Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine Issue 104 70 pence where sold Inside this Issue: • Welcome From the Chair • Rural Crime Upate • Jazzercise for Epilepsy Society The Quarterly Magazine The Quarterly Magazine of Ivinghoe Parish Council The Team... Beacon Welcome from the Chair he Beacon Magazine would not reach your door without the kind CONTENTS Thelp of the volunteer band of irstly, Happy New Year to everyone distributors. from myself and the Councillors. Many thanks to them all; Andy Welcome from the Chair 3 F Beezer, Les Hyde, Pat Roach, Geoff Neighbourhood News 6-21 Travis and Rob and Anne Cattle – Roads it couldn’t be done without you! Ecumenical Enlightenment 24-27 I hope by the time you read this Karen Groom, If you have any skills that will help the Anglian Water roadworks by Chair, Ivinghoe Cultivation Clippings 28 us to keep the magazine going or you Cheddington Station will be completed Parish Council would like to submit an article, please School Stuff 34-35 after some inconvenience to us all. We let us know as we are always looking are expecting to have an update from for new and varied talents! Beyond the Boundary 36-37 Bucks CC regarding the costings and the Sporting Scoop 40 safety audit for the BHB Pitstone and very similar to the ancient, damaged Ivinghoe Traffi c Scheme shortly. railings and will enhance the area. 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The new railings will be updates: www.ivinghoepc.org.uk 2 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine February 2018: Issue 104 February 2018: Issue 104 Ivinghoe Beacon Magazine 3 BEACON COMMUNITY CHOIR 10TH ANNIVERSARY YEAR In order to celebrate the Beacon Community Choir’s 10th anniversary year, they will be performing two exciting works by two well known and loved composers. ZIMBE! COME SING THE SONGS OF AFRICA Alexander L’Estrange’s phenomenal fusion of traditional African song and jazz, Zimbe! is at times touching and moving, at other times funky and grooving but always incredibly up-lifting. BEACON COMMUNITYPICTURES CHOIR AT AN EXHIBITION 10TH ANNIVERSARY YEAR With Lyrics and Music newly written and ComposedExplore... by John Cameron, Dream... Pictures at Discover... In order to celebrate the Beacon Community Choir’san Exhibition 10th anniversary 2018 is a new take on the well-loved Mussorgsky Suite, taking year, they will be performing two exciting works byinspiration two well fromknown an eclectic choice of 19th, and 20th Century works. The variety of and loved composers. artistic styles is matched with a kaleidoscope of musical genres, from ethnic to rock, jazz to rap to a capella choir. As Mussorgsky’s composition, some COUNCILLORS NEWS ZIMBE! COME SING THE SONGS OF AFRICA movements are linked by “Promenades”, but this time jazz flavoured, with Alexander L’Estrange’s phenomenal fusion of traditional African song and jazz, Zimbe! is at times touching and moving,increasingly at other times unsettling funky time signatures. and grooving but always incredibly up-lifting. 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The Ivinghoe Aston Taira: I was asked to choreograph a Broadband Group says youth event and I loved it. I really enjoy P.S. Can you work out which sentence I ‘thank you’ creating new ideas in dance and have set made up? Thanks to everyone who contributed to up my own company, the Hinged Dance our recent broadband survey. We’ve had a Company. I am currently working on a Sophia’s Christmas Fayre fantastic response and the data will be vital piece called Flowers in December, which is My previous victim in this column, Sophia, in securing the right super-fast broadband about the refugee crisis in Syria. organised a Christmas Fayre as part of the service for our village. More than 80% of fundraising for her expedition to southern respondents said they were unhappy with Rikki: Do you come up with the ideas and Africa. Here are her brother Alistair and his NEIGHBOURHOOD NEWS their current service and over 90% said they work them right through from conception friend Kieran providing an excellent musical would be interested in high speed broadband. to production? potpourri of jazzed-up Christmas Carols. You can download a copy of the survey from was herself trained by the great Polish-born http://liamhall.net/IABG_Survey_Results. dancer and teacher, Dame Marie Rambert. Taira: Yes, pretty much. Sometimes I use pdf. It is also available via the Ivinghoe I was 17, and training with 7-year-olds, but existing music, but sometimes I have the Aston Facebook page and a hard copy will Eve gave me the confi dence that I needed luxury of being able to commission music. be available to read over a pint at The Village to progress. That was the case for my production Swan. Despite being left behind and ignored Prisoner 466, about Nelson Mandela. John by the major internet service providers there Rikki: Was there a “big break” that Cameron, whom you have previously are several options open to us a community.