ST. BARTHOLOMEW’S CHURCH
Please note that there will be no service at Saint Bartholomew’s church on Sunday 29th September, but a Joint Benefice Service has been arranged at St. John’s Church, Scofton, which will be a Harvest Service with Holy Communion. Refreshments will be served in the village hall afterwards. This event will take place at the later time of 5:00pm.
You can find more information about the church on the Sutton website here, and it also has its own facebook page here.
GARDENING CLUB
A gentle reminder that when the gardening club meet on Tuesday 1st October in Barnby Moor village hall, Patrick Harding, well known author and broadcaster will address the members on the subject of A Plant Anthology (Stories of wild and garden plants). The event starts at the usual time of 7:15pm.
New members and visitors are always welcome, please contact Jenny Bailey (01777) 708 155 for further information.
DISCO NIGHT
70’s & 80’s disco night at Sutton Village Hall on Saturday 5th October commencing 7:00pm. Come along and join in an evening of 7o’s & 80’s music, Fancy Dress optional! Only £6.00 per ticket! For tickets please email: suttonloundvillagehall@gmail.com or call 070 9298 5831.
PARISH LUNCH
The next Parish Lunch will be held at the Gate inn Sutton on Tuesday 8th October at 12:00noon. Please come along and enjoy good food and conversation. NB: a small contribution is made to the current building fund after each lunch session.
Details of the lunches which occur approximately every six weeks are available from Church Warden Janet Webb on (01777) 818 682 or Lay reader Joan Herrington on (01302) 742 562 or please just call in to the venue on the date announced. You will be made very welcome!
CHURCH SERVICE
On Sunday 22nd September the service at the local church was “Worship for All” which took place at the usual time of 9:15am. The service on this occasion was conducted by Worship Leader Janet Webb. Gospel readings, Luke 16, 1-13 by Fiona Pagdin, prayers by Janet Webb – organist Geof Webb.
MEET THE NEIGHBOURS
Another good turnout when the Neighbours group met in the village hall on Wednesday 18th September at 1:00pm when 40-plus friends and neighbours turned up to eat together and socialize afterwards. On completion of an excellent meal, provided once again by local chef and caterer Nigel Bower, those present were invited to try their hand at a quiz during the coffee break, once again with a lot of high scores around the room. The event concluded with the usual raffle with draw-master Fred Payne supervising and seeing fair play with loads of banter thrown in for good measure to compliment a good afternoon enjoyed by those present.
QUIZ NIGHT
The quiz continues to take place in the Village Hall every Sunday night, £1.00 entry per person which is paid back as prize money! The bigger the crowd – the bigger the prize! New contestants always welcome. Following the quiz “Play your cards right” – Cash Prize! Can you beat the local teams? Come along and try. 8:00pm start and bar open.
Want something publicising?
Don’t forget, if you have any event or item of interest for the village, just email it to webmaster@suttoncumlound.net and our resident website monitor will do his best to accommodate you. All posts go out to our increasing list of email update subscribers as soon as they’re published.
We also have the Sutton Spotlight, which goes out to every house in the village on a quarterly (ish) basis. Space is sometimes limited, so try to get your entry in early.
We’re also lucky to have a village Journalist who collates news and updates for the Retford Times on a weekly basis. Get your copy in on Monday morning for the Thursday issue.
All our website updates are also sent down the village “X formerly Twitter” feed, @SuttonCumLound. So, follow us there for these and other items in and around our area.
The Parish Council has a Facebook presence for all things of a council nature. Contact the Clerk if you want anything on this feed.