Sutton Bonington Mike Elliott 0115 937 6506 elliottnews@btconnect.com
BONFIRE AND FIREWORKS. The annual bonfire and fireworks display organised by the Sutton Bonington Primary School PTA will be taking place on Saturday this week-end, November 4, on the Sutton Bonington playing fields.
The gate will open at 6-30pm and admission for over 16’s is £4 (£3 in advance) and £3 (£2 50 in advance) for children, OAPs and NUS card holders. Pre-school children are free. Advance tickets are available from the school.
The usual wood collection for the bonfire will take place on Saturday morning so anyone with wooden items to dispose of is asked to leave it outside their gates by 10am with a note saying ’For Collection’. The PTA say they cannot take wet leaves, greenery, etc.
Ben Edmonds on 07970 325361 or 01509 672262 is the contact in regard to the collection service.
TERROR FROM THE SKIES. The next meeting of Sutton Bonington Local History Society is on Wednesday next week, November 8, when Stephen Flinders will talk on ‘ Terror from the skies – the night the Zeppelins came in January 1916’.
The meeting will as usual be held in the Methodist Schoolroom and will start at 7.30pm. Visitors will be asked to pay £3 to include coffee.
WHIST. Nineteen players escaped the cold winds and enjoyed a night of Whist in the warmth of the Library on Monday 23rd October.
Whist winners were: Pat Knight 179, Freda Blyth 177, Mike Grout 174, Anne Harley-Barber 173, Alan Kyle 166 and Trevor Popay 164.
Sheelagh Stafford claimed the Consolation packet of Crumpets.
Raffle Prizes were won by Bill Kyle, Janet Goddard and Alan Richardson.
It was fitting that Freda Blyth featured in the Prize winners as she provided some lovely half time refreshments to celebrate yet another twenty first birthday. They were enjoyed by all and we all thank her for her very kind gesture.
The “13 Kitty” had one very near miss during the evening, surviving the last cards played in one hand, and moved on to £4. It is there to be won at our next Whist Drive which will be held on Monday, November 13.
CANDLE IN MEMORY OF LOVED ONE. The parish church of St Anne’s Church at Sutton Bonington is this weekend offering parishioners the opportunity to light a candle in memory of a loved one when it holds a Memorial Service on Sunday this weekend, November 5
The service will start at 4.30pm and will give everyone the opportunity to take part in ther service and light a candle.
Beth Clarke says anyone who would like to light a candle for someone who has died, however long ago, to let her know in advance, and give her the name of the person to be remembered.
It does not have to be the name of someone from their own family. Beth can be contacted on 01509 672110 or by email on frankandbeth@gmil.com).
LETTER FROM OVERSEAS. Another communication has been received for members of the parish churches of St Anne’s and St Michael’s at Sutton Bonington from the teenage girl they sponsor from overseas.
A letter from Noime, the young girl sponsored by the churches through Compassion UK lives in the Philippines and is now 18. She has 7 brothers and sisters.
The churches sponsorship allows the Sinag ng Pag-asa Child development Centre to provide Noime with Bible teaching, exercise classes, hygiene education, medical and dental care, vitamins, field trips, tuition assistance, scholastic materials and workshops to develop special skills.
In her letter she begins by saying “Hi! Have a great day!” and asks how everyone at Sutton Bonington is.
“How are you and your family? I hope that you and your family are always safe. Me and my family are fine. I’m so glad because I have received again a letter from you. I love your letter. “Last New Year my experience is to have some bonding with my family, we bought also clothes with my friends.
“The things that make me busy is doing my thesis and other activities in school. In our home the things that make me busy is to do house chores. The things that I want to succeed this year in my study is to have a higher grade,. What are the things that you want to achieve this year?”
She closes her letter by saying she hopes everyone will always take care and also your family and, of course, your health. “What is your prayer request? My prayer request is to keep my family in a safe place always. Thank you again and always remember I really love you and your family. Take care, God bless you and your family. Love Noime Escote.” BROADBAND UPDATE. Parish councillors at Sutton Bonington have been given a Broadband update and in regard to Landcroft Lane have been told the physical work is complete and Open Reach now have to go through an exercise to ask all service providers, currently taking service in this area, permission to migrate their customers onto the new service and to give notice of the new service.
In regard to St Anne’s Lane members were told the issue with that cabinet was a live to live connection process and that Open Reach needed to move the existing subscribers from one live cabinet to another. It is understood the migration process is complete. .
The council were told that a complaint had been received from the resident of 30 Pasture Lane regarding the lack of internet speed. Nottinghamshire County Council had confirmed that the resident is connected to Kegworth 1 which went live in 2015.
Coun. Andy Brown, the village representative on Notts County Council, confirmed that there had been a problem with postcodes not matching the relevant boxes and residents being connected to the wrong boxes. This was being resolved.
CHILDREN ASK FOR BUS SHELTER LIBRARY. The parish council at Sutton Bonington are supporting children at the village primary school who wrote to them asking for a bus shelter library.
The council agreed unanimously to support the application.
CHRISTMAS FUND-RAISER. The annual Christmas fundraiser for the Sutton Bonington Garden Walkabout group which takes the form a festive afternoon is being held in the village hall; on Saturday this week, November 11.
It will start at 2pm and last a couple of hours. Among the attractions as well as light refreshments will be a cake stall.
This year actual walkabout raised the wonderful sum of £5591 and has taken the total amount raised during the 35 years the event has been held to £155,997.
STATION ROAD DANGERS. Parish councillors at Sutton Bonington continue to express concerns at the dangers of accidents at the Station Road on the outskirts of the village.
They are in touch with Nottinghamshire County Council but are unhappy that previous reports to them have, they say, been ignored.
Following another incident, the parish council have been told that this is being dealt with by the Crash Reduction Team.
The Parish Council are unhappy that three previous concerns regarding this junction have been ignored and that before long there will be a fatal accident at the junction.
Meanwhile the parish council continue to look at the question of traffic of the Landcroft Lane entrance to the University site.
Concern was raised by members to a comment from Notts County Council highways officer Kendra Hourd that signage restricting entrance to lane had been ineffective and that current actions taken by the University aren’t working and the University can’t guarantee that Landcroft Lane will not be used by students and staff then the entrance should be closed off.
VISIT BY PUPILS. Pupils at Sutton Bonington Primary School, through funding kindly provided by the enterprising Parent Teacher Association there, were able to welcome and host -- and they were excited to do so -- Peter Wood, of Staunton Harold based Greenwood Days, on a two day visit as he headed facilitate willow weaving workshops.
It was not is first visit to the school, because he ran similar sessions, which the children really enjoyed, several years ago.
The event offered the youngsters the good opportunity early in the year for learning a new skill, as well as having the chance to collaborate on something within classes but also retaining a whole school focus.
Greenwood Days have been running woodland craft courses since 1998. The course centre is set in a beautiful 90 acre wood in the National Forest on the Leicestershire/ Derbyshire border. They offer day, weekend, midweek and week long courses ranging from traditional Windsor chairmaking to contemporary willow sculpture, longbow making to spoon carving.
Their tutors are all highly skilled professional craft workers and teachers who share the passion for preserving, promoting and passing on these crafts and techniques. Their message to anyone interested is: “Come and enjoy the beauty of the woodland, book on one of our many courses, be inspired, be creative, learn a new craft.”