St Oswald’s, Askrigg Sunday Dec 3 10.30am United Service

Sunday Dec 10 4.00pm Memorial Service. See p.36 Saturday Dec 16 7.00pm Christmas Tree Festival Preview Concert

Sunday Dec 17 10.30am HC

4.00pm Carols and Lessons by candlelight. Christmas Eve 10.30am HC

4.00pm Christingle Service

11.30pm Midnight Eucharist Christmas Day 10.30am HC for Christmas Day

Sunday Dec 31 10.30am HC

Sunday Jan 7 10.30am United Service Sunday Jan 14 10.30am Café-style Service

Sunday Jan 14 2.00pm BCP Holy Communion

Sunday Jan 21 10.30am Benefice Covenant Service Sunday Jan 28 10.30am HC

St Matthew’s, Stalling Busk Christmas Eve 7.15pm Christmas Celebration (HC)

8.00pm Carols by Candlelight Sunday Jan 7 2.30pm Evensong

Bainbridge Meeting House Sunday Dec 17 10.30am Quaker (Society of Friends) meeting

Countersett Meeting House Christmas Eve 10.45am Quaker (Society of Friends) meeting

Marsett Methodist Chapel Sunday Dec 3 8.00pm Singalong

Sunday Dec 24 2.00pm Carol Service Sunday Jan 14 2.00pm Annual Covenant Service

Sycamore Hall Saturday Dec 2 8.30am Men’s Prayer Breakfast

Sunday Dec 10 10.45am Methodist Service

Sunday Dec 17 10.45am Methodist Carol Service Sunday Dec 31 10.45am Methodist Covenant Service

Gayle Methodist Chapel Monday Dec 4 Noon Soup Lunch and 1.00pm Taize Service

Tuesday Dec 5 7.30pm Askrigg Bell Ringers Tuesday Dec 19 7.30pm Advent evening

Sunday Dec 24 6.00pm Christmas Communion Service

Tuesday Jan 9/16/23 7.30pm Gayle Fellowship Sunday Jan 21 6.00pm Annual Covenant Service

St Margaret’s, Hawes Sunday Dec 3 10.30am Churches Together Toy Service

Wednesday Dec 13 7.30pm Askrigg Handbell Ringers £7.50 (proceeds to Restoration Fund)

Sunday Dec 17 10.30am Carol Service

Christmas Eve 10.30pm Christmas Eve Service (HC) 11.30pm Midnight Mass

Christmas Day 10.30am Christmas Day service (HC)

Sunday Dec 31 10.30am Morning Prayer Sunday Jan 7 10.30am HC

Sunday Jan 14 10.30am HC

Sunday Jan 14 10.30am HC St Mary and St John, Hardraw Saturday Dec 23 4.00pm Christingle Service

Christmas Eve 10.00pm Carols and Communion (HC)

Sunday Dec 31 9.00am Service of Morning Prayer Sunday Jan 7 9.00am Children’s Morning Praise

Sunday Jan 14 9.00am HC

Sunday Jan 28 9.00am HC Hawes Junction Chapel Saturday Dec 2 7.30pm Carols by Candlelight

Your pull-out pages of December and New Year events and greetings

SPECIAL CHURCH, SCHOOL AND CAROL-SINGING EVENTS (HC=Holy Communion)

HAWES AREA

ASKRIGG AND BAINBRIDGE AREA

December 1,3 Dick Whittington and the Caribbean Pirates, Hawes Market House. See p.7 2 Wensleydale’s Got Talent. 7.15pm in Hawes Market House. Interval guests Colin Bailey & friends. Raffle, tea, coffee, mulled wine. 8 PTFA Quiz Night, Wheatsheaf, Carperby 9.00pm start. £2 8,9 Celebration Concerts, Hawes and Thoralby. See p.28 9 Swale Singers Messiah 7.00pm St. Oswald’s Church Askrigg

11 Christmas Whist Drive Gayle Institute. 12 Arts Society Lecture 2.00pm See p.28 13 Wensleydale School Festive Concert. 7.00pm See p.31 13 Festive Concert . Askrigg Handbell Ringers at St. Margaret’s, Hawes See p.7 15 Leyburn U3A 10.30am. See p.34 16 Concert at Fountain Hawes See p.17 17 Charity Concert, Tennants Leyburn p.19 18 Thoralby Christmas Cracker morning Village Hall.10.30am. See page 29 19 LASS Thornborough Hall 7.15pm 623257 for information.

St Andrew’s, Aysgarth Sunday Dec 3 10.30am Holy Communion Service Sunday Dec 17 11.00am Carol Service

Tuesday Dec 19 2.00pm BAWB School Christmas Celebration

Christmas Eve 11.30pm Midnight Communion Christmas Day 11.00am United Service (HC)

Sunday Dec 31 10.30am Penhill Together Service (HC)

Aysgarth Methodist Chapel Sunday Dec 3 10.45am Morning Worship (HC) Sunday Dec 10 6.00pm Family Nativity Service

Sunday Jan 7 10.45am Morning Worship

Christmas Day 11.00am At St Andrew’s Sunday Dec 31 11.00am At St Andrew’s

Sunday Jan 21 10.45am Annual Covenant Service

Thoralby Village Hall Saturday Dec 16 2.30pm Carol Service Thornton Rust Mission Room Sunday Dec 17 3.00pm Carol Service

West Burton Chapel Sunday Dec 17 6.30pm Family Nativity Service

Mon, Tues Dec 18,19 6.30pm Carol Singing around the village Sunday Dec 24 8.00pm Christmas Communion Service

Christmas Day 11.00am At St Andrew’s

Sunday Jan 7 11.00am Shake Up Service Sunday Jan 28 10.45am Annual Covenant Service

St Bartholomew's, West Witton Saturday Dec 2 7.30pm Penhill Poachers Christmas Collection

Sunday Dec 17 6.00pm Carol Service Christmas Eve 9.30am Holy Communion

Christmas Eve 4.00pm Crib Service

Wensley Village Hall Friday Dec 8 4.30pm Family Evening of Making Christingles

Friday Dec 15 6.30pm Carol Service

Holy Trinity, Wensley Sunday Dec 10 10.30am Family Christingle Service Christmas Day 10.00am Holy Communion

Carperby Institute Sunday Dec 17 6.30pm Carol Service

St. Mary’s Redmire Sunday Dec 17 4.00pm Carol Service St Oswald’s, Castle Bolton Christmas Eve 9.30am Holy Communion

St Margaret’s, Preston-under-Scar Sunday Dec 17 6.00pm Carol Service

St Mary’s, Redmire Christmas Eve 3.30pm Crib Service with Children’s Church Sunday Jan 14 10.30am Penhill Together (HC) Service

CARPERBY, REDMIRE, CASTLE BOLTON, PRESTON AREA AND BEYOND

AYSGARTH, WEST BURTON, THORALBY AND WEST WITTON AREA

GENERAL WHAT’S ON LISTING

20 Penhill Ladies. Carperby Institute. Penhill Poachers concert. 20 Wednesday Club Christmas Party 2.00pm Redmire Village Hall 21 Christmas Whist at Carperby Village Hall at 7.30pm 22 Annual Charity Concert at 7.30pm in Hawes Market House. See page 8 22 Christmas Dominos at Carperby Village Hall at 7.30pm January 3 Hawes Drama Group Play Reading Gayle Institute 7.00pm. 5 Wensleydale Society 7.30pm West Burton Hall ‘Who’s Who at Marrick Priory. 8,22,29 Whist Drives at Gayle Institute. 9 Arts Society Lecture 2.00pm See p.28 16 Local History Group AGM Middleham Key Centre 2.00pm 17 Penhill Ladies, Carperby Institute, 7.30pm. Lord Bolton, 'The Barons Bolton of Wensleydale'. 18 Bainbridge WI meeting. See p.16 20 Mobile Skip at Brunt Acres Industrial Estate, Hawes in morning. 23 LASS Thornborough Hall 7.15pm 623257 for information. 25 Leyburn Bowls Club Beetle Drive 7.30pm Dalesmans Club. 26 PTFA Curry Night, Wheatsheaf, Carperby 6pm-9pm £8.50/£6 Adult/ Child meal and drink.

December Events for Children

Askrigg Village

11 1.30pm and 12th at 6.00pm. ‘Ebeneezer’ presented by KS2 children at Bainbridge School. All welcome

12 1.30pm ‘Hey Ewe’ presented by EYFS and KS1 children at Bainbridge School. All welcome 20 1.30pm and 6.00pm. ‘A Wensleydale Christmas Carol’. Village Hall All welcome

22 Carol Singing around Askrigg and in

the pubs. Meet at the Cross at 6.00pm. All welcome

23 3.00pm – 5.00pm Children’s Christmas Party (for pre-school & primary age children) in the Village Hall with disco. Bring & Share Party Lunch. Locals and visitors welcome. Pre- school children to be accompanied by an adult . 24 Meet Father Christmas in church after the Christingle Service — everyone welcome. Gifts for pre-school and primary age children. Mulled wine and mince pies. Hawes

2 Children’s Bring and Share Party in Market Hall from 1.45pm 2 Community carol singing in Hawes Market Place with Silver Band 4.00pm 2 Father Christmas in Market Place and Christmas Lights switch on 4.30pm

GENERAL WHAT’S ON LISTING (continued)

Chris, Hazel, Josh and Ella (Thwaite) would like to wish

everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year - once again we have

made a charity donation in lieu of sending cards to local friends

and family.

Margaret Newton wishes all her friends and neighbours a Happy Christmas and New

Year. I am not doing cards this year

Fred Thwaites wishes all

the best for Christmas and the

New Year to all his friends

Jean Airey would like to

wish all her friends a Merry

Christmas and a Happy

New Year

David Pointon and Pip Land wish all

their friends a very happy

Christmas and New Year. Our

Christmas card money will

again go to charity

Hawes Pub and Club Events December 3 Christmas Carvery Fountain 9 Disco with D.J. Wilko Fountain 10 Ladies Darts Knockout Board 15 Ladies Darts Knockout Club 16 Band ‘SummerHouse’ Fountain 19 Domino Knockout Club Christmas Day openings Green Dragon 11am-2pm Board 11am-1pm Fountain 2pm-4pm 28 Big Quiz Board 31 Live Music– Rick Jackson Fountain 31 Live Music — Gwenda Green Dragon January 2018 6 Men’s Darts Knockout Board 13 Pairs Darts Knockout Fountain 20 Domino Knockout Board 26 Mixed Pairs Darts Knockout Board 27 Domino Knockout Fountain

February 3 Individual Darts Knockout Fountain

The above events may alter slightly. Please check with each house concerned for times

and more details of each event.

James Atkinson

To all my friends and family.

Wishing you all a very Merry

Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Mary Sumner sends her love and

Christmas greetings to all her friends

in Hawes and the Upper Dales.

Ann Peacock wishes relatives,

friends and neighbours a Happy

Christmas and a Happy New Year

Steve Raw and David, Painter

& Decorator would like to wish

customers a Merry Christmas

Judy Fawcett would like to

wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a happy healthy New Year

Margaret Fawcett, of Thoralby,

would like to wish Family and

Friends a very Merry Christmas and a Happy

New Year

John Pritchard of Gayle sends

best wishes and Christmas

greetings to all his friends

Margaret Dinsdale of Hawes

would like to wish all her family

and friends a very Merry

Christmas and a Happy New Year

Betty Thornborrow

would like to wish family and friends

A Merry Christmas and a Happy New

Year

Allen Sharples would like to wish

all family and friends a merry

Christmas and a Happy New Year

Jean Cockburn wishes all her friends in Aysgarth a very Merry Christmas and a happy and healthy New Year

Marilyn and Tony Philpott wish

all their friends in Wensleydale a

Merry Christmas and a happy,

healthy and peaceful New Year

Anne Dinsdale would like to wish

her family and friends a very Merry

Christmas and a Happy New Year

Fringez’n Freckles Would like to wish all her clients and

friends a Merry Christmas and a Happy

New Year

Sheila and Steve Birkin (from Overdale in

Burtersett) send warm Christmas Greetings

to all their friends in Burtersett and beyond.

Thank you for your friendship in 2017. We

look forward to seeing you in 2018.

Elsie & Barry (Wilcox) wish all

their friends and neighbours a

peaceful and prosperous

Christmas and New Year