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contributions please. Deadline for next Icene Bulletin
12th MARCH 2006
Refuse Collections during March
Monday 6th March - Green bin and green box collection
Monday 13th March - Black bin collection
Monday 20th March - Green bin and green box collection
Monday 27th March - Black bin collection
Recycling The Parish Council has received £157.02 in respect
of recycling, collected in the village, for the period April to September 2005.
Bonfires We would like to remind residents to be
considerate to their neighbours when lighting a bonfire – they may have windows
open or washing hanging outside.
Guidelines are issued by SCDC Environmental Health Department if anyone
is unsure of the recommendations laid out.
Main Meal Delivery
The Owl Café,
Sawston will deliver a main meal and sweet for £3.40 to you on Mondays to
Fridays (excluding Bank Holidays). In
order for them to come to Ickleton, they need a minimum of three people to
deliver to in the village on the day, which they currently have on some
days. Please contact Graham '01223 834088.
Identity theft The police
have sent the following reminder: If
you throw away credit card receipts and bills, make sure that you rip them up,
or shred them if possible, so prying eyes can't read them. Identity theft is a growing problem, but
these simple steps reduce your risk.
M11 Resurfacing
Essential
resurfacing work is being carried out during the period 30th January to 7th May
between Junctions 8 to 9. The work will
be carried out 24 hours a day Monday to Saturday, with occasional Sunday
working. However, restrictions will
apply 24 hours a day 7 days a week. A
mandatory 40 mph speed limit will be in force through the works at all times.
Cambridgeshire Archaeology A
list of public events for 2006 can be found on the noticeboard or the programme
is available on line at: www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk
Jocelyn
Flitton- Parish Clerk
This is to give notice that the annual revision of
the Church Electoral Roll will take place this month. A copy of the current Roll will be displayed in the Church porch
for two weeks from 20th March.
If anyone knows of any
alteration which should be made, or wishes to add themselves to the Roll, would
they please contact me.
Frances Payne- Electoral
Roll Officer
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CHURCH
NOTICES - Services in
March
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Wednesday 1st |
8.00 p.m. Holy Communion (BCP) |
DUXFORD |
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with imposition of ashes |
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Thursday 2nd |
12.30 p.m. Holy Communion (BCP) |
HINXTON |
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Friday 3rd |
2.30 p.m.
Women’s World Day of Prayer |
HINXTON |
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Sunday
5th |
8.00 a.m.
Holy Communion (BCP) |
DUXFORD |
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Lent 1 |
10.00 a.m. Parish Eucharist |
ICKLETON |
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6.30 p.m. Sung
Evensong |
HINXTON |
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Thursday
9th |
12.30 p.m. Holy Communion (BCP) |
HINXTON
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Sunday
12th |
8.00 a.m.
Holy Communion (BCP) |
HINXTON
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Lent 2 |
10.00 a.m.
Parish Eucharist |
DUXFORD |
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6.30 p.m.
Sung Evensong |
ICKLETON
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Thursday 16th |
12.30 p.m.
Holy Communion (BCP) |
HINXTON |
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Sunday
19th |
8.00 a.m. Holy
Communion (BCP) |
ICKLETON |
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Lent 3
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10.00 a.m. Parish Eucharist |
HINXTON
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6.30 p.m.
Sung Evensong |
DUXFORD
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Thursday 23rd |
12.30 p.m.
Holy Communion (BCP) |
HINXTON
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Sunday
26th |
8.00 a.m.
Holy Communion (BCP) |
DUXFORD |
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Mothering Sunday |
9.30 a.m.
Family Service |
DUXFORD |
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11.00 a.m.
Family Service |
ICKLETON |
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Thursday 30th |
12.30 p.m. Holy Communion (BCP) |
HINXTON
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We invite you to join us for a simple meal of
home-made soup, bread, cheese and fruit at 12.30 p.m. at Duxford URC. The dates for the lunches are Wednesdays
March 8th 15th 22nd and 29th and
April 5th. There will be a
short meditation at the end of the lunch.
Donations at the lunches will be given to EACH – the East Anglian
Children’s Hospice.
The Thursday Holy Communion at Hinxton continues as
normal during Lent.
Julie Baillie, Reader
Lent in church is a time for reflection and repentance. The
hangings are funereal purple, flowers are removed and many of the traditional
hymns for the season have a certain heaviness about them in both words and
music. The purpose of the Church’s liturgical calendar is, of course, to mark
the major events in Jesus’ life in real time. Lent is forty days long in
imitation of Jesus’ withdrawal into the wilderness for forty days. In the very
earliest days of the Church, Lent was a preparatory time for Easter, when the
faithful rededicated themselves and when converts were instructed in the faith
and prepared for baptism. And so this Lent, the Churches offer a varied menu of
worship and study – opportunities for renewal for all of us.
Fairtrade Fortnight To mark this, members of the United Reformed Church
are holding a Fairtrade Coffee Morning at 8 Green Street, Duxford on 7th March
(10.00 a.m. – 12.00 noon).
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Special Services (for details see the diary) Lent begins, of course, on Ash Wednesday and in
church it begins in a very traditional way with a service of Holy Communion at Duxford,
St Peter with the Imposition of Ashes – the sign of the cross marked on the
forehead with ash. But not all worship in Lent has such a serious tone. Two
days later the women of the area come together to celebrate Women’s World Day
of Prayer at Hinxton. And in the middle of Lent every church has its own
special village service to celebrate Mothering Sunday, with a floral gift for
all the women of the congregation.
Our Lent course is called ‘Growing a Healing Ministry’ It is an
interactive and imaginative five session course on the Christian healing
ministry for use by small groups from the Acorn Christian Foundation. It gives
an excellent introduction to the ministry of healing and provides helpful,
practical advice for the local church.’ The first session is at Duxford Rectory
at 8.00 pm on 2nd March; further information from the Vicar.
Has anyone found a donkey yet? With all good wishes for Lent!
Annual membership subscriptions are now due, £5.00
per adult, £2.50 senior citizens.
The first Quiz night of 2006 will be held on Saturday
4th March at 9.00 p.m. £1.00 per person with maximum of 4 per
team. There will be a raffle and free
buffet. Come and join in for a fun evening.
Social Club Committee
On 11th March we present a modern musical
‘Morning, Noon and Marilyn Munroe’ in Ickleton Village Hall at 8.00 p.m. Bar
open at 7.00 p.m.
On 25th March we present ‘The King’s got
Donkey’s Ears’ for children aged 4 upwards in Ickleton Village Hall at 3.00
p.m.
For each event tickets £5.00 (£4.00 concessions) are
available from Costcutter Express.
The first meeting of the New Year was well attended.
Chairman James Macdonald welcomed three visitors from Ickleton to the meeting.
Joe Sharman from Monksilver Nursery showed slides of different types of
snowdrops available from his nursery.
He also brought some for sale which proved very popular. Barbara Rule
won the competition for the best helebore.
The next meeting on March 1st will be the
Spring Party and Quiz. There will be an
entry fee of £2 for members and £3 for non members.
. Cynthia Rule
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Over the next couple of months we would like to
ensure that our records are correct. If
you have recently moved house or changed your telephone number, please would
you let us know, so that we can update your details. It is always useful for us to have a note of your work and mobile
telephone numbers in case we need to contact you urgently.
We are constantly looking at ways in which we can
improve our services and one area that concerns us, as well as our patients, is
the difficulty at certain times of the day in contacting us by telephone. One way in which we plan to try and
alleviate this problem is to offer the facility to book some appointments via
the internet. The first stage of this
project is to build a register of patients who would like to use this
facility. If this would be of interest
to you, please write in to me at the health centre giving me your contact
details. When the facility becomes
available I will let you have the relevant form to register for internet
appointment booking.
Jenny
Parker - Assistant Practice Manager
We have been granted Quality Assurance from the
Effective Early Learning Programme that recognises the high quality of our
Foundation setting. This is a fantastic
endorsement of the experiences and learning that we provide for our children
and the school's commitment to develop all areas of children's learning. The
Open Morning on Wednesday 22nd February celebrated this and was an
opportunity for families of children joining us next September to experience
the Foundation classroom in action.
Year 5 took part in an exciting experience with the
Royal Opera House Education Department. A workshop in school followed a
performance in Cambridge, entitled ‘The Gentle Giant’.
The after-school gym club is now full, but budding
gymnasts may join a waiting list. Basketball, netball and football practices
continue weekly and the teams have put in very respectable performances at
recent matches and tournaments. The
well-attended school choir meets after school on Thursdays and is open to all
Key Stage 2 children.
The school website is under development, with a view
to launching by September 2006 and will link to the village websites for
Duxford, Ickleton and Hinxton. If you are interested in joining the website
steering group as a member of our community, please contact
rachel@rugg-gunn.net.
Rachel Rugg-Gunn - Vice
Chair of Governors
DUXFORD PLAYGROUP – MOTHERS’ DAY PAMPER EVENING
Please join us at the Duxford Primary School on
Friday March 31st for an evening of indulgence and relaxation. For just £5 a ticket you can enjoy a glass of
wine and experience a beauty treatment of your choice (aromatherapy, massage,
hair, make-up, reflexology and many more).
So gents, don’t miss out on a perfect Mothers’ Day gift for that someone
special. Please watch out in the local
press for more information. Sharon Gilbert
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They say as we get older time goes more quickly, it
does not seem possible that it is time we started planning this year’s event which
will be on May 6th. This
event has become quite popular, but in no way could we do this without the
wonderful support of so many loyal helpers whom we regard as our friends. We
very much hope they will be able to help again this year. We welcome any saleable items, also any new
ideas for raising money. It gets harder each year - or is it that we get
older? Dorothy
Churchman, Mary Woolhouse and Cynthia Rule
Judith was born, in the middle of the first world
war, in Eton, where her father, Francis Channon, taught maths at Eton College.
He also became school chaplain. He had
met Judith's mother, Ethel Mary (E.M. Channon) in Cambridge. She wrote many
books, and the highlight for her children was that, on publication of each one,
she took all the family out for a scrumptious tea!
Judith wrote verse throughout her life, unpublished,
but a delight for family and friends.
The Channon family was very closely knit and the children had a loving,
but highly disciplined, up-bringing. This was a strong influence when she and
Terence brought up their own family.
Higher education for girls in the Channon family was
limited to a course in domestic science! After qualifying, Judith worked first
in Oxford and then, when war broke out, she moved to London and took a job in
the canteen of an armaments factory in Tottenham.
Judith met Terence at a party in a friend’s flat
during the war. They didn't like each other to begin with, but she had fond
memories of going to feed the ducks in St James's Park with him later!
They married after the war - a double wedding with
her brother Terence (‘Uncle T’). Mary
was born in England and then carried off to adventures in Brazil, where Anne,
Peter and John were all born - each in a different city! Judith had an exciting and eventful life in
Brazil, although she missed her own family very much. The years when all her children were at school in England were
not easy either, as they were only together once a year at most. She wrote to
them every week, and for special occasions sent verses and hand-drawn cards.
When Terence retired to England, after 30 years in
Brazil, (25 of them with Judith), they found ‘Hovells’, an idyllic
timber-framed house in Ickleton where they settled happily, becoming very
involved with village life and making many good friends. Twenty years later
they moved to a small flat in Aynhoe Park, near Banbury, where they felt very
at home. This allowed them to travel more freely and was especially convenient
as Mary and John both lived in Italy and Spain respectively, as they still do.
Judith's memory began to fail her and, although she
was very sad to leave two dear friends behind at Aynhoe, she moved to Greathed
Lodge, in London, to be nearer to Anne. Here she was made very welcome by the
residents and staff - and the cat of course! Being in London also made it much
easier for her far-flung family to visit her more often.
Her second
fall in a year took her into hospital again and then to the wonderfully caring
nursing home where, surrounded by her family, she was ‘called to rest’ on
January 28th. Coincidentally this was
the day on which Terence had died, twelve years previously. Her funeral was at
St Mark's church, Hamilton Terrace, London NW8 on 10th February.
Tricia Newland recalls:- “When we moved next door,
Judith and Terence were immediately very kind to us. Subsequently, Judith and I did a lot together in starting up a
Sunday School in Ickleton. By this time
she was in her sixties, but she gave her time unstintingly to help with this
project until a younger replacement could be found. Both of them were wonderful friends to us and to Ickleton
Church. Terence was a very astute
treasurer and Judith helped in every possible way, particularly in visiting
elderly people in the village. We
missed their friendship when they moved, and both David and I have very fond
memories of them.”
To the end Judith's dry wit remained with her.
When leaving her recently one night at the hospital,
Anne said, “Good night, see you tomorrow.” Judith retorted, "I hope I wake
up dead."
May she rest in peace. Mary Waite, Italy
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Village Archives - One of the things that the Society does is look
after the village archives. Some of our
collection of old photographs has been on the village web site for quite a long
time now. Recently we have recorded all
the documents we have and an index of these is now on the web site as well and
can be searched. Go to
www.ickletonvillage.co.uk and click on ‘Doc Archives’ (to see the photographs
click on ‘Photo Archive’). We are happy
to arrange for you to look at particular documents.
We would like to add to the archive. If you have any photos or papers that you
could donate or which we could copy please get in touch with me or e-mail via
the web site. We are particularly
interested in anything about former village residents, village events and any
documents and deeds of Ickleton houses.
Deeds are of particular interest as, now that most land is registered at
the Land Registry, solicitors don’t have to pass them on when houses change
hands and often dispose of them, so they are lost forever.
Local Development – The Society also continues to keep an eye on
development proposals for our area. The
Examination in Public of the East of England Plan recently considered the
Cambridge region and some developers proposed a new settlement of 25,000 houses
based around Duxford. Hanley Grange was
also mentioned. The County Council
commented on the impracticality of these proposals. Separately, Huntsman is considering developing part of its site
for housing which could increase the size of Duxford by 40%.
Rachel Radford
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CHESTERFORDS, ICKLETON & HINXTON W.I.
‘The Life of Beatrix Potter’ proved a good choice for
members at the February meeting. Mr. Alan Maskell spoke of her life which
proved far more interesting than envisaged.
His son David showed slides of the little house in
Hawkshead where she made her home, also some lovely slides of the lake district
so beloved by her and her husband – very enjoyable!
Members brought along a good selection of homemade
cakes for the patients in Radwinter Road Community Hospital, Saffron Walden.
The next meeting on March 15th will be the
A.G.M. when members will enjoy a fish and chip supper. Cynthia Rule
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March 1st |
Chesterford & District Gardening Society |
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Spring Party and Quiz 8.00 p.m. Chapel, Carmel
Street, Gt. Chesterford |
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4th |
Social Club Quiz Night 9.00 p.m. Social Club |
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11th |
Ickleton Theatre Group ‘Morning, Noon and Marilyn Munro 8.00 p.m. |
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Village Hall |
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13th |
Mobile Library |
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15th |
Parish Council Meeting 7.30 p.m. Village Hall |
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15th |
W I AGM
7.45 p.m. Gt Chesterford Community Centre |
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25th |
Ickleton Theatre Group ‘The King’s got Donkey’s
Ears’ (children aged |
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4 upwards) 3.00 p.m. Village Hall |
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27th |
Mobile Library |
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31st |
Duxford Playgroup Mothers’ Day Pamper Evening,
Duxford School |
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May 6th |
Parkinson’s Annual Bazaar, Village Hall |
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June 10th |
Hinxton Fete |
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July 1st |
Church Fete, Village Hall and Recreation Ground |
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November 25th |
Silent Auction, Hinxton Village Hall |
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