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K i n g s w o o d G r a p e v i n e |
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Issue No. 136 JUNE
2009 |
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Editors: Diane White (843783)
& Gill Hemming (842734) |
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D a t e s F o r
Y o u r D i a r y |
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Wed
3rd June Jane’s Coffee Morning Wotton Town Hall 10am-12 noon |
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Sat
6th “ St
Mary’s Church Fete Amercombe,
High Street 2.00pm |
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Sat
6th “ Italian
Wine Evening St
Mary’s Room 7.30pm |
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Sat
6th “ Fascinating
Rhythm Thornbury 7.30pm |
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Tues
9th “ Mobile
Police Station Chipping 3.00pm-4.30pm |
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Thurs 11th “ Neighbourhood Watch A.G.M Village Hall 7.00pm for 7.30pm |
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Sat 20th “ Boules Tournament Dinneywicks |
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JULY ISSUE DEADLINE: FRIDAY JUNE 19th |
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Fri 26th June Neighbourhood
Watch Garden Party The Old
Rectory 7.30pm |
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Sat 27th
“ Mobile Police Station Chipping
10.15am-11.45am |
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Sat 11th July St
Mary’s Fringe Event |
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Quiz
– Every other Week Dinneywicks |
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Rose Hill School Summer Fete |
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When? Saturday 13 June 2009. What
time? 2.30pm-5.30pm |
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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. |
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KINGSWOOD VILLAGE ASSOCIATION |
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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. |
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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. |
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KVA Boules Tournament, Saturday 20th June - The annual KVA Boules Tournament returns to The
Dinneywicks on Saturday 20th 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
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Italian
Wine Evening, Saturday
June 6th, St Mary’s Room 7.30pm.
Italian Wines with regional food to nibble. Only 50 tickets available. Please
contact Simon Wood 845204.
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Sing it yourself Messiah: Saturday December 5th
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. |
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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
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Jane’s
Coffee Morning will be held on Wednesday 3rd June, Wotton
Town Hall between 10am and 12 noon. Bric-a-brac, plants and cakes will be
available. All most welcome. |
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KINGSWOOD CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. |
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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. |
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Our
speakers for June are: We
invite you to come along and join with us in our services. |
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June
7th am Chris
Wilmott pm.
Eric Barrett |
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14th am
Adrian Wyatt Guest speaker - Congregational
Sunday |
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21st am Sunday School will be in charge of
the Father's day service
pm Evening service: Norman Page |
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28th am
Family Service - Roy Weaver. pm. Roger Greenslade. |
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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. |
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We have
many events going on throughout the week, why not find out more about us on
our website. |
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MUSIC AT
ST MARY’S – FRINGE EVENT – Saturday 11th July |
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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. |
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Tickets
available from David Hatton (01453-842483) or Debbie Nicholas (01453-845328)
at £5.00 or £2.50 for children. |
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FASCINATING RHYTHM'S SUMMER SHOW - website www.fascinating-rhythm.co.uk |
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Coming up on 6th June 2009 at the
Castle School in Thornbury BS35 1HT with additional guests
HAVOC and H.CLUB. |
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Doors and bar open at 7.30 for 8pm start.
Tickets Adult: £6, Child: £4. Contact Vanessa Wallington 01454 294937. |
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ST MARY'S PARISH CHURCH |
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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... |
KINGSWOOD NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH
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Neighbourhood
Watch AGM: Voice
your law and order concerns. Village Hall 7.00pm for 7.30pm Thursday 11th
June. |
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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. |
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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. |
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The Police Information Point is available in the Post
Office should you wish to report any problem to be followed up. |
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KINGSWOOD PARISH COUNCIL |
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Kingswood Spring
Clean Wednesday 10th –
Wednesday 17th 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. |
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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 2nd Monday of the month.
Going forward the Parish Council’s Planning Committee will also meet on the 4th
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 4th Monday or
not. |
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Amenities and Environment
Committee |
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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 15th June, 21st Sept,
21st Dec and 17th 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. |
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Dinneywicks - See posters for details. |
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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 6th June our Special D Day Party to celebrate the 65th Anniversary of D Day.
Come in fancy dress and join the fun. Prizes for the Best Dressed Male and
Female. |
Kingswood Football Club
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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. |
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The
Village Diary can be viewed on the Grapevine
website. For an entry please email Grapevine
or telephone Gill on 842734. |