VILLAGE & COMMUNITY MAGAZINE November Edition - 2019 Keeping Connected the Villages of ALSTONEFIELD ~ BUTTERTON ~ ELKSTONES ..... ILAMSee Inside ~ WARSLOW for August’s Specials~ WETTON..... DEADLINE for the December Magazine is **6pm FRIDAY** 22nd November “WHAT’S ON” NOVEMBER 2019 1st 7.30pm Butterton Bingo Butterton Village Hall 1st 7.00pm Live Comedy Performance ‘The Frozen Roman’ Alstonefield Village Hall 5th A.M. Ilam X Country Running Group (& every Tuesday) From Ilam 5th Evening Ilam School Association Bonfire & BBQ 6th Friendship Club Christmas Shopping Trip Burton on Trent 7th 3.30pm Pilates (& every Thursday) Beechenhill Hay Barn, Ilam 11th 7.30pm Hartington Surgery Patient Participation Meeting Hartington Surgery. 12th A.M. Ilam X Country Running Group (& every Tuesday) From Ilam 12th 8.00pm Ilam Parish Council Meeting Ilam School 12th 7.30pm Butterton W.I. (& every 2nd Tuesday) Butterton Village Hall 13th 10.00am Free Nordic Walking Taster Session National Trust, Ilam 13th 7.00pm Alstonefield History Group (Illustrated Talk) Alstonefield Village Hall 14th 1.15pm Free Nordic Walking Taster Session Old Dog, Thorpe 14th 3.30pm Pilates (& every Thursday) Beechenhill Hay Barn, Ilam 14th 7.30pm Wetton Parish Council Meeting Wetton Village Hall 18th 7.30pm Butterton Reading Group (& every 3rd Monday) Various Locations 18th 7.30pm Warslow Parish Council Meeting Warslow Village Hall 19th 7.30pm Body Shop Event Sheen Village Hall 19th A.M. Ilam X Country Running Group (& every Tuesday) From Ilam 19th 7.30pm CPR & Defibrillator Training Alstonefield Village Hall 20th 7.30pm Warslow Bingo Warslow Village Hall 21st 3.30pm Pilates (& every Thursday) Beechenhill Hay Barn, Ilam 23rd 7.30pm Live Music ‘Tom McConville Band’ Alstonefield Village Hall 24th 12 – 4pm Warslow Annual Christmas Fayre Warslow Village 26th A.M. Ilam X Country Running Group (& every Tuesday) From Ilam 28th 3.30pm Pilates (& every Thursday) Beechenhill Hay Barn, Ilam 28th 7.30pm Pie & Quiz Evening Beechenhill Hay Barn, Ilam 30th AM & PM Christmas Wreath Making Sessions Alstonefield Village Hall EARLY DECEMBER’S DIARY st 1 AM & PM Christmas Wreath Making Sessions Alstonefield Village Hall st 1 1.00pm Decorating the Christmas Tree Alstonefield Church rd 3 7.00pm Butterton Parish Council Meeting Butterton Village Hall th 4 Friendship Christmas Luncheon Fenny Bentley th 4 7.00pm Alstonefield Parish Council Meeting Alstonefield Village Hall th 5 Ilam Village Christmas Luncheon Ilam School th 6 7.30pm Butterton ‘Christmas Bingo’ Butterton Village Hall th 7 7.30pm Warslow Silver Band Warslow Village Hall th 8 12pm to 2pm Christmas Fayre Butterton Village Hall 9th 12 Noon Wetton Christmas Luncheon Wetton Village Hall st Deadline Date for DECEMBER 2019 (to include 1 half January 2020) All are invited to submit material for the next newsletter but ask that all items submitted in long hand include all names written in BLOCK CAPITALS. Please note that I do not take dictation over the telephone. Costs applicable to some items, i.e. business/private or charities not within our cluster villages, (please telephone if you are not sure & require further information). All hard copy for the Newsletter to be delivered to: The Newsletter, Trees Cottage, Butterton, Leek, Staffs. ST13 7SP. Tel: 01538 304560 e.mail [email protected] and ALL DOCUMENTS TO BE IN WORD ONLY. NO PDF’s /JPEG’s or SCANNED ITEMS & ANY GRAPHICS TO BE IN BLACK AND WHITE. PLEASE DO NOT PUT TEXT INTO A TEXT BOX OR USE ANY BORDERS AS IT COMPLICATES THE EDITING. Cheques made payable to ‘Community Mag’ should be sent to The Treasurer, C/O Melanie Hodgkinson, Trees Cottage, Butterton, Leek, Staffs. ST13 7SP. Note: Editors Decision on Placement/Location/Acceptance of all Items/Adverts is Final. Send any items Anytime & the Earlier the Better Please up until: **6pm on FRIDAY** 22nd NOVEMBER DO NOT ASK after this time and date as refusal often offends. So Please put a note in your diary or on your calendar to save your & my embarrassment at refusal. 2 Thought for the Month apply on the NHS jobs website. There is also the option to How far high failure overleaps the bounds of low success. become a community resuscitation volunteer if you don’t have the time to become a CFR. Lewis Morris More information about what both roles involve and how the Don’t Twitter – Titter Instead course is run can be found on the application page but please call us if you would like to know more before this. I asked my daughter if she’d seen my For more information contact Nicky on 01335 310296 or newspaper. She told me that newspapers are Sally on 01538 304116 old school. She said that people use tablets www.wacfr.org Charity no: 1121223 nowadays and handed me her iPad. The fly Hartington Surgery Patient Participation Group didn’t stand a chance! The Practice is privileged to have a long established and very successful Patients’ Group. The Group is a registered charity ~~~~~ which was initially set up in 1989 to provide medical or Dentist: “This will hurt a little”. nursing equipment that would not easily be available on the NHS, to improve the health, or quality of life, of Hartington Patient: “OK”. Surgery patients. Dentist: “I’ve been having an affair with your Funding is provided solely by patient donations, often given in memory of a loved one who received care and support from wife for a while now”. The Practice. ~~~~ The Surgery would like to pass on sincere thanks for these My old aunts would come and tease me at charitable donations, without which the Patients’ Group could not offer its valuable support. weddings...”Well Sarah do you think you’ll be In more recent times the Group has also taken on the role of next?” a discussion forum to exchange ideas and suggestions to improve service provision. I’ve settled this quickly now I’ve started The Practice aims to use this constructive ‘patient led’ advice doing the same to them at funerals. and feedback to prepare an action plan for future Practice improvements. ~~~~ If you would like to be involved, or if you have any queries Gardeners’ Tip of the Month for November about the PPG please contact the Surgery or come along to the next meeting at Hartington Surgery on Monday 11th Still a little time left to cut back your Perennials & to cover November 2019 at 7.30pm. the crowns of tender plants left to over winter outside with New members of all ages are welcome – please come along. some thick dry mulch. ~~~~~~~~ Your Community Magazine It’s hibernation time, get the children involved and build or Any of Our Cluster of Villages’ Community or Fundraising purchase an Insect Hotel or Hedgehog House. Don’t Events. These would, for example, be Village Halls (some), forget to watchout for hibernating hedgehogs under your History Groups, W.I.’s, Book Clubs, Church (some), First piles of fallen leaves. Responders, School, Play Groups in fact anything that keeps our Communities going as a whole. Household Tip of the Month Sorry folks but the House Keeper’s Cupboard is still empty However, if monies raised are going to an outside cause or & along with a lack of recipies, the larder too. you are using a facility to earn money, then a small contribution towards our printing costs would be expected. “Do you want to promote your Cottage Industry or Home Made Crafts?” Classified Annual Contribution £50.00 See item under Alstonefield Advert ‘New Year Indoor Market’ Classified Per Monthly £ 5.00 Advert Insertion Wetton & Alstonefield Community First Responders Fundraiser Per Monthly £ 5.00 Serving the community’s emergency medical needs with pride, For Out of Insertion care and excellence. Area Charities Thank You WACFR would like to say thank you for the recent generous Full A4 Page Per Monthly £15.00 donations from several local residents, and from the (‘Poster’ ) Inclusion customers and staff of the Jervis Arms, Onecote and Polly’s (Applies to all) Cottage, Milldale. th Community Magazine WACFR 20 Anniversary We enjoyed a lovely afternoon tea in September to celebrate O.K. folks, I give in. There have been too many telephone calls/emails etc. so I admit defeat and the magazine will 20 years of WACFR. We were joined by previous responders continue in its current form. But there will have to be and those who have supported us over the years, so thank compromise. The first is that the magazine deadline will you everyone for coming. Our vehicle was blessed at the work around myself in future which means you will all have morning service in Alstonefield. You may have seen the to monitor it carefully and each month. Secondly when article and photo in the Leek Post too. submitting an item, can you please check the charges Interested in becoming a First Responder? immediately above this item and in particular, those who fund If you would like to become a voluntary responder then do raise for charitable causes outside of our cluster area. It is contact us so we can let you know when it is next possible to these small amounts that help to pay for the printing costs 3 that I have to find each month. It is embarrassing having to 1. Peanuts and Sunflower Hearts in a feeder for Blue Tits, mention it or chase you up. Other things may change too, Great Tits, Coal Tits including printing price rises in the New Year. 2. Niger Seeds in a feeder for Goldfinches 3. Fat Balls / Cakes for Woodpeckers, Nuthatches Christmas Greetings 4. Seed on bird tables or on the ground for Sparrows, Robins, Providing that there is enough interest from Chaffinches yourselves, sufficient to fill a dedicated page, I Only feed peanuts if they're unsalted, fresh and sold for am quite willing, for a small contribution to human consumption or by a reputable feed shop.