI Christmas Craft Demonstration St Audries Centre 7.30 pm November 12th Cheese and Wine evening Christmas Cottage, High Street Stogursey November 15h Poetry Group (details within) Church Rooms 7.30 pm November 19th Quantock Musical Theatre (details within) Victory Hall 7.30 pm November 22nd Oil Order deadline (details within) 11.00 am Future Events December 3rd Christmas Fair Church Rooms 2.00 -5.00 pm December 9th Christmas Fun Quiz Church Rooms 7.00 pm December 10th Beethoven Choral Concert (details within) St. Andrew’s Church December 14th WI Party Evening St Audries Centre 7.30 pm January 11th WI Sharing Knowledge - Knitting and Crochet St Audries Centre 7.30 pm January 7th 2017 Wassail - Bridge Cottage, Shurton 2.00 pm March 4th 2017 Twinning Association AGM . Church Rooms Stogursey April 14th-17th 2017 Visit of Twinners from Lonlay L'Abbaye Sirens: Hinkley Point A at 11.00 am November 4th You are now able to post local upcoming events on the parish website www.stogursey-online.uk Stogursey News is posted every month on the website; this can be useful if delivery of paper copy is delayed. Please send email articles to : [email protected] Please put handwritten or typed copy in the News box in Post Office. SERVICES IN THE QUANTOCK COAST BENEFICE : NOVEMBER 2016 CHURCH 6th November 13th November 20th November 27th November 3rd before Advent Remembrance Christ the King Advent Sunday Sunday EAST QH 9.30am 3.00pm 8.00am Eucharist Remembrance Eucharist (BCP) - -- SC NM NM FIDDINGTON 9.00am 9.00am 9.00am - Eucharist Eucharist With Eucharist (BCP) DB Remembrance AFT TS 3.00pm Shoe Box Service HOLFORD 6.30pm 10.45 11.00am 10.00am Evensong Eucharist With Matins Benefice - AFT Remembrance NM Eucharist DB KILVE 11.00am 11.00am 9.30am Eucharist Family Service Eucharist - - AFT with DB Remembrance NM STOGURSEY 10.30am 10.30am 10.30am Morning Praise Eucharist With Eucharist PC Remembrance AFT AFT STOLFORD Service to be - - - - confirmed STRINGSTON 11.00am 4.00pm 11.00am Family Service Stringston Praise Eucharist - - NM with TS Remembrance AFT WEST QH 9.30am 9.30am 9.30am - Eucharist Eucharist With Family Service AFT Remembrance NM NM Liturgical colour RED RED RED RED Year A begins & Readings 1st Reading Job 19: 23 - 27 Malachi 4: 1 - 2 Jer 23: 1 - 6 Isaiah 2: 1 - 5 Psalm 17 98 46 2nd Reading 2 Thess 2: 1 – 5, 13 - 2 Thess 3: 6 - 13 Col 1: 11 - 20 Romans 13: 11 - 14 end Gospel Luke 20: 27 - 38 Luke 21: 5 - 19 Luke 23: 33 - 43 Matthew 24: 36 - 44 MIDWEEK COMMUNIONS Date Time Venue Presiding Readings Wed 2nd November 8.00am WQH NM As per officiant Wed 9th November 10.00am Stogursey AFT As per officiant Brian Slade Withdrawal of First Bus Service 14. You will probably have heard by now through the press etc Sylvia, Alison and all the family would like to express our that the improved First bus service until 29 October 2016 thanks for all the cards, donations and good wishes has been short-lived. At the time of writing, after that date following the death of our dear Brian. They were a great there will be NO service to the villages between Minehead comfort to us all. and Bridgwater, except the early morning and evening bus, Monday to Friday during College terms. First states Sylvia would also like to thank all their friends who gave that the 14 bus has not been commercially viable. her lifts to the hospital to visit Brian during the last year. It has yet to be seen whether Somerset County Council We are so lucky to live in a village like Stogursey with so will take action on behalf of villages such as Stogursey. many caring friends and neighbours. If you are affected, views should be addressed to: David Fothergill Sylvia, Alison and their families. Cabinet Member for Highways and Transport Somerset County Council County Hall Taunton TA1 4DY We will remember them [email protected] and Hugh Davies, County Council Member for Watchet and Stogursey at the above address: [email protected] Copy to local Parish and District Councillors (see Stogursey News for contact details) and: Ian Liddell-Grainger MP 16 Northgate BENJAMIN WILLIAM GUNNINGHAM Bridgwater TA6 3EU Benjamin was born in Treforest, Wales in 1892. His Ian [email protected] parents were Thomas & Susanna Gunningham who were both born in Stogursey, but his father had moved to Wales to work as a coal miner.