Parish Newsletter for the residents of Chitterne, Wiltshire Chit ChitChat Chat No. 153 October 2019 Editor: Lindsay Lucas, Chapel Cottage, 01985 850058 - [email protected]
TIME TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE Please keep reading Our pub is planned to close this month and many villagers feel that this would be a very sad loss. They are therefore exploring ways to save it but need your help to plot the way forward. Enclosed in this newsletter, is a questionnaire which you are all strongly encouraged to complete. So if you’ve just put it in the recycling bin, please retrieve it! You may be reading this and saying you’ve never used the pub for whatever reason, but now is the time to speak up and say what you would want from the pub; not necessarily just eating and drinking. In this way, you can help to make a difference and save the community asset. Your opinion really matters and will be listened to. Please act now. We would ask that the questionnaires are completed and returned by Saturday 26th October. Once they are read and collated, a public meeting will be arranged for some time in November, to discuss the findings. Questionnaires are also available online. The link to the questionnaire is https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/G893KZJ Thank you for taking time to read this.
HOE DOWN A fun evening was had by everyone who attended the Hoe Down after the Produce Show. On behalf of everyone who came, may I say a big thank you to everyone involved in the organisation of it; it was great! If you missed out this time, I would strongly recommend you going along if the Village Hall Committee do it again. The food was delicious, as one has now come to expect at these events and having Tana and Anthony’s crepe van was the ‘icing on the cake’. After a night of dancing I certainly didn’t feel the need to go to the gym the following day!
CHURCH SERVICES in OCTOBER Sunday 6th Trinity 16 9am HC (CW) Orcheston Christine, Lilian & Jackie 1030 Harvest Service Tilshead 5pm Bible Study & Prayers Chitterne Sunday 13th Trinity 17 9am HC (BCP) Shrewton Christine, Lilian & Jackie 1030 Family Communion Chitterne 6pm HC (BCP) Tilshead Sunday 20th Trinity 18 9am Morning Prayer Orcheston Christine, Lilian & Jackie 1030 Holy Communion Shrewton 6pm HC (BCP) Tilshead Sunday 27th Last after Trinity/Bible Sunday 9am HC (BCP) Chitterne Christine, Lilian & Jackie 1030 Holy Communion Orcheston 4pm Family Service & Tea Shrewton PRODUCE SHOW
Well done everyone. For the organisers of the Produce Show, this was a tense time. Would anyone enter? Of course you did! In fact there were 153 entrants and the hall was full of all things horticultural, bakery and crafty. The hall looked magnificent, so a big thank you to everyone who took part. A big thank you also must go to the judges who had a very difficult time deciding on the winners. Congratulations must go to Mark Potter for taking the prize of Overall Winner, Olivia Hannant for Baker Winner, Douglas was the Children’s Winner, and Nigel Neal received the cup for Best in Show for his wonderful painting which the chief judge Aileen said, ‘captured the essence of Chitterne’.
Oh, what a whopper! Children’s winner Douglas Overall winner Mark
ROYAL BRITISH LEGION PUB NEWS REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY SERVICE As so many of you have seen on the The Royal British Legion Remembrance Day front of last Service is to be held in Boyton on Sunday 10 month’s Chit Chat, November. The Service, open to all, will start at the news about 1045 but those attending should be seated by the pub. After many 1035. Members of the Royal British Legion planning to take part in the March Past, should be at the Forming Up Point, located up the road past the church, by1030. months of thought, the pub Following the service, there will be a curry lunch (alternatives such as vegetarian or will close after last orders standard non-curry meals can be provided with advance notification) in Chitterne on Saturday October 19th. Village Hall, commencing at 1200. Tickets for the lunch, costing £14, can be We have tried to sell the pub over purchased from the Post Office counter in Budgens store in Codford. Tickets will be the last 4½ years but with no joy. available from 16 October and sales will close on 8 November. Requests for We had two sales that fell through alternative meals are to be registered when purchasing tickets. Drinks will be at the last minute and many offers available for purchase. Attendance is not restricted to Legion members. Attendance from people who needed finance is restricted to a total of 60. but were unable to get it. Any queries should be passed to Douglas Stobie by E.Mail: [email protected] or telephone 01985 851048. We would like to say a big thank you to the people who have supported us through the good times and the bad ones. 11th Hour, 11th Day, 11th FOR YOUR INFORMATION Take care all and see you around the village. Month Service Please note that on the morning A short service of commemoration, of Wednesday 9th, the Village about 20 mins, is to be held on Hall Car Park will be in use by a Monday 11th November at Chitterne Ramblers Group, so please avoid Church Memorial. If the weather is inclement, the service will be held parking there. inside the Church. The service will start The car park belongs to the Village at 1050 and will include the Silence and playing of the Last Post and Reveille. There Hall and is not a public car park, so will also be a wreath laying service inside we have requested payment for the the Church at the 3 Squadron RAF Colours. use of it. For further information please contact Douglas Stobie. Many thanks HAVE YOU SIGNED UP TO COMMUNITY MESSAGING? Wiltshire Police use an email alert system called Community Messaging, also known as Neighbourhood Alert, across Wiltshire and Swindon to provide real time information to subscribing residents and businesses. This is a free service and once subscribed you can choose what sort of alert to receive and how to receive them. This way the alerts will be tailored specifically to your interests and delivered by email, text or phone. Community Messaging allows Wiltshire Police, and carefully selected partners, to help keep communities better informed about police and crime updates affecting their local area. The messages can even be sent to individual postcodes. Although Wiltshire Police is the main source of information the system is also used by Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue, Wiltshire and Swindon Neighbourhood Watch, Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner, Gas Emergency Service and Action Fraud (the national centre for fraud and cybercrime). All these partners provide relevant information to help keep you safe and secure. You can respond directly to messages and rate the value/relevance of alerts on a scale of 1-5. Your feedback can be most useful to provide first hand intelligence relating to alerts but also to allow us to assess the effectiveness of the system so we keep messages and alerts relevant. The relevance of alerts is controlled by users through the selection of specific schemes on the system; Neighbourhood watch is one popular choice but there are also groups for Community Speed Watch, Youth Clubs and Groups, Church Watch, Horse Watch, Farm Watch and many others. All can be selected or deselected as required and all have the ability for you to feed intelligence to crime prevention partners. It should be emphasised that Community Messaging is not a way of reporting crimes - always call 999 in an emergency or 101 in a non-emergency situation. Community Messaging doesn’t replace the social media activity that the force uses to reach out to communities but works alongside it to make sure that messages are received in a timely way. With changes to the algorithms that the leading social media platforms use to distribute information, you are possibly seeing far fewer of the posts issued than you did five years ago. By signing up to Community Messaging you will be sure to receive the information directly. www.wiltsmessaging.co.uk
EMMA COLE IAN CUTLER ZUMBA GOLD ACUPUNCTURE & KINDLING & Easy Dance Fitness for 50+ SEASONED LOGS FOR other Chinese Dance through the decades SALE therapies Music from 60s 70s 80s to 01985 850928 01985 850408 07753466869 current day 6 Abdon Close Every Tuesday 10.15 -11.15 am Codford Village Hall CHERRY ORCHARD SURGERY £6 per session INFLUENZA SEASON This year we will once again be holding a Flu Clinic in Codford Instructor Debbie Bailey Village Hall. The date will be FRIDAY 11th OCTOBER. 07941112893 We will again be using FLUAD for patients over 65. This Vaccine covers 3 strains of flu and has an added ingredient designed to create a stronger immune response. This is important for older people because their immune WELCOME systems are often weaker and respond less well to some vaccines. To anyone who has Adults under 65 in ‘at risk’ groups including pregnant woman will get a quadrivalent recently moved into vaccine covering 4 strains of flu. the village, may I The Flu Clinic will run from 8.30 – 12.00 & 2 – 6pm extend a huge welcome on NO APPOINTMENT NEEDED behalf of all villagers. One of This clinic is for all those aged over 65 and adults aged 18 and over in ‘at risk’ the best pieces of advice we were groups including Asthma, diabetes, those who are immunocompromised and other given when we moved here was, for conditions. the first year, to go to everything Alongside the Clinic, Refreshments will be available on the day raising funds and then decide what we enjoyed. for MacMillan Cancer Care. We have an excellent email system WE DO NEED YOUR HELP PLEASE which keeps us up to date with day to With making cakes, cookies or whatever you fancy, for selling on the day. We also day life in the village. If you wish to need your help on the day, serving teas, etc. be included in this, please contact Please let Dominique know at the surgery so as I can set up a rota. Pete, aka Hawthorn Pete, at Kind regards [email protected] Dominique, Site Co-Ordinator and Nurse, Aly Sloane OCTOBER DATES
WOOLSTORE STITCHING GROUP NEUTRALS AT WAR CODFORD Friday 11th Exploring the role of neutral Wednesday 2nd 1030 countries in WW2 Village Hall ALL IS TRUE (12A) A talk by local historian Christopher Massey-Beresford in aid of Codford & Tickets - £6 - on sale at the District Royal British Legion Post Office counter in Budgens, Woolstore Theatre Codford LIBRARY VAN 8pm Friday 18th October Doors open 7pm with the film Friday 11th Tickets £8 commencing at 7.30pm Outside the Village Hall Available from Post Office, Smith’s from 1120 - 1140. Budgens, Codford BLACK BOX & BLUE BIN DATES FUTURE DATES FOR PUB QUIZ Thursday 3rd, 17th & 31st YOUR DIARY Friday 11th King’s Head BONFIRE NIGHT 8.00pm for 8.30pm Breakfast Club Sunday 3rd November start The annual village bonfire Saturday 5th Last quiz, so it would be great to and fireworks party 0930 - 1130 see you all. organised and sponsored by the Village Hall Village Hall Committee and the Cricket Come along for a bacon butty, toast, POP-UP KNITTING WORKSHOP Club will be Sunday 3 November. or an egg butty and a mug of tea or Saturday 12th coffee. This is a great way to meet Bonfire lighting at 6pm and fireworks at Village Hall your fellow villagers. about 6:30pm. Anytime between 10.30 - 2.30 Children’s rides from Full of Bounce. Knitting blankets for newborn babies Remember to bring some cash for hot dogs, PARISH COUNCIL Please bring size 8 (4mm) needles & double gluhwein and soft drinks and for the bucket knitting wool MEETING collection for the fireworks. This is a ‘mission’ for ATP WI but all Why not bring some friends from outside VILLAGE HALL welcome the village? RSVP [email protected] Monday 7th We will be building the bonfire on the previous weekend and all contributions, of help and/or material, will be welcome! GREEN BIN DARTS Monday 14th & 28th SUDAN LUNCH King’s Head VILLAGE HALL Tuesday 8th & 15th Wednesday 11th December 8pm for 8.30pm start LUNCH CLUB
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