Bodenham Newsletter March 2016 1st Gardening Club 14th Leisure Club 3rd Mothers’ Union 14th BWg AGM 5th Litter Pick for the Queen 19th Jumble Sale 7th Parish Council Meeting 29th Flood Group Meeting 11th Flicks in the Sticks - Borderlines Contents Page Page Church Notices 2 Pre-school 9 Parish Council News 3 & 4 County Councillor’s Report 13 Christian Fellowship 4 Guides 13 Mothers’ Union 4 School News 15 Romania Support Group 4 Flood Group 17 Leisure Club 5 Water Works 18 Gardening Club 5 Flicks in the Sticks 19 Women’s Group 19 Parish Hall 7 Election Notice 19 Lugg Valley Friends 8 Litter Pick 19 Bell Ringers 8 Carers Group 20 Ramblers 9 Travels with a Camera 21 StarTots 9 Advertise & Newsletter details 21 St Michael & All Angels’ Church, Bodenham 2 Dear Friends, This year the month of March is full of major Festivals, St David’s Day, Mothering Sunday, St Patrick’s Day, Passion Sunday, Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Day. Our churches will be very busy! During Lent we have travelled with Jesus, following the accounts of his work in our Gospels, hearing the words he spoke, sharing in the joy of the disciples and their despair on Good Friday. The Cross casts its shadow on the last days of Jesus life, and he is laid to rest in a tomb guarded by soldiers. Then Easter Day dawns, we see the empty tomb, and our Alleluias ring out, “Christ is risen. He is risen indeed” Peter Millar expresses the wonder and mystery of the resurrection in his poem, The Invitation of Easter: And across our beautiful, evolving world, another Easter dawns, tenderly inviting us to ponder upon wider truths and alternative visions. Truths of both heart and mind that find their roots in the practicality of God. Basic truths illumining our often uncertain journeys – allowing us to reconnect with the energies of Christ: that life does come from death; that hate is not the final word; that the broken continue to sing with joy; that the trees and the mountains clap their hands; that forgiveness resides in the heart of the human condition; that love, with its multiple faces, remains our companion. So Christ is risen! Risen again in the midst of a broken world. risen again so that we too may be a people of hope who walk in the light of Christ, restored by resurrection. The month of March is full of the new growth of Spring, may we find joy in the newness and promise of Easter and the grace of Christ risen. Yours in Christ, Heather St Michael & All Angels’ Church, Bodenham HOLY COMMUNION AT SIWARD JAMES SUNDAY SERVICES MARCH 2016 There will be a service of Holy Communion at March 6th MOTHERING SUNDAY Siward James on 9.30am Sung Eucharist (Preb David Roberts) FRIDAY MARCH 18TH AT 11.00AM. 6.00pm Evensong All are welcome to attend. March 13th 9.30am Sung Eucharist (The Revd (Not our usual 4th Friday service because of Heather Short) Holy Week and Good Friday falling in the last week of March) March 20th PALM SUNDAY 9.30am Family Communion (The Revd Heather Short) 6.00pm Evensong Date for your Diary..........Saturday 14th May 2016 ....@ 7 PM.......in The Priory Church March 27th EASTER DAY Leominster. Classical Concert featuring 9.30am Sung Eucharist (Preb David Roberts) Schumann and Mozart by the Tyburn Trio from the Royal Academy. All proceeds will be NB: Evensong will normally include hymns and be led by one of the Churchwardens. in aid of St.Michael and All Angels Church, Bodenham. All enquires to Liz Davies 01568 797628 3 PARISH COUNCIL NEWS Dogs Vacancy on the Parish Council The Parish Council has been informed that dogs A vacancy has arisen on the Parish Council. continue to foul the area around the parish hall Notices have been placed on noticeboards and and in and around Orchard Close, in particular. appear elsewhere in this Newsletter advertising Would any residents please bag dog waste. the vacancy. An election will be held, if 10 Bagged dog waste can be placed in any waste electors request one by writing to Herefordshire bin. Please note: under the terms of the Clean Council by 7th March. A form for making a Neighbourhood and Environment Act (2005) request is available on the noticeboards, in a parish council is empowered to issue a fixed this Newsletter or from the parish clerk. If no penalty notice to any person it has reason to request for an election is received, the vacancy believe to have committed an offence under a will be filled by co-option at the Parish Council dog control order. The whole of Bodenham is meeting on 4th April. Anyone willing to be covered by dog control orders. co-opted or wishing to nominate someone for Planning applications and decisions co-option should contact Cllr James-Moore (the The Parish Council has recently considered the chairman of the Parish Council) or the parish following numbered planning applications. clerk, whose contact details appear below. - 153753: Land east of Ashgrove Farm. Water works Proposed installation of buried electricity cable. Welsh Water will be continuing to replace - 160079: Dove Cottage. Proposal to fell yew water mains in Bodenham during the next two tree. months. A notice elsewhere in this Newsletter - 160124: Tan Y Bryn. Proposed single storey gives more details. extension to side and rear of property New footpath and alterations to existing building. A new long distance path from Kington to - 160125: Tan Y Bryn. Proposed single storey Broadway - 79miles long and called “The Wyche extension to side and rear of property Way” -runs through Bodenham. It comes through and alterations to existing building. Queen’s Wood, crosses the A49 & picks up - 160164: Bunhill. Proposal to remove existing footpath BM1 passing the farm called Henhouse, single-storey extension and replace past Bunhill down to Millcroft Road. It follows with two-storey extension. Millcroft Road up to England’s Gate and then The Parish Council made no objection to any of goes down the C1125 through Bodenham Moor, these applications. until it reaches footpath BM13 which comes out Parish meetings on Chapel Lane, which it leaves along bridleway The next meeting of the Parish Council will BM26 by the grain store to Maund Bryan. After take place at 7.30pm Monday 7th March at following the road to Whitechurch Maund the the Siward James Centre. Copies of the agenda path turns right just before Upper Maund Farm and draft minutes of the previous meetings are until it joins a bridleway, turns left along the placed in advance on parish notice boards and on bridleway before reaching a minor road, turning the parish website (www.bodenhamparish.org.uk). left until it reaches the A417. Everyone is most welcome to attend and raise Clean for The Queen Litter Pick any matters of concern during the slot reserved Keep Britain Tidy are running a campaign to for this purpose. If you prefer, you can raise clear up Britain in time for HM The Queen’s 90th matters in advance by contacting Chris Smith, birthday. Parish Clerk, on 01568-797132 or by email at The aim is to encourage volunteers across [email protected]. the country to clean up their local areas and this The parish website…… will include a special clean-up weekend on …….. is continually updated. Find the latest news March 4–6. on the Bodenham Neighbourhood Plan there. The Bodenham Parish Council have arranged for Home page now shows a list of future events in a litter pick to be held on Saturday 5th March. chronological order, as well as the latest notices, All the necessary equipment will be provided addresses to go to find out about Bodenham by Balfour Beatty. Meet at the parish hall, but go past, present and future, local news and crime to the Siward James Centre for soup, rolls and prevention alerts. coffee afterwards. www.bodenhamparish.org.uk is the website The poster elsewhere in this Newsletter address. You can also find the Bodenham gives full details, which will also be posted on the Newsletter there. parish noticeboards. Spread the word, please. Chris Smith (Parish Clerk) www.bodenhamparish.org.uk 01568 797132 4 BODENHAM PARISH COUNCIL 2015-16 Cllr Roger Austin [email protected] 01568 797994 Cllr Alec Avery, [email protected] 01568 797744 Cllr Jim Crane [email protected] Cllr Stan Davis 01568 797546 Cllr Dennis Jackson [email protected] 01568 797404 Cllr Pam James-Moore [email protected] 01568 797330 (Chairman) Cllr Richard Layton [email protected] Cllr Tony Mitcheson [email protected] 01568 797170 Cllr David Tilford [email protected] 01568 797658 Chris Smith (Parish Clerk) [email protected] 01568 797132 Cllr Bruce Baker - [email protected] - is the Herefordshire Councillor for the Hampton Court ward. BODENHAM CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP BODENHAM MOTHERS’ UNION (Chapel Lane, Bodenham) Thursday 3rd March 10.30am at 14 Brockington Services for March Road. Preb David Roberts will give the second half 6th 10.30am Worship Service - Chris Over of his illustrated talk ‘The Way of the Cross’. Every 13th 10.30am Worship Service - Gerald Jones one is welcome to join us. Branch leader: Pat Horrigan 01568 797044 20th 10.30am PALM SUNDAY Email:[email protected] Fellowship Service and Communion 27th 10.30am EASTER SUNDAY Worship Service - Peter Lefroy-Owen BODENHAM ROMANIA SUPPORT GROUP All services will be followed by refreshments. There will be no Knit-in in March. Good Friday 25th March There will be a short time Next Knit-In 21st April (provisional) of reflection and meditation from 3.30pm.