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Church of <strong>St</strong>. Mary the Virgin<br />
Finedon<br />
Parish <strong>Magazine</strong><br />
April <strong>2018</strong><br />
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Digital Edition
Vicar:<br />
Finedon Parish Church: <strong>St</strong> Mary The Virgin<br />
The Revd Richard Coles,<br />
<strong>St</strong> Mary the Virgin Finedon, The Vicarage,<br />
Church Hill, Finedon, Northants, NN9 5NR<br />
01933 681 786, Mobile 07885 967 960<br />
email: revdrichardcoles@yahoo.co.uk<br />
Assistant Honorary Priest Fr Peter Baden,01832 733186<br />
email: p.baden36@btinternet.com<br />
Reader Mr Michael Duncombe, 01536 483935<br />
email: mikeduncombe61@gmail.com<br />
Parish Clerk<br />
Mrs Gill Foster Tel: 680364 (To whom first<br />
contact for Baptisms and weddings must be<br />
made).<br />
Churchwardens: Mrs Jane Read Tel: 680522<br />
Mr Neil Forster Tel: 682177<br />
PCC Secretary: Mrs Gill Foster Tel: 680364<br />
Treasurer: Mr Andrew Weatherill Tel: 682212<br />
<strong>Magazine</strong> Editor: Mrs Janet Millington, Tel: 681161.<br />
email: millingtonjanet@aol.com<br />
(to whom all copy should addressed by<br />
the 15 th of the month prior to publication)<br />
Director of Music Mr Jonathan Harris Tel: 01933 779059,<br />
Mobile 07791 664507<br />
Email: Hjonathan83@aol.com<br />
Deputy Organists<br />
Mrs. Kathy Roberts<br />
Mr Oliver Grigg<br />
Choirmaster: Mr. Bryan Chapman Tel: 398818<br />
Tower Captain Mr Bryan Chapman, Tel 398818<br />
Web Site<br />
www.finedonphotographs.org.uk/<br />
bellringers.html<br />
Archivist<br />
<strong>St</strong> Michael’s Mission Room:<br />
Dr Kaye McClelland, kayemclelland@gmail.com<br />
Bryan & Christine Chapman<br />
Tel: 01933 398818<br />
Times Of Services:<br />
Sundays<br />
8.00 am Holy Eucharist<br />
9.30 am Parish Eucharist.<br />
6.00 pm Evensong (1st Sunday of the Month)<br />
Visit us on the Web at www.stmarysfinedon.co.uk<br />
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From the Vicarage, April <strong>2018</strong>.<br />
I’m not sure what the weather will be like by the time you read this, but if<br />
it continues in a similar pattern to how it’s been around the time of writing<br />
I can only hope your central heating is in good order and your thermals in<br />
good repair. It has been an unusually cold winter. We’re used to mild; the<br />
two freezing fronts that have blown in from Russia, along with the<br />
murderous enterprise of that nation’s agents, have reminded us just how<br />
mild. There have been a couple of green winters since I’ve been in<br />
Finedon, with no snow worth mentioning; but this year we were actually<br />
stuck inside, sat in front of the Vicarage log burner with a pair of<br />
dachshunds as improvised lap warmers. We complain about schools<br />
closing or trains being cancelled too readily, but I don’t blame anyone<br />
for not risking it in those conditions.<br />
It can’t seem much to those who lived through the winter of 1947. I met<br />
someone recently who remembered it very well, a farmer’s daughter<br />
from Lancashire, who as a little girl helped her father and his men dig a<br />
tunnel through snowdrifts higher then their heads from the farmyard to<br />
the main road. It took them three days and just when they finished a<br />
snowplough came down the main road and filled in half of it as it went<br />
past.<br />
<strong>St</strong>orms come and go, after every freeze there’s a thaw, and the Beast<br />
from the East eventually returns whence it came. Finally spring begins to<br />
assert itself. That means new life, promised by the snowdrops’ stubbornly<br />
early appearance, and the supermarket daffs and municipal crocuses<br />
that follow. The prudent will cast ne’er a clout ‘ere May be out, but the<br />
promise each year pays out. It’s a reminder from nature of the promise<br />
that Easter delivers, the new life won for us by Christ, who rises from the<br />
tomb with the gift of eternal life, to warm and revive and quicken us for<br />
all eternity.<br />
Happy Easter!<br />
Yours in Christ,<br />
Fr Richard.<br />
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Our Worship in April<br />
Year B<br />
1st -Easter Day<br />
Acts 10. 34 – 43<br />
Psalm 118, 1 -2<br />
1 Corinthians 15. 1 – 11<br />
John 20. 1 – 18<br />
Hymns<br />
147 Jesus Christ is risen to-day<br />
150 Love’s redeeming work is done<br />
136 Alleluia, Alleluia give thanks to<br />
the risen Lord<br />
Anthem: Easter anthems, This joyful<br />
Eastertide<br />
160 Thine be the glory<br />
Easter Day Evensong<br />
157 The day of Resurrection<br />
Responses Dunleavy<br />
Psalm 114<br />
158 The Lord is risen indeed<br />
Canticles Dyson in D<br />
Anthem Ley - The strife is o’er<br />
162 Ye choirs of new Jerusalem<br />
8th - Easter 2<br />
Acts 4. 32 – 35<br />
Psalm 133<br />
1 John 1. 1 – 22<br />
John 20: 19-31<br />
Hymns<br />
148 Jesus lives, thy terrors now<br />
158 The Lord is risen indeed<br />
137 Alleluia, Alleluia<br />
Anthem: O taste and see,Vaughan<br />
Williams<br />
Blessed be the God and Father,<br />
Wesley<br />
368 All my love on God is founded<br />
15th - Easter 3<br />
Acts 3. 12 – 19<br />
Psalm 4<br />
1 John 3. 1 – 7<br />
Luke 24. 36b – 48<br />
Hymns<br />
157 The day of Resurrection<br />
159 The strife is o’er, the battle done<br />
152 Now is evernal life<br />
Anthem: Cantate Domino, Pitoni<br />
160 Thine be the Glory<br />
22nd - Easter 4<br />
Acts 4, 5 – 12<br />
Psalm 23<br />
1 John 3. 16 – end<br />
1John 10. 11 – 18<br />
Hymns<br />
612 We have a gospel to proclaim<br />
589 The King of love my Shepherd<br />
is<br />
138 At the Lamb’s high feast we<br />
sing<br />
Anthem: Psalm 23<br />
311 Lord, enthroned in heavenly<br />
splendour<br />
29th - Easter 5<br />
Acts 8. 26 – end<br />
Psalm 22 25 – end<br />
1 John 4. 7 – end<br />
John 15. 1 – 8<br />
Hymns<br />
162 Ye choirs of new Jerusalem<br />
150 Love’s redeeming work is done<br />
468 I danced in the morning<br />
Anthem<br />
156 Sing choirs of Heaven<br />
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Floodlight Sponsorship<br />
4th <strong>March</strong><br />
David & Mary Wilson - to celebrate<br />
the birth of their grandson Lochlan on<br />
15th February<br />
11th <strong>March</strong><br />
Carole & Paul Mitchell - in memory of<br />
her parents Ronald & Alice Smith<br />
(on their respective 10th & 3rd<br />
anniversary of death.<br />
18th <strong>March</strong><br />
Sponsored by Finedon Buffs<br />
25th <strong>March</strong><br />
<strong>St</strong> Mary’s Thursday Club - to<br />
celebrate the club’s 57th birthday.<br />
<strong>St</strong> Mary’s Thursday Club - in memory<br />
of May Parker (founder member of <strong>St</strong><br />
Mary’s Thursday Club).<br />
Our meeting on 1st May will take the<br />
format of Women’s World Day of<br />
Prayer which unfortunately was<br />
cancelled due to the weather.<br />
Parochial Church<br />
Council APM<br />
The Annual Parochial Church<br />
meeting will be held <strong>St</strong> Mary’s Church<br />
on Sunday 22nd April after the<br />
9.30 am Eucharist at 11.00 am.<br />
Taize<br />
The next Taize service will be held in<br />
<strong>St</strong> Mary’s Church at 7.00 pm on<br />
Wednesday 23rd May.<br />
Easter Sunday Services<br />
The following services will be held on<br />
Easter Sunday<br />
8.00 am Said Eucharist,<br />
9.30 am Sung Eucharist<br />
Evensong<br />
Evensong will be held in the church at<br />
6.00 pm and will be followed by light<br />
refreshments.<br />
Mothers Union<br />
At our next meeting we will be<br />
welcoming our Diocesan President<br />
Mrs. Barbara Haynes as our guest<br />
speaker.<br />
Anyone wishing to come along and<br />
hear what the Mothers Union is all<br />
about will also be most welcome.<br />
This will take place in the Mission<br />
Room at 2-30pm on Tuesday 3rd<br />
April.<br />
Church of <strong>St</strong> Mary the Virgin<br />
Finedon<br />
Flower Festival<br />
Committee<br />
Invite you to attend the<br />
Open Meeting<br />
regarding this year’s<br />
Flower Festival<br />
to be held at<br />
Finedon Parish Church<br />
on<br />
Monday 16 th April<br />
at 7.00 pm<br />
(This year’s Flower Festival will<br />
be held on 14th, 15th and 16th<br />
September.}<br />
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Melodies & Memories<br />
This Spring, Arts Barn are bringing<br />
their concert ‘Melodies and Memories<br />
a Century of Song’ to <strong>St</strong> Mary’s<br />
Church Finedon on Friday 20th April<br />
at 7.30pm.<br />
This concert, first performed at Castle<br />
Theatre last November, showcases<br />
music from the 1870s up to the<br />
present day.<br />
It includes rousing choruses from<br />
such diverse musicals as Die<br />
Fledermaus, Oklahoma, The Mikado<br />
and Sister Act and beautiful solos<br />
from Company, Phantom of the<br />
Opera and Carousel to name but a<br />
few. Other musicals we cover include<br />
Guys and Dolls, Wicked, Perchance<br />
to Dream and Anything Goes. You’ll<br />
hear 60s hits. You’ll tap your feet to<br />
uptempo numbers from the 20s and<br />
you may even feel inclined to sing<br />
along (which is encouraged)!<br />
We have comedy numbers, we have<br />
dancers, a 30 strong chorus and if<br />
that’s not enough to wet your appetite<br />
we also have Finedon’s very own<br />
Adrian Taylor and a guest<br />
appearance by Jon Reynolds.<br />
Tea, coffee and wine will be served in<br />
the interval and there will also be a<br />
raffle, proceeds from which will<br />
benefit both Arts Barn and <strong>St</strong> Mary’s.<br />
Tickets priced at £8 for adults and just<br />
£5 for anyone in full time education<br />
are available now by contacting our<br />
box office on 07792262359 or email<br />
Sam McLaughlin on<br />
smamdoit@hotmail.com.<br />
We hope to see you there for a<br />
Spring evening filled with song and<br />
dance in the beautiful surroundings of<br />
<strong>St</strong> Mary’s.<br />
Townswomen's Guild<br />
The next Finedon Townswomen's<br />
Guild meeting is at 7.30 on 5th April<br />
in the Town Hall.<br />
There will be a flower arranging<br />
demonstration followed by a raffle of<br />
the arrangements. The competition is<br />
for a floral item.<br />
There is a small charge of £3 for any<br />
visitors who wish to attend.<br />
The Royal British<br />
Legion Finedon &<br />
Irthlingborough District<br />
Branch<br />
The Royal British Legion is holding<br />
an Auction on Monday 4th June at the<br />
Bowls Club at 7.30 pm with viewing<br />
from 6.30pm.<br />
The Royal British Legion<br />
Finedon & Irthlingborough<br />
District Branch<br />
is hosting a<br />
Band Concert<br />
featuring<br />
Thrapston Town Band<br />
in the<br />
Finedon Wesleyan Chapel<br />
on<br />
Saturday 14th April <strong>2018</strong><br />
at 7.30pm.<br />
Tickets which cost £6.00<br />
are available from the<br />
Branch Secretary<br />
on 07954 160777 or by email/text<br />
to sthatcher666@gmail.com.<br />
Please book early so as not to be<br />
disappointed!<br />
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Vive la musique!<br />
Local writer and<br />
broadcaster David<br />
Saint will be the<br />
compère for<br />
Wellingborough Orpheus Choir’s<br />
concert ‘Vive la Musique’ on Saturday<br />
21st April at <strong>St</strong> Mary’s Church, Knox<br />
Road, Wellingborough.<br />
The programme of choral and<br />
instrumental music by French<br />
composers from medieval times to the<br />
20th century will include Fauré’s<br />
beautiful Cantique de Jean Racine<br />
and a medley from Bizet’s popular<br />
opera Carmen, conducted by the<br />
choir’s musical director, Mark McBride.<br />
We have two talented young guest<br />
soloists: flautist Mina Middleton, a<br />
student of the Royal Academy of<br />
Music, and cellist Robert Jones,<br />
graduate of the Birmingham<br />
Conservatoire.<br />
Their solo items will include Poulenc’s<br />
Flute Sonata and The Swan, the<br />
haunting cello solo from The Carnival<br />
of the Animals by Saint-Saëns, and<br />
they will also be accompanying the<br />
Carmen medley with Andrew Hudson<br />
on piano.<br />
The concert will start at 7.30 pm and<br />
tickets are £10 (students £5 and<br />
accompanied children under 12 free).<br />
Call 01604 870318 or email<br />
maureen@thejetty.eclipse.co.uk to<br />
reserve yours in advance, buy them at<br />
Irvin’s House of Flavour, High <strong>St</strong>reet,<br />
Wellingborough or pay at the door.<br />
The Orpheus Choir is delighted to be<br />
supported by Wilson Browne<br />
Solicitors. For more information about<br />
the choir visit www.orpheuschoir.info.<br />
For more information about Wilson<br />
Browne please visit<br />
www.wilsonbrowne.co.uk/orpheus<br />
Let Us Entertain You<br />
Thank you to all who supported this<br />
show at the <strong>St</strong>ar Hall on 3rd <strong>March</strong> .<br />
I am delighted that a fantastic total<br />
of £720 has been handed to the<br />
KIDS ALIVE YOUTH CLUB, which is<br />
run by the Wesleyan Chapel.<br />
These funds will be used to buy new<br />
equipment to enhance the range of<br />
activities for the youngsters.<br />
Jonathan Reynolds<br />
Finedon Local History<br />
Society<br />
The next meeting of the history society<br />
will be on Monday 23rd April in the<br />
Mission room Well <strong>St</strong>reet Finedon at 7<br />
-30pm.<br />
The speaker will be Christine Rowe on<br />
“Eleanor of Castile and the Eleanor<br />
Crosses”<br />
Admission to the evening is £2.50 for<br />
members and £3.50 for non members,<br />
afterwards light refreshments will be<br />
served<br />
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Memories of a Finedon<br />
Schoolboy<br />
Some years ago, 20 years plus, I<br />
asked Eric Chapman, Bryan’s Father,<br />
to write a few reminisces of his school<br />
days in Finedon as an interest to our<br />
school children at the time. I found the<br />
article recently and would like to<br />
share it with readers.<br />
Jane Read<br />
Memories of my childhood days<br />
during my four years at Finedon<br />
Junior School Boys School<br />
1923 – 27.<br />
First of all may I begin by stating<br />
when and where I was born, being<br />
Saturday 13 th November 1915 at<br />
4-10am at 54 Well <strong>St</strong>reet, opposite<br />
the ‘Pam’, The Waterloo Club, later a<br />
Tannery run by Messer’s Sexton and<br />
Cox.<br />
Having jumped out of bed, sometimes<br />
later than others, a quick breakfast<br />
then off to school, which was a good<br />
mile from the top of Well <strong>St</strong>reet.<br />
The Finedon Junior Boys School was<br />
situated at the top of Church Hill, now<br />
a home occupied by Mr and Mrs<br />
Philip Powis, (now occupied by Mr<br />
and Mrs Phillips).<br />
The headmaster at the time was Mr<br />
William Taylor with Mr Harry Hinton<br />
as deputy.<br />
How did we go to school in those<br />
days. We had to walk or leap frog or<br />
with a dicky stick, some of us had a<br />
steel hoop with a hook made by Mr<br />
George York the towns blacksmith,<br />
price 3 pence in old money.<br />
No bicycles or cars in those days,<br />
parents could not afford those<br />
luxuries.<br />
Having arrived at school at about<br />
8.45am, stopping half way down the<br />
High <strong>St</strong>reet, run up the Old Post<br />
Office steps, peer through the<br />
windows to look at the clock on the<br />
wall opposite to see how much time<br />
we had left to get to school.<br />
It is now probably about 10 minutes to<br />
nine, out comes Mr Hinton with the<br />
school bell, one ring and we all stood<br />
still motionless, second ring and we<br />
all line up in our classes order in<br />
single files, right turn into the<br />
classrooms we go.<br />
Many amusing incidents occurred<br />
during my Junior School days. I very<br />
well remember one, when I was a<br />
little naughty in Mr Taylors class.<br />
He called me out in front of the class<br />
for talking, laid me across his knee<br />
and it seemed ages before his hand<br />
came down to slap my bottom, yes!<br />
All the boys were laughing and<br />
giggling, what for? Just because I<br />
had about five inches of shirt showing<br />
through a hole in my short trousers!<br />
I remember one boy sliding down an<br />
icy surface of the playground on a<br />
cold winters day. He couldn’t stop<br />
and slid into the wall at the bottom of<br />
the playground and made a nasty<br />
gash in his forehead.<br />
Another incident that happened in the<br />
class room was when Mr Taylor left<br />
the class for a few minutes to go to<br />
his house which is now occupied by<br />
Mr Margaret Pettitt.<br />
Well between the classroom and the<br />
cloakroom was a wooden partition<br />
with cracks in it that Mr Taylor could<br />
peep through and it was one of those<br />
days when he did peep, most of the<br />
boys were throwing blotting paper<br />
soaked in ink at one another when all<br />
of a sudden Mr Taylor’s voice rang<br />
out. ‘<strong>St</strong>op it! <strong>St</strong>op it! at once Smith,<br />
Jones, Brown come out to the front’.<br />
Mr Taylor enters with the cane and a<br />
stroke across each hand for each of<br />
these boys. Oh yes the cane was<br />
used often in those days. Well one of<br />
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my very satisfying moments<br />
happened in Mr Hinton’s class.<br />
He was of course the music teacher.<br />
He auditioned me to sing for the<br />
Parish Church choir. Chapman, he<br />
said, you have a voice as clear as a<br />
bell, go to choir practice in church on<br />
Friday and tell Mr Cuttell you want to<br />
join the choir; which I did and am still<br />
there today.<br />
Happy days never to return.<br />
(Eric remained in the choir and also<br />
as a bell ringer for the rest of his life<br />
and died aged 84 in 1999.)<br />
RIP Eric.<br />
By kind permission of Bryan<br />
Chapman<br />
(Anyone know what a Dickey <strong>St</strong>ick<br />
is? Answers to the editor please)<br />
<strong>St</strong> <strong>Mary's</strong> Thursday<br />
Club<br />
This months meeting will be on the<br />
26th April <strong>2018</strong>. We are holding a<br />
curry evening at The Koh-i-noor.<br />
Please arrive at 7.30pm.<br />
Anyone wishing to join us who is not<br />
a member would be made very<br />
welcome but you will need to get in<br />
touch with us so that we can cater for<br />
you.<br />
If you are interested in becoming a<br />
member please call Louise on<br />
07581556417 for further details.<br />
We usually meet once a month on<br />
the 4th Thursday (evening). We also<br />
run a mums and tots group during<br />
school term time.<br />
The group meets on a Thursday<br />
afternoon at The Mission Room from<br />
1.30pm - 3.00pm.<br />
If you have a Childrens Society Box<br />
our collectors will be coming to<br />
collect them from you.<br />
Thank you for your continued<br />
support, it really is appreciated.<br />
FINEDON LOCAL HISTORY<br />
SOCIETY<br />
FARMING<br />
IN FINEDON<br />
The first two batches are all sold<br />
and we are in the happy<br />
position of having to order more<br />
so as to fulfil demand. We hope<br />
to take delivery of the third<br />
batch by the end of April.<br />
You can still obtain a copy of<br />
Farming in Finedon if you place<br />
your order by<br />
Saturday April 8th<br />
The cost remains at £20, but<br />
where postage is necessary we<br />
shall need to add a further £5 to<br />
cover our costs.<br />
To place your order, contact<br />
Malcolm Peet at 13 Rockleigh<br />
Close, or telephone on 01933<br />
680773.<br />
A deposit of £5 will reserve your<br />
copy.<br />
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Finedon Parish Council<br />
Clerk: Mrs Julia Tufnail<br />
Office Hours: Monday-Friday Mornings<br />
7 Amen Place, Little Addington,<br />
Northants, NN14 4AU<br />
Telephone 07410 633544<br />
Email: finedonpc@gmail.com Website:<br />
www.finedonparishcouncil.gov.uk<br />
Your Councillors:<br />
Ray Ogle Chairman<br />
Laurence Harper, Vice Chairman<br />
Terry Kendall-Torry, Planning<br />
Malcolm Ward, also WBC<br />
Barbara Bailey, also WBC<br />
Sally Farrell, Gill Spencer,<br />
Gordon Swann, <strong>St</strong>uart Cooper,<br />
Andrew Weatherill, Mike Bentley,<br />
Danny Mullen, Dennis Willmott<br />
Finedon Parish Council Budget<br />
<strong>2018</strong>-19<br />
You will have seen by now that<br />
Finedon Parish Council has raised its<br />
precept this year to £64,000. The<br />
following will help you to understand<br />
why the Council took the decision to<br />
raise the precept.<br />
As you will be aware, the NCC<br />
budget has caused much interest in<br />
the press and that one of their cost<br />
cutting proposals was to shut many<br />
libraries. It seems, but the detail is<br />
not clear yet, that NCC will not be<br />
closing all their libraries as they have<br />
a statutory duty to provide them.<br />
However, they are proposing to close<br />
the smaller libraries, Finedon being<br />
one of them.<br />
When the library closures were first<br />
suggested, Finedon Parish Council<br />
took the decision to agree in principle<br />
to support the Library which would be<br />
run in some form by Friends of<br />
Finedon Library, should the library<br />
close. This was following<br />
representation from residents. It was<br />
agreed by the Council that a grant<br />
(£7,600) should be put into the<br />
budget to facilitate this. The net<br />
overall increase in the<br />
precept (£7,431) is directly related to<br />
this with some small savings being<br />
made elsewhere. It is the<br />
responsibility of the Council to take<br />
into account any likely expenditure<br />
for the coming year in its budget<br />
when it is set. This is what the<br />
Council has done.<br />
The Library is considered by the<br />
Council to be an important<br />
community facility which should<br />
remain within the community.<br />
It must be remembered however, that<br />
the Council does not have any<br />
powers to run a Library and so<br />
cannot not take responsibility for it.<br />
The bad weather forced the<br />
cancellation of the Parish Council<br />
meeting on 28 th February. The<br />
<strong>March</strong> meeting on the 28 th will go<br />
ahead as planned, see website for<br />
Agenda and details. Finedon Parish<br />
Council also has a twitter feed if you<br />
would like to follow us. It contains<br />
information from the Police,<br />
Highways and NCC amongst others<br />
so please use it. To get any<br />
information out residents urgently, I<br />
place them on the front page of the<br />
website and on our twitter feed, so<br />
please take a look<br />
www.finedonparishcouncil.gov.uk<br />
and @FinedonCouncil.<br />
By now the Tainty Field railings<br />
project should be complete. We<br />
were successful in our bid for a grant<br />
from WBC and they have promised<br />
us 50% of the project costs. We are<br />
obviously, very grateful to them for<br />
this assistance.<br />
Thank you also to all the residents in<br />
Avenue Road for keeping the verge<br />
clear during the work.<br />
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Now that the tree maintenance is<br />
complete in the village, I feel that<br />
there should be a mechanism to<br />
replace some of the diseased trees<br />
that had to been taken down. I am<br />
wondering if residents might be<br />
interested in buying a tree that would<br />
represent something special to them<br />
and plant it either on the Green or in<br />
Banks Park. Our tree surgeon has<br />
agreed to set up a list of suitable<br />
trees that can be purchased<br />
independently by residents and he<br />
would plant them.<br />
I’m thinking that it would be sensible<br />
then to number all the trees on the<br />
Green and in Banks Park and have<br />
an information board to display their<br />
type and, if purchased specially, the<br />
reason for their purchase (weddings,<br />
birthdays, anniversaries, births or<br />
remembrance to name but a few<br />
possible reasons).<br />
Please let me know your thoughts on<br />
this so I can take the idea to Council.<br />
I think this could both rejuvenate our<br />
open spaces in the village and give<br />
them revitalised place within the<br />
community. I look forward to hearing<br />
from you.<br />
As usual, please feel free to contact<br />
me should you have anything you<br />
wish to bring to the Council’s<br />
attention.<br />
Providing it is within the Council’s<br />
remit, we will try our best to make<br />
Finedon a better place to live.<br />
Julia Tufnail<br />
Clerk, Finedon Parish Council<br />
Church Monthly Draw<br />
The results of the <strong>March</strong> church<br />
monthly draw are as follows:<br />
Total receipts of £241.00 are divided<br />
equally between the winners and the<br />
church funds.<br />
Winning numbers for the <strong>March</strong><br />
monthly draw are:<br />
1st prize 96 £60.25<br />
2nd prize 62 £36.15<br />
3rd prize 188 £24.10<br />
If you would like to join the monthly<br />
draw (£1.00 per share per month)<br />
which takes place in the church on<br />
the first Sunday of the month, please<br />
contact Kathy Hobbs on 01933<br />
398794.<br />
Finedon Over 60’s<br />
We meet weekly on Wednesdays<br />
1.45 pm to 3.30 pm in the Bowls<br />
Club, Wellingborough Road.<br />
Admission is £1.00 plus raffle. We<br />
have speakers, bingo, entertainment,<br />
occasionally bring and buy and much<br />
more.<br />
April Programme<br />
4th Birthday Party<br />
11th Tricia Thomson - Life and<br />
songs of Vera Lynn<br />
18th Will Osborne - my favourite<br />
things<br />
25th Margaret Eldridge - Friendship,<br />
loyalty and reward<br />
May<br />
2nd<br />
The Blood Bikers (Bikers, blood<br />
and babies)<br />
All welcome, just turn up<br />
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In My Day<br />
the ramblings of Hubert Jamet<br />
In my day it was about this time of<br />
year that the football fixtures would<br />
start to pile up. You could guarantee<br />
games would get called off in January<br />
and February because either the pitch<br />
was so frozen you could do a decent<br />
triple axle on the penalty spot or once<br />
the thaw set in you had to shoo<br />
hippopotamuses out of the mud bath<br />
that was the centre circle.<br />
So once the clocks sprung forward<br />
we’d find ourselves playing on week<br />
nights and to catch up. You’d get<br />
home from work at five or six and had<br />
to be up the Rec by half six for a cup<br />
quarter final or a top of the table<br />
clash.<br />
You’ll gather that we had a pretty<br />
good team in my day.<br />
That’s how I remember it. We’d all<br />
grown up together and had played<br />
with one another since we could walk.<br />
Back then every kid in the town was<br />
out playing football in great endless<br />
matches of twenty-a-side. Course,<br />
they did end eventually but only when<br />
you couldn’t see the ball in the dark.<br />
To be fair football was popular<br />
because there wasn’t much else to<br />
do. Nowadays, kids can be fully<br />
entertained and amused at home.<br />
They go into their bedrooms as cute<br />
six year olds and stay there until their<br />
spots have cleared up and they are<br />
ready to leave home. Course, they<br />
quickly go back in again when they<br />
discover that they can’t afford to leave<br />
home.<br />
Anyway; fixture pile up. Inevitably, this<br />
tended to lead to injuries and we’d be<br />
scratching around for players. The<br />
season we won everything we’d had<br />
to cast our net far and wide to make<br />
up the numbers. Somebody told us<br />
about the Weasley twins from Burton.<br />
Fred and George had fallen out with<br />
their team manager; Murray Neeno,<br />
and were looking to move on. The<br />
boys were identical except one played<br />
on the left wing and the other on the<br />
right. And they were… well… there’s<br />
no other word for it, they were ginger.<br />
Actually, we called them the Carrot<br />
Twins. It seemed the right thing to do.<br />
And they were fast. Greased lightning<br />
had nothing on them and slippery too,<br />
nobody could catch them.<br />
It sticks in your throat a bit to admit<br />
that we won silverware with ringers<br />
from Burton but the boys became<br />
much loved legends. They even<br />
spawned that famous football cliché;<br />
Slick as a Carrot.<br />
Lot’s Wife<br />
A father was reading Bible stories to<br />
his young son. He read,<br />
"The man named Lot was warned to<br />
take his wife and flee out of the city,<br />
but his wife looked back and was<br />
turned into a pillar of salt."<br />
His son asked,<br />
"What happened to the flea?"<br />
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A<br />
pril. Easter. Resurrection.<br />
"Flesh and bones and all."<br />
New life, new hope, new<br />
beginnings.<br />
"Hallelujah! For the Lord God<br />
omnipotent reigneth ... and he shall<br />
reign for ever and ever: King of kings<br />
and Lord of lords. Hallelujah."<br />
"Thine be the glory, risen<br />
conquering Son."<br />
Easter Changes Everything<br />
Easter is magnificent. It can only be<br />
rendered in the most glorious music.<br />
It can only be spoken of with awe. It<br />
can only be experienced as a very<br />
partial foretaste – and how powerful<br />
that can be. It demands a full 50-day<br />
festival in our calendars. It changes<br />
everything: history, the meaning and<br />
purpose of life, the future (to name<br />
just a few). Easter is the big one.<br />
<strong>St</strong>and in awe. On this day, in this<br />
event, Jesus Christ is named as "our<br />
Lord" and "declared to be Son of God<br />
with power according to the Spirit of<br />
holiness by resurrection from the<br />
dead" (Romans 1:4 – try unpacking<br />
the astonishing sentence that is<br />
Romans 1:1–7 as an Easter spiritual<br />
exercise: it is utterly life-changing).<br />
Easter is about life-changing joy.<br />
Feel Mary Magdalene's elation as<br />
she witnesses to the disciples, "I<br />
have seen the Lord" (John 20:18),<br />
and re-read that astonishing story.<br />
Hear Peter’s experience: "Blessed be<br />
the God and Father of our Lord<br />
Jesus Christ! By his great mercy he<br />
has given us a new birth into a living<br />
hope through the resurrection of Jesus<br />
Christ from the dead" (1 Peter 1:3).<br />
<strong>St</strong>and with Thomas as he meets the<br />
risen Christ, and fall to your knees with<br />
him, exclaiming "My Lord and my<br />
God" (John 20:28).<br />
The resurrection isn't to be analysed<br />
or debated. It is to be experienced and<br />
received. It isn't to raise questions and<br />
doubts. It is to flood our souls with joy.<br />
Alleluia! Christ is risen.<br />
He is risen indeed. Alleluia.<br />
Diocese of Peterborough – <strong>Magazine</strong> Resource – April <strong>2018</strong><br />
Produced by the Diocesan Office, The Palace, Peterborough, PE1 1YB<br />
01733 887000 www.peterborough-diocese.org.uk<br />
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The Great Vocations Conversation<br />
T<br />
he Great Vocations<br />
Conversation is a new initiative<br />
from the Church of England to<br />
encourage all ministers, lay and<br />
ordained, to have at least one<br />
conversation about vocation with<br />
someone new every month.<br />
Research has shown that people<br />
often need others to show them what<br />
their gifts are, and whether they<br />
potentially have a calling towards<br />
ministry. The Great Vocations<br />
Conversation has therefore been set<br />
up to encourage ministers to talk to<br />
particular parishioners who they feel<br />
may have a calling in this area.<br />
Ministers can sign-up to the challenge<br />
via www.churchofengland.org/<br />
greatvocationsconversation. They will<br />
then receive monthly emails containing<br />
devotional resources filled with prayers<br />
and ideas. These resources will also<br />
be available in print later in the year.<br />
The Church of England set itself a<br />
five year target in 2016 to increase the<br />
number of people in ministry by 50%<br />
by 2020 – from 500 to 750 per year.<br />
So far the numbers have increased by<br />
15% to 600 ordinands per year, but the<br />
desire is that the campaign will enable<br />
those numbers to increase. There is<br />
also a hope that age, sex or ethnicity<br />
will not be a barrier to people wanting<br />
to enter<br />
ministry.<br />
<strong>St</strong>eve<br />
Benoy,<br />
Director<br />
of<br />
Ordinands at the Diocese of<br />
Peterborough, has welcomed the<br />
introduction of the campaign:<br />
“We have a vision to increase the<br />
number of clergy and lay ministers to<br />
grow the ministry of the whole Church.<br />
We’ve been encouraging more people<br />
towards ordained and lay ministry, and<br />
this campaign is a great way of doing it<br />
– with some great resources.”<br />
The official launch of The Great<br />
Vocations Conversation will be on<br />
Vocations Sunday on 22 nd April.<br />
If you want to explore ministry further,<br />
or know someone who does, contact<br />
Revd Canon <strong>St</strong>eve Benoy (Ordinations<br />
– steve.benoy@peterboroughdioese.org.uk)<br />
or Revd Jenny<br />
Opperman (Lay Ministry –<br />
jenny.opperman@peterboroughdiocese.org.uk).<br />
From the Living Faith Modules<br />
<strong>St</strong>arting Wednesday 18 April, Church<br />
History (LF4). 7.30pm. £40<br />
<strong>St</strong>arting Thursday 19 April, Reading<br />
the New Testament (LF2). 7.30pm-<br />
9.30pm. £40. More info: 01604<br />
887048 or lesleyanne.marriott@peterboroughdiocese.org.uk<br />
April <strong>2018</strong> events<br />
Sat 21 Apr, Bishop’s Bible Day at<br />
Northampton High School, NN4<br />
6UU. 9.30am-4pm.<br />
A free day of studying the Bible with<br />
Bishop Donald. Everyone welcome.<br />
Book a place at:<br />
Bookings@peterboroughdiocese.org.uk<br />
More details at: www.peterborough<br />
-diocese.org.uk/events<br />
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April<br />
Town Diary<br />
July<br />
5th<br />
9th<br />
7.30 TG Town Hall, Flower<br />
Demonstration<br />
BL Meeting/skating on the Nene - Roy<br />
York<br />
2nd<br />
6th<br />
BL Saints Sinners=Nrthants Derek<br />
Blunt, meeting, raffle<br />
BL Summer Ball TBA<br />
10th<br />
14th<br />
945 Coffee Morning, Bowls Club<br />
BL 7.30 Thrapston Town Band, Wesleyan<br />
Chapel<br />
7th<br />
8th<br />
Organ Recital by William Whitehead,<br />
<strong>St</strong> Mary’s Church.<br />
3pm Hymns on the Green<br />
16th<br />
20th<br />
22nd<br />
23rd<br />
24th<br />
28th<br />
May<br />
11th<br />
13th<br />
14th<br />
June<br />
3rd<br />
4th<br />
13/<br />
16th<br />
23rd<br />
24th<br />
7pm Flower Festival Open Meeting, <strong>St</strong><br />
Mary’s Church<br />
Arts Barn Gilbert & Sullivan Society.<br />
<strong>St</strong> Mary’s church<br />
11 am <strong>St</strong> Mary’s Church APM<br />
7.30 History Society, Mission Room,<br />
Christina Rowe, Eleanor of Castile.<br />
9.45 Coffee Morning, Bowls Club<br />
Bell ringers outing to Winchester<br />
Lyra Singers, <strong>St</strong> Mary’s Church.<br />
Christian Aid lunch<br />
BL Evening of laughter-Elizabeth Robinson<br />
June<br />
2-6 pm National Garden Scheme opening,<br />
67/69 High <strong>St</strong>reet.<br />
BL no meeting auction<br />
Sister Act, <strong>St</strong>ar Hall.<br />
Churches together Scarecrow Festival<br />
7.30 History Society, Mission Room,<br />
Helen Norman, Charles Spencelayh.<br />
20th BL Afternoon Tea/Entertainer 15.00-<br />
17.30<br />
23rd<br />
August<br />
6th<br />
20th<br />
September<br />
3rd<br />
24th<br />
October<br />
1st<br />
10th<br />
22nd<br />
December<br />
7.30 History Society, Mission Room,<br />
Roy York, The hiccups & horrors of<br />
steaming up the valley<br />
BL Meeting/chat night, meat raffle<br />
7.30 History Society, Mission Room,<br />
Kevin Varty, Dead & Buried but not<br />
for long<br />
BL Fish & chips, raffle<br />
7.30 History Society, Gary Saeffer,<br />
An American eye view of Northants<br />
BL Two intriguing murders & Ghost<br />
story, Keven Varty & raffle<br />
7pm Inter church quiz, Wesleyan<br />
chapel<br />
7.30 History Society, Della Thomas,<br />
The powder treason<br />
24th<br />
2-6 pm National Garden Scheme opening,<br />
67/69 High <strong>St</strong>reet.<br />
8th<br />
<strong>St</strong> Mary’s Church, Wassail Evening,<br />
Bowls Club<br />
<strong>St</strong> Michael’s Mission Room, Well <strong>St</strong>reet, Finedon<br />
Available for hire weekdays, Saturdays & Sundays.<br />
Suitable for most social functions, charitable events, children's parties (no late<br />
discos)<br />
For all enquiries and information contact<br />
Bryan & Christine Chapman Tel: 01933 398818<br />
Email: bryanchapman2@aol.com<br />
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