Monthly news and views from the Church and the Community. A Rainbow Parish production by the Church of England in the Lune Valley Around Kirkby Lonsdale Lunesdale Agricultural July/August 2016 Show 2016 Lunesdale Agricultural Show will be held this year on Tue 9 August at its usual venue of Underley Park, Kirkby Lonsdale LA6 2DS. Schedules are available on the show website www.lunesdaleshow.org.uk for the Cattle, Sheep, Horse, Sticks and Crooks, Poultry, Dog and Home Industries sections. Entries for the Dog section close on Saturday 9th July, Livestock, Sticks and Crooks, Horses and Poultry close on Friday 22nd July and Home Indus- tries close on Tuesday 26th July. The Craft Marquee, featuring all hand crafted items is already full, the Food Hall is promoting locally sourced produce and a wide variety of trade stands are booked in for the show. There will be plenty of children’s entertain- Lake District Summer ment to suit all ages as well as the popular Cumberland and Westmorland Wrestling competition. In the main Music ring the Vale of Lune Hunt will display their hounds As I write this I hope that the prolonged summer before the Grand Parade of prize winners at 2.45pm and which has been forecast will really be with us, but cer- this will be followed by the Parade of Vintage Vehicles tainly the international Lake District Summer Music and then the show jumping. festival, launched in 1985, will be bringing us all over Email [email protected] for advance tickets at the Lake District some forty amazingly varied events. Adult £7, Child aged 15 or under £3, Concessions £5. The festival begins in Kendal Parish church on Satur- Under 5s free. day, 30 July, with a performance of Elgar's great sacred work, 'The Dream of Gerontius' sung by the Cumbria Festival Chorus and the Amabile Girls' Choir, and it will end on Friday, 12 August, with a Candlelight Serenade of varied chamber music in Ambleside Parish Church. For the events in between, look out in Kirkby Lonsdale for the detailed programme in the Library, Tourist Information Office and other venues. Included in the festival once again is a market day concert in St Mary's Parish Church at 12 noon on Thursday, 4 August. Three young violinists from the Purcell School of Music and studying on summer courses with LDSM will play a mixed programme including works by Leclair, Paganini and JS Bach. Continued on page 2.. Deadline for September AKL: Midday Monday 15 August. Nothing received after the dead- There are classes for children and adults. Schedules and line can be included. entry forms can be downloaded from the show website Please email submissions to [email protected]. at www.lunesdaleshow.org.uk and are also available in Editorial matters: Contact the editorial team at KL Library, at Home & Garden, Dales Butchers and Sew [email protected] Advertising: For advertising accounts email [email protected] Payment for ad- What, and from the Karen Hodgson on 015242 76226. verts: Mail to AKL, Lunesdale Hall, Bective Rd, Kirk- Entries must be received by Tuesday 26th July. by Lonsdale, LA6 2BG. For all other advertising matters: email [email protected] 1 Monthly news and views from the Church and the Community. A Rainbow Parish production by the Church of England in the Lune Valley Continued from front page… Fundraising thanks Whatever your taste in music you will find something to delight you; opera at Fellinis, jazz at Zeffirellis, a classical Russ & Maureen Taylor, formerly of Whelprigg Lodge— accordion recital...and of course much chamber and Casterton wish to thank neighbours and local people for piano music. their support and generous contributions in aid of St John’s Hospice Lancaster and delighted to forward them The programme itself is a good read - but we hope it in- a cheque for £268 50. spires you to take the chance of hearing some of the in- ternational artists and young musical stars of the future Thanks to all for their generosity. while they are so close to Kirkby Lonsdale. Janet Atkins. THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND Rainbow Team: Team Rector: Revd. Richard Snow, The Rectory, Lupton: Churchwardens: Mrs Margaret Lambert, Brow Head, Cow Vicarage Lane, Kirkby Lonsdale, Carnforth, LA6 2BA (015242) 72044, Brow, Lupton, LA6 1PJ, 015395 67478, Mrs Grace Lewis, Middle Fell [email protected]. Team Curate: Revd Anne Pettifor, House, Lupton, Carnforth LA6 2QB, 015395 67406. DCC Secretary: Cross House, Whittington, Carnforth LA6 2NX (015242) 71904, Mrs Eleanor Higton, Hill Crest, Cow Brow, Lupton, LA6 1PJ 015395 [email protected]. Assistant Priest: Revd Deborah Pres- 67521. DCC Treasurer and PCC Representative: Mr Arthur Oakden, ton, The Old Schoolhouse, Kirkby Lonsdale, Carnforth LA6 2DX, Tarnside House, Lupton, LA6 2PX 015395 66945, lindseyoak- 015242 72509, [email protected]. Lay Reader Mrs Liz Dew, [email protected]. 9 Burton Park, Burton in Kendal, Carnforth LA6 1JB 01524 781645, Mansergh: Churchwarden: Mrs Wendy Hadwin, Mansergh Hall 01524 781645 [email protected]. Parish Administrator: Farm, Mansergh, LA6 2EN, 015242 71397. DCC Secretary: Mrs Sue Mrs Victoria Hazlett, Parish Office, 1 Bective Road, Kirkby Lonsdale, Harrison Belle Vue Farmhouse, Mansergh, LA6 2EJ, 015242 72448, Carnforth, LA6 2BG 015242 71320 [email protected]. PCC [email protected]. DCC Treasurer: Mrs Anne Hum- Lay Chair: Mr Merlin Hibbs, Low Fell House, Barbon, Carnforth, LA6 phries, The Gate House, Old Stable Yard, Rigmaden, Kirkby Lonsdale, 2LJ 015242 76410, [email protected]. PCC Secretary Sue Pelter, LA6 2E, 015242 76526, ahumphries123 @btinternet.com. 015242 73284 PCC Treasurer: Mr Robert Cass, 17 Mitchelgate, Kirkby Middleton: Churchwarden, Treasurer and Secretary: Mr Peter Lonsdale, Carnforth, LA6 2BE 015242 71218, [email protected]. Yorke, Ellers, Middleton, LA6 2LZ, 015242 76420, [email protected]. Assistant Treasurer: Mrs Dilys McLaughlin, Applegarth, 3 Gallery Court, Kirkby Lonsdale, Carnforth, LA6 2AQ 015242 71164. Preston Patrick: Churchwardens: Mr Tony Mason, Mount Pleasant, Gatebeck, LA8 0FS, 015395 67353, [email protected]. Mrs Sue Barbon: Churchwarden: Mr Charles Howarth, 3 School Lane, Bar- Sanderson, The Old School, Knott Edge, Crooklands, Nr. Milnthorpe, bon, LA2 2LP 015242 76283, [email protected]. DCC Treasurer: Mr Cumbria, LA7 7NR, 015395 66967, [email protected]. DCC Roger Groves, Kemps Hill, Moorthwaite Lane, Barbon, Carnforth, LA6 Secretary and PCC Representative: DCC Representative Mrs Yvonne 2LP 015242 76322 [email protected]. PCC Representative: Mrs Lucas, 5 Eaveslea, Kirkby Lonsdale 015242 72791. PCC Representative Lois Neal, 7 Abbotsgate, Kirkby Lonsdale 015242 72525. Mrs Jean Fry Apartment D, 17 Windermere Road, Kendal LA9 4QJ Casterton: Secretary: Mrs Gill Sykes, The Old Manor, Casterton, 01539 454365, 01539 454365 [email protected]. DCC Treasur- Carnforth LA62SD, 015242 72143, [email protected]. er: Mrs Tina Allen, Gatebeck Cottages, Gatebeck LA8 0FS, 015395 DCC Treasurer: Mr Tom Herd, Casterton Cottage, Casterton, 67687, [email protected]. Carnforth, LA6 2SF, 015242 71203, [email protected]. C. OF E. SCHOOL: St Mary’s Primary, Kendal Rd, Kirkby Lonsdale, LA6 PCC Representative: Mr Frank Livesey, 30 Ruskin Drive, Kirkby Lons- 2DN, 015242 71334. St Patrick’s, Endmoor, Kendal, LA8 0HH, 015395 dale, 015242 71772, [email protected]. 67388. Hutton Roof: Churchwardens: Mrs Anne Huntington, The Post THE METHODIST CHURCH: Rev'd Wendy Thornton, Kendal Method- Office, Hutton Roof, LA6 2PG, 015242 71213. Mr David Read, Nanny ist Circuit, (015242) 62758 or mobile 07788 653 000, Hall, Hutton Roof, Carnforth, LA6 2PG, 015242 71631, rrea- [email protected]. ST JOSEPH’S RC CHURCH: Back [email protected]. DCC Treasurer: Mrs Alison Newton, Low Lane, Kirkby Lonsdale. Sunday Mass, 9am. During the week, as an- House Hutton Roof, LA6 2PG 015242 73867, alisonnew- nounced. Parish Priest Canon Luiz Ruscillo, The Presbytery, St Mary’s [email protected]. RC Church, Hornby. Tel. 015242 21246. FRIENDS’ MEETING HOUSE: Kirkby Lonsdale: Churchwarden: Churchwardens Team led by Mrs Preston Patrick Sundays 10.30 Warden 015395 61163 and Brigflatts, Anne Foulerton, Gatelands, High Biggins, Carnforth LA6 2NP, 015242 Sundays, 10.30am. Warden, 015396 20005. 71281, [email protected]: TBA. DCC Secretary: Mrs Margaret VOLUNTEER DRIVER SCHEME: 07788 52 25 11. Worthington, 4 Cavendish Gdns, Kirkby Lonsdale, Carnforth, LA6 2BW, 015242 71699 [email protected]. DCC Treasurer: See CUMBRIA POLICE: Emergency 999, non-emergency 101 Mr T Herd (above, Casterton) PCC Representative: John Preston, The Old Schoolhouse, LA6 2DX 015242 72509. 2 Monthly news and views from the Church and the Community. A Rainbow Parish production by the Church of England in the Lune Valley From the Team Ministry Permission to rest! my serenity. School holidays are almost here and for many people the He leads me in ways of efficiency through calmness of summer holidays are about to happen. Time to be re- mind. freshed and re-created! His guidance is peace. People have noticed that during the last century there Even though I have a great deal of things to accomplish was a tendency to separate the ‘sacred’ and the each day, I will not fret. ‘secular’. One result of this strange division is that it can lead to the thought that God is only interested certain For his presence is here, his timelessness, his importance things like going to church, praying, giving money to will keep me in balance. charity … but not in the things that fill the majority, or He prepares refreshment and renewal in the midst of all, of our lives. activity Where do things like work, rest and holidays belong? In by anointing my head with oils of tranquillity. the box marked ‘sacred’ or the one marked ‘secular’? My cup of joyous energy overflows. The fifth book of the Bible people is full of laws and in- structions, and it includes the commanded to rest.