Community Information - Wednesday 16 December 2009
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(1) Christmas
carols and mince pies at Napley Farm, Napley Heath, TF9 4DP. 18th December
(2) SCAM
ALERT - BOGUS CALLER saying from
DWP to say they are entitled to an additional Winter Fuel Payment
(3) Anyone
interested in Shooting, Fishing and Country matters generally?
(4) The history of the Advent Calendar
(5) Logs
from a local supplier
(6) Do
you have a story to tell about Market Drayton?
(7) Christmas Tree Festival 2009 at St Mary’s
Church, Mucklestone Photos
and Results
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Items for hard copy of "Community News" due out in February, April, June, August, October & December to editor@CommunityNews.eu
Next Deadline - Friday 1st January 2010 for February and March issue
Police non emergency number 0300 123 44 55
18th December 2009 at 7:30pm
Featuring members of “Ashley Voices & Music Consort” and instrumentalists from the “AMS
Instrumental Ensemble”.tel:01630/672546 or matthewhawley@ashleymusic.co.uk for more details
(please contact us in advance as there will be limited numbers)
The converted piggery is at Napley Heath, TF9 4DP (off the B5415 it is a left from the Market Drayton direction and a right from the Knighton/Mucklestone direction - follow the lane to Napley Heath to its very end and enter the farmyard where the lane terminates). Put “Napley Heath TF9 4DP” into http://maps.google.com/ to view this.
SCAM ALERT - BOGUS CALLER saying from DWP to say they are entitled to an additional Winter Fuel Payment
Our department has received calls from customers advising that they have been contacted by an individual saying they are calling from DWP to say they are entitled to an additional Winter Fuel Payment and asking for bank account details.
It would appear that some people have in fact given their bank account details to the caller.
This is not activity from Winter Fuels and therefore we are treating
these as bogus calls.
The message to our customers is do not under any circumstances offer bank
details to anyone calling in relation to Winter Fuel Payments or saying
they are from DWP. If they have given out information please ask them
to contact their bank immediately for further advice
Pauline
Pauline Tranter
Partnership Liaison Manager
N Staffs Pension Service
I have a quantity of The Field, Country Magazines in perfect condition.
They are free to a good home!
Call 01630 673595
The history of the Advent Calendar
With December in full swing, many of us are counting down to Christmas. One of the most popular ways to do this is with an advent calendar. But where did it all start? We have the answer!
The origins of the Advent calendar come from German Lutherans who, at least as early as the beginning of the 19th century, would count down the 24 days of Advent by drawing a chalk line on the door each day, beginning on the 1st of December. Some families would light a new candle (perhaps the genesis of today's Advent wreath) or hang a religious picture on the wall each day.
The first known Advent calendar was handmade in 1851 and it's believed that a Swabian parishioner, Gerhard Lang, was responsible for the first printed calendar, in 1908. Lang made 24 little coloured pictures that could be fixed to a piece of cardboard. Several years later, he introduced a calendar with 24 little doors. He created and marketed at least 30 designs before his firm went out of business in the 1930s.
In this same time period, the Sankt Johannis Printing Company started producing religious Advent calendars, with Bible verses instead of pictures behind the doors.
Advent Calendars disappeared during World War II, in order to save paper. After the war, Richard Sellmer of Stuttgart resurrected the commercial Advent calendar and is responsible for its widespread popularity. His company, Richard Sellmer Verlag, today supplies a stock of over 1,000,000 calendars worldwide.
Christmas Tree Festival 2009 at St Mary’s Church, Mucklestone Photos and Results
Winners - The Peel Public House in memory of Graham (Carpentree)
and
The Children of St Peter's Church Broughton & St Peter's Church Croxton
With thanks to Ann for taking the photographs
Logs from a local supplier
HArdwood Seasoned Logs delivered and stacked
Also PrePacked Coal & Bags of Firesticks
Contact David North on 0797 497 4090
Do you have
a story to tell about Market Drayton?
Thanks to a grant from Shropshire Council Community Arts Fund, Drayton
Writers are publishing an anthology of writing about Market Drayton, past
and present. This could be a story, poem or article, a local recipe or
memo¬ries about the town.
Contributors will receive a copy of the anthology, which will also be
on sale to the public.
For more information phone Sam on 01630 657533 or email us at draytonwriters@hotmail.co.uk
Full details @ Loggerheads Library