www.enfordnewsletter.org ENFORD NEWSLETTER March 2009 ENFORD NEWSLETTER Newsletter website/Village Hall Advertisers/Military Exercise 1 Avon Valley Churches Lent and Easter 2009 2 A Message for Lent from our Vicar 3 Jumble Sale/Small Saints Bingo/Church Services & Cleaning 4 Golf Fun Day/Pilates, Yoga & Nia Classes 5 A Blast from The Past/Wiltshire Walks 6 Village Summer Fete 2009 7 Opening of Village Hall/PCC Annual Meeting 8 Enford Village Hall/Tatty Bumpkin 9 Clubs/Messages 10 Highway News 11 200 Club Draw/Bus Services 13 Plainwatch 14 SPTA News 15 Advertising 17 Village Committees 26 March Dates 27 DATE OF NEXT COMMITTEE MEETING Wednesday 25 th March All items for inclusion, whether they are handwritten, typed or via e-mail, MUST be submitted by the date of the meeting or they will not be published until the following month . These articles may be handed in to any Newsletter Committee member. Please send e-mails to [email protected] Enford Newsletter Committee reserves the right to reject or omit from publication any material that is considered by majority of Committee Members to be detrimental to any person or which is not in the best interest of the community as a whole. All letters and articles must be signed, but the Committee will withhold the name of the writer if this is requested at the time of sending it in. ENFORD NEWSLETTER March 2009 March 2009 WELCOME TO www.enfordnewsletter.org You can now read the latest edition of the Newsletter at www.enfordnewsletter.org . The website will be run alongside the hard copy of the Newsletter for the coming twelv months. It will be exactly the same but in glorious colour which is how it always begins but of course due to printing costs we need to produce it in black and white. If you visit the website you can read old copies from the past 3 years. Over the coming months we will work on adding many more of our old copies going back to 1967. Many of you will find these of great interest. They are currently in my loft gathering dust but I think that they deserve to be shared with everyone. We would appreciate any comments you have that might help us to improve the website so that it becomes a useful medium for sharing news and information. Thanks Steve for the hours you have spent so far in production of the website. Village Hall Classes & Advertising in The Enford Newsletter The Enford Newsletter Committee is happy to advertise any classes or activities in our New Village Hall. As a welcome to the village we would like to offer your first advert free of charge. Thereafter, if you wish to advertise standard rates will be charged. See our advertising section at the end of the Newsletter for current rates PRESS RELEASE Release No: 10/09 18 February 2009 MAJOR MILITARY EXERCISE ON SALISBURY PLAIN Up to 2,000 troops and 100 vehicles are to take part in a major Army exercise on Salisbury Plain Training Area to ensure that soldiers are sufficiently prepared for deployment to the Middle East in May. The Mission Rehearsal Exercise (MRX) will take place from 9 to 22 March and will involve local units from Bulford-based 12 Mechanised Brigade. The exercise will involve aircraft – fast air and helicopters, life firing and increased military traffic on roads on Salisbury Plain. Every effort is being made to ensure minimum disruption to local residents and other public road users on Salisbury Plain. Activity will mainly take place on training areas and will avoid public roads wherever possible. Local MPs, parish councils, police and other interested parties have been contacted in advance of the exercise. The police have been made aware of vehicle routes and timings. During the exercise convoys will be limited to a maximum of twenty vehicles in each group to minimise the impact on local traffic. Principal roads used will be on Salisbury Plain although one section of the A338 from the crossing point DD, north of Tidworth and crossing point CC, just south of the A342, will also be used. Traffic Controls will be placed at these crossing points and use of this section of public road will be confined to outside rush hour traffic times. Details of the low flying aspects of the exercise will be posted on the website www.mod.uk/issues/lowflying. Brigadier David Cullen, Commander of 12 Mechanised Brigade said “Elements of the Brigade are deploying to Iraq and Kuwait in May to support the drawdown process associated with the reduction of UK force levels in the region. This exercise is the culmination of an intensive period of training and preparation and offers an excellent opportunity to place the deploying troops under conditions similar to those they are likely to encounter on operations. “Whilst training of this nature and scale will inevitably involve an amount of disruption to the local community we will make every effort to ensure that this is kept to a minimum. As a local brigade we are very grateful for the support and patience of the community that allows us to train effectively for operations. ” 1 ENFORD NEWSLETTER March 2009 ALL SAINTS ENFORD CHURCH Lent Study Groups Studying ‘Lentwise’ by Paula Gooder on John’s Gospel Spiritual Essentials for Real Life Durrington Rectory Wednesday, 11.00 am starting 4 th Mar 2 Coronation Villas, Wednesday, 2.30 pm starting 4 th Mar (Netheravon) Netheravon Vicarage Thursday, 7.30 pm starting 5 th Mar th Lent Lunches Durrington Rectory Friday, 7.30 pm starting 6 Mar Tuesdays 12.30 pm – 2.00 pm These groups will run for 5 weeks. Books are required so please inform your churchwarden so they can let us know if in aid of Sudan Medical Appeal you are coming. 3rd March Chas Acre, Fittleton 10 th March Manor Cottage, Enford 17 th March The Vicarage, Netheravon 24 th March The Old Stables, Figheldean 31 st March 43 Churchill Ave, Bulford 7th April 4 Brigmerston Cottages, Milston Fully Alive, Diocesan Lent Talks with Timothy Radcliffe 1. Wednesday 25th February 5.30 pm Ash Wednesday Eucharist in the Cathedral 2. And then either every Tuesday (3rd, 10th, 17th and 24th March) in St John’s Church Devizes at 7.30 pm Lent and 3. Or every Wednesday (4 th 11 th 18 th 25 th March) at 1.00 pm in the Cathedral Easter 2009 4. Wednesday 1 st April at 7.30 pm Final Talk together in the Cathedral Lifts are available if required—contact your Churchwarden Mon 6 th April 7.30 pm An Occasion for Holy Week All Saints Durrington Tues 7 th April 7.30 pm Compline with meditation All Saints Fittleton Holy Week and Easter Wed 8 th April 7.30 pm Compline with meditation All Saints Enford Services Thurs 9 th April 7.00 pm Supper Eucharist (followed by Maundy Thursday Vigil in Church) Durrington Infant School Good Friday 9.00 am Breakfast and Family Service St Michael and AA F’dean 2.00 pm – 3.00 pm Last Hour Palm Sunday 8.00 am Holy Communion BCP All Saints Durrington St Leonards Bulford 9.00 am Holy Communion All Saints Enford Sat 11 th April 7.30 pm Easter Eve Liturgy 10.00 am Sung Eucharist All Saints Holy Saturday St Mary Milston Durrington 10.30 am Family Services Easter Day 8.00 am Holy Communion BCP All Figheldean and F’ton Saints D’ton 10.30 am Family Communion St Leonard Bulford 10.30 am Holy Communion BCP St Mary 9.00 am Holy Communion BCP St Mary Milston Milston 6.00 pm Festival Evensong All Saints 10.00 am Sung Eucharist All Saints Netheravon Durrington 6.00 pm Compline All Saints 10.30 am Family Communion All Saints Durrington N’avon 2 ENFORD NEWSLETTER March 2009 ALL SAINTS ENFORD CHURCH A message for Lent from our Vicar Colin Fox Dear Friends The season of Lent begins on Ash Wednesday, 25 th February. There will be a service at 10am in Bulford and a 7pm service in Durrington including the Imposition of Ashes. The theme of Lent reminds us all of our own frailties and weaknesses and that we are not always as helpful and loyal to one another as we could be. The Christian Church provides forgiveness from God and from one another. It was Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Russian writer, who experienced war and imprisonment for his country. He tells how this experience greatly enriched him. ‘I must admit, he says, that before my experience of war and prison I didn’t have much faith in friends, particularly in the business of laying one’s life down for them.’ But the war changed all this. During the war he drank to friendship and love. In roadside ditches, in flooded trenches, he learned the value of a tin of soup, an hour of quiet, the meaning of true friendship, the meaning of life itself. Returning to civilian life after the war, Alexander and his friends were stunned by what they found in the way people treated one another. It is not an easy life but a difficult life which creates a deep lasting bond between people. The very difficulties encountered and the sacrifices made for one another are what fashion and strengthen the bond between people. These are the things out of which friendship and loyalty are born. May Lent challenge us to mend broken relationships and to make a fresh start growing in confidence and faith.