REETH AND DISTRICT GAZETTE ISSUE NO. 191 MAY 2011 Your local news magazine for the Two Dales PRICELESS 2 REETH AND DISTRICT GAZETTE CHURCH NOTICES in Swaledale & Arkengarthdale Sunday 8th MAY Sunday 15th MAY 9.30am St. Andrew’s, Grinton 9.15am St. Mary’s Muker Eucharist Holy Communion BCP St. Michael’s, Downholme 10.30am Low Row URC Holy Communion Reeth Methodist 10.30am Low Row URC Family Service Reeth Methodist 11.00am St. Edmund’s, Marske 11.00am St. Edmund’s Marske Morning Service Morning Service Holy Trinity Low Row Reeth Evangelical Congregational Eucharist 11.15am St. Mary’s, Arkengarthdale Reeth Evangelical Congregational Holy Communion BCP 2.00pm Keld URC 6.00pm St. Mary’s, Muker 6.30pm St. Mary’s, Arkengarthdale Evening Prayer Evening Prayer BCP Arkengarthdale Methodist Arkengarthdale Methodist Gunnerside Methodist Reeth Evangelical Congregational Reeth Evangelical Congregational Thursday 12th Sunday 22nd. MAY 7.30pm Low Row URC 8.00am Holy Trinity Low Row Christian Aid Service Holy Communion BCP 9.30am St. Andrew’s, Grinton Eucharist Sunday 29th MAY St. Michael’s, Downholme 10.30am Holy Trinity Low Row Holy Communion United Parish Eucharist and 10.30am Low Row URC The Swaledale Festival Service Holy Communion Reeth Methodist Reeth Methodist Family Service 11.00am St. Edmund’s, Marske 11.00am St. Edmund’s Marske Morning Service Family Service Reeth Evangelical Congregational Reeth Evangelical Congregational 11.15am St. Mary’s Arkengarthdale 6.30pm Arkengarthdale Methodist Holy Communion BCP Traditional Spring Bank Holiday Service 2.00pm Keld URC Refreshments afterwards Holy Communion Reeth Evangelical Congregational 6.30pm Gunnerside Methodist Reeth Evangelical Congregational Monday 30th MAY Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) 3.00pm Arkengarthdale Methodist Chapel for information tel. Peter Neale 01969 625470 Afternoon Teas, Cake and Plant Stalls. Roman Catholic Services Opener Mrs. Sybil Reed please contact Father O’Neil on 01748 822175 Car Boot Sale - Grinton St Andrew’s Grinton are holding their annual Car Boot sale on Bank Holiday Monday 30th May on Parks Field, Grinton by kind permission of the Brown family. It’s time then to turn out your cupboards, fill up your car and make some money! Gates open at 8am for sellers [£8 entry] and 9am for buyers [50p entry]. Please note that no trade stands are allowed on the field for this charitable event. Donations for the church cake stall held on the field would be welcome - please contact Pat on 01969 622651. For general enquiries, please ring Alex on 01748 884706. Thank you in advance for your support. REETH AND DISTRICT GAZETTE 3 GAZETTE MANAGEMENT TEAM REETH & DISTRICT GAZETTE LTD No material may be reproduced in whole or in Chairman: Malcolm Gardner part without permission. 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Cover photograph LARGE PRINT “Up, Up and Away” COPIES OF THE GAZETTE We can now offer large print copies of Hot Air Balloon leaving Low the Gazette. These are issued free of Row. Photo by Peter Cuff charge, but P & P is £14 pa.. Please inform the Subscription Secretary should For all advertising queries please you require this service. contact the editor. 4 REETH AND DISTRICT GAZETTE Hudson House – future assured by have to find savings elsewhere in our National Park Authority decision budgets, but Members decided it was a Members of the Yorkshire Dales National price worth paying.” Stuart Parsons, the Park Authority (YDNPA) today (March 29) Authority‟s Member Champion for abandoned plans to pull out of a contract Promoting Understanding, said: “We are that might have caused the closure of a only one of a number of organisations community office in Swaledale. The operating services within the building – Authority currently rents space in Hudson others include Richmondshire District House – the community office in Reeth – to Council, North Yorkshire County Council and run a National Park Centre (NPC) and the North Yorkshire Police Authority as Tourist Information Centre. The contract well as a number of smaller organisations – expires in January 2013 and the YDNPA but our proposed withdrawal obviously proposed not to renew it as part of a drive caused a lot of concern over the future of to cut costs following a reduction in its the community office as a whole. “We asked grant from Government of nearly £1.9m (or people what they thought about our budget 31 per cent) including inflation over the proposals and we have listened and acted on next four years. The move was one of a raft their responses. At a time when so many of cost-cutting proposals in a draft budget public services and facilities are under that was put out for public consultation. But threat, it is important that we give as much Members today decided to ensure the support as possible to the communities future of the office by renewing the within this beautiful National Park.” Public contract and continuing the Authority‟s consultation began on February 4 on the presence there. The amount the Authority draft budget plans to cut 12 work will spend on the NPC and TIC in Hudson programmes, introduce 34 job losses and to House will be reduced from £28,000 to reorganise the Authority‟s structure to £20,000 and the money to continue meet the demands of the reduced budget. operating from the building will be found by The exercise generated 396 responses, 370 cuts to other budgets, Members decided. of which were from individuals and 26 from Carl Lis, the YDNPA‟s Chairman, said: “We organisations. The topic that drew most have listened to the concerns of people comment overall was Hudson House. 66 living in Reeth and further afield who value respondents were either opposed to the the community office as an important closure of the NPC services at Reeth and/ facility in the town, and we have decided to or concerned that the withdrawal of try to find money from other projects so Authority funding for Hudson House could that we can renew the contract. “Although ultimately result in its closure and hence there are problems with the performance the loss of the wide range of services of the National Park Centre compared to provided to the local community. Full details our other NPCs, we have been told that our of the results of the consultation are involvement in the whole Hudson House available at www.yorkshiredales.org.uk/ venture is critical to the long-term survival budgetconsultation of this valuable community resource. “Obviously the decision will mean that we REETH AND DISTRICT GAZETTE 5 REETH MEMORIAL HALL EVENTS newspaper for residents of the National Friday 13th May 8pm - Johnny Silvo – Park – is now available. If you haven‟t Norway-based Johnny (vocals & guitar) has already received a copy through your been performing since 1965, both as a solo letterbox, pick one up from the National artist and as part of a duo with Dave Park Centre at Hudson House, Reeth or call Moses or Sandy Denny. His songs range the editor Sarah Nicholson on 01756 from folk, jazz, blues, gospel to country and 751618 soul, presented with great humour. Listen Reeth and District Angling Club to him singing Blueberry Hill or I‟ll Fly Please note there was an error in the Away on You Tube, and you‟ll want to hear artical last month. Anyone wanting to join him live. He has a rich voice that you‟ll not the club should contact:- forget. Support by Tippin’ the Wink. £10 The Membership secretary, Bob Forsyth (£11 door). Friday 24th June 8pm - on 01748 884807 or visit the club's Richard Grainger - Middlesbrough born website www.radac.org where application Richard Grainger is a guitarist, singer, forms may be downloaded. songwriter, writer and entertainer. His Reeth and District Athletic Club 300 musical plays include Eye of the Wind (the Club Winners tale of the explorer James Cook) and The March draw Moorland Whalers - the story of the 98 – David Calvert £50 Yorkshire Whaling Industry.