The Grapevine SEAMER & TAME BRIDGE MAGAZINE
No. 151 June - July 2018
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EDITOR’S NOTES What a wonderful display of flowers we have had in the village. The daffs and crocuses made the village look a bright and welcoming sight in Spring. Thanks to the Parish Council and their helpers, especially Phil Taylor, who put the hard work into planting them! This edition is the usual mix of articles but less than normal probably because the run up to summer holidays has begun and there is less activity. Grapevine relies upon articles and events being submitted to me so that I can put the Magazine together. I would welcome any article about anything (subject to being non-offensive) so please feel free to submit them. The next Magazine will cover August and September (holiday season - maybe an article about where you have been) and closing date for submission is Friday 27th July. Thanks Dave Campy
ST. MARTIN’S CHURCH Eucharist at 11.15am 3rd and 17th June 1st, 15th and 29th July COFFEE MORNING - 27th April - This raised a total of £415.70. Thanks to all who helped and supported this.
Ann Startin EVENTS TRESKE ENSEMBLE - Saturday 23rd June in Stokesley Church 7.30 pm. SUMMER GARDEN PARTY - Saturday 30th June, Manor Farm, Manor Close, Stokesley, 3.00 – 5.00 pm. Tickets Adults £5, under 16 £3.00 From Anne Bryant, 01642 712039 THREE INCH FOOLS - Tuesday 3rd July, performing a Midsummer Night’s Dream in Stokesley Church, 7.00 pm. Tickets will be £14 adults, £10 under 18s. For further details contact Paul Hutchinson, 01642710405
VILLAGE HALL NEWS AND EVENTS POP IN Everyone is welcome to this informal fun get together on a Monday morning between 10 – 12 with a chance to meet fellow residents and have a chat over Tea/Coffee and a scone. Come for as long as you wish. Janet 2
GARDEN CLUB (GREENFINGERS) For more details Contact Angela Forrest 07891097649. ART & CRAFT GROUP Monday afternoon 1.30-3.30. Contact Margaret Smith 01642710611 SEAMER BOOK CLUB Meets once a month in the village hall. The meetings will now start at 8 pm until 9:30 pm. We are a small but friendly group who meet over a glass of wine or soft drink to discuss a book we have read the previous month. There is a small charge of £2.50 to cover the use of the hall and refreshments. We choose the book together, then have a month to read it. We would welcome new members. Feel free to contact Lynn Clayton at richard.lynn.clayton@hotmail.co.uk or 07763633717 if you would like more information. Next meeting dates are Tuesday 26th June 8pm-9.30pm Tuesday 24th July 8pm-9.30pm Lynn Clayton ZUMBA Every Thursday 5.45 to 6.40 Everyone is welcome to come and join us in the village hall for a Zumba and toning class. Any age, it's a great way to keep fit and it's good fun. Joan Barnes KNIT AND NATTER POPPIES Come along on MONDAY nights at 7pm to our Knit and Natter Group Ann Thomas
SING A LONG There will be no Sing a Long in June or July due to holidays and other commitments. Jo Batey 07759 531050 JUMBLE SALE 2018 REVIEW Another great success generating £541.45 for our Village Hall: £434 on the day, £51 from Ebay and £48 from rags. To date the jumble sales have raised £4,050.45!!! 3
The event was its usual mix of graft, pleasure, fun (yes, I hold photographic evidence - Ann and Eunice - haha), meeting up with what are now our regulars, alongside seeing new faces generated from a wider marketing approach this time. The cooperation was wonderful: sellers, café, Johnny from the YMCA (thrilled with our leftovers and who arrived exactly when he said on Monday), bag2school - who collected the rags on Wednesday and my lovely husband who drove the county collecting donations in his trailer. Ray also reconditioned 2 donations to make them saleable which was worth £66. Not forgetting of course everyone who so generously donated, without you there is no sale. Thank you Jo Batey 07759 531050 HALL TIMETABLE Monday
Pop-In
Tuesday
Carpet Bowls
10.00am
Art and Crafts
1.30pm
Knit and Natter
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
5.45-6.40pm
Bridge Group
7.00pm Friday
Seamer Choral Society
1st Friday in month at 7.00pm
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SEAMER VILLAGE HALL 100+ CLUB April winners were: (140 members) 1st £20 9 Trevor Bollands, Leconfield 2nd £17 139 Andrew Branch, Hilton Road 3rd £14 77 Margaret Grimston, Stokesley 4th £11 54 Kathy Mark, Tame Bridge 5th £ 8 146 Janet Bainbridge, The Green Due to the May Bank Holiday, this month's draw will be drawn late and the results included in the next Grapevine. For those members who joined last June/July, 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 e-mail on chris_cooper1@hotmail.com
To help me to remind you when your renewal fees are due, could you please let me have your email address or telephone number. This is easier than having to come and see you. 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
SEAMER METHODIST CHURCH THE EMPEROR’S NEW CLOTHES I am sure that you will all know this story by Hans Christian Anderson. The story, of course, turns on the fact that people are unwilling to appear foolish. So, in the story we see people pretending to see invisible clothes. Eventually it is a young boy who exposes the truth of the situation. A phrase I used to hear went like this – ‘Out of the mouths of babes and suckling’s’. How often do we see an injustice and keep quiet? How often do we see someone in difficulty or trouble and we walk on by? How often do we hear a conversation that is insulting and say nothing.? 5
Young children, in my experience, are very good at spotting injustice, seeing someone in difficulties and knowing when someone is using inappropriate language. Even people who are not Christian know what a Good Samaritan is. Sometimes it is youngsters or a complete stranger that puts us to shame. TIMES OF WORSHIP June 3rd @ 10.30am led by Christine Campy June 10th @ 10.30am All Age Worship led by Arthur Noble June 17th @ 10.30am led by Ken Hudson June 24th @ 10.30am led by Rev Lisa Quarmby st July 1 @ 10.30am led by Lorna and Robin Atkinson July 8th @ 10.30am All Age Worship led by Ron Kirk July 15th @ 10.30am led by Elaine Wilson July 22nd @ 10.20am led by Katherine Atha July 29th @ 10.30am led by Rev Ruth Gee TIME FOR A SMILE This is the season for exams so: There was a maiden at college, Miss Breeze, Weighed down by BA’s and LitDs Who collapsed from the strain. Said her doctor, ‘It’s plain – Your killing yourself by degrees.’ THOUGHT FOR THE MONTH May we see clearly and put our thoughts and beliefs into practice. To be a Good Samaritan takes time and commitment. May we find time and commitment to help build a better world. Ron Kirk
COMMUNITY SPEED WATCH The monitoring and recording of excess speed through the village continues and now the longer (and hopefully warmer) days are with us we would like to expand the number of watches we do. To enable this we would like more volunteers. The watches are 45 mins to 1 hour long, at times to suit your availability. They comprise of the measuring of vehicle speed (using a speed gun - simple training given) and the recording of any speeding vehicle's registration number, make, model, 6
and colour. Teams of 4 are used and rotation of job role is undertaken as required and members support one another in their role. As well as supporting your community it is a good chance to meet and chat to other village members. Please contact Phil Taylor at scapa20@hotmail.com or Dave Campy on 01642 710320
VILLAGE ‘GATEWAY’ SIGNS On the advice of the North Yorkshire County Council Highways & Safety Officer, the Parish Council has purchased three signs similar to the design shown which will be erected in the village in the near future. The signs will include a 30mph speed limit symbol. Research has shown that village gateways reduce vehicle speeds by up to 5mph. Look out for future notices in the Grapevine, as we will be inviting residents to design a village ‘logo’ which will also be included on the gateways. If Tame Bridge is interested in doing their own design they should contact the Parish Council and will need someone to organise it. Parish Council (scapa20@hotmail.com)
VISIT OF RISHI SUNAK MP TO SEAMER
This has been rearranged to June 16th from its original date cancelled due to the poor weather conditions!! You are invited to come and meet your local MP at an evening with
Rishi Sunak Saturday 16th June 6.30-8.30pm Seamer Village Hall Elected as MP for Richmond in 2015 and recently elected as UnderSecretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, Rishi will give a brief talk followed by a Question and Answer session 7
with residents. (Questions will be carried over from the original date for Rishi’s visit). An informal opportunity to speak to Mr Sunak will take place during the refreshments served afterwards. Residents wishing to attend are requested to notify either Mrs Janet Bainbridge (either at “Pop In” or at Seamer Motors) or by email to the Parish Council at scapa20@hotmail.com. We hope that residenmts will take advantage of this opportunity to come and meet our MP. Parish Council
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The quiz night on the 12 of May was once again a great success thanks to our excellent quiz masters Sue and Jim. A good time was had by all and we made £341.35 for the Village Hall funds. Thank you Christine for organising the night and can I also thank the ladies who helped me with the supper Joan Barnes
THOUGHTS FROM THE SHOWER If you attempt to rob a bank you won't have any trouble with rent/food bills for the next 10 years, whether or not you are successful. Do twins ever realize that one of them is unplanned? What if my dog only brings back my ball because he thinks I like throwing it? If poison expires, is it more poisonous or is it no longer poisonous? Which letter is silent in the word "Scent," the S or the C? Why is the letter W, in English, called double U? Shouldn't it be called double V? Maybe oxygen is slowly killing us and it just takes 75-100 years to fully work. 8
Every time you clean something, you just make something else dirty. The word "SWIMS" upside-down is still "SWIMS". Intentionally losing a game of rock, paper, scissors is just as hard as trying to win. 100 or so years ago everyone owned a horse and only the rich had cars. Today everyone has cars and only the rich own horses. Your future self is watching you right now through memories. Most of the doctors that told Stephen Hawking he had two years to live in 1953 are probably dead. If you replace "W" with "T" in "What, Where and When", you get the answer to each of them. Many animals probably need glasses, but nobody knows it. If you rip a hole in a net, there are actually fewer holes in it than there were before
JAM JARS WANTED Another year has gone by since I told you about my friend Jenny Firman who in her spare time makes jams, jellies, chutneys and pickles of every description to sell to raise money for Cancer Research UK. This is a message from Jenny: “I'm really happy to announce this year's total from the sales of preserves. I will be donating a massive £3,400 from this year's produce. This stands us at a project total to date of £22,500. Or to put it another way that's approximately 11,250 jars of preserves since I started out eight year's ago. This money will go off to Cancer Research UK to be used in Newcastle at their research facility. I would like to thank all of our customers for their support. Also, to all of the lovely people that donate produce and give their time to picking fruit etc. and those who take time out to make the produce available for people to buy. This project has grown from nothing to a 9
network of people all helping raise vital funds to help in the fight against cancer. Long may it continue!! In the meantime it's time to start again, so, anyone want any jam? There we go - cheque delivered. Here I am (2nd from right) with Stockton's mayor, the Chairperson of our fundraising committee and our fund raising manager from Cancer Research UK.. They were all pretty pleased with this year's amount. Onward and upward from here on!” To achieve this sum Jenny has required lots of jam jars and produce to fill them with. Many of you have been saving them for her and she would be grateful if you could keep on doing so. Please save any glass jars varying in size up to 1lb or 454g. As it will soon be the season for soft fruits and later on other fruits and vegetables, if you have a surplus of any produce and don’t know what to do with it, she will be glad to take it off your hands and is willing to pick it as well. The glass jars can be left at the village hall when it is open for activities or they can be left at Lowfields Farm, Stainton Road, Seamer – by the gates, or you can contact Jenny and she will collect them and/or any produce from you. If you would like to see what she makes and wish to place an order, or if you have an outlet where you could sell her preserves, look on her Facebook page. Her details are: Jenny Firman Phone: 01642 723934 / 07725207515 Facebook: easby charity preserves e-mail: easbycharitypreserves@yahoo.co.uk
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With your help I hope she will be able to raise a lot more money for this very deserving charity. Many thanks Christine Cooper 01642 710294
N. YORKSHIRE COMMUNITY MESSAGING WI-FI HOTSPOTS Publicly available Wi-Fi connections or 'hot-spots' are great for accessing the internet when you are not at home or work. However, not all Wi-Fi connections are secure and they can be used by cyber criminals to intercept your data. If you connect to a publicly available Wi-Fi you don't know who else is on the network. Your data could be intercepted. To protect yourself : Don't use public Wi-Fi for online banking, accessing e-mails or anything involving sensitive information. When doing this in public use your 3G, 4G or 5G connection. Data passed over these connections is always encrypted. Make sure you are connecting to a trusted Wi-Fi hotspot, operated by the venue you are at. Ask staff if in any doubt. Use a Virtual Private Network (VPN) when connecting to public Wi-Fi. All your data will be encrypted and so if it is intercepted it won’t be readable. VPNs can be downloaded onto devices as an app. LIFESTYLE CHALLENGE 2018!! A summer holiday challenge to inspire young people and help give them something back to their communities. For more information visit... https://northyorkshire.police.uk/what-we-do/public-campaigns/lifestyle/ GOOD NEWS NYP have been widely publicising a current "bogus police fraud" and appealing to the public to spread the word. We are pleased to say that in May, 6 such frauds were stopped. Operating a fraud prevention scheme aimed at identifying and protecting potential fraud victims when they visit a bank or building society branch prevented £48,500 ending up in criminal hands in North Yorkshire in just over 24 hours . Rolled-out nationally in the middle of 2017, the Banking Protocol enables 11
bank staff to contact police if they suspect a customer is in the process of being scammed, with an immediate priority response to the branch. Investigations are still ongoing to catch those responsible for the offences. If you are or if you believe you have been a victim of fraud, call North Yorkshire Police on 101 or report it to Action Fraud by visiting www.actionfraud.police.uk or by calling 0300 123 2040. In an emergency or if a crime is in action dial 999. If you have any information regarding those responsible for such crimes, please contact Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111 or visit www.crimestoppers-uk.org
GRAPEVINE CONTACTS All numbers are prefixed with 01642 Magazine Layout, Editor, Printer and Distribution Coordinator David Campy, 5a Holme Lane, Seamer E mail: david.campy123@btinternet.com Illustrations Front Cover: Anne Clements, Tame Bridge St Martin’s Rev Paul Hutchinson, The Rectory, Stokesley Methodist Church Ron Kirk, 2 Rosehill, Great Ayton Seamer Village Hall Chairperson: Mark Murphy Email : medinnov8@hotmail.com Bookings: Ann Thomas catcabcam@googlemail.com or Vivian Hyman Contact: Dave Campy david.campy123@btinternet.com Seamer Parish Council E-Mail: scapa20@hotmail.com Seamer Correspondent for Darlington and Stockton Times Christine Cooper ooooOOOOooo
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