rothersthorpe newsletter april 2013
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April 2013
ROTHERSTHORPE
NEWSLETTER
The Newsletter for the Community of Rothersthorpe
www.rothersthorpe.info
CHURCH CALENDAR FOR APRIL 2013
Sunday 7th April 9.30am Holy Communion
Sunday 14th April 9.30am Morning Worship
Tuesday 16th April 7.00pm Parochial Church Council at
47 Banbury Lane
Sunday 21st April
9.30am Holy Communion
Sunday 28th April 8.00am
9.30am
B.C..P. Communion followed
by breakfast
Morning Worship
Unity, But Not Uniformity!
By the time you read these words in all probability there will be a new Pope
for the Roman Catholic Church and the new Anglican Archbishop of
Canterbury will be or preparing to, send warm greetings and renewing the
commitment to work together for peace and unity.
This greeting in whatever way it comes brings the question ‘Will Christians
ever be altogether in one Church’ to the top of the agenda once again.
However, if you ask me that question I have to answer. No! ‘But why?’ you
say. Isn't that God's will? Isn't that what we aim for? This time I have
to say. Yes, and No!
Yes of course, Christians are part of God's one family, and Yes, of course,
we must work and witness together, and Yes too, there are some silly
things that divide us one from one another which we need to work at
sorting out. But still, No, I don't believe we shall ever be all in one church.
It's true that Jesus prayed that we would all be one, but I've always
taken that to mean, one in our service and devotion to Him and to His
heavenly Father in the power of the Holy Spirit. Once we begin our
spiritual journey in company with Him, we find a freedom and a diversity
and a variety which on the one hand is liberating and on the other hand
seems to separate us from each other.
Over the years I've come to see that not all Christians need to be like
me (God forbid!). Instead I've discovered that many have different
experiences and ways of doing things which I can learn from. The way
that I express my faith is valid but so too is the way that they express
theirs. What I long for is not that we should all be like each other, and
cloned together in one mammoth organisation, but that we should all be
free to live out, in a variety of ways, the faith that we have discovered
in Jesus, and that we should give, up criticising each other or pretending
that one way is better than another.
That's not to say I think ‘anything goes’. I do have a doctrinal bottom
line. Jesus, He is the one way to God - the starting point. "No one can
come to the Father except through me". "I am the Way, the Truth and
the Life" was how he himself put it.
I don't believe there are many roads to God. There can be only one way
- but I do believe that there are many ways of worshipping God and
serving Him and that he gives us a diversity of gifts to use for the
benefit of each other in His gloriously varied Church.
So when it comes to the question ‘Will Christians ever be altogether in
one Church’, my gut reaction these days is that we shouldn't spend
wasted hours trying to sort out our doctrinal differences. Instead we
should concentrate on the things we hold in common and be open to use
each others insights and gifts. In short give up politely talking together
and instead get on with the business of working together so that those
who are without a faith can through our diversity discover Jesus, the
one who holds us all together.
So if you have a faith, some faith, a struggling faith or no faith, the
church in all its diversity is here to help you in your journey and there is
no top limit on numbers for membership.
Stephen French Rector of Bugbrooke, Harpole, Kislingbury, Rothersthorpe
Parish Council Meetings
The next Parish Council meeting will be held on Monday 8th April at
7.30pm in the Committee Room at the Village Hall.
As always, anyone is welcome to attend and address
the Parish Council in the public open session at the
beginning of the meeting.
Please come along and participate in your local community decision making
process.
Sarah Murphy Parish Clerk
WOMEN’S INSTITUTE
W e are looking forward to the return of Shirley Allen at our next meeting but this time she is coming to demonstrate "Gift Craft". We are being shown how to make our gifts look outstanding
hopefully. The meeting is on Monday 15th April in the Village
Hall, the cost £3 which includes refreshments. It goes without saying , that visitors are really, really welcome, why not give it a try?
S kittles news, out of 5 games we won 1, lost 3 and the last match was cancelled. Now it looks bad but really we did well as we always lost by just a couple of points. Again we lost against the Village Ladies Team but it was by just ONE POINT. It was another brilliant night and we celebrated 2 birthdays and we shared two yummy birthday cakes.
Dates for your diary coming Up in the next few months:
Quiz Night - Friday 31st May Table Top Sale - Saturday 25th May Car Treasure Hunt - Monday 24th June More details to follow. Jenny Dellar
Church Cleaning
April 7th - June & Jane
April 21st - Mike & Sue
May 5th - Lindsay & Christy
LENT LUNCHES
I wish to thank Chris, Louise, Tracey, Sue and AJ for hosting the
soup lunches each Wednesday during Lent, the proceeds from
which are to be donated to the Children`s Self Reliance Orphan-
age in Iganga, Uganda. This is an orphanage which has been
supported for many years by the village and the children will be
pleased that £182 was raised. This money will go a long way in
helping the orphanage to meet its food bills.
David Walsh
Thruppsters
Our meeting for April will be on Monday 8th April . You will be notified
before that date as to the venue.
Peter Doran
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Campaign to preserve the Conservation Area Boundary
We have just a few days left to send in responses and comments about the changes to our Conservation Area. The consultation period closes at noon on 4th April 2013. Responses should be sent or emailed to:
email: mandy.lumb@ southnorthants.gov.uk
Mandy Lumb Heritage and Conservation South Northants Council Springfields Towcester NN12 6AE
The proposed changes include an extension to an area at the bottom of North Street, and the removal of land The Paddock near the crossroads and at the Conker field in Church Street. The proposals are available on the Councils SNC website. Designated Conservation Areas help to preserve and enhance our historic environment and they become a material consideration when making Planning Decisions.
A detailed objection and response is now copied onto the Rothersthorpe Village website together with a suggested letter that can be used by anyone interested in supporting the case for preserving the existing conservation area boundary.
Village website - www.rothersthorpe.info
This decision, if approved could seriously change the character of the village in the future so please make sure you join in the Campaign for preservation of the existing boundary.
Sending a response will show the strength of public opinion, and this is important when considering the impact of localism in decision making. A few moments of your time could make all the difference.
Please send your comments and thoughts about the changes to Mandy Lumb at SNC and please make sure you also send a copy of your comments to Cllr Janet Eliot. Danesfield, North Street, Rothersthorpe. Robert Boscott
News from Rothersthorpe School
We were delighted to congratulate our victorious
Tag Rugby team who won the cup at the County
finals at Kettering. This is an outstanding achieve-
ment for our small school, pitched against the best
schools in Northamptonshire! Very well done to our
team, who played magnificently and with determina-
tion throughout. The team now go forward to represent Northants at the
East Midlands stage of the competition in June. Very many thanks to Mr
Sultana and Mr Grayson who have given up a great deal of time to coach
the team!
Children enjoyed dressing up as characters from a book to celebrate
World Book Day on 7th March and the following week, dressed in mufti to
help raise £165 for the BBC’s Comic Relief appeal.
Class 2 have welcomed parents and grand-
parents into school recently to share
experiences of their childhood, particu-
larly games and pastimes, to show the
children how things have changed in recent
years. (Yes, there was life before com-
puter games!!)
The class have also visited Northampton
Museum and walked the route of the Fire of Northampton.
Class 3 and 4 had a fun and educational day taking the ‘egg challenge’.
Teams had to devise a way of either protecting an egg, which was then
dropped from a great height using a range of materials or powering a
vehicle using a balloon, to see which travelled the furthest! All the
children enjoyed the ‘egg-sperience’, particularly the testing – a chocolate
egg was used initially, but was then replaced by a real egg as we got down
to the finalists in the drop challenge. Well done to all our future
scientists!
We finish the term with our Easter Service in church and school re-opens
after the holidays on Monday 15th April, for the start of the ‘Summer??!!’
term. Carol Watt, School Office
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Plant Sale
For those of you looking forward to the annual plant
sale, look out for a date in June….. You may have noticed
that spring is a little late this year!!! Plenty of time to
put in those extra plants and vegetables to sell.
FRENCH NIGHT, 16TH MARCH We were absolutely delighted that this year`s event was
supported by over 80 guests. With match funding from Bar-
claycard we managed to raise £1930, to be shared between
the two charities, Tools for Self Reliance and Daventry
Friends of Iganga.
In the case of “Tools” the money will help towards running
expenses. Daventry Friends are planning on sending a con-
tainer to Iganga which will have in it beds for the local hos-
pital, tool kits for various groups in the town, books for the local schools, and
some other medical equipment . The money raised will now enable the con-
tainer to be sent later in the year.
We would like to thank everybody who supported the event, either by coming
along or by donating in kind, or by gift.
David and Barbara Walsh
Dog kidnapping rumours
There are a lot of rumours and speculation being passed
around social networking sites across the UK in relation to
dogs being kidnapped and stickers being used to identify where dogs live.
We work with facts and in Northamptonshire we are not
aware of any incidents of stickers being used. This is believed to be a hoax, details of which are here, http://
www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/dogstickers.asp
We have had one suspicious incident where
someone walking a dog was approached in
Brackley, however, we have no reports of dogs having been taken. Officers are making enquir-
ies into the circumstances of the Brackley inci-dent.
Also, no officers have been out going door-to-door in Tow-cester, issuing advice to dog owners.
Dog owners are encouraged to make sure they keep their
dogs on leads at all times and be alert to what is happening while they are walking.
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Wild Flower Planting At last the Wild Flower Planting
started. The turf was removed thanks to Sam Beasley, Rob Boscott, Ian Griffith and Nick and myself. For once it was a sunny weekend. The next day we planted some wild flowers and we would like to say a big thank you to all the children, teenagers and a couple of adults who planted a plant. The seed is set but alas no sun-shine yet to germinate. We would also like to thank people for keeping there dogs off and not walking on the planted areas. If you would all like to set some wild seed now is the time to do it, do not disturb your
soil too much, sprinkle seed, press down a little and wait to see little shoots and hopefully you can attract the bees, butterflies, and other insects into your gardens to pollinate, and enjoy a display of Wild Flowers, and when the season is over collect some seed for next year. Julie and Nick
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Parking General Rules and Advice Towcester Safer Community Team has received complaints from
members of the public about inconsiderate parking that often
occurs in and around the local villages.
In response to this we encourage those residents with driveways
or off-road parking to use this space to park your vehicles
wherever possible. We do appreciate that this option is not
available to many vehicle owners who have to park their vehicles
on the Highway.
To assist in reducing these complaints please consider the recommen-
dations listed below when parking your vehicle on the Highway.
Do not wait or park where there are restrictions shown by:
Yellow lines along the edge of the carriageway
School entrance markings on the carriageway
Do not park your vehicle where it would endanger or obstruct
pedestrians or other road users.
For example; do not stop:
Near a school entrance
Where the kerb has been lowered to help wheelchair users
Opposite a traffic island[ if this would cause an obstruction]
Opposite or within 10 metres of a junction
Anywhere you would prevent access for emergency vehicles
Do not park wholly on the pavement as this can obstruct and
seriously inconvenience pedestrians, people in wheelchairs, the
visually impaired and people with pushchairs.
Finally, when parking at night, for safety, please position your vehicle
facing in the direction of the flow of traffic. This allows for reflectors to
illuminate as another vehicle approaches.
Officers that respond to reported incidents involving parking complaints
will assess each situation individually however will take into considera-
tion environmental factors and wherever possible liaise with the owner
of a vehicle to consider repositioning. If an officer considers a vehicle to
be parked in a dangerous position or causing more than a momentary
obstruction that officer may consider issue of a Fixed Penalty Notice or
removal of said vehicle at the owner’s expense.
We thank you for your assistance
in these matters.
Please do not hesitate to contact
the team should you wish to
discuss the above in more detail.
To report an incident or crime
to Northamptonshire Police
telephone 101, in an emer-
gency dial 999
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NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH APRIL
2013
There has been reports of suspicious
vehicles in and around the village and
also in neighbouring areas, I have
passed the details I have been given to
the police, but they have asked that if
anyone sees a suspicious vehicle or is
offered any dubious goods, that
they ring the police on 101 as soon as
they can, and report it straight away.
Also I have had two alerts from the police, details below.
1. Dog kidnapping rumours (see previous article in this newsletter)
2. Scam warning to motorists. (reported last month : reminder)
Motorists in Northamptonshire are being warned about a scam
where a group of men flag down vehicles, offering to sell gold
jewellery to motorists that later turns out to be fake.
A number of incidents have been reported across the county,
recent locations including A14 at Welford, Rothersthorpe Road,
Kislingbury and High Street. Weedon.
The offenders will flag down cars and tell motorists something
along the lines of having run out of fuel and having no money on
them. They will then offer to exchange gold jewellery
for cash.
Where money is exchanged the buyer will later discover the
jewellery they have purchased is, in fact, fake.
The police urge motorists approached to refuse any offer of
jewellery, to take in as much information about the offenders as
possible and to contact the police on 101
Also we would like to remind you that the alarms are still available.
Stay safe, as always please keep us informed of any incidents you
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This edition created by Jane McCarthy
The Fifth Samuel Leek Concert
Harpole Church
Saturday 20th April 7.30pm This annual concert is given by the talented and en-
thusiastic people of Harpole and surrounding area.
It would be good to hear from anyone who would like to sing, play an
instrument, give a recitation, or otherwise entertain the welcoming
and equally
enthusiastic audience.
Don’t be shy, we would love to hear from you.
Please contact Allan Leroy on 830423
if you would like to take part
Bugbrooke Community Café
Sunday School Rooms, Church Lane
Badger’s Break A warm welcome awaits everyone on
Saturdays 9am to 4.30pm
Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday 9am to 12.30pm
Breakfast, light lunches, cakes and drinks available,
lunches also on Saturday
Do drop in and see what the café has to offer.
www.bugbrookecommunitycafe.com