The Erringden Eagle Mytholmroyd & Cragg Vale News Sheet February 2018

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Welcome to St John‘s & St Michael's we hope you enjoy being here and join with us after the service for a drink and a chat.

Welcome to our new look Erringden

Eagle. No longer just a list of events

and rotas. Articles, jokes and

information are all included in the

new monthly addition of the Eagle.

But best of all our intrepid, all

knowing, wise dog Rosie is back with

her Ramblings from the Vicarage.

Good News for all those who like

flower festivals. This Easter a

smaller and shorter but none the less

brilliant festival returns to St

Michael’s. So make a note of the

dates. Easter Sunday afternoon (1st

April) and the Monday Bank Holiday

(2nd). Further details to follow.

Talking of Easter assuming the Pace

Egg play is being performed in St

Michael’s square on Good Friday

(30th March) we will be serving Hot

Cross Buns and refreshments to

coincide with the event.

Cycling fanatics

will know that

the Tour De

Yorkshire

passes through

Mytholmroyd on

Sunday 6th

May. St

Michael’s will be open for

refreshments on the day.

Enjoy the rest of the read. Alan

What’s On this Month

Sunday Services

St John’s Sunday’s 9.30am. Communion

St Michael’s Sunday’s 11am. Communion

St Michael’s Sunday’s 4pm. New Connect

service February 4th & March 4th.

Brew. Every Monday 10.30am in the

Erringden Room at St Michael’s. Chance to

meet, chat and have a cuppa. All welcome.

Open Church. Every Tuesday at 2pm in

St John’s church. Meet, chat and have a

cuppa. All welcome.

Angels Meet. Every Thursday in term time at

9.15am in St Michael’s Hall. A chance for

parents with pre school children to get

together. Activities for the children.

Parish Prayers. Every Friday at 9am at the

Vicarage Brier Hey Lane. Meet and pray for

the community and one another.

Quiz Nights. In St Michael’s Hall at 7.30pm

on Friday 4th February and Friday 4th March.

Bar open, Pie & pea supper (optional). New

quizzers welcome.

Coffee Mornings. Run by the Guild. Held in

the Erringden room of St Michael’s Hall 1st

Saturday’s of the month at 10am - Great

cakes for sale.

Guild group meet on 6th February and 6th

March at 2pm in the Erringden room in St

Michael’s Hall.

St Michaels Wives group meet at 8pm on

Thursday 15th February in the Erringden

Room in St Michael’s Hall.

Cragg Vale Yorkshire Country Women meet

on 12th February.

St Michael’s PCC meet in the Erringden

Room at 7pm on Tuesday 6th February and

6th March.

St John’s PCC meet in church at 6.30pm on

Monday 19th February.

Book Club meet in the Erringden Room at

7.30pm on Tuesday 20th February. Book is

'Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine ' by Gail

Honeyman. cost £2:00 which includes wine

and nibbles.

House Group meet at the Cansdale’s at

7.30pm on Wednesdays February 7th, 21st.

See Alan for details. tel 883944

Churches Together Open meeting at

7.30pm on Monday 5th February at Hope

Baptist Church. Matt Hawthorn from the

Scripture Union will be talking about meeting

young people ‘where they are’ – which is

probably not in church! This promises to be a

really worthwhile topic and it would be great to

see as many people as possible coming to

hear him.

Lent Courses. Take place during the weeks

of Lent. If you have registered to host or be

part of a group the organisers will contact you

directly.

Cragg Vale History Group meet on February

15th at 7.30pm in St John’s church. Theme

The history of tins.

Willing to be a contact for your group for

people who want to know more. Then see

Alan to get your contact details added.

Well I am back, did you miss me? I wish I had been

away on holiday or chasing rabbits up and down the

hills of Mytholmroyd, but I haven’t. You see I am

crocked (sore leg). I am feeling very sorry for myself. I used to look down on

dogs half my age who were limping around showing the signs of old age. I

used to tell them to buck up, run through the pain, get out there and run, play,

run. I never understood what it meant, I never realised how it felt when you

could no longer do all the things you used to do. I had no sympathy at all.

I sit at home bored, no walks unless you call a drive down to the canal for a

10 minute stroll twice a day A WALK. Well I don’t, I need at least 1.5hrs a

day and that’s a bad day. I need to play, to hunt, to run like the wind, I am

Rosie the invincible, the dog that goes on and on and on. I thought I was

immortal but know I feel mortal. O, I do hope my leg gets better soon, I can’t

stand, pardon the pun, living like this. Surely life is meant to be more than

getting old, unable to do all the things I took for granted. Stuck and trapped in

an aging body, just watching as all the other dogs have fun. It can’t have

meant to be this way, can it?

I used to tell Alan to shape up or ship out when he had a bad knee, he was

holding me back. I used to say ’come on old man you can walk further than

this’. Well it’s him waiting for me now, it’s him waiting on me to do a long

walk. Waiting for me is not what I expected. How the tables have turned.

Surely life is not meant to be like this? Then I found hope.

I am telling you this strange and wonderful secret: we shall not all die, but we

shall all be given new bodies! It will all happen in a moment, in the twinkling

of an eye, when the last trumpet is blown. For there will be a trumpet blast

from the sky, and all the Christians who have died will suddenly become

alive, with new bodies that will never, never die; and then we who are still

alive shall suddenly have new bodies too. For our earthly bodies, the ones

we have now that can die, must be transformed into heavenly bodies that

cannot perish but will live forever.

When this happens, then at last this Scripture will come true—“Death is

swallowed up in victory.” O death, where then your victory? Where then your

sting? Yours, running like the wind for ever, Rosie

Rosie’s Ramblings from

The Vicarage

The Magic of Socks

A few years ago, Adina Lichtman was handing out sandwiches on the streets of New York City to help people experiencing homelessness. One man, grateful for the sandwich, approached her and offered some surprising insight.

“It’s great that you’re giving out sandwiches,” he said, “but one thing we really need is socks, especially as winter approaches.” “Here I was, sandwiches in hand, assuming I knew the best way to help people, when in reality, helping is about listening, and hearing the needs of different communities,” Lichtman said. “It was a powerful lesson, and I wanted to put it into action.”

She began that night, with a simple step: going door-to-door on the floor of her dormitory at New York University, asking fellow classmates if they could each just donate just one pair of their own socks to someone experiencing homelessness. She got 40 pairs of socks in a single night, from a single floor. The next morning she opened her door to find a huge pile of socks that other people had donated.

“College students love to do good, but sometimes they need a literal knock on their door to do so. And most everyone has an extra pair of socks they can donate,” Lichtman said. (Check out this story on lives changed thanks to the power of generosity.) That morning officially kicked off Knock, Knock give a Sock (KKGS), a non profit organization that has now provided over 350,000 pairs of socks to the homeless in cities and states across America. It is also now Lichtman’s full-time job.

“I thought this would be such a great example of ways people can take action in small ways, especially the college age-Millennial set, and how it can grow to expand and become national,” she says.

To date, over 50 colleges and high schools across the U.S. have got involved.

Taken from a Readers Digest article by Herlaina Hovitz

Mytholmroyd Flood Alleviation Scheme overview

Here are details of some the

proposed timings of the schemes

work. It looks like we may all get

fitter as walking may be the best

option to get around

Mytholmroyd.

Traffic management went ‘live’

as of 15th January 2018 – this

initial period is actually for

approximately 3 weeks to

facilitate ground investigation/

trial hole works. This will be followed by the main scheme construction works

which are expected to commence early in April (potentially sooner), so there

will be a ‘break’. Once the traffic management is installed along Burnley Road

it will be a feature of the works almost throughout the programme duration.

Based on the current programme we expect traffic management to be in

place around 85 weeks.

Burnley Road Drainage Works Mid April 2018 to early August 2018

Caldene Avenue services diversion works Mid April 2018 to mid July 2018

New Road works Mid April 2018 to mid July 2018

Burnley Road – new Caldene Bridge (two phases – construction of new;

demolition of existing) Mid June 2018 to end of November 2018 End of March

2019 to beginning of June 2019

Burnley Road – flood walls, Caldene Bridge to White Houses End of

November 2018 to mid/end March 2019

Burnley Road – flood walls, White Houses to Hawks Clough Mid June 2019 to

December 2019.

The plans for the St Michael’s area have been submitted to Calderdale

planning. I will give an update and more detail on the proposals next month.

Drop in surgeries are held at the Mytholmroyd Community Centre each week

on: Tues 12pm-3pm; Fri 9am-12pm. If you have questions then go and ask.

Alison is very friendly and helpful.

Alan

Rotas Stewards Readers Intercessions/ Coffee

Cragg 28th January

Sylvia Doris

Jackie K Server: Jane

Pam

Cragg 4th February

Pam Alan

John D Server: Margaret

Doris

Cragg 11th February

Betty Beryl

Pat B Server: Mary

Carol

Cragg 18th February

Sue Margaret

Ed T Server: Gordon

Anne Beryl

Cragg 25th February

Sylvia Doris

June M Server: Jane

Pam

Cragg 4th March

Pam Alan

Gordon Server: Margaret

Doris

Mytholmroyd 28th January

Maureen Wilf

Gill J Kaye

Georgie Alex

Jackie B Nancy

Mytholmroyd 4th February

Robert Chris

Ruth Tracy

Eric Jackie Auriol

Mytholmroyd 11th February

Jenny Vivienne

Daphne Julia

Daphne Madeline Sandra

Mytholmroyd 18th February

Linda Beryl

Geraldine Roy

Margaret Maureen Jeanette

Mytholmroyd 25th February

Jeanette

Mary

Malcolm

Colin

Christine Joan

Betty

Mytholmroyd 4th March

Madeline

Daphne

Eric

Lesley

Eric Joan

John

Q: What is it called when a cat wins a dog show?

A: A CAT-HAS-TROPHY!

Q: What do you get if you cross a Beatle and an Australian dog?

A: Dingo Starr!

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Readings 1st reading 2nd Reading Gospel

28th Jan Malachi 3:1-5 Hebrews 2:14-end Luke 2:22-40

4th Feb Proverbs 8:1, 22-31 Colossians 1:15-20 John 1:1-14

11th Feb 2 Kings 2:1-12 2 Corinthians 4:3-6 Mark 9:2-9

18th Feb Genesis 9:8-17 1 Peter 3:18-end Mark 1:9-15

25th Feb Genesis 17:1-7, 15-16 Romans 4:13-end Mark 8:31-end

4th March Exodus 20:1-17 1 Corinthians 1:18-25 John 2:13-22

St John’s use 2nd reading.

Can you solve the riddles

Question 1: A cat, mouse and dog all had an instrument, the dog had a flute, the cat had a

trombone and the mouse's instrument bugs the dog. What was the mouse's instrument?

Question 2: I am made of scraps and rags, Yet when I am put together, I keep you warm in

the winter. What am I?

Question 3: What is white outside and yellow inside?

Question 4: I have no wallet but I pay my way. I travel the world but in the corner I stay.

What am I?

Question 5: When you do not know what I am, then I am something. But when you know what

I am, then I am nothing. What am I?

Answers

1. Dog whistle 2. Quilt 3. Egg 4. Postage stamp 5. A riddle