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Industrial, Commercial and September 09 Domestic Scaffolding ● Quality Scaffolding ● Competitive Rates ● Safety Our Priority ● Very Reliable Service ● 7 Days / 24 Hours ● 20 Years Experience ● C.I.T.B Qualified Team of Erectors Bristol: 01179 649 000 Bath: 01225 334 222 Mendip: 01761 490 505 Head Office: Unit 3, Bakers Park, Cater Rd. Bristol. BS13 7TT United Benefice of Publow with Pensford, Compton Dando and Chelwood 20p UNITED BENEFICE OF PUBLOW WITH PENSFORD, COMPTON DANDO AND CHELWOOD Directory of Local Organisations Bath & North East Somerset Chelwood Mr R. Nicholl 01275 332122 Council ComptonDando Miss S. Davis 472356 Publow Mr P. Edwards 01275 892128 Assistant Priest: Revd Sue Stevens 490898 Bristol Airport (Noise Concerns) 01275 473799 Woollard Place, Woollard Chelwood Parish Council Chairman Mr P. Sherborne 490586 Chelwood Bridge Rotary Club Tony Quinn 490080 Compton Dando Parish Chairman Ms T. Mitchell 01179 860791 Reader: Mrs Noreen Busby 452939 Council Clerk Mrs D. Drury 01179 860552 Compton Dando CA Nan Young 490660 Churchwardens: Publow Parish Council Chairman Mr A.J Heaford 490271 Publow with Pensford: Miss Janet Ogilvie 490020 Clerk Mrs J. Bragg 01275 333549 Pensford School Headteacher Ms L. MAcIsaac 490470 Mrs Janet Smith 490584 Chair of Governors Mr B. Watson 490506 Compton Dando: Mr Clive Howarth 490644 Chelwood Village Hall Bookings Mr Pat Harrison 490218 Jenny Davis 490727 Compton Dando Parish Hall Bookings Mrs Fox 490955 Chelwood: Mrs Marge Godfrey 490949 Pensford Memorial Hall Chairman Terry Phillips 490426 Bookings Mrs J. Gore 490511 Don Weston 490245 Benefice Mother’s Union Secretary Linda Quinn 490080 Publow with Pensford PCC: Enrol. Member Anne Hall 490653 Secretary: Mrs Judith Hillman 490324 Chew Valley Gardening Society Liz Heaford 490271 Treasurer: Mrs Gillian Wookey 490336 Compton Dando Ladies Group Katherine Bunyan 490636 Marksbury & District Playgroup Leader Joanne Groves 479449 Compton Dando and Chelwood PCC: Pensford Brownies DebbieTaylor 492527 Secretary: Fiona Gregg-Smith 490323 Pensford Evergreens Geoff Beedell 490371 Treasurer Mr Duncan Ross 492913 Pensford Guides Rachael Dando 490663 Pensford Golf Society Chairman David Parnell 490888 Organists: Pensford Local History Group Therese Tyson 490670 Publow with Pensford: Mr John Merchant 01275 340222 Pensford Ladies Group Penny Cross 01275 333823 Compton Dando and Chelwood Mr Mervyn Cox 471618 Pensford Tennis Club Secretary Alison Patey 01275 832201 Pensford Toddlers Group Stephanie Butler 492500 Pensford with Publow WI President Mrs S. Baber 01179 869493 Secretary Linda Quinn 490080 Regular Services for the Month Police Community Support Officers Mr Martyn Bragg 07825 103289 Mr Paul Cornelius 07810 791301 All Saints’, Publow 1st Sunday 9.30am Holy Communion Publow with Pensford A.F.C. Neil Thompson 01179 311774 2nd Sunday 6.00pm Evensong Stanton Drew & Pensford Playgroup Leader Lynne Willmott 452798 3rd Sunday 9.30am Holy Communion Items for inclusion should be submitted by 16th of the previous month 4th Sunday 11.00am Family Service Where possible copy via e-mail: [email protected] St Mary’s, Compton Dando 1st Sunday 11.15am Family Service Any text should be in doc, txt or rtf format, pictures separate and in jpg gif or tif. 2nd Sunday 9.15am Holy Communion Cheques should be made payable to - Chew Valley East News 3rd Sunday 11.15am Family Communion 4th Sunday 6.00pm Evensong Magazine Information Weekly: Every Thursday - 10.30am Holy Communion Editor: Pauline Parnell. 148 High St, Pensford 490888 e-mail: [email protected] St Leonard’s, Chelwood 1st Sunday 8.00am Holy Communion Invoicing: Yvonne Phillips, Stonecroft, Old Road, Pensford 490426 2nd Sunday 11.15am Matins Treasurer: Kate Matthews, 12 Church Rd. Norton Malreward 01275 891275 3rd Sunday 8.00am Holy Communion Distribution: Geoff Rogers, Woollard House, Woollard 490269 Yvonne Phillips, as above 4th Sunday 9.30am Family Communion Barbara Bowes 490285 Bobby Roberts 490481 For benefice services on the 5th Sunday of any month and during August,and for www.publow-with-pensford-pc.gov.uk special services and festivals, please consult the monthly diary. www.comptondando-parishcouncil.org.uk September 2009 The Most Thorough Cleaning You’ve Ever Dear all, Seen Or It’s Free!!! September. The year in comfortable middle age: impetuous spring, a distant CARPETS & UPHOLSTERY plus ALL TYPES OF HARD FLOORS memory; failing winter, still to come. A time of change; not the bursting change of inc Wood, Stone, Vinyl, Tile & Grout etc. Fast Reliable March, but a gentle mellowing. You’ve spent a lot of money on your home so make sure it’s cared for by professionals Service Change is a strange thing. With no change at all, there would be no time: everything trained to highest standards. frozen, forever. Change brings loss, if only the loss of today to yesterday. Change Your friends will think you’ve got new!! also allows hope. • Free, friendly advice. All skip sizes available • Phone answered live (9 to 5) 1100 years ago, Athelm, a monk of Glastonbury Abbey, became the first Bishop of • Pet & child safe Building, Household Wells. A lot of water has flowed along the Chew since then. What changes has the • Accurate appointment times and Industrial 10 mins or more late – we ring ahead river seen? The Norman bishops ousting the Saxon. The monks of Bath and the 100% Money Back Guarantee Waste canons of Wells jostling for the See, with the Bishop swapping seats faster than If you are dissatisfied in anyway, we’ll return and children playing musical chairs; Pope Innocent IV calling it a dead heat, forming clean free of charge. If you are still unhappy Bath & Wells. The Lollardy heresy, with Pensford’s priest excommunicated. The your payment will be refunded without quibble. Call dissolution of the monasteries; a huge change for the people of our parishes, with Advanced Fabric & Floor Care their connections with the monasteries at Bath, Keynsham, and Glastonbury. The Unit 36, Westfield Ind Est, Midsomer Norton, Quakers, hiding from persecution here. The Methodists, with John Wesley himself FREECALL 0800 195 8266 0117 972 4433 Tel: 01761 235600 preaching in Pensford (20 October, 1775, if you’re curious; a Wednesday); and so on, and so on… MICHAEL W. ROWE CLEANSWEEP Just names and dates. Hard to connect with, perhaps, but think what impact some FUNERAL DIRECTOR Chimney Sweeping Service of those changes had on people’s lives: deeply held beliefs, habits of practice, Proprietor: S. Treby everyday certainties, gone. A local family 4 Somerset Crescent We are of course in a period of (somewhat smaller-scale) change in the Benefice at business offering Melksham,Wilts the moment. Our third Rector in as many years will hopefully be arriving later this personal service year; she or he will doubtless make changes. And the Archdeacon told us at a (01225) 793145 recent open meeting that this will be the last Rector contracted for only a few hours day or night. a week, without pay; after that, there will be a full-time salaried priest, but one with additional duties beyond the Benefice. On current plans – we shall see how it turns Rest Room out. Tunbridge Cottage, B.J.BOULTON Tunbridge Road Painting & Decorating Good or bad, change is inevitable. Except from pay-and-display machines. Chew Magna Tel: Mendip (01761) 490803 2 Culverhay Tel No: Compton Dando (01275) 332565 Bristol. BS39 4LQ Matthew Critten From the Parish Registers of All Saints’ Arthritis Research Campaign Fundraising Baptisms The Chew Valley Branch of ARC has been area that day and Somerfield’s car park 19th July William Robert JONES very busy in the last two months raising rapidly turned into a very uninviting Kezzie-Mae HARPER funds for this worthwhile charity. On 21st swimming pool. Despite this, £162. 25 Holy Matrimony June Mr and Mrs Southwell kindly opened was collected from the extremely wet, but 4th July Steven James COLLINS & Jane ENGLISH their beautiful garden in Litton for us with very generous shoppers. Maybe they felt From St Mary’s Church Compton Dando all profits going to ARC. On a day that sorry for us. Sorry to mention the weather Baptism could not decide whether to be sunny or once again, but the final event in July, 19th July IIsabella Rose HARVEY just to drizzle on us, we nevertheless was a secondhand book sale on 31 July Wedding managed to raise £308. 90. Everyone at the Chew Valley Fruit Farm in Bonhill 25th July Christopher O’BRIEN & Elizabeth DIBBLE enjoyed wandering leisurely around the Road Bishop Sutton, when miraculously Funeral garden and then relaxing over tea, coffee the sun shone. A total of £152 was raised 7th August Margaret Irene Marie BAILEY and cakes. Then on 15 July Peter Handley and thanks go to all those who supported hosted his popular Coffee Morning at us both by donating and buying books. For the Minutes and up to date news of Pensford 10K - AGM Wayside Bishop Sutton. This time the This is the second time that this event Compton Dando Parish Council please 8.00pm weather looked decidedly unkind to begin has taken place and special thanks go to look at:- Tuesday 15th September with, but the optimistic team of helpers Julie le Valliant for finding the space for it www.comptondando-parishcouncil.org.uk Rising Sun Members of the public are invited to attend. put chairs, tables and stalls outside and in her busy shop, and think how many Tony & Guilly would like to thank all our The accounts for 2008/9 will be posted on amazingly the sun decided to shine. things you could do at the same time generous friends who helped raise £1260 the website (www.pensford10k.com) £330.30 was raised during the morning. when you came along to it. Where else for disabled children in Belize and following adoption at the AGM.