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Correspondent: Jean Watson Mob: 07966 361434 Tel: 01622 687053 Community market: On Tuesday September 27 from 1-4.30pm in St Nicholas Church Hall. Lots of stalls including crafts, plants, cards, produce, pastries and pies, bread, jewellery, fashion and bags, books, sweets, beauty products. The tea room will be open offering homemade cakes. Eat in or take away. Free entry. Baptist Church: Is holding a Macmillan Coffee Morning on Saturday October 1 from 10.30am-noon in the church. Everyone welcome. Hi Kent Clinic: The next free clinic is on Wednesday, October 5 from 1011.30am in the library. Clinics are run by trained volunteers who will be able to change batteries, clean and re-tube hearing aids. Get Together talk: At the next Get Together meeting on Wednesday September 28 from 2.30-4pm in the Baptist Church, Connie Garrat will give a talk entitled Research, about her work at the East Malling Research Station. Macmillan coffee: Aunt Sally’s Kitchen will be holding a coffee morning in aid of Macmillan Cancer Research on Friday, September 30 from 10am-4pm. Home made cakes, coffee or tea. Community association: Also holding a Macmillan Coffee Morning on Thursday, September 29 from 10.30am -noon in the main hall. Everyone welcome including preschool children. Details from 01622 673633. Correspondent: Gilly Hurley Tel: 01622 790734 AylesfordEccles@ aol.com Classical music concert: St Peter & St Paul’s Church will be a host to a Sunday afternoon concert of light classical music on Sunday October 9 at 3pm in the church. Tickets from Anita Keays on 01622 719589, from Brenda Sladen on 882395 or at the door. Ticket price also includes tea/coffee and biscuits in the interval. Correspondent: Ron Stubbs Tel: 01622 726962 Messy times ahead: Fun and informality are the essence of the Messy Church on Sunday, September 25 from 4pm-5.15pm in the village hall, Heath Road. This is an All Age Worship; a friendly and relaxed service which strips away the barriers that can inhibit bringing children to some services. If you need information speak with Wil or Fliss North (01622 726263) or email revwilnorth@hotmail.co.uk Ivy Club: A bring and buy sale has been arranged for Wednesday, September 28 at 2pm in St Andrew’s Church hall. This club is designed for the over 60s and meets on alternate Wednesdays for a mixture of talks on a wide variety of topics by guest speakers, quizzes, and occasional half-day and full day outings. Find out more by calling Maureen on 01622 721238. Lunch and auction: St Margaret’s Harvest lunch and auction is set for Sunday, October 2 with a 12.30pm start in the village hall, Heath Road. This will be preceded by an All Age Worship in church at 10am. Sharing a meal is great fun with activities for the children as well as the auction. Gifts will be collected at the morning service and taken to the hall for the sale with the resultant cash raised going to the church’s four mission links – Chernobyl Families, Delhi Brotherhood, Sister Christobel and Corrie Verduyn (CMS). Meanwhile the congregation will be asked to provide items for the lunch. A list of the various foods needed for the lunch can be seen in the church with the aim of preventing a surfeit of some foods at the expense of others. Speak with Philippa Hayden (01622 202902) first. Tickets for the lunch Temporary road closure: Dean Street, East Farleigh, will be closed from September 26 for up to four nights between 9pm and 6am to enable a new connection to be carried out by BT Openreach. There will be no access for through traffic between the junctions with Forge Lane and Workhouse Lane. The alternative route is via B2010 Lower Road, B2163 Ewell Lane/ Heath Road. Correspondent: Martin Hider Tel: 01622 736327 mhider5@ gmail.com Macmillan market: The country market is holding a charity coffee/ tea and cake event in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support at the WI Hall in The Street on Saturday September 24 from 10am-11.45am. There is also a good choice of cakes, craft, Hearing aid support: Hi Kent will hold another of it’s free aftercare clinics for NHS hearing aid users at the Medical Practice in Yeoman Lane on Monday September 26 from 2.15pm-3.45pm. Free batteries and hearing aids cleaned and retubed. Information on 01622 691151 or email : enquiries@hikent.org.uk Market: Farmers’ market selling produce and crafts will take place on Bearsted Green on Sunday, September 25 from 9am-1pm. We shall remember them: As An Act of Remembrance, the Rev John Corbyn from Holy Cross Church, Bearsted and St. Mary’s Church, Thurnham is going through all those who died in WW1 and lived locally. When a date falls for one of these deaths, the Rev Corbyn holds a short Act of Remembrance outside the house or near to the house where the person lived and lays a wreath. Thursday September 29 noon, Frederick Message. Meet at Roseacre Lane at the entrance to Clarendon Close. Friday, September 30 noon, Robin Richard Rose. Meet at Ware Street opposite the lane to the Golf Club. Peace: Bearsted Area Churches Together will pray for peace around the World at St Peter’s Church in Button Lane on Tuesday September 27 at 7.30pm. Bible activity: Maidstone Christadelphians will have an informal discussion or be shown a DVD with a Bible theme at Madginford Hall on Sunday September 25 at 4.30pm. All welcome. Friendship: A Talk Time with friends takes place at Madginford Library on Tuesdays from 10am11am. Refreshments available. Phone Madginford Library for information. Coffee for charity: A coffee morning with a bring and buy sale in aid of charity will take place at the Methodist Church on Saturday, October