CAUSEWAY DECEMBER 2021 The Final Issue of Causeway Having Served Thorp Arch and Walton since 1978
Thank you all. Merry Christmas and Farewell. 1
Serving the communities of Thorp Arch and Walton Advertising Index
Contact: John Pendleton, 07828 524568 jlp@proportionmarketing.co.uk
Accountants
Curtains, Furnishing
Kitchens
Gillbeck Associates..........30
Lou’s Threads....................19
Aberford Interiors.............19
Decorators
Opticians
Alarms
Oliver Willard....................28
Andrew Morgan................28
PGK Security.....................30
The Decorating Centre.....22
Cameron Beaumont..........05
Architects
Electrical Services
PA/Secretarial Concierge
McNicholas Architects......30
P Collier.............................22
David Bransby...................27
Estate Agents
Pest Control
Beadnall & Copley............32
Pest Tec.............................22
Funerals
Plumbing and Heating
Tony Barker.......................28
Peter Norman...................30
Gardening
Retail Parks
Care Home
Lawn Keeper.....................19
Thorp Arch Retail Park......30
Wetherby Manor...............12
MK Landscaping...............04
Carpet Cleaning
Golf Putting Green
Wetherby Carpet..............28
Golf4Home.......................04
Cars/MOT
Hairdressing
Bardsey Tree Services.......14
Westmoreland Cars..........31
Ian Blakey..........................30
Branchlines Tree Services...07
Chimney Sweep
Hardware
Mooring Brothers.............22
Douglas Yeadon................23
Chiropody
Holiday Cottages
Boston Spa Chiropody......28
Priory Cottages.................22
Peter Howard...................23
Space Design Services......29 Bed & Breakfast Four Gables......................23 Building Materials Kirbys................................14
Taxi Services Jorvik Travel......................28 Tree Services
Front Cover - Merry Causeway Everyone! - John Pendleton Causeway - Editors Lisa Sherratt and Victora Etherington. Chair, Design, Advertising John Pendleton. Distribution (Thorp Arch) Jane Clayton (Walton) Gay Childe and David Spencer. Big thanks to the entire distribution team. Please refer to the Contacts Page for contact details. The Editor and Management Committee do not endorse any content of articles or advertisements in this magazine nor shall they be liable directly or indirectly for any damages which may arise from information or views contained in these pages. 2
From your Editors causeway.editor@gmail.com
Dear Readers
Alas, with no volunteers coming forward for the three vacancies, it is with regret that we have to announce that this is the final edition of Causeway. The magazine has served the community since 1978. It has been posted, free, through every door in the villages. This has meant that anyone moving into the villages has received all the information they need to join in the community. Ironically, for the first time in a number of years, the award-winning magazine is financially sound. The accounts have enough money to continue publication for the next year, even if we had no advertising revenue. However, we believe that most of the advertisers would continue with us. So it wasn’t the money that did it. With the editor, designer and advertising roles vacant, we are left with no choice but to sadly close the doors after this December issue.
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Causeway can be very proud of its community contribution. It took a small army to make it to your door - and we thank the 43 years worth of chairs (notably Ian Hall), editors, designers, treasurers, advertising managers, volunteers, distributors (come rain or shine), contributors (take a bow Anne Watts), proofreaders, advertisers, printers, couriers, charities, organisations, groups, councillors and churches that have made this happen so successfully. Editor’s Letter WiSE - Latest News News from our Churches Clergy Letter Sunday Services Thorp Arch Parish Council Walton Village News Martin House - Could You Volunteer?
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But our greatest thanks go to someone who has been with Causeway since day one. A founder of the magazine, still committee member and distributor, with 43 unbroken years a volunteer - a Most Brilliant Effort... ...Step forward, Jane Clayton MBE So what of the future? Will Causeway be missed? Did it speak to you? Got a replacement in mind? Energised into action? Website, Social Media, Print (Don’t forget the offline)? We welcome a further 145 households into our community in 2022 wouldn’t it be neighbourly for them to be greeted and encouraged to get involved in our community as we were by Causeway? We’d encourage both villages, in the Spirit of Causeway, to continue to work together, share, learn, socialise and get involved! We’d like to take this opportunity to thank you for your support over the last two years, we’ve really enjoyed our roles as editor keeping the communication open for these two wonderful villages.
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Tackling social isolation Wetherby charity figures highlight staggering strength behind social support return
“Whilst we’re continuing to proceed cautiously and with the needs of our friends front of mind, we’re so pleased that we’ve been able to make these last 12 weeks busy and enjoyable ones, which we think these figures illustrate really well.”
A Wetherby older persons’ charity has unveiled the staggering statistics behind the restoration of its best loved activities helping to cut social isolation after almost two years of lockdowns and shielding. The figures include 900 coffees, 768 cups of tea and 432 scones served to 1,629 visitors to Wetherby in Support of the Elderly’s (WiSE) popular WiSE Owl Café for the community in Boston Spa. That’s on top of almost 500 people who have attended one of the 50 activities WiSE has staged since reopening core services 12 weeks ago- from chairobics, aerobics and line dancing to knitting, crafting and music sessions.
WiSE is a registered charity organisation part-funded by Leeds City Council (LCC). Its aim is to improve quality of life for the over 60s by providing community based activities, information, help and support.
Another 50 transport journeys have been completed, whereby the charity’s volunteers drive older people to activities or social engagements they would otherwise not have been able to attend.
Its efforts during the pandemic were acknowledged with a special award by the Lord Mayor of Leeds last year, after the charity was nominated for recognition by local councillors.
Mark Dobson, Chief Operating Officer at WiSE, said: “As soon as the government gave the green light for final restrictions to end in July, we knew we needed to step up and get back up and running with activities and events which we know make a massive difference to the lives of hundreds of older people in Wetherby and surrounding villages- many of whom have been starved of social interaction for almost two years now.
Now it’s looking to extend its events programme into more of Wetherby’s surrounding villages including Thorner, Bramham and Boston Spa. For more information about its activities and events visit www.w-ise.org.uk/calendar
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News from our Churches Connections Café
recent Faith At Work group which serves younger professionals in our villages.
One way in which our churches are building back better after the upheaval of the past couple of years is by developing our ministry among adults in their 20s, 30s and 40s.
The focal point of Jo’s work will be growing a new worshipping community on Saturday mornings, centred around Connections Café. The café runs weekly from 10am to noon at St Mary’s, Boston Spa and features delicious, fresh Fairtrade coffee and homemade cakes, served with love and a smile, and the café operates on a “Pay as You Feel” basis, and there is an informal faith slot - a pause for thought - around 11am each week
Joanna Davies has been appointed as our new Connections Minister as part of the Diocese of York’s Multiply project. Jo grew up in these villages, was a chorister at St Mary’s, Boston Spa in her youth, got married there, and her children attend Lady Elizabeth Hastings in Thorp Arch.
Everyone is welcome, whatever their age, but our intention is that this offers a different time and place to “do church” for those who find Sunday mornings just don’t work for their household. Why not pop in?
As Connections Minister, Jo will develop the way our churches serve other parents of local children, and young professionals without children. This builds on our churches’ existing work with parents of babies and toddlers via The Ark (run for the last 17 years by the Mothers’ Union), and our more
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Letter from the Clergy God on the Margins
To follow Jesus is to follow God the ultimate outsider: in Jesus, God came to the extreme margins of human existence and met us there. God met us in the extremes of pain and death on the cross of Jesus. God met us in the ministry of Jesus among the excluded and marginalized. And as we prepare for Christmas, this is a helpful way to put things in perspective. God didn’t rock up as a warrior, a mighty emperor with an army to rival the Romans. God turned up as a baby, born in inconvenient circumstances in an insignificant backwater of the fragile margins of an empire. At Christmas we remember how God comes out to meet us on the margins.
I love to visit the Yorkshire coast. There is something about being on the edge of the world about the seaside - a definite, yet mysterious and ever changing margin between land and sea. I often pray as I walk along a beach - it seems somehow to lend itself to quiet reflection, I think - and I often come back to this theme of margins: how Jesus in his ministry was often to be found in rural backwaters, or among those at the margins of his society. Now, we can sometimes make the mistake of assuming that the point of Jesus seeking out those whom society was shunning was simply a matter of him curing them. Yes, Jesus heals miraculously on many occasions, but the healing itself is only part of the story. In the society in which he lived, these healings also led to people being welcomed back into the thick of things, restored in their communities and given true dignity.
When we learn to love as Christ loved us, when we ignore social and cultural barriers between ourselves and others, when we truly invite God to transform us into a community of love, the result is that the love of God is born again in the world. Christmas means God is with us: God’s love is loose in the world. And when that happens, there are no margins, because we haven’t set a boundary: there is only an inclusive, loving community which puts all human models of society, all political structures of nationhood or community in the shade. Those, my friends and neighbours, are the glad tidings of great joy which I offer you and yours this Christmas.
So what do we learn from those on the margins of society? Well, unlikely as it sounds, they should be our role models. The diversity of what it means to be human is often most challenging for those who do not have social barriers to overcome - whether these be of race, gender, disability, sexuality or neurotypicality. The thing is, this is a direct challenge from Jesus for everyone. I bet for each of us there is someone, or some group of people we find it harder to love than others. We find it hard to love unconditionally because this is a universal human disability, and this is why we need the grace of God and the gift of the Holy Spirit to help us to love as God loves us. We need to actually see ourselves as outsiders, to get a proper perspective.
Bless you all, REV’D NICK
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Sunday Services
ALL SAINTS’ THORP ARCH
9.30am
5th December
Holy Communion
8am
12th December
Group Holy Communion
9.30am
12th December
Holy Communion @ Walton
9.30am
19th December
Carol Service Lay Led
11.30pm
24th December
Midnight Mass Holy Communion
9.30am
25th December
Holy Communion @ Walton
10am
26th December
Benefice Service Holy Communion @ St Marys
10am
2nd January 2022
Benefice Service Holy Communion
ST PETER’S WALTON
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5th December
Holy Communion @ Thorp Arch
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12th December
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12th December
Holy Communion @ Walton
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19th December
Carol Service Lay Led
11.30pm
24th December
Midnight Mass Holy Communion @ Thorp Arch
9.30am
25th December
Holy Communion
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26th December
Benefice Service Holy Communion @ St Marys
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2nd January 2022
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TAPC News Nov/Dec 2021 Christmas Lights A range of Christmas lighting has now been ordered for the village. The displays include coloured floodlights under a number of trees, structures on lampposts, white and coloured lights on the Christmas tree on The Green. Lights will be switched on from the end of November until January for a few hours each evening. We hope you enjoy the festive feel the lights will add to the village.
A very Happy Christmas and a Healthy 2022 from all at Thorp Arch Parish Council
Housing developments Chartford Homes are still on site due to an engineering problem. They expect to be finished within the next three weeks.
Bulb Planting Our bulb ‘plantathon’ got underway during October. We are very grateful to a number of volunteers who supported Cllr Ian Grainger and Cllr Steve O’Loughlin to plant over 1,500 daffodil bulbs. A big thank you to Boston Spa, Wetherby and Villages Community Green Group, who helped with the digging and planting and also to Wetherby Rotary Club who donated 850 purple crocus bulbs. The bulbs have been planted in various locations around the village, including The Greens, Walton Road, and North lodge.
The Lovell Homes development is progressing. The show homes are open and the first residents will move into their properties in December.
It’s going to be a colourful Spring in Thorp Arch!
Register for a community alert: For daily crime updates in your area please register for community alert. Here you will receive updates about crime in your area, and crime prevention advice. Please visit Community Alert.
Any queries or concerns about the development can be forwarded directly to Lovells at: Nicola. Bailey@lovell.co.uk Tel: 01132 022 200. Police Matters Thirteen crimes reported for September, eleven of which were committed on the Trading estate.
New Sign A new sign purchased by the Parish Council has been installed at the North end of Walton Road at the junction with Wetherby Road and Wighill Lane. All three main entrances to the village now have welcome signs.
Newsletter Sign Up The Parish Council now produce their own electronic Newsletter. This can be accessed via our website: www.thorp-arch.org.uk If you would like to receive the newsletter and other information directly from us, then please sign up via the website.
Parish Council Survey The Parish Council will undertake a village wide survey during January 2022. We will be asking residents what they like about living in Thorp Arch and what they feel could be improved. The survey will be accessed online, but hard copies will also be available for those who prefer.
The Newsletter sign up box can be found on the Homepage. Date of Next Meeting
We will be posting an information leaflet about the survey through your letter box in January, which will contain everything you need to know about partaking and expressing your views.
The next meetings will be held on Monday 13th December – 7pm - 9pm and Monday 1st January at All Saints Church, Thorp Arch. 10
Walton Village News Calling All Clubs, Organisations and charities
idea - then please contact us on via our website waltonvillagehallwetherby.org/contact/ or Mark on 07786 246 997.
Walton Village Hall exists for the benefit of the local community and for providing services and opportunities for local businesses and clubs is really important to us.
Thank you!
So we would like to offer an opportunity to any clubs, charity or business a chance to give us a go for free and to test the community to see what interest exists.
After 30 plus years as flower and cleaning coordinators Geoff and Liz Harrison are stepping down from these duties at St Peter’s.
We would love to see more regular users of the hall particularly during the week daytime or evenings Monday to Friday.
Doreen and past Church Wardens thank them for all their support and care given to the Church maintaining it looks its best at all times.
So if you run a hobby, club, keep fit class, arts club, cub or brownie pack - or indeed anything like this - then please get in touch. Or maybe you could run a coffee morning? We will subject to availability - offer a number of free hire slots for up to a maximum of four weeks - to give us a go and trial a new idea or new venue.
The Mural on the fence Until our extension is built, we have installed a temporary storage container to house chairs and other equipment, and in order to minimise the visual impact we surrounded it with a fence.
We are looking to run this campaign in December and January. Please note that these slots will be for up to two hours per slot and normally during the weekday and evening Monday to Friday. If there’s a particular good idea that needs a weekend slot - then let’s have a chat. For more details or to talk through your
Well, our long-term hirers, the wonderful Walton Group of Artists, volunteered to paint a mural on the front. What a fabulous work of art they have created! The little dog looks just like the chairman’s cockapoo :-)
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Volunteers - get involved Volunteers needed at Martin House’s furniture showroom
As well as selling furniture and home goods, the furniture warehouse is also the distribution hub for Martin House’s chain of 12 charity clothes shops across the region. Volunteer roles can include sorting donations, serving customers in the showroom, van driving and helping to pick up donations and deliver goods.
People with time to spare are being asked to help support seriously ill children by volunteering at Martin House Children’s Hospice’s charity furniture showroom and warehouse at Thorp Arch.
Martin House’s charity shops together raise more than £1 million to support the hospice. Heather added: “We provide all the training and support you need, and we also have robust Covid measures in place to keep staff and volunteers safe. “Volunteering can be so rewarding, it can be a very social activity, while at the same time helping to support a local charity.”
Martin House, which cares for babies, children and young people with life-limiting conditions, operates its furniture warehouse at the Thorp Arch Retail Park. Now it needs more volunteers to help it continue raising money to care for families across the region. Heather Griffiths, volunteer coordinator, said: “Our furniture warehouse is incredibly successful, and has always been well-supported by our customers. But we really do need more volunteers so we can keep raising money to provide our care.“If you have just a few hours a week you could spare, it would make a huge difference to us.”
Anyone interested in volunteering can call into the furniture warehouse, email volunteering@ martinhouse.org.uk, or visit www.martinhouse. org.uk/volunteering.
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Are YOU up for the Challenge?
You can complete these in anyorder. Can you do them all? What challenge of your own can you add? Don’t buy as many new clothes. Find clothing
Feed the Birds: over the cold winter months. Wrap up & go for a walk! Take part in our local geocache trail.
Walk, cycle, scoot or work from home one day every week.
Find out who provides the energy in your home and change to a renewable provider. Already have? Get three friends or family members to
Join our Community Group and help with our local park.
Cook and eat a vegetarian meal once a week for 6 weeks in a row. If you already do this, cook a vegan meal. If you already do this, get three friends or family members on board.
If you have outside space, be a lazy gardener! Make leaf mounds with the fallen Autumn leaves or log piles to create the perfect hedgehog hibernacula!
so the birds have enough time to get used to Plant trees and native hedges: late autumn is the time to do this, learn which trees and hedges here.
Recycle 100 crisp packets at our local collection points. Watch at least one of these documentaries - A Life On Our Planet, Beavers Without Borders, The People vs Climate Change, 2040, Kiss The Ground.
If you’ve got a wildlife pond (or a container on the surface to prevent it from freezing over! Take part in a citizen science project e.g. CEH.
Learn how to make EcoBricks - teach a friend.
Think of three ideas on how to save water in your home and implement them.
Talk to friends & write to your local councillor and MP about a local environmental issue.
Try food sharing apps Olio or Too Good To Go.
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A Sweet and Spicy US Treat Sweet Potato Fruitcake
and spread the fruit on a large clean (old) towel, or several layers of paper towel, and let dry for at least an hour.
This cake was a staple on our B&B breakfast table. It’s a fusion of a southern US sweet potato cake and a fruitcake – which turned out to be a happy marriage, if I do say so myself.
Prepare pan: I usually butter the pan generously so that the paper sticks to it. Cut 2 rounds of brown paper + 1 round of parchment for bottom, line sides with parchment, and tie a double layer strip of brown paper around the outside.
It’s spicy and very moist, and it also works well as a Christmas cake, with the advantage that you don’t need to make it weeks (months?) in advance. It happens to be dairy free. If you’re making your own fruit mix, use 300g each of raisins, sultanas and currants, 100g of orange peel. It makes a large cake – you may prefer to make half the recipe.
Combine all of the dry ingredients, incl. ground almonds, and mix together with a fork. Combine oil, sugar and eggs in a mixing bowl and beat for about 2 min. Add the mashed sweet potato and vanilla and combine. Add the dry ingredients and beat or stir until smooth; add a little milk if it seems very thick.
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In a very large bowl, combine the mixed fruit with the walnuts, then sprinkle with the remaining flour and mix well – I think hands work best for this. Pour the batter over the fruit and mix (large spoon is good, hand is good too) to combine evenly. Pour into prepared pans and bake in a slow oven (150°, or 140° for convection): 3 – 3½ hours.
1 med/large or 2 small mashed, cooked sweet potato 1,000g (1kg) mixed fruit (raisins, sultanas, currants & orange peel – see above) 5 fruit tea bags (any kind of tea except mint) 250g sifted plain flour 100g whole meal flour 2 tsp bicarbonate of soda ¾ tsp baking powder ¾ tsp salt 1 tsp ground cinnamon ½ tsp ground cloves ½ tsp ground nutmeg 50g ground almonds 8oz (225 ml) cooking oil 225g caster sugar 2 large eggs 2 tsp vanilla 200g chopped walnuts 50g plain flour
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Cook the sweet potato whole in its skin, just covered in water, until tender. Cool, peel and mash. Boil a kettle of water. Pour it over the mixed fruit in a large bowl, add the tea bags and let soak for 30-60 minutes. Remove the tea bags, drain well, 18
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A fresh new take... That’s perfect!
Mary said yes and so God carefully wrapped the very special gift in her stomach. God looked and God saw and God said “That’s perfect!”
God made the world, and was very careful to add all the right ingredients, enough food and all the things needed for homes and clothes for everyone to share. God looked and God saw and God said “That’s perfect!”
God knew that Mary would need some help, after all this was a very special gift to take care of. So God chose Joseph to help her and sent him a special message dream to show him what to do. Joseph took good care of Mary and God looked and God saw and God said “That’s perfect!”
Time passed by and God saw that people were not being kind, they had stopped sharing and loving and so God decided to send some help. God sent Kings to rule and guide the people and prophets to explain how it was supposed to be. Eventually God decided it was time to send a special gift for the world so that the world would understand how it was meant to be. God decided that the gift would need to be wrapped. God did not choose brightly coloured wrapping paper or a padded envelope or even a great big cardboard box. This gift needed a very special type of wrapping up. God looked around and saw a girl, a very ordinary and young girl and God sent an angel messenger to ask if it would be ok?
God wanted the gift to be born somewhere special. God knew just the right place but it was a long way away. How would Mary and Joseph get there? God did not choose a train, a bus or a taxi. Mary and Joseph had to walk and ride a donkey. God looked and God saw and God said “That’s perfect!”
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...on the nativity story. The journey was difficult and by the time they arrived in Bethlehem everyone else had taken all the rooms and there was nowhere to stay, but God knew the right place. It didn’t have a bed or carpets. God looked and God saw and God said “That’s perfect!”
The shepherds left their sheep and hurried to see the gift. They were amazed. The gift was small and special and the shepherds told everyone about it. God looked and God saw and God said “That’s perfect!” God chose some other visitors too, some rather clever people. This time God sent a starry sat nav to show them the way. The visitors brought presents for the special gift and they bowed and worshiped the gift. God looked and God saw and God said “That’s perfect!”
It was time for the gift to be given to the world. The gift arrived there in the stable among the animals. God looked and God saw and God said “That’s perfect!”
God’s special gift grew up and showed the world how to love one another. God’s special gift gave the world a great big hug, bigger than any other hug in the whole wide world, a hug for you and me and for everyone from God. God looked and God saw and God said “That’s perfect!”
God decided that the gift for the world needed some visitors. God looked around and saw some shepherds on the hillside. They were rough and tough and ordinary, but God sent his very best singing telegram to give them the first invite. God looked and God saw and God said “That’s perfect!”
This lovely retelling of the nativity story was written by Karen Clark, a gifted children’s storyteller, who I am privileged to work alongside. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!
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Deaneries explained New Area Dean
collaborate, share resources, encourage one another, organise training and collaborative events at a viable and more effective scale. On a practical level, a Deanery helps the senior leadership of a Diocese keep in touch with the grass roots of church life.
The Bishop of Selby, the Right Reverend Dr John Thomson recently commissioned our vicar, The Reverend Nick Morgan, as Area Dean of New Ainsty in a service at St Mary’s Church, Boston Spa. So what is a Deanery?
Given the size of York Diocese (which stretches up to Middlesbrough, down to Hull and across to the Yorkshire coast) this is important, as keeping in direct contact with so many individual churches would be impractical otherwise.
At the most obvious level, a Deanery is a geographical area within a Diocese. Each parish in the Church of England is part of a deanery it is not a separate or optional body: it is part of the democratic structure of the Church of England of which each parish is a part.
Often a Diocese will use Deaneries for consultation processes affecting the whole Diocese as this is a productive way of ensuring democratic accountability. Deaneries also provide a manageable forum across a geographical area which hopefully has much in common in which we can tell one another our stories, and share our concerns, hopes and vision.
Just as each Parish Church Council (PCC) exercises democratic and legal rights, duties and responsibilities at the most local level, a Deanery exercises similar functions at the next level of accountability. Deaneries are grouped into Archdeaconries (areas under the care of an Archdeacon—and we are in the Archdeaconry of York) which are themselves then accountable to a Diocesan Synod. New Ainsty Deanery includes the churches of the Bramham Benefice and Clifford, north as far as the River Nidd, east of us towards York via Tadcaster (as far as Acaster Malbis, Copmanthorpe and Askham Bryan).
They provide a space in which we can learn what God is up to across a wider geographical area than our own communities, and for praying and worshipping together. Rev’d Nick writes, “An Area Dean isn’t a manager of other clergy, but it is one of those ‘first among equals’ roles where I’m called to represent the senior leadership team to my colleagues, and to report my colleagues’ concerns back to them.
Parish representatives on a Deanery Synod are the means by which the deanery is held accountable (not PCCs directly) and can make strategic decisions and report back to the Diocese, and so it is important that PCCs elect and send representatives to their Deanery Synod.
Together with the Lay Dean, the Deanery Secretary and other members of the Deanery Leadership Team, I try to organise our Deanery Synod meetings such that our churches have an opportunity to listen to each other and hear one another’s stories. In New Ainsty Deanery, we’re here to encourage one another, support each others’ ministry, and get a clearer sense of the bigger picture of what God is up to in our villages and towns.
A Deanery is chaired by two people: the Area Dean (who is an ordained priest) and a Lay Dean (who is not ordained). Between them, these two officers of the Bishop co-chair Deanery Synod. The Area Dean also chairs meetings of the Deanery Chapter - the clergy of the deanery. Deaneries are the forum in which consultations take place about any reorganisation in the Diocese (such as rejigging boundaries, clergy deployment, budget setting, central resourcing which churches call up from the DIocese). They are also the forum through which churches can
I look forward to working with my deanery colleagues at this challenging and exciting time for York Diocese, but this additional role will not take me away from my existing responsibilities as vicar,”
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A roaring success! Pride of Wetherby!
Residents of Thorp Arch and Walton may have met a Lion when you had your Covid vaccination, sitting on the newly refurbished benches on Harland way or at the Wetherby 10k run.
If you heard the word ‘Lion’ what would you think? Wild cat native to Africa? An animal that can run at 80km an hour and live for up to 15 years?
This Christmas look out for the Lions as they accompany Santa and his sleigh through the local area. He can’t get to every house before Christmas but you will get a chance to meet him and the Lions at our famous Dickensian Market in Wetherby on the 12th December!
Do you know there are Lions across the world including a group in Wetherby, Thorp Arch, Walton and surrounds? Wetherby District Lions are part of an international network and the largest service organisation in the world. Since they were founded in Chicago in 1917 the Lions have helped groups and individuals locally and across the globe.
Next year we hope will see the return of the January lunch for 200 senior citizens and the Great Yorkshire Bike Ride with Lions marshalling along the route. We couldn’t do this without a lot of support from local businesses and people like yourselves. A huge thank you to all of you! If you want to know more or take part do introduce yourself at one of our events or send an email to: secretary. wetherbylions@gmail.com I look forward to hearing from you. And did you know… Wetherby Lions are one of 1,000 Lions Clubs in the UK. That’s a very big organisation! Have a great Christmas and best wishes for 2022. RUTH HOLT
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The Birds in Your Garden Jays and Acorns
Jays appear to be able to relocate quite a lot of the acorns they have stored, some will be found by other birds or animals, including other corvids which have been seen watching the caching process and then raiding the store as soon as the owner departs.
A phone call last week induced me to have a closer look at this year’s acorn crop. My main chance to see any number of oak trees close to is on the golf course, and judging by the number of squirrels looking for acorns, I had assumed the crop to be pretty good.
Of the remainder, some will germinate to form seedlings, a good source of food for grazing animals, with those hidden in thorny patches being protected and able to grow into trees. It is this action of burying acorns away from the tree under which they found them that makes Jays, along with squirrels, such effective dispersal agents for the seeds, helping oak woodland to establish in new areas. Other corvids do behave in the same way, though to a lesser extent
However, having done a bit of reading research, it seems that there is more to it, and in reality, the crop is rather poor. We had a bumper acorn crop last year, an event which is generally followed by a poor one, as the trees have used up most of their resources. This means it is likely that the larger than usual number of Jays and squirrels currently seen is a combination of two factors. Last year’s glut of food increased survival rates, and this year’s less bountiful harvest is forcing them to compete harder to find enough food to cache.
This close cooperation has, over millennia, been vital for the oak tree since, when growing closely together, the dense canopy formed prevents saplings from establishing themselves, so some form of dispersal is vital.
If this is true, it will be interesting to see how Jays, which rely on the acorn crop more than most, get on over the winter. We may well see more of them on our feeders, particularly in rural or semi-rural areas. Although a wary species, individual Jays can be emboldened by hunger and may become surprisingly approachable when they visit gardens.
Squirrels, having a rather more varied diet might not fare so badly, as other nut bearing trees, such as horse chestnuts, are available for them. Time will tell, but this sort of weather variability is only going to become more common as climate change makes what are now extremes much more common.
The spring months are important for the development of most trees and shrubs. It is when the buds burst, the leaves grow, and the flowers bloom. Oak trees usually flower between the end of April and mid-May, but as their flowers are wind pollinated, the wet weather we had last spring will have impeded pollination, and yet further reduced the acorn crop this year.
Will we see more Jays in our gardens this winter…?
It is in autumn that Jays are usually at their most conspicuous, hunting on the ground for the acorns which are their staple food. They can be seen collecting them, and can carry three or four in an adapted gullet plus one more held in their bills, taking them away from the immediate vicinity of the tree under which they found them, to be cached. Typically in a hole that they have made in the ground with their beaks. In many years their numbers are increased by the arrival of birds from the near continent. 26
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