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ID Pensford Summer Mag 08.Pmd July and August 08 Calling all Singers Pensford Tennis Club Dear Friends, Chew Valley Choral Society would like to Despite the awful weather we have been This is the magazine issue which covers two months, the sum- hear from any singers in the area who would experiencing, we have been playing a lot mer months, the warm sunny months - the time when many like to join us in September – whether so- on the courts – a good way to keep the prano, alto, tenor or bass. We do not require moss down! people have their holidays and the time when the children are auditions, but some choral experience is COACHING for Adults and children – we have not in school. helpful, as is the ability to read music. two very nice qualifi ed club coaches and you don’t have to be a club member to use their For Churches, this is the time for weddings and garden fetes, ABOUT US - We were formed in 1976 and meet weekly in Chew Stoke Church Hall services. If you would like coaching please for fl ower festivals and outdoor services. The sun brings out the for rehearsals leading to two concerts each contact Ron Grew (for adults) on 01761 smiles, the good times, but it also means the grass has to be cut year, usually in Chew Magna and Blagdon 472234 or Matt Thompson (for children) on Churches. Our music director is David Bed- 01275 891515 and the weeds seem to grow twice as fast as normal! nall, formerly with Wells Cathedral but now Club play is held on Tuesday evenings at However in some parts of the world the sun does not bring based in Bristol, where he is furthering a 7.00pm and Sunday mornings at 11am to 1.00pm. If you would like to come to play on smiles rather fear and uncertainty. Last month’s magazine highly successful career as both performer and composer. with a view to joining, just come along at reminded us of the humanitarian disasters in China and Burma. We sing a full repertoire of sacred music and these times.Please have a look at our website There are still problems in so many parts of Africa. Our Armed have performed major works by Mozart, for details of fees and playing times. - www. Handel, Bach, Fauré, Vivaldi, Haydn, Britten pensfordtennisclub.co.uk forces are suff ering casualties in Afghanistan and Iraq. So many and many others. Our next term starts on places are coping with the suff ering of their people. Tuesday 2nd September at 7.30pm but in Pensford Memorial Hall the meantime please get in touch if you 100 + Draw May & June 08 Please think of others this summer as you go about your lives £75 - B. Batt £25 - G. Jones would like to express an interest or just to £20 - S. Dark £15 - J. Harding in relative safety. When you hear a siren on the main road, re- fi nd out more. £10 - P. Saunders £ 5 - J. Beedell Please phone Helen on 01275 333014. member that the police or the ambulance or the fi re engine are £75 - A. Ford £25 - L. Quinn going to help people in need. Both offi cers and the potential £20 - R. Stenner £15 - S. Kelly Floods of 1968 remembered £10 - S. King £ 5 - J. Bamford victims need your prayers and your support. When you read in It will be the fortieth anniversary of the great the papers or see on the television accounts of others in need, fl ood of 10th July 1968 which so badly af- the least we can do is off er up a little prayer for them. fected the parish. There will be an exhibition Chew Magna portraying these events, organised by the I hope you enjoy the next few months. I will be interested to Keynsham @ Saltford Local History Society Gardening Society hear about the Churches you might visit where ever you are on at the Fear Hall, High Street, Keynsham, Sat- urday 5th July, 10.00am - 4.00pm. There will The next meeting of the Chew Valley Gar- holiday, in this country and abroad. be slide, video and tape recording presenta- dening club will be on the 10th July at May God be with you all tions. Tea and coff e will be available. 8.00pm at the Old School Room. Our speaker There is also information and pictures of the for the evening will be Eve Hessey who will fl ood on our local web site, just follow the be speaking on “Gertrude Jekell and her Clive R Murrie instructions to the correct page. contribution to garden design”. Eve Hessey www.publow-with-pensford.pc.gov.uk came to the club last year and gave us an informative talk on potagers so we welcome a return visit. From the Parish Register of All Saints’, Publow Internet safety Interment of Ashes Like it or not, the internet is part of the fabric I thought it would be quicker to climb down 13th June Rebecca (Betty) FILER of our society, infl uencing much of our daily straight from here, “ I explain in a matter of Weddings lives and interactions, particularly for young fact sort of way. “But, Mike, you’ll drop straight th people. But there are dangers in the virtual down into the river. You’ll kill yourself!” “No, 17 May Jessica STRATTON to William Twiston DAVIS world as well as the real one and adults need not me,“ I reply. “You see, I’m not the gravity 14th June Carlie RAWINS to Marc GRIFFITHS to tread the difficult path of celebrating type.” Well, what would you say to that? I take Baptism what the internet can off er, whilst protecting it that you’d tell me in no uncertain terms th young people’s physical, mental, emotional that, when it came to gravity, my “type” was 18 May Benjamin Thomas BROWN and spiritual safety. irrelevant. You’d tell me that gravity was not Parish Walk Staying Safe Online is an easy to read book- just an idea that people found helpful. Grav- Chelwood Lucky Draw let which addresses some of the key issues ity was a reality that everyone in the world May 08 We are hoping to have a Parish Walk, Tues- day 29th July. Starting 9.30am. The walk will around helping young people stay safe needed to reckon with. At least, that’s what online. It explores what the dangers are, I hope you’d say. be about 7 miles there and back, dogs wel- £15 - S&C Meale £10 - P. Jones how young people use the internet, what Our culture has left us with a view of the world £5 - A&P Harrison £2 - D. Ross come, brollys and wellingtons also! Please safeguards can be put in place – and how to in which we would be seriously concerned contact Mervyn for further details before st respond if and when inappropriate use of the about the mental well-being of anyone we 1 Pensford Guides Monday 21st July. Tel: 01761 471618 internet does take place. It costs £2.95 and is met who said they were “not the gravity type”, We would like to send thanks to everyone available from the Resource Centre on 01749 but if we met someone who said they were “ who helped and supported us with our Pensford Toddler Group would like to thank 685129 or email resourcecentre@bathwells. not the religious type” we would barely raise coff ee morning on Saturday 14th June. We everyone who donated jumble to the anglican.org an eyebrow. We have been brought up to “For most people, religion comes under the believe in two separate worlds. On the one raised £206.62. This will be used to pay for Bag2school collection on 15th May. With same category as stamp collecting or Latin hand, there is the “physical world”, in which the repair of the shed doors. Thank you your help we managed to raise £105. We are American dancing. It is what some people we can publically agree that it is, for example, again. Guides always welcome new recruits. planning another collection in November choose to do with their spare time. And, in dangerous to step off suspension bridges. Please contact Rachael or Jacky Dando so keep us in mind if you’re thinking of hav- the same way that not exactly everyone goes On the other hand, there is what we might ing a “clear out” ! for train spotting, not exactly everyone goes call the “spiritual world”, which we regard as for religion. If you do, then we are, on the being essentially private.” Garden Coffee whole, happy for you. Personally, we can’t see In his book Real Life Jesus, Mike Cain goes Christian Aid the attraction. But then (we fi nd ourselves on to argue that the type of person we are is Morning for ARC The majority of the Christian Aid envelopes saying) “I am not the religious type.” Fair irrelevant. Like gravity, Jesus Christ is a real- Peter Handley is holding a Coff ee Morning have been collected from around the Ben- enough, you might think. ity that everyone needs to reckon with. His in his delightful garden at Wayside, Wick efi ce and the total of those donations came But imagine this. You and I are walking across book starts with forty pilot whales stranded Road, Bishop Sutton on Wednesday July to £1050.72,which with the benefi t of Gift the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol, ad- on Darlington Beach, Tasmania.
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