The Grapevine SEAMER & TAME BRIDGE MAGAZINE
No. 144 April – May 2017
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EDITOR’S NOTES I would like to thank Margaret Smith for yet another wonderful cover picture for Grapevine. She has being doing them for 10 years and they always give such a great Introduction to the Magazine. Lots going on in April with Eastertime and lots of Community Information in this edition so have a good read. Our next edition will cover June and July and any contributions should be with me by Sunday May 28th. Thanks. Dave Campy
ST. MARTIN’S CHURCH Eucharist at 11.15am April 2nd - Revd Alison Hutchinson April 16th - EASTER DAY Revd Paul Hutchinson April 30th - Revd Jon Dean May 14th only - Revd Paul Hutchinson * Note change of pattern for May. Normal pattern (1st, 3rd & 5th Sundays of the month) resumes in June with June 4th PENTECOST - Revd Paul Hutchinson Other important dates April 23rd : Parish AGM during the 9.30 service at Stokesley April 28th - Coffee Morning at Stokesley (see advert below)
We hope you will come and join us at St Martin’s Church Coffee Morning
With Cake stall and Tombola
Stokesley Town Hall Friday 28th April 9.00 — 11.45 Offers of help/contributions, please contact: Jean Webster 710088 Ann Startin 710162 2
May 19th-21st - Flower Festival at Stokesley Parish Church. Preview on 19th, from 7-10 pm features Northallerton Handball Ringers (Cost £10 including refreshments),. Saturday from 10am -5pm. Sunday from 10am - 4pm, finishing at 4pm with Songs of Praise. Thursday 25th May - Ascension Day: 7.30pm Sung Eucharist at SEAMER June 2nd - Stokesley Parish Church Coffee morning in Town Hall from 09.00. Revd Paul Hutchinson
WHEELS 2 WORK Problems travelling to work, training or education? We have the answer – Wheels 2 Work (a not for profit charity) has a fleet of mopeds for loan. Since its launch in 2001 hundreds of local people have benefitted from the scheme. Successful candidates will receive a moped, safety equipment, insurance, tax and bike servicing for a small weekly contribution. To be eligible for the scheme you must: Live in North Yorkshire Be 16 or over Have no suitable transport to travel to work, training or education Hold a provisional licence For more information and to apply online, visit www.hambletoncommunityaction.org or telephone Andy Reddick 01609 780458 Ext 209.
VILLAGE HALL NEWS AND EVENTS GARDEN CLUB (GREENFINGERS) For more details Contact Angela Forrest 07891097649. ART GROUP For more information contact Margaret Smith 01642710611 CRAFT CLUB (Monday 7.00pm) Extra members are always welcome to join us in an informal get together whilst doing your own craftwork. Time for the sharing of ideas and talent. Just come along to the sessions. BOOK CLUB
Meeting every 4th Tuesday of the month. 7.30-9.00 pm. Cost £2.50 to include refreshments. We are hoping to attract more members to join this friendly, interesting group. Everyone is welcome; you don`t need any qualifications! Contact Ann Thomas at catcabcam@gmail.com. 3
LEARN TO …..“USE A SEWING MACHINE.” We enjoyed helping attendees over 4 weeks and were greatly appreciated, although we had a poor response. Thanks go to Dianne Cutler and Gill Burton for all their help . We hope to do a 4 week “Learn To Knit” - Watch out for details
Ann Thomas RECYCLE FOR CHARITY Thank you to everyone who donated their stamps for recycling. This time the stamps went to RSPCA, next time to Great Ormond Street. Please continue to save them and leave them either in the Village Hall (in a tin on top of the bookcase) or at 21,The Green. Ann Thomas
EASTER RAFFLE Gill Burton has been doing a great job knitting beautiful Easter chicks, rabbits and lambs for our raffle prizes display in the Village Hall which look fantastic, with lots of chocolate included. (See Pictures below.) She has also been collecting other prizes around the village. There is still time to buy some tickets in the hall and the money raised will go towards our Easter Fun afternoon, Saturday 1st April (see below). The raffle will be drawn at 3.30 pm but come along at 2.00pm and you can join in with the fun.
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HALL TIMETABLE Monday
Pop-In
Tuesday
Carpet Bowls
10.00am
Art Group
Craft Club
1.30pm
7.00pm
Pilates Class
6.00-7.00pm
10.00am
Hall Committee meeting
(1st Tuesday in month) Greenfingers
7.00pm (2nd Tuesday)
Seamer Parish Council
(3rd Tuesday) Book Club
7.30—9.00 (4th Tuesday) Wednesday
Table Tennis
Thursday
Zumba Class
7.00pm
5.40-6.40pm
Bridge Group
7.00pm Friday
Seamer Choral Society
1st Friday in month at 7.00pm
SEAMER VILLAGE HALL 100+ CLUB February winners were: (140 members) 1st £20 68 Santa Putz, Croft Hills 2nd £17 102 David Ward, The Green 3rd £14 21 Marjorie Burn, Stainton Road 4th £11 78 Nick Walton, Stainton Road 5th £ 8 56 Janet Readman, Nunthorpe March winners were (140) 1st £20 51 Odette Price, Hilton Road 2nd £17 25 Philip Taylor, Leconfield 3rd £14 9 Trevor Bollands, Leconfield 4th £11 113 Peter Hall, Tanton Close 5th £ 8 106 Michael Driscoll, The Green For those members who joined last April/May, this means that you are due to join again. If you wish to do so, please get in touch with me on 01642 710294 or by email on chris_cooper1@hotmail.com 5
If you are new to the area and would like to become a member, you can do so at any time. It costs £1 per month/£12 for the year for which you are allocated a number. Each month half the monthly money is given out as prize money and the other half goes to the village hall funds. I look forward to hearing from you. Christine Cooper
FORTHCOMING EVENTS SEAMER MEMORIAL HALL COMMITTEE AGM Tuesday 2nd May 7.30pm Items for the agenda to Christine Campy please. Please consider if you can give a few hours to help with the running of the Hall as many of the existing helpers are looking for a break! People are needed for : Hall Committee Chairperson Treasurer Booking Secretary Overseeing the heating requirements (urgently required) Also if you would like to organise an event please get in touch Christine Campy: 01642 710320 or email: Christine.campy@hotmail.co.uk
JUMBLE SALE
2pm Saturday 29th April
Come and bag yourself a bargain, doors open at 2pm. Appeal: there is no jumble sale without you. Please donate all your unwanted clothes, bric-a-brac, furniture, toys and anything the spring clean de-clutter throws up Donations can be left in the Hall up to a fortnight before the event and we will be using one of the toilets for storage again. If anyone needs me to open up or help lifting anything please get in touch. Thank you as always. Jo Batey 01642 713143 6
QUIZ
Sue and Jim's ever popular Quiz is to be held on the 13th of May, in the Village Hall at 7 o'clock. The cost is ÂŁ7 which includes Supper, but please bring your own drinks. Further details are available by contacting: Christine Cooper (710294), Kay Rees, Joan Barnes or any Village Hall committee members.
KEEP THE DATE
Magic Night with Middlesbrough Magic Circle Friday October 7th Seamer Village Hall (Further details nearer the date)
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COMMUNITY SPEED WATCH UPDATE For many years Seamer Parish Council have tried to address residents’ concerns over vehicles speeding through the village. Now, North Yorkshire Police have introduced the Community Speed Watch scheme which allows residents to monitor vehicle speeds through their villages. The Parish Council have joined the scheme in another attempt to address the perceived problem of speeding vehicles. Training for volunteers has started and should be completed in the next few weeks. The first location for CSW will be on Hilton Road which has been assessed as a safe and suitable location. Other locations highlighted as having problems, The Green, Seamer and Stokesley Road in Tame Bridge do not have the amount of required data to be part of the scheme at present. At our request, the police will be deployed over the next few months in these locations to monitor the traffic. Residents can help by complaining about speeding vehicles via the Parish Council. The complaints will be forwarded to the CSW coordinator at North Yorkshire police. A handheld speed gun, similar to those used by the police will be used to monitor the speed of vehicles and those travelling at 35mph and above will be reported. There will be three outcomes for drivers noted exceeding this limit: 1. A letter informing them that the speed limit has been breached and suitable advice given. 2. For being caught again, a more strongly worded letter stating that more serious consequences will ensue should there be further breaches of the speed limit. 7
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Should further speeding breaches occur, a visit by the police to the driver’s home address and possible legal action might follow.
Please note, that once a vehicle is on the police’s system, a speed limit breach anywhere in North Yorkshire could result in outcomes 2 or 3 above. You are urged to support this initiative which we hope will help address the longstanding problem of vehicles exceeding the speed limit through the village. Should any resident wish to volunteer to assist with the CSW then please contact the Parish Council.
Phil Taylor email : scapa20@hotmail.com
THE GLOBE (Community Library@Stokesley) Stokesley Parish Council have now taken over the running and financing of the library from North Yorkshire County Council with the help of an employed professional librarian to support the many trained volunteers. Seamer Parish Council are supporting this community initiative and would urge Seamer residents to make use of this valuable facility. The Parish Council have donated £500 from the Community Fund to assist with start- up costs which I am certain will be overwhelmingly supported by residents. Further funding is a levy of 2% of the precept, which has been agreed by most village parish councils surrounding Stokesley. For Seamer this amount is about £80. Please give them your support. The Globe’s normal opening hours will be: Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays — 2pm - 5pm Fridays — 10am - 4pm Saturdays — 9:30am - 1:30 pm
SEAMER VILLAGE POND Probably everyone has seen by now that we have already launched one of our new executive nesting houses . There has already been a very gracious offer of another two houses for next spring. In the meantime, let's just hope the wildlife take to their upgraded accommodation. Also, keep a look out, we should be getting sight of some of the Aquatic plants that were planted last year. Cheers. Gill Burton
DEFIBRILLATOR FOR SEAMER A Defibrillator can save lives and we will soon have one in Seamer outside the Village Hall paid from the Seamer Windfarm Community Fund. It will be quite simple to use but very effective in saving lives prior to an ambulance arriving. 8
In an emergency the user must first dial 999. The operator will then give advice on whether it is needed and then, if required, provide the code to unlock the cabinet. The defibrillator machine, and with the help of the 999 operator, will guide the user through the procedure. Let’s hope, however, we never need to use it!! Christine Campy
SEAMER METHODIST CHURCH EASTER SUNDAY If you look at the times of worship below you will observe that our Easter Sunday Worship is at 9am that week. This enables our minister Rev Lisa Quarmby to fit in three services that day. Easter is one of the most significant days in the whole of the Christian calendar. It is the day that celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. Good Friday marks the day of the crucifixion of Jesus, following which the body of Jesus was placed in a tomb. Three days later visitors to the burial place realised that something miraculous had happened. In 1965 a pop group - The Animals - sang ‘We gotta get out of this place.., there’s a better life’. Christians believe that Jesus broke out of the tomb to release everyone into a new way of living. One of the promises that Jesus made was ‘I have come to bring life, and life in all its fullness’. Sometimes, in our lives, we feel that we need to break out of ‘tombs’ that appear to confine us. Some of these include circumstances, prejudices, fears, doubts, uncertainties, addictions, broken relationships, to name but a few. The risen Jesus promises to be with us in all of life’s circumstances. The promise is not always that these issues will go away but that we have a risen Saviour in Jesus with us no matter what life throws at us be it good, bad or ugly. May the Risen Jesus bring real hope into our lives this Eastertide. TIMES OF WORSHIP 02/04/2017 @ 10.30 am led by Tim and Molly Locke 09/04/2017 @ 10.30 am ALL AGE WORSHIP led by Rev Andrew Robinson 16/04/2017 @ 9.00 am EASTER SUNDAY led by Rev Lisa Quarmby 23/04/2017 @ 10.30 am Led by Katherine Atha 30/04/2017 @ 10.30 am led by Peter Jackson 07/05/2017 @ 10.30 am led by Vanessa Johnson 14/05/2017 @ 10.30 am ALL AGE WORSHIP led by Rev Lisa Quarmby 21/05/2017 @ 10.30 am led by Ken Hudson 28/05/2017 @ 10.30 am led by Rev Trevor Haigh TIME FOR A SMILE So I was getting into my car, and this bloke says to me, ‘Can you give me a 9
lift?’ I said, ‘Sure – you look great, the worlds your oyster, go for it.’ (Tommy Cooper) THOUGHT FOR THE MONTH See God’s salvation plan, wrought in love, borne in pain, paid in sacrifice, filled in Christ the Man, for he lives: Christ is risen from the dead! A happy Easter to all. Christ is risen; Alleluia
Ron Kirk
TIME FOR A LAUGH The following are examples of text actually typed by Medical Secretaries in the NHS 1. The patient has no previous history of suicides. 2. Patient’s medical history has been remarkably insignificant with only a 40 pound weight gain in the last three days. 3. She has no rigors or shaking chills, but her husband stated she was very hot in bed last night. 4. Patient has chest pain if she lies on her side for over a year. 5. 6.
On the second day the knee was better and on the third day it disappeared. The patient is tearful and crying constantly. She also appears to be depressed.
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Discharge status: Alive, but without my permission.
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Healthy appearing ,decrepit 69 year old male. Mentally alert but forgetful.
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She is numb from her toes down. Patient had waffles for breakfast and anorexia for lunch.
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While in A&E she was examined, x-rated and sent home.
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The skin was moist and dry.
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Occasional, constant infrequent headaches.
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Rectal examination revealed a normal sized thyroid. She stated that she had been constipated for most of her life until she got a divorce.
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The lab test indicated abnormal lover function.
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Patient has two teenage children but no other abnormalities. 10
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When she fainted, her eyes rolled around the room.
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Between you and me, we should be able to get the patient pregnant. By the time the patient was admitted, his rapid heart had stopped and he was feeling much better. The patient was to have a bowel resection . However, he took a job as a stockbroker instead. The patient was in his usual good health until his aeroplane ran out of fuel and crashed.
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GRAPEVINE CONTACTS Magazine Layout and Editor David Campy, 5a Holme Lane, Seamer E mail: david.campy123@btinternet.com Illustrations Margaret Smith, 4 Bracken Hill Walk, Seamer Distribution Derek Winterbotham, Kingsbridge, Hilton Rd. Seamer St Martin’s Rev Paul Hutchinson, The Rectory, Stokesley Methodist Church Ron Kirk, 2 Rosehill, Great Ayton Seamer Village Hall Bookings: Christine Campy General : Christine Campy (Temporarily) Email : christine.campy@hotmail.co.uk Village News and Events Christine Campy/Ann Thomas Seamer Parish Council E-Mail: scapa20@hotmail.com Seamer Correspondent for Darlington and Stockton Times Christine Cooper ooooOOOOoooo
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LABMAN IS RECRUITING NEW TALENT As many readers know I work for Labman the highly successful engineering company situated on Seamer Hill. From here we design and build custom robotics and automation for companies around the globe. Solving problems, transforming processes, challenging ideas and pushing creativity as we strive to meet the precise needs of each customer: simple weighing system to a complex bumble-bee flight simulator (which yes we’ve made!). As you pass you will likely notice the expansion of our premises which is driven by a healthy order book. That means we need new people to enhance our business; engineers through to likeminded and skilful people. It’s a great place to work, fun plays a big part in our spirit and success and leads to the innovation which is at the heart of what we are about. Interested yourself or if can mention us to someone who will be ideal, then please email CV and covering email explaining why to me at jbatey@labman.co.uk and I will certainly pass on the details. Jo Batey
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