PEOPLE & PLACES
MACMILLAN CANCER SUPPORT
Thank you to everyone who came to
the world's biggest coffee morning at the Methodist Hall on Friday 30th September.
It was a beautiful day and we raised the magnificent sum of £554.
Thank you to Roger Wright who cut a
special Centenary cake for us and made a very good speech. The money will help
people living with Cancer.
Warwickshire & Northamptonshire
Air Ambulance
The WNAA is a registered charity and
relies totally on public donations, fund raising activities and sponsorship.
The average cost per mission is around £1,400 and the annual basic running cost
of the service is over £1.7m.
15 Doctors, 15 Paramedics and 6 Pilots
man the helicopter which services a population of around 1.2 million people.
As volunteer fundraisers for the WNAA,
we would like to thank everyone in Wellesbourne, Kineton and Gaydon who have supported
us this year. So far, since January 2011 we have banked £3,687.41 for the Charity.
If you are interested in getting involved
in fundraising in this area, please have a word with Jo Payne, Fundraising
Manager who can be contacted on 08454 130999.
Our next fundraising event is a Jumble
Sale with tombola and raffle at 2pm on Saturday 3rd December in St Peter’s
Church Centre.
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WORLD DAY OF REMEMBRANCE
FOR Road Traffic Victims
20th November 2011
in remembrance of all the lost and broken lives
There is a worldwide observance of
the World Day on the third Sunday each November – spreading to more countries on
each continent every year. In Britain many cathedrals and churches hold a memorial
service. This movement was started by the charity RoadPeace in 1993 and was
adopted by the UN in 2005.
The need for better road safety is universal.
The saddest feature of the world scene is that the poorest countries have the
worst record, and they can least afford the heavy toll of their casualties.
Thankfully the count of British
road deaths has improved rapidly for the last four years – by 7%, 14%, 12% and
16% – but last year's count of 1857 deaths is still agonisingly large for
thousands of families.
It means 5 people each day.
The latest idea from the Dept for
Transport is to increase the top speed limit to 80 mph. Does this appeal to
you? It is out for consultation. Road safety campaigners fear that drivers who
normally cruise at 80 mph will go up to 90... and if 90 is their norm they
will cruise at 100 mph. Alarming – especially as insurance companies have just
found that 1 in 7 drivers would not take a break on a four-hour journey.
Recent research indicates that a stop is needed every one-and-a-half hours or less.
Full concentration only lasts for 20-30 minutes.
Drivers (and other readers)...
please remember 20th November, and beware of some dangerous drivers. Enjoy Christmas!
Graham Stephens
Mr & Mrs Andrew Mitchell at the
wedding of their elder daughter Bryony to Daniel Osmond, son of Dr and Mrs
Richard Osmond at St Andrews Church, Meonstoke, Hampshire. My husband, Andrew
Mitchell lived in Wellesbourne for more than 22 years.
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Chedham’s Yard takes shape.
The new Visitor Centre/ Education
Building at Chedham's Yard is at long last taking shape. By the time you read
this, the roof will be on and hopefully fitting out of the interior will have started.
The building is L-shaped to allow
the old tyring platform to remain fully visible. This was used by the
wheelwrights to put the hot metal rims onto cart wheels. The building consists
of a large open teaching/ meeting/ informal space with folding opening doors
along one side, a small kitchenette suitable for serving light refreshments, a garden
store, another small storeroom/ interpretation space, and two disabled standard toilets.
The building is single storey but the roof space has not been neglected – this
will be mainly used for storage, and a hoist to lift heavy items up and down
will be fitted. You can follow progress on site on
www.chedhamsyard.org.uk/blog .
It is hoped that building works will
be complete by the new year, but already there have been many unforeseen delays
to the project and the Trustees have taken the view that it is better to
execute the project well rather than rush to complete on schedule. The Trust
would like to take this opportunity to thank the residents of Church Walk for their
extreme forbearance during the works.
In the meantime different teams of
Trustees, volunteers and professional advisors have started the detailed
planning of the layout and planting of the garden area, designing the interpretation
of the site and all the artefacts, and planning the opening arrangements for
next Spring. As always we are looking for more volunteers of all ages to help
with many different tasks. See the website for more details.
Bells ring out again
Readers may have noticed that, apart
from the clock chime, the bells of St Peter's were silent for a few weeks in
September. This was because the pulleys over which the ropes have to go when
the bells are rung, after 58 years' use, were badly worn. A team of ringers from
the tower, assisted and guided by a professional from Loughborough Bellfoundry,
removed all the pulleys, which were sent to Loughborough to be refurbished or
replaced as necessary.
As it turned out, they all needed replacing,
so a few weeks later the same team carefully installed the new pulleys and checked
that all was running smoothly and safely.
Our photograph shows one of the bells with the new pulley in the bottom left and corner.
This is highly specialised work and
therefore does not come cheap. The overall cost was £1,400 and this has been defrayed
by a grant of £200 from the Coventry Diocesan Guild of Bellringers, £200 that
the local ringers raised at a tower open day and coffee morning in October, and
the remainder out of a bequest to the church which was specifically for projects such as this.
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