NOW ISSUE UN024 - SEP/OCT 18 - www.ulverstonnow.co.uk COMMUNITY - PEOPLE - EVENTS - NEWS - MUSIC - ARTS - ENTERTAINMENT - NATURE - BUSINESS - FOOD & DRINK - INTERIORS THE CANDLELIT WALK RETURNS PAGE 4 ROTARY SAYS THANK YOU PAGE 8 PHOTO STEVE MILLER PHOTO A cleaner and healthier home! Thorough carpet cleaning fast and easy at reasonable prices For a free, no obligation quote... Call 01229 230821 | 07747 043919 We also clean upholstery including leather Visit www.revivecarpets.co.uk There’s lots to discover at the Coro, from Shows and Plays to STEM Festivals, Dance and Comedy... Welcome to Ulverston Now Not the Editor’s Letter The Editor is away at the moment, so here is a message from the Ulverston Now team. Thank you to all the groups and individuals who have sent in reports, information about events and updates. Without you, this would be a very short magazine! There’s lots to discover at the Coro, from Shows and Ulverston and the surrounding area is full of Plays to STEM Festivals, Dance and Comedy... people who give their time for free to raise money for good causes, to make sure that all our festivals 08 happen and to support all the organisations who do such important work. Volunteering of all kinds 8 COMMUNITY features is this issue, whether it is in and around 13 ARTS & MUSIC Ulverston or further afield. If you think you might like to volunteer, but are not sure where to start, 16 WHAT’S ON we hope we can give you some ideas. In the next issue, UN25, we will be 20 BOOKSHELF commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the end 15 22 BUSINESS of WWI. As we have reported, Anne Thurlow in Dalton and Janet Eglin in Ulverston have done 24 LIFESTYLE some amazing work in tracing those named on the town’s war memorials. Tottlebank Baptist 27 NATURE & GARDENS Church are now trying to trace the descendants of 30 CLASSIFIEDS the soldiers on their ‘Roll of Honour’ and Memorial Plaque, so it would be great if anyone could help them. There’s also still time for you to get in touch with family memories, perhaps from parents, grandparents or great grandparents, so please send any stories and images to [email protected]. We hope you had a good summer, and are ready NEXT DEADLINE for all the autumn events Ulverston has to offer. Next deadline 5th October Enjoy the autumn 05TH 25 OCT [email protected] 01229 490 000 An Invitation to clubs, ISSUE DEADLINE RELEASE societies, schools, arts, UN25 5th October 29th October UN26 9th November 3rd December music and voluntary groups It’s FREE to get your report published to everyone in Ulverston Now. 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On Friday 5th Candlelit Walk with sweetly-scented wax, with all these enchanting October, the Ulverston Mayor’s this Halloween. again kindly donated by and spooky sights and Charity and St Mary’s Hospice Wax Lyrical of Lindal-in- sounds, with more stories from Martin Gilbert and will present a Forget me Not As the sun sinks Furness. And artist Fran Riley is creating a twinkly music too. Tickets for £1.20 Ball at the Coronation Hall, beneath the ‘Little Bird House of Soul’. per person will be available 7.30 pm until midnight. There horizon a murder This year a team of digital via facebook/candlelitwalk will be dancing to the Flying of shadowy makers have formed “We’re experimenting with Cascara Brothers and a buffet crows will be Ulverston’s Makey Club a ticketing system this year and have been hacking with a sprinkling of close up to help manage numbers roosting at Ford electronics and using on the path and keep it safe magic. Tickets are £30 and creative code to develop Park on October amidst the fiery features,” can be obtained from St Mary’s some new light experiences 31 from 6pm. to play with in the woods. said Ms Dennett. “It’s fun Hospice or from Ulverston Town as a candlelit walk not a Chris Dennett brings us Council, 01229 585778, admin@ Alongside the hundreds of his Mutilated Selfie Booth candlelit queue, so we ulverstontowncouncil.org.uk , flickering candles lighting where you’ll be able to see hope people will help us who accept card payments. the woods beyond the park, your eyes, ears, and mouth and click ahead to get a there’ll also be ghostly birds mixed-up and projected ticket before the event. It’ll sculpted from recycled into the night, or you can have a start time so we can milk bottles perching in the point his special webcam space-out the crowds and Litter branches alongside nests goggles at a friend and see make sure everyone has a Not So Shameful of glowing eggs. how your features combine. great night.” “Last year we decided that Neil and Joel Wade will Congratulations to all those pumpkins shouldn’t have be bringing their Tunnel who pick up litter and also those all the Halloween fun so of Light, pulsing to a who use the litter bins along the pioneered the beautifully heartbeat as you pass through. DJ Ste Tyson canal: walking between Canal veined glowing onion,” said Jennie Dennett from the will again join us to spin Head and Canal Foot is so much Candlelit Walk’s organising an eerie soundscape. more pleasant now than it was team. To add your creative before the Canal Regeneration “This year we’ve been mark on the scene, Group was formed. experimenting with lighting all are welcome at the Candlelit Walk craft But smokers! If you stub your eggs and they look amazing! Hens eggs have session at The Red cigarette on a litter bin, why not lovely marble-like veins Rose Club, Victoria Road put the end in the bin, instead and we also have some on Sunday October 7, of on the pavement? As well as Rhea eggs from a flock at from 2 til 5pm. Come looking unsightly, cigarette ends Kirkby-in-Furness which create a crow to add to our community contain plastic particles which, if looking pleasingly dinosaur- like. I think we’re in for a shadowscreen or a they get into the drains, add to fabulously spooky night full twinkly bird box for the plastic pollution in our rivers and of strange and enchanting orchard, our donations seas. sights.” bucket will be out to th 4 NOW - NEXT DEADLINE 5 OCTOBER 2018 The Canal Anchor Festival is coming soon! 15th – 28th October The Ulverston Canal like an anchor for your anchor to show its story: anchor saw.” Regeneration Group business, we ask for -Just imagine the anchor Each anchor is one metre has sent a reminder a £10 donation. This plunging deep into the water; high, cut out of marine ply of this year’s Anchor money goes towards what might it see? Strange and only needs decorating Festival. “If you would buying the plywood so creatures? Scary skeletons? on one side as it will be Prepare to be Spooked Again schools, community -What might it find at the displayed on a post along the groups and charities bottom of the sea? Piles of towpath. Anchors need to be Photo Iain Raven pollution? Treasure chests? can take part for free. completed and returned by -Where did the anchor travel? Saturday 13th October. You can decorate your anchor Round Morecambe Bay? in any way you wish, or you can follow this year’s theme: Round the World? What the Anchor saw. -What vessel did it help to We rescued this anchor from keep safe, and who were the the scrap yard and hope to sailors who had to haul it up put it on permanent display, and down? but don’t know anything about “We’re asking children to it. Can you help? If you like, write stories, poems or draw you could decorate your pictures to show “What the Dalton Poppy Project As the 100th been awarded funding by home to a fallen WW1 soldier hand to help people trace the Heritage Lottery Fund should have already received their own WW1 connections Anniversary of to complete this work by their invitation to be involved and family history. The Armistice Day creating a legacy of enduring in this commemorative programme will explore the approaches, we markers throughout the town. project. men who gave their lives In pottery workshops, local If you have not received protecting their country, the have been reporting primary school children and an invitation or confirmed peace movement and the on ways in which members of Age UK will your participation contact changing role of women.