October 2017 [email protected] Your Parish Councillors Chairman: Vice-Chair: Joanna Wilson: 01409 220254 Jen Kelson: 07795 075685 Jane Colbourne: 01409 221220 Simon Dufty: 01837 871744 Mark Rundle: 01837 53314 Celia Rundle: 07432 512499 Vacancy Bryan Dufty: 01837 871256 Chris Scadeng: 01409 221797 Clerk: Janet Millership: 01409 221409 Cllr James McInnes: 01837 861364 Cllr Patrick Kimber 01837 810057 Published by the Parish Council Note from the Editor Okehampton Medical Centre to the village shop. You will need Thank you for all the to place your prescription in the contributions to this month’s box in the shop by 10:00 am on edition and continued thanks to Thursday to get a delivery the those of you who regularly following Thursday. contribute to the Northlew News. All contributions are much We also take in prescriptions for appreciated. Please let me have Black Torrington Surgery. For any items no later than the 20th more information please ask of next month. If you or your Paula company would like to sponsor an edition please give me a ring. Please note: Prescriptions I can be contacted by email at need to be collected as soon [email protected] or as they are delivered as we [email protected] are very short of space. Any or please call me on 01409 prescriptions not collected 220254. within the week of delivery will be returned to the surgery. Many thanks and with best wishes, Opening times Monday: 8am – 1pm Tuesday: 8am – 11am Northlew Stores C I C. Wednesday: 8am – 11am The village shop stocks fresh Thursday: 8am – 1pm bread, milk and other dairy Friday: 8am – 1pm products as well as having a Saturday: 9am – 12 noon good selection of frozen food Sunday 9am – 12 noon including ready meals, pizzas, pies, sausages, vegetables, fish Paula is looking for volunteers and desserts. to extend the opening hours of the shop. Please ask Paula for Prescriptions further information. Thank you You can arrange for your for your continued support of medicines to be delivered from the shop. Published by the Parish Council 2 October 2017 Northlew Methodist St Thomas of Canterbury Church Parish Church Services Services 1st October 1st October 9:30 am Mr Roy Down No morning service 6:30 pm Harvest Songs of 8th October Praise 2:30 pm Mr John Hill – Harvest Festival 8th October 9:30 am Morning Prayer 15th October 6:30 pm Evening Prayer 9:30 am Readings and favourite hymns 15th October 9:30 am Holy Communion 22nd October 6:30 pm Evening Prayer 9:30 am Service at Boasley 22nd October 29th October 11:00 am Family Service and 9:30 am Mr John Hawkins baptism 6:30 pm Holy Communion Harvest Festival Sunday 8th October 29th October 2:30 pm Harvest Festival 11:00 am Group Service, Meeth Service Preacher: Mr John Hill Harvest Festival Harvest supper, this year in the Monday 9th October Victory Hall, will be held on 7:15pm Harvest Thanksgiving Monday 2nd October. There will Preacher: Mr Dean James be a list in the Churchroom for Supper and sale bookings. Any gifts of produce, ------------------------------------- flowers, pots of pickle etc to go Northlew Doodlebugs in the Church and then Return! auctioned at the supper will be Saturday 14th October very gratefully accepted. So 3 - 4 pm, Methodist Chapel come and join us in singing the Followed by light refreshments good old harvest hymns on Published by the Parish Council 3 October 2017 Sunday and at the supper on [email protected]), if Monday you would like to know more about the service. Ploughman’s Lunch The Ploughman’s Lunch was a -------------------------------------- cheerful occasion and well supported. We made a profit of Thought for the month £362 for the church funds. Thanks to all Dear All, -------------------------------------- It has recently been revealed All Soul’s Eve Service that Britain has fallen from 8th to 11th place in the international A quiet, reflective service for league tables of charitable those who would appreciate giving and voluntary activity. The some time and space to survey carried out by the remember loved ones who have Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) died. collects data from 139 countries looking at the proportion of their Thursday 2nd November income that people give to good 7:00 pm Hatherleigh Parish causes, the numbers of hours of Church volunteering they do, and the number of random acts of Everyone is welcome (from all kindness they do for strangers. the parishes)! Britain is not alone, as every Western country in the top 20 We will try and hand out had a lower score than the invitations to remind people of previous year, with Africa being the service. The person who has the only continent to see an kindly done this for us in the increase in all three areas of past has now moved, so we giving behaviour. Top of the apologise if we do not deliver an table is Myanmar, for the fourth invite to everyone who has lost a year running, followed by loved one recently. Do please Indonesia and Kenya. We may put the date in the diary if you wonder about Myanmar’s would like to come or contact position, when we see the Rev. Ruth Hansford (Tel: 01837 current situation with the 810 314; Email: Rohingya refugees pouring into Published by the Parish Council 4 October 2017 Bangladesh, but would be better needs. Mahatma Ghandi once occupied focussing on our own said: position and asking what we can ‘There is enough in the world for do about our decline in these everyone’s need, ‘generosity’ ratings. but not for everyone’s greed.’ This month begins with a feast May God give us grace to count of Harvest celebrations in our blessings and share them, several of our churches, where we give thanks for the Rev. Ruth Hansford abundance of food with which we are blessed, and the many Priest-in-Charge of Hatherleigh, who work so hard to bring it to Meeth, Exbourne, Jacobstowe, our tables. And we are so and Northlew blessed, particularly when we -------------------------------------- see the many that are struggling to find the basics of life due to Women’s Guild and war, poverty, and the many Fellowship natural disasters that have happened this year. The Bible Wednesday 4th October tells us that God loves a cheerful giver. Therefore, at Harvest not 2:30 pm in the Methodist Hall only do we take time to give thanks for what we have -------------------------------------- received in such abundance, but we give thanks for what we can give. The reason is not to pull Northlew Post Office Britain up the league table again (although that would be good), but because the best thing to do with a blessing is to share it. Where generosity and kindness is shared, it grows, and in the present climate of increasing division and hatred, and huge The post office is open Monday poverty and need, that is what and Friday mornings from our communities and our world 9.30am to 12pm in the Church Room Published by the Parish Council 5 October 2017 The Green Dragon Northlew Walking Group This historic For various 18th-century reasons, our inn is located in numbers were the village down for this square at the walk, possibly the heart of weather forecast, or maybe Northlew. The everyone was busy baking for Green Dragon the Produce Show a day later. offers real ales from Devon As it was, we were nine walkers breweries with the occasional including Trevor Miller with Kim guest ales too. It serves food at and Bess, Sue Sanders, Steve both lunchtime and in the and Diane Hargreaves, Marion evenings and the regular menu Dufty, Jenny Anderson, Pat is complemented by themed Carter, Angela Baines and food nights and periodic beer myself. festivals. Despite the forecast, the Opening times weather continued to improve, The Green Dragon is open: resulting in us removing layers Lunchtime from 12 - 2pm as we went. Lunch is served every day Evening opening times are: We started from the square as Monday – Saturday. usual, and walked through the Open 6pm with food served from Parish Churchyard, to head 6pm- 9pm down the path beyond and come Sunday Open 7pm no evening out onto Harpers Hill. On meals reaching Wistful Cottage, we picked up Pat and Angela, who Please contact Dan on 221228 had chickened out of walking up to the square, only to walk back -------------------------------------- down. After crossing the bridge over the River Lew, we turned right down Shorts Lane and continued to come out at the Published by the Parish Council 6 October 2017 bottom of Waterhouse Hill. we stopped to admire the views Having turned right, we crossed over towards Dartmoor. From Broomhill Bridge, and walked on here we headed back to up the hill, turning right at the Northlew along the well walked next junction to reach Kennel track which brings you out at the Bridge. Looking up the valley square, alongside the Primary towards Wadland Barton has got School. to be one of the best views in the area. Next Walk No 15 Our next walk will be on the 6th After a short walk towards October, starting at 2pm in the Ashbury, we took the footpath square. on the left into the field. With the This will be our last 'Summer' woods on our right, we strolled walk. From November the walks along the pleasant valley, will start at 1pm. stopping to admire the view, and See you there. for the regulation photo shoot. The weather by now was Chris improving by the minute, only [email protected] the mud underfoot reminding us that we were still in Devon.