April 2013

ROTHERSTHORPE

NEWSLETTER

The Newsletter for the Community of Rothersthorpe

www.rothersthorpe.info

CHURCH CALENDAR FOR APRIL 2013

Sunday 7th April 9.30am Holy Communion

Sunday 14th April 9.30am Morning Worship

Tuesday 16th April 7.00pm Parochial Church Council at

47 Banbury Lane

Sunday 21st April

9.30am Holy Communion

Sunday 28th April 8.00am

9.30am

B.C..P. Communion followed

by breakfast

Morning Worship

Unity, But Not Uniformity!

By the time you read these words in all probability there will be a new Pope

for the Roman Catholic Church and the new Anglican Archbishop of

Canterbury will be or preparing to, send warm greetings and renewing the

commitment to work together for peace and unity.

This greeting in whatever way it comes brings the question ‘Will Christians

ever be altogether in one Church’ to the top of the agenda once again.

However, if you ask me that question I have to answer. No! ‘But why?’ you

say. Isn't that God's will? Isn't that what we aim for? This time I have

to say. Yes, and No!

Yes of course, Christians are part of God's one family, and Yes, of course,

we must work and witness together, and Yes too, there are some silly

things that divide us one from one another which we need to work at

sorting out. But still, No, I don't believe we shall ever be all in one church.

It's true that Jesus prayed that we would all be one, but I've always

taken that to mean, one in our service and devotion to Him and to His

heavenly Father in the power of the Holy Spirit. Once we begin our

spiritual journey in company with Him, we find a freedom and a diversity

and a variety which on the one hand is liberating and on the other hand

seems to separate us from each other.

Over the years I've come to see that not all Christians need to be like

me (God forbid!). Instead I've discovered that many have different

experiences and ways of doing things which I can learn from. The way

that I express my faith is valid but so too is the way that they express

theirs. What I long for is not that we should all be like each other, and

cloned together in one mammoth organisation, but that we should all be

free to live out, in a variety of ways, the faith that we have discovered

in Jesus, and that we should give, up criticising each other or pretending

that one way is better than another.

That's not to say I think ‘anything goes’. I do have a doctrinal bottom

line. Jesus, He is the one way to God - the starting point. "No one can

come to the Father except through me". "I am the Way, the Truth and

the Life" was how he himself put it.

I don't believe there are many roads to God. There can be only one way

- but I do believe that there are many ways of worshipping God and

serving Him and that he gives us a diversity of gifts to use for the

benefit of each other in His gloriously varied Church.

So when it comes to the question ‘Will Christians ever be altogether in

one Church’, my gut reaction these days is that we shouldn't spend

wasted hours trying to sort out our doctrinal differences. Instead we

should concentrate on the things we hold in common and be open to use

each others insights and gifts. In short give up politely talking together

and instead get on with the business of working together so that those

who are without a faith can through our diversity discover Jesus, the

one who holds us all together.

So if you have a faith, some faith, a struggling faith or no faith, the

church in all its diversity is here to help you in your journey and there is

no top limit on numbers for membership.

Stephen French Rector of Bugbrooke, Harpole, Kislingbury, Rothersthorpe

Parish Council Meetings

The next Parish Council meeting will be held on Monday 8th April at

7.30pm in the Committee Room at the Village Hall.

As always, anyone is welcome to attend and address

the Parish Council in the public open session at the

beginning of the meeting.

Please come along and participate in your local community decision making

process.

Sarah Murphy Parish Clerk

WOMEN’S INSTITUTE

W e are looking forward to the return of Shirley Allen at our next meeting but this time she is coming to demonstrate "Gift Craft". We are being shown how to make our gifts look outstanding

hopefully. The meeting is on Monday 15th April in the Village

Hall, the cost £3 which includes refreshments. It goes without saying , that visitors are really, really welcome, why not give it a try?

S kittles news, out of 5 games we won 1, lost 3 and the last match was cancelled. Now it looks bad but really we did well as we always lost by just a couple of points. Again we lost against the Village Ladies Team but it was by just ONE POINT. It was another brilliant night and we celebrated 2 birthdays and we shared two yummy birthday cakes.

Dates for your diary coming Up in the next few months:

Quiz Night - Friday 31st May Table Top Sale - Saturday 25th May Car Treasure Hunt - Monday 24th June More details to follow. Jenny Dellar

Church Cleaning

April 7th - June & Jane

April 21st - Mike & Sue

May 5th - Lindsay & Christy

LENT LUNCHES

I wish to thank Chris, Louise, Tracey, Sue and AJ for hosting the

soup lunches each Wednesday during Lent, the proceeds from

which are to be donated to the Children`s Self Reliance Orphan-

age in Iganga, Uganda. This is an orphanage which has been

supported for many years by the village and the children will be

pleased that £182 was raised. This money will go a long way in

helping the orphanage to meet its food bills.

David Walsh

Thruppsters

Our meeting for April will be on Monday 8th April . You will be notified

before that date as to the venue.

Peter Doran

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Cat feeding as well as small ani-

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Campaign to preserve the Conservation Area Boundary

We have just a few days left to send in responses and comments about the changes to our Conservation Area. The consultation period closes at noon on 4th April 2013. Responses should be sent or emailed to:

email: mandy.lumb@ southnorthants.gov.uk

Mandy Lumb Heritage and Conservation South Northants Council Springfields Towcester NN12 6AE

The proposed changes include an extension to an area at the bottom of North Street, and the removal of land The Paddock near the crossroads and at the Conker field in Church Street. The proposals are available on the Councils SNC website. Designated Conservation Areas help to preserve and enhance our historic environment and they become a material consideration when making Planning Decisions.

A detailed objection and response is now copied onto the Rothersthorpe Village website together with a suggested letter that can be used by anyone interested in supporting the case for preserving the existing conservation area boundary.

Village website - www.rothersthorpe.info

This decision, if approved could seriously change the character of the village in the future so please make sure you join in the Campaign for preservation of the existing boundary.

Sending a response will show the strength of public opinion, and this is important when considering the impact of localism in decision making. A few moments of your time could make all the difference.

Please send your comments and thoughts about the changes to Mandy Lumb at SNC and please make sure you also send a copy of your comments to Cllr Janet Eliot. Danesfield, North Street, Rothersthorpe. Robert Boscott

News from Rothersthorpe School

We were delighted to congratulate our victorious

Tag Rugby team who won the cup at the County

finals at Kettering. This is an outstanding achieve-

ment for our small school, pitched against the best

schools in Northamptonshire! Very well done to our

team, who played magnificently and with determina-

tion throughout. The team now go forward to represent Northants at the

East Midlands stage of the competition in June. Very many thanks to Mr

Sultana and Mr Grayson who have given up a great deal of time to coach

the team!

Children enjoyed dressing up as characters from a book to celebrate

World Book Day on 7th March and the following week, dressed in mufti to

help raise £165 for the BBC’s Comic Relief appeal.

Class 2 have welcomed parents and grand-

parents into school recently to share

experiences of their childhood, particu-

larly games and pastimes, to show the

children how things have changed in recent

years. (Yes, there was life before com-

puter games!!)

The class have also visited Northampton

Museum and walked the route of the Fire of Northampton.

Class 3 and 4 had a fun and educational day taking the ‘egg challenge’.

Teams had to devise a way of either protecting an egg, which was then

dropped from a great height using a range of materials or powering a

vehicle using a balloon, to see which travelled the furthest! All the

children enjoyed the ‘egg-sperience’, particularly the testing – a chocolate

egg was used initially, but was then replaced by a real egg as we got down

to the finalists in the drop challenge. Well done to all our future

scientists!

We finish the term with our Easter Service in church and school re-opens

after the holidays on Monday 15th April, for the start of the ‘Summer??!!’

term. Carol Watt, School Office

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Plant Sale

For those of you looking forward to the annual plant

sale, look out for a date in June….. You may have noticed

that spring is a little late this year!!! Plenty of time to

put in those extra plants and vegetables to sell.

FRENCH NIGHT, 16TH MARCH We were absolutely delighted that this year`s event was

supported by over 80 guests. With match funding from Bar-

claycard we managed to raise £1930, to be shared between

the two charities, Tools for Self Reliance and Daventry

Friends of Iganga.

In the case of “Tools” the money will help towards running

expenses. Daventry Friends are planning on sending a con-

tainer to Iganga which will have in it beds for the local hos-

pital, tool kits for various groups in the town, books for the local schools, and

some other medical equipment . The money raised will now enable the con-

tainer to be sent later in the year.

We would like to thank everybody who supported the event, either by coming

along or by donating in kind, or by gift.

David and Barbara Walsh

Dog kidnapping rumours

There are a lot of rumours and speculation being passed

around social networking sites across the UK in relation to

dogs being kidnapped and stickers being used to identify where dogs live.

We work with facts and in Northamptonshire we are not

aware of any incidents of stickers being used. This is believed to be a hoax, details of which are here, http://

www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/dogstickers.asp

We have had one suspicious incident where

someone walking a dog was approached in

Brackley, however, we have no reports of dogs having been taken. Officers are making enquir-

ies into the circumstances of the Brackley inci-dent.

Also, no officers have been out going door-to-door in Tow-cester, issuing advice to dog owners.

Dog owners are encouraged to make sure they keep their

dogs on leads at all times and be alert to what is happening while they are walking.

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Wild Flower Planting At last the Wild Flower Planting

started. The turf was removed thanks to Sam Beasley, Rob Boscott, Ian Griffith and Nick and myself. For once it was a sunny weekend. The next day we planted some wild flowers and we would like to say a big thank you to all the children, teenagers and a couple of adults who planted a plant. The seed is set but alas no sun-shine yet to germinate. We would also like to thank people for keeping there dogs off and not walking on the planted areas. If you would all like to set some wild seed now is the time to do it, do not disturb your

soil too much, sprinkle seed, press down a little and wait to see little shoots and hopefully you can attract the bees, butterflies, and other insects into your gardens to pollinate, and enjoy a display of Wild Flowers, and when the season is over collect some seed for next year. Julie and Nick

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Parking General Rules and Advice Towcester Safer Community Team has received complaints from

members of the public about inconsiderate parking that often

occurs in and around the local villages.

In response to this we encourage those residents with driveways

or off-road parking to use this space to park your vehicles

wherever possible. We do appreciate that this option is not

available to many vehicle owners who have to park their vehicles

on the Highway.

To assist in reducing these complaints please consider the recommen-

dations listed below when parking your vehicle on the Highway.

Do not wait or park where there are restrictions shown by:

Yellow lines along the edge of the carriageway

School entrance markings on the carriageway

Do not park your vehicle where it would endanger or obstruct

pedestrians or other road users.

For example; do not stop:

Near a school entrance

Where the kerb has been lowered to help wheelchair users

Opposite a traffic island[ if this would cause an obstruction]

Opposite or within 10 metres of a junction

Anywhere you would prevent access for emergency vehicles

Do not park wholly on the pavement as this can obstruct and

seriously inconvenience pedestrians, people in wheelchairs, the

visually impaired and people with pushchairs.

Finally, when parking at night, for safety, please position your vehicle

facing in the direction of the flow of traffic. This allows for reflectors to

illuminate as another vehicle approaches.

Officers that respond to reported incidents involving parking complaints

will assess each situation individually however will take into considera-

tion environmental factors and wherever possible liaise with the owner

of a vehicle to consider repositioning. If an officer considers a vehicle to

be parked in a dangerous position or causing more than a momentary

obstruction that officer may consider issue of a Fixed Penalty Notice or

removal of said vehicle at the owner’s expense.

We thank you for your assistance

in these matters.

Please do not hesitate to contact

the team should you wish to

discuss the above in more detail.

To report an incident or crime

to Northamptonshire Police

telephone 101, in an emer-

gency dial 999

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NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH APRIL

2013

There has been reports of suspicious

vehicles in and around the village and

also in neighbouring areas, I have

passed the details I have been given to

the police, but they have asked that if

anyone sees a suspicious vehicle or is

offered any dubious goods, that

they ring the police on 101 as soon as

they can, and report it straight away.

Also I have had two alerts from the police, details below.

1. Dog kidnapping rumours (see previous article in this newsletter)

2. Scam warning to motorists. (reported last month : reminder)

Motorists in Northamptonshire are being warned about a scam

where a group of men flag down vehicles, offering to sell gold

jewellery to motorists that later turns out to be fake.

A number of incidents have been reported across the county,

recent locations including A14 at Welford, Rothersthorpe Road,

Kislingbury and High Street. Weedon.

The offenders will flag down cars and tell motorists something

along the lines of having run out of fuel and having no money on

them. They will then offer to exchange gold jewellery

for cash.

Where money is exchanged the buyer will later discover the

jewellery they have purchased is, in fact, fake.

The police urge motorists approached to refuse any offer of

jewellery, to take in as much information about the offenders as

possible and to contact the police on 101

Also we would like to remind you that the alarms are still available.

Stay safe, as always please keep us informed of any incidents you

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The Fifth Samuel Leek Concert

Harpole Church

Saturday 20th April 7.30pm This annual concert is given by the talented and en-

thusiastic people of Harpole and surrounding area.

It would be good to hear from anyone who would like to sing, play an

instrument, give a recitation, or otherwise entertain the welcoming

and equally

enthusiastic audience.

Don’t be shy, we would love to hear from you.

Please contact Allan Leroy on 830423

if you would like to take part

Bugbrooke Community Café

Sunday School Rooms, Church Lane

Badger’s Break A warm welcome awaits everyone on

Saturdays 9am to 4.30pm

Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday 9am to 12.30pm

Breakfast, light lunches, cakes and drinks available,

lunches also on Saturday

Do drop in and see what the café has to offer.

www.bugbrookecommunitycafe.com