K i n g s w o o d G r a p e v i n e

Issue No. 136 JUNE 2009

Editors: Diane White (843783) & Gill Hemming (842734)

D a t e s F o r Y o u r D i a r y

Wed 3^rd June Jane’s Coffee Morning Wotton Town Hall 10am-12 noon

Sat 6^th “ St Mary’s Church Fete Amercombe, High Street 2.00pm

Sat 6^th “ Italian Wine Evening St Mary’s Room 7.30pm

Sat 6^th “ Fascinating Rhythm Thornbury 7.30pm

Tues 9^th “ Mobile Police Station Chipping 3.00pm-4.30pm

Thurs 11^th “ Neighbourhood Watch A.G.M Village Hall 7.00pm for 7.30pm

Sat 20^th “ Boules Tournament Dinneywicks

JULY ISSUE DEADLINE: FRIDAY JUNE 19th

Fri 26^th June Neighbourhood Watch Garden Party The Old Rectory 7.30pm

Sat 27^th “ Mobile Police Station Chipping 10.15am-11.45am

Sat 11^th July St Mary’s Fringe Event

Quiz – Every other Week Dinneywicks

Rose Hill School Summer Fete

When? Saturday 13 June 2009. What time? 2.30pm-5.30pm

Come and join the fun of the last ever Rose Hill School Fete at Alderley, lots of stalls, acrobatic dancers, pony rides, teas, coffees & cakes, Pimms, barbecue, ice creams, bouncy castles, children's performances and lots more. Entrance free. 

KINGSWOOD VILLAGE ASSOCIATION

Village Association (contact Sheila 843398) - spurred by another successful year in 2008, the Association is pleased to announce that the popular Boules Tournament at The Dinneywicks will take place again on Saturday 20th June.  (Team lists to be entered at the pub).   Showday 2009 will be held on Saturday 5th September and village organisations will be contacted soon to take up a stall and help swell their own funds.  If you haven't heard from us by beginning of July and want to run a stall, please get in touch.  As a departure from the previous arrangements, we will make only one drop of the Showday Schedule to each household and this will take place in June.  In the meantime, copies of it will be available from the Spar Shop for anyone needing advance notice of the various classes. 

If you are running a village event attracting up to 250 persons and need public liability insurance, the Association may be able to assist you at a very reasonable cost.  It also has a tent, which can be hired out for such occasions. 

KVA Boules Tournament, Saturday 20^th June - The annual KVA Boules Tournament returns to The Dinneywicks on Saturday 20^th June. This successful village event is run to raise money for the village. There will be music to entertain you, beer to keep you fresh and food to keep you full. Teams of three are invited to enter, for a fee of £15.00. The number of teams will be limited to twelve. The entry form can be found in The Dinneywicks along with the ‘Bois des Rois’ trophy. Please contact James Smillie on 842467 if you have any queries. Lets look forward to another great event.

Friends of St Mary’s

Italian Wine Evening, Saturday June 6^th, St Mary’s Room 7.30pm. Italian Wines with regional food to nibble. Only 50 tickets available. Please contact Simon Wood 845204.

Sing it yourself Messiah: Saturday December 5^th 2009. Exact times to be arranged. Dr Gill White, former Director of the National Youth Orchestra and a former Radio 3 producer will help all amateur and experienced singers in a day workshop on Messiah with a complete sing through in the evening.  Scores will be provided. A chamber group will accompany the singing. If you’ve ever wanted to have a go at Messiah this is your chance, especially in Handel’s anniversary year. Contact: Simon Wood telephone: 845204.

Friends of St Mary’s hold a coffee morning every Wednesday during school term time from 8.45am-10.00am. All welcome to attend for coffee, cake, biscuits and a friendly chat. Volunteers to help out at the coffee morning most welcome.

Cotswold Care Hospice

Jane’s Coffee Morning will be held on Wednesday 3^rd June, Wotton Town Hall between 10am and 12 noon. Bric-a-brac, plants and cakes will be available. All most welcome.

KINGSWOOD CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.

This year, it is the 200th Anniversary of our Sunday School and on 5th July at 10.30am we are having a special service to celebrate this great achievement.  If you came to Sunday School or know anyone who did and might like to re-visit us, it would be lovely to see you.  If you have any special memories of coming to Sunday School we would love to hear from you.  Please email linandnorv@yahoo.co.uk or contact Lin on 01453 843461. (We are also hoping that June brings the start to the building of our disabled toilet). On 13th June we are holding a Coffee Morning in the Lower Schoolroom so please come along and support us. It's a great excuse to get out and have a chat.

Our speakers for June are: We invite you to come along and join with us in our services.

June  7th   am    Chris Wilmott           pm.     Eric Barrett

        14th   am   Adrian Wyatt    Guest speaker - Congregational Sunday

        21st   am  Sunday School will be in charge of the Father's day service         pm       Evening service: Norman Page

        28th   am  Family Service - Roy Weaver.    pm. Roger Greenslade.

The choir has started up again and we invite anyone who enjoys a chat and a song to come along and perform with us.  We all enjoy the fellowship as much as the singing. You don't have to be a great singer - just enjoy singing.

We have many events going on throughout the week, why not find out more about us on our website.

MUSIC AT ST MARY’S – FRINGE EVENT – Saturday 11^th July

Jerrome Recorders play music in a variety of genres from the Renaissance to the present day. They play a selection of recorders from the tiny sopranino to the massive contrabass. Come and hear them play, you will not be disappointed.

Tickets available from David Hatton (01453-842483) or Debbie Nicholas (01453-845328) at £5.00 or £2.50 for children.

FASCINATING RHYTHM'S SUMMER SHOW - website www.fascinating-rhythm.co.uk

Coming up on 6th June 2009 at the Castle School in Thornbury BS35 1HT with additional guests HAVOC and H.CLUB.

Doors and bar open at 7.30 for 8pm start. Tickets Adult: £6, Child: £4. Contact Vanessa Wallington 01454 294937.

ST MARY'S PARISH CHURCH

We welcome Rod Alexander as our new Churchwarden and I think he's just beginning to realise what he's taken on! The PCC has one new member also, Sue Scothern. We're always glad to have new (won’t say younger) people to input to these important roles. The church is facing another potential mountain to climb as and when the roof is really examined ...it might be a job not completed in my lifetime, but the committee are on to it. The smaller projects are: to repaint the porch and install a sound system...these ARE manageable whilst I'm still young!! The Junior choir continues to sing and make merry... that's the reason for the rapid exit from school on Thursdays and the club (345) is gradually attracting new members too. We plan to let some helium balloons escape for Ascension Day...but not too many in case the Green party gets wind of it.... we want to symbolise the disappearance of something tangible to reflect the day Jesus went back to heaven... so, balloons it is. The adult choir is also growing and we've recently had two new Basses join... great sounds on Wednesday evenings too but not quite the merriment of junior choir as we oldies don't get biscuits and juice...although we did get some Belgian chocolates recently and some sweets...
The Fete will soon be upon us and you will hear more about that from David Hatton and his helpers. I look forward to seeing you all on Saturday 6th June at  Amercombe...with good weather as usual!  Best wishes to you all and please continue to enjoy these Bank Holidays...Viv K

KINGSWOOD NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH

Neighbourhood Watch AGM: Voice your law and order concerns. Village Hall 7.00pm for 7.30pm Thursday 11th June.

Neighbourhood Watch Garden Party; 7.30pm, Friday 26th June in the lovely gardens of The Old Rectory (once The Boundary House). Three drinks and plenty of nibbles, all for £6.00. Tickets from your road’s Watch contact. If you are not sure who that is ring Rod Alexander on 843398.

A message from Gloucester C.I.D: A white male, 30, with Scottish accent has been taking names and addresses of church members (but not yet in Kingswood), visiting them, using the local priest’s name and conning victims with a hard luck story or even stealing money and credit cards. He is doing this all over the country where he has caught a number of victims but may not be in this county yet. If you have any information please phone the police on 0845 090 1234.

The Police Information Point is available in the Post Office should you wish to report any problem to be followed up.

KINGSWOOD PARISH COUNCIL

Kingswood Spring Clean Wednesday 10^th – Wednesday 17^th June - The time has come around once again for the Annual Spring Clean. We have a lovely Village but at times it does need some attention. If everyone in the village could give up 10 minutes of their time to look around them and help pick up litter it would make a huge difference. If you are setting out for a walk with your dog take a bag and a litter picker and pick up some rubbish. Stand outside your house and look in the kerbs and hedges and pick up anything lying there. Bags, litter pickers and hi vis jackets available. Contact the clerk on 844659 or email kingswood.parish@btconnect.com or any Councillor to arrange collection of any of the above.

Planning Applications - Stroud District Council is making changes to how planning applications are dealt with and one of these changes involves speeding up the process. Currently all applications are reviewed in the Parish Council meeting held on the 2^nd Monday of the month. Going forward the Parish Council’s Planning Committee will also meet on the 4^th Monday of the month at 7.15 in the Abbey Rooms to view any applications which will not wait for the full meeting. A notice will be placed on the Notice Board advising you if the Council is meeting on the 4^th Monday or not.

Amenities and Environment Committee

The Parish Council is responsible for many areas around the Village such as The Cemetery, The Playing field, open spaces such as Squalls Lake and the Ash Path, The Churchyard, the Chipping The Waterways and the Toilets. We are very lucky in this village to have Footpaths and Waterway Wardens to help monitor the footpath network and the waterways that run through the Village. The Parish Council has set up an Amenities and Environment Committee which will meet quarterly to discuss the management of the above areas. These meetings will be held in the school on the 15^th June, 21^st Sept, 21^st Dec and 17^th March at 7.15. The Wardens will be invited to make their reports at this meeting. If you have any suggestions for making improvements to these areas please come along to the meetings.

Dinneywicks - See posters for details.

SENIOR CITIZENS lunch every Tuesday 12–1.30pm, 2 courses £4.95. New Tapas menu starts at the Dinneywicks including a special Tapas Lunch, something completely different. Saturday 6^th June our Special D Day Party to celebrate the 65^th Anniversary of D Day. Come in fancy dress and join the fun. Prizes for the Best Dressed Male and Female.

Kingswood Football Club

Congratulations to Kingswood Football Club whose first team, managed by Kingswood resident Ian Evans, have just gained promotion to the County League, a truly great achievement for a village team. The reserve team gained promotion 3 years running but this year just missed promotion to Div 1, Stroud League. The Under 14's also had a good season.
We would like to thank the following for their continued support: - Parish Council, Village Hall, Dinneywicks, Post Office and many other local companies and of course our supporters. Costs to run the club continue to rise, so why not have a go on our weekly lucky numbers draw, tickets £1, from Dinneywicks, Post Office or football members.

The Village Diary can be viewed on the Grapevine website. For an entry please email Grapevine or telephone Gill on 842734.