TURNERS HILL PARISH NEWS NOVEMBER 2017 PUBLISHED BY ST LEONARD’S CHURCH www.thparish.co.uk
Edition Number 371
THE VILLAGE REMEMBERS With the clocks now gone back and the nights drawing in, we reach November the month of Remembrance. Preparations began in October when the schoolchildren established their ‘Field of Remembrance’ with hand-made wreaths on the Village Green and the Royal British Legion Branch launched its 2017 Poppy Appeal. Along with the community as a whole, the Parish News is proud to ‘wear’ its pictorial poppy here, in honour of all those who gave their service and their lives in two world wars and other military conflicts of the 20th and 21st centuries. On Remembrance Sunday, November 12, the British Legion local branch will hold its traditional Remembrance Service at 15.00 in St Leonard’s. (A similar Remembrance Service takes place at All Saints Crawley Down in the morning.) British Legion Branch President Eric Dawes provides more information about Remembrance and other Legion activities on the Village News pages. See also Canon David Tickner’s thoughtful Remembrance message in From The Vicarage.
INSIDE THIS EDITION………. As ever, there is plenty more news and information inside, including this snapshot selection:
•Details of ‘affordable’ Housing Association Homes at the new Clock Field development and how to apply for them are given on the Parish Council pages.
•In early December, St Leonard’s will host the Mid Sussex District Council Civic Service at the special request of current MSDC Chairman and District Councillor, Bruce Forbes.
•The same weekend of the Civic Service sees the village’s traditional Christmas Tree Festival take place at the church. •Worth Horticultural Society stages its AGM this month; the Twinning Association runs a Children in Need fund-raising social evening; the 2017 Fair Game Draw kicks off; the Cricket Club announces this year’s trophy winners; Turners Hill Arts Society goes in search of the Queen of Sheba; and the centrepage interview features former village copper Quentin Moyle.
•On a rather more sombre note, we bid farewell to well-known resident Belinda Faull who died last month, with a fond obituary recollecting her life and times.