B U L L E T I N
JANUARY 2002
Editors: David
and Monica Lilley
Distribution: Tony
Court
12th JANUARY
2002
Happy New Year everyone.
Website The village
website will be going live before Christmas.
The address is www.ickletonvillage.co.uk
Very many thanks are due to James Macdonald, Andrew Shepperd, Miranda
Stone-Wigg and Charles Cooper for all their efforts. They have produced a wonderful website and Ickleton has moved
into the twenty-first century! If you
do not have a computer in your home, do go and take a look on a friend’s
screen. Information on the site covers the village – with pictures, services,
Icene, sport, organisations, diary, Village Hall, Parish Council, Churches and
local links. Don’t forget that you can
also use it for advertising purposes – contact Andrew Shepperd. Well done and thank you to all involved.
Kerbside Recycling collection
dates Friday 4th January,
and Thursdays 17th and 31st January. (This service has
been somewhat unreliable of late, and I am chasing up the contractors).
Refuse Collection. First week in January the collection will be
on Thursday 3rd January.
Community Beat Officer PC Tim Cleary is hoping to attend the
Parish Council meeting on 16th
January, so do come and listen to what he has to say.
Jackie Casement - Parish Clerk
After many complaints,
Stagecoach has reinstated one bus journey each way on Service 32 to
Addenbrooke’s Hospital.
The 0912 from Ickleton will
call at Addenbrooke’s on its way to Cambridge and there will be a return bus at
1200. David Lilley
Age Concern Cambridgeshire is
constantly looking to develop the service it offers to older people in
Cambridgeshire. Over the past year a
number of people have contacted Age Concern Cambridgeshire looking for a
handyman or gardener. At present we are
unable to supply them with any contact details.
We would like to be able to
put these people in touch with gardeners/handymen who will have been vetted by
Age Concern Cambridgeshire by way of references and a police check.
If you would like to appear
on our gardener/handyman list, please contact us for an application form ' 01354 696677.
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Sunday 6th January
10.00 a.m. Joint Parish
Eucharist (Order 1) DUXFORD
(Epiphany) 4.00 p.m. Epiphany Christingle service ICKLETON
Sunday 13th
January 8.00 p.m. Holy Communion (BCP) ICKLETON
(Epiphany 2) 10.00 a.m. Five
Village Christian Unity Service
WHITTLESFORD
for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity URC
6.30 p.m. Sung
Evensong (BCP) ICKLETON
Sunday 20th
January 9.30 a.m. Parish
Eucharist (Order 1) DUXFORD
(Epiphany 3) 11.00 a.m. Joint
Family Eucharist ICKLETON
6.30 p.m. Sung Evensong (BCP) HINXTON
Sunday 27th
January 9.30 a.m. Parish
Eucharist (Order 1) DUXFORD
(Epiphany 4) 11.00 a.m. Joint
Family Service HINXTON
6.30 p.m. Sung Evensong and Holy Communion
(BCP ICKLETON
From the Vicar
After six months maternity
leave following the birth of our second daughter, Trelawny Margaret, I am now
back at work and glad to have this chance to wish you all a happy and prosperous
2002.
I want to thank very warmly
all those who have worked so hard to keep the wheels turning in my absence,
especially our Assistant Priest Tricia Newland and our Reader Julie Baillie,
both of whom have cheerfully and efficiently taken on many extra tasks and
responsibilities. We are also much indebted to those visiting clergy who have
taken services for us. There were a
number of these but I must just mention Canon David Wall who has travelled
regularly all the way from Bury St. Edmunds to be with us and whose relaxed and
approachable style of ministry has been so much appreciated, and Revd. Charles
Miller who kindly allowed himself to be roped in within months of moving to
Duxford and without whom we might not have been able to continue some of our
more traditional services. Behind the
scenes we also owe a tremendous debt to our valiant Church Wardens Sebastian
Payne and Jenny Pell and to the whole Parochial Church Council for supporting
them in their work. Well done
everybody!
As we raised our glasses to
one another at the start of the New Year, no doubt most of us were wondering
what of joy or sorrow the next twelve months will bring us. Probably for most of us there will be some
of each. We cannot see into the future
and perhaps it would not be good for us if we could but as Christians we have
been shown a still more excellent way, the way of faith. So let us live our lives peacefully one day
at a time, giving thanks continually for the many blessings we enjoy and
trusting the future to our heavenly Father.
With God’s blessing Jane Charman
“What is the place of the
Bible in our lives?”
“We know it is important, but
how can it make a difference to us each day?”
Following
the Emmaus Course, we are planning a five week series of bible studies. The subject for these will be ‘The Word of
God’. Using some notes by Revd. John
Stott, each session will be led by members of the group and is open to all
Christians in the three parishes. Each
evening will start at 7.30 p.m. with a simple supper, followed by the study at
8.30 p.m. finishing with a short act of worship by 10.00 p.m.
Venue – Ickleton Place.
Dates, Thursdays 10th,
17th, 24th, 31st January
and 7th February.
Please come and join us. For catering purposes please give Anne
Lindsey a ring
Simon
Casement and Jet van Kuffler
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This takes place on Sunday 3rd
February at 6.30 p.m. to see the swans being fed. There are 15 places booked for us, so please ring Sheila Birch if
you want to reserve one. Car sharing can be arranged for the approximately one
hour journey there.
The collection in the Village
for this year amounted to £752.67, including the Church collection on
Remembrance Sunday. Thank you to all
who gave so generously.
Many many
thanks to all the collectors: Sheila
Birch, Jackie Casement, Pat Facer, Lena Frost, Yvonne Hall, Judy Holt, Jenny
Lawson, Judy Marshall, Sally Pearce, Hilary Rule and Mary Woolhouse. Sunita and
Dilip at the shop, Paula and Doug at The Ickleton Lion and the Social Club all
had collecting boxes on their counters and bar. Thank you.
Eileen Westcott, Hon.
Organiser
We had our Christmas Lunch in
the Village Hall on 12th December. I was very sorry that
three members were not able to come due to illness, but we hope they will soon
be well.
It was nice to see Mrs.
Nellie Jarrold with us again, and we had invited Mr. Ernie Scasbrook and Mrs.
Dorothy Churchman along, as they have both been great supporters of the club.
The meal was prepared by Mrs.
J. Fordham and her helpers, and a lovely meal it was, everyone seemed to enjoy
it.
The wine was given by Mr. and
Mrs. Pickett who celebrate their Diamond wedding anniversary on December 20th . We thank them very much.
Also many thanks to Mr. Jim Ball who gave us a donation in memory of his late
wife Jo. Thanks also to Mrs. Frankau who gave us some mincepies, and many
thanks to Mrs. Vera Reed for doing the table decorations so tastefully.
I must say a big thank you to
the Club for my present which I have not opened yet, but do appreciate very much.
We are having a break over
Christmas, the next meeting is on January 16th.
May I wish you all a very
Happy and Peaceful New Year. Mrs. R. Lilley
CHAPEL NOTICES
In January we often look back
at the past year and forward and decide how we will fill the empty pages of the
new chapter that is just beginning.
We in Ickleton Methodist
Chapel will be doing just that in the week beginning 10th March
2002, when we will be celebrating our 150 years Chapel Anniversary. We do hope that all of you in the village
will celebrate with us. More details
next month.
An ancient proverb declares,
“More men adore the sun rising than the sun setting.” When one watches a coronation of a king or the inauguration of a
president, the proverb seems to be true.
Witness the joy of a new love
or the excitement of a new anything.
All seem to declare that we always welcome a new day. But when the new
begins to challenge our old values and habits, our adoration is likely to be
short lived. At first, Jesus was
welcomed into the synagogue in Nazareth just as he was thronged throughout
Galilee and later greeted with hosannas in Jerusalem. But then the people learned that his good news also had a word of
judgement. Liberty for the oppressed
meant loss also for the oppressor.
The word of God in the bible
can declare fresh insight and meaning into our daily lives, and can help and
support us in times of need.
If reading the Bible was not
on your agenda for this year why not make a start this New Year. The first question to ask yourself, as you
read, is like the people round Jesus.”Will it offend or challenge.”
Happy New Year. Rev.
Jim. Gill
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A Service of Thanksgiving for
the life of Mrs. Muriel Bettinson of Caldrees Cottage, Butcher’s Hill, was held
on November 14th following her death on 6th
November. Burial followed at Ickleton
Cemetery.
Muriel and her husband, John,
who died last year shortly after they had celebrated their Diamond Wedding, had
lived in the village since 1978. They moved
here from Four Oaks, Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire, following his retirement
from day-to-day involvement in his family business in the West Midlands. John had lived all his life until then in
the Birmingham area and Muriel had spent much of hers there too, her father
being a director of Dunlops.
They enjoyed a very happy
retirement here, taking a keen interest in village affairs and took part in
other local activies such as the Saffron Walden Decorative and Fine Arts
Society and the Saffron Walden Theatre Club.
They built up a wide circle of friends in the area and enjoyed living
near their son and daughter and their families.
Muriel’s family are deeply
grateful for all the friendship and kindness shown to John and Muriel and
particularly for the support she received in recent years. They thank all who wrote to them following
her death and the many people who attended her funeral. The service was taken by the Reverend John
Haslam, a member of the family, assisted by the Reverend Patricia Newland and
the Reverend Walter Ellis. The address
by Victor Shanklan, Muriel’s brother who lives in New Zealand, was given on his
behalf by his daughter, Penny Callenfels.
There was an extremely good
attendance at the December meeting when members came to enjoy a talk by Mr.
Mike Thurlow, Head Gardener from Audley End Estate. Much interest was shown in the walled kitchen garden which has been
re-constructed to its original state, growing organically all types of
vegetables, fruits and flowers of the varieties used in the Victorian era and
still very worthwhile today.
There is no meeting in
January, next meeting February 6th 2002 when the speaker will be Mr.
Richard Ayres who recently retired as Head Gardener at Anglesey Abbey.
Cynthia Rule
Duxford Voted Cambridgeshire Family Attraction of the Year
The
Imperial War Museum Duxford is delighted to announce that it has been chosen by
‘The Good Britain Guide 2002’ as the family attraction of the year for
Cambridgeshire.
Duxford was selected as the
Cambridgeshire regional winner having been chosen by visitors to the museum who
had subsequently written in to the ‘Good Britain Guide’ to nominate Duxford for
this award. The criteria for selection
are tough – an attraction must offer something for everyone, represent good
value for money and be substantial enough to entertain a family for the best
part of the day.
Over the past year, the ‘Good
Britain Guide’ has received many nominations from members of the public for
attractions across the county. Having
drawn up a short-list, the Guide Editors then visited each attraction
personally before making their final section.
Says Museum Director Ted Inman, “We are delighted to have been chosen as
one of the 38 regional winners. Duxford
is a museum quite unlike any other. We
are constantly changing and responding to our visitors’ needs and expectations
and every effort is made to maximise
the enjoyment of more than 400,000 annual visitors to the museum.” Tracey
Woods
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ICKLETON VILLAGE HALL –
LETTING CHARGES – YEAR 2002
Evening 11.00
Village Organisations – one off events Morning 16.50
Afternoon 16.50
Evening 16.50
Private Hire Morning 27.50
Afternoon
27.50
Evening 27.50
Regular users on a weekly/monthly basis Morning 12.10
Afternoon 12.10
Evening 12.10
Village Organisations – one off events Morning 27.50
Afternoon 27.50
Evening 27.50
Private Hire Morning 44.00
Afternoon 44.00
Evening 77.00
(hourly by arrangement)
Sports Hall Plus Meeting Room
Morning 60.00
Afternoon 60.00
Evening 100.00
Village Organisations/Clubs Morning 5.00
Afternoon 5.00
Evening 5.00
Private Hire Morning 10.00
Ickleton teams 12.50
Outside regular users 15.00
One Offs 20.00
HAVE YOU MISSED THE ICKLETON TURN?
As I
write this it is over five weeks since a vehicle ran into and demolished the
signpost on the A1301 at Hinxton pointing down New Road to Ickleton.
Since then, although the
police must have seen it when patrolling, nothing has been done. A piece of cardboard on a broomstick would
have been better than nothing!
I have used this turn over
10,000 times but it is still not easy to see in dark inclement or foggy
conditions
A phone call to the local
police has so far made no difference - the person on the phone said they were
not familiar with the area. I would have
thought local knowledge would have been a prerequisite for the job. David Lilley
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Thank you to all of you who
have been filling your collecting boxes during 2001.
Please would you let me have
your money by the end of January so that I can send off a cheque to the
Children’s Society.
If there is anyone else who would like a box, please
let me know. It is a really worthwhile
charity and does wonderful work with young people in need.
Many thanks Rosemary Hayes,
Hats for all occasions was
the subject for the December meeting.
Mrs. Taylor from Newmarket
Hat Hire produced a glorious array of hats ranging from Ascot style to cocktail
style, members had a great time trying them on.
Festive refreshments were
served to end a very happy evening.
Next meeting January 16th
in the Chapel, Carmel Street, Gt. Chesterford.
The speaker will be Mr. Colin Kirkland from the R.S.P.B. Cynthia Rule
WELCOME TO…….David Keating,
and
WELCOME TO……..Joe and Kirsty Sawyer and Cameron who is 19
months old.
We would both like to thank
everyone who sent ‘get well’ cards and good wishes to Len during his recent
short spell in hospital. These were all
very much appreciated.
Len and Joy Howe
The Ashes of Rev. J. B. Hall
vicar of Ickleton 1959 – 1967 were interred in Ickleton churchyard on Sunday 9th
December.
January 7th Mobile Library
16th Visiting
Bellringers 11.00 a.m. – 12.30 p.m.
16th Parish Council
Meeting 7.30 p.m. Village Hall
16th The Chesterfords, Ickleton & Hinxton
Women’s Institute Meeting
7.45 p.m. Chapel, Carmel Street, Gt. Chesterford
21st Mobile Library
February 3rd IPS Trip to Welney
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