Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine Issue 101 70 pence where sold May 2017: Issue 101 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine 1 The Team... Beacon Welcome from the Chair he Beacon Magazine would not reach your door without the kind CONTENTS Thelp of the volunteer band of adly, former Ivinghoe Parish distributors. Councillor Doug Clark has passed Many thanks to them all; Andy Welcome from the Chair 3 Saway. Doug was a popular Beezer, Les Hyde, Pat Roach, Geoff member of the community and will be Neighbourhood News Travis and Rob and Anne Cattle – 4-21 sadly missed. it couldn’t be done without you! Karen Groom, Ecumenical Enlightenment 30 If you have any skills that will help Brookmead School Chair, Ivinghoe us to keep the magazine going or you Cultivation Clippings 36-37 Congratulations to all the staff and Parish Council would like to submit an article, please children at Brookmead School as the let us know as we are always looking School Stuff 40-43 School celebrates it’s 50th Anniversary. for new and varied talents! I was one of the fi rst pupils to attend the Beyond the Boundary 42-57 brand new Brookmead School! Bucks Best Village Competition Councillor Communication 58-63 Play Areas We have been asked by residents to The fi tness equipment and new Viking enter the Bucks Best Village Competition. Swing has been ordered for Ivinghoe We appreciate all the clean-ups various BEACON COPY AND from Wicksteed, installation is planned for groups do throughout the year and ADVERT DEADLINES week commencing 15th May. Michael our hard-working litter picker. Ivinghoe Aston have recently welcomed Please do your bit and help keep our We aim to get the magazine distributed two new additions to the play area, I hope parish looking lovely. around the beginning of every February, May, the toddlers are enjoying playing on the Unfortunately, recently there has been August and November. To ensure your article two new rides. an increase in dog mess on the footpath/ Editor: Christabel Boersma or feature makes the edition you would like Our WI branch celebrates 100 years verges especially in Great Gap and even Tel: 01296 661 532 please see the submission deadlines below: in May and we send our congratulations on Ivinghoe Lawn, please remember to Email: [email protected] to them. To commemorate the occasion always pick-up after your dog. Advertising Manager: Bridget Knight the WI have kindly donated a picnic table The Christmas Tree has died, a new Tel: 07960 605393 which is being made locally and will be one will be planted later in the year and placed on Ivinghoe Lawn for all to use. will be located on Ivinghoe Lawn. Email: [email protected] July 2017 Edition – 4 June 2017 Design & Artwork: Laila Palfrey November 2017 – 4 October 2017 February 2018 Edition – 4 January 2018 Annual Meeting of Ivinghoe Website Tel: 01525 222214 Please keep checking the website May 2017 Edition – 4 April 2018 Parish Council Email: [email protected] This year’s event will be in a new format! for updates and information The reports will be available to read and www.ivinghoepc.org.uk or contact BEACON MAGAZINE ADVERTISING RATES: the formalities will be kept to a minimum. the Parish Clerk on 07960 605393. We aim to make this a friendly, sociable 1/4 page £38 per year NB: Rates are for 4 editions. event and hope you can attend. Please 1/3 page £45 per year save the date – Thursday 18th May at Karen Groom, Chair 1/2 page £75 per year Artwork must be supplied 7.15 at Ivinghoe Town Hall. Ivinghoe Parish Council Full page £110 per year as a jpeg or a pdf fi le. 2 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine May 2017: Issue 101 May 2017: Issue 101 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine 3 Enjoy Home cooked food at the YOUR VILLAGE YOUR VILLAGE NEEDS YOU Waterside Café SundayNEEDS 21 May 2017, 10am, The Hub,YOU... Ivinghoe Pitstone Wharf, Cheddington Road, Pitstone, Ivinghoe has been put forward this year for the ‘Best Kept Village’ contest! Bucks LU7 9AD We are hoping to put together a group of village residents to help tidy up Ivinghoe Breakfasts, Lunches, Soup, Sandwiches, Toasties in preparationSunday for the competition21 May judging 2017, in June Homemade Cakes, Cream Teas plus a selection of If can10am, you spare an Thehour or two Hub, or perhaps Ivinghoe the day and put all our efforts together Hot & Cold Drinks to pick litter, weed and tidy around Ivinghoe village please let our organisers know so that we can ensure we can plan working groups to tackle different areas around OPENING TIMES NEIGHBOURHOOD NEWS theIvinghoe village has been put FRIDAY SATURDAY AND SUNDAY -10am to to 2.30pm 3pm . Forforward all of those involved this in the clean year-up we plan for to host the a BBQ later in the day BANK HOLIDAYS 10am 10am toto 3pm 3pm If you are keen to join in or want more information please contact Karen Groom [email protected]‘Best Kept orVillage’ Carol Tarrant (Corn) contest! [email protected], or On request for group bookings we can offer seating for 36people. [email protected] Email: café@pitstonewharf.co.uk www.pitstonewharf.co.uk We are hoping to put together a group of village residents to help tidy up Ivinghoe in preparation for the competition judging in June. If can you spare an hour or two or perhaps the day and put Tring Market all our efforts together to pick litter, weed and tidy around Auctions Ivinghoe village please let our organisers know so that we Independent Fine Art & Chattel Auctioneers and Valuers. Est 1832 can ensure we can plan working groups to tackle different areas around the village Auctioneers & Valuers of Fine Art, Antique Furniture & Collectables For all of those involved in the clean-up we plan to host Fortnightly General Sales of General Furnishings & Effects a BBQ later in the day Antique Furniture & Fine Art Sales Total & Part House Clearance Specialists If you are keen to join in or want more information please If you can’t find it here you won’t find it anywhere! contact Karen Groom [email protected] or Carol Tarrant (Corn) [email protected], or Buying or Selling, contact us on 01442 826446 The Market Premises, Brook Street, Tring, Herts HP23 5EF [email protected] Website: www.tringmarketauctions.co.uk Email: [email protected] 4 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine May 2017: Issue 101 May 2017: Issue 101 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine 5 RikkIAbout The Horrorball, Nobody expects the 16th September 2017 IA inquisition Nazdrave! Veronika: Everybody we meet is very Horror of horrors, it’s nearly two years since Just as we were waving off Santa from friendly and helpful, we could do with the last black tie ball. Don’t miss the next The Village Swan, so we were also bidding more people coming to the pub. one! Tickets are £68 if booked before 31st farewell to Patrick and Fanny, whilst July, £73 thereafter. This includes a seated welcoming Kiril and Veronika to IA’s top job. Rikki: Do you have any new initiatives three course meal, and great music from They were, however, no strangers to the in mind? compere and singer Marc Dillon and Straight village as Kiril had previously been chef at Eight Soul Band. Funds will be raised for the pub before swanning off to The Crow’s Veronika: We have recently introduced NEIGHBOURHOOD NEWS Keech Hospice Care and research into Nest, The King’s Head and The Greyhound. afternoon tea from midday each day of the Niemann–Pick Disease. Raffl e prizes and Now they’ve returned to manage The Village week except Mondays. We hope that this donations would be very much welcomed, Swan and live there with daughter Katrin (22), will attract locals and walkers. Also, we are whether or not you are able to attend. Dust son Alex (16) and cocker spaniel Jessica (10). Veronika: Wine and Guinness for me. happy to provide lifts (reasonably locally) down those dress suits and beautiful gowns, They came to the UK from Bulgaria two for those who wish to drink a bit more. and come along to the Haunted House years ago. Katrin and Alex: Water – we are fi tness (well, marquee!). Be there and be brave! fanatics. I (Alex) hope one day to run a Rikki: What’s on the menu tonight? Contact Maddie [email protected]; Rikki: I gather that you come from Sofi a, fi tness motivation business. 07525 494117. the capital of Bulgaria with a population Kiril: Amongst other things, pheasant 30,000 times that of Ivinghoe Aston (I had Jessica: A pint of puddle water, woof. curry. Late News done my homework), what brought you to Yes, I know we’re nearly half way to next our tiny village? Rikki: So, Katrin and Alex, as you are Rikki: See you later. Nazdrave! Christmas, but the previous article celebrating seriously into fi tness, do you have to 100 issues left no room for current news, Veronika: We had friends in Tring with approve the menus? Rikki p.s.: It was delicious! My new year’s and I wouldn’t want Santa to think we were whom we had planned to go into business, resolution was to eat and drink at The ungrateful. As usual he generously stopped but that didn’t work out. A friend of mine Kiril: (Before Katrin and Alex had the Village Swan more often. Up to this point I off at The Village Swan during his very busy was Patrick’s accountant and that’s how chance to answer) The food here is very had failed miserably, but the pheasant curry 24-hour round-the-world tour.