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September 2016 Dorchester News Free to every home in the parish September 2016 1 Dorchester News September 2016 In this issue A fund raiser in Paris 28 Dorchester News Editorial Team Autumn Flower Show 9 Ian Brace, Megan Parry Berinsfield Information Centre 11 September 2016 Distribution Co-ordinator Calling young singers 6 A DoT view Maurice Day Discovering Dorchester 18 The Autumn Flower Show is upon us and St Birinus school DOGS 8 autumn term is about to begin, both marking the end, or Copy Deadlines for Dorchester Diary 34 nearly the end, of summer. September can often give us Dorchester News Dorchester Flyer 27 October edition 9 Sept some glorious days, so let’s hope for some this year. November edition 14 Oct Dorchester Gardens Open 36 December edition 11 Nov Dorchester Lecture 6 With autumn come some innovations. The Dorchester DoT Cricket 11 Flyer has got underway as a replacement for the subsidised Advert Deadlines for DoT Historical Society 4 bus services that have now been withdrawn. With two journeys Dorchester News DoT NDP 27 to Wallingford and back each Friday, it gives you a chance One week before copy deadline Items in electronic form may be DoT Tennis Club News 8 to get to the market easily. Even if you usually drive to sent via e-mail attachment to DoT Village Hall Draw 6 Wallingford, this is the day of the week when parking there e-mail address at foot of page. DoT WI 11 can be very difficult, and The Dorchester Flyer takes the DoT WWll evacuees 23 stress out of that. See page 27 for details. For newsletter for other Earth Trust 13 churches in the Team send to admin@dorchester- Fellowship of St Birinus E’song 3 Later in the autumn there will be the Narnia event at the abbey.org.uk by the 9th of Fix My Street 6 Abbey—an interactive exhibition running from October the preceding month. Flu vaccinations - Berinsfield 23 through much of November. See the ad on page 15 for Footsteps Foundation 28 details of the event and the timings, including workshops to Advertising in From the Bishop of Oxford 5 create some of the activities. An event of this kind requires Dorchester News From the Rector 3 considerable support from volunteers to make it happen. There are ten issues per year The ad for volunteers on page 4 gives some details about with double issues in July/ From your county councillor 25 August and in Dec/Jan. For an Harvest Festival 3 how you can get involved and be a part of this experience. eighth of a page the cost is Hempcroft Allotments 13 £11.75 mono, £12.75 colour; Hermits and Anchorites 17 We have a serious and senior policeman coming to the for a quarter page £23.50 Hurst Water Meadow 13 village on 29 September. Don’t worry, though, he’s only mono, £25.50 colour; for a half page £35.25 mono, £38.50 IT Confidence sessions 23 coming to give the 2016 Dorchester Lecture. Sir Charles Pollard promises to be fascinating, with glimpses into some colour and full page £47.00 John Masefield House 28 mono, £51.00 colour. Lunch Club 6 of the major events of the past forty years, in the policing of Narnia Exhibition volunteers 4 which he has been involved. Make that a date for the diary. All charges are put towards the Narnia Interactive Exhibition 15 Ian Brace cost of the paper, printing and postage of copies being sent Narropera returns 7 outside the village. New Bishop of Oxford 4 Parish Council Notices 25 Cover: Malthouse Lane. To incorporate a logo or artwork, Pre-School News 7 please supply a copy, preferably Remembered: Johnny Chick 21 via e-mail: to address at foot of page or contact the editor. Royal British Legion 8 South African visitors 3 October One-time adverts, please send a St Birinus School News 7 deadline Deadline for cheque, payable to ‘Dorchester Talking Point 3 Abbey PCC’, to Friday October Thanks from Dawn Dudley 4 Nick Forman, Tribute: Nicholas Dudley 20 9 September Dorchester Willoughby House, 73 High Street, Tribute: Pat Owen 21 News Dorchester-on-Thames, Wallingford Museum 30 OX10 7HN. Wallingford Corn Exchange 31 Wallingford St Peter’s Music 30 email: [email protected] Wallingford U3A 31 k Printed by Higgs of Henley. Dorchester News September 2016 2 Talking Point Revd. David Haylett It seems to me this split in the Conservative Party, a split Then we have the devil and the deep year that, as a nation, which seems to have been healed, or has blue sea choice facing electors in the we have seen extremes it just been papered over? Only time will USA, Trump versus Clinton, both sides in all sorts of areas of tell. It also seemed to be the trigger for an have their supporters and detractors, but our lives. We started even more serious split in the Labour the world has to live with their choice. the year with celebrations of the longest Party, with the Leader, supported apparently One wonders where it is all going to end. reign of any monarch in our country’s history by the ‘grass roots’ having a major and then the Queen’s 90th birthday. dispute with the majority of Labour MPs In the aftermath of the referendum vote , Celebrations which began well ahead of and mass resignations from the Shadow the Archdeacon of Berkshire, (who lived the actual birthday in April and continued Cabinet. in Long Wittenham prior to her appoint- until after the “official” birthday in June. ment as Archdeacon) wrote: ‘What I am Brexit also seems to suggest that future Celebrations which went on for so long convinced about is that, as followers of funding for research, trade relationships, that the Queen made a comment which Christ, we must now work hard to heal, and the right to live, work and travel freely suggested that she was heartily fed up reconcile and love in an anxious society where we choose have ceased to be with hearing Happy Birthday sung over where racist voices are beginning to be certainties. and over again. (I sometimes wonder if heard. Let us hold fast to the words of she thinks the same thing about the Then our near neighbours, France and Desmond Tutu: National Anthem. Germany, were hit by a wave of terrorist Good is stronger than evil; attacks culminating last week (as I write Things then seemed to turn sour with the love is stronger than hate; this) with the horrific spectacle of an referendum and the decision by quite a light is stronger than darkness; elderly French Priest having his throat cut narrow majority to leave the European life is stronger than death. by Islamic extremists as he celebrated Union. Victory is ours, through him who loves us.’ Mass, an event which triggered our That immediately triggered a fall in the Archdeacon to circulate clergy here with Amen to that. value of the pound, revealed a fairly massive a warning to be vigilant. From the Rector I hope everyone has enjoyed their summer – as David’s Talking South African visitors Point suggests on a national and global scale it has been an We are very excited about the visit by key leaders of the Burning uncomfortable period for many. In September our Team Bush Ministry, which provides food and hospitality to pre- Churches will be counting down to the arrival of our partners school children in the village of Boegoeberg, South Africa. from South Africa at the end of the month. I hope you will Sarah, Susanna (Cheeks), Natalie and Teresa will be arriving want to meet Natalie, Theresa, Sarah and Cheeks and hear on Sunday 25 September and leaving on Monday 10 October. about the work they have begun which we are helping to develop. This means that they will be able to join us at our Harvest Festival We have much to learn from one another. Sarah and Cheeks celebrations, and also visit the various lunch clubs, coffee will be staying with me so do greet them if you see them in the mornings and mid-week services around the Dorchester village. If you would like to meet them or offer them hospitality Team. There will be time for sight-seeing too - we will be do get in touch with me – all of them will be at our Harvest showing them Oxford, and taking them to London and the seaside. Festival Service in the Abbey on October 2. The two Saturdays are also important. On the first of these, Saturday 1 October, we will be meeting to discuss Fellowship of St Birinus Evensong, the future of our link with the ministry. Since we first linked up three years ago a great deal of thinking has been put in to 18 September ways in which the ministry can become self-supporting, an On 18 September at 6pm we will be joined by members of the essential sustainability goal. It promises to be a fascinating Fellowship of St Birinus, their friends and family. day, with discussions around how best to meet the ever- The Fellowship of St Birinus is an honorary fellowship awarded increasing need of the ministry for food as it reaches out to by the Bishop of Dorchester to individuals who have made an more and more people, while at the same time having to deal outstanding contribution to church life either on a special and with severe water restrictions which put pressure on its ability particular occasion or over a period of time.
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