Kingsdon Church Fete Large Congregation Expected at Church Service
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Issue 47 30th June 2011 Large congregation expected at Church Service On Sunday 3rd July a service will be held at Kingsdon Church at 11am to celebrate the life of Kingsdon School, which was closed on 31st May. An invitation to old boys / girls, staff and others associated with the school over the years, has been sent out and it is expected that between 150 - 200 will attend. Light refreshments are being served in the village hall afterwards. If you can make it, and haven't already done so, please contact Freda Curtis (840898), Norma Black (840727) or Penny Simpson (849193) with numbers attending for the arrangement of refreshments. The village hall will be open from 9.30am when the donations of sandwiches etc. will be gratefully received. There will be an exhibit of old photographs and the village scrap books. Photographs of Kingsdon School circa 1947 Outside the school are John Marsh (gamekeeper's son), Ruth Taswell? (pub landlord's daughter) & Joanna Neal (granddaughter of the old squire) .In the other photo are Ruth & Joanna again and Petrina, Joanna's sister with Queenie their pony - taken in the playing field. Kingsdon Church Fete Saturday 11th July and at least there was some sunshine between the Friday showers and the Sunday deluge. Nonetheless an enjoyable af- ternoon for all who attended. Congratulations to David (him with the shorts) Beswick and all who helped with the organisation and manning of the stalls. It was a very pleasant afternoon and an opportunity to have a chat with friends over a cream tea and catch up with the latest gossip. By the end of the day the grand sum of £903 had been raised. The following day how- ever, the continuous rain meant the Songs of Praise in the marquee had to be cancelled (Wally) Many thanks to all of you who through your time, effort, gifts and loans of equipment made the Fete such a success this year. Very special thanks to the stalwart band of helpers who set everything up on the morning and were there again to dismantle everything on the Saturday evening. (David Beswick) Kingsdon Sheep and Pony Breeders Success at the Shows At the Devon County Show Jenny Gamblin had the following results in the British Rare Breeds of Sheep class: Group of 3 - 2nd Ram Shearling - 2nd Ewe Lamb - 1st Ewe Shearling - 1st Adult Ewe - 2nd Female Champion 1st Champion Pair - RES In the Standard Shetland 4 years & over class- Barry Gamblin won rosettes for: 3rd with Boxleaze Champers and 5th with Oakgrove Baz-Bee At the Royal Bath & West Show Jenny brought home 5 rosettes with the following in the ‘Any other Native Breed class’ of sheep Group of Three Sheep - 3rd Ram, 2 shearer and upwards - 4th Shearing Ram - 3rd Ewe, 2 shearer and upwards - 2nd Ewe Lamb - 2nd There was also success for Barry when his pony came 2nd in the Shetland Pony Stallion & Gelding, 4 year and over class. Kingsdon Recycling and Kingsdon Inn Waste Collection Dates Summer Special for July Dinner Bed and Break- Wheelie Bin Refuse Collection fast for 2 Persons Days 1 night £140.00 Tuesday 5th & Tuesday 19th 2 nights £250.00 Recycling and Food Waste Collection Days - Every Tues- day Project Linus Kingsdon Cricket Club Results Babs, Jill and I would like to thank everyone who helped produce Sunday 5th June away to Witham Friary such wonderful coloured blankets for the above project. We No play due to rain. couldn’t believe that we had achieved so much in the few short months since we started. Sunday 12th June away to Pitney The display in the village hall the morning of the ‘Bacon Butties’ No play due to rain was amazing and looked so bright and cheerful. A representative from Project Linus came to see what we had done, and she was Saturday 18th June speechless, she was expecting about 10 blankets, we had a quick Kingsdon 145 (J. Russon 55n.o.) count and there were over 40, and they are still coming in. Carpe Vinum C.C. 47. As summer is here (as I write this it is pouring with rain), we have decided not to have another meeting until September. We Sunday 26th June will let you know the date nearer the time. In the meantime have Kingsdon 76 a lovely summer, and remember…keep knitting… Linda Langport 77 - 9 Page 2 Kingsdon Ladies Club Patricia Edith Green Lynne Davies welcomed 14 members to the June meeting. The guest speakers, Kay and Bill Wych work 3 days a week at Glastonbury Abbey entertaining visi- tors. Kay as a kitchen maid and Bill as a nobleman. There talk was very funny. Lynne gave the vote of thanks. Babs provided refreshments and said there would be no more Linus Project meet- ings till September. Margaret Hill won the flutter prize. Next month’s speaker will be John Smith, whose talk will be on Military Equipment. He will bring along many artefacts and will be of interest to the 22nd June 1925 ~ 23rd may 2011 gentlemen of the village, so it will be an A service of celebration for the life of Pat Green was held at All Saints’ open evening. Charge to visitors will be Church, Kingsdon on Friday 10th June, attended by many of her family and only £1, which includes tea and biscuits, friends from Kingsdon. The service was conducted by the Reverend Wen- so do come and join us on July 12th at dy Griffith. Pat’s son, Simon gave the eulogy ‘Shared memories’, and 7.30pm in the village hall. David Beswick gave the reading. Refreshments were served afterwards at the village hall. SOMERSET COUNTY COUNCIL - PARISH OF KINGSDON Temporary Closure of Silver Street TAKE NOTICE that in pursuance of Section 14(1) of the Road Traffic Regulations Act 1984, as amended by the Road Traffic (Temporary Restrictions) Act 1991, the County Council of Somerset propose to make an Order PROHIBITING ALL TRAFFIC from proceeding along Silver Street from the junction with Top Street to the junction with Copper Beech Road, a distance of 80 metres. This order wilt enable Carillion-Telent to lay new ducting on behalf of Openreach. The Order becomes effective on 4* July 2011 and will remain in force for eighteen months. The works are expected to last for 5 days. While the closure is in operation, an alternative route will be signed as detailed below, ALTERNATIVE ROUTE From the eastern end of the closure, proceed in a south easterly direction along Silver Street to the junction with Manor Road. Turn right and proceed in a south westerly direction along Manor Road to the junction with Top Street. Turn right and proceed in a northerly direction to the western end of the closure and vice versa. For information about the works being carried out please contact Carillion-Telent Helpdeskon0800526015. For further details of the alternative route please contact Somerset County Council on 0845 345 9155. th SHEILA WHEELER Chief Executive Dated: 16 June 2011 Avon & Somerset Police Kingsdon Seniors Club Crime warning Douglas welcomed members to the monthly meeting, particularly Donald, There has been an upsurge in the number of thefts from motor vehicles - par- after his operation . The guest speaker ticularly those parked in beauty spot areas. Over one past weekend reports of Janet Maile was then introduced. Her offences have occurred in this police area. Most of the victims live locally and subject was the life and times of Noel will have gone to the areas for fairly short periods of time, walking dogs etc. Coward, which she accompanied with In many cases windows of vehicles were broken to gain entry to whatever had some of his tunes on an electric organ been left on display. Attempts had been made with some items to hide them for all to sing along to. Douglas gave under front seats or elsewhere, but they were still noticed and stolen. Items the vote of thanks before refreshments stolen included a number of bags, handbags and purses, together with their were served by Pat Cypryk and Jean contents and sports equipment. In one instance the vehicle was tipped onto its Frost side and fuel stolen from the tank. Next month there would be no meeting Please remember that vehicle crime is often easily preventable. Whenever you but instead we would all be meeting at leave a vehicle - whether at home, in a beauty spot or car park - it should be the home of Donald and Joyce on secured and all items taken out wherever possible. Locking items in a covered Wednesday 13th July for our annual boot area is better than nothing, but is no guarantee that attempts will not be summer tea, to which all members are made to gain entry. asked to contribute Page 3 At a fabric store, a pretty girl spots a nice material for a A man and his wife were sitting in the living room discuss- dress and asks the male clerk: How much does it cost? ing a “Living Will” "Just so you know, I never want to live “Only one kiss per yard,” replied the male clerk with a in a vegetative state, dependent on some machine and fluids smirk. “That’s fine,” said the girl. I’ll take ten yards.” from a bottle. If that ever happens, just pull the plug." With expectation and anticipation written all over his His wife got up, unplugged the TV and threw out all the face, the clerk quickly measured out the cloth, wrapped beer. it up, and then teasingly held it out.