SCHOOL NEWS UPDATE: Following nomination by members and staff of Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust we are thrilled to announce that the judges selected Sutton cum Lound C of E Primary School as winners of the 2013 Wildlife On Your Doorstep – School Grounds for Wildlife Award.
Children from classes 2 and 3 enjoyed a memorable day at Southwell Minster recently, where they listened to stories and took part in a range of activities about the “Journey to Christmas”. They would like to tell the Christmas story to villagers on Tuesday December 17th at 1:30 in school. All are welcome. Seasonal refreshments will be served. Everyone is also warmly welcomed to join pupils, staff and governors at the end of term service in St. Bartholomew’s Church at 2:00pm on Thursday 19th December.
PET ALERT: With reports of two dogs being stolen in the immediate area and an attempted theft of another in the village, foiled only by the owners vigilance.
Pet owners are being urged to be even more vigilant especially if pets are off the lead or unattended even for short periods, even in your own garden.
Free dog micro chipping available!! The Dogs Trust are micro chipping dogs for free at an event in Nottingham in partnership with Nottingham City Council. If a local session is arranged details will be published.
DOG FOULING: An incident where dog fouling has been allowed to take place has resulted in a visit from the dog warden and a caution was issued to a local resident. Should a further occurrence take place prosecution could follow.
Please clean up after your dog!!
SUTTON ART GROUP: Report of the annual show in November 2013 was the Art Group Annual Exhibition with over 140 exhibits from 20 members of the Group and 30 exhibits from the Sutton cum Lound Church of England Primary School. A crowd of around a 100 people attended a very enjoyable event with raffle tickets and paintings in demand. If you missed this free event make a note that in November 2014 the Group will be celebrating 20 years, and the exhibition will be even bigger and better. There was a wide range of art on display from ink dot pictures to paintings on silk, water colour and mixed media paintings. Topics covered were diverse from flowers, architecture, animals and people to land & seascapes – something for all tastes.
The group meet every Friday morning in the Village Hall and will continue throughout the season. Further details of the group and their activities are available from either:
- Maggie Beare on (01777) 710 589, mags@maggiebeare.co.uk
or
Joan Reiter on (01777) 702 137, joan.reiter@tiscali.co.uk
VILLAGE VENTURES: Saturday’s performance in the Village Ventures series was warmly appreciated by most in attendance. A somewhat smaller crowd than usual, with many of the regulars away, and some patrons with other arrangements made prior to the event being announced. Live theatre at its best and a good start to the festive season for many. District Councillor Tracey Taylor was present with her family supporting the event.
SANTAS VILLAGE VISIT: Santa and his sleigh visited the village, accompanied by North Notts Lions on Wednesday 11th December at around 6:00pm.
The Lions carried out a door to door collection that evening and thank villagers for their contributions.
ST.BARTHOLOMEW’S CHURCH: A “Family Service” will take place on Sunday 15th December at the local church. Please come along and bring the family! The service starts at the usual time of 9:30am and everyone is welcome.
SUTTON AND BARNBY MOOR WI: The next meeting of the Sutton and Barnby Moor WI will take place on Wednesday 18th December at the usual time of 7:15pm in Sutton Village Hall. This is the groups’ Christmas Party and members are requested to bring along a wrapped gift to the value of £2.00. The usual raffle will also take place. The competition on this occasion will be a homemade Christmas Decoration made by the owners own fair hand.
Members old and new always welcome! Come along for a trial visit.
NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH: Please note that there is no monthly meeting of the local association in December. The next meeting of the group is scheduled for Tuesday 29th January 2014. Villagers are requested to remain vigilant during the festive season and are wished a safe and happy Christmas and New Year.
SUTTON GARDEN CLUB: The Club can report on the three very successful autumn meetings. In September Nigel Johnson presented a very interesting History of Allotments in England with clips from the WW1 era to his experience of a family allotment in Worksop. In October David Mowthorpe presented background information about the world of fungi before presenting colour photographs of over 60 beautiful mushrooms in the region including 30 from Sutton cum Lound.
The programme finished with our nationally renowned speaker from Harthill – Don Witton- who enthralled with his illustrated talk on Late Herbaceous Perennials.
The meeting finished with a rush to buy specimens available for purchase.
Everyone is invited to the first three meetings of 2014 which are now on the first Tuesday of the month.
- Tuesday 7 January 2014 at 7:15pm at The Gate Inn
Pub Quiz. Test your knowledge of plants and win a cash prize
Quiz fee is £1 with 50% of income for the prize and 50% for Club funds
- Tuesday 4 February 2014 at 7:15pm in the Village Hall
Clematis through the seasons by Taylor’s Clematis Nursery of Sutton nr Doncaster, RHS Gold Medallists. The talk is based on around 100 beautiful photographs and covers pruning, planting and propagation and selected specimens will be on show and for sale. - Tuesday 4 March 2014 at 7:15pm in the Village Hall Orchids and carnivorous plants in the home and garden with Ron Beare. A sound and visual extravaganza.
Membership fee is £10.00 per annum plus £1.00 per meeting. For non-members it is £2.50 per meeting except for the Pub Quiz.
INFORMAL HISTORY GROUP: The Group has now met three times and started to gather information. This is turning out to be a very big task with lots of responses from residents and non-residents alike. Unfortunately progress has been hampered by illness but we hope to move more quickly in 2014 and make contact with all those people who have volunteered information. It would be particularly useful if those people who have been resident for 40 years or so would try and recall significant events in the village decade by decade. For example, the Portland Place School opened in 1973. We are to continue to meet in the restaurant part of the Gate Inn on the last Monday of the month at 7:30pm; Ron Beare and David Mowthorpe look forward to seeing you there in 2014.
COUNTY COUNCILLOR: With all the talk of planning applications for quarrying for minerals and sand and gravel in the surrounding area plus applications for Solar parks or farms which may affect those living in the rural communities your County Councillor Mrs. Liz Yates has some information on these subjects and is available for consultation on these matters and others.
If you have any issues or concerns then your County Councillor Mrs Liz Yates can be contacted at any reasonable time on 01777 860 219.
DISTRICT COUNCILLOR: Tracey Taylor, District Councillor for Sutton Ward can be contacted at any reasonable time on 01777 816 781 or mobile 07771 629 380.
PARISH COUNCIL: The Parish Council normally meet on the second Wednesday of each month at 7:00pm in the Village Hall. There is a public participation period and all residents are welcome to attend. For further information please contact the Clerk at clerk@suttoncumlound.net or call the Sutton Central number: 07092 985 871.
POLICE: The local Beat Team for the BERL beat ( Bassetlaw East Ranskill / Lound) are as follows:
PC 3258 Jason Fellows Tel: 101 ext. 8077 364, Mobile: 07525 226 893
PCSO 4778 Aaron Stocks Tel: 101 ext. 8077 364, Mobile: 07824 457 397
VILLAGE HALL BOOKINGS: Enquiries with regard to the booking of the Village Hall should be made by contacting 07092 985 831. Anyone making enquiries please note that the number is not manned on a permanent basis, but calls are re-routed to one of three points for their attention and will be dealt with as soon as possible. Please be patient and your enquiry will be dealt with. Thanks for your cooperation.
The Village Hall web site is available at www.suttonvillagehall.net or email: bookings@suttonvillagehall.net.
POSTAL SERVICES: The Post Office in the Village Hall will be available as usual on two occasions each week. On Mondays 9:30am to 1:30pm and on Thursdays 9:00am to 1:00pm. The local office can supply residents with: Pensions, Foreign Currency, Travel Insurance, Car insurance, investments and Savings.
WHEELIE BINS: Residents are reminded that green bins should be put out for collection late on Monday night 16th December or early Tuesday morning.