The Haxey and Westwoodside Arrow

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Misterton Owston Ferry Wroot Low Burnham East Lound Graizelound 3800 copies

June 2023

Issue 174 Issue 186

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Welcome to the June issue of

Haxey & Westwoodside Arrow After three bank holidays we are back to reality!

We hope you spent some valuable time with friends and family and enjoyed the Kings Coronation!

We would love to see more local articles coming through, schools, charities, perhaps some good news stories. This is your local magazine please support it!

The deadline for the July issue is Friday 9th June for delivery by the 1st July.

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Community News Owston Ferry Heritage Society invites you to a talk by Malcom Dolby "Roman Doncaster Uncovered".

Wednesday 14th Jun 7.30pm Coronation Hall £3 entrance includes refreshments All welcome, members & non members

Haxey & Westwoodside Heritage Society welcome all to our next meeting when Adrian Gray will give an illustrated talk "Tales from 'Darkest' Lincolnshire". Adrian, a Lincolnshire-born author and historian, has gathered together a collection of the best of the legends and tales from the 'dark days' of long ago, including the mysterious disappearances on the Carrs around Axholme. Not to be missed, Thursday, 8th June at 7.30pm in Westwoodside Village Hall. £3 including refreshments.

Epworth and District Flower Club Easter Workshop In April the members met for a workshop evening.

Almost all of the membership was in attendance to watch the demonstrator, Sarah, create an Easter display. After only a few minutes Sarah had used tulips, narcissi, various greenery, roses and carnations of varying shades of lemon and yellow and a wreath was made to be used as a table arrangement! It was completed with a few imitation eggs on sticks and a small container of chocolate eggs.

Next it was the turn of the members. Absolutely everything was provided and the ladies worked hard with a constant pleasurable buzz. Eventually 32 arrangements were made, all slightly reflecting the ability and personality of each member. Some had tall roses and tulips, some had cut their flowers shorter but every one was beautiful. Some were left to decorate St Andrew’s Church for Easter.

The evening concluded as usual with refreshments.

The May meeting was planned to welcome Lucy Griffin from Retford and the June meeting, to be held on 12th June in St Andrew’s Church will host Sue Hodgson who will demonstrate “Super Sleuths”. Come and join us, we are growing fast, and discover what the sleuths are!

Linda Clarke of Spotted Dog Flowers will demonstrate in July at the usual time of 7.30pm and the usual night, the second Monday of the month.

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High Levels WI The members of High Levels WI met on Wednesday 19th April, paid their annual subscriptions and were welcomed to the meeting. Following the usual rendering of Jerusalem and a small amount of business the entertainment began. Six members of a South Yorkshire Belly Dance Troupe performed some dances and then invited members to join in.

They explained the routines, their involvement and the health benefits. Questions produced a lot of information about the ladies themselves, to whom and where they were asked to entertain. It was certainly an enjoyable and informative evening.

In June, some members have chosen to have afternoon tea at Crowle Moors Railway. This follows the talk by Angus Townley on the History of Crowle moors. The evening meeting on June 21st will host a speaker who will talk about Mary’s Meals. This is a charity which aims to provide a daily meal for every child in its place of education.

High Levels WI is a friendly group of ladies who meet at the Reindeer Inn, Sandtoft on the third Wednesday of each month. The meetings begin at 6.45pm. Do come and join us and/or look at our website www.highlevelswi.co.uk

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Misterton Primary School enjoyed their day of celebrations with artwork and crown making as we found out about King Charles. Festivities officially start with a whole school and families gathering to sing God Save the King, and my goodness we sounded fabulous. Families joined us with picnics and every child got a commemorative mug from Misterton Parish Council. The Lions and Barry Cooper donated a tree for the school and our Year 3 children did a fine job of planting it.

Thank you to our community for your gifts to keep and gifts of time, celebrating with us and making it a very special day.

North Notts Lions award Book Prizes for Creative writing to Misterton pupils.

Max Baron & Tyler Jones

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Barry Cooper , President of North Notts Lions recently attended Misterton Primary School to present book prizes to two year five pupils for producing excellent pieces of creative writing.

Max Baron wrote a story about sport and what it was like to play in a European Cup final.

Tyler Jones created an adventure story about being shipwrecked on an island with three lions.

School Governor, Tom Allen, had set the boys the task, which they fulfilled with great success.

The Lions club had provided funding for the book prizes that had been chosen by the pupils themselves.

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Haxey Girl Guiding Brownies and Rainbows Could you help out at our meetings?

Girl Guiding is an amazing organisation involving girls of all ages.

We learn new skills, have adventures, enjoy fun together and challenge ourselves to be the best we can be.

Do you want to help to inspire the next generation of young women and develop resilience in our girls?

Do you want to make a difference in our local community?

Why not come and see what volunteering with Girl Guiding in Haxey is all about.

We’d love to see you.

Rainbows, Brownies and Guides meet each Monday evening in term time at Haxey Youth Hub.

Please contact Claire Todd (07976 807083) Michelle Peake (07876 710610) Susan Fox (07778 639661) To find out more!

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Haxey Primary School had a fantastic afternoon celebrating the Coronation of King Charles on Friday 6th May. The whole school had a red, white and blue themed non uniform day, and some people really took the opportunity to cover themselves from head to toe in Union Jack flags - there were some fantastic outfits! Our whole school picnic unfortunately had to be held inside as it looked like rain, but then the weather transformed and the afternoon could not have been better for our games on the field it was hot and sunny and perfect for lots of traditional fun! We had parachute games , hoopla and pin the crown on the King competitions, alongside some more modern games such as pop pong and limbo. Some sports day classics came out, such as the beanbag bucket game and one of the great favourites was the tug of war - it got very competitive, as evidenced by the many muddy knees that could be seen in all classes at the end of the day... The hobby horse racing was also a great success, with extra points being awarded for the best neighing (we think Mrs Lewin won!). A fabulous afternoon came to a rather spectacular - and sudden end, with several huge claps of thunder and a monsoon-like downpour, but not before we had all had a thoroughly fantastic, fun filled time! Thank you to our fabulous lunchtime team for providing the picnic and looking after us all while we ate, and to the PTFA for our commemorative coronation medals. We hope everyone at home had a wonderful Coronation weekend too!

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Quirky Choir is inviting new members to come along and have a go. There are no auditions to join, and participants can pay weekly on the night. Sessions take place at The Point – a fully accessible, friendly building on South Parade in central Doncaster. All adults are welcome to sing and join in, whatever age, gender or ability.

As well as the social aspect of taking part, there is much evidence to prove that singing is good for you – not only in terms of positive mental health and wellbeing, but also for your respiratory system e.g. ‘Singing has been shown to alleviate chronic respiratory conditions and cystic fibrosis.’ Singing completely absorbs you and forces you to forget about everything else, even if only for a short while – there is nothing better after a long day, or a busy week, than making music with people and switching off from anything else that might be causing stress or anxiety. Singing together also helps people feel more connected and less lonely.

Quirky Choir runs weekly in term time at The Point in Doncaster town centre. Sessions take place on Wednesdays from 6.30pm – 8.30pm and cost £4.50. No booking is required – just turn up.

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CORONATION FAMILY PICNIC DRAWS THE CROWDS In perfect weather, hundreds of residents made their way to the Old School Field on Sunday 7 May for a Coronation family picnic. The band, The Unthinkables, played songs people recognised, children enjoyed circus skills and football while grown-ups drank the bar dry, 38 people sat down to a posh picnic by Chalet Girl Catering, Hepy's Hog Roast also kept people fed and made a generous donation to the Parish Council's fund-raising, the Cancer Research tombola ran out of prizes and raised around £300 - a lovely way to celebrate the previous day's Coronation. Matt Hunt won first prize in the Parish Council's raffle, and Ella Swindin (pictured) won the best crown competition.

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DONCASTER CANCER DETECTION TRUST Hello. Some of you may have heard about our charity which is now in its 51st year. We raise money to buy cancer-related equipment for our local hospitals and we are all volunteers; there are no paid staff. We have been sending monthly write-ups to local magazines for several years now and we hope you will follow our progress in Haxey and Westwoodside. If you have a computer please look us up on: dcdt.co.uk to see what we have achieved over the years.

As mentioned in last month’s news, everything is progressing well with buying the Fibroscanner for the Hepatology Department at Doncaster Royal Infirmary. This will help in the fight against liver disease which, in some cases, may lead to cancer. Prevention is always best.

We are still looking for someone to help our Secretary. It is an interesting job and will only take a couple of hours a week on average. If you would like more information as to what is involved please telephone Ruth on 07510 963542 for an informal chat.

Would you like to receive our regular news updates by Email? We will shortly be starting an informal newsletter which will be sent to your inbox. If you would like to be included please send your name and Email address to: info@dcdt.co.uk. We look forward to hearing from you.

Our regular contact details are: 22 Wood Street, Doncaster DN1 3LW (entrance by the side of Kerry Gough Florists), first floor (lift available), Room 111. Tel. 01302 325029. Email: info@dcdt.co.uk. Website: dcdt.co.uk. As the office is not fully manned it is best to Email or telephone in advance if you are thinking of coming to see us.

Reminder! Please let us know if you are planning to fundraise on our behalf so we can advertise your event on our website.

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1st Isle of Axholme BP Scouts May 2023 In April we took our first scout camp of the year –we combined our usual indoor camp with the DofE Bronze practice expedition which made for a brilliantly busy weekend. On Saturday, the 2 teams of DofE participants walked unaccompanied across open country, navigating according to a planned routecard, to Brimham Rocks to meet up for lunch. Despite a soggy morning they made excellent time, showing great teamwork and map skills. After lunch, and the traditional hide and seek games among the rocks at Brimham, we dispersed to walk back to the hall. While the DofE-ers walked a longer route (including practicing how to leave safety tags for leaders), the “chef team” took a more direct route home. They then cooked a delicious meal of tortilla wraps with either spicy chicken or bolognaise fillings, followed by apple crumble and custard. Later, there was time for lots of silly games before supper and bed. On Sunday, after a team clean-up of the hall, we headed to a local outdoor activity centre for air rifle shooting and archery. Some impressive skills shown! After a quick picnic lunch we headed to Harrogate pool for their 2hr inflatables session – scouts race each other down either side of a floating obstacle course, trying to avoid sliding in. The car journey home was very quiet with many sleepy scouts!

Coronation celebrations have been enjoyed by the cubs who made crafts such as crowns ahead of the May 6th ceremony. We also visited Westwoodside Primary school and gave a talk in assembly to share some of our typical activities ahead of our Beavers section reopening.

Leaders have also been busy, keeping up to date with their dbs paperwork and other required qualifications to make sure the young people in their care are kept safe. Some have been updating their 16hr outdoor first aid (to re-validate their BELA walking qualifications), others spent a wilderness weekend in Northumberland completing 50km and wild camping, completing their Hill and Moorland assessment. Well done all, and thank you for giving up your time to run scouts.

Sections all meet at the Westwoodside Village Hall: (Cubs, Scouts and Senior Scouts) all meet on Monday evenings 6pm (Cubs), and 7pm (Scouts), and Beavers (tbc) probably on a Tuesday evening at 6pm.

Remember, we are still looking to recruit Beavers leaders so we can restart this section.

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What’s On In Your area in the Isle of Axholme Activity

Meeting place

Time

Contact

Wed

18th Gains Haxey Cubs

The Youth Hub, High Street, Haxey

Mon

1st Isle of Axholme B-P Wolf Cubs'

Mon

1st Isle of Axholme B-P Scouts

Mon (4th)

Royal British Legion Epworth Branch

Old School Inn Epworth

Tues

All Stars Tae Kwon Do

Coronation Hall, Owston Ferry

6.00 - 8.00pm

01427 728162

Tues

1st Isle of Axholme B-P Beavers

Westwoodside Village Hall

6.00-7.30 pm

01427 239134

Tues

Line Dancing

Westwoodside Village Hall

7.30-9.30 pm

01427 873778

Wed

Mother and Toddler

Westwoodside Village Hall

9.00-11.00 am

Thurs

Owston Ferry short mat Bowls

Coronation Hall (September—April)

1.30—3.30 pm

Wed

Social Club—over 60’s

Westwoodside Village Hall

2.00-4.00 pm

01427 752524

Fri

Tae kwan Do

Westwoodside Village Hall

5.00-7.00pm

01302 311174

Tues

18th Gains Haxey Beavers

The Youth Hub, High Street, Haxey

6.00-7.30pm

07728 421851

Fri

18th Gains Haxey Scouts & Explorers The Youth Hub, High Street, Haxey

7.00-9pm

07728 421851

Mon

Preschool— Playgroup 2.5—5 years

Memorial Hall

9:15-:3:15 pm

01427 754330

Tues

Aquafit

Misterton School Pool.

10.00-11 am

01427 754772

Tues

Preschool Playgroup 3—5 years

Memorial Hall

9:15-3:15 pm

01427 754330

Tues

Haxey Bingo

Memorial Hall Mrs Heather Macfall

7.00—9pm

01427 754183

Wed

Preschool– playgroup 2.5—5 years

Memorial Hall

9:15- 3:15pm

01427 754330

Wed

Sunshine Yoga

Epworth

1:15-2:45pm

01427 873730

Sat

Owston Ferry Bowls Club

The Green, Owston Ferry (Roll Up & Drives) April to Sept

2.00-4.00pm

01427 728349

Thurs

Sunshine Yoga

Coronation Hall, Owston Ferry

7:00 - 8:30 pm

01427 873730

Mon-Frid

Haxey pre school

Memorial Hall

8.00-6.00pm

01427 753162

Thurs

Bambi—Playgroup 0—5 years

St Nicholas’ Church Youth Hub, Haxey (term time only)

9:30-11:30 am

01427 753053

Thurs

Aquafit

Misterton School Pool.

6.45-7.45pm

01427 754772

Thurs

Haxey and Westwoodside Bowls club The Bowling Green, Haxey Playing Fields

6pm start

07972 493750

Thurs

Exercise Class

Memorial Hall

6:00 - 8:00pm

01427 875051

Fri

Preschool—Playgroup 2.5—5 years

Memorial Hall

9:15-3:15 pm

01427 754330

Fri

Nordic Walking

Epworth Garden Centre

9.30 start

01724 297270

Thurs

Epworth & Isle of Axholme Rotary Club

The Red Lion Epworth (1st and 3rd Thursday)

Thurs

Musical Movement - Toddlers 12months +

Epworth Thurlow Pre School

9:00 - 10:00 am

01427 875016

Thurs

Musical Movement - Baby Group

Epworth Thurlow Pre School

10:00 - 11:00 am

01427 875016

Sat

Slate House Market & Carboot

Nr Messingham, Scunthorpe

1pm start

01909 480087

6.00-8pm

07728 421851

Westwoodside Village Hall

6.00-7.30 pm

01427 239134

Westwoodside Village Hall

7.00-9.00 pm 7pm

01427 239134 01427 872223

01427 728349

6.15pm start 01302 265130

The Stephen Jones Community Hall - Pam Layton (Bookings)

01427 752783

Bookings of the Haxey Memorial Hall

joannemo ram@live.co.uk

0790 9009 442

Bookings of Westwoodside Village Hall

Vivien M’Itwamwari

01427 753856

Beryl Ash

01724 783125

Mervyn Storrs Email: mervyn-storrs@gmail.com

01427 728373

Deb Hotson

01652 618306

Bookings of West Butterwick Village Hall Bookings of Coronation Hall, Owston Ferry Bookings of Westwoodside Pavilion

www.westwoodsidepfa.co.uk

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Chapmans Sheds, Garages & Fencing Tel: 07850 876904 82 Godnow Rd Crowle DN174EE

Fits Alarms

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Advice

Business Directory

Pensions Helpline

0800 991234

Electricity Emergencies

0800 375 675

Transco - Gas Leaks

080 111 999

Yorkshire Water

0845 1242424

Care in the Community Age Concern

0800 009966

Childline

0800 1111

Neighbourhood Watch

01482 444466

Health Visitor Team

0800 099951

SSAFA Forces Help www.ssafa,org.uk

, 01476 569764

NSPCC

0808 80050000

RSPCA

0300 1234999

NHS Direct

111

Transco Emergency Gas

0800 111999

Community

£30 + VAT for 12 months Contact Carolyn

01302 532676

Business/Finance/Accountants Hurstons Accountants & Bus. Advisors

01427 873737

Health/Fitness /Swimming Aquafit - Misterton School

01427 754772

The Willows Dental

01427 872106

Blissful Soles Reflexology Mobile Therapist

07901 016688

Funeral Directors Fields Funeral Service, Westwoodside

01427 874424

R Butoid Funeral Service , Misterton & Dist

01427 890317

Trade/Craftsmen Brooks HOMECARE Replacement Window and Doors 07973 142963 01427 875314 CES Electrical Services—Karl Collins 07768 467814 01427 753072 JMB Developments (for all your plastering jobs) 07785 735984 Taxis

Crime Stoppers

0800 555 111

Carers Support Centre

01652 650585

Isle of Axholme Lions

01427 752139

Isle of Axholme Osteoporosis Support Link—Anne Broster

01427 875752

Epworth & Isle of Axholme Rotary Club

0790 4573 405

A& H Taxis-Westwoodside

07817068199 or 01427 362016

Home and Garden Axholme Pest Control

01427 873608 / 0776 6747245

Education and General Epworth Country Primary School

01427 872345

Haxey C of E School

01427 752294

Westwoodside C of E Primary School

01427 752355

Westwoodside Mobile Library

01724 865675

Haxey Library - Memorial Hall

01724 753239

Epworth and District WI

07747 103805

Leisure Epworth Leisure Centre

01427 873845

Haxey Cricket Club

01427 752394

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