ST. BARTHOLOMEW’S CHURCH
The service on Sunday 13th October will be a ”Sung Eucharist”, starting at the usual time of 9:15am, and everybody is welcome.
You can find more information about the church on the Sutton website here, and it also has its own Facebook page here.
PARISH COUNCIL MEETING
Due to an outstanding planning application the meeting due for Wednesday 9th October had to be moved to another date. This will now take place on Wednesday 23rd October in the Village Hall at the usual time of 7:00pm. Villagers and members of the public are invited to attend and support the councillors working on your behalf.
MEET THE NEIGHBOURS
The next meeting of the Neighbours group will be held in Sutton Village Hall on Wednesday 16th October at the usual time of 1:00pm. Please inform organizer Joan Reiter if you will be attending the event on 07990 702 445 or (01777) 818 492.
PARISH LUNCH
The Parish Lunch was held at the Gate inn Sutton on Tuesday 8th October at 12:00noon, where diners met for a communal lunch and enjoyed 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!
MOBILE LIBRARY VAN
The library van visited the village on Monday 7th October 2019, stopping at the usual places.
CHURCH SERVICE
The “Harvest Festival” service was held at the local church on Sunday, 6th October with all the donated items for the harvest destined for Retford food bank. The officiant on the day was Lay Reader Joan Herrington, assisted by Worship Leader Janet Webb.
GARDENING CLUB
The gardening club met on Tuesday 1st October in Barnby Moor village hall as scheduled! Patrick Harding, well known author and broadcaster addressed the members on the subject of “A Plant Anthology (Stories of wild and garden plants)”. A very interesting and informative talk of the usual high standard given with a bit of humour thrown in for good measure and enjoy by those present. A gathering of 27 people present on this occasion with many of the regulars away on holiday. The club continues to gather momentum as it goes from strength to strength, more people joining at each session.
New members and visitors are always welcome, please contact Jenny Bailey on (01777) 708 155 for further information.
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.