Skerne and Wansford News—winter edition 2016 Weddings and baptisms In the interregnum anyone wishing to arrange a wedding or baptism should contact Rev Hilary Boon on 202084. Sponsored by Theatre success Theatre success A good night was had by all when the Leeds-based library theatre touring company played at Wansford Village Hall in September. Almost 60 people packed the hall to listen to Alan Bennett’s hilarious and thought- provoking monologues A Lady Of Letters and Bed Among The Lentils. This first-ever professional theatre event in the hall was a joint project, with the Wansford Village Hall committee and the Skerne and Wansford Parish Council fund- ing the evening which, in the end, showed a modest profit of £116 to be shared between the two organisations. Dinner time at the Trout A dozen of the coffee morning regulars got together for a dinner date at the Trout Inn at Friday November 4. The event was organised by Shirley Botterill. The weekly Wednesday coffee morning at Wansford Village Hall are from 10-11am and attended by up to 20 people. Admission is £1. Carol singers will tour Wansford village on Monday December 19 to raise money for St Mary’s Church. The ‘choir’ will assemble at the church lych gate at 7pm and work its way around the village, ending at the Trout Inn, where its members will sing to the diners. All are welcome to join in either at the start on any- where en route. Carol singing for St Mary’s Poor broadband speeds have caused a meeting to be organised in Foston Village Hall on Wednesday, Novem- ber 30 at 6pm with East Riding of Yorkshire Council officials working on the UK broadband delivery scheme. The meeting has been organised by Foston Parish Council mainly for the benefit of Brigham residents, whose broadband speeds are described as ‘appalling’. Residents will be able to discuss their options and learn more about the £350 Government voucher scheme towards the cost of installing alternative solution such as wireless or satellite. Anyone from Skerne and Wansford interested in attending the meeting, particularly those who believe that they may fall outside the parish scheme proposed for 2017, is welcome to go along. Broadband meeting with ERYC officers planned Wansford carol service The St Mary’s Church carol service will take place on Saturday December 17 at 4pm. See the website for Wansford and the benefice Christmas services. Winter edition 2016 skerneandwansfordparishcouncil.co.uk A shopper bus service from Skerne and Wansford villages to Driffield has been taken over by Holderness Area Rural Transport (HART). Hart has taken over the Nafferton Millennium Com- mittee community bus, which covered the community transport provision for Skerne and Wansford parish. Weekly shopper buses from surrounding villages to Drif- field, running on Tuesdays and Thursdays, are just some of the services offered by HART. Bus passes are accepted and wheelchair spaces are availa- ble. For more details or to book a seat call 03456 444459. HART organises various outings, with the next one being on Friday December 2 to Langlands Garden Centre, Market Weighton, which sells plants, produce, Christmas decorations and has a coffee shop serving Christmas lunch on weekdays in December. The trip costs £6 and will be booked on a first-come, first- served basis: to book a seat call 01964 536684. Details of any future trips will be posted on the parish website. Sponsored by Shopper bus for the villagers S&W NEWS Party date for the children This year’s Wansford chil- dren’s party will take place at Wansford Village Hall on Saturday, January 14 starting at 3pm. It is open to children aged 11 and under with a Wansford connection (grandchildren, etc). There is no charge but the organisers need to know the numbers attending by Satur- day January 7. To put a child’s name down call either Jackie Dobson on 07754 563723 or Hilary Pick. on 254690. St Leonard’s Church, Skerne, annual Christingle will be held at the church at 4pm on Sun- day, December 18. As usual, organisers are hoping that the children will take part in a nativity pageant. Everybody is invited and there will be a bring-and-share tea after the service. Christingle *A Christmas entertainment by Terry Jarvis and friends will take place at Wansford Village Hall on Thursday December 22 at 7.30pm. *A vacancy has arisen on the Wansford Village Hall com- mittee. Anyone interested and living in Wansford should give their name, telephone number and name of a pro- poser to Mary Hudson at 2 Nafferton Road, tel 254760, by the end of January. *An autumn dinner held at the Trout Inn on October 20 raised £396 for St Leonard’s Church funds. The meal was followed by an interesting talk by Richard Hampshire about Yorkshire Water’s Tophill Low nature reserve from the inception of the facility to the present day. News in brief. . .
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Skerne and Wansford News—winter edition 2016
Weddings and baptisms In the interregnum anyone wishing to arrange a wedding or baptism should contact Rev Hilary Boon on 202084.
Sponsored by
Theatre successTheatre success A good night was had by all when the Leeds-based library theatre touring company played at Wansford Village Hall in September. Almost 60 people packed the hall to listen to Alan Bennett’s hilarious and thought-provoking monologues A Lady Of Letters and Bed Among
The Lentils. This first-ever professional theatre event in the hall was a joint project, with the Wansford Village Hall committee and the Skerne and
Wansford Parish Council fund-ing the evening which, in the end, showed a modest profit of £116 to be shared between the two organisations.
Dinner time
at the Trout
A dozen of the coffee morning regulars got together for a dinner date at the Trout Inn at Friday November 4. The event was organised by Shirley Botterill. The weekly Wednesday coffee morning at Wansford Village Hall are from 10-11am and attended by up to 20 people. Admission is £1.
Carol singers will tour Wansford village on Monday December 19 to raise money for St Mary’s Church. The ‘choir’ will assemble at the church lych gate at 7pm and work its way around the village, ending at the Trout Inn, where its members will sing to the diners. All are welcome to join in either at the start on any-where en route.
Carol singing
for St Mary’s
Poor broadband speeds have caused a meeting to be organised in Foston Village Hall on Wednesday, Novem-ber 30 at 6pm with East Riding of Yorkshire Council officials working on the UK broadband delivery scheme. The meeting has been organised by Foston Parish Council mainly for the benefit of Brigham residents, whose broadband speeds are described as
‘appalling’. Residents will be able to discuss their options and learn more about the £350 Government voucher scheme towards the cost of installing alternative solution such as wireless or satellite. Anyone from Skerne and Wansford interested in attending the meeting, particularly those who believe that they may fall outside the parish scheme proposed for 2017, is welcome to go along.
Broadband meeting with ERYC officers planned
Wansford
carol service
The St Mary’s Church carol service will take place on Saturday December 17 at 4pm. See the website for Wansford and the benefice Christmas services.
A shopper bus service from Skerne and Wansford villages to Driffield has been taken over by Holderness Area Rural Transport (HART). Hart has taken over the Nafferton Millennium Com-mittee community bus, which covered the community transport provision for Skerne and Wansford parish. Weekly shopper buses from surrounding villages to Drif-field, running on Tuesdays and Thursdays, are just some of the services offered by HART. Bus passes are accepted and wheelchair spaces are availa-ble. For more details or to book a seat call 03456 444459. HART organises various outings, with the next one
being on Friday December 2 to Langlands Garden Centre, Market Weighton, which sells plants, produce, Christmas decorations and has a coffee shop serving Christmas lunch on weekdays in December. The trip costs £6 and will be booked on a first-come, first-served basis: to book a seat call 01964 536684. Details of any future trips will be posted on the parish website.
Sponsored by
Shopper bus for the
villagers
S&W NEWS
Party date for
the children This year’s Wansford chil-dren’s party will take place at Wansford Village Hall on Saturday, January 14 starting at 3pm. It is open to children aged 11 and under with a Wansford connection (grandchildren, etc). There is no charge but the organisers need to know the numbers attending by Satur-day January 7. To put a child’s name down call either Jackie Dobson on 07754 563723 or Hilary Pick. on 254690.
St Leonard’s Church, Skerne, annual Christingle will be held at the church at 4pm on Sun-day, December 18. As usual, organisers are hoping that the children will take part in a nativity pageant. Everybody is invited and there will be a bring-and-share tea after the service.
Christingle
*A Christmas entertainment by Terry Jarvis and friends will take place at Wansford Village Hall on Thursday December 22 at 7.30pm.
*A vacancy has arisen on the Wansford Village Hall com-mittee. Anyone interested and living in Wansford should give their name, telephone number and name of a pro-
poser to Mary Hudson at 2 Nafferton Road, tel 254760, by the end of January.
*An autumn dinner held at the Trout Inn on October 20 raised £396 for St Leonard’s Church funds. The meal was followed by an interesting talk by Richard Hampshire about Yorkshire Water’s Tophill Low nature reserve from the inception of the facility to the present day.
News in brief. . .
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Oil price
Rosemarie Ebdon – Peggy Welburn’s eldest daughter – is living and working in Vietnam and has shared some of experi-ences of the country with Skerne and Wansford News. Rosemarie, who lived in Wansford up to going to uni-versity in 1969, moved to Vi-etnam in 2010 and is teaching English to people of all ages from kindergarten to university students and corporate lawyers, for which she earns up to 32,000,000 a month – there being 30,000 Dong to a £. Rosemarie writes: ‘I get to work either riding pillion on a motorbike taxi or on foot – pedestrians cross the road where they wish and, hopeful-ly, the traffic flows round them. ‘In summer it is 40degC on average – in winter about 10degC - but the high humidity makes it feel like -10degC, at which temperature all schools close. ‘The Vietnamese diet is very healthy – fish, vegetables, a little meat. Snakes and locusts are often eaten. ‘The high quality of bread and pastries reflects the historic French influence.
‘I speak Vietnamese quite well – it is difficult because one word can have several meanings, eg ‘bo’ means fa-ther, cow or potty. There is great respect for the elderly. When a son marries, he and his wife live with their in-laws and care for them in old age. There are no old peoples’ homes and no pensions – unless you have worked for the Government.’ Rosemarie has highlighted some Vietnamese traditions: * Never arrange to do anything on the hour or half hour.
* As a sign of respect for the dead, bodies are dug up four years after burial and the bones are cleaned and then reburied in the presence of the family.
* Rich people keep pet dogs in the house as a sign of status; poor people keep them outside to catch rats.
If you have a story for Where Are They Now? or any other contribution to the newsletter call 254741 or e-mail to [email protected]
Where are they now? Rosemarie Ebdon. . .
Rosemarie with her partner, Mr Tu.
Plans to run canal boat trips from Driffield to Whinhill and Wansford by spring of next year have been floated. The move was prompted by the purchase of the former Mortimers mill at Riverhead, Drif-field by a local benefactor and then leased to Driffield Navigation Trust with the aim of rais-ing the profile of the canal. Initial plans involve transforming the mill into a visitor-cum-heritage centre and developing Riverhead into a base for various activities. A boat, The Navigator, which provides trips
from Frodingham Landing and will continue to do so, will be used to run the excursions. A meeting has taken place to initiate the pro-ject, which will be launched by a steering group. This group will hold its first meet-ing at the Driffield Town Council offices on Tuesday, December 13 at 7pm. The steering group is anxious for local representation and anyone interested in becoming involved should attend the meeting or contact Driffield town clerk Claire Binnington on 254160.
Neighbourhood Watch call from police Neighbourhood Watch has been commended to Skerne and Wansford villagers by police and the East Riding of Yorkshire Council. Both authorities believe that a coordinator-led village network, which is supported with infor-mation and direct links to the parish PCSO and a dedicated ERYC coordinator, brings real ad-vantages. The village go-between receives and forwards information from both authorities to fellow residents, who are encouraged to pass on information to the police of suspicious activity individually or via the coordinator.
Free street signs and stickers are supplied once a group has registered and the coordinator, who has direct contact with the community PCSO, receives crime updates from Humber-side Police, which are cascaded down, via e-mail, to other residents. Registered groups are part of larger groups. Police advise that there is no real need for regular meetings as long as information is dis-seminated within the community. If you are interested in being a coordinator, contact clerk Jill Pick on 254741 or any parish councillor.
Your kiosk needs support Wansford’s telephone kiosk is to be removed unless villagers indicate not only a distinct public wish for its retention but also a willingness to help with its ongoing maintenance—cleaning, painting, etc. For a knockdown £1 the kiosk, without telephone equip-ment, is being offered to the Skerne and Wansford Parish Council – or any interested registered charities. The move comes after BT told the East Riding of Yorkshire Council that it was considering the removal of 52 kiosks in the county because of low usage: the Wansford kiosk has been used only three times in the 12 months to October 2016. The ERYC considers that
parish councils are best placed to assess the local situation so has handed over to parishes the take it or leave it decisions. The parish council has decid-ed to reject BT’s offer unless villagers are willing to come forward with ideas for its fu-ture use and maintenance. If you have any thoughts about, and commitment to, the kiosk’s future, representations should be made to the clerk, Jill Pick, on 254741 (e-mail [email protected]) or any parish councillor by December 10 in advance of the ERYC December 16 deadline. Mini-libraries, notice-boards, Christmas tree housing and art exhibitions are just some of the innovative uses that villages
countrywide have made of redundant kiosks.
The Humber & Wolds Community Council oil-buying co-operative achieved an ex-VAT price of 34.49p per litre in October giving a dis-count of 7.77p against the highest price quot-
ed for 500 litres of oil. The next order dead-line is November 30. For details contact coordinator Billy Waites, at Skerne, tel 256520, or e-mail willam.waites @btinternet.com
The 10th annual shoebox service at Wansford Church will take place on Sun-day, November 27 at 2pm but boxes can be left from 10am to 3.30pm. The service will last about 20 minutes. More than 100 boxes were received at last year’s event. The boxes will be dis-tributed by Real Aid to Eastern European children living in extreme poverty.
