Issue N o 908 At the heart of our wonderful community Friday 30 th November 2018 Published at: 3-4 First Floor Offices, Shildon Town Council, Civic Hall Square, Shildon DL4 1AH • Editorial: 01388 775896 • Advertising: 07909 992731 • Email: [email protected] • Online: www.swd.news/chapter • You can read all our sister papers online at www.swd.news: Spennymoor News • Shildon & District Town Crier • The Bishop Press CHILTON LIGHTS SWITCH ON CHILTON ACADEMY Friends are inviting the local community to their light festival on Friday 30th November from 5.15pm - 6.15pm. Entry to the festival is just 50p per person. Available at the event will be refreshments, tuck shop, raffle, lucky dip and tiddlywink tombola. Chilton Academy Choir will be entertaining visi- tors, as well as the amaz- ing LED stilt walkers. The stilt walkers and the Academy Choir will then lead a lantern procession at 6:20pm to the Town Council Offices for the official switch on of the Christmas tree lights. A spokesperson said; “Please bring your own lanterns and torches - but no real flames - for the procession.” The official switching on of the Christmas tree will take place at 7pm with town Mayor, Cllr Tonya Duprey and this year’s Gala Princess winner doing the honours. On site will be a small fun fair ride and catering. Thanks to St Aidan’s Church there will be mince pies and ginger wine available. There will be drinks for the children who will be pleased to know that Santa will be dropping by to visit. ONCE AGAIN the Ferry- hill Shoe Box Appeal, in conjunction with Ferryhill Methodist Church, has been a huge success. This ever popular appeal has grown over the years and again this year there was a very generous response from donors within the Ferry- hill and surrounding com- munities. A spokesperson for the organisers said: “To all donors, be they schools, churches, chat and craft clubs or private individu- als, the organising team for the Appeal wish to extend their heartfelt and sincere thanks for their extreme generosity. “We would also like to thank all of those who helped in any way during shoe box week. “Also a big thank you to the young people of Enter CIC for their assis- tance in carrying out the shoeboxes to the await- ing transport on Sunday night. Happy Christmas and best wishes to everyone.” Andrea Flynn of Enter CIC said: “Enter CIC has been supporting Ferry- hill Methodist Church’s annual Shoebox Appeal by providing much- needed willing hands and warm hearts for some years now. “We are proud of the church’s commitment to the message of Christ- mas for young people who may be experiencing great disadvantage. “Well done all, and thank you to the Methodist Church team – the bis- cuits were delicious!” A total of 865 boxes were collected in the church and a further £1,285 was donated towards transport costs. The donations will be passed to the Samari- tan’s Purse charity, an international relief and development organisa- tion that works through local churches to help communities in Africa, Eastern Europe and Cen- tral Asia. It is planned to send the boxes to Eastern Europe. COMMUNITY SUPPORTS ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL SHOEBOX APPEAL Volunteers from Enter CIC with some of the boxes packed with Christmas gifts for underprivileged children. www.hackeandbaines.co.uk EST 1898 [email protected]47-49 Main Street, Shildon, DL4 1AF • 01388 772671 | 30-31 Bondgate, Darlington, DL3 7JJ • 01325 463303 Also available in leather ELECTRIC and MANUAL RECLINER SUITES Park right outside our showroom and shop at your leisure! OVER 20 IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DELIVERY
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Issue No 908 At the heart of our wonderful community Friday 30th November 2018
Published at: 3-4 First Floor Offices, Shildon Town Council, Civic Hall Square, Shildon DL4 1AH • Editorial: 01388 775896 • Advertising: 07909 992731 • Email: [email protected] • Online: www.swd.news/chapter •
You can read all our sister papers online at www.swd.news: Spennymoor News • Shildon & District Town Crier • The Bishop Press
CHILTON LIGHTS SWITCH ONCHILTON ACADEMY Friends are inviting the local community to their light festival on Friday 30th November from 5.15pm - 6.15pm.
Entry to the festival is just 50p per person.
Available at the event will be refreshments, tuck shop, raffle, lucky dip and tiddlywink tombola.
Chilton Academy Choir will be entertaining visi-tors, as well as the amaz-ing LED stilt walkers.
The stilt walkers and the Academy Choir will then lead a lantern procession at 6:20pm to the Town Council Offices for the official switch on of the Christmas tree lights.
A spokesperson said; “Please bring your own lanterns and torches - but no real flames - for the procession.”
The official switching on of the Christmas tree will take place at 7pm with town Mayor, Cllr Tonya Duprey and this year’s Gala Princess winner doing the honours.
On site will be a small fun fair ride and catering.
Thanks to St Aidan’s Church there will be mince pies and ginger wine available.
There will be drinks for the children who will be pleased to know that Santa will be dropping by to visit.
ONCE AGAIN the Ferry-hill Shoe Box Appeal, in conjunction with Ferryhill Methodist Church, has been a huge success.
This ever popular appeal has grown over the years and again this year there was a very generous response from donors within the Ferry-hill and surrounding com-munities.
A spokesperson for the organisers said: “To all donors, be they schools, churches, chat and craft clubs or private individu-
als, the organising team for the Appeal wish to extend their heartfelt and sincere thanks for their extreme generosity.
“We would also like to thank all of those who helped in any way during shoe box week.
“Also a big thank you to the young people of Enter CIC for their assis-tance in carrying out the shoeboxes to the await-ing transport on Sunday night.
Happy Christmas and best wishes to everyone.”
Andrea Flynn of Enter CIC said: “Enter CIC has been supporting Ferry-hill Methodist Church’s annual Shoebox Appeal by providing much-needed willing hands and warm hearts for some years now.
“We are proud of the church’s commitment to the message of Christ-mas for young people who may be experiencing great disadvantage.
“Well done all, and thank you to the Methodist Church team – the bis-
cuits were delicious!”A total of 865 boxes
were collected in the church and a further £1,285 was donated towards transport costs.
The donations will be passed to the Samari-tan’s Purse charity, an international relief and development organisa-tion that works through local churches to help communities in Africa, Eastern Europe and Cen-tral Asia.
It is planned to send the boxes to Eastern Europe.
COMMUNITY SUPPORTS ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL SHOEBOX APPEAL
Volunteers from Enter CIC with some of the boxes packed with Christmas gifts for underprivileged children.
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by guest of honour Neve Lawson, a young rising star in the boxing world and member of Ferryhill’s own Seconds Out Boxing Academy, based inside FSEC.
The 2000 Committee wanted to celebrate the success of a young per-son in the town, and so Neve was chosen to open the Fair and was pre-sented with a certificate of excellence by the Chair of the Ferryhill 2000 Com-
mittee Keith Lumsdon, for her outstanding achieve-ments in boxing and for being an exceptional ambassador for Ferryhill.
The Fair was attended by many and enjoyed by all.
“The Ferryhill 2000 Committee would like to thank all stall holders and Ferryhill Sports and Edu-cation Centre for making the event the success that it was,” said a spokesper-son.
THE FERRYHILL 2000 Committee, in Partnership with Ferryhill Sports and Education Centre, held their Christmas Fair on Sunday 25th November.
Over twenty stalls were in attendance, including the Ferryhill Six, Endeav-our Woodcrafts and Thin-ford Nurseries. There was also a wonderful performance by Chance Drama and lovely hot food served.
The Fair was opened
2000 COMMITTEE KICK OFF THE FESTIVE SEASON
Ferryhill Sports and Education Centre hosted the Ferryhill 2000 Committee’s Christmas Fair.
FERRYHILL BUSINESS & Enterprise College are holding a Christmas Fayre on Tuesday 4th December, from 2pm-4.30pm.
Entertainment will be pro-vided by the Glee Club and refreshments will be avail-able.
Stalls will include a tom-bola, Christmas crafts, cakes, pies, biscuits, jams and chutneys, lollipop game, jewellery, woodcrafts, bath bombs and wax melts.
“We hope to see you all,” said a school spokesper-son.
FBEC CHRISTMAS FAYRE
FERRYHILL’S ENTER CIC is hosting a festive event entitled Olde Time Yule-tide for the elderly resid-ing in the area.
The festive event is part of the Days of Our Lives programme, which is supported by the Four Together Area Action Partnership and is taking place on Tuesday 11th
December at the Enter Centre on Merrington Road, Ferryhill.
Tickets for these events are always popular, so early booking is essen-tial. Tickets are just £5 and can be purchased from the Enter CIC office at 2 Chapel Terrace, Fer-ryhill or by calling 01740 655437.
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The first meeting was held in April 2006 after a few local ladies decided to set up a social group for over 55s at Dean Bank Institute.
To their astonishment, over 100 people turned up and the group has being going strong ever since, holding fortnightly meet-ings on a Monday after-noon. There are currently 109 members and a wait-ing list of 65!
As well as holding ‘Days In’ with tea, coffee and entertainment, members also enjoy ‘Days Out’ and have enjoyed trips to thea-tres, including to see Miss
Siagon at Sunderland, to show gardens and visits to Windermere and Scar-borough.
A spokesperson for the group said: “We would like to thank Enid Ridley for once again making the Christmas dessert.
“We have fabulous, loyal supporters and as long a waiting list as ever. We’d like to say thank you to everyone who attended and everyone who makes the club run well every year. ”
FERRYHILL’S FAVOURITE social club, DIDO (Days In Days Out) held its annual celebratory dinner dance on Monday 26th Novem-ber at the Masonic Hall in Ferryhill.
The party was just one event in a jam-packed itin-erary for the group, which
DIDO PACK OUT MASONIC HALL FOR ANNUAL DINNER DANCE CELEBRATION
There were 109 members of DIDO in attendance at this year’s annual dinner dance. ON WEDNESDAY 21st November, Ferryhill Busi-ness and Enterprise Col-lege welcomed three international students from Durham University, who delivered cultural sessions to some of the year 7 and 9 pupils.
Mrs Johnson com-mented, “The students were from Korea, Hong Kong and China and deliv-ered very interesting pres-entations about life and language in their home
FBEC WELCOME INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS
One of the international students with an FBEC pupil.
countries. “Our students were defi-
nitely a captive audience and enjoyed soaking up all of the new knowledge and information.
“Year 7 students cer-tainly had plenty of ques-tions to ask them!
“The international stu-dents will be returning to FBEC in two weeks’ time to deliver another session to our pupils. They are certainly looking forward to their next visit.”
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tion of £4,959.86 towards its outreach project, Rain-bow Tots.
They would also like to thank everyone who
donated their 1% via the Co-op members scheme. This money will pay for essential running costs for the group.
IMMANUEL CHRISTIAN Fellowship in Ferryhill have expressed their appreciation to The Co-op for their generous dona-
CO-OP DONATES TO ICF RAINBOW TOTSThe Co-op hands over a cheque for almost £5,000 to support Immanual Christian Fellowship’s Rainbow Tots outreach project.
ON WEDNESDAY 7th of November, members and guests of Ferryhill Vil-lage Women’s Institute were entertained by the talented Julie Pendleton.
A spokesperson for the group said, “What a great entertainer and so professional. It was our birthday party and every-one enjoyed the fantas-tic buffet; our members were also given a birth-day gift.
“Our eldest member
Mrs. Olive Chaplin cut the birthday cake.”
The next meeting will be held on Wednesday 5th December in the Dean Bank Community Centre at 6.30pm.
The ladies will be enter-tained by children from the Broom School who will perform Christmas Carols and other songs which they have been rehearsing.
There will also be the usual Christmas stalls.
All members and guests will also get sweet mince pies and non-alcoholic wine, but they can of course take along their own wine if they are not driving.
President Sylvia Bell commented, “Unfortu-nately I will be driving so I will have to stick to the alcohol free wine!
“I am looking forward to another brilliant night with all our members and friends.”
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1ST FERRYHILL Guides are in need of volun-teers to help the unit continue running in the New Year.
By volunteering, you can help girls build their confidence, have adven-tures, learn new skills and have loads of fun!
As well as creating unforgettable memo-ries, this is also a great development opportu-nity for any individual.
If you are interested to learn more, contact Division Commissioner Jo Lazenby at [email protected].
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TENLANDS CHRISTMAS Fair takes place on Sat-urday 15th December, between 10am and 3pm.
There will be wreaths and centre pieces, a cake stall, tombola, Christmas decorations and a sweet hamper stall.
Plus festive revellers can enjoy a turkey, stuffing and cranberry sandwich, washed down with a glass of mulled wine.
Children can also visit Santa. Entrance to the grotto costs £2, with every child receiving a gift.
TENLANDS CHRISTMAS FAIR
SCHOOL CHILDREN from local schools will be entertaining shoppers around the Ferryhill mar-ket leading up to Christ-mas by singing Christmas carols in Ferryhill Town Hall gardens.
On Friday 7th December at 11am, Ferryhill Station Primary School will start off the carol singing.
On Friday 14th Decem-ber at 9.45am Cleves Cross Infants will sing, followed by Cleves Cross
Juniors at 10am and then pupils from Broom Cot-tages School at 11am.
The Carol singing always proves to be very popular, with visitors to the local Friday market stopping to listen to the children and parents of pupils from the primary schools turning up to show their support.
“Please come along and support our local young-sters in the run up to Christmas,” said a Town Council spokesperson.
CAROL SINGING IN TOWN HALL GARDENS
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Thanks to everyoneI would like to take this opportunity to say a huge thank you to all my family, friends and neighbours, for the brilliant sum of £271.50, raised for this year’s poppy appeal.We all had a lovely evening, refreshments and lots of chat.Thanks also to The Chapter newspaper in advance for printing this.
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FERRYHILL TOWN Council would like to invite residents to attend Ferryhill’s Annual Christmas Fayre on Friday 30th Novem-ber.
The Fayre will com-mence at 2pm with a Craft Fayre in St. Luke’s Parish Centre and a Christmas Market in the Market Place car park.
A procession, involv-ing children from local primary schools, will leave St. Luke’s Church at 4.15pm. The proces-sion will be led by real life festive donkeys and will make its way to the Market Street car park for carol singing at 4.30pm, accompanied by Ferryhill Town Band.
Any adults and chil-dren wishing to take part in the procession and carol singing are asked to meet at St. Luke’s Church at 4pm.
The official switch-on of the town’s Christmas lights will follow at 5pm. The honour of switching on the town’s lights this year will fall to pupils from Dean Bank Pri-mary School accompa-nied by the Town Mayor.
The event this year will also comprise of show rides in the Mar-ket Place, donkey rides, Santa’s Grotto and a Winter Wonderland with Disney characters, plus refreshments and face painting upstairs in the
Town Hall.The Methodist Church
will also be remaining open until 7pm to ena-ble residents to pop along and view the Fes-tival of Trees, organised by ApproachToo.
At 7pm event proceed-ings will move to The Manor House, where there will be a screening of a Christmas film and a hot buffet with a drink for local children. This will be provided free of charge for the first 50 children. Free tick-ets must be obtained from Ferryhill Town Hall (maximum of 2 per household). A charge of
£3.50 will be made on the night for children without a ticket.
Food will also be provided for adults, including pulled pork sandwiches at a cost of £3.50 and ham broth with crusty bread at a cost of £3. Hot choco-late, mulled wine and other festive alcoholic treats will also be avail-able for sale.
For any queries about the Christmas Fayre or to obtain a ticket for the children’s film and hot buffet, contact Karen Younghusband or Nikki Rees at Ferryhill Town Hall on 01740 652157.
FERRYHILL CHRISTMAS FAYRE & LIGHTS SWITCH-ON ON FRIDAY 30th Novem-
ber, the following road closures and temporary bus stops will be imple-mented to accommodate Ferryhill’s annual Christ-mas Fayre and official Christmas Lights Switch on:
• Market Street, Chapel Terrace (part) and Church Road will be closed to all vehicles on Friday 30th November, from 4pm – 6pm approximately;
• Church Lane and the unnamed road between Church Lane and Market Street will be closed from
4.15pm to 4.30pm.• Temporary bus stops
will be erected outside:-• The Coffee Lounge
(Main Street);• B & M Store (Market
Street);• Ferryhill Workingmen’s
Club (North Street). • All Vehicles Must Use
North Street. • Nat West Car Park –
no access or exit from 4.15pm to 4.30pm.
Anyone requiring further information should con-tact Karen Younghusband at Ferryhill Town Council on 01740 652157.
ROAD CLOSURES FOR CHRISTMAS FAYRE
FERRYHILL CHRISTMAS FAYRE & CHRISTMAS LIGHTS SWITCH ON
-- PROGRAMME OF EVENTS --10am – 7pm Festival of Trees at the Methodist Church2-6pm Craft Fayre at St. Luke’s Parish Centre2-6.30pm Christmas Market in the Market Place
Car Park3.30-6.30pm Show Rides on the Market Place Car
Park 4pm – 6.15pm Santa’s Grotto in outbuilding next to the
Town Hall (Chapel Terrace)4pm – 6.15pm Winter Wonderland with Disney
Characters, refreshments and face painting – upstairs in the Town Hall - organised in partnership with Ferryhill Business & Enterprise College (FBEC).
4pm Children from local Primary Schools congregate in St. Luke’s Church for Procession.
4.15pm Procession leaves St. Luke’s Church led by Festive Donkeys
4.30 – 5pm Carol Singing in Market Place accompanied by Ferryhill Town Band
5pm Official switch-on of the town’s Christmas Lights by children from Dean Bank Primary School accompanied by the Town Mayor
5pm – 6pm Festive Donkey Rides in Chapel Terrace 7pm – 9pm Proceedings move to The Manor House
for Christmas Film & Hot Buffet for local children (First 50 children eat FREE – Tickets available from Ferryhill Town Hall). Pork sandwiches, ham broth with crusty bread, hot chocolate, mulled wine and other festive alcoholic treats will be available for adults.
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FERRYHILL COMMUNITY Hub FC (FSEC’s Sunday morning football team) faced their toughest chal-lenge of the season so far when they come up against Lumley Snooker Club in the semi-final of the Stepys Coaches Trophy.
From the outset the game was a fierce con-test, with challenges fly-ing in from both teams.
Ferryhill started the strongest with Tyler Mar-quis, who would put in a man of the match perfor-mance, causing all sorts of trouble down the right flank with his pace.
The breakthrough came from a lovely move by Fer-ryhill down the right-hand side which was neatly fin-ished off by Brad Wilkinson.
However, Lumley were looking very dangerous from set pieces and they eventually equalised through a corner.
The game shifted in Lumley’s favour and Fer-ryhill were forced into a period of defending.
Dean Halpin pulled off some fantastic saves to
keep the scores level. As Lumley pushed
forward, they left them-selves open to a counter attack, which Ferryhill duly exploited.
Liam Wright found him-self charging through on goal only to have Lumley’s keeper handle outside the box giving Ferryhill a free-kick in a dangerous position.
Jake Price stepped up and slotted in a very cheeky shot under the wall and into the back of the net to put Ferryhill up 2-1 at the interval.
The Hub came out for the second half with high spirits knowing they were only half a game away from their first final.
They continued to play some mouth-watering
football with their mid-field trio of Neil, Kyle and Jake controlling the game.
Liam and Tyler were constant threats down the wings and the two linked up for Ferryhill’s third goal, Liam with the run and pull back to Tyler who slotted it home.
Ferryhill’s fourth and final goal came from Alex ‘Hooch’ Quinn who broke through the defence and rounded the keeper to send Ferryhill flying into the final.
A consolation goal from Lumley did nothing to dampen the Ferryhill cel-ebrations as they set their sight on a final against Spennymoor Volti.
The date of the final is yet to be arranged.
EMPHATIC WIN SENDS HUB INTO CUP FINAL
A MUCH depleted Ferry-hill Celtic made the long trip to Consett to play in the last 32 of the County Cup against Consett Top Club of the Consett and District Sunday League.
With six key players missing due to injury, it was a huge task of Celtic, but the visitors started the brighter and took the lead in the 10th minute.
An inch perfect cross found Jonny Agar and the veteran finished cooly with his head.
The goal served to awaken the home team who grew into the game and dominated the next 20 minutes.
The hosts created chances but it was Celtic who almost doubled their lead when they broke for-ward at pace before Zac Renwick’s sweetly struck shot from the edge of the box wrong footed the Consett keeper, but just missed the target.
Instead it would be Con-sett who would eventually find the net to send the
sides into the break on level terms.
After the break, a sec-ond Celtic goal looked to have sealed victory as the weakened side defended resolutely under immense pressure.
But with just a minute remaining, a Consett cor-ner was fisted clear but fell nicely on the edge of the box to the centre forward who rifled an unstoppable shot into the roof of the net.
Celtic’s players, who had giving so much through-out the game, sank to their knees as the referee immediately blew the final whistle to send the game to penalties.
Having come so close, it was Consett who pre-vailed in the shootout, winning 3-2 to make their way into the next round.
Meanwhile, Ferryhill Dynamoes met Chilton & Windlestone WMC in the same round with the Chil-ton club winning through by 3-1. They will now face Newton Aycliffe in the third round.
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