STOKE UPON TERN NEWSLETTER Issue: 22 IN THIS ISSUE Parish Council Updates, Local Business Advertisements, Community News, Updates from the Parish, Featured recipe and much more..... Keeping in touch with communities within the local parish. March 2019 1 Welcome to this spring edition of our parish magazine. As a reminder the parish covers five rural villages, Stoke upon Tern, Stoke Heath, Wistanswick, Eaton-upon-Tern and Ollerton. Please feel free to send us any news or articles from around the parish. To contact us: email: [email protected] or call Sue: 01630 638 348 A very big thank you to AR Richards for their sponsorship of the Newsletter. “AR Richards Ltd is a family run business that’s been established since 1980. We pride ourselves in delivering the best service possible to our customers. Having over 38 years’ experience, we specialise in - Agricultural Contracting, Construction and Plant Hire, Total Waste Management and Builders Merchants.” The Tractor Club Red Lion Pub – Wistanswick Meets on the first You can now find us on: Tuesday of every month at Twitter @WistanswickRedL or 7.30pm at the Parish Hall Facebook TheRedLionWistanswick 2 Stoke upon Tern Parish Council COUNCIL MEMBERS - Cllr Pete Waters (Chair) - 01630 638911 Cllr Keith Newby – 01952 541601 Cllr Richard Wright – 01630 638520 Cllr Sue Bartram – 01630 638348 Cllr David Moore – 01630 685226 Cllr Lynn Bearman – 07835 942277 Cllr Sarah Planton – 01630 638494 Cllr Percy Farmer - 01952 541252 Cllr Kenny Beardmore – 07591 821940 Cllr Phil Butters – 07976 295299 The Clerk Mr Graham Bould may be contacted at: [email protected] , or: parish website: www.stokeuponternparish.org.uk The next parish meetings will take place at the Parish Hall on the 13th March @ 7.30pm and 8th May @ 7pm (AGM) These meetings are open to everyone – come along and have your say. Agendas are posted on the noticeboards in local bus shelters Moving to the fast lane………. Faster fibre broadband is now available to order in the Heathcote/Rosehill Road/Mount Lane area via cabinet 6 in the Tern Hill exchange. To make the switch to fibre broadband, people will need to contact their chosen internet service provider to upgrade their broadband package, the broadband speeds won’t increase automatically. Parishioners can visit: https://www.homeandbusiness.openreach.co.uk/fibre -broadband/when- can-i-get-fibre to check the availability of fibre broadband. The fibre network that we’ve commissioned is open to all internet service providers, so we recommend that people shop around to get the best deal for them by using a comparison website, such as: https://www.uswitch.com/broadband/compare/fibre_optic/ Wistanswick United Reform Church Chapel Bank Wistanswick. W e continue to share services with Wollerton. 1st Sunday each month at Wistanswick, 3rd Sunday each month at Wollerton. Please note time for both locations, all services begin at 6pm. Reverend Chris Burgham, Tel. 07976 788543, Secretary; Ms E Dodd, Tel. 01630 655404 3 Maurice Chandler Sports Centre Warrant Road, Stoke Heath Tel: 01630 638508 email: infomauricechandler.org.uk Opening Times are: Mon – Fri 2pm – 10pm & Sat 10am – 2pm The Tern-Stylers Craft Group We are all craft enthusiasts, be it knitting, crochet, quilting, etc. etc. Dig out that project hidden at the back of your cupboard and join us for the inspiration to complete it. We meet at Wistanswick Institute on the 2nd and 4th Thursday morning (10am 'til 12ish) of the month and entry is just £2. Next dates are: 14th & 28th March, 11th & 25th April, 9th & 23rd May, 13th & 27th June For further information please contact: Eleanor Goodwin on: 01630 638701 or email: [email protected] 4 5 Community Champions Update Heathcote Community Champions Residents of Heathcote, Ollerton Lane, Rosehill Road, Mount Lane & Chapel Lane - come along to a meeting at the Parish Hall to help us plan ways of enhancing and improving our environment. The meeting will take place on Thursday March 7th at 6.30 pm. Please phone Sarah on 01630 6838494 for further details. Eaton upon Tern Community Champions We had our annual Carols get together before Christmas at Village Farm, many thanks to Tim, Sarah and family for hosting and to all who helped (especially Nick our Village musician) always a lovely way to get together before the festivities. Into 2019 we have our De-fib refresher training on the Saturday 2nd March at Carrick Cottage (Sally & Martin Webber) 10.30-12.30. On Sunday April 14th we have our Village Spring Clean (with a tasty treat afterwards!) Meet by phone box at 10.30am (armed with your clean up equipment). The committee are meeting to arrange a summer get together, keep an eye on the notice board. Finally, we wanted to share with you a couple of photos of the new wicket onto the airfield which was put in place a year ago. 6 Friends of St John the Baptist – Great Bolas Great Bolas Church Community Café The coffee mornings are moving to Friday. The next dates are: 8th & 22nd March & 5th & 19th April. Last year we raised over £1000 at our coffee mornings which all goes towards our Friends commitment to get a toilet and tea bar installed and support the ongoing repair works to the church and churchyard. We applied to Allchurches Trust for a grant towards the work and were lucky to receive a cheque for £1,500 on 24th December. This has given us the encouragement to apply to other grant bodies to see if we can raise the remaining money this year. Who knows 2020 could be the year of the toilet! If you want to donate you can do so via our just giving page which is below; Gill Hughes, Friends Chairman. 01952 541659 Log on to our just giving site - www.justgiving.com/fobolaschurch/ Contact via email [email protected] North Shropshire Walking Football Since the last issue there has been a change to venues and times of our sessions. Both winter sessions will now be indoors at the: Maurice Chandler Centre Tues 2-3pm & Thur 4-5pm. The latest details of our sessions will always be on our Facebook page, so pay us a visit. The group continues to flourish, averaging 15+ players per session. Plans are afoot to launch a mini tournament in April where we will be joined by a team from Telford as well as two other teams from across the Welsh border. For the first time we will be entering the People’s Cup, not to mention the possibility of taking the boys on tour to Spain later in the year!! Above all this is a friendly group where guys come together to share their love of football. What better way to keep fit and meet new friends or old acquaintances. If you’re not sure pop down and watch a session and see if it’s for you. It’s not just players we are looking for, we are always on the look out for refs, coaches as well as helpers to organise the club and its sessions - age, sex and ability is no barrier. In other words a place for anyone who wants to join us. 7 Walking Group The Walking Group meets on the third Sunday of the month at 11am at the Red Lion pub (& often returns there for refreshment!); Our next walk will be on 17th March, weather permitting. Please check the website (stokeupontern.info) or call Sue on 01630 638 348 for more information. All are welcome, so why not come and join us for a stroll across our parish. Hodnet Footpath Group Following the new print of our updated and expanded series of walk leaflets, the group has been busy getting them into our local outlets. You can now (or shortly) pick up these popular leaflets at some of the following locations: Hodnet Stores The Lyon Hall, Hodnet Hodnet medical surgery Marchamley Pools Hawk Lake Caravan Park The Castle at Bletchley Ternhill Cottage B&B Ternhill Hall Festival Drayton The Jack at Calverhall Rosehill Caravan site Market Drayton Tourist information If you have a location that would like to stock these 10 walk guides please contact Steve Alden on 07774 969339. Alternatively you can download them from our webpage: www.hodnet.org.uk/fpg To stay up to date with our activities follow us @Hodnetfootpathgroup2016. Walk Programme for 2019 The Group's walk programme for 2019 has now been finalised. Everyone is welcome to join us along with well-behaved dogs. Our walks are leisurely paced and suitable for most abilities. We’re a friendly bunch and always more than happy to welcome new faces. We hope you can join us. Here are the dates for your diary: Thursday 21st March 11.00 am - Walk 2. Lyon Hall car park Monday 6th May 11.00 am - Walks 1 & 10. Hodnet Social Club car park Friday 21st June 10.30 pm - Glow worm Walk. Old railway Station Road Thursday 18th July 7.00 pm - Walk 5. Wollerton Village room Sunday 22nd September 2.00 pm - Walk 3. Meet at The Bear 1.00 pm Wednesday 6th November 11.00 am - Walk 8. Meet 'Old Club' High Hatton 8 9 Wistanswick Institute Following the AGM on February 7th, the Institute Committee has set out its programme going forward. There is a Quiz night with Hotpot supper on Saturday March 16th at 7.00pm, cost being £10 per team (max of 4 people), both adults and children. There is also an Open Garden day tentatively planned for June. The funds raised by these events, and others throughout the year, will be used to pay for improvements to the Institute.