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Longney & Epney Parish Newsletter Dates for Longney & Epney your Diary Parish Newsletter July & August 2018 July & August 2018 Parish Council Meeting The next meeting will th take place on Monday 9 July 2018 in the school hall at 7.30pm. Contributors to the Village Party Longney & Epney Village Party Abbey Surfacing Alex Bolton Well, what an absolutely fabulous village party we had! Glorious weather, a feast fit for a royal wedding, brilliant games, entertainment and an Attwools amazing raffle! Alfram This is your brilliant party organizing Anchor Inn team…… from left to right…. Amanda Sprague, Barry Newman, Aquajardin Rupert Sprague, Cathi Beloe, Angela Scriven Suzi Wingrove & Nikki Leach. A big thank you to all of you for giving Ben Smith your time to bring together a Brian Everett super village event! Catherines Carriages Chris & Leigh Watts Battle of the Table Tennis! The “Design a Crown” Winner! Colwells Garage Frampton Fundraisers Free Spirit Band Geoff & Judy Smith Gemma Wingrove 2 Village Party Thank You’s Contributors to the There is a long list of “Thank You’s” to all the people that organised, Village Party helped set up and break down, lent things, and donated things! So here Hena & Mahb Rahman goes….. thanks to the helpers who got everything set up on Friday and Saturday, all the people who lent their belongings, tents, tables and Jess’s Dairy chairs, food equipment, games stuff, disco, lighting and sound gear! The Keith Rog people who gave such generous raffle prizes - they were awesome! Beautiful flower table decorations! Businesses and local people who Longney & Epney contributed money! A lot of golf balls donated! Soho Coffee, endless tea Parish Council and coffee! The bouncy castle and copious ice creams and lollies for the children (and some adults :o)) Homemade Indian food which was Longney Lamb delicious! The fabulous evening live band! Our compere for the day, what Louise Prithchard a brilliant job he did! All the people who helped with games and Country & Formal Flowers supervising the children! Everyone who helped clear up on Sunday morning! Miller & Carter A huge "Thank You" to Sally and Rob and the team at The Anchor for Mr & Mrs Gower letting us hold the party there! Mrs Masseys And finally, a Thank You to all you fabulous people who live in the villages Delicious Diner of Longney and Epney for bringing a feast of food fit for a Royal Wedding! Patsy Gamble Childrens Tug of War Longney Winners! Paul Malpas Peter Cooke Phil Trotter Rupert & Amanda Sprague Ladies Tug of War Longney Winners Severn Controls SOHO Coffee Tasty Tumpers Tesco Raffle The raffle raised an Mens Tug of War Epney Winners amazing £605 for “The Friends of Longney School” for which they are very grateful. 3 Edward Mills Climbs The Old Man of Hoy Facts! “The Old Man of Hoy” The Old Man of Hoy is one of Orkney's most famous landmarks. The 450ft (140m) sea stack is formed of old red sandstone and stands close to Rackwick Bay on the west coast of the island of Hoy. What an amazing, record breaking, achievement by 8 year old Edward Mills, son of Bekki Christian, who served on the Parish Council, and Nathan Mills who lived in Longney until the end of 2017. Edward has become the youngest person to climb The Old Man of Hoy sea stack off the coast of Orkney. Bekki said his climbing career started on the banks of the River Severn on Clive’s woodpile!! It is popular with climbers and Edward set himself the challenge to raise money for the charity “Climbers was first climbed by the UK's Against Cancer” and described the trip to the top of the 140m column of most famous mountaineer rock as "quite scary". Bekki took the ferry to see him during the climb, Sir Chris Bonington in 1966. which then sounded its horn when he reached the peak! He and colleague Tom Patey returned the following year Edward found a box and small book at the end of his climb, he said "There and were part of the famous was a hidden box up on the top and I had a metal card which said 'Mum's three-night live TV broadcast, gift to Climbers Against Cancer', he put it into the box and wrote a story in The Great Climb. the book, he said he climbed this sea stack for my mum and raised money In 2014, Sir Chris marked his for “Climbers Against Cancer”. He hopes other people will read this book 80th birthday by returning to and think of their own ideas about what they might say. It took Edward Orkney to climb the Old Man just under 5 hours to climb to the top securing the title of the youngest of Hoy 48 years after his first person to get to the top! ascent. Edwards JustGiving page called, Edward vs The Old Man of Hoy, has had donations totalling more than £28,000. https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/edwardandtheoldman 4 Elgin Energy Solar Installation Village Telephone Boxes at High Green Longney and Epney Parish At present the Parish Council is of the understanding that the Solar Council now own both Farm application will be called into the Stroud DCC Planning meeting in telephone boxes in the September. We will hopefully be able to update further at the next Parish. In response to Parish Council Meeting or in the next village newsletter. requests from Parishioners and in line with other local villages, we are now exploring the possibility of installing a defibrillator in each box. As you are all probably aware, a defibrillator can save your life in the event of a heart attack. Given our rural location it is often not possible for the Ambulance Service to Longney Longest Day Bike Ride achieve the National Standard It was that time of year again on the 16th June for the annual “Longney response time of seven Longest Day Bike Ride” you dusted off your bikes and came out in force, minutes. The potential for fancy dress theme thought about long and hard! saving a life in the event of a cardiac arrest is dependent For anyone who hasn’t joined this site seeing cultural tour of the local upon time and community quaint villages, it involves sipping a beverage or two at one of the many defibrillators have a very public houses en route, enjoying the company of friends and family, important role in helping playing jolly games along the way whilst raising money for a chosen to save lives in rural charity! communities. The Parish Council would like to ask local Sadly in 2017 the village lost a dear friend to so many Mr Andy Lyes businesses and individuals to landlord of the Anchor Inn. Andy was a great supporter of the bike ride sponsor the installation and and in his memory this year’s ride started at the pub where a glass was maintenance costs of raised to him. A whopping £801.17 was collected for one of Andy’s these. Each defibrillator and favorite charities the RNLI Lifeboats. Sally & Rob Findlater and Hanne the secure cabinet to house it and Mike Foyle would like to say a big thank you to all who supported in costs around £2000. Every the event and donated to a great cause! donation, however large or small will be very gratefully received. If you would be willing to contribute, please contact the Parish Council clerk: clerk@longneyandepney parish.co.uk 5 Longney Open Gardens Church Services Sunday 1st July 2018 Longney & Elmore July 2018 Sunday 1st July 2018 Parish Eucharist at Elmore 9.30am Sunday 8th July 2018 Parish Eucharist at Sunday the 1st of July is a chance to visit some of the very best gardens Longney 9.30am in Longney! From 11am to 5pm the gardens will be open and there will be tea/coffee and delicious homemade cakes and the opportunity to Sung Evensong at buy plants. Elmore 4.00pm Admission is £5.00, children under 16 are free and the proceeds will go to Longney Church. th Sunday 15 July 2018 Parish Eucharist at Follow the postcode GL2 3SN where the car park will be sign posted. Elmore 9.30am Sorry “No Dogs” allowed. Sunday 22nd July 2018 Storyteller Eucharist at A Summer Concert at Fretherne th Longney 9.30am Church Sunday 8 July Evensong with Hymns at Fretherne Church presents: Elmore 4.00pm “A Summer Concert” by the “Freeman Quartet” Sunday 29th July 2018 Xander Croft, “Violin” - Catherine Stonham, “Violin” Chance Freeman, “Viola” – Felix Hughes, “Cello” No service at Elmore or Featuring music by, Mendelssohn, Haydn & Glass Longney, Café Church at Hardwicke Primary begins Doors open at 3pm performance starts at 3.30pm. Tickets £10 in advance, £12 on the day, are available from at 10.45am. All welcome Jane Cleaver on 01452 740891 or [email protected] to this informal service. Ticket price includes food. Fizz will be available to purchase. Strawberries and Cream plus lots of other yummy refreshments will be served after the performance. Bring picnic rugs, chairs and tables so you can enjoy the evening sunshine with views out towards the river. 6 Church Services Longney C of E Primary Longney & Elmore Academy School News August 2018 Gloucester Area Wildlife th Sunday 5 August 2018 Quiz Final Parish Eucharist at On Friday 18th May, Longney school hosted the Gloucestershire Wildlife Elmore 9.30am Quiz area final for Gloucester. Longney, Lakefield and Hempsted battled hard through some very testing rounds. All the pupils demonstrated Sunday 12th August 2018 an in-depth knowledge of wildlife but at the end of the competition, Longney were the overall winners! Our team now go on to the Parish Eucharist at Gloucestershire semi-final.
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