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March 2019

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Friends of St. Nicholas Church, Newington Sunday 3 March 11:30am (After the Benifice Service) Please come and make your thoughts and ideas known to the committee

Shingles replacement, an earlier Friends funded project Friends of St Nicholas Church Newington Restoring and maintaining this historic building and its grounds Charity Number 1122652

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Tuesday March 12th at 12pm Newington Village Hall Admission 40p Refreshments available In support of St. Nicholas Church, Newington 4

Next 2019 jumble sale date Tuesday May 14th

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Support your local Farmers' Markets in 2018

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District Councillor Report Cllr David Godfrey is taking a well earned holiday. His monthly report will be here again in the next edition.

If you have any photographs of the area either current or past do send them to me by email and I will feature them in future editions.

No job too small

If you just have prints do drop them into Clyme House and I will scan.

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Just click here to see all the planned bird walks

Delighted to be invited to the official opening of Lashings performed by the Mayor of Hythe, Cllr Paul Peacock. Once again Ben's innovative three sizes of meal portions was a huge success. Every success for the future.

Open Mon-Sat – Fri 8.30 – 5.00 Sun 9.30 – 4.00 30 The High Street, Hythe, Kent CT21 5AT

www.lashingscafe.com

www.facebook.com/Lashingscafe

Just show this page on your phone (or print it out) and you will get 10% off a hot meal.

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JeST a minute... the cartoon humour of John Sinclair-Thomas

See the talented John SinclairThomas' cartoons here 9

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Hythe Farmers’ Market takes place on the second and fourth Saturdays of the month

If you are an aspiring writer and would like to contribute to the Sandgate Creative Writer's Page, please contact Joe at: joe.tom277864@tiscali.co.uk telephone: 01303 489736

from 10am until 1pm. in the Methodist Church Hall, Chapel Street, Hythe, Parking is available nearby.

For more information call (01303) 266118 or 268715

The editor of The Sentinel is also responsible for sending Hythe, Newington and Sandgate related event information to the Folkestone Herald. If you have an event you wish to publicise it is needed by Tuesday at 17:00. The information should appear in the edition two weeks later although it is not guaranteed.

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Friends of St Nicholas Church Newington Restoring and maintaining this historic building and its grounds

Charity number: 1122652

Sunday 3rd March Approx. 11.15 am Annual General Meeting – tea and coffee. Please come and make your thoughts and ideas known to Committee. (Meeting is after the Benefice church service)

Sunday 3rd March Approx. 11.30 am Annual General Meeting – tea and coffee. Please come and make your thoughts and ideas known to Committee. (Meeting is after the Benefice church service, in the church) Saturday 13th April 10 am to 12.30 pm Church Yard Volunteer Work Party. Please bring gloves and tools. Tea, coffee, bacon or egg butty and cake provided.

Wednesday 24th April 7.30 pm An illustrated talk by Dr Clive Nuttman, on Nature in Nambia. The spectacular landscapes of Namibia are home to plentiful and varied wildlife; this talk introduces some of the flora and fauna, including inhabitants of the incredible Etosha National Park. Tickets £5 on the door. Raffle Saturday 11th May 10 am to 12.30 pm Church Yard Volunteer Work Party. Please bring gloves and tools. Tea, coffee, bacon or egg butty and cake provided.

Wednesday 22nd May 7.30 pm Neanderthals in the Elham Valley. An illustrated talk by Anne Beecham on a little of what we know, what we can speculate and what still remains a mystery!. Who were the people who lived here before us? What were they like? What became of them?

Tickets £5 on the door. Raffle.

Saturday 29th June 10 am to 12.30 pm Church Yard Volunteer Work Party. Please bring gloves and tools. Tea, coffee, bacon or egg butty and cake provided.

Saturday 13th July 10.30 am to 4.30 pm Folklore Festival. An All-Day Conference. Speakers are –David De Verny – Unicorns; Jeremy Harte – The Green Man; Martin Newcome – Myths & Folklore of Trees; Dr Geoff Doel – Hooden Horse of Kent. Tea/coffee & Buffet luncheon Price £20. Tickets in advance available from Greta Raja 01303 488091, Mel Wrigley 01303 237146, Cynthia Weeks 01303 262572, or Joy Millar 07842 426 751. Raffle Saturday 21st Sept 6.30 pm Fish and Chip Supper followed by card and board games.

Price £10. Tickets in advance available from Greta Raja 01303 488091, Mel Wrigley 01303 237146 or Cynthia Weeks 01303 262572. Raffle 12

Saturday 5th October 10 am to 12.30 pm Church Yard Volunteer Work Party. Please bring gloves and tools. Tea, coffee, bacon or egg butty and cake provided.

Saturday 19th Oct 3.00 pm Swing Band Concert and Cream Tea. A concert by the U3A Swing Band playing traditional jazz and songs together with a cream tea. Price ÂŁ10. Tickets in advance available from Greta Raja 01303 488091, Mel Wrigley 01303 237146 or Cynthia Weeks 01303 262572. Raffle Saturday 16th Nov 10 am to 12.30 pm Church Yard Volunteer Work Party. Please bring gloves and tools. Tea, coffee, bacon or egg butty and cake provided.

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We are having our first fundraising event on March 19th, 6.30pm - 8.30pm. Our aim is to connect to people who support charities and might be interested in our work.

After an arrival drink, we will host an auction of exciting items that relate to our work and who we are, including a best man’s speech or a eulogy; a meal in a restaurant with poetry readings between courses; a Living Words session for someone living with a dementia; and more. In addition, we’ll share more about our work, hear some of the powerful words of participants from recent nursing home projects, and a song that was featured at Queen Elizabeth Hall, South Bank.

We will announce more about the auction and programme of events closer to the day...

Contact us for more information or if you would like to attend info@livingwords.org.uk / charlotte@livingwords.org.uk The owners of The Pullman, Folkestone have kindly donated the use of their newly decorated upstairs function room for the event.

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Pilates + Methodist Church Hall, Hythe All abilities welcome, no pre-booking required

Thursday 12:00 to 1:00 07825109670

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WOW Design-led gifts and interiors 76 High Street Hythe Kent CT21 5AL

01303 265340 www.facebook.com/wowhythe From the cutting-edge London design agency Here Design - writer and poet Philip Cowell, and award-winning designer Caz Hildebrand, author of The Herbarium, this playful, original, beautifully designed book brings to life the punctuation marks we use every day, including: The dashing dash So-called "quotation marks" The colon: and on and on.

The shouty exclamation!

Kindle edition The three dots of... ÂŁ9.99 (Not forgetting the brackets) Hardback And even more 17

ÂŁ14.99 Great gift

Work Party Join us for a Church Yard Clean Up Please bring hand tools and gloves Tea, Coffee, Bacon or Egg Butty and cake provided

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From your County Councillor I’m sure everyone has noticed the big increase in road works in our district and more widely across Kent. Highways England, the Government Agency that deals with our motorways has been working for some time on the M20 to strengthen the hard shoulders and put in place the infrastructure that will allow two-way traffic on the London bound carriageway should there be disruption at the ports.

They have also been working on the A2/M2 to get that ready for Brexit as well as the contingency plans involve more use of this corridor for HGVs using Dover (good news for our area which usually takes the bulk of all the cross Channel road traffic). On top of this there is the work on the M20 for a new junction 10a at Ashford which has involved several complete closures to put the new bridges in place.

Kent County Council made a case to the Government for extra funding to strengthen Kent’s roads in advance of Brexit and have been awarded nearly £29m. In our area this is mostly being spent on the A20 which takes the majority of traffic diversion when there are problems on the motorway. We have also restarted the pothole repair programme and in December and January filled 479 potholes and patched 1460 sqm in our district. The amount spent on Kent’s roads for normal maintenance has been increasing. In 2017/18 it was £75m, this current financial year 18/19 it is £88m and we have just agreed the budget for 2019/20 of £95.7m. We are using local Kent companies for the work with Steadline being the principal contractor for our district though you will also see Walkers doing some of the extra work.

We could of course do with even more money for Kent’s road network but most of KCC’s budget is spent on social care and pays for nursing, residential or at home care for those unable to meet their own costs and for child protection. We set our 21

budget for 2019/20 at an all day debate at County Hall on 14 February and you can see the webcast of this meeting (and many other official meetings) on www.kent.gov.uk We agreed to increase council tax by just under 3% for all services with an extra 2% social care levy in recognition of the increasing demand for social care. The rise enabled us to keep our discretionary services such as the ÂŁ8m subsidy to the Young Persons Travelcard and our Community Wardens.

KCC is working with other public bodies in the Kent Resilience Forum to make sure we have plans in place for disruption that may happen after Brexit and we will be keeping residents informed through our website www.kent.gov.uk and our social media accounts. I am told 300 journalists are expected in Dover for the day we leave the EU which could well alone bring a traffic jam.

Susan Carey, Member Elham Valley, Kent County Council

THE FOLKESTONE JAZZ CLUB NORTH ROAD SHORNCLIFFE FOLKESTONE CT20 3HL

Music starts @ 8pm......circa ÂŁ12 at all gigs To book seats please email Beryl the Booker at twinklewood@btinternet.com or call 01303 277175

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Nature in Namibia Illustrated Talk by Dr. Clive Nuttman

The spectacular landscapes of Namibia are home to plentiful and varied wildlife, introducing some of the flora and fauna, including the inhabitants of the Etosha National Park.

Wednesday 24 April Tickets at the door Raffle

7:30pm ÂŁ5.00

Friends of St Nicholas Church Newington Restoring and maintaining this historic building and its grounds Charity Number 1122652

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In the Church this March 2019 March 3

Benefice service.

10.00 a.m

March 10 Holy Communion.

9.00 a.m

March 17 No service.

March 24 Holy Communion.

9.00 a.m March 31 Mothers Day. 9.00 a.m. family friendly service.

For any further Church information please contact The Reverend Janet Thornby on 01303 271267 To advertise in all three of The Sentinels with circa 2300 targetted readers and growing please email me at: david@thesentinel.org.uk for a rate card.

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