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1 Farndon FOCUS June 2018 What s going on? See page 11 Farndon Hero Look on page 27 Work in Cyprus? See page 30 Scan this for access to our website Harbingers of Spring. A coourfu array of Spring fowers was on dispay at the Farndon Horticutura Dociety Spring Show. See more on page 25 Farndon schoochidren tacke a viage probem Working on a campaign with the Newark and Sherwood District Counci and the Dogs Trust, Farndon St Peter s chidren have been earning about responsibe dog ownership. The initiative teaches chidren the importance of dog owners picking up dog mess and the effect on the community if this does not happen. They took part in a poster competition to remind dog owners to cear up after their pets, and the winning designs wi be dispayed around Farndon by the counci over the summer. We done to a the chidren who took part and to Imogen Key (pictured eft) in Year Two who was the overa winner of the competition. More schoo on page 11 serving the community... FARNDON FOCUS... the paper for you

2 LIVE MUSIC IN LOWDHAM Friday 22nd June at Lowdham Viage Ha JUDIE TZUKE SOLD OUT Wednesday 18th Juy at Lowdham Viage Ha HILLFOLK NOIR Tickets 12 E GILL & SONS A FAMILY FUNERAL SERVICE THROUGH FOUR GENERATIONS The Gi famiy are proud to have provided care and advice to generations of famiies in the Newark and District area For peace of mind and to make things easier for your famiy, we offer the E Gi & Sons Funera Pre payment pan For further information pease contact us for a brochure or a no obigation home visit. 55 ALBERT STREET, NEWARK, NOTTS NG24 4BQ Teephone: Wednesday 25th Juy at Lowdham Viage Ha VERONICA SBERGIA & MAX DI BERNARDI Tickets 12 Friday 3rd August at Lowdham Viage Ha PEATBOG FAERIES STANDING CONCERT WITH LICENSED BAR TICKETS 20 For tickets, ca Mike or Jacky on BINGHAM SCHOOL OF DANCE Baet, tap and modern casses from the age of three years up to adut casses avaiabe. A teachers are DBS checked. Examinstions undertaken and shows catered for. emai: shan@binghamdance.co.uk Teephone: FARNDON FOCUS... news and interest for you

3 The page three QUIZ 1. Which monarch founded the Church of Engand? 2. What kind of weapon is a fachion?? 3. What do Lord Rayeigh, Sir Wiiam Ramsay, Sir Ronad Ross and Rudyard Kiping have in common? 4. What is the officia anguage of Peru? 5. Which and anima has the ongest pregnancy? 6. What is the coective name for a group of crows? 7. Arachnophobia is the fear of what? 8. What is the coour of a poar bear s skin? 9. How many hearts does an octopus have? 10. Which Midde Eastern city is aso the name of a type of artichoke? 11. In which country did the first Footba Word Cup finas take pace in 1930? 12. What was the first perforated UK postage stamp, issued in 1854? 13. Roughy what proportion of their DNA do humans and chimpanzees share: 77%, 92% or 98.5%? 14. In the TV series Dad's Army, what was Captain Mainwaring's first name? Answers on page 20 A dressed up A dressed up for the Farndon Women s institute Centenary Ceebrations in Farndon Parish Church are Jessica Coson in front then eft to right, Ann Seaston, Sue Lowe, Hannah Coson and Dawn Gardner behind Hannah. See the Women s Institute report on page 24 Farndon Crafty Ladies woud ike to wecome new members to the group, writes Juie Saden. We meet every Wednesday afternoon between 2pm and 4pm at Trent House on the corner of Tuesday 19th June pm Farndon Viage Park & Memoria Ha John Cark Memoria Fun Run Free Entry for the viage and Newark running cub famiies A chidren wi get a meda on competing 1 or 2 aps of the fied (sponsored by the Parish Counci & Memoria Ha) Just turn up on the night and bring a picnic Limited parking at the Park so wak or car share. Come and join us for an evening of enjoyabe running for a the famiy. Toiets avaiabe by kind permission of the Viage Ha. Cricket Cub bar open For detais contact petersdavis@virginmedia.com Peter Davis MBE event organiser More crafty adies wi be wecomed Main Street and Caifornia Road. We do a sorts of crafts incuding knitting, crochet, jeweery, card making and needework. We support oca charities, having had a sta at the Newark Christmas market this year. We aso knit for the premature baby units at oca hospitas. So if you fancy joining this friendy group, pease ca in any Wednesday afternoon, bring aong any craft you are working on, and join us for a cup of tea and biscuits. Or if you woud ike further information you can ca Jan Gross on Scam warning Action Fraud is warning horse buyers about frauduent for sae adverts. Fraudsters are pacing fake adverts on reputabe equestrian sae websites to scam victims out of arge amounts of money. Fraudsters wi even support their caims of the horse s existence by suppying copies of reevant ownership documents, pictures and videos of the anima. If you wish to report a scam pease contact Action Fraud on teephone: web: uk/report_fraud For any other consumer issue contact the Citizens Advice Consumer Service on comment by The Editor So, we ive in the viage of Farndon. But what, may be asked, is a viage? One source tes me a viage is a custered human settement or community, arger than a hamet but smaer than a town, with a popuation ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. In the past, viages were a usua form of community for societies that practiced subsistence agricuture, and aso for some nonagricutura societies. In this country, a hamet earned the right to be caed a viage when it buit a church. Athough many patterns of viage ife have existed, the typica viage in times gone by was sma, consisting of perhaps five to 30 famiies. Homes were situated together for sociabiity and defence, and and surrounding the iving quarters was farmed. In Domesday Reoaded, on the web, to be a viage, a settement must have a church, a viage ha or community centre, a schoo (though not necessariy, some shops, usuay incuding a post office, a viage green, aotments, a pubic house, paces to work, both private and counci houses, and a parish counci or parish meeting. We, apart from aotments, we have a that but perhaps we have a itte more. There is a certain pride about Farndon. About how it ooks and how we want it to ook when peope visit us. We have a Parish Counci which takes a progressive approach to its duties and we, of course, have FREG which takes great pride in making the viage ook better. This year we aim to go further with our Best Kept Viage chaenge when the eyes of the judges wi compare us with other aspirants. We a need to pu together, keeping the viage ooking good. To be the best of the best and to impress. There s a ot to be said about iving in a viage and iving in Farndon is no exception. FARNDON FOCUS... news and interest for you 3

4 Stephenson Nutta & Co Chartered Accountants CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS 6 8 Castegate, Newark, Notts NG24 1AX INDEPENDENT FAMILY OPTICIAN FRIENDLY PROFESSIONAL EYECARE u Preparation of accounts u Sef Assessment Forms u Business Start Up Advice u Inheritance Tax u Audit and Compiance Reports u Tax Panning and Computation u. Business Pans u Payro and Book keeping Services Have you received your Sef Assessment Tax return? Do you need hep compiing it? If so contact Sir Peter Parker or Tom Hudson Tee: Fax: Private and NHS work Eye examinations avaiabe six days a week Chidren s eyecare Home visits are avaiabe for the housebound Contact ens service Sameday repair service On site gazing for most prescriptions Large range of frame styes on dispay Expert advice aways avaiabe j:d opticians 17/19 APPLETONGATE NEWARK (opposite the Paace Theatre) Farndon watch eader Sue Leach wrote It is with great sadness that I have to advise the residents of Farndon that the internationay accaimed widife artist Poyanna Pickering passed away at the end of March foowing a short iness. I had received requests to organise another tak by Poyanna at Farndon ony the week before I heard the news. It has been a great honour to work with Poyanna and her daughter Anna Louise recenty and I honesty don t think we woud have the new watch hut at the Farndon wiow Hot without her generosity of time, connections and support. Like many other peope mum, Shirey Hatcher and I visited Poyanna when she hed exhibitions at her studio near Bakewe. We admired her so ifeike widife designs, especiay the eyes and watching her spend an hour with a fine brush adding individua hairs onto the fur of a cheetah was awe inspiring. When her designs were converted by companies into cross stitch mum and I coud combine our two oves whist raising money for our favourite charity, Nottinghamshire Widife Trust by seing the produce competed and framed cross stitch designs. Out of courtesy we wrote to Poyanna asking for her permission to use her designs for this purpose, as we did to severa other cross stitch designers. Whereas most designers just wrote back either giving us permission or refusing Poyanna asked for more detais. When we expained about hoding a month ong exhibition/sae at Attenborough nature centre of the competed designs Poyanna not ony granted us permission to use her design but put us in contact with DMC the company that produced the cross stitch kits featuring her artwork who donated materia, threads and kits to us, but she aso recommended our project to an internationa cross stitch magazine that produced a page ong artice on the work mum and I were doing. This was not enough for Poyanna she wanted to do more so when she reaised she was free both the opening and cosing weekends of our exhibition the offer of two taks and her demonstrating her painting during the rest of the day came from Poyanna which we quicky accepted. That set of taks raised 1500 which paid for the panning appication fee for a project at Besthorpe nature reserve. When Poyanna heard our watch hut had been destroyed by an arsonist she offered her hep. Four 4 FARNDON FOCUS... news and interest for you Poyanna Pickering taks ater and after another cross stitch exhibition amongst many other fund raising events we got the funds to buid our hut so when we were ooking round for someone to open our hut Poyanna was an obvious choice and was thried when she reaised she was free the day of the hut opening and was abe to see the competion of the project she had supported. Even that day she didn t do ike many ceebrities opening events of opening the event then disappearing she aong with her daughter set Poyanna at the hut openng up her sta seing books, cards and products featuring Poyanna s artwork but made a point of speaking to a the other sta hoders, minging with the visitors and earning of their connection to the watch group and taking to the chidren and eaders of the watch group hearing of a the pans we had for using the hut. As she eft, Poyanna said she hoped to return one day to see us using the hut and thanked Shirey and I for invoving her in such a wonderfu project she even mentioned our hut opening on Create and Craft TV the next day aughing as she tod everyone how the scissors which worked perfecty we for me one minute faied to work for her so she neary ended up biting the ribbon to decare the hut open, We had a reaxed reationship with Poyanna and Anna Louise. If we went to an event where they were, they aways greeted us enthusiasticay and aways asked after the viagers of Farndon, who they fet had supported us so we in our fund raising. I was so ooking forward to contacting Anna Louise to organise a date for Poyanna s next visit but was heartbroken to find mysef instead writing a etter to Anna Louise sending the condoences of not ony mysef but the other eaders and chidren of the watch group and Nottinghamshire Widife Trust. The watch group are hoping to invite Anna Louise back to the Farndon Wiow Hot when we hod our next open reserve day and to formay show our thanks for the hep Poyanna gave us.

5 Farndon widife watch report The recent fooding on the Farndon Wiow Hot didn t stop the watch chidren athough it offers concrete proof of why the hut is on stits as the water apped the sixth step which is the ast step before you get to the fooring of the hut. Luckiy, athough arge pieces of tree stumps were moved quite forciby around the area by the hut, no damage was sustained other than to some fencing which was due for repacement anyway. March saw the Hedgehog Awareness charity from Foston join us for a meeting when we earnt a about these pricky friends, how to recognise a hedgehog in distress and make a rescue box that we coud keep the hedgehog in unti we coud contact the rescue charity. A the aduts and chidren drew around their hands and then cooured the resutant hand prints which were then turned into a arge hedgehog on the hut wa. Apri saw us ooking around the reserve for signs of spring whist finding od puffba mushrooms showing that there were sti signs of autumn around! News from the Widife The chidren and eaders were saddened to hear of the death of Poyanna Pickering and rather than just signing a condoence card the chidren wanted to do something more so they drew pictures of the hedgehogs they saw ast month to show off their artistic skis. In the May meeting we used the recent foods as an excuse to ook at water and who needs water. We came to the concusion that everything whether bird, mamma, insect or pant needs water to some degree but too much can be just as bad as too itte. We then waked around the reserve ooking for signs of water and birds, animas and insects using water in some way. We founds severa bugs and snais on fower heads drinking water where it had gathered in the fower head and took some back to the hut to identify. Back at the hut the eaders tod the chidren a about 30 days wid which is run nationay by a the widife trusts across the Uk and the chidren have a taken a sheet home to record what they do each day before bringing it back to our Juy meeting. As part of June s 30 days wid a the nationa widife trusts have decared the weekend of 16th/17th June Wid Weekend when across the UK famiy friendy events wi be hed at widife trust reserves... Our nearest event is at Besthorpe nature Reserve off Trent Lane Besthorpe where the watch group eaders wi be running pond dipping and sweep netting sessions from 9.30 ti 4pm. Other events such as bird ringing demonstrations, bird watching waks, information stas, hedgehog awareness and refreshments wi be hed on the reserve and at Besthorpe viage ha with a strawberry cream tea being hed at the ha between 2 and 4pm. Pease keep an eye out ocay for posters and artices in the advertiser to see fu ist of events and timings. If you want to sign up for more information about 30 days wid or oca events og onto Roya ways.. # After weekend house parties at Sandringham, King Edward VII insisted on weighing his guests to make sure they had eaten we. # Queen Eizabeth I often drank two pints of strong beer for breakfast. # Whenever the king of Swaziand rises from his seat he must be greeted with cheers and gasps of astonished admiration. # In 1875 the king of Fiji brought back meases from a state visit to Austraia and wiped out a quarter of his own peope. # Prince Chartes is said to tak to his pants. FARNDON FOCUS... news and interest for you 5

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7 Ninjutsu host nationa course In Apri, BBD Newark Ninjutsu hosted the first nationa course of 2018 at their training base, 6th Newark Sea Scout HQ, Farndon. Led by Chief Instructor, Shihan Brian McCarthy 8th Dan and Shidoshi Ken Redden, 6th Dan from Dubin, with some 50 students/ instructors from across the UK. After a warm up start, training started with some basic but very strong technique, encouraging students to move for one eement to another to deiver power and etting the movement fow instead of being fixed to one position. This moved on to a revision of kata with the 3 way heart form, Sanshin no Kata being practiced. Repetition of these, are sound buiding bocks for good strong techniques in freestye Ninjutsu. After the unch break, four students from Newark undertook their grading's whie the rest of the students trained outdoors with Mr Redden. They went through basics of Kamae no kata postures, stances or, momentsin time as we phiosophicay prefer to refer to them. The four candidates began their grading by answering questions from the syabus, posed by Brian McCarthy, then demonstrated Sanshin no Kata and some throwing and take don techniques from Jutai jutsu before escaping from grabs and some cose quarter work. Some weapons skis are aso part of the grades, featuring sword, spear and knife. At the end of the grading session, Mr McCarthy announced were a successfu but need to buid on and deveop their skis. Darcey Dunne 19 Beckingham and Biy Owen were graded to 5 Kyu and Barry Hoand 53 and Robert Edin 24 were awarded their 2nd Kyu. The fina session of the day was centred around the Tanto or knife. Because of recent high media focus on the number of stabbings and knife crime in the UK Mr McCarthy used this to highight some of the difficuties and potentia ways of deaing with knife attacks and being threatened. The most important object is to use your senses and Kyoman no Jutsu or study and observation. This is about being aware of your surroundings, peope in them and any potentia threats that may arise. If you have chance to escape without confrontation then do it. Protect yoursef by using anything to aid you to hep you as a shied. This may be by wrapping a jacket or jumper around a eading arm, use of a bet or handbag, and umbrea or chair or simiar. If you have to face an attacker without any of this assistance, then the use of deady force is your ast option, so show no mercy. Ladies Sef Defence Course. On Sunday 27th May, Newark Ninjutsu hosted and ran a Ladies sef defence course at Farndon. The three hour basic course ran from 13:00 to 16:00. Aimed at any teenage femaes and adut femaes the course was free of charge but donations were invited to be given to Newark Women s Aid which wi had some attendees on the course. European Summer Festiva In June, 9/10th, the Bujinkan Brian Dojo wi be hoding their 35th Anniversary Matsuri, summer festiva here in Farndon. Instructors and students from across Europe wi descend on Farndon for a weekend of traditiona Ninjutsu training. It s expected around 100 peope wi attend from as far away as Mata, Hungary, Hoand and Eire. Back Bet gradings wi take pace on the Friday and a socia Matsuri party with bar and music wi take pace for a attendees on the Saturday evening where a number of awards and grades wi be presented by Chief Instructor, Brian McCarthy. Juniors Hattori We are aso ooking to increase our junior casses on a Sunday morning as we. The Juniors, or Hattori, as we ca them, after a very famous Ninja grandmaster and warrior, Hanzo Hattori, can train from 10 am. Chidren between the age of 8 and 13 are more than wecome to attend an introductory course beginning on Sunday Juy 1st. Cost is 5 for 2 hours. The course wi cover basic agiity, warm ups and break faing, simpe kata, escaping from grabs, hand and foot techniques, ocks and takedowns. For more information contact Kiyth Fotitt o Biy Owen, Rob Edin, Kiyth Fotitt senior Back Bet, Barry Hoand, Darcey Dunne Moon gazing This truy amazing picture, is one of many outstanding photographs captured by Pau Dachter of Farndon. It shows the moon with its craters ceary visibe to the naked eye.. FARNDON FOCUS... news and interest for you 7

8 New record for Farndon Art Group We hed our annua exhibition at the Viage Ha on Saturday 12th May. The day proved fine and despite the cash of dates with the County Show we had a steady fow of visitors. As usua the sae of cakes and drinks and the tabes set out in the centre of the room in café format contributed to the ivey and animated atmosphere. Interest was shown from severa visitors about joining the group which was aso very encouraging. The range of subjects, media and styes was quite extensive and overa the standard was very high. As one of our first visitors commented, it was the best exhibition he had ever been to. A in a a fantastic day with 109 visitors (a record) and 26 pictures sod, again a record. Thank you aso to those who made a donation to our chosen charity this year. We made a fantastic 120. It reay made our hard work worthwhie and a big thank you to everyone who visited and our members (and husbands) who heped to set up and dispense drinks and cake (and genera dogsbodying). By the end of the day we had virtuay sod out of cake apart from a few sices! Aso a first! The favourite painting as voted for by visitors was At Rest a watercoour by Dave Watson. We done Dave. N eye ce D eye ce Phi Tawny Ow Maj Water Liies Barb Victoria Fa at sunrise Liz White Losing your waet / purse used to be the end of ife! Today it s a about osing your phone, tabet, aptop or the cunky PC in the corner of the room. The panic and stress to work out what you have ost and the time taken to get it back is ony second to having a phone which is damaged that you can t get the pictures off. A certain amount of our time is taken up giving the sermon of ife to the poor sou in the shop faing into depression of what we wi have to do to restore their sanity!! The easiest way is the daiy practice to note down your passwords and reigiousy keep the ist up to date. If it s not that password then it coud be one of these is a chorus heared on a daiy basis. Appe, Microsoft, Googe and Facebook to name a few are encrypting their services to stop your passwords being hacked from your device, so when you are stuck the first step is to foow their recovery procedures. At Christmas I was peasanty surprised how ipad s and hot tubs can get confused. I can confirm that an Ipad does not foat and can be resuscitated with oving care and expenditure from your waet, Sady I ve not become a heart or a brain surgeon just yet but sti hanging onto my boy scout s badge s just in case. I m sure that everyone ooks at Googe shopping or Amazon to determine the price of a product, however the recent decine in big retai groups / stores is going to make it more difficut for customers to see the physica product. Shop browsing is on the increase at speciaist independents ike ourseves and we are peased to chat and hep. In computing the trend is going in the opposite direction by stocking a wider choice and having items to work in the new techhome. Speech activated or phone activated devices from security to abour saving devices are gaining in popuarity and is now moving from eary adopters to mass market, so much so I recenty had the priviege of seeing how the humbe toaster is aready changing. The Amazon Kinde is an integra part of your trave uggage, the content is instanty avaiabe but whie you trave and take pictures and find out what TripAdvisor recommends you need to keep the data safe, I see quite a few devices that Mum or Dad forgot 8 FARNDON FOCUS... news and interest for you You and your computer Martin Horsfa of M&R Systems offers hepfu advice to take out of their back pocket when going for a swim The Ipad air and Ipad Pro are the two important tabets and the cost is baanced by the amount of storage. Chrome books + the basic 14 aptops running Windows 10 are briiant for surfing the web, and emais. They are not very good at hoding photos due to their imited storage capacity but have great battery ife. We are now offering buy in, or trade up of od aptops and towers, the second user market is now we estabished and is a vaid way of finding good vaue. Gaming for a youngster s is moving at a quick pace, the variety of accessories is becoming more demanding each day Cooermaster now offer eft and right handed mice, wireess speakers and headphones, speciaist chairs, the current fad is bright ed s fashing ights. Enjoy the Summer, Community heroes Our county is known the word over for Robin Hood, the egendary outaw hero and his Sherwood Forest. Nottinghamshire County Counci has aunched its search for todays community heroes and heroines and wants to hear from you! Nottinghamshire Community Heroes is seeking nominations for peope who go the extra mie for a neighbour, an organisation or a oca community. Nominations can come from anyone who wants to highight the achievements of another person, who ives in Nottinghamshire and works or vounteers within the county. Ideas for nominees are those who hep vunerabe peope with shopping, provide a ift to a medica appointment, hep young peope in their community, vounteering for a good cause, or eading a oca community project which has made a difference. On a reguar basis, the County Counci Chairman wi seect one person who deserves an extra specia thank you. They wi receive the Chairman s Award which incudes meeting the Chairman. The criteria is as foows: Nominees must ive in the county. Nominees must work or vounteer within the county. Nominations shoud not be party poitica. Nominees and those nominating woud feature in award pubicity. To nominate go to: communityheroes #nottsheroes on Twitter

9 MId February this year, writes Phi Rogers, saw us returned from a short break to Orkney. Yes, we did see the Northern Lights, aso visiting severa quite On birds and butterfies archaeoogica as these necessitate reguar fiing of the feeders and bird bath de icing. Our packs of raisins and suet were gone in no time. A this et to a pretty miserabe Spring athough a decent day was to be had at RSPB Langford where a manner of birds were gorging themseves on the peanuts offered up in the feeders. Great Tits, Bue Tits, Coa Tits, Long taied Tits, Chaffinch and Reed Bunting a vying for position. As were the robins which certainy adapted to the feeders. Mid March showed things moving on when a neighbour informed me his pond contained frogspawn and five caing frogs. Co incidentay, it was a year to the day since ast time! This was foowed soon after by my first Brimstone butterfy sighting and a pair of Robins with Green finch, Godfinch and Coa Tits were greediy attacking the sunfower hearts. Peanuts sti a 'no no' The end of Apri saw us in North Norfok, a favourite ocation, with some good birding to be had and a visit to the Widife Trust's superb estabishment on the Cey Road, overooking astonishing sites of Word Heritage status with the hep of our very own persona guide. It was aso bittery cod with ferocious winds and snow showers. Thank goodness for a modern bungaow with underfoor heating throughout. This, naturay, brings me to the birdy bit. Stunning ocations, rare sightings, great opportunities. What did I see? Huge numbers of Greyag Geese, Hooded Crows, Curews, Oystercatchers and Redshank, a of which I see cose to home. So be it. And there was no way I coud fit in a trip to a nearby isand to see the Snowy Ow! Fascinating Shorty foowing our return home it was fascinating to watch a femae backbird franticay coecting awn moss (we do have some!!) and twigs for her nest in our Hawthorne hedge. It was a reminder that Spring was just around the corner. Needess to say, however, she, ike the rest of us was in for a big shock as snow and biting winds moved in at the end of the month. Conditions such the marshes and North Sea. Binocuars and teescopes are there for everyone. The shop is exceent with briiant cooked briiant food. We worth a visit. Our resident mae eucistic Backbird, (with the white markings), has been feeding his four offspring and this is the second time he has heped raise a famiy. Eary May saw things hotting up iteray. Farndon bowing green in gorious sunshine produced mae and femae Orange tip butterfies, aong with Brimstone and Bues (The Hoy and Common Bues I find notoriousy difficut to separate when they are in fight! ) and one morning I actuay stood outside and istened to the dawn chorus. What a racket. A with a purpose, of course, and ong may it ast. Finay, and perhaps fittingy, on the evening of Sunday 6th of May, did I, very briefy, heard the Cuckoo from the direction of Wiow Hot and the Trent? If so, it woud be the first time for me for severa years in our viage and I reay woud appreciate any confirmation from readers out there. Reay, reay finay. What's the difference between iicit and iega. Answer? Iicit is against the aw iega is a sick bird...sorry or the pun! County Counci appointment Nottinghamshire County Counci has appointed David Hughes as Director for Growth and Investment and to ead on major investment projects across the county. He wi support the deivery of important aims in Nottinghamshire County Counci's Corporate Pan, incuding: deveoping a thriving jobs market, making the county a great pace to invest and do business and Improving infrastructure for a we connected county Mr Hughes has over 30 years' in the regeneration and deveopment sectors worked in oca government with regeneration and panning roes. On his appointment, David Hughes said "I am reishing a return to the East Midands with the exciting opportunities in Nottinghamshire. The county is making a step change to deiver regeneration by using its 2 biion property and and portfoio to create oca jobs and encourage quaity house buiding, whist generating a commercia income to re invest back into frontine services. Councior Kay Cutts, Leader of Nottinghamshire County Counci, said "We are fortunate to be abe to appoint someone of David's undoubted caibre to this roe. He has a track record of deivering major regeneration projects and has maintained a strong oca network within the property and deveopment sectors. FARNDON FOCUS... news and interest for you 9

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11 Brownies enjoy ots of fun St Peter s Cross Keys C of E Academy How does your garden grow? We ve had ots of fun aready this year, writes Debbie Carke, Unit Leader. We were ucky enough to enjoy a fantastic Samba evening, paying a sorts of instruments as oudy as we coud! Thanks George! In March, as a foow up to our caro singing in December, we had Catherine, a guest speaker from Beaumond House to tak about the importance of fundraising and we made paper butterfies to keep as a reminder. We ve practised staying safe crossing the road, enroed 5 new Brownies and made chocoate nests for Easter. Apri saw us parading with Guides and Scouts from the whoe of Newark for St. George s Day. More than haf of the Brownies were abe to We I never! Mongoias argest airport is named after Genghis Khan who had 500 wives and a vast number of chidren. One in ten peope iving in Centra Asia today are his direct descendants. join us and we were ucky that the weather stayed fine. Thank you to the girs who represented us we and paraded with pride! We are now trying to achieve the Brownie agiity badge so having estabished what is or is not appropriate cothes for exercising (the girs had some very entertaining ideas!) and how you warm up, we are now practising our skipping, hua hooping and throwing skis. We aways have a waiting ist for girs wanting paces, the imiting factor being the ack of aduts to ead them. Pease, if you think you coud hep and woud ike to join us, register onine as a vounteer at In the year to come there wi be badges, trips and nights away so if your daughter woud ike to join in the fun at Farndon Brownies, pease register on the website above. Girs can become Brownies at 7 years of age, but we do have a waiting ist and recommend that you register we before then as we have a imited number of paces! Year 2 have been working with Nottinghamshire and Newark Agricutura society on their initiative of Growing a mea in a wheebarrow. After discussing which meas they woud ike to grow and drawing out pans, they decided on 3 wheebarrows: one for a pizza mea, one for a fruit saad and one for herbs. Over a period of weeks the ettuce, carrot, spring onion, and tomato seeds were carefuy panted, and paced in our Eco Greenhouse. Strawberry pants and raspberry canes were aso bought we aready have our first strawberry growing! Aong with the vegetabes, they aso panted sunfowers and potatoes and so now they are watering and caring for them as they watch them grow. The chidren are reay ooking forward to eating their resuts! Farndon Focus September deadine Tuesday 14th August 2018 Editoria copy shoud be sent in word format with separate pictures in JPEG format to phiip@ingauk.com Advertising materia shoud be sent to FARNDON FOCUS... news and interest for you 11

12 St Peter s Church Since the ast issue of Focus we have created a bit of history in a sma way. Tucked away in the church vestry is a sequence of photographs of previous Vicars of Farndon Church dating from the Venerabe Brough Matby who assumed office in 1864 right through to the Rev David Miner our ast Rector. And they were a men. Nothing wrong in that of course but as we a wi have been aware in the ast few years times they are a changing and the next photograph in the sequence wi be that of a ady. Yes, the powers that be have appointed the Rev Eizabeth Murray as the current priest in charge of the United Benefice of Farndon with Thorpe and Hawton with Cotham. And she is aso currenty priest in charge of a group of parishes down the road centred on Eston and East Stoke, known generay as the Octave group. Introduction... Dear A Firsty, et me introduce mysef. I am Revd Eizabeth (Liz) Murray and I was icensed as Priest in Charge (Vicar to most) to Farndon with Thorpe and Hawtin with Cotham on the 6th Apri. These parishes are in addition to the ones I have now: East Stoke, Eston, Syerston, Sibthorpe, Sheton, Staunton and Kivington; so perhaps I am going to be a very busy person. I have been with Eston et a since 2013 and have reay enjoyed getting to know the area. A few years ago, I came to Farndon to take a service and I was just driving aong thinking how ovey this area is, when I came across a road sign saying, cats eyes removed, this gave me a different picture of Farndon! if they are removing cats eyes what ese do they get up to in Farndon? I asked mysef. Of course, I refer to the road being regraded and not the feine persuasion. First impressions do inger for a whie; therefore, I need to reassure you that I have found Farndon and the other viages very wecoming. I am the first femae Vicar of these parishes and I hope in this I can bring a wonderfu pastora care and priesty practice to the viages I serve. I ook forward to meeting and getting to know many more peope, through working with the schoo, and as I trave with you through the sorrows and the joys of ife, and of course in worship at St Peter s. Athough I ive in Eston I ike to think I have an open door so do pease pop by for a chat or perhaps best to ring first to make sure I am in, or if you want meet to visit you, again give me a ring or emai and we can aways find a date and time. With Grace and Peace to a. Rev Liz Murray The icensing service was very we attended and a happy and dignified occasion with Bishop Tony and the Archdeacon both present. One visitor was heard to remark there is a ot of ove in that pace. Eizabeth is no stranger to us at Farndon having taken services here on severa occasions when heping to keep worship aive and kicking during our vacancy so she, in a way, is re joining od friends on a different basis and most importanty, she has aready started to buid a reationship with St Peter s Cross Keys Academy. Working it out You wi gather that arrangement of a programme of worship is going to take some working out since, with the best wi in the word and with responsibiity for 11 parishes, she wi not be abe to provide us with the programme of services we enjoyed in the past and we sha have to be prepared as a congregation to conduct some of those services which do not require the presence of an ordained minister, but this is something we have been doing during the vacancy and no doubt wi be prepared to continue. Mothering Sunday ceebrations incuded a distribution of fowers and ighting of candes in honour of mothers. Our Easter ceebrations were we attended. The Passover type mea on Good Friday was an occasion of soemn remembrance with hymns and prayers ed by the Rev 12 FARNDON FOCUS... news and interest for you Reg. Waton but aso enjoyabe as a socia gathering with our sister parishes joining us. We particuary owe a debt of gratitude to our friends from Hawton who undertook the responsibiity of providing the mea. There was a arge attendance on Easter Sunday. Churchwardens After Easter we hed the usua Vestry meeting for the eection of churchwardens foowed by the Annua Parish meeting reviewing the past year and making decisions for the next. Happiy our two wardens Jessica and Keith were prepared to continue in office, so no changes on that front. Generay church affairs seemed to be in good order. No shortage of vounteers for the mutitude of tasks that have to be done to keep things ticking over. Prayer Group at 9.15 on Wednesdays and Open Church on first and third Saturday mornings ti noon both seem to be attracting more interest. By the time you read this we sha have had another concert by the Dukeries Singers and hopefuy another two days of workshop in church for the Academy wi have been organised. Best wishes to you a and we hope to see you sometime. Farndon Residents Garage/Yard Sae 24th June am to 2.00pm Items for sae incude furniture, househod items, cothes, jeweery, toos, kids toys, arts and crafts, books, pants and more. Start on Long Lane ad aong Marsh Lane and streets off. A map wi be avaiabe showing where to go See etters to the editor

13 The Parish Counci Since the ast issue of the Farndon Focus, the Parish Counci has met three times and discussed a number of matters. Bus Sheter The County Counci is repacing the bus sheter that is ocated on Main Street, between the junction of Cross Lane and Church Street. The new sheter wi have seats and side windows so that the buses can be seen on approach. WW1 Commemorations To mark the 100th anniversary of the end of the 1st Word War, the Parish Counci has purchased a Sient Sodier from the Roya British Legion This is a sihouette of a sodier, with a commemorative paque at the bottom. It wi initiay be paced next to the seat on the green at the junction of Main Street and Fosse Road. Grass Cutting The Parish Counci has been without a Handyman/Sexton for a itte whie but was deighted to wecome Simon Pashey to the team at the end of Apri. Simon has previousy worked for the Parish Counci and, with the recent wet weather, foowed by a dry spe, he wi be kept busy maintaining the grassed areas the parish has responsibiity for. As there has been a gap in maintenance, the verges have been fuy mown earier than norma. They woud not normay be mown unti 6 weeks after the ast fower has died away to protect the bubs for next year. Paying Fied With the summer approaching and the ighter nights, it is nice to see the paying fied back in fu use, with the cricket and bows cub meeting reguary. On 19th June, the second John Cark Memoria Run, organised by Peter Davis and supported by the Memoria Ha and the Parish Counci, wi take pace on the fied. This was we attended ast year and it is hoped that there wi be more taking part this year. The race starts at 6pm. BT Kiosk The kiosk on Main Street wi soon be given a new ease of ife, with a ick of paint and information eafets advertising oca events paced inside it. Loca Improvement Scheme As outined in the previous issue, an appication has been made to the oca improvement scheme for funding for new entrance signs to refect the heritage of our viage. No decision has yet been received, it is understood that successfu appicants wi be informed by the end of May. Potentia Deveopment At the time of writing, the Counci had been approached by a deveoper with a view to presenting proposas on a deveopment in the viage. The Parish Counci wi hear these at its meeting on 21st May. Cemetery Further work to the conifers have et a ot more ight in to the Cemetery and given the trees that were in between them space to branch out. The bossom on these trees has provided a pretty dispay in the Cemetery, which woud previousy have been hidden. And finay, the Parish Counci meets at 6.30pm on the fourth Monday of every month. Members of the pubic are wecome to come and join us and ask questions or raise issues during the pubic session. FARNDON FOCUS... news and interest for you 13

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17 Farndon Bows Cub the beginning The Cub was formed in 1983 and in 1984 appied to pay on London Road on Newark. The members at that time joined the Newark and District Bows League. At the same time the Cub approached the Farndon Parish Counci to have a bowing green on the paying fied. The Parish Counci agreed and during 1985 the construction of the green was competed. However, the green coud not be used straight away as it needed to sette, so home matches were sti payed on London Road. Need to know? The Inca measurement of tme was based on how ong it took to boi a potato. Harry Houdini coud pick up pins with his eyeashes and thread a neede with his toes. A medium sized cumuus coud weighs about the same as 80 eephants. By 1987 a matches were being payed at Farndon and The British Sugar Corporation gave their od tennis paviion to the Cub, which asted for five years. The green was officiay opened by Mrs. Edith Wright in 1988 and a friendy match was hed against a Newark League Representative Team to mark the occasion. During the same year the Cub entered a team in the League of Country Bowing. By 1991 the Cub had grown and was now abe to enter a team in the Trent Vaey League. Finay in 1992 a new paviion was buit with the hep of a grant from The Foundation of Art. The Cub is sti active to this day and sti in the same eagues, with enthusiastic and competitive members and shoud anyone wish to know more about the Cub now or wish to join pease contact Angea (secretary) on / or Kevin on WHEATCROFTS Suppying and fitting of a types of foor covering Professiona carpet and uphostery ceaning CARPETS - VINYLS REMNANTS SAFETY FLOORING CARPET EDGING Massive choice - Competitive prices Free estimates - Speciaist fitting Open 8am to 5pm Monday to Fiday.Saturday 9am to 4.30pm Free customer parking Te: Andrew mobie: Ian mobie: emai: wheatcroftsfooring@btconnect.com FLOORING Richardson House Sherwood Avenue, Newark NG24 1QF FARNDON FOCUS... news and interest for you 17

18 Fy Tipping (Information taken from NSDC web site) Fy tipping is the iega dumping of waste and it is your responsibiity to know what has happened to your waste. If you have any work done on your property or if you pay someone to take waste away for you, make sure they are registered with the Environment Agency. Fy tipping is an issue that that the poice do not dea with however we the poice do take an active roe in trying to reduce the amount of waste that is being dumped in and around the oca rura communities. Penaties If your waste is dumped iegay, you coud be fined up to 50,000 and/or receive a prison sentence. At the Crown Court the fine is an ON THE BEAT with PCSO 8128 Mike Munro Remember Be safe Be secure Who taking care of your waste unimited fine and up to five years in prison. The courts can aso disquaify someone from driving and order the confiscation of any vehice used in the commission of the offence. Fy tipping on private and The counci responds to a fy tipping reports and aims to cear the rubbish within 24 hours, provided it is on a street or some other pubic pace. If the rubbish is dumped on private and such as farmer's fieds and other areas not in pubic ownership, we wi not cear it without charging the occupier for doing so. We wi investigate such incidents and prosecute offenders when we have the evidence. We aso appy for costs in court on behaf of the andowner/occupier. FARNDON PARISH COUNCIL Parish Room, Memoria Ha, Marsh Lane, Farndon, NG24 3TS Teephone: emai: cerk.farndon.pc@btconnect.com Best Kept Viage Competition Judgng 4th to 22nd June 2018 Farndon won the Best New Entry category in the 2017 competition. The Parish Counci are entering the 2018 competition and woud ike to see our ovey viage get the recognition it deserves for its open spaces and environment. Working with FREG improvements are aready being made with verges being edged and tidied and raiings on the green painted. Grass cutting has now started and our viage handyman wi be making sure that the cemetery and a the other green areas maintained by the Parish Counci ook neat and tidy. But we need the hep of the wider community can you hep? Now that the warmer weather is approaching it is an idea time to get in your front garden and have a quick tidy up and a sweep to brush the dead eaves away, or perhaps cut that hedge back that has become overgrown. If you need assistance in doing this contact Jayne, the cerk, and we wi see if we can hep in any way. Iega dumping There are peope who go round offering to take rubbish to the tip for a few pounds. They wi see it on the front garden or down the side of the house or just cod ca. It is important to reaise that, uness they are registered waste carriers (and most egitimate companies do not cod ca); these peope have no option but to fy tip that rubbish. If you want to find egitimate registered waste carriers, pease use the Environment Agency's Pubic Registers, to find registered waste carriers within your area. If you aow someone you do not know to take your waste to the tip and it ends up being fy tipped, you get a etter from the counci wanting to interview you about fy tipping and you may get a bi for the cear up. To avoid this, take it to the tip yoursef or get a trusted friend to do so. You can aso use the counci s own excess waste coection service for which there is a sma charge, or for arger quantities we can provide you with an individua quote. Witnessing and reporting a fy tipping incident If you find evidence, pease eave it where it is and et us know as soon as possibe. If you seize evidence such as etters etc and remove it from the site you shoud be prepared to make a written statement 18 FARNDON FOCUS... news and interest for you saying that. Otherwise we may not be abe to take any further action. If you find some fy tipping or have witnessed fy tipping taking pace, pease contact the Newark and Sherwood Waste Management Department on , or you can visit the Newark and Sherwood District Counci web site at and report any fy tipping on ine. Pease submit as much information as possibe to enabe us to take positive action. PLEASE NOTE YOUR LOCAL POLICE CONTACT DETAILS: PCSO 8128 Mike Munro. 101ext Work mobie is E mai: michae.munro@nottinghamshire.pnn.poice.uk Pease do not report incidents on the above mobie number, these systems are for messages ony. If a Crime is in progress dia 999. If you wish to contact your oca Poice Station then dia 101 (Non Emergency) Remember: You can aso ca Crimestoppers on Your ca is Free and Confidentia and you may receive a Reward.

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20 Sometimes, a you need is for someone just to be there, even if they can t sove your probems. Just knowing there is someone who cares can make a the difference. Your etters.... FUN RUN Dear editor Reach s popuar annua offroad cyce event takes pace on 3rd June. Entry for this year s event is now open at This year we have decreased chidren s prices to just 3. Adut tickets cost 14 or 20 depending on which route you choose. Pease note these are advanced booking prices and there wi be a 1 admin charge. Reach Off Road offers four routes 5, 10, 20 and 37 mie options. The event is we known for its friendy atmosphere and wide array of cakes at the event viage and at stops on route. This year we are working with British Cycing to hep promote the event. Our fantastic committee of oca peope are once again heping with event co ordination and marshaing and Rode Cyces wi again be at the start venue providing bike repairs. We are deighted to wecome Saint Gobain Formua Newark and Trave Wright on board as sponsors for this year s event. Registration this year takes pace at Southwe Rugby Cub. This wi offer space for oca businesses to have stands. We wi aso have a few chidren s activities at the Rugby Cub from 10am to 2pm on the day. To find out more pease contact Sarah at sarah.cobb@reachuk.org or ca NEW CHAIRMAN Dear Editor...You may be aware that I have now become Chairman of the Nottinghamshire County Counci I recognise it is a great honour to hod this office and I sha, with my famiy and friends, support, embrace the position and represent the residents of Nottinghamshire in the way which is expected of me. The first weekend was extremey busy, incuding opening a new schoo bock in Mansfied on the Friday, attending the County Show on the Saturday, the Cantamus continued on next page The page three QUIZ The answers 1. Henry VIII 2. A sword 3. A Nobe prize winners 4. Spanish 5. Eephant 6. A murder 7. Spiders 8. Back 9. Three 10. Jerusaem 11. Uguguay 12. Penny red % 14. George 20 FARNDON FOCUS... news and interest for you

21 Your etters.... girs Choir on the Saturday evening in Worksop, a oca history fair in the Mansfied Library on Sunday morning and the Gir and Boys Service on the Sunday afternoon in Nottingham. I can see this is going to be a very busy year, but I have been given a wonderfu opportunity to meet the residents of Nottinghamshire, witness and take part in their Ceebratory events. Apart from aso attending meetings at County Ha I sha write to a Parishes in the next few days to expain how best for me to operate over the next 12 months, as of course I sti wish to be avaiabe for th Parish and Councis and residents concerns. My Civic Service which is open to a, is on Sunday June 24th at 3pm in Southwe Minster. I have chosen Nottingham Chidren s Hospita as my Charity, raising money towards their Big Appea. They are investing in state of the art imaging faciities for Nottingham s young patients to give them the best chance of recovering from brain tumours. Caroine, Wiiam and I joined hundreds of peope in Woaton Park on 6th May in one of their Charity events, which was the Word Record Attempt to have as many peope as possibe dressed as Robin Hood, it was a fun day but sady I understand the record was not beaten, Yes, we three went dressed as Robin Hood! Many of you may have watched the series of Have your say The editor wecomes your etters They must be accompanied by your fu name and address and a contact teephone number. Most etter writers prefer not to be identified and and in these cases the editor may use an appropriate pseudonym when signing them off. They can be posted to Farndon Focus, 27 Main St, Farndon NG24 3SA or they may be emaied to phiip@ingauk.com programmes about Nottingham University Hospita just recenty and one cannot hep but be touched by the devoted work of the Staff and the worry and anguish of parents sitting at the side of sick chidren. I hope we can a hep to raise funds for this very worthy project. I have chosen the Rev. Liz Murray to be my Chapain for the year, she wi take part in the service at Southwe, which wi be a itte different, so I have peasure in inviting residents who woud ike to support me to attend. Kind regards, Sue Saddington, Chairman of Nottinghamshire County Counci and County Councior for Farndon/Trent Division, A MiSSING LINK? In your comments coumn in the March issue you mentioned that we now have a new beat manager in the viage. I just wonder if this is the case of the invisibe man returns or maybe is it a woman? Who knows, because everyone I have spoken to in the viage has yet to see this new person, who, we were tod, is supposedy patroing our viage and keeping down crime. Our poiticians keep teing us that we need to have more poice on the streets but where are they? Like spotting the first cuckoo of the season perhaps someone wi write to Farndon Focus to say they beieve they are the first to have seen our beat manager, but then perhaps we shoud not hod our breath. Forever optimist, name and address suppied. GARAGE/YARD SALE With the introduction of the Farndon Residents Page on Face book, set up by Peter Parker, this too has become a great ink to getting a Farndon residents together. I was asked by a few of my friends if I coud organise a garage sae around the viage as I am an avid seer on facebook and carbooter. I have received a great response so far and woud ike everyone to get behind this. Have a good cear out put In your drive or share a drive with neighbours and te a you friends and famiy. Pease et me know if you wi be participating so I can organise the map. There is a ink on Farndon Residents site on facebook or my persona emai is emma.edwards43@virginmedia.com Many thanks everyone. See notice on page 12 Chris Edwards END PIECE I wonder why the person who parks his van reguary in Main Street can t use their own road instead of cuttering up our viage. Know your Newark Where is this? In this new reguar feature we wi be asking readers to identify various aspects of Newark. There is no prize other than increasing your knowedge. Answer in next issue. Charnwood Joinery and Property Care provides a wide range of services for a your joinery and buiding needs at home and within the workpace Kitchens Doors Windows Staircases Fooring Roofs Cupboards and wardrobes Decking Extensions Fencing Ca us for a free quote on or or emai: charnwoodjoinery@hotmai.com 85 Fosse Road, Farndon, Newark NG24 3TL FARNDON FOCUS... news and interest for you 21

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23 Ask any Freggie and I bet they te you that the heart of the group ies in its Working Parties. Getting outside with oppers, spade or itter picker in hand, is what makes most of us tick. It wi, therefore, come as no surprise for you to discover that the ast few months have been a bit frustrating for us, as the weather has payed a deciding hand in scuppering some of our pans. February started we, and the coppicing of the specimen wiows in the Wiow Hot took pace as panned. Every year FREG heps Notts. Widife Trust maintain this important coection of trees and we are usuay bessed with a springike day for the task. However, this year it was du and chiy and the rain started just as we finished the job. But much worse weather was to come! Water ogged The Beast from the East arrived in ate February, and with it severa inches of snow. The resuting met water, foowed by repeated heavy rain, ed to extremey water ogged ground conditions. Then the Mini Beast arrived and water eves rose again causing the river to food its banks. Subsequenty The Big Riverside Litter Pick we had panned for the midde of March had to be put back a week and was then canceed again. Even the aternative activity of Lifting the Tree Canopy in Cottage Lane nature Reserve was impossibe as haf of Cottage Lane and the surrounding fieds were under water (photo). Farndon Residents Environment Group Making our viage ook better Hawthorne in fower Litter pick We did, however, manage to carry out our monthy itter pick in March and another in Apri. Our annua tidy up of the Churchyard aso took pace in Apri. New shoots were removed from the bases of some of the trees and the spread of the ivy was kept in check. The Churchyard is a ovey mix of widfowers in the spring. Buebes and Cowsips etc. foowed by acy Cow Parsey create a beautifu, natura environment which must aso be beneficia to insects and other widife. FREG s third activity for Apri invoved doing our bit towards the Best Kept Viage Competition. We had a good turnout of Food water in Cottage Lane members to hep edge the grass on the Viage Green and other grassy areas around the viage (photo). This was a satisfying job but harder work than you might think! New chairman Our Annua Genera Meeting aso took pace in Apri. The new Chairman encouraged us to think of ideas for a new project to get our teeth into. If you have any suggestions we woud ove to hear from you. Contact detais are isted beow. Finay, just a itte tae of something that made me smie earier in the year; whist out waking my dog aong the riverside footpath, I saw someone coming towards me who seemed to be aden down with a big bag of shopping! Bag of itter We stopped to have a chat and it turned out that the ady (who didn t even come from Farndon) was in fact carrying a shopping bag fu of itter, which she had picked up from the riverbank whie waking her own dog. This reay warmed my heart and encouraged me to go on doing my bit to try and make our viage ook better. 100 Cub The winners of the atest monthy draws: March No. 82 Shirey Hatcher Apri No. 95 John Griffith May No. New Members Needed FREG is a great way of getting fit and making friends, whist giving something positive back to the viage. If you fancy being part of it a then pease come and join us. Why not come and have a chat to us during our itter picks, or any of our working parties it is good to know what peope think about what we are doing and any suggestions are very much appreciated. Ideas wecomed Indeed, if you want to give us ideas that shape what we do, why not come to our meetings Tidying up the grass verges see detais beow. Aternativey, if you want to join us for any of our working parties, hep with our fund raising activities, or just find out about us, the detais of how to get in touch are a beow. The more hep we have, the more we can achieve. We need new members, new ideas and your support so pease, if you can come and join us. Interested in joining us? There are a number of ways of contacting us: We hod reguar monthy meetings at 7.30 pm on the first Monday of each month in the Viage Ha, where we pan our future Working Parties etc. If a Bank Hoiday, then our meeting is put back to the second Monday. A are wecome to attend. Ring our secretary, Karen on Leave your detais through our website Emai: jez_mccarthy@yahoo.com FARNDON FOCUS... news and interest for you 23

24 Busy Women s Institute Here s what we have been getting up to over the past few months! Ann Seaston reporting! Our speaker for February was Joanne Tayor, who was we and truy into feet! She has been ooking after feet for 35 years or more, having stumbed into the profession after finishing schoo. She trained with a chiropodist for some time and then spent 20 years doing home visits, that she reay oved. With famiy, Joanne moved to Spain, where she got invoved in a sorts of beauty therapies. Due to persona and heath probems Joanne came back and after awhie got back to doing feet. As she has famiy in Mansfied, she found hersef setted in Newark with her own foot business, concentrating on home visits. Photographs We gasped when Joanne said the worse the feet the better! Some of the photos that she showed us, were to us, dreadfu, but to her wonderfu! She oves tacking ingrown toenais. They are very painfu for her patients but she can give instant reief. She gave us ots of advice in answering our many questions. A very joy ady, who, I m sure, woud put you at ease straight away, during what coud be a very painfu time. March, as usua, is AGM time. The Gir Guides came to sing us some of their songs, a bit of practice of singing in pubic, I think! Some of the songs required audience participation! Trying to coordinate hand movements with singing was hiarious and a very good start to our AGM. Thanks Girs! Lots of voting Serious business AGMs are! Lots of voting goes on, for exampe our charities for the year, which are Think Chidren and the Air Ambuance. New committee members voted on, whie we sady say goodbye to Our birthday entertainment two committee members, eaving for different reasons. Sue remains president for another year and there were no other changes to the committee. A the reports were read and adopted. The meeting went very we and now on to the next year! On 14th Apri, the Notts Federation of WIs brought the year of 100 years ceebrations to a cose at the Newark Parish Church, with a ovey afternoon of singing, readings, reminiscing, ceebrating our achievements and again ooking forward to next year. Lots of the adies dressed in the cothes of the many decades since 1917 which was very interesting and sometimes funny. The Apri meeting saw Linda Hewett show us Bread! Linda gives taks and demonstrations a round the country and aso judges bread and pies. She has ived in severa countries during her ife, due to her husband s profession, and has been infuenced by the many cutures she has experienced. She brought some oaves for us to taste and they were very tasty! Bread making can be easy She is a fan of food processors and brought her super duper one to use whie she was making oaves to show us just how quick and easy bread making can be. Linda tod us that after you have made 6 oaves you are experienced enough to know what you ike and how to achieve it. She dispeed many myths from our chidhood incuding how ong dough had to rise and how the dough used to be bashed and pued about. She gave many tips on what fours to use, she recommended Waitrose, yeasts and how to store ingredients and the bread. When making savoury breads, it is a good idea to use the ois that some foods come in, such as sundried tomatoes or oives, makes deicious focaccia! Linda made it ook so easy, she gave ots of us the urge to try bread making again! Aongside a the cooking, she has started sewing! Making a baby quit, shopping bags and aprons. Don t know where she finds the time! Linda was very generous too, donating a the dough she had made during the evening, oaves that she aready made and many items that she had created and sewn for our raffe. Enjoyabe evening We a agreed, it was a very enjoyabe evening and Linda is a briiant speaker, very enthusiastic and with a very infectious manner. We hope to see her again programme organisers! Oh, I neary forgot, we were aso given THE SUNFLOWER SEEDS! So come everybody, you know what you have to do! Next, a team of four, Jackie, Jo, Ann and Dawn made the annua trip to the Kuring competition. After severa games to amass as many points as possibe the fina was hed. We four just sat there chatting, no idea that we were in the fina! Shocked we payed the fina against Worksop and we WON! We got a trophy to keep for a year which we proudy showed off at our birthday party. We sti can t beieve it! And ast of a the Birthday Party. This year is our 75th year, quite an achievement. Sue coected a certificate from the Notts Federation and the 24 FARNDON FOCUS... news and interest for you Cutting the cake Chair, Jane Jefferson, was our specia guest. We tried to wear something siver too for our 75th year, a were very sparking! The food was deicious, as usua, after which we were entertained by The Cavaier Dance Band and singers. They payed many popuar songs and some of the adies got up to dance to ABBA, around the Handbag of course! It was a ovey evening and everyone enjoyed themseves. We have a very varied programme for the next year, incuding nutrition, masks, Civi War and Christmas Crafts to name just a few. We have a summer picnic down by the river too, in June. Hope it s the most beautifu sunshine yet! We hope to see new faces at some of the meetings, if something takes your fancy. So, come to the viage ha and say Heo! DISCLAIMER Whist the pubishers of Farndon Focus take every care in accepting and printing advertisements they cannot accept responsibiity for any of the products or services advertised. Response to advertisements and any resutant dispute is entirey between the advertiser and their customer.

25 The Farndon Horticutura Society chief event since the ast issue of Focus has been the Spring Show which took pace in Apri. Expectations of quaity, writes George Harper, and number of entries were not high in view of the harsh winter and eary spring weather and some members were quite pessimistic about their prospects. In the event there was a much better turnout than expected, both in attendance and number and quaity of exhibits on show, especiay since a number of members were attending the church service where new Vicar, the Reverend Eizabeth Murray was being icensed. Good quaity 17 members submitted entries and the quaity was good. There were 22 casses 6 of daffodis, 2 of tuips pus sprays from fowering spring shrubs and potted indoor pants. In addition the taents of the fower arrangers were tested by 3 casses in the fora art section entited Branching Out, My Favourite Container and Arrangement Suitabe for a Lunch Party. In a 132 entries were submitted with some high cass items on view. Three trophies were being competed for one for the member awarded most points in show, another for the best item in Fora Art and the third for the entry adjudged the best entry in a the casses. Spring show better than was expected Best in show The winners were respectivey Jenni Gadwin for most points in show over a wide range of entries and Margaret Cox who not ony entered the winning fower arrangement in the cass Branching Out but aso was awarded the trophy for Best Entry in Show with the same arrangement. As far as our norma programme is concerned since our AGM we have had a fascinating tak on vegetabe growing given by an expert who wins substantia cash prizes for his entries in shows. Another tak was on growing gadioi. At the time of writing we ook forward to an iustrated tak on New Zeaand and another on ferns. At the moment arrangements are being made for our Centenary Meeting on August 22nd, for detais of which see the advertisement in this issue. Annua show Our annua show wi be hed on August 11th. We hope that we wi get entries in our junior sections. For any juniors out there who may be interested the detais are as foows: there are three age groups five to seven years of age, eight to 11 years and 12 to 15 years. Each age group has the same casses for entry: any drawing in any medium and/or a HANDWRIT TEN copy of any poem. There is aso a junior photography section. A photograph of any subject provided the photo is no bigger than 20 cm x 15 cm with no time or date printed on it. One cass is for ages up to 12 years and a second cass for ages 12 to 15. So there you are boys and girs, you have something to think about during the summer hoiday. Disappointing One disappointing thing to report. We have had scarcey any interest shown by members in sharing the work on the committee or take the responsibiity of doing the work of one of the officers who keep the work of the society going. Time is running out and if we do not get any vounteers the Society wi fod at the start of COOKERY CORNER EASY GOOSBERRY COBBLER Ingredients 750g gooseberries Gooseberry, washed, topped and taied 100g caster sugar 1 tsp grated root ginger 3 tbsp ederfower cordia For the topping 140g pain four 2 tsp baking powder 25g butter 25g caster sugar 150m buttermik Buttermik pancake mixture in bow with whisk 1 tbsp demerara sugar Method 1. Heat oven to 190C/170C fan/gas 5. Pace the gooseberries, caster sugar, ginger and ederfower in a saucepan with four tbsp water and cook, covered, for 5 mins unti the berries begin to pop. Tip into a baking dish. 2. Make the topping. Sift the four, baking powder and a pinch of sat into a mixing bow. Rub in the butter unti the mixture ooks ike breadcrumbs, then stir in the caster sugar. Mix in the buttermik to give a soft, sticky dough. Doop spoonfus on top of the gooseberries, then sprinke with the demerara. Bake for 25 mins or unti goden brown and crusty. Stand for 5 mins, then serve with some ow fat ice cream, fromage frais or custard. FARNDON FOCUS... news and interest for you 25.

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27 It woud have been difficut way back in Apri to have missed the fact that the nation was ceebrating the centenary of the formation of the Roya Air Force by the amagamation of the Roya Fying Corps and the Roya Nava Air Corps. It woud have been even more difficut to understand the mind set of the miitary and nava figures who were opposed to the creation of the new fighting force. What has this got to do with Farndon? We, one of Farndon s residents had a distinguished career which spanned both Word Wars and contributed in no sma way to the nation s success in each. His name was Patrick Huskinson. The famiy ived at Farndon Lodge. Patrick s father was Coone of the oca T.A Battaion of the Sherwood Foresters and a soicitor in the firm of Newbad Larken and Toynbee.. Not much has come to ight regarding Patrick s eary ife. He was born in 1897 in Farndon. In the year of King George V s coronation 1911 the famiy distributed to a the chidren in Farndon a coronation mug in Patrick s name. His parents sent Patrick to Harrow pubic schoo and he served in the schoo cadet corps. By the time he eft schoo at the age of 18 Britain was at war with Germany and he made his own way to France to visit his father who was Commandant of a arge base. Back in the U K he was admitted to Sandhurst for officer training and after graduating joined the Sherwood Foresters. Somewhere aong the ine he had picked up a fascination with fying and within the year he was posted to France as a Second Lieutenant in the Roya Fying Corps. Active service In his eary stages as a piot he was engaged in directing artiery fire and photographing enemy trenches. Later he bombed raiways and enemy trenches and experienced his first brush with death. He was bady shot up in a dog fight with enemy aircraft, ost contro of his pane and had to gide back to British ines and safety. On another occasion he destroyed Hero of the Roya Fying Corps and Roya Air Force a train with bombs but his aircraft was bady damaged by the bast and he had to gide back to ground eve whist being shot at by both sides. This earned him the Miitary Cross which was quicky foowed by promotion to Captain. At this point he was Fight Commander of six aircraft. In 1917, over a period of fourmonths he shot down 12 enemy aircraft. A Fying Ace Though never in the same cass as the Red Baron Richthoven of Germany or Captain Abert Ba of the UK he coud be regarded as a fying ace. On another occasion he narrowy escaped death when his pane ost its propeer in a dog fight and finished upside down in a waterogged she hoe. Patrick neary drowned before being rescued. He repaired his engine and imped home to safety. For these expoits he was awarded a bar to his Miitary Cross (the equivaent of a second MC). Stayed with RAF After the end of the war he was with the Army of Occupation in Germany with the rank of Major. As many airmen eft the service to return to civiian ife, Patrick decided to remain with the newy formed RAF and make it his career. He spent some time as an instructor at Cranwe, and then came the moment which turned him from a war time fighter ace of the Great War into a desk bound warrior of the Second Word War. Personne were required to choose to speciaise in one or another branch of the RAF. He chose the armaments branch which was then in its infancy. This gave him the chance to deveop his taents. He widened his experience finding bombing ranges for testing and bombing practice and was posted as Armaments Staff Officer at the Air Ministry. He was made a Wing Commander in 1933 and a Group Captain in 1937 in charge of 2 bomber squadrons. However in 1938 he can be said to have reay arrived when an Ordnance Committee was formed to concentrate on the deveopment of a manner of guns, bombs and ammunition and he was the RAF representative on the committee with the post of Director of Armament Production. That appointment brought him into contact with big names ike Dowding, Tedder and Harris. Once war had broken out and the wartime cabinet was formed he associated with peope ike Lord Beaverbrook, Director of Aircraft production and even the Prime Minister Winston Churchi. The roe he occupied invoved deveopment of new weapons of war. Some of the suggestions of the boffins were quite comica and incuded expoding tennis bas (an eary kind of bouncing bomb?) and rats parachuted down with exposives tied to their tais as a kind of booby trap. Needess to say they never made it past the drawing board. What Patrick Huskinson was far more interested in was bombs the bigger the better. At the start of the war the RAF had nothing more etha than Genera Purpose bombs of 250 pounds and 500 pounds weight. Under the guidance of the new Director, as the power of new types of bomber ike the Lancaster increased so do did the size of new bombs from 1000 pounds upwards. And as the need grew to penetrate deep underground bunkers the end of the war saw the production of the Taboy of pounds and the Grand Sam of pounds. His reward for a this work was promotion to the rank of Air Commodore and the award of the CBE to add to his MC and bar. The Americans awarded him their Legion of Merit. There was a persona price which he paid, however. Based in London as he was, he ived with his wife in a fat in Knightsbridge. One evening in Apri 1941 he was working on some papers during a German bombing raid and waked over to the firepace to fetch his pipe. The next thing he knew he was ying craded in his wife s arms, wounded, beeding and unabe to see. Their fat had been hit by a German bomb. Medica examination reveaed that he had been permanenty binded. This did not hat his vauabe work for the war effort and he earned to work his way round his disabiity with the provision of secretaria hep. He earned to read the time by removing the faces from cocks and watches and he read maps and bueprints by having outines perforated with a toothed whee. Everyday items had to be eft permanenty in the same pace so that he coud memorise their position. At the end of the war he retired from the RAF and entered the word of business and became Chairman of a London printing firm. He died in 1966 aged 69. Are you a oca organisation ooking for financia hep? The Farndon Focus Foundation Trust may be abe to assist you The Trust has imited funding avaiabe. Organisations or cubs within the viage who may wish to be considered for a grant to assist in their activities or specia projects shoud appy in writing to the Trust Treasurer, stating the project or activity, for which they wish to be considered for a grant and what it is going to cost. They shoud aso give detais of their current financia situation. Appications by etter with project detais and a current baance sheet to Jean Gafney, 35 Sandhi Road, Farndon NG24 4TE FARNDON FOCUS... news and interest for you 27

28 Don t be caught out this winter Safeguard your centra heating system. What is power fushing? Many peope don t give their centra heaing system a second thought unti a cod snap strikes. As experienced pumbing and heating engineers we are urging home owners to think about their centra heating so that it wi be running efficienty when they most need it. Probems are sometimes not aways obvious, so if your radiators are sow to heat up, or cod near the midde at the bottom, the chances are that your centra heating system needs power fushing. Power fushing is the most effective way of ceaning a system, to keep it running efficienty for onger. It s aso important to power fush a system before instaing a new boier or the manufacturers guarantee may be compromised. How is power fushing carried out? The principe of power fushing is to create a powerfu water fow through the system to remove a debris. Used in conjunction with an enviromentay friendy chemica ceaner and protector, It removes sudge deposits of imescae and corrosion debris. If this debris finds its way back to your boier it settes and forms a sate ike substamce that expands at a different rate from the boier meta causing stress between the two and utimatey eading to further damage which coud be uneconomica to repair. After a system has been fushed a magnetic fiter can be instaed to prevent further deposits reaching the boier. The improvement in performance after a power fush is so marked that you that you may not have ever experienced your radiators ever being so hot. Contact us today if you woud ike to discuss the benefits of power fushing and ooking forward to being warm and cosy during the winter months 28 FARNDON FOCUS... news and interest for you

29 Farndon cricket cub get underway good, with their first games starting in mid May, we are ooking forward to seeing how they take their winter deveopment from the nets out on to the fied. Our Notts star Rhiannon wi be eading from the front as she takes on the captain duties. Friday evening coaching is underway and this year we have the addition of A Stars Cricket, which has proved to be a big hit for five to eight year ods. Our Kwik Cricket coaching aso continues for 8 11 year ods and our U13s aso train on the same evening. There s a rea buzz on Friday evenings from 6pm as everyone turns up, the sun comes out, the BBQ sizzes away and ots of kids are After a very wet spring the season is finay underway at Farndon CC. The 1st XI started their campaign on May 5th at home against Hicking in Division D after being reegated by a meagre 3 points in the 2017 season, they are hopefu for a more successfu season under new captain Dave Adwick. The 2nd XI had a weather affected start with two games abandoned without a ba bowed due to unfit grounds in Division K. A rea shame as we are excited about seeing our youngsters in action for a senior team. We wish captain Richard Burroughs a the best in eading his mix of experience and youth during the summer. The Sunday XI are ooking forward to another successfu season after gaining promotion in to Division 4 of the Newark Aiance, a tough start against Chiwe in eary May was a test for Andrew Lamb and his team, but we are sure they wi bounce back as the season progresses. Our participation in the Newark Evening League has become our deveopment team, aowing some of our juniors to make the progression from junior to senior cricket whist aby assisted by some of our more experienced payers. There has been some promising performances so far in this team by the Farndon youth, with a win first up at Edingey and a very narrow defeat against RHP. Lots of exciting prospects coming through the ranks. Juniors As ever our junior section continues to fourish. The U13 squad is ooking particuary Farndon Under 13 s team out enjoying the wonderfu sport that is cricket. If you haven t aready done so, you shoud come down and see what we are a about, we are very much a socia cub as we as a sports cub. Fundraising As some of you may know we are currenty trying to work towards a brand new paviion to repace the current one. Our most recent event at Farndon Viage Ha featured a ive band caed The Acetones who put on a fantastic show and heped us raise 1300 on the night. Big thanks goes to a those invoved in making these events happen. If you wish to get invoved in heping us fundraise for this community project pease do get in touch. Fingers crossed for more sunshine and a prosperous 2018 season for a invoved at Farndon CC! FARNDON FOCUS... news and interest for you 29

30 Trave Topics in The simpe stone sepuchre is overaid with back marbe and covered by a round, stone inaid dome. A huge bronze statue of the archbishop, moved from Nicosia s The fight of some 2,250 mies from East Midands Airport to Paphos in Cyprus takes some four and a haf hours and its we worth the time on board to arrive at the deights that this mediterranian isand has to offer. Situated within amost a stones throw from the coast of Turkey it enjoys a cimate that is bound to attract. Since the time when the isand was annexed by Britain in 1914 it has experiened severa periods of unrest with Enosis eaders, Archbishop Makarios and Georgios Grivas fighting for independence which came about in 1960, then foowed by the Turkish invasion in Juy 1974 which resuted in the divided isand that exists today. We few into Paphos airport, writes Phiip Inga, in the southern (Greek) part of the isand and then through Paphos town and aong the coast road to Cora Bay and our hote. Day one was exporing the oca area and a visit to Paphos, a town divided into two parts. Inand there is the od town with many historic buidings that seem, on first sight, to be far too grand for a sma town but it has to be remembered that, at one time, it was the capita of the isand during Roman and Byzantine periods. The town abounds with shops and a good car park in the midde of them. A short distance down the road eads to Kato (or Neo) Paphos which, with its sma harbour, incuding a caste and outdoor theatre, aso abounds with hotes, restaurants and shops to capture attention as we as historic sights such as the Tombs of the Kings and some perfecty preserved mosaics cose to the harbour. Paphos houses the ruins of the Sanctuary of Aphrodite but you have to go out onto the road towards Limmasso to find Petra Tou Romiou or the Rock of Aphrodite, near Pissouri viage, said to be the birthpace of the goddess of ove hersef. The egend is that you find true ove if you swim round it three times. Another presence of Aphrodite is in the other direction from Cora Bay to the attractive sma fishing viage of Latchi where some exceent restaurants, on the sma harbour, are a good pace to stop for food. The natura grotto of the Baths of Aphrodite, and its botanica garden, can be found past the viage and towards the tip of the Akamas Peninsua. Shaded by an od fig tree, amidst ush greenery, egend tes us the Greek Goddess Aphrodite bathed in the cear poo beneath the rocks. Somewhat of a et down as a tourist attraction. Cyprus without a visit to the Troodos mountains woud not be compete. The argest mountain range in Cyprus is ocated in roughy the centre of the isand. Its highest peak is Mount Oympus and the journey there goes through both inhabited and deserted viages and a great area of natura beauty idea if waking is your forte. The Kykkos Monastery, one of Cyprus s most spectacuar, is we worth a visit for the outstanding frescos, god decoration and architecture. Just two kiometres from the monastry is the tomb of Archbishop Mikarios the first president of Cyprus, ocated on Throni Hi. Buried here at his request, cose to the pace where he served as an apprentice monk Archepiscopa Paace in 2008, now stands on the hi, adding to its grandeur. Higher up on the path from the tomb is the Throni Shrine to the Virgin Mary with spectacuar, views of the vaeys and roads beow it. A wishing tree is ocated just near here, where the pious tie paper and coth messages in the hope that the Virgin Mary grants their requests. Coser to Paphos is the monastery of Ayios Neophytos where, in 1150, a 25 year od monk of the same name cut a hermitage out of soid rock with his own hands. His bones are contained in a wooden sarcophagus and his sku in a siver reiquary. The road to Limasso takes us aong the coast road past Aphrodites Rock, making a short detour to PIssouri for morning coffee. You can expore the ruins of the Tempe of Apoo and the Koossi Fortress before skirting the RAF base at Akrotiri where in the Spring the Red Arrows have rehearsed their programme. Then drive to Limasso with its centuries od caste, other historic buidings and a busy seaport. Cyprus s second argest city, Limasso has a wide promenade and busting shopping streets. The resort enjoys a reputation for fun and some of the Isand's best beaches. A day exporing there can be we spent. Nicosia, the isands capita, has a the sophistication of a typica isand capita with, in addition to its historic buidings, museums and art gaeries, it has many designer shops, trendy restaurants but sti a divided city with checkpoints between the two separate parts of the isand. Worth a ook to see it in person. 30 FARNDON FOCUS... news and interest for you If you intend to take a hire car to the north, the main crossing in Nicosia is Agios Dometios. Cyprus immigration authorities have confirmed that EU passport hoders with a 'TRNC' stamp in their passport wi not experience difficuties when reentering the south. On the way to NIcosia stop off at the viage of Pano Lefkara, famous for its eaborate cotton broderie angaise ace produced in the open air by women of the viage. It is aso the birthpace of the ate Sir Reo Stakis who, as a poor Cypriot, started by seing ace door to door in Engand and became a hote magnate seing his empire to Hiton Group in 2000 for 1.2 biion. Food in Cyprus is whatever you want but there are Cypriot dishes that are a must. A favourite is Keftiko pieces of amb in a traditiona Greek recipe made with sow cooked amb, first marinated in garic, oive oi and emon juice. Other meat dishes incude Stifado, a wonderfuy fragrant beef stew and Afeia, a traditiona pork dish braised in red wine. There are many more. Fish is avaiabe but can be reativey expensive as this part of the Med is not rich in fish. To mention a the speciaity dishes woud fi a book but be brave, sampe them and eave fish, chips and burgers at home. Beer is popuar, Cyprus brands of Sherry and brandy are aso worth drinking. Liqueurs incude a deicious Fifar (made from oranges). Cyprus wines go back centuries and incude Commandarias, Spourtiko yia Mavri Moshato, Koios Shiraz, Erimoudes Constantino to mention just a few that are popuar on the isand and abroad. This artice has ony just touched on what Cyprus has to offer, and that s just the south of the isand. It s a unique isand of history, cuture, food, sunshine and more than anything a good pace to reax. But when you are there be sure to buy a good guidebook to make sure not to miss anything. 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31 LOCAL INFORMATION NOTICE BOARD 1st Farndon Brownies Debbie Carke Thursdays 6pm to 7.15pm Memoria Ha 1st Farndon Guides Jackie Cudipp Thursdays 7.30pm to 9pm Memoria Ha 6th Newark Sea Scouts Pau Reid Friday 6.30pm summer, 7pm winter Sea Scouts HQ. BBD Newark Ninjutsu/Ninja Training and Zero Toerance UK/sef defence training. Contact Kiyth Footitt web: e mai: kiyth@newarkninjitsu.co.uk Wed 7pm to 9pm Sun 10am to noon Sea Scout HQ riverside, next to Marina Training and courses on request at the Sea Scout HQ Dog Cub (pet obedience) Caro Murphin Thursdays 6.30pm Sea Scout HQ Farndon After A Schoo Care Cub Ofsted registered. Rear of Memoria Ha Monday to Friday 3.30m to 6pm Booking required Farndon Archaeoogica Research Institute info@fari.org Every Wednesday 7.30pm Memoria Ha Farndon Art Group Barbara Wids emai: barbara.wids@gmai.com Wednesday 7.30pm Trent House Farndon Beringers John and Barbara Gerrard Wednesday 7.15pm in the church Farndon Bows Cub Angea Hardwick Kevin Parish Meetings The Parish Counci Meetings are in the Memoria Ha on the fourth Monday of the month, a normay, at 6.30pm See Parish notice boards more information Members of the pubic are wecome FRIENDS AND RELATIONS ABROAD Farndon Focus can be found on our website ADVERTISE IN FARNDON FOCUS Reach the homes in Farndon with your saes or service message. LOW RATES Fu page 60 Haf page 45 Quarter page 25 Eighth page 15 Sma ads 2 per co cm (6cm wide) For detais ring Roy Gardner on see website or emai: advert@farndonfocus.co.uk Farndon Crafty Ladies Jan Gross Wednesdays 2pm to 4pm Trent House Farndon Cricket Cub Ian White Website Farndoncc.pay cricket.com Facebook Farndon Cricket Cub Farndon Short Mat Bows Contact: Jim Larkin Farndon Memoria Ha Weeky bookings Caretaker Chris Cark Te: Weekend Mrs Dodson Te: Farndon United Footba Cub Steve Tacey Farndon Cots Junior Footba Cub Aistair Mier emai: admin@farndoncots.co.uk Farndon Women s Institute Anne Seaston amseaston@gmai.com 3rd Thursday 7.30pm Memoria Ha Farndon Parish Counci Cerk (Jayne Saunders) cerk.farndon.pc@btconnect.com Farndon Rainbows: Thursdays Memoria Ha Contact Say Briggs Price FREG Residents Environmenta Group Karen McCarthy Ist Monday of month. Memoria Ha Farndon Horticutura Society George Harper nd Wed month 7.30pm Memoria Ha Nottinghamshire County Counci Te: Your oca councior. Cr Susan Saddington. Te: Office: or Newark & Sherwood District Counci Te: Your oca counciors Cr Keith Waker Te: emai: keith.waker@newark sherwooddc.gov.uk Cr Ivor Waker Te: or emai:ivor.waker@newark sherwooddc.gov.uk Cr Nei Mison Te: emai: nei.mison@newark sherwooddc.gov.uk Piates Cass Jo Harrison Wednesday 10 am to 11am Memoria Ha Poice Contact Point Poice Contact Point. Open Mon Fri 2pm to 4pm, Memoria Ha. In an emergency dia 999. For a non emergency poice matters dia 101. St Peter s Church Jessica Coson The Od Vicarage, Marsh Lane. Farndon emai jessica.coson2017@outook.com St Peter s Cross Keys Academy Office office@farndon st peters.notts.sch.uk St Peter s Schoo Friends Assn. Sharon Sturman Tai Chi Cass Syvia Mis Thursdays 10am to 11am. Memoria Ha Widife Watch Group Lynn Victor at Nottinghamshire Widife Trust Meets every 2nd Sat 9.30am to11.30am The Watch Hut. Farndon Wiow Hot 1 per session Yoga Barey Green Tuesdays 9.45am to 11am Memoria Ha Farndon FOCUS Magazine Team Chairman of Trustees: Mick Baker Editor/Production: Phiip Inga (Trustee) Te: emai: phiip@ingauk.com Website and advertising: Roy Gardner (Trustee) Te: mai: advert@farndonfocus.co.uk Treasurer: Jean Gafney (Trustee) Te: emai: jeangafney@btinternet.com Circuation: Chris Carke (Trustee) Teephone: Contributer: George Harper (Trustee) Magazine website: Artices, advertisements and photographs shoud be sent by emai with photographs seperate as jpeg or tif attachments in 300dpi format together with name and contact address of the sender to the appropriate emai address as above. Artices written in the first person shoud contain the name of the person writing it. September deadine: Tuesday 14th August 2018 Farndon Focus is pubished by Farndon Focus Foundation Trust, c/o 27 Main Street, Farndon NG24 3SA and printed by Bayiss Printing Co Ltd, Coach Cose, Worksop S81 8AP FARNDON FOCUS... news and interest for you 31

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