S T I C K N E YN E W S

ParliamentaryDistrict Council

ELECTIONS: 07 MAY 2015Parish Council

No Election

MAY 2015A warm welcome to this edition of the village magazine. As I write this it is in fact lovely and warm, long may it continue.

I hope that you are still finding the magazine interesting. We are still keen to hear ideas for articles that could be included that may be of interest to other people. The Jubilee Committee are still working to get this year’s Midsummer Festival off the ground - if you have any ideas for things to include please let us know as we want to make it enjoyable for as many people as possible.Finally welcome to any new comers to the area, we hope that you are settling in and making friends. You will find useful information about what happens when and where around the village, as well as important telephone number in the magazine.

Stickney Primary SchoolMonday 18 May Fashion Show, 7.00 start in the school hall.

Branded ladies fashions at half price, or less. The event is run by Lincs Fashions and there are no ‘seconds’. Tickets cost £2.50 and are available from the school office (01205 480254)Refreshments will be available.

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

04 May Prize Bingo Doors open 6.30pm, eyes down 7.30pm (Monday) Proceeds – St Luke’s Church

25 May Prize Bingo Doors open 6.30pm, eyes down 7.30pm(Monday) Proceeds – St Luke’s Church

Midsummer Festival 2015PRIZE BINGOThe prize bingo raised £440.80 towards the Midsummer Festival. A BIG THANK YOU to everyone involved in organising and running the bingo, the ladies in the kitchen, those who gave prizes and to everyone who turned up on the night to make this such a successful event.

RACE NIGHTThe next fund raising event will be the Race Night on 06 June. It is hoped that the event will be sponsored by Ladbrokes again. Anyone wanting to sponsor a race or purchase any horses in the races can contact Carla Sabin on 07930 237236

MEDIUM NIGHTA Medium Night will be held in the Village Hall on Wednesday 24 June, more information to follow in the June Stickney News.

MIDSUMMER FESTIVAL UPDATEA boost to the funds has been received in the form of a donation from Stickney Ladies Club who have kindly given £50.00 towards the Midsummer Festival.A Fun Dog Show will be held at the Midsummer Festival. It is hoped that Reptile Life will be visiting this event with snakes, birds of prey, spiders and maybe even a crocodile! Other items being looked into include dog agility – for your dog to have a go, RAF dog display team, water zorbing, Ty Kwando demonstration and a display of dancing y Stickney Primary School. There will be a fly-over by the RAF Dakota.

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

Craft & Chat ClubThe Craft and Chat Club will be on Thursday 21 May between 2.00pm and 4.00pm. This Club is held on the third Thursday of each month, there are no subscription fees, it is just £1 per afternoon which includes a cup of tea and biscuits, so come along and give it a go. Enquiries – Tel: Sandra 480802. STICKNEY BUS SERVICE!The market day service is available on 13, 27 May and 10 and 24 June, 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 be 18 May and 15 June.

ST LUKE’S CHURCHThe New Name, the ladies of the Diocesan choir and the energetic young Taiko drummers gave us greatly contrasting musical experiences through Holy Week. We sang nostalgically to golden oldies, immersed ourselves in beautiful harmonies, and felt powerful rhythms trembling through our bodies.  Then there were quieter times when we were able to sit and reflect upon artistic images of Christ's journey to the Cross, and experience the solemnity of Good Friday's meditations.St. Luke's offered hospitality through the week's events and we thank all who donated food and willingly served tea and coffee and washed up.  A few of us roused ourselves for 6.00am on Easter Day:  the dawn chorus was amazing and breakfast in church was fun.  A church lends itself to musical encounters, if you have any suggestions for future events please pass them on.The March prize bingo raised a grand total of £364.40 for St Luke’s, thank you for all your support. Two further PRIZE BINGO’s are planned for the May bank holidays - Monday 04 May and Monday 25 May, both in Stickney Youth Centre at 7.30pm.  Again we will be grateful for any donations of prizes, and hope some of you will be able to enjoy these evenings with us.On SATURDAY 09 MAY we will be holding our annual CHRISTIAN AID event between 10.00am and 12 noon.  The usual COPPER PATH and SILVER CROSS will be laid and we hope young people will assist with these.  There will be a raffle and tombola as well as free tea/coffee/squash and biscuits for all who join in.  Please come along or pass on your donations.  The money we raise will be added to contributions from other churches, and then used to fund vital projects around the world. 

Closer to home CENTREPOINT in Boston has received the food and other useful items collected in St Luke's through Lent and Easter.  Thank you for such generosity, your gifts were greatly appreciated.May new life and growth, the colours of gardens and hedgerows, and the days of warm sunshine gladden all our hearts this springtime.

May Church Services for St Luke’s:Sunday 03 11.15am All Age Worship with music by the New

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Sunday 10 9.30am Morning Prayer

Thursday 14 7.00pm Ascension Day at West Keal

Sunday 17 11.15am Cluster Holy Communion at Stickney

Sunday 24 9.30am Holy Communion

Sunday 31 10.00am Deanery Confirmation at St James Church, Spilsby

Every Thursday 9.00am Morning Prayer

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Rural Dean: Canon Peter Coates 01790 752526

Parish Priest and PCC Chairperson: Rev’d Fran Jefferies 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

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 on the third Thursday of each month. Parish Council representatives are available on the last Thursday of each month for anyone to speak to about any Parish matters.

Reports to the PCC, ‘St Luke’s People and Activities 2014’ and the ‘Fabric of St Luke’s Church 2014’, from the Church Wardens can be found in full on the Parish Council website.

KIDDIES CORNERMay Facts

The first day of the month of May is known as May Day. Although summer does not officially begin until June, May Day really marks its beginning. May Day celebrations have their origins in the Roman festival of Flora, Goddess of fruit and flowers, which marked the beginning of summer. Although May Day is now the first day of the month of May, before 1752, when the calendar was changed, it was 11 days earlier.

A traditional May Day dance is known as Maypole dancing. On May Day, young trees were cut down and stuck into the ground in the village to mark the arrival of summer. People danced around these trees which became known as maypoles. The tallest maypole is said to have been erected in London on the Strand in 1661- it stood over 143 feet high.

Word Play   1. Look at the clues below and see if you can make new words by changing

just one letter in each of these words. 

a. Change CAT into something to wear b. Change BOX into an animal c. Change DOG into a piece of wood 

2. Can you make new words by adding two letters to the front of each of these words? 

a. Change ANT into something huge b. Change APE into a fruit c. Change OWL into an animal sound 

3. Can you find some 3-letter words jumbled up in ICE CREAM? 

a. A form of transport b. Part of the body c. Used for listening d. Something you breathe e. A male sheep 

4. Look at the letters in each set of words and see if you can find the word which is the odd one out. 

a. BEAD, EASY, FEET, IDEA, TEAM b. CHAIR, EAGLE, SMILE, UNCLE, WORLD c. BEETLE, CATTLE, KETTLE, NETTLE, RATTLE 

Brussel sprout and Potato Croquettes

Thought we'd have a recipe that tried to balance out the copious amounts of chocolate all children will have eaten in the last month! 

Ingredients200g brussel sprouts (I know, just give it a go!)trimmed and sliced 500g potatoes, cooked and crushed 1 egg beaten 50g plain flour 100g finely ground breadcrumbs, seasoned 300ml vegetable oil 200g tin chopped tomatoes small bunch coriander, chopped 1 tsp Worcester sauce (more if you like a bit more kick) 1 shallot, finely sliced 

Method: 1. Drop the sprouts into boiling water and blanch for 2-3 minutes.

Drain and refresh with cold water. 2. Mix with the potato, mashing them together with a fork. Season

well and form the mixture into 12 croquettes.3. Place the egg in a bowl, the flour on a plate and the breadcrumbs on

a second plate. Dip each croquette into the flour first, to coat, then the egg and lastly the breadcrumbs. Make sure each is fully covered.

4. Chill in the fridge for 30 minutes, or up to 24 hours.5. To make the dip combine the tomatoes, coriander, Worcester sauce

and shallot, season and set aside.6. Pour the oil into a large, deep frying pan, to a depth of about 4cm,

and place over a medium-high heat. Fry the croquettes until golden all over for a total of 5 minutes – you may need to do this in 2 batches to avoid overcrowding the pan.

7. Drain on kitchen paper and serve immediately with the dip.

Figure It  Look at the clues below and fill all the numbers you can into the grid. Then start again and use your answers to help solve the other clues.

Across   2. Ninety-one doubled 4. Half of sixty-eight 5. 7 across plus 14 down 7. Sixty-six divided by three 8. 3421 reversed 10. Fifty-two divided by four 12. Number of hours in a day 13. Half of 3536 15. Three times seven 16. Five times thirteen 17. Forty-eight doubled 18. Eight times sixty-four 

Down   1. Fifty-four divided by three 2. Number of days in a fortnight 3. Half of 5842 4. 17 across divided by three 6. Four times 15 across 7. 9 down minus ninety 9. 123 reversed 11. Five times 1131 14. Half of 152 15. 10 across doubled 17. Four times twenty-three 19. Seventy-five divided by five 

Maypole Dancing to colour

Gardening tips for May!If 'capricious' is the keyword for April, then 'seductive' and 'deceptive' are two words which probably best describe May.  Seduced by longer days and higher temperatures, gardeners begin to think of sowing and planting outdoors in earnest.  But beware!  Seeds sown in ground which is not sufficiently warmed can fail to germinate or if they do germinate, can be killed by late frosts or nocturnal attacks from slugs; and that is not even mentioning the weeds or the possibility of an early drought which can be dangerous for young plants, unless the ground is in good heart and well mulched as an insurance.However, here are some of the jobs which can be undertaken this month which, with a bit of luck, will lead to rapidly filling vegetable beds and immaculate rows of young plants.1)  Sow cut-and-come again varieties of salads such as mizuna, mustard Red Giant and rocket which can be harvested by cutting the leaves and within a short time will be ready to cut again.  Another good variety is 'Green Salad Bowl'.  Sow successively every few weeks for a constant supply.2)  Courgettes can be started off in small 3" pots ready for planting out later.  Put them in the ground with a good mound of manure or compost dug into their planting position.  Cover early plantings with cloches, keep them well fed and watered during the growing season and they will reward you with lots of pickings.3)  Tomato plants should now be being pricked out in pots (3") prior to planting out in their final position in the greenhouse, or later, outdoors. It is still not too late to sow if you haven't already - try 'Sungold' or 'Gardeners Delight for taste.  Cucumbers are worth investing some time in - I've been recommended 'La Diva' for its small sweet and juicy fruit which ripens easily.4)  Tuck straw or mats under strawberries before the fruit begins to ripen and after you have eliminated the final weeds.  Cover with a net to discourage the birds, making sure the netting doesn't touch the fruit or the birds will peck through.5)   Plant the last of your seed potatoes, the main crop, this month.  Space these later sowings every 15/18", with rows 24" apart.  Cover the tubers with soil to leave a slight ridge and watch out for late frosts as the green shoots appear. Cover with weighted newspapers, cloches, fleece or even a straw mulch.As usual good luck with your efforts.  In conclusion, a few lines from a Joni Mitchell song from 1969.(Remember?): 'We are stardust, we are golden, and we got to get ourselves back to the garden.'        

Stickney Community CommitteeThe AGM will be held on Wednesday 13 May 2015 at 7.00pm in the Youth Hall, Hall Lane. 

The Stickney Community Committee is the committee that run and manage both the village hall and the youth hall. It is made up of representatives from the groups and clubs that use the halls and members of the village community, we are all volunteers.

We are looking for new members to help us run the halls, if you care about the continued use of this vital facility in the village, please come forward and see if you could help us. In particular anyone with administrative skills or just the willingness to help us would be most welcome.

If you would like more information about the Community committee please contact Sandra Boone, Chairperson: Tel 01205 480802. 

DOG FOULING REMINDER:A number of complaints have been received regarding dog faeces not being picked up by the dog walkers. Stickney is a nice tidy village and everyone is reminded that dog mess should be cleaned up.

It’s not his job……. …….it’s YOURS!Please clean up after your dog.

Thank you.

AN INCIDENT OF VANDALISM IN STICKNEY!

The seat at the corner of Hall Lane and the Main Road has been deliberately damaged by someone jumping on it. It took a few jumps to actually break the wood. The damage was done deliberately as the bolts were loosened and the jumping was done on a weak spot near to a knot in the underside of the wood. The vandalism took place sometime over the weekend of 04/06 April 2015.

If anyone has any information as to who has done this then please contact the Police and quote Incident No 306.

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NOTES FROM THE PARISH COUNCIL MEETING HELD ON THURSDAY 02 APRIL

The Chairman reported the resignations of Cllrs Wylka, Edwards and Cash. The Returning Officer has made an Order under Section 91 of the Local Government Act for District Cllr Neil Jones to attend the meeting to make the Parish Council quorate. There was no Public forum.

Present: Cllrs Hood, Bolland (Chairman) and Dist Cllr N Jones, also 2 members of the public.

Apologies: received from County/Dist Cllr Ayling

Reports From Representatives On Outside BodiesThe Police reported, by email, incidents between 01 March 2015 and 29 March 2015:1 domestic incident; 2 nuisance neighbour reports and 1 incident of a suspicious circumstance – person/vehicle unknown in location. Engagement with William Lovell Academy with regard to internet safety training for Years 9 and 10

Planning Applications Received The Parish Council looked at and SUPPORTED the following applications:S/169/00517/15 - Mr M Greatrix - Erection of a building to use for the storage of lorry parts and machinery at Green Haven, Main Road.S/169/00516/15 - Mrs M Baker - Extension to existing house to provide an enlarged ground floor kitchen area with a first floor bedroom over at 54 Horbling Lane.

Planning Decisions/InformationFULL planning permission has been received for:S/126/00166/15 - Mr G Lawton - Erection of 1 house with integral double garage on site of existing dwelling which is to be demolished at Catchwater Lodge, Horbling Lane.ELDC will take further action due to not receiving a planning application for the banner style flags at World of Furnishings.

Garden Of RemembranceIt was resolved that plaques for scattered ashes should be 13cm2, the same size of the black posts. The plaques will be brass and fixed to the plinth between the posts at the scattered

ashes area. The fee was set at £30.00, in line with the other memorials in the cemetery, to place a plaque at this area.

Grayscroft Bus Service A letter has been received from Grayscroft requesting funding towards the Wednesday bus service from Mablethorpe to Boston. It was agreed that, due to the timetable being almost the same as Service 113, no funding would be given.

Lincolnshire Road Safety PartnershipA copy of a letter sent to a Parishioner, together with the detailed report, has been received, it was resolved to put this information on the website

Repairs ANY POT HOLES OR STREET LIGHTS IN ALL DAY OR OUT AT NIGHT SHOULD BE REPORTED TO THE PARISH COUNCIL CLERK.THE ANNUAL PARISH MEETING, THE ANNUAL PARISH COUNCIL MEETING AND AN ORDINARY PARISH COUNCIL MEETING WILL BE HELD ON THURSDAY 14 MAY 2015 IN THE YOUTH CENTRE FROM 7.00PM.

Parish Website

The website can be found at www.parishes.lincolnsire.gov.uk/stickney

With the General Election, District Council and Parish Council Elections taking place on 07 May this year there is a link to the ELDC election information – this will be the first place where the results can be found. This page will be updated, as information becomes available, with regard to who the candidates are for each election.

It has been agreed that any business in Stickney can have their information and links to websites placed under a business’s section on the website – anyone wanting to be put on this site can contact the Clerk by phone or e-mail for further information, there will be no charges.

All planning applications received by the Parish Council can be viewed directly via a link from the Parish Website.______________________________________________________Word Play answers 1a. CAT-HAT; 1b. BOX-FOX; 1c. DOG-LOG; 2a. ANT-GIANT; 2b. APE-GRAPE; 2c. OWL-GROWL; 3a. CAR; 3b. ARM; 3c. EAR; 3d. AIR; 3e. RAM; 4a. FEET - It's the only word with EE in it, all the rest have EA; 4b. CHAIR - The fourth letter of all the other words is L. 4c. BEETLE - It's the only word without TT in the middle.

Figure it out:

USEFUL PHONE NUMBERS:

Parish Councillors (from 08 May 2015):Cllr M Bolland (Chairman) 01205 480015

Cllr L Edwards

Cllr A Lewis

Cllr J Littlewood

Cllr L Spring

Cllr B Wood

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 Cllr V Ayling 07764 536867 email: victoria.ayling@e-lindsey.gov.uk

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

Police 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

Village Hall bookings – Mrs Sadleir 01205 481077

Youth Centre bookings – Mrs Boone 01205 480802