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The Mylor Magazine

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Trustees:

Chris Perkins, (Chair), Revd Roger

Nicholls (Secretary), David Eastburn

Editor:

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June May 14th July June 14th

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Historical note: on 1st May 1707 the Act of Union came into effect, creating the

Kingdom of Great Britain.

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Parish of St Mylor

with the Mission Church of All Saints Church Mylor Bridge

Services for May, 2012 Sundays

8am Holy Communion, 1662, St Mylor

9am Holy Communion, CW, All Saints

10.30am Parish Eucharist, St Mylor

4pm BCP Evening Prayer, All Saints

Tuesdays and Fridays

9am Morning Prayer, All Saints, Mylor Bridge

Wednesdays

Holy Communion, 10am, St Mylor

11am, All Saints

June

10 Mylor Triathlon

11 (StM) Parish Outing to Lostwithiel

11 MFC (OS 7:30)

27 MM (TH 7:30) War Horse

July

1 Mylor Regatta August

3-4 Mylor Art Group exhibition 12 Churchyard Service (StM 3:00) 19 Favourite Hymns Outdoors (StM) 25 Churchyard Footpath Closure (StM) 26 Patronal Festival & Gift Day (StM) September 10 MGC Flowers for October and November. October 4 St Francis Service with Animals (StM)

May

4 Girls’ Night Out: Mylor School

fundraiser

5 Coffee Morning (FSMC 10-12)

7 School closed (Bank holiday)

8 MFC (OS 7:30) Nature’s harmonies

9 TDFAS (TC 7:00) The two faces of

Russia

10 Coffee Morning (FMC 10-12)

19 Mylor Fair

19 Fundraising Concert (MC 6:00)

20 Olympic Flame Service (StM)

26 Craft Fair (EBC 10:00-4:00)

29 MSs (TH 7:30) Albert Lee (OMG)

30 MM (TH 7:30) The Help

June

3 Queen's Diamond Jubilee Party

4-8 School half term holiday

9 MS (TH 7:00) Summer Concert

Key TH: Tremayne Hall, OS: Ord-Statter Pavilion, MC: Methodist Chapel, EBC: Emmanuel Baptist Church, Falmouth, TC :Truro College, MSs: Mylor Sessions; MFC: Mylor Flower Club; MGC: Mylor Gardening Club; MM: Mylor Movies; FSMC: Friends of St Mylor Church; StM: St Mylor Church

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Vicar’s letter—

I preached yesterday, by the old counting the first Sunday of Easter, about new beginnings. The Collect at both services is an old one:

Almighty Father, you have given your only Son to die for our sins and to rise again for our justification: grant us so to put away the leaven of malice and wickedness that we may always serve you in pureness of living and truth ...

Nothing there (unless I unpack ‘justification’ – which might take more space than I have!) about eternity , about what the 17th century divine John Donne preached in a memorable sermon; of the dead, he wrote:

They shall awake as Jacob did, and say as Jacob said, Surely the Lord is in this place, and this is no other but the house of God, and the gate of heaven, into that gate they shall enter, and in that house they shall dwell, where there shall be no Cloud nor Sun, no darknesse nor dazling, but one equall light, no noyse nor silence, but one equall musick, no fears nor hopes, but one equal possession, no foes nor friends, but an equall communion and Identity, no ends nor beginnings; but one equall eternity.

That vision of John Donne is one of the great lessons of Easter Sunday. So too, as that Collect for the First of Easter affirms, is the sense of Easter as a great new start, as a call to a new kind of living in community. That is the theme of the Collect. And it derives from Sunday’s lesson, a story from the Acts of the Apostles (look it up! it’s Acts 4.32). It illustrates, as all Paul’s letters do, the ambition of those early believers to live a new life, a Christ-like life of service and care for each other. And they remembered our Lord’s Last Supper ‘New Commandment’: ‘that you love one another as I have loved you’. But we at St Mylor once more face insolvency. So to all who wish the Christian work and worship of St Mylor parish to continue in our diocese of Truro, I repeat the appeal with which I ended my sermon yesterday: I am not ready yet again to take out of the cupboard our Teddy Bear, TED – ‘that enormous debt’ – for we are not yet in the red. But without more and deeper regular giving we soon shall be unable to pay our dues and TED will again see the light of day. An extra pound a week from all who care will see us right ...

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Saturday 5th May 2012

10.00 a.m. - 12 Noon

Cake Stall — Raffle — Bric-a-Brac — Books

The Friends of St. Mylor held a talk by Barbara & Dorrit on Wednesday 11th April in All Saints Church on their “Journey into Af-rica” with lovely slides and films and many anecdotes of their mar-vellous experience. Seeing all these beautiful wild animals in their natural habitat was a wonderful experience for them and for us to see the films and photographs was a real pleasure, thank you Bar-bara & Dorrit. The evening finished with a cheese and wine buffet, thank you for all your support. Pamela Cartwright

Community News and Views

Mylor Garden Club: the last meeting before the summer break A on April 16th saw Richard Sneezby giving helpful advice for those wishing to “Redesign a Garden for the Older Gardener”. including defining the edges of paths with bright flowers to make them easy to see, and to replacing steps with gentle slopes. Other ideas included having less grass to reduce mowing and to building raised beds for flowers and vegetables. At the March meeting Cilla George gave an interesting illustrated talk on people and events associated with Trevano and its gardens. On that evening the bulbs given out in October were judged; Val Gale won with a lovely display of Tête-à-tête' daffodils. The next meeting will be on September 10th at 7.30 in the Ord Statter Pavillion when Mike Stephens will give an illustrated talk on “Flowers for October and November”. Maggie Farley

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Mylor Book Group: Toast by Nigel Slater was this month’s choice. Toast is an auto-biographical account of the early life of the TV cook and food writer Nigel Slater. As well as charting his early memories the book highlights his complicated relationship with food. As a child he craved affection but when this was not forth-coming he found comfort in food and cooking. Following the death of his long suffering mother, his father re-married a cold and calculating woman who had little time for Nigel: as a result he felt even more isolated and unwanted. After studying cookery at college he eventually made his way to London to start his career. Many, but not all, were touched by the author’s frankness as he told his story. All enjoyed the trip down a gastronomic memory lane with people talking about Arctic Roll and Angel Delight with great fondness. Linda Coburn

Community News and Views ~ contd.

Friends of Mylor Methodist Chapel: Earlier this year meetings were held to try and decide what might happen to the Methodist Chapel. As a result, a fundraising committee called Friends Of Mylor Methodist Chapel was formed and a series of events were planned to meet the ever-rising costs of running the building and keeping the Junior and Senior Church open. In February a very successful coffee morning was held raising £463. Following a letterbox drop, many kind donations from Mylor residents were added to the fund. In March the team held a Spring-Clean morning. In April there was a Bingo Session and a Fun Weekend, with a Sponsored Bike Ride and Walk with a Cream Tea at the Chapel. This month on Thursday May 10th from 10 am till 12 Vera invites you to a Coffee Morning at Lords Piece, 29 Bells Hill. There will be the usual stalls, including plants. On Saturday May 19th at 6pm, after Mylor May Fair, there will be a Concert featuring local musicians in the Chapel all for Chapel funds. Please come and enjoy our local talent and support the fund. Vyv Curnow

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Community News and Views ~ contd.

Mylor Session in Tremayne Hall: Jack Dee, Fascinating Aïda & Albert Lee. Who’d have imagined getting the chance to see these world famous acts on the stage of Mylor’s Tremayne Hall? But during 2012, they will all have visited and hundreds of local residents will have enjoyed their performances. In the process, the shows will have helped raise money for important worthwhile local projects. The concept of Mylor Sessions is to bring in acts one wouldn’t normally expect to see in a village hall and thereby create intimate, memorable evenings for the community to enjoy. Organised by a group of local Mylor residents, the first show was in the autumn of 2011, featuring the exciting American bluegrass/punk band The Deadly Gentlemen; famed for their banjo player’s work with Bruce Springsteen. In February this year, The Webb Sisters played to another sold out house. Profits from these evenings were immediately put back into improvements in the Tremayne Hall – with investment in fittings and decoration to make it a more useful space to hold concerts and any future shows organised by the many community groups who use the hall. Marketing of the events has initially been deliberately low key. The team wanted to try and give ticket priority to local people first. With big names such as Jack Dee this has been tricky but, thanks to the sale of tickets for some shows via Mylor Stores and others directly via the ever-growing Mylor Sessions email list (sign up online at www.mylorsessions.co.uk), friends and neighbours within Mylor have so far filled the majority of seats. This has made the evenings fantastic community get-togethers – adding to the special atmosphere. The Mylor Sessions organisers have been very grateful for all the support they have had to date and want to continue to work with the village for the good of all. They are sensitive to the fact that some disruption is possible due to extra traffic on performance evenings and are encouraging ticket holders to walk to shows or to park considerately. Likewise, they encourage audiences to keep noise levels down when leaving the hall at the end of the shows (in an effort to help this, none have been scheduled to finish particularly late).

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Mylor Sessions is not a commercial operation and will continue to donate profits to local charities and projects. The latest donation has been towards the purchase of the commemorative mugs for the children of Mylor to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. At the time of going to press some tickets are still available for Albert Lee, Hogan’s Heroes and the second night of Fascinating Aïda. Further acts

will be announced in the coming months. Please visit the Mylor Sessions website for full details www.mylorsessions.co.uk Celia Fraser

Community News and Views ~ contd.

Community News and Views ~ contd.

Mylor Movies in the Tremayne Hall at 7.30 pm (tickets £4.50 at

the door)

The Help 30th May (12A): Directed by Tate Taylor and starring Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, Allison Janney, Octavia Spencer, & Jessica Chastain. Based on the novel by Kathryn Stockett, the film was nominated for four Oscars and won one for best supporting actress. Set in Mississippi during the 60s, Skeeter (Stone) is a southern society girl who returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives and a Mississippi town upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen (Davis), Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up, to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community. Despite Skeeter's life-long friendships hanging in the balance, she and Aibileen continue their collaboration and soon more women come forward to tell their stories... War Horse 27th June (12A) Directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Jeremy Irvine, Emma Watson, David Thewlis. Nominated for six Oscars. Dartmoor 1914: To his wife's dismay a farmer buys a thorough-bred horse rather than a plough animal, but when his teenaged son Albert trains the horse and calls him Joey, the two become inseparable. When his harvest fails, the farmer has to sell Joey to the British cavalry and he is shipped to France where he is captured by the Germans and changes hands twice more before he is found, caught in the barbed wire in No Man's Land four years later and freed. He is returned behind British lines where Albert, now a private, has been temporarily blinded by gas, but still recognizes his beloved Joey. However, as the Armistice is declared Joey is set to be auctioned off. After all they have been through will Albert and Joey return home together?

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Mylor’s big free Jubilee Lunch

Street Party

Hog Roast, Barbecue etc.

Sunday 3 June 12 - 3 pm

Diamond Jubilee Street Party and road closure: Our Queen’s Diamond Jubilee is a momentous event for our Monarchy and our Nation so, ‘let’s celebrate’. That was the decree from the palace and from the government, and Tony Andrew enthusiastically launched the idea that we should add our local celebration with a Street Party in Mylor Bridge. He committed his Parish Council to make a substantial grant towards the funding of the party, to be provided free to all the village. Tony has most regrettably passed away, but a Committee of volunteers is now organising a grand event. Our Street Party is to be held on Sunday, 3rd June. The event will be based and run from the Tremayne Hall which will also be the ‘bad weather’ fallback venue, but the actual lunchtime party is planned to be literally, in the Street. Many attractive ideas are being considered and, weather willing, we intend to provide a really memorable occasion. However, it’s also necessary to give advanced notice that an application has been submitted to close part of Lemon Hill in the village to vehicular traffic between the hours of 11:00 am and 3:00 pm for the party. The actual closed section of Lemon Hill where the tables and seating will be set out, will be the length of The Lemon Arms car park between New Row and the Leat car park to provide an unconstrained pedestrian thoroughfare between the Tremayne Hall and the closed section of Lemon Hill. This is the only part of Lemon Hill with a practical level gradient. Road closure barriers and regulation signage will be provided, and both barriers will each be supervised by two marshals during the closure period. Pedestrian passage through the closed section will be unimpeded. Unfortunately this may cause inconvenience to some, but great care has been taken in the planning to minimise disruption as far as possible. Vehicular access to and from The Lemon Arms car park will be provided via New Row; the normal car park entrance will be sealed. Two-way vehicular traffic from Comfort Road and Passage Hill will have normal access down Lemon Hill and into New Row. Normal two-way traffic flow between the river bridge and Trevellan Road and traffic access to and from the Leat car park will be preserved. The principal points to note are that vehicular traffic will be prevented from passing through the village, and access to The Lemon Arms car park will not be available from the river bridge direction. Residents who are directly affected by this plan have been consulted and the Committee deeply regret any other inconvenience caused, but it is all intended to be in a good cause. Tony Deacon

Community News and Views ~ contd.

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Community News and Views ~ contd.

Mylor, South Australia: Although Graham and I have enjoyed trips abroad, we never intended travelling as far as Asia or Australasia, not even Heathrow Airport, until our son Stephen became a Commonwealth Scholar studying PhD at Hamilton University on the North Island of New Zealand. Like many other parents in Mylor we were soon planning a trip to the other side of the world to visit our son and daughter-in-law. On the way we stopped in Singapore, and Bangkok on the return, giving us one month in New Zealand to visit Stephen and Sarah, explore parts of the North and South Islands, and visit Graham’s grandson Justin in Christchurch. As the return flight stopped in Melbourne, we drove along the Great Ocean Road towards Adelaide to stay with family in South Australia for a few days. When we realised that the village of Mylor South Australia was close to our destination of Strathalbyn, only 30 minutes by road, we wanted to explore the other Mylor and deliver copies of the Mylor 1600 booklets (above). We arrived in Mylor at 10am on a Monday morning in time for the regular Coffee, Cake, Craft & Chat in the Village Hall. During coffee (and lots of cake) we talked about our village of Mylor, the reason Mylor SA was given the same name, and how we came to visit. Mylor South Australia was named by Sir James Penn Boucaut (pronounced ‘Boco’). Born in 1831 in a cottage in the now Mylor (Cornwall) churchyard, he emigrated to Australia with his parents in 1846. After working as a stockman he entered the legal profession, later becoming a judge and politician, and Premier of South Australia three times. He was a keen yachtsman (no surprise there!), and later in life bred Arabian horses. He died in 1916 leaving his wife Janet, five sons and a daughter, and is buried at Glenelg Adelaide by the sea. The village of Mylor was formed in 1891 supplying stores and services to local industries with a large co-operative store, and many other trades from bread to bootmaking. We explored the village with Paul Howe and Peter Goldsmith who both visited Mylor Cornwall with their wives Gloria and Jane last September.

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Community News and Views ~ contd.

Mylor SA is a small village in the Adelaide Hills with a population of less than 1000. It is very beautiful, and being in the countryside not by the sea, very different from our own Mylor. The beauty is mainly due to the many trees which turn from green to golden in the autumn. Mylor has great sporting facilities, a cricket field, tennis and netball club. Also a primary school (above), two churches, village store with post office, cafe, and Coopers Rural and Hardware Store — selling hay, grain, electric fencing, everything to do with farming. There is also a volunteer Fire Brigade. To this day Mylor has no hotel or pub. Work is currently taking place renovating the old Bootmaker’s shop as an important place of historical interest. The residents of Mylor have a lot of fun, including annual and regular events like the English Ale Festival, Melbourne Cup Day and regular markets. On leaving Mylor we drove down to Adelaide to the coast at Glenelg where Sir James Boucaut was buried. This is a very popular seaside area being close to the city, with many apartments and a large boat marina. Janet Hunt

The Mylor booklet, Mylor, 2011 Celebrating 1600 years is

available from the usual sources, and especially the Mylor

Magazine team (listed in the inside cover). At a mere £2 this

commemorative booklet is destined to become a collector’s

item. It is available only in printed form, in full living,

glowing colour, capturing the essence of this vibrant British

village.

Mylor Flower Club: At the April meeting members enjoyed a demonstration by Mrs Linda McGannity of Perranporth. It was her first visit to the Club and under the title of ‘Basket and Blooms’ she entertained members with a variety of designs in containers ranging from a traditional basket of spring blooms to more exotic arrangements culminating in a light purple openweave former lampbase with internal foliage, used to support a cascade of ivy with deep pink camellia, blue trachelium and beautiful purple alstromeria. The demonstrator was generous with the number of designs undertaken, and kept members informed with many useful hints and tips as well as tales from her time spent arranging flowers in church and in Truro Cathedral. The next meeting will be on May 8th, with Mrs Glynnis Beard, a popular regular visitor to the Club. Visitors will be most welcome. Anna Cruise

St Mylor Organ Restoration appeal: A plaque on the outside of our organ states “To the Glory of God. A memorial of the coron-ation of H.I.M. George V”. This event took place on 22nd June 1911, making our organ about 100 years old. It was built by Hele and Co, founded in 1860. George Hele (1836–1919) was an accomplished musician, appointed organist and Choirmaster at St Aubyn’s church, Devonport at the age of 18. He later became organist at St Mary’s Church, Truro (eventually to become part of the Cathedral), having already set up a business retailing organs. In 1865 he built his first organ for Devoran Wesleyan Methodist Chapel. He moved back to Plymouth and built his first organ in that area at St Paul’s Devonport, one of many, most of which were destroyed during the Second World War. He was joined by his brother John and his son John C, who was probably responsible for building our organ. The company was eventually merged with The Midland Organ Co in 2007. We hope to thoroughly clean and restore this instrument in Lent next year, and have received an estimate for the work of £12,000. Half of this amount has been promised, the rest we must raise. A programme of fund raising events is being planned, catering for many tastes. In the meantime, I would like to pose a question – were you, or members of your family, baptised, married or had their funeral in St Mylor since 1911 and had the benefit of this splendid instrument? If so, would you be able to make a donation towards restoration? We would love to hear from you, and would be grateful for your contribution, which should be sent to me, Judy Menage, 28 Cogos Park,Mylor Bridge, TR11 5SF.

Community News and Views ~ contd.

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St Mylor Churchyard Restoration Group: The past few weeks has seen the team tidying up fallen branches, burning up rubbish and continuing with the weeding of graves and then re-dressing some of them with granite gravel. We are slowly removing ivy from many headstones, some of which are falling over due to the weight of the ivy growth. This task can take some time as many head-stones have lead inlaid inscriptions which can easily be pulled off if the ivy is removed. We cut the ivy and wait for it to die back and then remove it. The results can be quite beautiful. The Churchyard is now a mass of colour with a large variety of daffodils, primroses – both yellow and pinkish – violets and now the bluebells and wild garlic are beginning to burst into flower. We are also hearing more and more birdsong – a true sign that Spring is happening. We recently had a further find and were really thrilled to come across the original com-memorative plaque laid when the Navy donated the additional area of ground to St Mylor Church in 1866. Vicar Hoblyn was the incumbent at the time and the Church-wardens were Henry

Trevaskas and Matthew Noble. The slate is in excellent order and we hope to find a suitable place to display this beautiful object. We were rather concerned about a derelict bench located close to the Ganges Memorial. A small brass plaque on the rear of the seat mentions one Walter Toy. We have researched this gentleman and find he was a Ganges Boy who survived and continued his interesting life

in America. It is worth looking him up on Google. The bench was originally donated by the Hawood family. We are considering bringing this bench back to its former glory and have already had an offer of help locally. If the warm and moist weather continues we will need to spend more time on strimming and maintaining pathways so any extra pairs of hands would be most welcome. Please call 01326 376782 for further details. Helen Fletcher

Community News and Views ~ contd.

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Craft Fair Day 26th May

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Tea, coffee and cake available to purchase

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Alfie the donkey visits Mylor Bridge Community Primary School to celebrate the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday.

Hedgehogs are in decline! – Really?

In many parts of the country we hear that hedgehogs have become rare garden visitors - but not here on Lemon Hill in Mylor! We have had numerous prickly visitors that cause great excitement to our new young dog Lucy (a Lab/Whippet cross) as she bats them about and tries unsuccessfully to pick them up. The tell-tale squeal of her excited yelping is a sure sign that another small prickly friend needs rescuing with gardening gloves, to be put over the fence into a safe part of the garden. At one stage, last year, we had a steady stream of young ones bent on passing through at regular intervals as they made their way under the gate and up the garden. We heard that a nest was found a few doors away and they were probably following their traditional route up the hill. We have since discovered that they are en route to another nesting site among bamboos in a nearby garden. Here they cause similar problems with the family dog. Lucy is now a little more wary of their prickles but on one occasion in the early days, she managed, despite a little blood, to carry the small tightly curled ball into the living room from the garden. Needless to say, a shocked response from us was quickly followed by our usual rescue procedure. Yes, they are delightful creatures and very good at eating garden pests, but to us I’m afraid they are the pests and we groan as we grab the thick gloves that we keep handy for yet another rescue.

V J-J

Mylor May Fair The 2012 May Fair will take place on Saturday 19th May

This is a fun event for the whole community and an important fund raiser for the playing field

Put the 19th May in your diary now!!

COME AND BE PART OF THE FUN

Community News and Views ~ contd.

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Wildwatch

Although summer does not officially begin until June, May Day traditionally marks its beginning. May Day celebrations have been carried out in Britain for over 2000 years and it is a time when people celebrate the coming of summer with lots of different customs that are expressions of joy and hope after a long winter. I am sure all of us feel some stirrings of excitement when May comes. Our hedgerows and meadows are full of flowers... pinpoints of colour startling form the new green .... Bluebells, Campion and Stitchwort creating cascades of red, white and blue down the hedge-banks of our lanes. May marks the beginning of the burgeoning of many members of the Pea Family. You need a flower identification book to name them all and now is the time to get one, perhaps from the library and begin to name them. If you have seen a pea or bean blossom in the garden, then you will be able to recognize members of the Pea family. They have irregular flowers, with 5 petals forming a distinctive “banner, wings, and keel”, as shown in the illustration. Pea-like pods are another distinctive trait of the family. For practice, look at a head of clover in the lawn or better still a Lupin flower. You will see that each head is a cluster of many small Pea flowers, each with its own banner, wings, and keel. As the flowers mature each one forms a tiny pea-like pod. I'll bet you never noticed that before!

The Pea family is very large, with 13,000 species worldwide, all descendants of the very first ‘Pea’ flower of many millions of years ago. Over time the Peas have adapted to fit many different niches, from lowly clovers on the ground to stately trees that today shade city squares (e.g. the Acacias). Here are some members of the pea

family to find in our lanes, our churchyard, and our meadows this month: Gorse, White Clover, Birds Foot Trefoil, kidney vetch (on our sea cliffs) , bush vetch, common vetch,... and lots more. Find a good wild-flower book. Challenge your family to find and name them all!

Dorrit

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Diamond Jubilee mugs (right)may be ordered from Sue Moon — 01326 377328, to be collected and paid for on the day (June 3rd) at the Mylor street party. They are bone china, made locally and cost £2 each. Mugs will also be available to buy on June 3rd – while stocks last. Thank you to all those who supported a very successful coffee morning/cake sale held at Porloe Farm on 18 April. It raised £342 towards the Jubilee party. Donations are still welcome – a truly memorable day is planned for this unique occasion! Val J-J

Community News and Views ~ contd.

On the Water ~ Malcolm Clark

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Truro River Race: Every year, Penryn Rowing Club organises a pursuit race from Mylor to Truro, open to any craft powered by oars or paddles. The vessels are sent off at intervals dependent on the type of vessel and age and gender of the crew. The race attracts gig rowers from all over the county, as well as flash boats, surf boats and sculls. This year the decision was taken to cancel the small boats, due to the bad weather forecast and potentially difficult conditions in the Carrick Roads, but the first

start included a single scull. After that, it was all gigs. It’s a long way from Mylor to Truro, even with the tide, and this year the wind was from the north, against the rowers for the whole way. The winner was the Roseland men's crew in Polvarth, who won the eponymous “Cafe Mylor Shield” for the first boat across the line.

Boat Watch: PCSO Fiona Gamble who previously ran Falmouth Boat Watch has now moved to a new station. Her replacement is PCSO Chris Braddon who will be covering the Mylor, Flushing, Gwennap and Perranarworthal parishes. Chris together with Ben Gardiner, PCSO for Constantine, Budock Water and Mawnan Smith, will now be managing the Falmouth Boat Watch. There have been a number of local thefts of outboards recently. Please consider marking all marine equipment with a unique marking kit or with postcode information. If any marine equipment is recovered it helps the police reunite it with the owner and deters thieves in the first instance.

Before the start

Devoran’s gig

Journey’s end

More About ~ Mary Young Mary Young was just six in 1924 when her father, Revd. Gilbert Young was appointed Vicar of St Mylor, and she lived with her parents, Grandfather and their two servants in the Vicarage. It was a happy time for her, in spite of the fact that there was no electricity, no water, no mains services connected – all these came later, and she was educated totally by her mother and father. By the time they moved away in 1936, life was considerably more comfortable in the Vicarage. Their new parish was Millbrook near Plymouth, a smaller village, different to Mylor. Until war broke out in 1939, Mary, in her own words, did “all the things a Vicar’s daughter was expected to do”. 1939 – Mary was now 21 – she was very keen to become a member of the WRNS, or even drive an ambulance. However, her doctor strongly advised her to stay and look after her elderly parents – her mother in particular was not in good health. So she made the best of it – and what better place to find war work than Plymouth, a hugely important military centre, with its dockyard and naval port. All around the area were anti-aircraft gun and barrage balloon sites, and everyone had to be on the alert at all times. Mary quickly joined the Home Guard/Civil Defence, learned first aid, and became a member of the WVS. Before she could do anything she had to swear an oath of allegiance/secrecy, and could not even tell her parents what she was doing. She had a special pass which allowed her to travel throughout the area in which she worked. One of her duties was to collect milk from a farm and deliver it, using her own car, to various outlying military establishments. She greeted and delivered evacuees and often helped to prepare the homes which received them; she distributed gas masks and tin helmets, handed out ration books; she worked in a WVS canteen for Petty Officers in a former public house, and had the nickname “Chippy” as she made the chips. The menu was rather restricted – very little meat – lots of sausages and eggs – Mary and her friend would go to Liskeard to collect eggs from the depot. Mary drove the local GP around on his visits – but only in the afternoon as petrol was strictly rationed. There were very strict blackout conditions in force, and she remembers a constable knocking on the canteen door, complaining that there was light showing around a window. She hated walking at night during the blackout – she found this very scary. The raids on Plymouth were horrendous, and their shelter was in the basement. As the Vicarage overlooked the Tamar, they had a grand-stand view of the fires in Plymouth, and on one occasion many incendiary bombs had been dropped at low tide into the mud – as they caught fire they looked like a mass of fairy lights.

Photograph by Joan Cornes

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Message in a Bottle The Lions Message In a Bottle scheme is a simple idea but effective designed to encourage people to keep their personal and medical details on a standard form and in a common location — the fridge. Why the fridge? Apart from being a common location, it's also the most likely place to survive a fire. A sticker located on the outside of the fridge indicates to paramedics that a message in the bottle can be found in the fridge. Message in a Bottle can save lives, and will save the emergency services valuable time

when searching for vital information. Bottles are free of charge and can usually be obtained through your nearest Surgery, Pharmacy, Age Concern, Council Offices, Police stations, and of course, your local Falmouth & Penryn (or Truro) Lions. Call 0845 833 4801 (or 0845 833 5824) for more details. It makes so much sense. Do it now. Malcolm Clark

Open afternoon The Bluebell Walk

and Carclew House Ruins at Trevorick Saturday 5 May from 2 – 5 pm Open to all in aid of the RDA

(Riding for the Disabled Association) Daphne Neale (owner of Trevorick)

Mary’s father was chaplain to all the camps around, and both he and Mary were very busy in the run up to D-Day. All the forces leaving from Cawsand had to go through Millbrook, and she remembers seeing wave after wave of traffic coming through – it was an awesome sight. Mary came back to Mylor – it was a much loved place. She continued to be involved with the WVS, joined the WI. She received a long service medal from the WRVS, which she wears on Armistice Day with her long service medal from the Civil Defence – she used to come to church on the nearest Sunday but nowadays it is more difficult for her. But at 94, let us celebrate her very clear memories of the war years, and a life that included such good service to others. Judy Menage

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1 Infant (Luke 2:12) (4) 3 Luis must (anag.) (8) 8 What Jesus called the devil (John 8:44) (4) 9 ‘My God, my God, why have you — me?’ (Matthew 27:46) (8) 11 Anglican form of church govern-ment (10) 14 ‘Those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like — ’ (Isaiah 40:31) (6) 15 Ministers of religion (6) 17 Make stronger (1 Thessalonians 3:13) (10) 20 Devoutness (1 Timothy 2:2) (8) 21 The father of Jesse (Ruth 4:22) (4) 22 Pool where Jesus healed a man who had been an invalid for 38 years (John 5:2) (8) 23 ‘[Jesus] said to them, “ — here and keep watch”’ (Mark 14:34) (4)

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1 Follower of Christ (Acts 16:1) (8) 2 One of the punishments endured by Paul (2 Corinthians 6:5) (8) 4 Soldiers (Exodus 14:9) (6) 5 Scholarly study of melody, harmony and rhythm (10) 6 ‘I am God, and there is none — me’ (Isaiah 46:9) (4) 7 ‘And how can they preach unless they are — ?’ (Romans 10:15) (4) 10 Favourable reception (1 Timothy 1:15) (10) 12 Hip orbit (anag.) (8) 13 End of life (Isaiah 22:14) (5,3) 16 ‘About midnight the sailors — they were approaching land’ (Acts 27:27) (6) 18 He married Jezebel (1 Kings 16:30–31) (4) 19 ‘According to your great compas-sion — out my transgressions’ (Psalm 51:1) (4)

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Janet Hunt Workshop The next Workshop with Janet Hunt will be on Saturday 12th May from 10am to 4pm in the Pope Room, Tremayne Hall, Mylor Bridge. The Workshop is in two parts: ‘Letting Go & Cutting the Cords’ & ‘Understanding & Using Bach Flower Remedies’. This will be a very powerful workshop and considered in the light of a healing experience. You will be helped to heal your relationships with others as well as giving yourself an opportunity to let go of the past and heal the wounds and pain caused by the loss of love. You will gain the power to help yourself in all your relationship problems. The second part of the workshop will be learning and using Bach Flower Remedies, a simple and natural method of healing devised by Dr Edward Bach in the 1920s and 30s using wild flowers and plants. The cost of the workshop is £20 including the remedy which will be made to your own prescription. For further information contact Janet on 01326 375639.

Jonathan Gore DO CST MCSS Registered Osteopath and CranioSacral Therapist Every Friday from May 18th 2012, Jonathan a highly experienced Osteopath and CranioSacral Therapist will be opening a clinic from 1.30pm to 5.30pm in the Pope Room at the Tremayne Hall in Mylor Bridge. Jonathan has been in practice for over 25 years, having studied at The British School of Osteopathy in London. A large part of Osteopaths work load is dealing with musculo-skeletal pain, but equally they work with common disease processes and illness – such as respiratory and digestive problems, headaches, stress related disorders, sports injuries, the problem/s encountered during pregnancy, working with newborns and children, whether it is birth trauma or childhood illnesses. He commenced general practice in Suffolk and Cambridgeshire, before returning to London. In 1991 he went to work in Auckland, New Zealand, where he worked as an associate in a busy practice. It was there he was introduced to CranioSacral Therapy with the Upledger Institute in Florida. Having completed the core training with the institute, he took their technique exams to become fully qualified, and embarked in their rigorous training programme to become an instructor in the UK. Jonathan also has postgraduate training in Naturopathy, which uses diet and natural medicines to help improve health and wellbeing. He moved to Cornwall in 2000 and started the Redruth Osteopathic Clinic. His wide experience in Osteopathy and knowledge of the different therapies have seen his practice grow through the years, not only by word of mouth, but as a result of close relationships with doctors in the local surgeries. A recent house move to Mylor has prompted the opening of the branch practice here in the village. If you would like to make an appointment or discuss the possibility of treatment please do not hesitate to phone Redruth Osteopathic Clinic on 01209 315701

IMPORTANT NOTICE!!!

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New Osteopathic Clinic at the Pope Room, Tremayne Hall

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1.30pm to 5.30pm

For enquiries please telephone 01209 315701

Or visit www.redruthosteopathic-clinic.co.uk

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St Mylor Parish Church

and All Saints Mission Church, Mylor Bridge

www.stmylor.org.uk

Priest-in-Charge: The Revd Roger Nicholls (01326 374408) The Vicarage, 17 Olivey Place, Mylor Bridge, Cornwall, TR11 5RX

Lay Reader: Dorrit Smith (01326 374361) Churchwarden:

Judy Menage (01326 259909;

email:judymenage@gmail.com)

Parish Church Clerk: Pauline Bryant PCC Secretary: John Clark (01872 865974)

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