Exhibitions at the Moorside Room A Room with a View Hand Embroidered Collages & Paintings Janet Poole & Elspeth Milnes Margaret Roberts Friday 11th September to Friday 18th September July 30th to Aug 3rd, 10.30am – 6pm daily An exhibition of paintings by two local Margaret Roberts who artists, inspired by our trained as a costume and glorious countryside. stage designer at Wimbledon School of Art Elspeth lives and paints Kirkbymoorside Town Brass Band celebrates came to Kirkbymoorside in North Yorkshire. This after many years in winter has seen her in 200 years of being Kirkby's band. Scotland .She has exhibited Ullapool developing her John Woodward Musical widely in Scotland and loose and free handling Director says: "We are very Contents North Yorkshire. Painting by Janet Poole of oil paint. Landscape, wild and vast attracts proud to be Kirkby's town band. Kirkby Band 1 Her work, starts with an her and this has been interpreted using oil on paper. The We wanted to do something for idea and is mostly natural work is developed in the studio using sketches and our bi-centenary that was a Side by side 1 in inspiration. The collages celebration of the town, an photographs. are made in fabric and ultimate musical gift to the town Moors Bus 1 hand-embroidered— Janet also lives in North Yorkshire and paints the North York from the band to say thank you Morsbags 2 textiles being familiar to her from her costume and theatre Moors, the Howardian Hills and anything between. Her style for all the support they give us. experience. She uses fine fabrics in layers to create the depth is representational, and her works mostly small oils and We went to Dr Newton as he is Student Grants 2 watercolours worked outside, in all weathers in front of the world renowned across many of colour she needs for the picture. Fruit Pickers 2 Her artistic working life, as a freelance, has included graphic subject. Janet also paints portraits of people and animals in musical genres and we knew the The earliest photo of Kirkby as a proper brass band, circa 1900 piece would be exceptional. He design, illustration and batik design. pastel, on those days when it is too cold to venture outside. has however exceeded our Parking 2 Two artists painting similar subjects from very different Admission Free: all welcome, all works for sale 200 Years ago on the 10th of July internationally, teaching its expectations. The piece is perspectives. Town Council 3 Enquiries/commissions to 01751 430685 1815, twenty two days after the residents to play and playing at awesome, he has captured the battle of Waterloo, the town of town events from Armistice to essence of Kirkbymoorside and Exhibitions 4 Short Stay Parking continued from page 2 Kirkbymoorside purchased five town fairs, weddings and district, produced a legacy for new Traffic Regulations Orders will not now be considered unless there I am sorry that this whole process is taking longer than you would instruments, a Serpent, two funerals. the town and an outstanding For your diary 4 is a significant personal injury accident history... So, if your request wish, but I hope the above sheds some light on the reasons for the Bassoons, and two Horns for To celebrate both the bi- piece that will stand the critical came in today, we would have to say no. delays. their band, to be the property of centenary, and the town, the examination of the brass band Yours As for your Traffic Regulation Order request, the consultation ended at the inhabitants at large of the band commissioned Dr. Rodney world." Next issue the end of October. ..I found that there were a number of questions Richard Marr, town of Kirkbymoorside. So for Newton a world renowned The band welcomed Dr Rodney that the objectors had made that still needed answers. I am still the next 200 years, the band, in Copy and pictures to Area Manager, Ryedale and Scarborough District Areas composer, arranger, conductor, Newton and the Brass Band waiting for some of those questions to be answered. Until I have all all its forms, the town and [email protected] NYCC Highways and Transportation adjudicator and music journalist Press to the World Premier of the necessary information, I am unable to complete the report. Indeed, people of Kirkbymoorside have or may be left at the to write a piece of music, the piece at a concert for the some of the answers may influence the wording of the report, the final been intrinsically linked. ‘Chirchebi Tales’ – a suite for culmination of the bi-centenary Town Council office recommendation(s) and ultimately the extent and nature of the final The Town Council is very disappointed by this response but will The town providing essential brass band in five movements. celebrations on Sunday 14th Traffic Regulation Order, if in fact there is one at all. endeavour to progress the matter by all means available to us. COPY DEADLINE support for the band and the “Chirchebi” is the name given to June at Helmsley Art Centre. band representing the town not today’s town of Kirkbymoorside 23 October 2015 21 Town Council Meeting Church House 7.30pm only across the country but in the Domesday Book . For your diary 28 Environment Group Summit Coffee Shop 7.30pm July 2015 October Side by Side week or fortnight in your Your Life, My Life 26 Moors Bus Town Walk 1.30 from outside the Lemon community to help? We are 12 MenZown King’s Head 7 for 7.30pm, Jane Thomas by June Emerson Tree. Gentle walk around town for just over an hour looking to recruit volunteers for ‘This is a very moving story told with stops. Followed by refreshments at the King's talks about Modern Scouting Side by Side is a new service this exciting new service. A in uncomplicated words about 19 Town Council Meeting Church House 7.30pm currently being piloted in bank of volunteers across the Head. Will link into bus services. pain, loss and disability but with 26 Environment Group Summit Coffee Shop 7.30pm Scarborough, Whitby and area is essential to enable this such knowing about all those August Ryedale, offering volunteers the new project to be a success! experiences that you are pulled opportunity to make a real 1 Charity Coffee Morning at The Georgian House, November As a volunteer you will be able into its reality. It warmed my 9 MenZown King’s Head 7 for 7.30pm, Bring your CD difference to the lives of people to enjoy a whole new fibres reminding me of JL Carr’s 22/24 West End, Kirkbymoorside, 10.00am to 1.00pm. with dementia. track for all to share and enjoy experience. Alzheimer’s Society ‘A Month in the Country’ from Proceeds to Yorkshire Air Ambulance and Ryedale 1987, bringing together so 16 Town Council Meeting Church House 7.30pm Isolation and loneliness is a would like to draw on your life Dog Rescue. Entrance £1. Tombola, book stall cake major concern for those experiences while at the same much that is good about 23 Environment Group Summit Coffee Shop 7.30pm stall, games etc affected by dementia. To time offering you the humanity and human values — I am enriched by the reading.’ *MenZown is a meeting for men. It starts with tea/coffee, support those people with opportunity to gain new skills. September dementia to continue to be Full training will be given. A DBS James Partridge OBE followed by a speaker and a drink in the bar. First meeting no CEO of ‘Changing Faces 14 MenZown* King’s Head 7 for 7.30pm, John Paul charge. To join, £8 PA and £3 per meeting. Enquiries to Revd. active in their own communities check is required for this Moorsbus —the project will address this volunteering role. Interested? Now both paperback and Kindle: talks about the RAF Richard Sharpe, 65, West End, KMS 01751-431364, Chairman . www.ow.ly/zmqsH and also from Town Walk 26th July issue as well as be rewarding for Please contact Bernadette Brown, www.juneemerson.co.uk (see p.4 for details) both parties. Community Support Manager for All proceeds go to www.moorsbus.org The Moorsider is published 3 times a year by the Town Council and printed by Depth Charge Design Ltd Can you give a few hours each further information 01723 500958. Ryedale Carers Support 01751 477216 Morsbags all over the world Kirby Fruit Pickers, a success This volunteer run project began almost 3 years ago with the aim of finding a use for surplus local fruit and raising some funds for community activities. The first year was a steep Kirkbymoorside Town Council learning curve but then came the bumper harvest of 2013 when the group managed to stop over 2 tonnes of surplus fruit from going to waste. Grants from the Town Council and a local fund made it The Town Clerk is based in the Library every Wednesday lunchtime and you can access Town possible to purchase very efficient juicing equipment to make local pressed apple juice, which is on sale at the Summit Council services whenever the Library is open, (see below for opening hours.) Bakery and Kirkby News. The full Council meets on the third Monday of each month except for August. Meetings are open Money raised from sales has been put to good use to help to the public, start at 7.30pm and are held in Church House, High Market Place, Kirkbymoorside. several community groups Agendas are displayed in the office window, on the Town Council notice board and can be viewed including The Junior Brass Band, Kirkby in Bloom and the via the website (see address below). Making Morsbags at Dalby forest visitors centre Community First Responders. Morsbags groups known as “pods” can be found all over the Recently alongside juicing world. The Kirkbymoorside Pod is very grateful that to have activities the group have held Town Meeting Kirkbymoorside Brass Band when making your booking. the number of complaints fruit tree grafting and pruning use of the house at St Chad’s Church for meetings. Since the This annual meeting was The Town Council A 25% commission rate is about dog fouling has group started almost 2000 bags have been made. Morsbags courses, and has begun looking currently available for local significantly decreased at the history of fruit growing in held on Wednesday 20th congratulates the Brass are made from recycled fabric and given away free, to be artists and exhibitors with a following the increase in used instead of plastic carrier bags. the area. They have also begun to May in the Moorside Room Band on the occasion of and was very well attended. their 200 Anniversary, which minimum charge of £5 per reports to the dog warden. If you need reasons to start using cloth shopping bags graft wood from old orchard day applied to cover the Clearly the residents of instead of plastic bags, here are just a few. trees in the town to develop a Mayor Chris Dowie gave her is celebrated this year. We ‘living record’ of the apple running costs. Kirkbymoorside are finding Over 500 billion plastic bags are used worldwide each year annual report and are very proud of them and varieties traditionally grown here. their voices! If you wish to (so that’s about 70 plastic bags per person – if everyone had presented the Community wish them all the best in this Please contact the Town a few trusty morsbags to keep and use, problem solved!) Right, Millers Seedling, an early Award to June Cook for her celebration year and in the Clerk for more information. join the initiative you can season eating apple that originated significant contribution to future. sign up at the Library, Retailers and governments are struggling to make the in the mid 1800's but was planted Since the Room was opened the community over many Scallywags or the Town difference that is needed through taxes and bans, we the here just over 50 years ago. Apple The Moorside Room in 2014 it has been used by a consumers need to take this into our own hands. years. June set up and Council office. By being part identification is an art rather than a The Moorside Room @ 9 variety of groups and has remains Chair of of the Group you can report In some parts of the ocean there are six pounds of plastic for science! Church Street, proved to be a popular every pound of plankton. Kirkbymoorside & District an incident of dog fouling If you would like to get involved please contact Chris Kirkbymoorside, YO62 6AZ venue, hosting birthday Marie Curie Cancer Care knowing that you have the For more information take a look at www.morsbags.com Simmonds on 01751 430695 or email is available for hire with free parties, exhibitions by The Fund Raising Group, which support of like-minded [email protected] WiFi. Booking Forms can be History Group, has raised more than individuals. All you need to downloaded from the Town Kirkbymoorside & District £304,798.05. She is also do is display the Canine John Stockton Educational Foundation SHORT STAY PARKING IN KIRKBYMOORSIDE TOWN CENTRE Council’s website and are Camera Club, Colin Pearsall involved with many other Watch symbol in your Most people in the town would like to see a solution to the parking available from the Library and Dynamic Pictures by community groups including window to indicate you Grants for Students and Apprentices problems. At a meeting on 17th June 2013 the Town Council agreed and the Town Council office. Polly Baldwin. During the Messy Church at the support the initiative and John Stockton, a Yeoman farmer, died in 1841 and left a sum to ask NYCC to consider implementing short stay parking restrictions It is available at no charge summer it will be the venue in the centre of Kirkbymoorside. Methodist Chapel, the Red with other members you are of money in trust for the purpose of putting children to one Wednesday each month for exhibitions by Maggie school to be taught and instructed in reading, writing and Cross, Brownies, the prepared to report the On 11 September 2014 North Yorkshire County Council Highways for use by Community Roberts, Janet Poole and arithmetic in specified townships. Here we are some 174 years department began consulting on limiting waiting in Market Place to Elderberry Club and the pre- offenders and ensure that Groups and Charities. The History Group. later still administering the Trust but moving on with the two hours between the hours of 9am and 5pm from Monday to the streets and footpaths of school playgroup. The Everyone is very welcome times and a revised scheme date 1958. Saturday, with no return within 1 hour. Included in the order was a Mayor thanked June for all A successful bid for S106 Kirkbymoorside are kept proposed loading bay on West End, outside the DIY shop, from and all admissions are free. Today the Trust gives grants to students, usually at a degree her voluntary work in the grant funding by Kirkby 'foul free'. 8:30am to 5pm, Monday to Friday and, the formalising of two bus CanineWatch level, and to apprentices, and covers such items as purchase town and congratulated her Digital enabled AV Grants of relevant books, stationery, equipment, fees and tools. To stops on West End and West Fields from 7am to 7pm. equipment to be installed so The Canine Watch initiative on receiving the award. Recently the council has qualify applicants must have lived in the parishes below for a The consultation closed on 31st October 2014 . that the Moorside Room is launched in April has proved awarded grants to All Saints period of not less than 2 years and be under 25 years of age. In June 2015 having received no information the Town Council an ideal film club venue. to be popular with interest Church and Next Steps, a Kirkbymoorside, Beadlam, Nawton, Welburn & Wombleton, pressed NYCC Highways for a report and received the following spreading to Pockley, Special Offer for children’s mental health group that Gillamoor, Fadmoor, Aislaby, Middleton,Wrelton, Cropton, response Sinnington and Rufforth. It Harome,Pockley, Appleton-le-Moors, Lastingham,Hutton le Birthday Parties £5 per hour. meets in the town. “… I regret to inform you that no such formal report will be produced. is having a positive effect as Hole, Spaunton, Farndale East & West, Normanby and Please use the code “Bday” What I can say is that the process to get parking restrictions from Barughs Ambo, Great Edstone and Thornton Riseborough, initial request to “paint on the ground” is a long one. One major factor Thornton Dale and Wilton. Library Opening hours that can influence the timescales is the priority we assign to any such Governors meet twice a year to consider applications. A request. Shrinking budgets have put further burdens on staff and Mon 10.00 –7.00pm, Tues closed, Wed 10.00 –5.00pm, Thurs 2.00 –7.00pm, Fri 10.00 –5pm, Sat 10.00 –12.30pm simple application form can be obtained from the Clerk, without a high priority, some schemes can be left for considerable Mrs Kendall, on 01439 771575 and she would be pleased to periods whilst concerns of a higher priority take the available, limited, Contacting theTown Council: answer any questions. resources. KIRKBYMOORSIDE TOWN COUNCIL , The Shambles , Crown Square , Kirkbymoorside , York YO62 6AY For your information, any request for alterations to, or requests for Tel: 01751 432217 website: www.kirkbymoorsidetowncouncil.gov.uk Continued on back page 2 3