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Since the fire which destroyed St. Peter's Church members of the congregation have worshipped in the United Reformed Church. At a United Service on 5th February the congregations of both churches have decided to hold monthly services together. On Sunday 5th March the United Service will be at 9.15.a.m. conducted by the Revd. Mike Catling and on the 2nd April the United Service will be at 6.p.m. conducted by the Revd. Edward Butlin. This pattern will continue throughout the year. Anyone wishing to join us will be very welcome at these or any other Services.
(Interdenominational) will be held in Glanton Reformed Church on Friday 3rd March at 2, p.m. The Service has been prepared by Christian Women of South Africa and the theme is Signs of the Times. The speaker is Mrs. Janet Purvis. All Welcome- Men, Women and young people.
This will be held in the Church Hall on Saturday 25th March at 10.30
On 8 March Dr JA Hellen will give a talk at the Whittingham Memorial Institute at 7.30 on German Prisoner of War Camps in Britain, 1945-1948.
On Saturday 29 April the Association of Northumberland Local History Societies has organised a one-day school at Amble entitled "Archaeology on your doorstep". Speakers will include Kristian Pedersen (Neolithic excavation at Milfield); Paul Frodsham (the Coquetdale community archaeology project); Sarah Maclean (the sites and monuments record for Northumberland); Graeme Young (excavations at Bamburgh).
Please contact Bridget Winstanley (01665 574353) for further details and booking for the event at Amble.
We have been included in an exciting way to get things done for our community. A new initiative call the Coquetdale Vision has been started in Rothbury, it is a Development Trust type of venture to try and allow Rothbury and the surrounding villages and hamlets to make the best use of funding and other development opportunities available over the next few years.
The organisers of Coquetdale Vision invite you to a meeting at the Memorial Hall on the 16th February. They are keen to hear your ideas for what our community wants to achieve over the next few years. Come along and help us.
Further details about the meeting will be issues in the next few weeks.
On the same theme as the previous piece we are creating a parish plan specifically for the Parish of Glanton. This can cover as many themes as we want but will cover activities we want to do, how we want the village to look, issues about planning matters and many more issues.
We have arranged a village meeting for the 1st March in the Memorial Hall and are very keen to hear your opinions. Come along and help give some direction to our communities.
We were again graced by our festive Christmas Tree in the village thanks to Mr Young of Whittingham who donated the tree for the second year. We are also grateful to all at the United Reformed Church for letting us use their electricity to make such a colourful display. Thanks to Calum, John, Thomas, Pat and everyone who helped put up the tree and take it down again.
It is said that you are never more than 10 feet away from a rat and that's certainly the recent case in Glanton. Sightings of rats foraging in and around houses and domestic gardens are on the increase, but why? At this time of year the rat's natural food supplies are in short supply, he's normally seen scurrying from stubble fields no doubt carrying a cheek full of spent grain from the previous harvest. As farmers plough their fields prior to drilling their spring crops, this natural feeding ground becomes sparse leaving the rat in search of pastures new. Many residents in Glanton feed garden birds (and the occasional cheeky pheasant) and this is great, but the use of loose seed and badly-designed bird feeders is leading to food ending up on the ground and not in the bird. The rat will quickly learn that your garden is his pantry and will be persistent in turning up for food.
Why don't we see the rat in summer? Firstly his natural feeding area is gradually starting to bulge with both crops and invertebrates. Secondly, our activity in the garden is increased with better weather. Being a shy creature he is less likely to enter with humans around, so what can we do?
Firstly, use fat-based bird foods such as fat-balls, fat is important to birds at this time of year just as a warm coat is to us. Secondly, if you are going to put seed or bread crumbs out, use a bird table or feeder with a catch tray underneath. Thirdly, if you keep poultry in the garden make sure you are fastidious about feed storage and don't over feed, hens are natural foragers and should be allowed to do so, feed is supplementary at this time of year, but shouldn't comprise their sole food source. Please consider these points and keep Mr Rat where he belongs "in the fields".
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2 people have volunteered to join the village hall committee; however we are still after more willing volunteers.
We would like to thank the following:
A Village Hall Coffee morning will be held in the summer, this will be combined with an exhibition of Gail Johnson's photographs in aid of the village hall.
Alnwick, 09.01.2006 - Northumberland Community Development Network has launched a completely free computer support service for voluntary and community organisations across Northumberland. This six-month pilot scheme is a government-funded project through ChangeUp. To qualify you need to be a local not-for-profit organisation operating without in-house IT support. For an application form visit http://www.ncdn.org/infoex.html or telephone Natalie Williams on 01665 574761.
And finally we would like to say our goodbyes to the following people who have passed away recently:
Mildred Craze - from Powburn, but who was the Glanton School cook from the 60s until the school closed.
Mrs Church who had lived in the Old Post Office for the past 30 years.
Nick Edgell husband of the late Angela Edgall who had spent most of his life in Glanton, and who will be greatly missed by the bowls team.
Shelia Watson - who spent most of her life in Glanton raising her 7 children.
Contributions for the next newsletter: If you have anything to include in the next newsletter please pass the information to Gail Johnson, Dale View, Playwell Road. 01665 578716. gail@admin-solutions.co.uk.
