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Alfreton & Villages

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Editor’s Message Christmas is over for another year and 2017 begins! It’s good to reflect on what has gone and be excited about the possibilities of what the future holds. 2016 has been a fairly historical year for everyone with Brexit and the US Presidential election, whilst this has left us all in a state of uncertainty….Richard Branson also says that there is plenty of opportunity to be found during periods of uncertainty! Lots of developments are planned in for this year, both personally and professionally. I’m hoping to make lots of changes to the magazines and I’m also in the process of making this year’s bucket list including more travelling (so keep your phone on Mandy – TC!) and probably some more adrenaline stuff but I’ll keep you posted on how it goes as I start to tick them off!

Finally, many thanks to Abbey who won the ‘Printed by Me’ competition, for writing in to let us know about how she got on and to show us her lovely products.

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Two very different books from women writers this month.

Olive Kitteridge from Elizabeth Strout, is very finely drawn, precise and concise, as perfect as a tiny piece of polished stone. It tells the tale of a retired schoolteacher, in many ways unlikeable, but with a capacity for seeing directly through to the heart of others.

It’s a brilliant bit of storytelling. Nothing much happens in any real sense, so if you’re looking for excitement, this is probably not for you, but it touches you and leaves you with a feeling that you’ve actually learned something about other human beings just by reading it. A real joy, one of those books you can imagine going back to.

The other novel is rambunctious, 700 pages long, set across several continents and centuries, and stuffed with characters, families, adventures and eco evangelism.

Barkskins, by Annie Proulx, author of Brokeback Mountain and The Shipping News, has been ten years in the writing and is a vast sprawling pile of a book.

A lot of it centres around how we treat the environment; man v nature; but the human stories woven into it are what make it so engrossing. It’s an epic ambitious book. But like all her writing it’s uncompromising and passionate – a good way to jolt us into the New Year.

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Out & About

A daily guide to some of the local clubs and groups in your area

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Tuesday (cont...)

alfreton Jog club (for those that can run for at least 30mins at a steady pace) meet at 7:10pm at Alfreton Leisure Centre. Contact Anne or Amy- alfretonjogclub@gmail.com.

Zion methodist, market street Coffee Club, 2nd & 4th Tuesday of the month, 10 – 11.30am Contact: Freda Ludlam 01773 811875

dog obedience classes Vacancies for this continuous class at Pentrich Village Hall, 7pm until 9pm. Call Margaret for more info on 07917 854486

community church, cyber café, market street Prayer Meeting, 7.30 Contact: Stuart Reynolds 07816 853551 / reynolds.stuart1@sky.com

alfreton treble clef Girls Choir Community Centre, Providence Place, off Nuttall Street, Alfreton from 7:30pm - 9pm. Members welcome from Age 11. Call Jackie on 01773 742841.

Wednesday

soroptimist International amber Valley The Women’s International Service Organisation - a global voice for women. Meets every 2nd Monday, 7-30 pm at Firs House, Firs Gardens, High St. Alfreton. Contact 01773 745082 or 748606

alfreton nursery school and children’s centre, parent & toddler drop In Alfreton Nursery School, Grange Street, Alfreton, DE55 7JA Term time - 9am - 10am - Contact Angela Stanton : 01773 520031

south normanton gardeners association Friendly group that meets on the 2nd Monday of the month at the Post Mill Centre, SN at 7:30pm. Call Nigel on 01773 811429 for more info.

watchorn tots parent and toddler group Watchorn Church, Derby Road, Alfreton. Term time - 10am 11.30am Contact Judith - 01773 526012

adult st John classes are held at Dunniclffe House, Hilcote Street, South Normanton from 18.00 - 19.30, if anyone is interested in becoming a member contact the St John Ambulance Regional Office in Chesterfield or visit the St John Ambulance website for further details.

peep 2/3’s Alfreton Children’s Centre, Grange Street, Alfreton, DE55 7JA 9.30am - 11am (term time only) Supports mums, dads and carers to create the best start for their children by making the most of everyday learning. Contact 01629 533066

e.m.J.J.a Jiu Jitsu & kobudo cub Monday at Alfreton Community Hall, Mansfield Road, Alfreton.

7.30pm -9.00pm. £5.00 per lesson. First lesson free. Contact Sensei D Kershaw on 07840 327134 or email darrenker@sky.com new toddler group Monday mornings at Church of Christ, Colledge Street, Riddings, from 10am starting on Monday 2nd November. Places may be limited, so contact Chris on 01773 779839 to register your interest. stonebroom methodist male Voice choir The Choir sings Christian music and practice is held at Stonebroom Methodist Church at 7:30pm, typically twice a month. Please contact 01773 834965 for more information.

Tuesday

alfreton wI Meet every 4th Tuesday at Wesley Methodist Church Ellesmere Avenue/Nottingham Road Alfreton DE55 7HW at 7:30pm. Contact Linda Singleton 01773 520243.

Breast feeding group Pinxton, Pinxton Youth Centre, 10-11:30am & Alfreton, Children’s Centre, 1-1:30pm, contact Katherine 07976 212652 or Sarah 07972 019345 little ones group Alfreton Children’s Centre, Grange Street, Alfreton, DE55 7JA - 1.30pm to 3pm. Contact 01629 533066 South Wingfield Youth Club Fun & activities for kids aged 6-14 at South Wingfield Social Club, 43 High Road, DE55 7LX from 7pm - 8:30pm. Contact Fred Brunton on 07855 327 165.

South Wingfield Local History Group Meet on the 2nd Tuesday every month at S.Wingfield Cricket Club, Holme Lane.

New members welcome. Visit http://swlhg.org.uk/index.html

alfreton town Juniors u14’s 7-8pm at Somerlea Park astro pitch, call Ben on 07972 927236. oakwood royal British legion Meet at the Oakwood Community Centre, 8:30- 10:30pm. All welcome for socials & branch meetings. Call 01332 679282. amber Valley chess club Meets once a month at the Community Rooms, Parks Avenue, South Wingfield. Call Paul on 01773 833007 for dates & times.

Everyone welcome, Free to non team players aVrufc senior section Training during close season takes place at Amber Valley RUFC, Lower Somercotes (opposite Pye Bridge Ind Est.) starts at 7pm - 8.30.

Contact Stuart Artliff 07966 867946 or Gareth Pilkington 07772 366157.

Baby group Held at Pinxton Nursery School, Kirkstead Road, Pinxton. NG16 6NA. 1 – 3pm, All under 1’s welcome. Call 01773 863105 for more info.

West Ashfield Inner Wheel meet on the second Wednesday of each month at Alfreton Golf Club at 7:00pm. For more information call 01773 540788 south normanton dramatic society We meet at the Post Mill Centre in South Normanton, 7:30pm until 10pm. Contact Ian at sthnormds@gmail.com or FB www.facebook.com/SNorDS for more information. e.m.J.J.a Jiu Jitsu & kobudo cub Wednesday at Alfreton Leisure Centre, Church Street, Alfreton.

7.00pm – 8.00pm. £5.00 per lesson. First lesson free. Contact Sensei D Kershaw on 07840 327134 or email darrenker@sky.com

nras chesterield (national rheumatoid arthritis society) On the 1st Tuesday of each month at 6:30pm until 8pm at Bridge Street Methodist Church, Bridge Street, Pilsley. S45 8HE.

J28, the common Parent & Toddlers 9.30 – 11.30am. £1.50 per session, term time only Wednesday Club 6.30 – 7.30 pm School Years 1-5, term time only Contact: 01773 810410 / j28church@btconnect.com / www. thejunction28church.com

J28, the common Contact 01773 810410 / j28church@ btconnect.com / www.thejunction28church.com Parent & Toddlers 9.30 – 11.30am. £1.50 per session, term time only.

salvation army, market street Wednesday Night Fellowship @ 7pm Contact Ruth Sheppard 07855 455093 / Joan Mellors 01773 783386

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top tots Alfreton Children’s Centre, Grange Street, Alfreton, DE55 7JA. 1.30pm - 3pm. Fun play session with arts, crafts and song time aimed at children ages 1-3 years. Contact - 01629 533066 child Health clinic Alfreton Children’s Centre, Grange Street, Alfreton, DE55 7JA. 1pm - 2.30pm. Come and have your baby weighed and see someone from the health team. Contact - 01629 533066 Breastfeeding group The Hub, Shiners Way, South Normanton, DE55 2AA. 2pm 4pm. Make new friends, share tips and discuss any issues you may have. Contact - 01629 533735. alfreton society of painters 7pm- 9pm at Pennytown Court Community Rooms. Visit www.alfretonsocietyofpainters.com for more info. alfreton & district u3a Meet every second Thursday of each month at Christ the King Church Hall, Nottingham Road, Alfreton at 2pm. Contact Gill on 01773 608863, email gilldawe.egd@gmail.com alfreton male Voice choir rehearsals 6:45pm at Palmer Morewood Social Club, Hall Street. New members welcome- no audition, just a love of singing. 01773 833391 ripley poetry reading group Meet at Ripley Library, Grosvenor road,2nd and 4th Thursdays of each month, 2pm to 4pm. Contact Janet Dawson, 01773 513247, for further details. salvation army, market street Drop-in Centre / Café 9.30 – 12.30.

Contact Ruth Sheppard 07855 455093 / Joan Mellors 01773 783386 Zion methodist, market street Youth Club for ages 5-11 @6.30pm.

Contact: Freda Ludlam 01773 811875 J28, the common, Platinum Seniors, 1st Thursday of the month Contact: 01773 810410 / j28church@btconnect.com www.thejunction28church.com newton toddler group, 1pm until 3pm (term time only) in Newton Community Centre. Contact Kathryn on 01773 872031 for more information.

Saturday (cont...) st michael & all angels, church street Coffee Morning. 1st Saturday of the month 10-12noon in the main church building. Contact Stephen Potter: 01773 811273 / stephen.potter55@gmail.com

Sunday

table top sales on the 4th September, 2nd of October, 6 th November & 4th December. At the Riddings Park Community Centre. West St. Riddings DE55 4EW. All starting at 10am until 12.o clock. entrance 20p. Sellers from 9am. at £5 a table to book Ring PAT on 01773 541794 greenwood archery Meet at Swanwick Pentrich Road Football Club on High@ield Road at 10am. Call Simone on 01773 602605 for more details. amber Valley Junior rugby Coaching for kids from 4yrs to 16yrs at Lower Somercotes (opposite Pye Bridge Ind Est). Sundays 10am. Contact Stuart 07966 867946 or Gareth 07595 520537. alfreton Heritage trust The Heritage Chapel on Rodgers Lane is open between 2 & 4pm. Visitors are welcome to browse & test the knowledge of Trust members. Contact Rachel Walker on 01773 832349 or visit www.alfretonheritage.org.uk st michael & all angels, church street Café Church in the church hall @ 10.30am Traditional service @ 4.30pm in the main church building First Sunday of the month @ 9.15am Holy Communion.

Contact: Stephen Potter 01773 811273 / stephen.potter55@gmail.com Zion methodist, market street Morning Worship @ 10.45am Contact: Freda Ludlam 01773 811875 J28, the common Morning Service @ 11am with ‘Energise’ children’s club Evening Service @6pm Contact: 01773 810410 / j28church@btconnect.com / www.thejunction28church.com

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salvation army, market street Sunday Worship @ 10.30am followed by refreshments in the Drop-in Centre / Café Contact: Ruth Sheppard 07855 455093 / Joan Mellors 01773 783386

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Contact Angela Stanton 01773 520031 tiddlers and toddlers group Alfreton Children’s Centre, Grange Street, Alfreton, DE55 7JA. 12.30pm - 2.30pm. Run by parents and open to all.

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Rambles with Rafa This month we complete our Homesford tearooms double with another short but sweet walk beginning at the tearooms car park. As I suggested last month it is possible to join these two walks up if you like a bit more of a leg stretch or even split them up with trip to the tearooms in between, making use of the voucher on page 14. Thanks again to David Hallam who continues to provide the best local walks to our lucky readers. Rafa is firing on all cylinders again so get ready for more great walks in 2017.

Speaking of which if you have any suggestions where Rafa should ramble to next please send them in as David is always looking for good ideas.

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13. Continue along this path crossing over a river bridge, down some steps, and then underneath a railway bridge. Follow the tarmac lane back to the main road and then turn right along the road back to the tea rooms.

This walk is for illustrative purposes only. Voice Magazines takes no responsibility for anyone who chooses to follow this route and encourages all walkers to obey all byelaws and signs and to respect the area they are walking in, ensuring they pick up all dog mess and obey the countryside code at all times.

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Cooper’s Corner Follow Barry on Twitter @bazdjcooper Nottingham Forest writer at the Nottingham Post We all want success but must it come at such a high price? That’s the issue that Barry tackles this month with his take on football ticket prices. Should fans pay for success before it arrives or do clubs have to earn the right to charge the higher prices? And should fans even have to pay such high prices at all with the amount of money with the amount of money from televising games. I’ll leave you in Barry’s capable hands…

FOOTBALL has a problem.

OK, I’ll rephrase that: football has a number of problems and many are well documented. But reading recent comments made by the chief executive at Sheffield Wednesday sparked a degree of anger, and not for the first time this season.

On Boxing Day, the Reds visited Huddersfield Town and, despite recent praise for the Terriers and their “low prices” for home fans, Reds were still expected to pay £30. £30 at Huddersfield – yes, you’ve read that correctly. That’s as much as it costs to watch a game in the Premier League. How can that be right?

There is one thing in particular that is incredibly frustrating, and that’s the continued rise of ticket prices, especially in the Championship. Joe Palmer, the CEO at Hillsborough, scoffed without a care in the world, that if fans want their club to challenge for promotion to the Premier League, they should expect to pay for it with increased ticket prices.

Well, Joe, this, as you rightly point out, is the Championship. But for the game against Forest in September, you were charging some fans £43 and there is no justification for that. And before the Wednesday fans start whining again, I know that was a match-day price for more desirable seats – but that doesn’t make it right.

There are few subjects that anger supporters quite like the cost of the product and Forest are suffering like any other. Just over 21,000 were there last month to see Philippe Montanier’s side beat Newcastle, and that attendance was boosted by the two previous wins at Ipswich and Barnsley.

Had Forest not won those two games, then the crowd may not have exceeded 18,000, which for a clash against a big name in the Championship, is disappointing.

Forest’s £27 adult price wasn’t too bad for a game on television. It’s not great, but it’s a darn sight less than £32.50 at Ipswich, £30 at Barnsley (when it was £15 for home fans) and £29 at Derby in the big East Midlands clash. The game at Portman Road was watched by a measly crowd of just over 15,000.

Well, that was the official attendance – I’d be amazed if there were that many actually inside the stadium.

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Part of Forest’s problem is that the club has been away from the Premier League for nearly 20 years, and that’s bound to have an effect. The continuing ownership problems will also have an impact, but I don’t believe thousands are staying away because of Fawaz Al Hasawi. Maybe I’m wrong, but I’d be amazed if there was an extra 3,000 or 4,000 following the takeover.

The more fans I speak to, the more say there are disenchanted with the game, with the greed, with the cost, along with a lack of progress – and that’s why they are not going. Quite frankly, the prices being charged by clubs are daylight robbery. And if Mr Palmer thinks fans will just keep paying it out of blind loyalty; he might have a little shock coming his way. There is a tipping point, and it won’t be too far away. Attendances across the Championship are dropping, as they are elsewhere but, until the Football League stops burying its head in the sand, nothing will change.

The Twenty’s Plenty campaign is great, but primarily focuses on the Premier League and, as more and more foreign owners come into the game chasing the riches of the top flight, it will be as Mr Palmer says, be the fans that are expected to foot the bill without much thought from officials. But it must be the Football League who have to develop a degree of courage and stop the great and greedy rip-off.

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Gary’s Grumbles In the future, alongside the names of Edgar Cayce, Nostradamus and Mother Shipton they will print the name Gary Peacock, that’s my prediction at least, and you heard it here first! Based on the last year I’m not so sure I want to know the future even if I could, as one sage once said: ‘The future isn’t what it used to be’.

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Happy January everyone and I hope you had a jovial Christmas. A couple of years ago I made some new year Nostradamus type predictions for the coming year and I got eleven out of twelve correct so I thought I’d give it another go.

July – The Lions beat New Zealand 2-1 but are taken hostage by the Samoan Republican Army who are looking to gain independence from the invading refugee European zombies made homeless by the nukes on France.

January – Deep in the Trump bunker, just ten minutes after the inauguration the new President presses the button and obliterates Mexico, China and France, luckily for us the westerly winds take the fallout over Italy, Greece and the Middle East.

August – The Government discovers that Alfreton is not on the coast and is, therefore, not much use as the port for a shipping canal, oil drops to $23 a barrel and they decide to go with HS2 again. Sooty is released with all charges dropped. Sweep and Soo are given life.

February – The Daily Mail reports that after Prince Harry’s intended takes a DNA test, its discovered that she is in fact the secret love child of Princess Diana and Harry’s father. The marriage goes ahead with full Royal pomp and ceremony.

March – Russia invades Scotland and sets up new customs posts on Hadrian’s Wall. The locals make a killing swapping Levis and Beatles CD’s for Kalashnikovs.

April – Sooty, Sweep and Soo are arrested in a new child abuse scandal. Trump passes legislation, incarcerating anyone with a beard or tattoo. Anyone with both is sent to the Russian – German no fly zone to repaint the borders.

May – Oil reaches $10,000 a barrel and so HS2 is scrapped, the new plan is to build a ship canal from London to Alfreton. Leicester win the champion’s league, Chelsea the League and Sheffield Wednesday beat Derby County in the championship play off final.

June – Teresa May is caught up in a bizarre love triangle with Trump and Putin and is given two weeks to decide which one of their babies she should have.

September – The nuclear winter begins and Mandy from the Steampacket has to put on an extra jumper.

A concrete wall is proposed along the east coast stretching from Sunderland to Brighton to keep out the zombies and the channel tunnel is filled in on the French side.

October – Bonfire night is cancelled by the new Trump-Putin world alliance, Christmas is also in doubt unless the name is changed to mid-winter gift giving day.

November – Nicola Sturgeon states that the Russian invasion of her country was not democratic and that they should go back to where they came. The BBC suggest a second European referendum, which is ruined by ITV and Sky who explain that there isn’t any Europe left to leave.

December – Nicola Sturgeon is shot in mysterious circumstances, chief inspector Yuri Karakin of the Scottish KGB promised a full investigation. Cliff Richard is set to perform a Christmas concert in Trump Tower.

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