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Issue 482
September 2015
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Editorial
Welcome to the September edition of Loddon Valley
Link.
Editor - Simon Boase
Harvest time so thanks to one of our local
farmers partner Georgina Glover for this
months cover photo of
Contents
thatching straw in Stratfield
Church Services
P4
Turgis.
Church Opening Times
P6
Pastoral Letter
Parish Registers etc.
Hants & Berks Gazette
Turgis Green Shop
Sherfield Park
WI
Police
Chineham PPG
Prayer Page
Sherfield Show
Hartley Wespall Friends
VC Ceremony
Evergreen Club
NWR
Sherfield Parish Council
Village Hall Matters
Caspian Horses
St Michaels Hospice
Sherfield Gardening Club
Borough Councillor
Sherfield Park
Beer Festival
Stratfield Saye Parish Council
Small Ads
Useful Numbers
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P9
P 11
P 13
P 15
P 17
P 19
P 22
P 25
P 26
P 29
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Church Services
September 2015
Sunday 6th September
10.00am Holy Communion
Trinity 14
St Leonards Sherfield
10.00am
Family Service
6.30pm
10.00am
St Leonards Sherfield
Trinity 15
St Leonards Sherfield
Trinity 16
10.00am
St Leonards Sherfield
6.30pm
Evensong
10.00am
10.00am
Harvest Festival
Harvest Festival
Trinity 17
St Leonards Sherfield
St Marys Hartley Wespall
Trinity 18
10.00am
Holy Communion
St Leonards Sherfield
10.00am
6.30pm
Evensong
*Drive up close to the white gates, which will open automatically. Children are
welcome at all our services. Services in italics are particularly geared to children
and families.
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7.45pm
Friday 4th
10.30am
Sunday 6th
10.30am
6pm
7.45pm
10am
Thursday 17th
7.45pm
Friday 18th
10.30am
2pm
10.30am
3pm
Tuesday 8
th
Sunday 13
th
Saturday 19
th
Sunday 20th
Wednesday 23
rd
Friday 25th
10.30am
Sunday 27th
10.30am
10.30am
Friday 28
th
St Leonards
Open Days
Everyone is
welcome to visit for
reflection, prayer, or
to view with a
wedding in mind.
The church is open on the 5th, 12th
and 26th of September from 10am
until 4pm.
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Catholic Services
St Bedes and Holy
Ghost Churches,
Basingstoke.
Parish Office
Tues to Friday
9.30 am-1.00 pm
Tel.465214.
Sunday Mass 9.00 am, 11.00 am
and 6.30 pm
Pastoral Letter
In Roman mythology, the god Janus had two heads
one looking forwards and the other looking back.
His name finds its way into that for the first month of
the year, when we look back to the joys and sorrows
of the year just ended while also looking forward to the
opportunities and delights of the year ahead. But its
September! Well, to me there are similarities in that the
seasons are turning this month; we look back to summer
holidays now ending, and ahead to the completion of harvest,
the new school year and to the crisp bright winter to come we
can hope!. We are also at another turning point this year, one
of special importance to our churches communities, in that we
shall soon have Stephen Ball as our priest in charge of the
parish after a vacancy lasting two years. Last months Loddon
Valley Link introduced us to Stephen and his wife Lorna, and
their arrival is eagerly awaited. Such a new beginning brings
renewed energy to us all.
Looking ahead at this moment is, of course, exciting, but we
can also look back over the last two years with considerable
satisfaction. We owe a huge debt of thanks to our
Churchwardens and to Sammie and Carol for working tirelessly
to maintain the life of our churches, smoothly running all the
services, weddings, baptisms and funerals, and visiting the sick
and the bereaved. They have been helped in these duties by
our lay readers Richard Elphick, John Williams and Andrew
Doggart and this team, further assisted by John Lenton, has
maintained the vitality of the church and its message. But in
addition to these, we have seen several other members of the
congregation step forward to play a more active role for
example in taking services, and helping with Messy Church
and Tower Club. This, for me, has been a particularly positive
outcome of the long interregnum, a time when its easy for
things to slip back and for momentum to be lost. Its a tribute
to all who attend and assist in our churches that we can move
into this exciting new era stronger and more committed than
we were two years ago. As Fred Woltman would say, Praise
the Lord!
Mike
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HARVEST FESTIVALS
St. Leonards & St Marys Hartley Wespall
Both 10.00am on 27th September
These are special services for to celebrate all the good things in Gods creation.
The churches will be beautifully decorated with flowers and produce and we
have very family friendly services with lots of traditional harvest music.
If you have never visited before then we would love to see you.
Parish Registers
Funerals
Daphne Robertson-McCleod
Jan Woltman
David Leivesley
13.07.15
24.07.15
29.07.15
Sherfield
Sherfield
Sherfield
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Cash point
Toilet
Pay Point
Costa Coffee
Newspapers
Calor Gas
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GARDEN MACHINERY
SERVICES
Servicing
Repairs
Tuning
Adjustment
Sharpening
Miles Elliott
Turgis Green
Summer is here
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DAVID LEIVESLEY
26 AUGUST 1943 - 17th JULY 2015
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Eileen, David and Caroline would like to thank all their friends, neighbours,
members of Sherfield Park over 55s club, committee members of both the
S.P.C.A. and the L.V.L., Candice and her team, Rev. Sammie Armstrong, Dr.
Donald Dawson for all their love and support, prayers, flowers, cards,
messages and donations to St. Michaels Hospice. We have been overwhelmed
with the support we have had these last few months. It is something we will
never forget. Special thanks to Cllr. Elaine Still for being there and to Chris
Wright for all the lifts he gave me before I learned to drive again!
God bless you all.
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WOMENS INSTITUTE
Reported by Ilene Iles
Glenda Holder, our President for the afternoon of
our August Meeting welcomed everyone to our
Meeting in the Liddell Hall as the main Village Hall
was closed for refurbishment.
Before the Business Meeting took place, our competition for the best
buttonhole took place and was won by Marlene King. The business
part of the Meeting followed, reports were given and thanks were
given to Lyn Chivers and Catherine Wright who were retiring from the
Committee.
We then enjoyed a lovely social afternoon with a Beetle Drive to much
hilarity and confusion, an anecdote Back Home at the WI read by
Christine Skillett, a Quiz on Towns and Cities of Great Britain provided
by Tess Morris. Finally, Tess read Instructions for Giving your Cat a
Pill to gales of laughter. Patricia Jenkins won the Beetle Drive and Jo
Brennans table won the Quiz.
Tea and biscuits and the raffle closed a most enjoyable afternoon.
NEXT MEETING: WEDNESDAY 2ND SEPTEMBER 2015 IN
SHERFIELD VILLAGE HALL AT 2 PM.
SPEAKER: ALICK JONES - SUBJECT: BIRDS & GARDENS
PERFECT PARTNERS
COMPETITION: BIRD ORNAMENT/POSTCARD (The more unusual
the better!)
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Brothers, Jack & Albert King, aged 19 & 6, complete the 3 peaks
challenge to raise money, through Tree of Hope, to help Charlie Grainger
walk alongside his brother.
Hi! My name is Jack
and along with my six
year old brother Albert
we achieved our own
version of the three
peaks challenge to
raise as much money
as we could to help
our friend Charlie
Grainger.
Please take the time to visit this link to see Charlies journey so far!...
www.justgiving.com/charliegraingerfundraiser/
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ASH BROOK
INDEPENDANT
FUNERAL
DIRECTORS
& MEMORIAL CONSULTANTS
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During that time the Friends have raised over 50,000 from
subscriptions, donations and events. Here are a few photos showing
the major projects we have undertaken.
The flint boundary wall and lych-gate as seen below. The work on
these projects had to be done adhering strictly to methods and
materials of the time. This was costly and complex but an excellent job
was done.
We contributed to the
fund which was raised to
repair the unique West
Wall of the church.
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porch became
diseased and
it was
necessary to
have them
felled.
The overgrown and untidy leylandii hedge along one of the boundary walls
has been replaced with a mixed beech hedge providing natural habitats
for wild life.
Most importantly let's not forget general maintenance! The committee has
worked to maintain
the churchyard in a
tidy condition for
villagers and those
wishing to delve into
the history of the area.
We have turned out to
tidy, weed, pick up
leaves and monitor grass cutting, all helping to keep the churchyard a
picture of natural beauty.
We have had fun on the way!
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In the summer months we have held activities including village fetes on the
green, coffee mornings, garden parties, barbecues. And
even opened our gardens to the
public. We held a most wonderful
St. George's Day Concert in the
church with a guest choir. The roof
was raised with our rendition
of Jerusalem!
And of course the renowned
Hartley Wespall Regattas.
Here all the village, families and friends have enjoyed sailing
homemade boats and eating homemade cakes in a
beautiful setting.
Adults are just as keen on the boats as the children and duck
races have become firm
favourites
The latest event was the
summer Garden Party again kindly hosted by
the Malarkeys
So there you have it - 20 years of fun, fund raising and contributions. Our
fund raising events are also a great way of getting the village, families and
friends together.
Thank you
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For information call: 0118 932 6308 Brochure hotline: 0118 932 6480
www. wellington-riding.co.uk e-mail: info@wellington-riding.co.uk
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PLANNING A PARTY?
Sherfield is fortunate to have two well-equipped Halls, a small meeting
room/bar area and a garden which may all be hired for regular and ad hoc
functions. The halls are fully licensed and we will be happy to put you in
touch with companies providing catering and bar services, discos/band
hire, marquees, childrens entertainment, etc. There are still some free
weekends available in November and December.
www.sherfieldvillagehall.co.uk
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around the world with the publicity and Louises help. Breeding studs for
Caspians now exist around the world but in very small numbers.
This dispersement was timely as the ban on horse ownership in the
period of the Iran-Iraq war meant the breed
in Iran was close to dying out although a
number were released into the mountains,
plus subsequent embargoes on Iranian
imports have included horses. Thus most of
the breeding programme is carrying on
outside Iran and primarily the UK, Sweden
and USA.
Naomi leading 2 stallions
The UK side has fallen to a very few breeders maintaining the closely
watched bloodlines. In recent times numbers have been dwindling with
very few new registrations of foals,
possibly down to the recent economic
climate. Exact numbers are difficult to
establish but it is believed there are only
a few hundred horses left in this country.
Locally, the bay mare Rajkumari has now
been joined by Shahrim, a beautiful grey
stallion, so who knows what will happen
in 11 months time! They are from one of
the largest herds in the country owned
Shahrim and Raj on the steppes
locally by Naomi Thomas from Sirhowy Stud.
of Hartley Wespall
Even this only numbers approximately 50 and
there has been no recent breeding. Hopefully, things will be improving
though as Naomis getting involved in Equine Assisted Therapy.
Perhaps the breeds strength mirrors
international relations.
If youd like to know more about the breed
and especially if you have a few acres to
spare to help promote the UK breeding
programme please contact the editor.
More information also available from:
www.caspianhorsesociety.org.uk
Simon Boase
Naomi Thomas receiving trophy
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