CLAPHAM & DISTRICT NEWSLETTER Number 100, April 2016 Sixteen years of local news! With this 100th edition of our newsletter we celebrate nearly 16 years of chronicling the everyday life in this parish. We must congratulate the team of present and past volunteers, without whom there would be no Clapham and District Newsletter. Reading through the first issue, September 1999, we read of the ‘recent’ ‘Village Appraisal’ in which the idea of a ‘Local Newsletter’ emerged, it ‘was deemed a good idea, so here we are!!’ Also in that first edition we had news of; the next Street Market, the visit of the Chernobyl Children, the local bus service, the WEA, whist drives, Craven Writers Circle, Clapham Reading Room, Clapham Community Playgroup, Age Concern, Clapham Dance Club, Church and Chapel news, a sports day at Newby, and the preparations for celebrating ’99 making way for the millennium’. There was also a snippet of history: ‘Did You Know? On April 12th, 1845 a local meeting decided by 23 votes to 15 that a substantial footbridge be built in the place of the broken bridge over the river in the Village of Clapham. This to cost £15’. There were no commercial adverts in that edition but such support was solicited in the second edition which had already attracted two services, Clapham Village Store & Post Office, and James Marshall, Joiner and Carpenter. The publication was and still is the product of North Yorkshire. The services offered by the loyal volunteer industry: the meeting to assess what to advertisers, the reports and intimations of all the include in the edition, the production, layout and many clubs, groups and adhoc initiatives and the news editing and then proof reading followed after printing from the faith congregations, are all the substance by distribution. In the early days the cutting and of our local municipality. It is a privilege to be pasting was done with scissors and glue and there involved with this enterprise to support and serve all was also a session when the paper was actually cut, those folk who do so much to keep all the different folded and collated by a small volunteer workforce ventures, opportunities and services ticking over in too. this community. The publication has been slowly and subtly Reading through the first hundred editions I recording stories from local residents, issue by issue, found myself on a journey through the most recent and also by reporting on events as they happen, past, recalling the lives of so many ‘saints’ in their all adding to the unfolding social history of a 21st various ways, passing by, remembering how the century Dales village. village marked national and local events, smiling at It is the vehicle for a quintessential network, the native humour, and respecting the confidentiality which engages and links the local people to this of intuitive indigenous philanthropy. ongoing theatre, the life and times of Clapham, Chris Hart CLAPHAM COMMUNITY SHOP are recruiting new voluteers to help in the shop. There are a range of opportunities from working behind the counter to baking the delicious home made bread or doing the newspapers. Full training and FUN provided! For more information contact Helen in the shop or Sue on 015242 51792 or [email protected] Tiny Tots Village Hall Notice Board Tuesday Mornings 9.30 am to 11 am Clapham Parish Council Clapham Tracey Bilton 4th Tuesday Evening of the month at Art Group 51857 7.30 pm Whist Friday Evenings 7.30 pm Tuesday Evening Linda Clemence 01729 823767 Bowls Gillian Muir 51775 Monday Afternoons 1.30 am to 4 pm Tai Chi Mrs. Denne 51617 Elsie Morphett Clapham W.I. Thursdays 07951 295995 9 am to 10.30 am 2nd Wednesday Evening 1st Wednesday of the month Morning 7.00 pm of the month 11 am Improving later life Brenda Pearce Jill Walker 01729 825358 Tony Bennett c/o 51240 51816 2 CHURCH NEWS In addition there will be Beacon events in The Vicar’s thoughts . Cathedrals across the country over Pentecost week- end (Canerbury, Durham, Winchester, Coventry and Following is a letter from our Archbishops: St Paul’s), also at St Michaek le Belfrey, York. The Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, dream is this: imagine every Anglican, perhaps even Thy Kingdom Come, thy will be done . every Christian, in this nation praying that prayer A Call to Prayer in the week leading up to Pentecost together with the specific intention that all may 2016 come to know Jesus as Lord. We profoundly hope As we travel around the country, we are that you and those you serve will want to be part of continuously encouraged by the faithfulness, this great movement of prayer. Evangelism is the commitment and courage of all our Partners in the work of God, and it begins as we seek him in prayer. Gospel. Your ministry in sharing the Good News It is always good for the Church to pray. of Jesus Christ, often in testing circumstances, is May the grace of Our Lord Jesus Christ be with an inspiring testimony to the transforming work you all. of our Lord. We thank God for our partnership in Justin Cantuar the Gospel. Like us, you will know that ministry Sentamu Eboracensis is empty and barren without prayer. That is why Blessings as ever, Ian we are taking the unprecedented step of writing to every serving parish priest in the Church of England DIARY DATES FOR APRIL inviting you and your people to join us in a week of Saturday, 9 – Parish Walk to Rydal Hall, Grasmere prayer for the evanglisation of our nation. – meet at Austwick Church at 9.00 am In the week leading up to Pentecost (May 8th - Tuesday, 12 – AGM for Clapham Church – 7.00 pm 15th, 2016) we long to see a great wave of prayer in Church across our land, throughout the Church of England Friday, 22 – Special Peel of Bells at Clapham and many other Churches. Church at 10.00 am in honour of Her Majesty Our hope is the Queen’s 90th birthday • for all Christians to deepen their relationship with Jesus Christ • for all of us to have confidence to share the PARISH NOTICES Gospel Land of the Bible – An 8-day trip to Israel will be • for all to respond to the call of Jesus Christ to led by Revd Stuart Stobart, Vicar of Hellifield, from follow Him as disciples, to live out the Gospel 14-21 November. More information is available and to seek God’s Kingdom from day to day from 01729 851511 At the heart of our prayers will be the words that Church Flowers – Please add your name to the Jesus Christ himself taught us – ‘Thy kingdom rota at the back of Church if you would like to put come, thy will be done’. It is impossible to overstate flowers in Church for a Sunday Service. The ladies the life-tranforming power of the Lord’s Prayer. It who regularly see to the flowers would be happy to is a prayer that is reassuring enough to be on the arrange them on your behalf. lips of the dying and yet dangerous enough to be banned in cinemas. It is famous enough to be spoken Austwick Church Book Sales – If you are short of each day by billions in hundreds of languages and a good read you may find what you’re looking for at yet intimate enough to draw us ever closer into the back of Church where there is a good selection friendship with Jesus Christ. It is simple enough to of reading material from hardbacks through to be memorised by small children and yet profound magazines. Please leave a small donation with all enough to sustain a whole lifetime of prayer. When proceeds going towards the upkeep of the Church. we pray it with sincerity and with joy, there is no imagining the new ways in which God can use us CHURCH SERVICES IN APRIL to his glory. Sunday, 3rd 11.00 am Holy Communion at Clap- Only you know the context in which you minister ham and Keasden and the opportunities and challenges you face, so the Sunday, 10th 9.30 am Morning Prayer at Austwick precise way in which this time of prayer is realised 11.00 am Holy Communion at Clapham locally will be up to you and the people you serve. If 2.00 pm Holy Communion at Keasden you go to the website: www.thykingdom.co.uk you Sunday, 17th 11.00 am Holy Communion at will find many ideas and resources to inspire you. Clapham. 7.00 pm Evensong at Eldroth One suggestion would be a Parish Quiet Day – join Sunday, 24th. 11.00 am Holy Communion at us at Parceval Hall on 10th May. Clapham. 2.00 pm Evensong at Keasden. 3 Village Shop opening hours L. PRESTON & SONS Proprietor: iaN PreSTON Monday to Wednesday 8am–5.30pm; New & Used Car Sales Thursday 8am–6.30pm; M.O.T. Testing & Repairs Friday 8am–5.30pm; and Weekends 8am–1.30pm. 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