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B U L L
E T I N
JANUARY
2007
Editors: David
and Monica Lilley
Monica.lilley2@btopenworld.com
Distribution: Tony
Court
Hilary Rule
All
contributions please to 8 Brookhampton Street.
Deadline for next Icene Bulletin
12th January
2007
PARISH
COUNCIL
Refuse Collections during January
Tuesday 2nd January - Black bin collection
Monday 8th January - Green bin and green box collection
Monday 15th January
- Black
bin collection
Monday 22nd
January - Green bin and green box collection
Monday 29th January
- Black bin collection
The Parish Council would like to
wish everyone a Happy and Prosperous New Year.
Parish Council Meeting 13th December 2006 Items discussed
at the meeting were: village parking, tipped soil, old roadway Grange Road,
Footpath 11 and the cemetery.
Neighbourhood Watch The Parish Council are pleased to announce
that Keith & Tracy Head, 12 Abbey Street have taken on this role.
Planning application(s) No new applications this month.
S/1749/06/O – Hexcel Composites The Chairman had
received several calls expressing concern about this application and especially
regarding the use of the chemical Acrylonitrile. A lengthy discussion took place between the Parish Council,
District and County Councillors expressing their views. The
Chairman asked our District Councillor to report back on any views/findings
that SCDC and others may have. The
Chairman felt it prudent to wait for the reports from the Environment Agency
and Health & Safety Executive before deciding what action the Parish
Council would take. This application is
unlikely to go to the Planning Committee before February 2007 at the earliest;
so you can still send your comments to SCDC.
Planning application approved by
SCDC
S/1810/06/F – Extension to outbuilding
to form annexe – 26 Abbey Street – Mr & Mrs Olds
Nick Grimshaw, SCDC will attend the Parish
Council meeting on 17th January to discuss listed buildings.
Planes flying over Ickleton Mick Martin, (who works at Imperial
War Museum, Duxford and is a Duxford Parish Councillor), came along to the
November Parish Council meeting to explain the flight paths/heights of planes
that fly over Ickleton to Stansted. He
reported that at the moment, there are an average of 650 daily movements, which
will be increased in July 2007 to 770.
Stansted are looking to increase this to 850 flights a day on the single
runway but within the same time scale.
All the Stansted and Luton planes in the holding area west of Cambridge
are at 7,000 feet, sometimes descending to a minimum of 2,500 feet if carrying
out a missed approach procedure. Now
for the good news! There is a plan to
create three new holding areas effective from about March 2009, which should
remove almost all air traffic from directly over the village. We will report any updates that we receive
from Mr Martin.
Anyone wishing to oppose the second
runway, visit website: http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Stansted
M11/A11 The Highways Agency have given
notice that works will be being carried out between 8th January and
17th February on Junctions 9 & 10 and A11 Stump Cross. Work will be carried out overnight between
the hours of 8.00 p.m. and 6.00 a.m. Mondays to Thursdays and between 9.00 p.m.
Fridays and 9.00 a.m. Saturdays.
Diversion routes will be in operation throughout the closures. The
Icknield Bridleway will also be closed.
For more information please telephone ' 01234 796041.
Temporary Signs for Community or
Charity Events Cambridgeshire County
Council have made a recent change to their policy regarding road signs. Signs should not exceed 0.5 sq. metres in
area, should not be erected for more than 7 days before the event or remain in
place for more than 48 hours afterwards.
The signs should be erected within the village where the event is
taking place. Normally, no more than 3
signs should be erected per event.
Organisers of such events should inform their local highways divisional
office (Whittlesford) at least 2 weeks before erecting any temporary
signs. Further enquiries can be made to
Richard Preston ' 01223 717780 or e-mail: richard.preston@cambridgeshire.gov.uk Jocelyn Flitton – Parish Clerk
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CHURCH
NOTICES – Services for
January
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Thursday 4th |
12.30
p.m. Holy Communion |
HINXTON |
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Sunday 7th |
8.00
a.m. BCP Communion |
DUXFORD |
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Epiphany |
10.00
a.m. Parish Eucharist |
ICKLETON |
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6.30
p.m. Evensong |
HINXTON |
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Thursday 11th |
12.30
p.m. Holy Communion |
HINXTON |
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Sunday 14th |
8.00
a.m. BCP Communion |
HINXTON |
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Epiphany 2 |
10.00
a.m. Parish Eucharist |
DUXFORD |
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4.00
p.m. Family Service |
DUXFORD |
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6.30 p.m. Evensong |
ICKLETON |
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Thursday 18th |
12.30
p.m. Holy Communion |
HINXTON |
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Sunday 21st |
8.00 a.m.
BCP Communion |
ICKLETON |
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Epiphany 3 |
10.00 a.m.
Family Communion |
HINXTON |
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6.30 p.m.
Evensong |
DUXFORD |
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Thursday 25th |
12.30 p.m.
Holy Communion |
HINXTON |
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Sunday 28th |
8.00
a.m. BCP Communion |
HINXTON |
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Candlemass |
10.00 a.m.
Parish Eucharist |
DUXFORD |
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6.30
p.m. Evensong and Holy Communion |
ICKLETON |
Family Services
- On the
second Sunday of the month (14th January) there is a short and
lively Family Service at 4.00 p.m.
at Duxford Church.
- On the
third Sunday of the month (21st January) there is a new Family Communion at 10.00 a.m. at
Hinxton. It is for older children and adults (Godly Play is available for
5 – 8 year olds in the tower room). In this first service we’ll be using a
simpler worship format and explaining how we’d like to use the service to
explore our faith in the coming months.
Evening Service
The basic format for the Evening Service
is Evening Prayer, but at Duxford on the third Sunday in the month, it includes
the laying on of hands and prayers for those in need. At Ickleton on
the fourth Sunday in the month, the service is followed by Holy Communion.
Mini
Mass
Would anyone like to help the vicar
develop a short midweek communion service for mums with prams and pushchairs
(and occupants therein)? Please contact Rev Andrew if you’re interested.
Services
during the week
Morning Prayer (8.45 a.m.) and Evening Prayer (4.45
p.m.) are said in church: Monday Duxford, Tuesday Ickleton, Wednesday Hinxton,
Thursday Ickleton, Friday Duxford.
DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
The next Parish coffee morning will be held in the
church on Tuesday 2nd January.
The last coffee morning saw the largest attendance yet – maybe the
mulled wine had something to do with that!
Another date for your diary is our St. Patrick’s
Night Ceilidh in the Village Hall on 17th March – come along and
enjoy Irish stew and apple tart and dance to traditional Irish music. Tickets will be on sale from mid February. Rosemary
McKillen
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NOTES
FROM HINKLEDUX RECTORY
How can you trust God?
It is, you might think, a strange question for a
vicar to ask: I’m surely the one person who should know the answer to that one.
But I struggle with it as much as anyone, especially when faced with illness.
Illness affects us in so many ways. At the very least
it is a cause of anxiety, lest minor symptoms should turn out to be something
more serious (a sore throat that just wouldn’t shift was one of the reasons I
gave up smoking 15 years ago). But when something does go wrong, it diminishes
your life in so many ways. My deafness is not life threatening, but can be
embarrassing (for example, when you answer a question that hasn’t been asked).
It can be depressing too, because conversation in a noisy room is just
impossible. A painful heel condition (plantar fasciitis) has meant we’ve
avoided walking holidays for the last two years.
These are minor annoyances compared with the much
more serious social, psychological and physical problems illness can cause.
Discomfort, pain or uncertainty can cut you off from normal intercourse, give
rise to feelings of failure and guilt, dominate your whole sense of who you
are. Illness seems wholly destructive. So why does God allow it … how can you
trust a God who lets people suffer so much?
There is no simple answer – and if there were, it
would somehow discount the pain that some people bear and their huge courage in
doing so. But at the centre of the Christian faith is the sign of the cross.
Christians believe in a God who is alongside us in pain and illness and dying,
because his son went through suffering and loss too, crying out at the end, ‘‘My
God, my God, why have you forsaken me?’’
Faced with people’s need, the church offers a
ministry of prayer and care, for people of all faiths and none. Once a month in
our group there is a service called ‘Evening Prayer with the laying on of
hands’. It is a quiet and prayerful service which focuses on the needs of those
in pain and sickness. It is, I think, quite different from the sort of service
you may have read about in the Cambridge Evening News (an article in December
in which Liesl Alexander talked about her ministry at Oakington). But for those
who seek it, the prayer which accompanies the laying on of hands is an
affirming and hope-filled symbol of God’s love and care.
There is more. For those who face an operation or
serious illness, there is the Sacrament of Anointing. The vicar offers this
sparingly and after careful preparation, but those who receive this ministry
describe a strengthening of spirit which is surely a sign of our Lord’s
presence.
It is an enormous privilege to be invited into
someone’s life at a time of illness when they may be feeling vulnerable or
angry or fearful. I don’t have easy answers to the questions people ask: How
can God let this happen? How will it end? How can I trust God? And yet I have
seen in those who have let God in, a peace and courage which shows they are not
alone.
Andrew
Schofield
The Rectory, St John’s Street, Duxford CB22
4RA
( 01223
832137 Andrew.schofield@ely.anglican.org
CHURCH
VISITORS’ BOOK
A while back I said I thought we ought to mention in
the Icene how many visitors come to our church. I’ve now checked the book.
There have been 131 separate entries in the Church
visitors’ book over the last 12 months.
People have come to visit our church from Australia (several), Belgium,
Canada, France, Germany, New Zealand, Peru, Spain, the United States, not to
mention Wigan, York and Wiltshire, some visiting the village where their
ancestors lived. Several of them thank
us particularly for keeping the church open always during daylight hours
throughout the year (thank you Colin and Rosie). Just a little reminder that people come thousands of miles to see
something wonderful that we have on our doorstep. Sebastian Payne
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VILLAGE HALL A.G.M.
The Annual General Meeting will be held in the meeting
room on Monday 22nd January 2007.
Members of the public are cordially invited, and will have an
opportunity to ask questions and put points of view to the committee. Gordon
Woolhouse - Chairman
COPLOE
PIT
November 5th saw an enthusiastic group of
Cambridge Conservation Volunteers, a dozen of us in all, working hard on
clearing the pit. A lot of undergrowth has been cut back and it was a very
satisfactory day’s effort. We remain grateful to the volunteers for their
continuing support.
Sheila Birch
THE ICKLETON SOCIETY
Visit to Welney
We are organizing a visit to the Wildlife &
Wetlands Trust at Welney to see the spectacular floodlit evening feed of the
swans and ducks. The visit is arranged for Sunday January 14th and
in order to be there by 5.30 p.m. we need to leave Ickleton at 4.30 p.m. Please
contact either Rachel Radford or Sheila Birch by January 6th if you
would like to come; we need to know numbers in order to reserve places. We can
arrange lifts if required. At Welney there is a new visitor centre, a lift and
a bridge to cross the road into the enlarged hide. There is also a café which
remains open until 6.00 p.m., if you wish to arrive there earlier and would
like tea and cake.
New Year’s Day Walk
This year we shall walk on New Year’s Day and will
meet at the bottom of Coploe Road at 11.00 a.m. (note change of starting point).
The route will go up Coploe Road, across onto Valence Farm land and back to the
village via Elmdon Road. There will be a soup lunch at ‘Howeys’, Abbey Street
on our return for those who would like to join us. This can be a muddy walk, so
come prepared. Sheila Birch
POPPY
APPEAL – 2006
The village
collection for the Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal raised a total of £813.77,
a new record for the village! Thank you
to everyone who helped us to achieve this.
As always, particular thanks must go to the band of house-to-house
collectors, who produced well over £500.
They were Sheila Birch, Jackie Casement, Pat Facer, Lena Frost, Yvonne
Hall, Caroline Lewis, John and Judy Marshall, Hilary Rule, June Vincent and
Penny Woodhead. We managed to cover all
the village again this year, with the last minute help of June Vincent and
Penny Woodhead. Lena Frost and Yvonne Hall covered Frogge Street, following
Claire Wilson’s move to Scotland.
Costcutter Express, the Club, the Ickleton Lion and the Aquatics Centre
also displayed collection boxes again. Their help is much appreciated. Malcolm Hall – Honorary Organiser
BIRTHS
James and Claire Skeates (nee Barrett) are delighted
to announce the birth of their son George James, a dear little brother for
Eleanor on Friday 8th December at the West Suffolk Hospital, Bury
St. Edmunds.
Amy Harrison and partner Eric Cheche are pleased to
announce the arrival of Joshua Cheche on Monday 11th December. Joshua weighed in at 6 lb.
BIRTHDAY CONGRATULATIONS TO………..
George Lilley 80 on 30th
December
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CHAPEL
NOTICES - All Services start at 3.00 p.m.
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Sunday
7th |
Revd
Trevor Sands |
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Covenant
Service (Holy Communion) |
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Sunday 14th |
Mr. Gerry
Arnell |
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Sunday 21st |
Revd
Trevor Sands |
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Sunday 28th |
Dr Michael
Render |
A big thank you to so many who joined us at our Carol
Service this year - it was good to see the Chapel full. We had a lovely time
listening to the greatest story ever told, and singing the well-loved Christmas
carols.
A very happy Christmas and a blessed New Year to all
of you from Trevor and each one of us at the Methodist Chapel. Revd. Trevor Sands
ICKLETON
SOCIAL CLUB
This year’s ‘Children in Need’ fund raising events
raised a fantastic £345, so thanks to everyone who took part, organised or made
donations to the evenings. There were so many teams for the Saturday Quiz that
we almost ran out of space, but again it was a very enjoyable and fun evening.
The Club would like to wish everyone a Happy
Christmas and a good New Year.
Don’t forget to come and join any evening in 2007 for
a drink and a chat.
Ickleton Social Club Committee
FREE
PASSES FOR ELY CATHEDRAL – 2007
If you are a member of the church electoral roll
and would like a free pass for 2007, please sign up on the list in church. This applies to everyone who had a pass for
2006 as well as new applicants. Please complete by January 7th so that I can send off the forms and get
your passes as soon as possible. Hilary
Rule P.C.C. Secretary
GREAT
CHESTERFORD DISTRICT GARDENING SOCIETY
Our guest speaker for the December meeting was Ian
Bull from the R.H.S. Hyde Hall who demonstrated on slides how a dry garden was
created as an experiment at Hyde Hall. On reaching maturity the effect was most
spectacular, which proved that you can garden without watering, providing you
get your soil in good condition first. The best bloom competition was won by
Carol Turton, with a lovely spray of holly.
Well done Carol!
The next meeting will be on February 7th
2007. Cynthia
Rule
VAN
GOGH’S EAR – CHARITY GIG
Our local well acclaimed band, Van Gogh’s Ear (firm
favourite of Jimmy Tarbuck!) will be playing at The Huntsman Restaurant,
Hinxton Road, Duxford from 7.30 p.m. on 27th January to help to
raise funds for Cancer Research UK.
There will be a bar and raffle on the night and tickets are £10 each,
available from Duxford Supermarket and Costcutter Express, Ickleton.
On 13th May 2007 I’m undertaking a
fundraising trip to Peru to trek the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu for Cancer
Research UK. All money raised will go directly to Cancer Research UK.
Go to www.bmycharity.com/deestrekperu
if you would like to know more about my fundraising challenge.
Look forward to seeing you on the 27th. Dee Toombs
WELCOME
TO……….
Martin Tomlinson and Stella Siwicka, Sam Tomlinson,
Emily and Michael Barker.
Tinnea Sirotova, Lukasz Pisarczyk and Luke Gilson.
Simon and Amanda Monks, Ethan who is 8 and Aidan who
is 3.
Darren Price.
Katie Ball and John Ward.
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TENNIS
COURT COMMITTEE - UPDATE
The Ickleton Tennis Court Committee meetings have
seen all ages represented, from 17 to 70, discussing costs, sources of funding,
possible sites and on-going maintenance.
It was clear from the beginning that any plans had to make sure that the
courts become a real village amenity, accessible to everyone, regardless of age
or gender, and used regularly. These goals are exactly the sort of
considerations that funding organisations, such as the District Council or
Sport England, also take into account when looking at applications.
The Committee has looked at how other villages have
undertaken this sort of project, to see what lessons they had learned and to
‘borrow’ any ideas that had worked well.
Making sure the courts can be used for more than tennis helps to
maximise their use. As a result we are looking at how to incorporate some
multi-sport facilities such as recessed football/hockey goals, rebound boards
around the bottom of the fencing and/or some additional equipment such as
netball or basketball hoops. We also
want to make sure that access to the courts is as open as possible. Rather than
restricting use to members of an ‘official’ tennis club, anyone, of any age,
should be able to take along a tennis racquet, football, netball or cricket bat
and have somewhere to practise.
Our recent meeting with Jane Lampshire, Sports
Development Officer for South Cambridgeshire District Council, highlighted the
importance of taster events and coaching sessions for children and adults to
encourage regular use of the courts. If anyone is a keen netball, hockey,
tennis or five-a-side player or, even better, has some coaching experience, we
would love to hear from you.
So what next?
We will be getting rough costings from contractors so that we can see
the size of the fundraising task ahead of us. We will also be considering the
best site for the courts. The
Recreation Ground is the most likely option but factors like sun orientation,
overhanging trees and accessibility need to be considered before any final
decision. We will also be putting
together a draft business/development plan.
Once these tasks are complete, we expect to present the options to the village
in the New Year. If anyone has any
questions in the meantime, please do not hesitate to contact me. Daniel Murton
THE
CHESTERFORDS, ICKLETON AND HINXTON W.I.
On December 7th members visited
Scotsdales’ Open Evening, which was very much enjoyed. It included refreshments
and an interesting talk by Peter Jackson on the care of plants.
The Christmas party was held on December 13th,
with guest speaker Louise Reed, plus the usual Christmas refreshments - someone
mentioned weight watchers in the New Year!
The next meeting will be on January 17th
when Dan Johnson will speak on ‘Smuggling in the 16th and 17th
Centuries’. Cynthia Rule
ICKLETON
DIARY
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January 1st |
New Year’s Day Walk meet 11.00 a.m. bottom of Coploe Road |
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2nd |
Church Coffee Morning 10.00 a.m. – 12 noon |
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15th |
Mobile Library |
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17th |
Parish Council Meeting 7.30 p.m. Village Hall |
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17th |
W.I. Meeting 7.45 p.m. Gt. Chesterford Community Centre |
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22nd |
Village Hall AGM 7.30 p.m. Village Hall |
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27th |
Van Gogh’s Ear Charity Gig 7.30 p.m. Huntsman
Restaurant, Duxford |
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29th |
Mobile Library |
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March 17th |
St. Patrick’s Night Ceilidh Village Hall
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