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Image: Rosedale Show By Patrick Chambers
All were in fine voice on Monday evening helped along by some excellent mulled cider and delicious mince pies. A sum of £105 was raised for the Yorkshire Air Ambulance, so many thanks to all who contributed and to Diane Crawford and Linda Chambers for organising the event again this year. And, of course, to Ann Wright for the use of her facilities!
A Happy Christmas and a Peaceful New Year to all our readers.
Sunday 21 December at 4 pm – Carols In The Church
Wednesday 24 December at 4 pm – Christmas Eve Crib Service
Wednesday 24 December at 11.30 pm – Midnight Mass
All are very welcome to these services, so hope to see you there to share in the true spirit of Christmas!
The traditional Rosedale winter charity auction was held at the White Horse Farm Inn on Saturday evening, 15 November 2104. A very good crowd attended and the selling of a huge variety of local produce and other items was conducted briskly and with customary efficiency by the Seller family, aided and abetted by members of the Updale Reading Committee.
The sale generated £900 of which half goes to the Updale Reading Room and the other £450 will be shared by two medical charities, Cancer Research and fundraising for a mobile heart monitor. An excellent result and thanks to all who donated so generously and to Christine for hosting the event again.
Work is well underway to repair the water damage to the church ceiling. No firm estimate yet when all the work will be completed, but watch this space.
The Centenary of the outbreak of W.W.I was marked with a Remembrance Day service and laying of wreaths on behalf of the benefice and the community. The church was full of people from all five churches.
Pic shows Rosedale & Hartoft W.I. with the Vicar, Michael Sinclair.
Both days of the Local Villages WW1 history exhibition were well attended at the Updale Reading Room, Rosedale. Between 50 to 60 people on Saturday and rather more on Sunday visited from all over the country, not just locally and viewed a fascinating and varied set of photographs, memorabilia and documentation on the roles played by by local people in the Great War both at home and at the front from Rosedale and Hartoft, Appleton le Moors, Sinnington, Lockton and Levisham and Thornton le Dale.
A tremendous amount of hard work was put in to stage the exhibition by volunteers from all the villages involved. The organisers would also like to thank all those who helped out on both days with running the reception desk, guiding and advising our visitors, those who provided and served all the delicious cakes, rolls and other refreshments that are such a feature of these events in the Updale Reading Room and, finally, the generous donors of excellent raffle prizes on both days – you know who you are so thanks again!
A BBC Countryfile team was in Rosedale yesterday interviewing an expert on the lack of proper broadband provision in rural areas.
The programme with the Rosedale piece is due to go out on BBC1 on 14 September – watch this space!
On the eve of the 100th anniversary of the start of the Great War on 4 August 1914, we should pause to remember those from Rosedale who gave their lives in that horrific conflict.
A number of local history societies, including Rosedale History Society, are staging a Great War exhibition at the NYM Railway station at Pickering for the next week, after which the Rosdale displays will be shown at Rosedale Show on 16 August.
Finally, there is a planned ‘Lights Out’ throughout the nation on Monday night, 4 August, between 10 and 11pm, when all public buildings will turn off all lights except one per building. Private householders are being encouraged to do the same, with perhaps just one candle or similar small light in a window during the dark hour.
Although we had no riders in the Tour de France, Rosedale was represented by Maggie Barraclough, Mike Hutton and Shirley Tyrell who added to the sparkle and success of the Le Grand Depart by acting as Tour Makers over both Yorkshire stages.
Did anyone spot them? Hard to miss in all that lovely bright kit!
Someone or perhaps more than one person has heeded the plea in the last Guerilla Gardening post and the two remaining empty tubs have been planted up.
Thanks to whoever took the trouble to sort these two tubs out, And thanks to all who have taken on the challenge of the empty flower tubs, as the centre of the village is now looking a lot better than it it did a few short weeks ago.