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Westcott Village Magazine September 2018 Advertisements Index …….……76 - 77 Westcott has a population of over Arts Society.........................................47 2,000 and this is the only magazine Brockham Choral Society.................53 written specifically for the Westcott Celebrate.............................................8 area by the people of Westcott. It Coffee Morning ......………………….65 is hand delivered, free of charge, to Cookie Club.............................................9 every household and further copies District Councillor Writes ……….29 - 33 are available at the church, local Dorking & District U3A........................49 shops, pub and doctor’s surgery. Dorking Group of Artists....................39 Dorking Minds ....................................17 Dorking Museum ……………..…55 - 57 Eco Church …...…………..……..12 - 13 Fire Safety....................................63 - 65 Floodlighting ……………………….…...8 From Alan Jonas……………….........4-5 Heritage Weekend in Westcott........19 History Walk........................................73 Holy Trinity Services ………………...….6 Kids for Kids Event...............................27 Leith Hill PLace............................45 - 47 If you have any articles, photos, ‘The Milkman’.....................................37 letters, etc that you think we may Music in Dorking …….…….…............61 like to feature in the next issue, Murder Under the Big Top ................43 please email the Editor on: Parish Register …………………..….…..8 [email protected] The Past is a Foreign Country …...…67 But please note, publication will always be subject to space and at QRMW.................................................41 Ranger @ Landbarn Farm.........69 - 71 the discretion of the Editor. Reflections from Stuart Ryland..51 - 53 Copy Deadline for Riverbank Surgery ……………………77 October 2018 issue: Westcott Baby Meals ………………..14 8th September 2018 Westcott Dairy and Its Bicycle..74 - 75 Westcott Gardeners Club Show......59 This magazine, published by the Westcott History Group …….........…15 Church in Westcott, is printed on Westcott Women’s Group …….…...42 Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Westcott Village Association …21 - 23 accredited paper from a sustainable WVA Open Meeting..........................25 source. The views expressed are Westcott Village Car Service ……...79 those of the individual writers and WESTfest Rocked...............….…….....35 do not necessarily reflect the views of the Church, Editor or Westcott What’s on @ Holy Trinity..............7 & 10 residents. Who’s Who in Westcott …..…...78 - 79 Cover Photo: Edward Bennett 2 FROM THE EDITOR As you read this, lovely village in which we live. This summer will be nearly month there are lots of things to take over, with all the back your fancy, from the coffee morning on to school concerns the 5th, the Gardeners Club Autumn and accompanying Show on the 8th in the Reading Room, shopping for shoes and Heritage weekend from the taking up vast tracts of 14-16th with the air raid shelter and time in many households. But hopefully engines of The White House, Chapel there is still time to sit and smell the Lane on display. flowers, and enjoy a good book! There is also the postponed Village Anyone with school age children will Open Meeting on the 4th, at Holy know how fast Christmas approaches, Trinity. Further afield there is an art it seems almost as soon as they go display based on Vaughn Williams’ back in September, October half term The Lark Ascending at Leith Hill Place. comes along, and then in a blink of an eye suddenly it’s December. This term Whatever September holds for you I am determined not to get so swept I hope you get to do something you up in day to day living that I miss the enjoy in among all the busyness of opportunities to appreciate it all. daily life, and have a happy and productive month. I would encourage you to try and do Cath the same, and get out and enjoy this [email protected] Westcott Reading Room The Reading Room reports that in August it completed extensive reparation works on its exterior west facing side to ensure watertight protection from weathering. Regular use of the hall remains strong all through the week and there has been a rise in the number of casual bookings mainly for children’s parties at weekends. The granting of parking permits in the Reading Room car park has one annual space available for rent for the coming year at £600. Anyone interested in securing this space please contact us on 07967 286636 3 ...FROM ALAN JONAS, VICAR OF WESTCOTT is alive. Boggling of the mind multiplied, it seems that quantum science leads us into a world of parallel universes and teleportation. It is not surprising we struggle to understand all this for as WHO KNOWS THE Richard Feynman, Nobel Prize winner ANSWERS ? in quantum physics famously said, “I think I can safely say that nobody Why are we here? Why do bad things understands quantum mechanics” happen to good people? Why is there The fact is we simply do not understand so much goodness and affluence our existence, including why in a world and, at the same time, so much evil of so much goodness there is also so and poverty? Why have Tottenham much suffering. That’s the bad news; Hotspur never won the Premiership? bad things happen to good people What is the point of life? and we do not know why. So, thank … So many questions, and so God there is Good News. Christians few answers. I wonder if anyone struggle to explain our existence like understands our existence? Has anyone else, but, crucially, our faith anyone in Westcott tells us that God read a book on FAITH TELLS US THAT GOD IS is right there in all quantum physics/ RIGHT THERE IN ALL OF OUR of our experience, mechanics and including being with understood it? EXPERIENCE, INCLUDING BEING us in the suffering, I can’t even WITH US IN THE SUFFERING, and nothing understand the but nothing can AND NOTHING...CAN SEPARATE book reviews. I separate us from pick up things like US FROM HIS LOVE IN JESUS His love in Jesus the ‘Copenhagen CHRIST. Christ. And actually, interpretation’ that it is surely always says “the act of this presence, this measurement constructs the reality confidence we need rather than that is measured” ….I read about Bell’s theorem “in which two particles are inexorably linked no matter how far apart they are”. I try to understand about “Shrodinger’s cat” in a box with a vial of poison... apparently the cat is neither dead nor alive until the box is opened, and it may be that in one reality the cat is dead and in another it 4 ...FROM ALAN JONAS, VICAR OF WESTCOTT answers, when bad things happen. universes of quantum science - and For example, Nicholas Wolterstorff there will be “no more death or is a brilliant Yale philosopher whose mourning or crying or pain”. 25 year old son died in a mountain- It is likely that mankind will never have climbing accident. He wrote in a all the answers about our existence, book, entitled “Lament for a Son” but we do have something much how he has been so deeply moved more important – the presence of and strengthened by the Presence God in all circumstances. of the Crucified One, who chooses to suffer with suffering people. The Christian faith is centred on God in Jesus Christ entering the mess and suffering of our world, being there with us in the agony, bringing Resurrection with the sure hope that evil and suffering will end; there will be a day when God “wipes every tear from our eyes” … there will be heaven – maybe one of the parallel Coming soon... Alpha Course Starting late October Dates to be confirmed. To find out more, contact Rev. Alan Jonas [email protected] 885309 5 SERVICES AT THE CHURCH IN WESTCOTT We run a regular programme of worship services and other activities for young and old. Everyone is welcome as we build friendships and share life together! 8.30 am: A traditional Communion service with hymns and organ, unless stated. 10.15 am: A ‘parish’ service, reflecting the people of the Church in Westcott, with organ and music group. Regular creche and children’s activities. 6.00 pm: A quiet traditional service, usually ‘Evensong’. Communion with prayer for healing monthly. DATE THEME 8:30AM 10:15AM 6:00PM 2nd Book of James Book of Common Parish Communion Evensong Sept Prayer Communion 9th Books for Chil- Book of Common Morning Worship Evensong Sept dren Prayer Communion with Baptism I Am the Good No Music followed by Shepherd Communion 16th Papua Book of Common Morning Worship Holy Sept Partners Prayer Communion Commun- Sunday ion with Prayer for Healing 23rd Book of James Book of Common Morning Worship Evensong Sept Prayer Communion with Baptism followed by Communion 30th Confirmation Book of Common Confirmation Evensong Sept Prayer Communion MID WEEK SERVICES Wednesdays 10am Communion at St John’s Thursdays 8:30am Morning Prayer at St John’s 6 WHAT’S ON AT THE CHURCH IN WESTCOTT Why you cannot miss a Sunday with the Church in Westcott in September: 2nd Sept Services: Likely to be sharing of the results of the excellent Church Vision Day held in June, attended by over 40 people. Why you cannot miss a Sunday with the 9th Sept 9:30am Breakfast 10:15am Church in Westcott in September: ‘Celebrate’ All Age Service with books given to all children and 2nd Sept Services: Likely to be young people & Christening of sharing of the results of the excellent 2 grandchildren of stalwarts of Church Vision Day held in June, Westcott Church and Village. attended by over 40 people. 16th Sept Papua Partners Sunday It is 9th Sept 9:30am Breakfast 10:15am a great delight that the Sosa family, ‘Celebrate’ All Age Service with Javier, Naomi, Alana, Aren and Irian books given to all children and are in the UK for several months. The young people & Christening of family will be telling us about their 2 grandchildren of stalwarts of lives and work in West Papua.