THE UPPER WENSLEYDALE NEWSLETTER Issue 211 March 2015 Donation please: 30p suggested or more if you wish Mill Gill Falls, Askrigg Published by Upper Wensleydale whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever The Upper Wensleydale Newsletter Newsletter Editorial Burnside Coach House, Prompted by the wonderful initiative by Katie is gracious, if there is any excellence, if there Burtersett Road, Hawes DL8 3NT Cutler and consequent generosity of all those is anything worthy of praise, think about these Issue 211 March 2015 who contributed to help the little old disabled things”. Give it a go! Gateshead pensioner, Alan Barnes, who was What’s more, this is March and on the Tel: 667785 Features th st mugged and robbed a few weeks back, it has 20 /21 SPRING is here! Good news indeed. e-mail: [email protected] Competitions 5 been suggested that this editorial should be about good news (for a change!). ____________________________ Many thanks to all who Generally the media (and all of us?) find Printed by Wensleydale Press Viking Place Names 9 supported our Pie and Peas bad news more of a talking point, so here ________________ ____________ supper in February; we raised Committee: Alan S.Watkinson, goes, let us list some examples of good news; Climate Change 11 the fantastic amount of Barry Cruickshanks (web), Sue E .Duffield, you might think of others. ____________________________ £400.50! Karen Jones, Alastair Macintosh, This month sees Comic Relief Red Nose Neil Piper, Karen Prudden, Raydale Preserves 15 Our offers for March and April 2015! Day and some of the examples from previous Janet W. Thomson (treasurer), Peter Wood ____________________________ Get healthy and Spring into action! Best Foot Forward 13 years of what this can achieve are incredible in alleviating terrible conditions in many parts Sign up for a six month gym membership and Final Processing: Sarah Champion, ____________________________ of the world. get one month completely free. Adrian Janke Doctor’s Rotas 16 In this area, groups and meetings find the Recommend a friend at the same time and get ____________________________ time and the desire to run events for various half price induction for each of you. Postal Distribution: Derek Stephens Dr. Pam West 26 , charities, and items for food banks are being Existing members? Recommend a friend for ____________________________ collected. Local individuals take up sporting a six month membership and get £20 Askrigg Village Dance 20 challenges for their chosen good causes. cashback from your gym fees. PLEASE NOTE ____________________________ Maybe the best bits of good news rarely hit What’s On 27 & 28 Also - Coming up soon... start dates to be This web-copy does not contain the commercial the headlines. Numbers of people regularly, or confirmed: ________________________ in emergency, will happily volunteer to run adverts which are in the full Newsletter. Health and fitness sessions Plus all the regulars neighbours to our hospitals, and wait for them Want to get in shape and feel healthier and As a general rule we only accept adverts from there until it’s time to return. People who fitter? Sessions starting on Tuesdays from within the circulation area and no more than one- might have been active and very visible in the 10.00am to noon. third of each issue is taken up with them. community and are not now, because of Whilst we try to ensure that all accidents, illnesses or infirmities, are not Netball information is correct we cannot be held forgotten and get visited so that they are kept in touch, (It doesn’t happen in all Did you enjoy netball at school/college? Advertising legally responsible for omissions or Come back to netball and take part in fun, inaccuracies in articles, adverts or communities). Then there are those who have a ‘ministry’ by phone or email who active and friendly sessions. Starting on Boxed adverts: £6, £12, £18 listings, or for any inconvenience caused. Tuesday evenings from 7.30 to 9.00pm. Views expressed in articles are the sole regularly make contact to check up on friends or neighbours. For information on any of the above please There is a big reduction for six issues or responsibility of the person by-lined. more, so for six issues the totals are: There is the good news that our bus services contact us on 650060, or email Articles by committee members carry [email protected] just their initials. We appreciate being will be retained and improved, essentially £25, £50 or £75 Jan Hale asked before any part of the Newsletter made possible by the considerable number of volunteer drivers. Add to these the First Greetings etc. £2.00 is reproduced Responders who are on hand and the Let us Know What’s ons (non-commercial) are free defibrillators we have been supplied with in various villages. Here’s a suggestion which has come our way: THE APRIL 2015 ISSUE have you an old recipe for something you, Do not dare to forget our health centres! Contacts for adverts: your parents or grandparents make, or used to Where else can one still see the doctor by just WILL BE PRODUCED ON make, which has never seen the light of day in arriving, or get an appointment the day you For Hawes area and westward: local recipe books? ring up! Talk to friends and family who live MARCH 24th and 25th in other areas. We are concerned this bit of our social Barry Cruickshanks, Ashfield, Hardraw: 667458 history could so easily be lost. Why not send It is so easy to dwell on the bad. However, them in to us; we will print them now and For elsewhere: some will know these words: “Whatever is again. DEADLINE FOR COPY: true, whatever is honourable, whatever is just, Sue Duffield, Fellside, THURSDAY Thornton Rust: 663504 MARCH 19th 2 2 Published by Upper Wensleydale whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever The Upper Wensleydale Newsletter Newsletter Editorial Burnside Coach House, Prompted by the wonderful initiative by Katie is gracious, if there is any excellence, if there Burtersett Road, Hawes DL8 3NT Cutler and consequent generosity of all those is anything worthy of praise, think about these Issue 211 March 2015 who contributed to help the little old disabled things”. Give it a go! Gateshead pensioner, Alan Barnes, who was What’s more, this is March and on the Tel: 667785 Features th st mugged and robbed a few weeks back, it has 20 /21 SPRING is here! Good news indeed. e-mail: [email protected] Competitions 5 been suggested that this editorial should be about good news (for a change!). ____________________________ Many thanks to all who Generally the media (and all of us?) find Printed by Wensleydale Press Viking Place Names 9 supported our Pie and Peas bad news more of a talking point, so here ________________ ____________ supper in February; we raised Committee: Alan S.Watkinson, goes, let us list some examples of good news; Climate Change 11 the fantastic amount of Barry Cruickshanks (web), Sue E .Duffield, you might think of others. ____________________________ £400.50! Karen Jones, Alastair Macintosh, This month sees Comic Relief Red Nose Neil Piper, Karen Prudden, Raydale Preserves 15 Our offers for March and April 2015! Day and some of the examples from previous Janet W. Thomson (treasurer), Peter Wood ____________________________ Get healthy and Spring into action! Best Foot Forward 13 years of what this can achieve are incredible in alleviating terrible conditions in many parts Sign up for a six month gym membership and Final Processing: Sarah Champion, ____________________________ of the world. get one month completely free. Adrian Janke Doctor’s Rotas 16 In this area, groups and meetings find the Recommend a friend at the same time and get ____________________________ time and the desire to run events for various half price induction for each of you. Postal Distribution: Derek Stephens Dr. Pam West 26 , charities, and items for food banks are being Existing members? Recommend a friend for ____________________________ collected. Local individuals take up sporting a six month membership and get £20 Askrigg Village Dance 20 challenges for their chosen good causes. cashback from your gym fees. PLEASE NOTE ____________________________ Maybe the best bits of good news rarely hit What’s On 27 & 28 Also - Coming up soon... start dates to be This web-copy does not contain the commercial the headlines. Numbers of people regularly, or confirmed: ________________________ in emergency, will happily volunteer to run adverts which are in the full Newsletter. Health and fitness sessions Plus all the regulars neighbours to our hospitals, and wait for them Want to get in shape and feel healthier and As a general rule we only accept adverts from there until it’s time to return. People who fitter? Sessions starting on Tuesdays from within the circulation area and no more than one- might have been active and very visible in the 10.00am to noon. third of each issue is taken up with them. community and are not now, because of Whilst we try to ensure that all accidents, illnesses or infirmities, are not Netball information is correct we cannot be held forgotten and get visited so that they are kept in touch, (It doesn’t happen in all Did you enjoy netball at school/college? Advertising legally responsible for omissions or Come back to netball and take part in fun, inaccuracies in articles, adverts or communities). Then there are those who have a ‘ministry’ by phone or email who active and friendly sessions. Starting on Boxed adverts: £6, £12, £18 listings, or for any inconvenience caused. Tuesday evenings from 7.30 to 9.00pm.