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Full Edition THE UPPER WENSLEYDALE NEWSLETTER Issue 236 June 2017 Donation please: 30p suggested or more if you wish ‘Love Blossoms’ by Stacey Moore Covering Upper Wensleydale from Wensley to Garsdale Head, with Walden and Bishopdale, Swaledale from Keld to Gunnerside plus Cowgill in Upper Dentdale. Published by Upper Wensleydale The Upper Wensleydale Newsletter Ings House, Ings Houses Newsletter Hawes DL8 3QT Tel: 667061 Issue 236 June 2017 Email for submission of articles, what’s ons, letters etc.:[email protected] Features Newsletters on the Web, simply enter Competition 5 “Upper Wensleydale Newsletter” or ____________________________ ‘‘Welcome to Wensleydale’ A684 Part Six 9 Archive copies back to 1995 are in the Dales ________________ ____________ Countryside Museum resources room. Hawes Gala 6 and 15 Committee: Alastair Macintosh, ____________________________ Barry Cruickshanks (Web), Starting Up Right 19 Sue E .Duffield, Karen Jones, ____________________________ Malcolm Carruthers, Neil Piper, Karen Prudden Ranger’s Report 19 Janet W. Thomson (Treasurer), ____________________________ Peter Wood (Archives) Doctor’s Rotas 16 Final processing: ____________________________ Sarah Champion, Adrian Janke, plus committee Chronic Pain 20 members Postal distribution: Derek Stephens ___________________________ Police Report 12 Alan S. Watkinson (Founder editor) ____________________________ What’s On 14 PLEASE NOTE ________________________ Plus all the regulars This web-copy does not contain the commercial adverts which are in the full Newsletter. Whilst we try to ensure that all information is As a general rule we only accept adverts from correct we cannot be held legally responsible within the circulation area and no more than for omissions or inaccuracies in articles, one-third of each issue is taken up with them. adverts or listings, or for any inconvenience caused. Views expressed in articles are the - Advertising sole responsibility of the person by lined. Articles by committee members carry just Boxed adverts: £6, £12, £18 their initials. We appreciate being asked There is a big reduction for six issues or more, before any part of the Newsletter is so for six issues the totals are: reproduced £25, £50 or £75 THE JULY ISSUE Greetings etc. £2.00 What’s ons (non-commercial) are free WILL BE PRODUCED Contacts for adverts: ON JUNE 26th-27th For Hawes area and westward: DEADLINE FOR COPY Barry Cruickshanks, Ashfield, Hardraw: 667458 TUESDAY JUNE 20th For elsewhere: Sue Duffield, Fellside, Please note the new Thornton Rust: 663504 earlier deadline date 2 Guest Editorial make me aware of the problem early, and that’s probably to the good. My involvement in a drugs trial started three years ago with a ’phone call telling me I’d filled in a form As I write this, I discover we are actually in the offering my services. middle of dementia awareness week. I’m tempted to say I’d completely forgotten about it: making jokes Not me. There must be some mistake, I ventured. is one way we cope with the knowledge that one “It was on Facebook,” said the caller, and gave me day we might get it. Just as we’re being urged to do the precise date (a week previously) and time of the with other mental health issues, one thing we deed. I had no recollection of it. What sort of trial should all be doing is talking about it, and seeking was it anyway? There was the tiniest of pauses. help and advice without fear. We will all be “It’s for Alzheimer’s,” came the response. Oh dear. affected by it, personally or otherwise, sooner, So it is that now, twice a year, I go to Blackpool. rather than later. Betsy Everett Not for the lights, the sands or to climb the famous tower (especially not that bit) but to a two-storey, flat-roofed building on an out-of-town trading Hawes Methodist Cemetery estate. There, for starters, I get a grilling. What Many will be aware that the Methodist burial town are you in? What season is it? What did you ground, on the outskirts of Hawes, is nearing do at the weekend? What’s in the news this week? I capacity, when allowance is made for current like that bit because these days there’s so much to reservations. Towards the end of 2016, committee choose from you’d be hard-pushed not to find an members undertook a review of reservations answer. registered and would now request that individuals, Then come the tests. Count backwards in sevens (or next of kin), who are aware they hold a from a given number; repeat a series of ever more reservation at the Methodist Cemetery in Hawes, complex number sequences, and now do that confirm their continued interest in retaining their backwards, too; here's a list of 20 items - giraffe, reservation. spinach, desk, coach etc. How many can you Please could anyone, (or their next of kin), who remember? That's harder than you think. understands they have made a reservation in Hawes If, like me, you take your pleasures the hard way, Methodist Cemetery, prior to January 2014, leave it's a weird kind of fun. The whole session lasts their current contact details, along with the name around two and a half hours, I get a sandwich, a and number in which the plot is reserved, in the cuppa, and sometimes a blood test, and head home large envelope at the Community Office at their feeling quite smug. And relieved. All is well, at earliest convenience. A member of the committee least for another six months. will then contact you to confirm the details held are correct and our records can be updated if required. The American neurologist who’s heading the study thinks there may be a genetic factor involved, Many thanks for your assistance with this review and that a particular drug may be effective in Hawes Methodist Cemetery committee combatting it. It’s a double-blind trial: having had the test I don't know if I'm at risk. Having been Alan Watkinson, given the tablets I don't know whether they're the real deal or a placebo. HAWES, would like to say thank you for all the cards, calls, emails, flowers and gifts continually There’s a fear, of course, that one day I’ll go to received during what could become a protracted Blackpool and all won’t be quite so well. The lines disability. I draw may not be so straight. The numbers won’t come so readily. The word list will be even more Especial thanks too to the amazing Macmillan difficult to recall. If it means that I really am on a Cancer Care Team; the counselling, rapid downward spiral to dementia, what then? There are provision of equipment, occupational therapist, no effective drugs so there would be nothing I could physio and dietician. do to halt the decline. Add to this the numerous visits from family and All I know for sure is that by doing the drug test, friends both near and far with offers of all kinds tedious and slightly scary though it is, it might just of help, best wishes and prayers. What a help find a cure for this disease that now affects community! around 50 million people worldwide, and which is Shirley would also like to say thank you for all predicted to double every 20 years. It’s not heroic - the cards, callers and gifts for her 80th birthday on it makes sense: being diligently monitored will May Day. She had a lovely few days. 3 Farmer and Ranger Create Shelter on Swaledale Moor An isolated garage (which symbolises the coming of the motor car to the Dales) has been converted into a shelter for walkers and mountain bikers on Eunice the Ewe Whitaside Moor. I was in the Herriot’s in Hawes advert on page 34 The garage was built in the 1940s by the Sunter and the winner of the £10 prize is family of Robson House Farm for Joseph Sunter’s Anna Petri of Farnham, Surrey first car, a Standard 12. It had to be put by the Where am I now? To enter for the £10 prize, roadside, as there was then no track down the fell please include your postal address if replying by to his farm. The Sunter family would complete email. the last leg of their journey home in a tractor, once the car was safely locked away. When a farm track was laid, the garage became redundant and Wanted fell into disrepair. It was then that Norman Someone with a few spare hours a month to help Sunter, Joseph’s grandson, had a chance convert Newsletter input from MS Word and conversation with his Yorkshire Dales National similar products to MS Publisher ready for input Park Authority (YDNPA) area ranger, Michael to the Newsletter. Briggs. Must be comfortable with computers and ideally Mr Sunter said: “Over the years we’ve seen familiar with Microsoft Word and Office hundreds of people sheltering behind the products. We will supply the Publisher training. garage. Instead of standing behind it, I thought Please contact Alastair on 667061 or Barry on they might as well shelter in it. I was wondering 667458 to discuss. whether to just take the garage doors off and leave it open, but Michael said he would like to do it up. And they’ve done a very good job.” Rangers Wanted — a Courier. and Dales Volunteers cleared the garage of Is there someone who works in or regularly visits rubbish and accumulated soil; removed the old Hawes, but who lives near Muker, who would be doors; rebuilt some sections of the walls; added a willing (once a month) to take a small bundle of new roof and lintel; installed some benches and newsletters to the Muker shop? Please contact laid a stone aggregate floor.
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