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OCTOBER 2007
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12th OCTOBER 2007
PARISH COUNCIL
Monday 1st October - Green bin and green box collection
Monday 8th October - Black bin collection
Monday 15th October - Green bin and green box
Monday 22nd October - Black bin collection
Monday 29th October - Green bin and green box
Parish Council
Meeting 19th September 2007
The
following items were discussed: Coploe
Pit, planting of daffodil bulbs, renovation of the Gertrude Homes. Three new trees have been chosen to be
planted in the Recreation Ground/Play Area.
The trees chosen were Double Flowering Cherry, Plane and a Norwegian
Maple (red leaves). It is hoped these
will be planted in November/December, before Christmas. Wellcome Trust has very kindly
donated £150 towards the cost of new trees in the Play Area.
Planning applications
received from SCDC:
S/1562/07/LB – Alterations to Mill Lane Boundary Wall to
create access with pair of Boarded Timber Gates – Mr & Mrs J Owen – Refuse
S/1563/07/F – Access Gates and Tennis Court Fencing – Mr
& Mrs J Owen – Refuse
The
Parish Council has no objections to the Tennis Court being built. They do however object to permanent
gates/access in Mill Lane. They agree
with a letter from David Grech (SCDC) dated 8/3/07 to Mr B Christian that
states the existing short stretch of block-work wall facing Mill Lane would be
removed to allow temporary access for the construction of the tennis court and
for it to be replaced with traditional flint walling.
Tree Preservation Order or situated within a Conservation
Area:
C/11/40/054
– Walnut Tree - remove 2 lower limbs which touch house and 25/30% reduction on
the crown to maintain shape – Mr K
Worthing – No objections
C/11/40/54
– Horse Chestnut Tree (Dying) – Fell to ground level Mr & Mrs J Gildersleeve – No objections
Planning application
granted by SCDC:
S/1111/07/LB
– Internal & External alterations including reinstatement of sash window on
rear elevation, changes of kitchen – removal of modern ceiling, enlargement and
replacement of window, installation of new door and 3 roof lights. Construct weather boarded and pantiled breakfast
room – Mr & Mrs SR Heaney.
Change of collection point
for medication from Sawston Health Centre In order to
comply with national guidelines, Sawston Health Centre has been asked
to change the collection point of medication within the village. They will be delivering medication to the
shop/Post Office as from 1st October 2007 and deliveries to Ickleton
will continue to be on Tuesdays and Fridays.
The Lilley family have been carrying out this service to the village for
50 years and are very sorry not to be able to continue doing so. We are sure everyone will appreciate what a
fantastic job they have done and provided over the years.
Post Box Butcher’s
Hill Royal Mail has now reinstated this box and
it is now back in use. The Parish
Council would like to thank all the residents who wrote to Royal Mail. This persuaded them to review the situation
and change their minds!
Horse Chestnut Trees
As many are now aware, the canker disease, and other diseases, are affecting
many of these trees. This weakens the
tree and the branches, which can snap off at any time. As it is conker season, we would ask that
children are made aware not to throw things into the trees to make the conkers
fall to the ground. Two trees have already
been felled in the Play Area and the tree outside the Play Area (and between
the Village Hall) will also shortly be felled.
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Cambridgeshire County
Council (Footpaths) is due to
replace the Tin Alley footbridge in the week beginning October 8th and
estimate it will take two days.
Cambridge Railway
Station There are changes to where you catch your bus from
Cambridge Railway Station. Two new bus shelters have been introduced. The
existing shelters will become Stop A and the new shelters Stop B.
Buses leaving from Stop A (right hand side when leaving the
station) will go into the City Centre and on to Arbury, Cottenham, Fison Road,
Grafton Centre, Histon and Impington.
Buses leaving from Stop B (left hand side when leaving the
station) will go out of the City calling at Addenbrooke’s, Cherry Hinton,
Duxford, Fulbourn, Pampisford, Saffron Walden, Sawston, the Shelfords and
Whittlesford. The bus numbers will not
change.
M11 Junction 9 and
10 Resurfacing of both carriageways
will start on the evening of Monday 24th September and all work will be carried out overnight. It is anticipated the work will be completed
by Monday 19th November
2007. The working hours will be
Mon-Thurs 20.00 hrs - 06.00 hrs, Fri 21.00 hrs -06.00 hrs, Sat 20.00 hrs - 06.00
hrs and Sun 21.00 hrs - 06.00 hrs.
During the day the M11 will be open as normal, but the hard shoulder may
be closed at times.
Cambridgeshire &
Peterborough NHS Anyone interested in having a say in
how local mental health services are run should contact 0800 376 0101
(Freephone) or e-mail foundationtrust@cambsmh.nhs.uk
or visit the website: www.cambsmh.nhs.uk
British Youth Council is running sessions to support
children and young people’s involvement in governance and decision-making
groups. For more information contact Elena@young-lives.org.uk or ' 01480 494333. Jocelyn Flitton – Parish Clerk
CHURCH NOTICES Services for October
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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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Trinity 18 |
10.00
a.m. Parish Eucharist |
ICKLETON |
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5.00 p.m.
Harvest Festival |
HINXTON |
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Followed
by Harvest Supper in Village Hall |
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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Trinity 19 |
10.00
a.m. Parish Eucharist |
DUXFORD |
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4.00 p.m. Blessing of Animals Service |
HINXTON |
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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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Trinity 20 |
10.00 a.m. Family Communion |
HINXTON |
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6.30 p.m. Evensong - Laying on of hands |
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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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 October) there is a short and lively Family Service at 4.00 pm (see noticeboards at church and school
for details). On the third Sunday of the month (21st October) there
is a Family Communion at 10.00 a.m.
at Hinxton. In this service we use a simpler responsive form of worship
suitable for all ages. Godly Play is run at the same time in the tower room for
primary school children.
Evening Service
The basic format for the 6.30 p.m.
Service is Evening Prayer. At Hinxton on 7th October there is
Harvest Festival at 5.00 p.m. followed by supper in the village hall. At
Duxford on the third Sunday in the month, it includes the laying on of hands
and prayers for the sick and those in need. At Ickleton on the
fourth Sunday in the month, the service is followed by Holy Communion.
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NOTES FROM HINKLEDUX RECTORY
Living with Poppy
Poppy
is very much a house cat and enjoys nothing more than sitting on a lap
(preferably male). She’s constantly asking to be picked up and stroked. She’s
delighted when couples come for a wedding interview because she gets lots of
extra attention. When we’re out in the garden she’s there too. Her hunting
skills are limited, it seems, although she’s quite successful with dragonflies.
Poppy is the latest in a long line of cats going back nearly 40 years who have
been part of our family. They have bought joy and grief, comfort and
inconvenience, in equal measure. Their passing has always been painful. When
the children were still at primary school, I picked one off the road in the
early morning (and after that, never let a cat out at night again). When our
last much loved tabby had to be put down three years ago, I wept as the vet’s
needle went in and then later as we buried her in the garden. ‘Fat cat’ was
part of our lives and it was hard to see her go.
I
do realise, of course, that cats are animals like any other and that the reason
we have such feelings for pets is that we project on to them emotions that they
don’t have. And that’s why I’ve tended to avoid Animal services at church. Cats
is cats and dogs is dogs. We’ve domesticated them for our own purposes and use
and we shouldn’t really elaborate the relationship further than that – anything
else is mere sentimentality.
Well,
I have to admit, I’ve been converted. It was the service last year at Hinxton
that did it. There was a good congregation of mums and dads and children and
pets – and Poppy came too. There was no trouble between the animals, the
service passed off very quietly and we all ended up outside for photographs.
And I realised that pets are such an important part of our lives that it is
absolutely right and proper to bring them to church for a blessing. God is to
be discovered in all our relationships and it would be very odd indeed to
exclude Him from such a special one.
The
Bible offers something of a mixed bag as far as animals are concerned – there
is both kindness towards them, as well as their killing for sacrifice. As the
Genesis story unfolds, we find that God delighted in his creation and all the
living creatures, and he blessed them. Then God created us in his image and
likeness - that is, with rational thought and with the sense of knowing right
from wrong - and gave us dominion over the animals. Finally, with the task
complete, God rested and there was the Sabbath – the day that was marked by
peace and harmony with humans and animals living together.
St Francis, the patron saint of
animals and ecology, is said to have preached to birds, befriended a rabbit and
tamed a wolf. One of his biographers wrote: ‘He called all creatures brother,
and in a most extraordinary manner, a manner never experienced by others, he
discerned the hidden things of nature with his sensitive heart, as one who had
already escaped into the freedom of the glory of the sons of God.’ St Francis’
Day is October 4th in the church calendar and the nearest Sunday has
become Animal Welfare Day
So it is that on October 8th
at 4.00 p.m. at Hinxton Church, we have a service for the Blessing of the
Animals and we invite you to bring your pet along too, in cage or tank or on
lead. Too often we see news stories of violent and abusive relationships
between man and animal, so it is important to assert the value of the care,
trust and well being that is possible between God’s creatures. And it’s
fascinating to meet other people’s pets – it’s like meeting another member of
the family!
Our lives would be much poorer
without our pets. So join us (with yours) in the service, to give thanks for
this wonderful gift of God in creation – and you may be surprised to discover
just how well animals behave in church!
Andrew Schofield
The Rectory, Duxford CB22 4RA
* atschofield@msn.com
ICKLETON CHURCH
GIFT DAY
Did you know it costs £74 per day to run our lovely Church?
This is an open invitation to Ickleton Church Gift Day on Saturday October 6th
from 10.00 a.m. until 4.00 p.m.
We appreciate all that parishioners contribute during the
year – our church is an important part of the village’s social and cultural
heritage, and is there to serve the needs of our small community. Once again we would ask you to give generously
in support of this work.
Looking forward to seeing you and your family. Complimentary tea, coffee and cakes are
being served throughout the day, with soup etc. at lunch time 12 noon - 2.00
p.m.
Contact Rosemary McKillen for further details.
COFFEE MORNINGS
It’s hard to believe that we’ve already come to the end of
the weekly summer coffee mornings.
We’ve averaged about 35 people every Tuesday and I’ve been particularly
pleased to welcome some new faces.
It’s just a pity that we weren’t able to have it outdoors
every week, but the summer has not been outstanding, as you’ve no doubt
noticed.
From 2nd October we return to our monthly coffee
mornings on the first Tuesday of every month.
Rosemary McKillen
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THANK
YOU
The
Sutcliffe family wish to express their thanks to all their friends and
neighbours who provided such magnificent support and solace to us at the time
of our bereavement and afterwards. We
would also like to thank all those people who contributed, in any way, to a
very memorable Thanksgiving Service - particularly the choir, for the
magnificent rendering of John Rutter's 'The Lord Bless You and Keep You', to
Monica Lilley for organising the bellringing team, to Jackie Casement for
coordinating the floral decoration of the church and to all those who
participated with their floral arrangements.
Thank
you too, to those people who attended the service and filled the church, and also
to those who donated so generously to Joan's chosen charity. This raised a sum
of £620
A
special thank you is due to the Rev Andrew Schofield, who gave so unstintingly
of his time and spiritual support as he guided us through the various
procedures that we had to go through.
Judith Wright
THE ICKLETON SOCIETY – Come and Join Us
The Ickleton Society exists for several reasons.
The primary reason which led to the Society’s formation was
concern about the initial development of Stansted Airport and, clearly, the
current proposals to expand the airport will have an adverse impact on many
settlements in the surrounding area – we are presently supporting the Stop
Stansted Expansion campaign.
From that initial focus, the Society has extended its
interest to keeping a watchful eye out for the many other different development
proposals which might threaten the quality of life which we all enjoy. The East
of England Plan and the proposals in the recent Green Paper on Housing mean
that the threat from development now is even greater than before.
Secondly we maintain the Village Archives and we would like
to expand these. We have some very
interesting material and we would ask anyone who has old village photos or
documents to let us see them and copy them for the historic record. If you look in the Church Visitors Book,
there are quite a few entries from people across the world, who have an
ancestral connection with the village.
Genealogy is a very popular hobby these days and our aim is to set up an
Internet resource for those seeking information on their forebears.
2009 is the 150th anniversary of Queensland and
its first Premier, RGW Herbert, came to live in Ickleton after his colonial
service. We are exploring this
connection, with a view to marking the connection between the village and
Australia in some way.
Thirdly, we support the development of the social and
cultural life of the village community and have, over the years, organised the
regular Boxing Day and New Year’s Day walks.
We’re presently looking at organising possible theatre trips to
Cambridge and farther afield, so any suggestions welcomed.
We have booked the Village Hall for an ‘Open Day’ on
Saturday 13th October from 2.00 p.m. and hope that many of you will
come along to that. We would like people to bring along something which they
treasure – the older, the better. These
items don’t need to be valuable, but might have a story to tell and we hope you
will pass that story on to others. We
will also have a fun audience participation demonstration of how each of us
ended up in Ickleton from wherever we started out in life. Other activities for the day are in the
planning stage and will include something for the children.
Membership of the Society is £5 per adult or £12 for a
family. Our new Treasurer, John Fowler, is now available to take your
membership fees. It’s good value, since
that sub will take your membership through to May 2009 – thereafter it will
revert to the normal 12 month membership.
We’re acutely conscious of the number of younger families
now living in the village and I would particularly ask them to join us – you
have chosen to settle in this friendly community, so why not come along and
make your contribution to the life of our lovely village. Neil McKillen - Chairman
OVER SIXTIES
Members
of the Over Sixties wish to thank the Millennium Committee for their generous
donation of £252. This will enable the
Over Sixties to continue meeting twice monthly for the time being, and
hopefully encourage new members to join.
The
Over Sixties Club would like to thank Pam Fearn and John Williams for their
gift of apples, which were much enjoyed and appreciated. Cynthia
Rule
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THE SUMMER SIZZLER
We were very lucky to have such lovely weather for the
village picnic. About 200 villagers
attended. We think those who came will
have great memories of the afternoon; many of the children covered in straw,
wrestling with old clothes and tights, busy making scarecrows. Finn McGuire won the competition.
We all enjoyed the races, especially the human ‘Grand National’,
but they were just ‘warm-up’ to get ready for the very competitive and
extremely funny to watch ‘wheelbarrow’ race.
We are very grateful to the Parish Council for funding the
event. Thank you also to the village
hall committee, to the Wombwells for providing the huge barbecue, to all who
baked delicious cakes, flipped burgers, fetched, carried and put up gazebos.
We were able to collect enough donations to get the next one
going, as well as to give money to the Gertrude Homes.
Anne Marie Hoare
NEWS FROM DUXFORD CHURCH OF ENGLAND
COMMUNITY PRIMARY SCHOOL
On 4th July our school was visited by an Ofsted
Inspector who spent the day in school observing, talking to children, staff and
governors and reading parents’ survey responses. We are delighted with his
report and I would like to share with you a few of the many highlights.
If you would like to read the report in full then you can
access it from our website www.duxford.cambs.sch.uk
or from the Ofsted site www.ofsted.gov.uk/reports/.
We hope you enjoy reading it.
We welcome visitors, so if would like to visit our school do
please phone ' 01223 712108 to arrange an
appointment. We look forward to seeing you.
Ann Gardner, Head
Teacher
CHESTERFORD AND
DISTRICT GARDENING SOCIETY
I am pleased to report another successful Flower and
Vegetable Show held on September 8th. Despite entries being down this year, due to the inclement
weather, there were enough varieties to make the show worthwhile.
I know of one little boy who went home delighted with his
prize winning entries and another big boy who won first prize with his leeks,
grown organically of course! The
weather was good and the show was well attended, and what is more, we gained
two new members!
The next meeting will be on October 3rd in the
Chapel in Carmel Street, Great Chesterford
at 8.00 p.m. when the speaker Tom Cole will talk about ‘Pruning’.
The best bloom competition - a Dahlia.
Cynthia Rule
GET READY FOR CHRISTMAS….
Monday 15th
October 10.00 a.m. - 12 noon in Ickleton Village Hall
Get yourself organised!
Come along, buy your Christmas presents all in one place, or simply pop
in to sample some homemade cakes and a cup of tea from our cafe. Stalls will include Usborne Books, Phoenix
Cards, home produce and others yet to be confirmed. Contact Katherine on if you would like to
have a stall.
This event is hosted by Froglets, but you don't need a child
to come along. Children under one year £1, over one year £2 (craft activities
included). Adults free.
The Froglets
Committee
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GERTRUDE HOMES
FUNDRAISING LAUNCH
The
Gertrude Homes, 5/7/9 Frogge Street will be open 10.00 a.m. – 12 noon on
Saturday 13th October, to give everyone a chance to look round, and
for the trustees to explain their history and renovation plans.
Refreshments
will be served, and there will also be some glassware, plates and collectables
for sale, to help you find an early Christmas present.
Please
feel free to speak to any of the trustees listed below for more
information.
Richard Herbert (Chairman), John
Statham (Hon. Treasurer), Jocelyn Flitton (Hon. Clerk), Lewis Duke, Derek Rule,
David Lilley, Mary Wombwell, Betty Willmott
THE CHESTERFORDS,
ICKLETON & HINXTON W.I.
The
speaker at our August meeting was David Stevans from the Cambridge branch of
the Christian Blind Mission, who spoke about the work it carried out in the
developing countries, helping to prevent childhood blindness. Members were very impressed and dug deeply
into their purses to give a very generous donation to the C.B.M.
Peter
Jackson, from Scotsdale’s Nursery, was guest speaker at the September
meeting. Peter showed slides of some
lovely winter flowering shrubs and plants to cheer up the winter garden.
Members
were able to purchase some which Peter had brought with him and the proceeds
will go to the new Cancer Care Unit, which is being built at Scotsdale’s
Nursery.
The
next meeting on October 17th will be Members’ Night. Cynthia
Rule
WEDDING
Congratulations
to Jamie Clive Diss and Shelley Anne Bradford of 9 Mill Lane, who were married
at Ickleton Church on 25th August.
POST BOX REPLACED
We
would like to thank the many people who supported our campaign, and wrote to
Royal Mail requesting the reinstatement of the post box on Butcher’s Hill
Corner.
We
feared we were on a lost cause, but people power, and a shove from English
Heritage, eventually made Royal Mail change their mind.
David & Monica Lilley and Kim
Ball
ICKLETON DIARY
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October 3rd |
Gt. Chesterford & District Gardening
Society Meeting |
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8.00 p.m. Chapel, Carmel Street, Gt.
Chesterford |
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6th |
Church Gift Day 10.00 a.m. - 4.00 p.m. |
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8th |
Mobile Library |
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10th |
Visiting Bellringers 12.00 noon - 1.15 p.m. |
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13th |
Gertrude Homes Fundraising Launch 10.30
a.m. - 12.00 noon |
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13th |
Ickleton Society Open Day 2.00 p.m. Village
Hall |
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15th |
Froglets ‘Get Ready for Christmas’ 10.00
a.m. - 12 noon Village Hall |
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17th |
Parish Council Meeting 7.30 p.m. Village
Hall |
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22nd |
Mobile Library |