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ST. MARY’S FINEDON
PARISH MAGAZINE
AUGUST 2010
ST. MARY THE VIRGIN
FINEDON
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PARISH MAGAZINE
AUGUST 2010
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From the Churchwardens
Thank you for all the support and help we received at the Church
Fete and Wine Walk About. The weather was glorious for both
events, it was wonderful to see so many people taking part and
enjoying themselves.
The progress on a new Vicar is slow. The Archdeacon, after the
PCC’s agreement, will be advertising the position part time. So
we will have to wait and see what happens.
If you receive your magazine in time on Sunday 1st August Paul
Needle will be taking both services on a trip home from Spain.
As he has local connections family and friends may like to
support him by coming to one of the services.
August the 15th is the Feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary, our
Patron Saint. This year we will be able to celebrate the festival
as it falls on a Sunday.
Canon Roger Knight has kindly offered to take confirmation
classes for adults in the autumn if we have enough candidates.
If you wish to be confirmed please speak to Jane who will give
you further details.
Hope you all enjoy the rest of the summer and if you are going
away on a holiday travel safely and have an enjoyable vacation.
The Government has awarded schools a training day in the
Autumn term. Huxlow and the Finedon schools are taking Friday
3rd September as a training day. The children will now return to
school on the 6th September. This is just so much more sensible
than going back on a Friday.
From the Registers
Holy Matrimony
12th JuneEmma Louise Horn and Mark Johnson
10th JulyLisa Clare Sadler and Sean Tipler
Louise Ann Ireland and Joseph Kevin Lawrence.
Confirmation Classes for Adults
Canon Knight, Father Roger, has offered to take confirmation classes inthe autumn for adults.Anyone interested please speak to Jane who will give you further details.
Mary Amey
Donations received for Myeloma UK in memory of Mary amounted to £868.I would like to express my grateful thanks to everyone for their generosity.
Ted Amey
Microphones
Thank you to Ted and family who have replaced all the microphones inChurch in memory of Mary. We shall now be able to hear at the back andbe able to use all the microphones.Thank you to Richard Amey who has sorted out spaghetti junction behindthe amplifier and labelled all the knobs so we will now be able to adjust thesound around the Church.
Floodlighting Sponsorship
Week commencing
27th JuneConnie Piggott - in memory of Arthur PiggottDenis & Dorothy Howell - in memory of Florence Ruth HowellMr & Mrs Church who were married in St Mary’s Church, Finedon - incelebrations of their Golden Wedding Anniversary
4th JulyFreda & Roy Hillson - in celebration of their Diamond Wedding Anniversary.Louise Ireland & Joe & Brandon Lawrence - in memory of Rory Ireland.
11th JulyFreda & Roy Hillson - in celebration of their Diamond Wedding Anniversary.Anne Dickenson - in memory of Joshua George ClarkeCarol Cockcroft - in memory of Darrol Edward Cockcroft.Mick & Monica Webb - in celebration of Monica’s birthday.
18th JulyFreda & Roy Hillson - in celebration of their Diamond Wedding Anniversary.Gill & Mhairi - in memory of Margaret Rose Barlow
25th JulyFreda & Roy Hillson - in celebration of their Diamond Wedding Anniversary.
Harvest Boxes
We are again having the Harvest boxes for saving your pennies which can becollected from the back of the church. The money we collect in our harvestboxes goes towards other projects where World Vision work with childrenaround the world.
Mothers’Union
A big thank you to everyone who contributed in any way to the success of ourStrawberry Tea.Special thanks must go to our pianist for ‘kickstarting’ the proceedings.All who attended agreed that is was an enjoyable afternoon which realized£117 for Mothers’ Union funds.
Congratulations
Congratulations to Janice Childs who has been awarded the MBE forservices to the elderly.Janice has spent 34 years running a day centre in Irthlingborough forthe elderly.It is great to see someone locally rewarded for their hard work in thecommunity .Well done Janice and thanks for the support you give to the Church.
Summer Fete
What can we say, just thank you to everyone who participated in theChurch Fete. It was a great team effort and a tremendousaccomplishment. All sections of the Church worked together to makethe Fete a success. The Mother’s Union produced mountains of cakesand sandwiches for refreshments in the Mission Room. How nice itwas to see some of the older members of the Mothers’ Union in actiononce again, taking part in a community event.The premiere of Christians puppet show was excellent. The youngerchildren were transfixed and would not move from the front of the littletheatre waiting for the next show.We were very lucky to have the Northampton Boys Brigade Banddemonstrating their marching and playing skills. You were brilliantlads . It must have been exhausting in the heat.The Tug of war was a great attraction once we managed to get theteams out of the Cons.We now realise why the Ringers from Church did not win the contestbecause, as Malcolm Harris said, the Ringers were used to pullingropes up and down not horizontally. Thanks to the Buffs, Ringers andcongratulations to the Dolben team who won. Thank you chaps fortaking part, immense entertainment.Well done to the beautiful dancers from Nicola’s dancing class. Wehad a good selection of dances and children in attractive costumeswith lots of talent which were enjoyed by the many people attendingthe Fete.Thanks to the Stall holders, choir, Thursday Club for their hard workand the team of gentlemen who put up the marquees and tents andcleared away so quickly afterwards.An important thank you to Mick Webb who has offered to put the
proceeds from his stall of gorgeous woodwork towards our new Churchflood lights. (The lights really are en route to Finedon)There were so many people present at the Fete all day long which gavean atmosphere of fine community spirit. Thank you to all of you whosupported us. We raised £1,340.00.Unfortunately we were unable to have the pony rides as advertisedbecause the weather was far too hot for the animals and it would havebeen very unkind to have paraded them around in that heat.We were treated to Maypole Dancing by the pupils of our Church school.I think they made a spiders web which they did magnificently without amistake. Well done chi ldren - that is not easy.Thank you Mhairi for opening the Fete as our May Queen 2010.Thank you to anyone we have forgotten.Will we do it again next year – just watch us.
Vanlalsiem
Over the past few years the Church has sponsored the education,through World Vision, of Vanlalsiem, a young boy who lives in NorthTripura in Northern India.Every Christmas and Birthday we send a card and money for a gift fromthe Church. We have just received a progress report from Vanlalsiem,together with a photograph, which you can read on the notice board. Wealso received a picture of a dove that Vanlalsiem had half coloured in.He left the other half for our children to complete. We will send thecompleted coloured in dove with his next birthday card plus a letter anda photograph of some of the children that come to Church and havehelped to colour in the dove.A couple of years ago we sent our harvest money to Vanlalsiem’s village.World Vision bought some goats for Vanlalsiem’s family to help feedthem and to bring in an income. Vanlalsiem’s mother had recently died.In order to reach Vanlalsiem’s village the Aid workers have a few daystrek to reach it.The money we collect in our harvest boxes goes towards other projectswhere World Vision work with children around the world.Thank you for all your support. We will be making some more boxesshortly.
ChurchesTogether
Songs of Praise on The Green on Sunday 12th September at 6.30 Ifwet it will be held in the Wesleyan Chapel.
Fun Day
On Sunday 22nd. August at the cricket club the Buffs are holding aFun DayThere will be a full size traction engine fully steamed up, 2 Bouncycastles, 1 slide, 2 sumo suites, connect 4, giant jenga, tombolas,cake stall, raffle, old school games and many other items to make foran real good family day outPlease come and join us and make it a day to remember.
Finedon Buffs
Many thanks must go Finedon Buffs who are helping us replace ourflood lights. We are so grateful for their assistance. They are anintrepid group of men.I understand they have just raised £4000.00 canoeing fromWellingborough to Wisbech for the Air Ambulance. Well done to youand thank you for your help.
Church of St Mary the Virgin
Afternoon Tea
Sunday 1st Augustin St Mary’s church
4.30 - 5.30 pm
£2.50
Transport available ring Neil on 682117
6.00 pm Evensong(for those wishing to stay)
Light refreshments will be served after the service.
Are you able to help at the Flower Festival?
In order to ensure that the Flower Festival runs smoothly throughout theweekend we would very much appreciate your help with the following:
RefreshmentsCould you spare an hour or two to help with serving refreshments andwashing up Please contact Jean Marlow on 680987 or Tracey Hawkes ifyou are able to help.
StewardsStewards have a very important role at the festival as they are the first
contact at the door for visitors. Two stewards are required on the doorthroughout the festival and this will be on a rota basis.There is a rota on the notice board at the back of the church and if you areable to help, please place your name against a time convenient to you.
DonationsDonations of refreshments, cakes, jams, marmalade and raffle prizeswould be very much appreciated.
Finedon Local History Society
The next meeting of the History Society will be held on Monday 23rdAugust in the Mission Room, Well Street at 7.30pm. The speaker will beJon-Paul Carr who will give a talk on ‘Food Glorious Food: A History ofEating, Shopping & Food Manufacturing in Northamptonshire from 1837 to2010.’Admission is £2.00 for members and £3.00 for non-members includinglight refreshments.A raffle will also be held.
Guiding in Finedon Exhibition
A new exhibition, Guiding in Finedon, celebrating 100 years of guiding in the UK
is now open at Finedon Local History Society, High Street, Finedon. Admission is
free and opening hours are from 2pm to 4pm on Saturdays and Sundays.
Historic ChurchesTrust Sponsored Cycle Ride/walk
The annual cycle ride/walk in aid of the Northamptonshire HistoricChurches Trust and participating churches will take place on Saturday11th September.Throughout the county - and indeed throughout the country, as this is anational event - cyclists/walkers will be visiting as many churches aspossible between the hours of 10 am and 6 pm.Volunteers are sought to act as stewards at our church - if you can helpout for an hour or more during the day please contact Gill Foster on680364.Sponsorship forms and information leaflets are also available for anyonewishing to take part in this event..
Northamptonshire Historic ChurchesTrust 2010
Ride and Stride
11th September 2010This annual event is part of a national campaign to raise funds forhistoric buildings.Churches of all denominations will be taking part, with sponsoredvolunteers cycling or walking to as many churches/chapels as possibleon that day.The Trust awards grants for fabric repairs and for some facilities whichenable the wider use of churches (such as heating, wc’s etc.) and ourchurch has benefited from such a grant in the past.The church will be open to receive visiting cyclists/walkers andvolunteers are sought to act as stewards. If you can help out for anhour or more please contact Gill Foster on 680364.Information leaflets and sponsorship forms are available from Gill orfrom the church..
WineWalkabout
The Wine Walkabout was another successful wander around Finedon.We were so lucky with the weather once again.Thank you to the hosts, hostesses and workers who were so generousand produced delicious food and wine from France, Italy, Australia andSouth Africa.This event is not a particularly a money raising event but more a socialgathering. We even picked up a very nice gentleman on the roundswho read in Church last Sunday.I am not too sure what the Chinese policeman thought of the travellerswho informed him they had just come from South Africa, had been toAustralia that evening and were then off to Italy. He suggested they tryChina another time and made a hasty exit from Finedon.Well done everyone and thank you.
Horse with Laughter
The following notice was seen at a conference at Launde Abbey, theLeicestershire Diocesan Retreat House.
‘Rural Deans in Stables’
Church of St Mary the Virgin
Finedon
Meat Bingo
on
Friday
13th August
at the
Mulso School,
Wellingborough Road
at
7.30 pm
Admission Free
Refreshments available, Raffle
Everyone Welcome
Transport available.For details please telephoneAndrew Weatherill 682212
the ramblings of Hubert JamesIn my day it was about this time of year that the wedding seasonreached a peak. You might get as many as three or four weddings in aday up the church. Some Saturday nights it looked like there’d been alocalised mini multi-coloured snowstorm as the confetti drifted up bythe gate.It got to the stage where they called for volunteers to sweep it up. Nowluckily, at that time Finedon had three chimney sweeps. The youngest,a lad by the name of Harry Corbett volunteered. He was a lovely ladbut not a great sweep. He preferred singing and dancing and kiteflying. Oh and he had a strange obsession with glove puppets.Anyway, the chimney sweep business was declining and there wasn’tenough chimneys to go round. Harry volunteered to scoop up theconfetti and took to repackaging it then selling it on to the next lot ofwedding guests. Now he was friendly with the Banks’ nanny, MaryBurst and she suggested that he should tell folk it was lucky to buy theconfetti from a sweep. Folks believed him. Soon he was being invitedto weddings and began to appear in the wedding photo’s. He’d do a bitof singing and dancing.
He also started solving little problems. Like he might provide sweets forthe little bridesmaids or organise community singing if a bride was late.Or get stuff that had been forgotten.Mind you Mary got all upset when he agreed to do Susan Purcol’swedding. Mary and Susan had been friends but fell out when Susanwent off with Mary’s favourite umbrella. Something and nothing, butthey fell out.Things got worse when on the day of the wedding. Susan forgot herlipstick and asked Harry to borrow her a new one. Mary had a right goat him after.In fact, he ended up writing a song about it.You’ll know it; ‘Sue Purcol cadged a lipstick, her ex-pal found atrocious’.
ChurchMonthly DrawThe winning numbers and prizes for the July monthly draw are:
1st prize No 185 £71.002nd Prize No 158 £42.603rd Prize No 197 £28.40
Total Receipts £284.00Restoration fund £142.00
The draw takes place on the firstSunday of the month. If you would like to join the draw, please contact Kathy
Hobbs on 01933 398794.
TOWN DIARY
4.30-5.30 Afternoon Tea, St Mary’ s Church
6.00 pm Evensong
7.30 BL Angie Cooksley - Upstairs Downstairs
9.30 coffee morning, Football Club
7.30 TG Town Hall, Aches and pains
7.30 WI Garden Party
9.45 Coffee morning, Bowls club
7.30 St Mary ’ s Church, Meat Bingo
9.30 coffee morning, Football Club
9.45 Coffee morning, Bowls club
9.30 coffee morning, Football Club
7.30 TG Town Hall - A 40yr old dream comes true
7.30 BL TBA
Historic Churches Ride/Walk
6.30 Songs of Praise on The Green
7.30 WI Mission Room, Origins of Festival and Food
St Mary ’ s Church, Flower Festival
FIWC Harvest Sale
TOWN DIARY CONTINUED
FIWC Table top sale
FIWC Thank Offering
7.30 WI AGM, the Curious story of Grandmother ’ s diary
Friends of St Mary ’ s Race Night.
Quiz Night, Wesleyan Church
7.30 BL - AGM
7.30 TG Town Hall - Mike Neville - Trust me I was a Estate Agent
7.30 WI Mission Room - Indigo Jewellery and accessories
7.30 TG Town Hall - traditional Storytelling
FIWC Christmas Bazaar
6th 7.30 BL - Christmas Social, entertainment
13 7.30 WI Mission Room, Christmas Party
