Capon Tree Veterinary Centre 24 hour emergency service We aim to provide the highest standard of professional veterinary care with dedicated and caring personnel – in a friendly environment Call: 016977 2318 www.capontreevets.co.uk [email protected] The Village News Please mention The Village News if you are Spring Edition using one of our advertisers. Advertise Here March – May 2019 Reasonable Rates Covering Farlam, Milton, Kirkhouse, Contact the Editor - [email protected] ForestHead, Hallbankgate, Coal Fell, Tindale and Midgeholme Hello and welcome to the Spring edition of The Village News. FARLAM CHURCH PLANT AND BOOK FAIR nd This 2 edition of our new format Village News covers the period March to SUNDAY 19TH MAY 2019 May, and we’d like to thank all those who have come back to us with positive feedback on the 1st edition. As we said, we aim to make this publication what you want it to be, and again invite you to submit articles and information that you would like us to share with those who live locally. This quarter we have asked our local advertisers to tell us a bit more about themselves and their businesses. To any new, potential advertisers out there, we extend the same offer, and for £25 you can have 12 months exposure in your local community, which does provide positive business results. Church service 10am We have included the first excerpt from Betty Dixon’s excellent History of Hallbankgate, which covers the local history of the parish over the Plant and Book Sale 11.30am to 1.30pm centuries and is packed with interesting facts, figures and insights of what went on in the past. We will be including sections of this over the coming months, and would welcome any other material others may have on local Come and join us for this annual fund raiser in aid of Farlam events over the centuries. Parish Church in Kirkhouse. For our next edition, we’d like to include a buy and sell section for our Plenty of plants and veg. to choose from, with a sale of cookery readers. If you have an item that you are looking to buy or sell between and gardening books, a raffle and café serving teas, coffee and £10 and £100 ONLY, then send us the brief details of the item along with a cakes, plus cakes for sale. contact name and a phone/email details. Please make it clear if you are looking to buy a particular item, or you have something to sell. If you’re For more information, see article on the event in this edition. having a bit of a clear out at this time of the year, we’d welcome your donations of any books on cooking or gardening for the Plant Fair (more details inside this edition). Farlam Parish Trust The next Trust meeting is on Wednesday 13th March at 6.45pm in As before, you can continue to contact us at: Hallbankgate Village Hall. Grant applications must be received one week prior to the trust [email protected] with any news, views or articles for meeting. Application forms can be downloaded from the Parish the next issue in Summer 2019, which will be hitting your doorsteps in Council website: June. Deadline date for this information is May 18th. www.farlamparishcouncil.com/Trust%20Application%20Form.pdf Look forward to hearing from you For further information please contact the Trust Administrator Mr C Raine – [email protected] Paul and Claire Skeates, Kirkhouse. Farlam Parish Council Benefice Page for March to May 2019 Eden, Gelt & Irthing Team Ministry Council elections MID-WEEK SILENT MEDITATION This year marks the start of another four year term for the Parish Council; Tuesdays in term time in Hayton Church: 9.30 – 10am elections are due in May. Will you consider putting your name forward? Nomination forms will be available in mid-March from the Clerk of the NIGHT LIGHT MEETINGS council at the Brampton Parish council office in Craw Hall, Brampton. The The Night Light groups now meet fortnightly: first day for the receipt of nominations will be Monday 18th March and papers must be submitted to the returning officer in Carlisle no later than Juniors (years 4, 5 and 6) at Brampton Methodist Church 6 – 7.15pm. 4pm on Wednesday 3rd April. Being a Parish Councilor is not an onerous Seniors (secondary school ages) at the Green Door Centre 7.30 – task – we have just six meetings a year – but it is an essential part of local 9pm. government. As a councillor you will share responsibility for a variety of Dates for both groups: 1st March; 15th March; 29th March. aspects of Parish life, including setting the Parish precept. The minutes of all meetings (available on our website) give more details of the types of For further details contact Edward 01228 670 248 decisions made. or [email protected] Parish precept 2019-20 HELP LINES A precept increase was agreed at an increase of 20% which will equate to Victim Support approximately an increase of 50p per month for a Band D household. Including info. and advice for those affected by domestic violence Other bands will increase proportionately. An above inflation increase is Help line: 0300 3033 797 / 0300 3033 979 necessary as we are still affected by the historic low due to subsidy from Email: [email protected] Thompson’s quarry at Silver top, which the council no longer receives. Childline Counselling: 08001111 Dog Waste Samaritans: Free phone 116 123 There have been a number of instances recently of dog waste not being Farm Community Network: 07002 326326 picked up. This has been particularly along Park Terrace in Hallbankgate and in Kirkhouse but also in other parts of the parish. THE GATHERING rd th Please can we ask all dog owners to pick up any waste then dispose of the 3pm Sundays 3 March & 7 April in the Green Door Centre, bag appropriately. Dog waste should be placed in grey bins, never in Brampton (by the United Reformed Church). An informal gathering for green bins, and never simply left in places where it will not rot down. fellowship and exploring the Christian faith through discussion and reflection. All ages welcome – there is a group for children too. Unfortunately it is not possible for the Parish Council to provide and empty special dog waste bins, so please follow the simple rules above to keep our parish clean. Thank you. For further details of any of the above contact Edward 01228 670 248 or [email protected] LOCAL CHURCH SERVICES AND EVENTS Brampton Local History Group March 2019 to May 2019 Covering a wide range of local interest topics, these talks are given by local experts and you will always learn something new about the area. The group meets on the 3rd Thursday each month at 7.30pm at rd SUNDAY 3 ST MARTIN’S 10am United Benefice Brampton Community Centre. MARCH BRAMPTON Service (Holy Comm) Revd Edward Johnsen Here is a list of talks for the next 3 months: ASH HAYTON 7.30pm Holy Communion WEDNESDAY CHURCH BCP (Ashing optional) Revd 6th MARCH Edward Johnsen 21st March: Stone Circles in Cumbria th SUNDAY 10 TALKIN 9.15am Village Service th MARCH CHURCH Lay led 18 April: The Border Regiment SUNDAY 17th ST THOMAS A 10am Holy Communion 16th May: Lanercost Priory MARCH BECKET FARLAM Revd J. Murray SUNDAY 24th TALKIN 9.15am Holy Communion MARCH CHURCH Bishop Peter Ramsden SUNDAY 31st TALKIN 11am Holy Communion MARCH CHURCH (coffee from 10.30am) Revd P and H M Ferguson MOTHERING Janice Murray SUNDAY New and Used Cars th SUNDAY 7 TALKIN 9.15am Village Service APRIL CHURCH Lay led SUNDAY 14th TALKIN 11am Holy Communion Quality new and used cars, servicing and MOT APRIL PALM CHURCH (coffee from 10.30am) Revd SUNDAY Edward Johnsen Fell View Garage, Hallbankgate THlURSDAY 18th TALKIN 7.30pm Liturgy of Maundy APRIL MAUNDY CHURCH Thursday. Revd Edward THURSDAY Johnsen FRIDAY 19th LANERCOST 2pm– 3pm Good Friday Call: 016977 46244 APRIL GOOD PRIORY Service Revd Angela Hughes FRIDAY www.phmferguson.co.uk SUNDAY 21st ST THOMAS A 11am Holy Communion APRIL EASTER BECKET FARLAM Revd Janice Murray [email protected] DAY SUNDAY 28th ST MARTIN’S 10am Confirmation Service APRIL BRAMPTON Bishop James Bell SUNDAY 5th MAY TALKIN 9.15am Village Service CHURCH Lay led SUNDAY 12th TALKIN 11am Holy Communion MAY CHURCH Revd Edward Johnsen th Hallbankgate WI SUNDAY 19 MAY ST THOMAS A 10am Holy BECKET FARLAM Communion Revd Janice Murray Programme 2019: FOLLOWED BY PLANT FAIR Thursday 28th March – Ian Kidd: “Carrs Biscuits” SUNDAY 26th MAY TALKIN 9.15am Holy CHURCH Communion Thursday 25th April – Kate Lishman: “Circle of Life” Revd Janice Murray Thursday 23rd May – Hazel Stephenson: “Land Girls” Meetings are held in Hallbankgate Village Hall at 7.30pm. ANNUAL PAROCHIAL CHURCH MEETING: ___________________________________________________________ th 7pm Thursday 4 April 2019, in Farlam ‘Gardening for the Soul’ Church This meeting is held to elect the PCC and to report on the life of the Monday mornings, 10-12 parish church over the previous twelve months. All residents of the parish are welcome to the first (and very brief) part of the meeting (the St Thomas a Becket Church, Kirkhouse Annual Meeting of Parishioners – traditionally known as the Vestry Meeting), at which churchwardens are elected. The APCM proper follows, reports are given, and those on the ecclesiastical Electoral From Monday 4th March 2019 we are starting a new community ‘Garden Roll elect members of the PCC. Club’ which will give those in the parish (and perhaps beyond?) a chance to get together and mix socially.