S T I C K N E YN E W S

AUGUST & SEPTEMBER

2015Welcome to the latest edition of the Stickney News. Firstly I would like to offer heartfelt thanks to two volunteers for answering my plea for offers of help at the Midsummer Festival, we are very grateful for all the help we can get.

By the time you read this the summer Festival will be over and hopefully will have been as successful as the last two Fetes the Jubilee Committee has organised. There will be a full report in the October magazine, after the break in September.Are you enjoying the sunshine that has decided to show its face at last? Hopefully it will last throughout the holidays and beyond.In September it will be ‘back to school’ for our young people and we would like to wish all those going on to secondary school ‘all the best’ in the next stage of their education as well as to the young children starting primary school, at the beginning of their education.Welcome to any newcomers in the village. We hope you will enjoy living in our community. You will find useful information in this mag and important phone numbers are on the back cover.

Stickney Outdoor Bowls ClubThe clubhouse is situated off the Main Road and accessed via the entrance to the picnic area and turning right at the mini roundabout.

If you would like to take part in the Bowls Club as a new member or as someone who would like totry a new sport please come along and join usat any time.

If you require any further information please contact Mrs S Hutton: 01790 752996

WHAT’S ON WEEKLY IN STICKNEY?(Fixed weekly meetings in the Village Hall (VH) and Youth Centre (YC))TUESDAY’S

Toddler Group 9.30am – 11.30am (term time only) (YC) 07833 797682

Dance Class 4.00pm - 7.00pm (YC) 07947 486290

Ladies Club 7.30pm (2nd Tues in month) (YC) 01205 480292

Badminton Junior and Senior 7.00pm (VH) 01205 368077

Stickney & District Gardening Club 7.30pm (YC) 01205 480802 (4th Tuesday in month)

WEDNESDAY’S

Short Mat Bowls 1.00pm - 4.00pm (VH) 01205 480397

Table Tennis 7.30pm (winter months only) (YC) 01205 480653

THURSDAY’S

Thursday Over 60’s Club 1.30pm - 4.00pm (YC) 01205 480802 (1st Thursday in month)

Short Mat Bowls 6.30pm - 9.00pm (VH) 01205 480397

Coffee/Tea & Crafts (YC) 2.00pm – 4.00pm 01205 480802 (3rd Thursday in month)

Parish Council Meeting 7.30pm (YC) 01205 270352 (First Thursday in the month with Public Forum 7.20pm)

FRIDAY’S

Cash Bingo, eyes down 7.30pm (YC) 01205 480802

Monday 31 August Prize Bingo in the Youth Centre – eyes down 7.30pmAny donations of prizes would be greatly appreciated.Proceeds to St Luke’s church

ST LUKE’S CHURCHCyclists, Gift Day and the Summer Festival:  we're not quite there yet as I write, but we anticipate a busy day on 18 July. We have a cheque to present to the sponsored pedlars, amounting to £353.70, for Cancer Research UK which was raised at the June bingo.  Thank you for your support as always.

The result for St. Luke's Gift Day will be announced in the October Stickney News. 

Our LATE SUMMER HOLIDAY BINGO on Monday 31 August will be held in Stickney Youth Centre at 7.30pm.  Prizes can be passed on at any time beforehand, and again we thank you for your generosity. 

AFTERNOON TEA IN THE RECTORY GARDEN will take place on Sunday 16 August from approximately 3.00pm, and you are all welcome.  There will be various activities, and a chance to chat with friends over a "cuppa" and a bite to eat.  Fun, we hope, in the sun!

CHANGE TO PATTERNS OF WORSHIP from September:  Cluster Services will be held on first Sunday of each month, and Family or All-Age worship with The New Name will take place on the third Sunday of each month. 

Our HARVEST FESTIVAL will be on Sunday 20 September, and the HARVEST SUPPER on Monday 21September.  Please make a note on your calendars.

The coming few weeks will bring a welcome break for many families from the daily trek to and from schools, with a chance for more relaxed activities.  For many young people it's a time of change, anticipating new beginnings with new teachers and making new friends.  Some may be looking ahead to college, university, apprenticeships or experience in the workplace.  May the coming holiday be a time for refreshment and renewal for all who are facing new challenges.  

THE STICKNEY CLUSTER OF CHURCHCES

Travelling forward together to serve God and our communities.

The Church is open daily from 9.30am until late afternoon.There is a good range of second-hand books and jigsaws for sale in the church, all proceeds are for St Luke’s church.

A coffee morning is held from 10.00am every Thursday.The Police try to attend the coffee morning on the third Thursday of each month. Parish Council representatives are available at the coffee morning on the last Thursday of each month for anyone to speak to about any Parish matter. 

Rural Dean: Canon Peter Coates 01790 752526

Parish Priest and PCC Chairperson: Rev’d Fran Jeffries 01205 481183

Church Wardens : Mrs A Brady 01205 480661 Mrs B Gosling 01205 480641

PCC Secretary: Mrs M Weston 01205 480127

Treasurer (GeneralFunds): Mrs D Cooley 01205 480397

Treasurer (Fabric Fund): Mrs B Gosling 01205 480641

AUGUST CHURCH SERVICES

Sunday 02 10.00am Family Service at St James, Spilsby11.15am Holy Communion at Old Bolingbroke

Sunday 09 9.30am  Morning Worship

Sunday 16       11.15am  Holy communion with Baptism 3.00pm Tea in the Rectory Garden

Sunday 19 11.15am  Cluster Holy Communion at New Leake

Sunday 23 9.30am Holy Communion

Sunday 30 10.00am Deanery Holy Communion

SEPTEMBER CHURCH SERVICESSunday 06  1.30pm Baptism

Sunday 13  9.30am Morning Worship

Sunday 20  11.15am Harvest Festival

Sunday 27  9.30am  Holy Communion           

Every Thursday 9.00am Morning Prayer

William Lovell Foundation, StickneyGRANTS AVAILABLE TOWARDS UNIVERSITY COSTS The Trustees of the William Lovell Foundation invite applications from students aged 18 years and over, who are about to start or are in full time further education. To qualify for a grant you must live or have lived in the village for at least five years and have attended either the Stickney Primary School or the William Lovell Academy.You may apply in writing, giving details of your past schools, the university whose conditional offer has been met and accepted, and a brief outline of the course subject.Applications to:

Mrs B GoslingIonaHorbling LaneStickneyBostonLincolnshirePE22 8DQ

By 23 October 2015

Stickney HistoryA History of Stickney Exhibition will, once again, be organised in the Village Hall for 12 and 13 September 2015. On display will be the censuses for Stickney and many of the surrounding villages and over 800 photographs. Baptisms, Burials and Marriages, records of Stickney and other local Churches, many newspaper cuttings from the village past. There are booklets about the history of Beer houses, shops, and the numerous trades that once thrived in the parish, and a display of over 100 letter heads, trade bills and much more. It will be open from 10.00am until 6.00pm on both days with free admission. Light homemade refreshments will be available. We would always appreciate any old photos to copy or anything to do with the history of Stickney.Contact Martin Gosling on 01205 480641 or visit www.stickneyhistory.co.uk

KIDDIES CORNERChicken WrapsGreat for fussy eaters and easy to prepare with kids. 

Ingredients olive oil chicken breast, diced 1 carrot, grated 25g cheese, grated 2 tortillas lettuce shredded tomato sliced any other salad ingredients you fancy (peppers, spring onions,

cucumber, radish)

Method1. Fry some chicken breast pieces in a tiny bit of olive oil in a non-stick

pan2. Meanwhile grate some carrot and some cheese3. Warm one or two flat tortilla wraps each in the microwave for 20

seconds4. Give the kids a tortilla each with some chicken on, then let the kids help

themselves to a handful of each of the other ingredients, roll them up and... yum!

Ha Ha   Q: What musical instrument is found in the bathroom? A: A tuba toothpaste. 

Q: What do you call cheese that's not yours? A: Nacho cheese! 

Q: Where do pencils go on holiday? A: Pencil-vania. 

Knock, knock. Who's there? Lettuce. Lettuce who? Lettuce in, it's freezing out here! 

Spot the difference 

Find the 10 differences between the pictures. 

Word Play 1. Complete the chain of words by changing just one letter at a time. 

Example: CAT, COT, DOT, DOG. 

Can you find the missing words? 

WARM, ______, WORD,______, WOOL, COOL.

2. Look at the clues and see if you can make new words by changing just one letter in each of these words: 

a. Change RIVER into a jockey  ____________

b. Change SHORT into something to play  ____________

c. Change RUMBLE into a fall ____________

3. Put a different letter in front of ONE each time to make words with the following meanings: 

a. A dog might like one ____________

b. Finished  ____________

c. Not there anymore  ____________

4. Can you rearrange the jumbled letters into an 11-letter word for an insect? 

GOPHER SPARS  _______________

5. Can you also use some of the letters in question 4 to find three 5-letter words?

a. An animal  ____________

b. Footwear  ____________

c. A fruit  ____________

6. Can you find part of a plant in the words below? 

THE TRUMPET ALERTED THEM  ____________

Gardening tips for August and September!Because this edition's notes are to cover two months, it's straight on to suggestions for activities in our gardens over the coming period.

Firstly, August

1. POTATOES OUT OF SEASON.  Garden Centres are beginning to stock potato tubers which have been stored in temperature-controlled conditions to keep them dormant.  Plant these in late July/through August in large pots in compost mixed with a general-purpose fertilizer.  Cover with up to 8" of compost, keep watered and bank up with soil to cover as soon as plants break through.  Repeat this process each time leaves appear.  The advantage of growing them in pots is that they can be moved into a greenhouse when the temperature drops.  Then you can look forward to new potatoes at Christmas!  (Incidentally, there's no need to chit.)

2.  Keep feeding tomatoes once a week, (or twice if the leaves are yellowing) with a diluted fertilizer.3.  Pick your runner beans as they become long enough.  The more you pick the more they produce.  If you are going away, encourage your neighbour to have a pick.  Spray bean aphids with a soap-based or plant oil based insecticide.4.  Water and pick courgettes consistently so they continue to flower and crop regularly.5.  You can still sow lettuces, radishes and spinach.  Think about buying Japanese and hardy onions to be planted for next summer.  Though they keep for only a few months, they bridge the gap between two years' main crops. 6.  Sow spring cabbage seed.

Then in September

1.  If you have got any outdoor bush tomatoes, you may need to cover them with cloches to protect them from low temperatures whilst they continue to ripen.2.  If you have fruit trees, you can protect against pests which travel up and down trunks during the next few months.  Girdle the trunks (and any supports!) with prepared grease bands purchased from garden centres.

3.  Keep on cultivating the plantlets which grow from parent strawberry plants into small pots, ready for use next year.4. Plant out spring cabbage plants from last month's sowings.  Cover to protect them from pigeons.  5. Sow hardy spring onions to overwinter (perhaps covered) for use in next year's early salads.

As usual there is a feeling of mainly scratching at the surface, but I'm sure there is enough above to be getting on with.  Comments or suggestions (via the editor) would be much appreciated. 

In conclusion it's worthwhile thinking on Gurney's words, 'One is nearer God's Heart in a garden than anywhere else on earth.'

Happy gardening!

The Horbling LadiesMacmillan Coffee Mornings will be held on 04 and 25 August between at 10.30am to 2pm.  These are to be held in the garden at 56 Horbling Lane, weather permitting - you can always confirm by telephoning 01205 480769 if in any doubt!June's coffee morning raised £150.00 and on 14 July we managed a grand total of £230.00.Thank you everyone that came for your generosity in supporting us on these mornings.We serve homemade hot and cold lunches and desserts and, of course, wonderful cakes to eat in or take home, so come along and be spoiled for the morning and enjoy a relaxing time with us. Thank you again from the Horbling Ladies.

Stickney Bus Service!The market day service is available on 05 and 19 August, on 02, 16 and 30 September and on 14 and 28 October, the cost of the service is £5.00 per person. You can book your seat by phoning 01205 480241.

Mobile Library Visits

The mobile library now visits Stickney on MONDAY’S at the Youth Centre, Hall Lane between 10.15am and 11.15am and at Horbling Lane between 11.30am and 12.00noon. The next visits will be10 August, 07 September and 05 October.

Stickney Residents Association The next meeting of the Stickney Residents Association will be held on 10 September 2015 in the Youth Centre, Hall Lane, Stickney at 7.00pm. The Residents Association is open to all residents of Stickney aged 14 years and over.

Vacancy on Parish CouncilCllr Tony Lewis has resigned as a Parish Councillor leaving a vacancy. Notices will be placed in the notice boards to fill the vacancy. Anyone interested in becoming a Parish Councillor should look for the notices and consider standing for election. If no-one stands for election then the vacancy can be filled by co-option.

NOTES FROM THE PARISH COUNCIL MEETING HELD ON THURSDAY 02 JULY

Present: Cllrs Edwards, Littlewood, Spring, Wood and Bolland (Chairman), Dist Cllrs Ashton and Jones, County Cllr Ayling and nine members of the public.

The members of the public came along to speak: One member of the public reported that the outline planning application for 100 properties off Main Road had been refused and thanked everyone for their help. Questions were asked about the Litter Picker. Questions were asked about the Parish Paths Partnership. A lot of complaints were made about the car boot sales, not that they actually take place, but the dust created, the noise on the previous evening from people camping, the smell from the cockle shells on the car park, the tanoys used by the

sellers, problems of access for the residents to their homes and that this will now be taking place on Sunday’s in the form of an Auto Jumble. A number of issues at the cemetery were reported, the hedge needs to be cut back and a little lower if possible.

Reports from Representatives On Outside Bodies

County Cllr Ayling reported:A Big Society Grant of £312.00 towards the cost of the inflatables at the Midsummer Festival has been given to the Jubilee Committee. The Mobile Library has been given more operating hours. Traffic calming needs to be looked at for the Main Road. The dust/mud and traffic problems at the car boot have been reported to LCC Highways.Dist Cllr Ashton reported:The refusal of application S/169/02469/14 was due to excessive intrusion into the countryside of the development and lack of information received from Anglian Water. The applicant can appeal and more information/evidence will be required to backup any comments.

Dist Cllr Jones reported:Flood Risk areas are to be reviewed in two years, this means that the Parish Council will be able to say where the flood risks ought to be. £140,000.00 has been given to ELDC to investigate Housing Benefit fraud. £60,000.00 has been given to ELDC to help pay for enforcement with regard to Travellers. The first phase of Broadband is almost complete, the second phase will be by dish.

The Dist Councillors were asked about a donation towards the payment of the cave for the Midsummer Festival, they had been previously asked by email. It was agreed that £500.00 would be given from the Councillor’s Community Grant.

The Police reported, by email, incidents between 02 June and 30 June 2015:1 incident of noise nuisance – car boot sales on a Saturday; 1 incident of criminal damage – hosepipe slashed at village hall; 1 incident of malicious communications; 1 concern for safety – house fire; 2 concerns for safety – vulnerable persons/panic alarms and 2 road traffic collisions – non injury, damage to vehicles only.

The Mobile Police Station will be at Holmes Road on 19 August between 10.30am and 12.30pm.

Planning Applications Received

The Parish Council looked at OBJECTED to the following application:PL/0096/15 – LCC - Erection of a single storey PKL kitchen pod, incorporating necessary services and drainage at Stickney Church of England Primary School.21 parking spaces are to be lost. A mobile unit was removed from this site, this provided additional parking for the school and pre-school staff. Where will the existing staff and the additional 2 staff park? The appearance of the building is not in keeping with the school building, it looks like a toilet block! There is only one door to this kitchen pod, should it have a fire exit? One window for a kitchen in which people will be working gives the impression that it will be dark inside and hot for the employees. The work has already started.

Planning DecisionsThe Parish Council have looked at and sent OBJECTIONS to:

S/120/01096/15 - Acorus Rural Property Services - Environmental Impact Assessment (EEC Directive 85/337/EEC as amended by council directive 97/11 EC) for a scoping opinion with respect to the erection of a poultry unit at Poplars Farm, Midville Lane, StickneyThe roads leading to the site are not suitable for heavy traffic and access to Midville Lane, from every direction, is not good for heavy vehicles. The air quality, where there are 60,000 laying hens, will be affected and could cause problems for the local residents and the local environment. The plans show the measurements of the building do not show the height, or siting of silos - both of which could have a detrimental effect on the area which is currently flat landscape. Local residents have been spoken to and they would oppose such a development on environmental and possible health issues.

Planning Permission has been received for:S/169/00792/15 - Mrs T Paul - Outline erection of 9 dwellings (with means of access to be considered) at field Adjacent to Sunnyside Farm, Main Road.

Your Shout has advised the Parish Council that application S/203/01106/15 can now be viewed online at the ELDC website.

CemeteryA few complaints have been received regarding the spraying of the grass around the headstones in the cemetery, all the grass was dark brown, but is a bit lighter now. It was resolved that the contract will be looked at and new quotations sought in October for the 2016 cutting season. The weeds around the kerbed graves have now been strimmed, but left on the ground. Following discussion it was resolved to ask North Sea Camp if they would clear the weeds etc from the kerbed area in the cemetery. The hedge needs to be cut back, Clerk to contact the contractor and ask him to do this as soon as possible.

ANY POT HOLES OR STREET LIGHTS IN ALL DAY OR OUT AT NIGHT SHOULD BE REPORTED TO THE PARISH COUNCIL CLERK.

The next Parish Council Meeting will be held on Thursday 03 September 2015 in the Youth Centre at 7.30pm. There will be a public forum from 7.15pm.

___________________________________________________________________________Solutions:

1. WARM, WORM, WORD, WOOD, WOOL, COOL; 2a. BONE; 2b. DONE; 2c. GONE; 3a. RIVER-RIDER;3b. SHORT-SPORT; 3c. RUMBLE-TUMBLE; 4. GRASSHOPPER; 5a. HORSE; 5b. SHOES; 5c. GRAPE;6. PETAL 

USEFUL PHONE NUMBERS:

Parish Councillors:Cllr M Bolland (Chairman) 01205 480015

Cllr L Edwards 01790 760558

Cllr J Littlewood 01205 480548

Cllr L Spring 01205 480030

Cllr B Wood 01205 480253

Clerk to the Parish Council:

Mrs E L Arnold 01205 270352Crookes CottageWrangle BankBoston PE22 9DL

Parish e-mail address: stickneypc@aol.com

Parish Website: parishes.lincolnshire.gov.uk/Stickney

County Councillor: Cllr Victoria Ayling 07764 536867

District Councillors: Cllr Tom Ashton 07812 522372Cllr Neil Jones 07577 957392

Police phone numbers: PCSO N Miller 07810 058306PCSO P Pollard 07939 312883PCSO M Pearson 07944 777039PC Paula Young 07939 312650

Police Office 101

Doctors phone number 01205 480237

Hospital phone number 01205 364801

Post Office phone number 01205 480225

Stickney Primary School 01205 480254

William Lovell Academy 01205 480352

Youth Centre and Village Hall bookings – Mr Gosling 01205 480641