December 2016
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Sunday 4: 4pm Manor Waste Christmas Event 7 December
Crib Festival 2&3 December
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Monday 12 December
“It’s Beginning to look a lot like ‘Christmas Shopping’ I hope you will find the time to hear the true sound of ChristChristmas” - in August!
If you have not started your ‘Christmas Shopping’ then you are behind the times! Research has shown that an increasing number of people begin to make preparations for Christmas toward the end of August! This year, more than four months before 25th December, Selfridges’ (London) became the first department store to launch its ‘Christmas Shop’. At least other retailers waited to display some of their ‘festive’ offerings until after the August Bank Holiday! Bah Humbug. Whilst I am not seeking to be an unreformed Ebenezer Scrooge, I am concerned that the true meaning of Christmas is being lost amidst unbridled consumerism. I understand that such early shopping might allow some families to spread the cost of Christmas by snapping up timely bargains. However, I am also concerned that other families might be pressurised by the “Ho Ho Ho” of retailers aggressively pushing their secular version of the season. Whenever you started your
Mass, that is, not the beep of a credit/debit card transaction, the “Ho Ho Ho” of Santa but rather the cry of the new-born Christ in the manger! Father Wayne Coughlin, RC PP
Future of RAF Halton Airfield
The Station Commander released the following statement about the future of RAF Halton airfield on Tuesday 8 November 2016: The Secretary of State for Defence has announced that, as a part of the wider rationalisation of the Defence estate, the RAF Halton airfield will be closed in 2022. The Defence Infrastructure Organisation and Aylesbury Vale District Council will work together to determine the future of the land in question. The decision by Defence to release RAF Halton’s airfield is unrelated to the on-going work to determine the future of the wider RAF Halton estate.
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Tuesday 6 & 20 December at 1.30pm To celebrate the completion of training at RAF Halton we can expect a flypast (weather permitting)
ANTIQUES AT . . . WENDOVER Come and enjoy mulled wine and mince pies Sunday 4 & 11 December 11am to 5pm and late night Wednesday 7 December December Mystery Object at the Antiques Centre October’s object was a Sugar Shovel £10 Gift voucher for the winner Open 7 Days a week Free customer car park at rear of shop THE OLD POST OFFICE, WENDOVER, BUCKS 01296 625335 www.antiquesatwendover.co.uk
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We hope you are in the mood for a festive sing-along. If so, come and join your family, friends & neighbours for ‘Carols Around the Tree’ at 6pm on Manor Waste on 23rd December. We will be accompanied by the amazing Chinnor Silver Band again this year.
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