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THE TEESDALE MERCURY Wednesday, 13th September, 2000 Offer to meet the challenge LETTERS are welcome on any Please send your letters to: subject, but should be brief Letters to the Editor, Copy of letter to Mr C M Anderson, and to the point. Letters not m ers Teesdale Mercury , 24 croup Comment Teesdale District Council, intended for publication £ Market Place, Barnard Castle, G algate, should be clearly marked as DL12 8NB, to arrive no later jflERE is a phone number. We should IT was variously described as a Sunday Afternoon Stroll, anc Barnard Castle such. We reserve the right to than first post on Monday to Saturday, Sep appreciate it if handwritten A Walk In The Park. We are, of course, referring to Bamarc DL12 8EL. edit letters for length and con ensure consideration for inclu Dunn House F letter writers would kindly Castle Deanery Day walk from Cow Green to High Force, on tent. Please include your full sion in the current week’s It costs £7 H SIR - 1 challenge you to have the courage and courtesy to attend print their names to avoid Sunday. the ‘Safeway meeting’ on September 14 to confront your many address and daytime tele- issue. van. Sellers b errors. We should have realised, of course, that it would be anything critics. If you attend, I will make a donation of £50 to a charity their own ta but a gentle stroll after Blue (as in anorak) Leader spent the of your choice. arrive at 8ai Not a peep out previous 10 days on an SAS survival course in the Lake If you do not accept my challenge, I call upon you to make a District, and the walk organiser decided to stay at base camp Admission is donation, preferably of the same amount, to my choice of chari of those two and mind the teapot. ty. Flood alert proceeds go We eight hardy souls who gathered shivering in the gloom at B INGHAM, SIR — Mr Joe Akers considers SIR - Since Easter 1998, 25 This week, Septem ber 11- Peeps into the Past to be of no Cow Green reservoir at the start had our worst fears realisec G reenbank, as the mist descended and drizzling rain started to fall with a people have lost their lives as 17, we are running a major interest to any of your readers. flails contact E ggleston persistent precipitation. a result of flooding. Severe public information campaign How wrong he is, because I, 01333 63897 cc Mr Brent Stephenson; The Editor, Teesdale Mercury. Our feelings that the weather had been laid on especially for floods which hit many parts of highlighting the dangers of and many others of mature Ashmore on: 63 England and Wales in 1998 flooding, providing advice on years, really enjoy reading us, were reinforced when Rev John Clark announced at prompted the Environment how people can help them about past events in the Dale, Evensong that the parochial church council had decided at a On cow Agency to commission an inde selves and promoting the new some of which we can remem meeting that they would provide typically wet weather for the pendent review of its flood warning codes, which went ber with nostalgia, sadness, walk as opposed to the dry variety, although for the life of us A six week warning service. The review live yesterday. Anyone who humour or joy. I do not know what any of we heroic figures (sorry about the Challenging concluded that the old system has personal experience of a After all, 113 years is only lack of humility there, Vicar) had done to deserve such a fate. designed to he] IN October, many 18-year-olds will be going off to university. of colour-coded warnings was flood will know the misery it 36 years before I was bom - Anyway, despite all th a t, we had an absolutely wonderful th e ir The first week will be a non-study week. It is a time for getting confusing and widely misun causes and how difficult it can walk, led for most of the way by recently-retired, 73-year-old to know fellow students, the names of the lecturers, the routine derstood. As a result a new be to cope afterwards. While hardly antediluvian, and I resent the assumption. former shepherd Maurice; enjoying the conversation and com begin on Sep of the college, and what is expected of you as a student. You flood warning system is being we cannot control the ele panionship. I suppose he would favour Barnard Casts become a fresher. introduced this month, follow ments, we can make sure that There were some tricky moments, notably the midges and But, there is another area that has to be learnt, and that is the ing extensive research and people know if they are at risk the removal of Peeps into the information cc Past so there would be more slippery boulders near Cauldron Snout, which lived up to its 01833 695315 culture of the place. Knowledge of the culture is not in books and consultation. and what to do. The present name on Sunday as the Tees boiled and bubbled through The new flood warning codes Flood Action Week is about space for the further rantings 638657. you are not taught it. Falcon Clints and Holmwath. will give people a clear sense recognising the risks and help of those two egotistical wind You pick it up as you go along, most importantly, by mixing B ut, like Archdeacon G ranville Gibson’s homily at Evensong, with others who know the culture. Culture, be it a school cul of what is likely to happen and ing the nearly two million bags Stephenson and Byde - Yoga cl what actions they can take to homes and businesses which Heaven forbid! it was a thoroughly uplifting experience, and everyone agreed ture, college culture, or firm’s culture, can be a very powerful we would not have missed it for the world. ANEW term | influence for unity, or, if not known, for disunity. protect themselves. It will be are at risk to be better pre (MRS) MARY LEWIS applied consistently through pared. Saddlers Lane, However, never was a cup of tea and slice of home-made cake has started in ( Up to now, insufficient attention has been given to culture in more welcome than the feast which greeted our return to the Hall Beginner the ecumenical movement. Let us confine ourselves to out England and Wales and KEN BARTON Marwood, has four stages - flood watch, Regional Flood Manager High Force Hotel afterwards. lessons includ Anglicanism and Catholicism. I assume the decree D om inus Barnard Castle. flood warning, severe flood Environment Agency, Leeds. The whole day, from a brief visit to th e oldest continuously-! tone the body, I Jesu s, which came out from the Vatican recently, will not halt warning and all clear. Going strong used Methodist chapel in the world at Newbiggin, for its dees and rel the ecumenical process. Harvest of Talents exhibition, to the evening service at St niques. Here are two very old institutions that have gone their sepa SIR - I see that Down Your James the Less, was immensely enjoyable, and we thank Classes are h rate way for centuries. Each institution has developed a culture Way visited Lartington this everyone for the warmth of their welcome. evenings, 7-I which each church must be aware of, and, very importantly, week. I note that you refer to It m ade th e soggy socks and boot blisters really worthwhile. Wednesday i appreciate and value. three churches no longer in 11.30am A sb THE Rev Geoff Wood from Greek in origin, and means “a The Anglican Roman Catholic International Commission has use. costs £18, on Eggleston last week offered to farm er.” produced agreed statements on a number of very contentious Your readers may be inter £3.50. W ear loo areas, but the matter of the two cultures has yet to be look into the derivation of As the new editor of the ested to know that the Society names. This week he kicks-off bring a mat i addressed. Mercury he certainly sows of Friends’ had a Meeting into tfte with two of the M e r c u r y ’s many seed thoughts, and as more details No student arriving at the portals of academia would feel he House in Lartington which 110 Y ears Ago all proceeds would go to the RAF finest, Chief Reporter Nigel for conquering, well, we’ve all ON Friday, Sir Frederick and fapest-Coope is well prepared for the great adventure just because he has a was sold in 1797 and the pro Benevolent Fund which was Jarrett and Editor George heard the pen is mightier than Lady Milbank gave a treat to all 130834. list of the names of his fellow students, and of his lecturers, a well worth supporting. Nicholson. th e sword. ceeds used in the costs of erec the children of Barningham, timetable and the number of his room. Nigel’s surname is, however, tion of a new Meeting House in Newsham, and Scargill. About THE Evenwood and District Self def There should be more ecumenical praying together. Could not Cotherstone. 100 children were there, and NIGEL Jarrett and George more complicated. It could Chrysanthemum and THERE are tv the bishops of each church pray together regularly in their Nicholson have more than the derive from either Gerald, The former Meeting House also many of the tenants and H orticultural Society’s 6th respective cathedrals, along with their flocks.