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Scarborough Life
Scarborough Review
Church set to sparkle as it dreams of the future Words and picture by Mike Tyas A CHRISTMAS tree festival will spearhead the next phase of fundraising as a Scarborough church gets ready to sparkle as it looks to the future. The festival will be held at St Mark’s Church in Newby starting on Friday 2nd December with a grand opening by Scarborough’s mayor. A series of events will then be held until the following Wednesday. Money raised will go to an on-going campaign to raise funds for repairs and maintenance, as well as plans to build an extension at the rear of the church including a café, and demolishing the existing hall and replacing it with a family and youth centre. The total budget for the four-phase scheme has been estimated at £800,000. ‘St Mark’s has a tradition of holding Christmas tree festivals – we held them in 2002 and 2009 and we are continuing that,’ said festival organiser Carol Hagan. ‘In the past we have raised funds for local charities, now we need to raise funds for St Mark’s.’ The church has produced a leaflet advertising its fundraising activities and why they are being held. It was due to be distributed to around 3,200 homes within the Newby parish shortly before The Review went to press. It reads: ‘St Mark’s Church has been at the centre of its local community for over 80 years and our church building has played a part in the lives of so many people in all kinds of ways. ‘We believe our church will continue to serve its community for the next generation but to do this we need to invest in the current church building and rebuild the church hall so that we have a valuable community resource for the next 80 years. ‘We have a vision for our church and need your support – can you help us? We need to raise money to live out the dream of a fantastic resource that will help us to “Pray for, Love and Serve” the people of Newby and beyond.’ The Christmas tree festival programme: • Grand opening on Friday 2nd December, 7pm, with cheese, wine and entertainment. Tickets are £5 and available from Heather Petch, tel. Scarborough 369668. • Breakfast with Santa in the church hall, 9am-noon on Saturday 3rd, with school choirs in the afternoon. • Festival service at 10am on Sunday 4th December; Advent Evensong at 3.30pm.
Filey club hands over big cheque by Dave Barry
Hospice ‘amazed’ at Starlight Walk total Words and pictures by Mike Tyas
Festival organiser Carol Hagan with St Mark’s vicar, Rev. Mike Leigh • Newby and Scalby Women’s Institute carol service, 2pm, on Monday 5th, followed by Staxton Singers holding an open rehearsal in church, from 7.30pm. • Sparkers service (for pre-school children and carers), at 10.30am on Tuesday 6th. In the evening the church will hold a ‘classic film night’, showing ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’. Mulled wine and mince pies will be served. Free admission. • Beacon District Guides carol service, at 6pm on Wednesday 7th. Local charities, organisations and individuals are being encouraged to display a tree and take part in what the church hopes will be a ‘spectacular’ event. Said Carol: ‘A Christmas tree festival is always a joyous occasion. ‘St Mark’s is throwing open its doors to everybody in the Scarborough area to come along and join us in celebration of Christmas and the birth of Jesus.’ The festival theme will be ‘the music of Christmas’, with each tree decorated to reflect a popular Christmas carol or song. Another tree will be included among the display which encourages families to sponsor a bauble in memory of a loved one. The church will be open every day, from 10am3.30pm. Volunteers will on hand to welcome visitors and provide refreshments. Anyone wanting to sponsor a tree is asked to ring Carol Hagan, tel. Scarborough 371310, as soon as possible.
“She explained about motor-neurone A SUMMER fair in disease, describing Filey raised £718 for the effects and the Scarborough and treatment available. Bridlington Motor “Dorothy went on to Neurone Disease describe the work Society. Filey Ladies the society does to Monday Club worked support people with hard to organise the fair, which was in the Cheque-mates, L-R, Judy Dukes, Dorothy MND, their relatives Concert Hall at the Crossman, Jad Pierkarski, Anne Stringer, Pat and friends. Her talk Evron Centre in July. Perkins, Sue Harrington and Brenda Sweeney provoked a lot of interest and many At a meeting attended by 43 members, a big cheque was presented to questions were answered. “The MNDA Society was our choice of charity Dorothy Crossman from the society. “Dorothy gave an interesting talk about to benefit this year and we were pleased how she became involved with the society, to have been able to support such a worthy originally in Lancaster and then here, after cause”. moving to Scarborough eight years ago”, said n New members are welcome - ring Brenda on 518280. Brenda Sweeney, who chairs the club.
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SAINT Catherine’s Hospice has nearly 30,000 reasons to say a big thank you after the final sum for this year’s Starlight Walk was revealed. Charity walkers raised £29,787 after completing the 6.5mile course that started in a flash of colour at the hospice off Throxenby Lane late on Saturday 10 September, took in the North Bay, and finished in the early hours of Sunday morning. ‘It’s an amazing amount – we’re really pleased,’ said Fran Kitson, St Catherine’s Digital and Marketing Manager. ‘We want to say thank you to all the walkers and all those that sponsored them. ‘it takes nearly £11,000 a day to keep the hospice running. Every penny raised will go towards patient care.’ The hospice’s biggest annual fundraiser was in its ninth year and attracted 630 walkers, many of who were dressed in line with the chosen ‘neon’ theme: ‘It looked amazing on the night. We loved the neon – it worked so well,’ said Fran. ‘We’ll be looking to next year to see how we can make it even better and keep it a nice, bright occasion.’ Fran said Scarborough’s event is given extra sparkle by its location: ‘The Starlight Walk is made so much more special by the fact that it’s held by the sea and not walking through a built-up city centre.’ The hospice thanked Hatton Arts for prewalk entertainment, Deep Sea Electronics for sponsoring glow lights, and Harbour Bar on Sandside for again providing ice cream and refreshments at the walk’s halfway stop. Meanwhile, entries are already coming in for the hospice’s annual ‘Santa Dash’, this year taking place on Sunday 11th December. Starting at 11am from the Sea Life Centre, dashers can choose either a 5K route or 10k for the more energetic. Entry is £10 and includes a Santa suit. There is a special offer for a family of four at £30. The event is being supported by the Sea Life centre who will provide refreshments and £5 entry on the day into the centre. n For details of the event and to register, call the fundraising department on 378406 or at their website at www.stcatherineshospice-nyorks.org. • Saint Catherine’s Hospice provides in and out-patient care, neurology support, bereavement support and day care for patients across a 1,600 square mile area, including Scarborough, Filey, Bridlington, Driffield, Hunmanby, Ryedale and Whitby. • Each year the hospice cares for more
than 2,000 people from that area, the largest geographical area of any hospice in Britain other than the Highlands of Scotland. It costs £6.2m a year for Saint Catherine’s to provide its services.
You couldn’t miss ‘Mr Tango’, alias Greg Wilson, of Seamer, with wife Ann
Walkers shine at the start line
News in Brief A FRIENDLY group of ballroom, Latin and sequence dancers meets nine times a year for supper-dances at the Spa Ocean Room. Scarborough Dine and Dance have dancing to live music with a two-course dinner. The next one is on 23 November, at 7.30pm. Tickets cost £13.50 to members and £16 to non-members. Annual membership costs £5. To book, ring Peter Boast on 374860.
by Dave Barry
HACKNESS Ladies Choir has two Christmas concerts coming up. The first, at Irton Garden Centre on 23 November, at 7.30pm, is being organised by the Scarborough friends of Cancer Research UK (admission £4). The second is at Hackness Village Hall on Friday 2 December, at 7.30pm (admission £5). Both will have refreshments during the interval. Since the choir formed in 1984, it has raised over £16,000 for local charities.