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LYMPSTONE TENNIS CLUB
Our summer season is now well under way, with all of our league teams recording
some good wins. Congratulations especially to our junior teams who have made a
very good start in their matches. There are a few spaces left on the junior
coaching programme on Saturday morning; please telephone 224774 for more
details.
A gentle reminder to those members who have forgotten to renew their membership
for the current year. Our Treasurer would appreciate subscriptions as soon as
possible please. Spare forms are available in the clubhouse if you need them. At
the time of writing, there are just a few tickets left for the ABBA disco on
Saturday 16 May. This promises to be a great evening, so don't miss your chance
to be there!
Jill Dixon
MORE FROM THE PARISH CLERK
Every year the Parish Council’s Annual Return is audited by an external auditor appointed by the Audit Commission. Any person interested has the opportunity to inspect and make copies of the Annual Return and all the books, deeds contracts, bills, vouchers and receipts etc. relating to them. For the year ended 31st March 2009, these documents will be available on reasonable notice on application to the Clerk to the Council, between the hours of 6.30pm and 8.30pm Mondays to Fridays, and 10.30 – 12.30, Saturdays and Sundays, commencing on Tuesday 28th April 2009 and ending on 20th June 2009.
Local Government electors and their representatives also have the opportunity to question the Auditor about the accounts. The Auditor can be contacted at the address in paragraph 4 below for this purpose on 22nd June 2009 and after that date will be available at that address until the Audit has been completed.
The right to attend before the Auditor and make objections to the accounts or any item in them. Written notice of an objection must first be given to the Auditor and a copy sent to the Parish Council.
The Council’s audit is being conducted under the provisions of the Audit Commission Act 1998 – The Accounts and Audit Regulations 2003 (as amended) and the Audit Commission’s Code of Audit Practice. The audit is being carried out by:
Audit Commission, Room 215, Tamar Science Park, 1 Davy Road, Derriford, Plymouth, Devon, PL6 8BX.
A J Le Riche, Clerk to the Parish Council,
THE SHERRY MORNING- SUNDAY 26TH JULY 2009
The Annual Sherry Morning, (there is no sherry anymore!) will this year be on Sunday 26th July. Tickets will go on sale from 1st June at £7.50 each to include first drink and food all afternoon. Additional drinks of real ale or good wine will be £2.25 each, soft drinks 50p each. There will be continuous music, some song and whatever to include the Grand Draw. During the afternoon there will be the unveiling of a plaque in memory of Boney Stone for “Boney’s Bar”, by members of Boney’s family.
Don’t delay phone 274485 to book your tickets which will be delivered to you after the 1st June. A good day as always will be guaranteed. In aid of Anti-Slavery International.
Graham
Martin
LYMPSTONE CRICKET CLUB
AWAY Thursday 21st May, Woodbury, 6.00pm
HOME Thursday 4th June, Erratics 6.00/6.
AWAY Wed 10th June, Heads and Quicks, Newton St Cyres, 6.00pm
HOME Thursday 18th June, Argyle Road, 6.00pm
John Goss-Custard
PARISH CHURCH
This month Lympstone says goodbye to Father John Clapham after nearly a quarter of a century of service to the community. He will be thanked at a party held in Woodbury Village Hall over lunch on Sunday 17th May. History will be made because Lympstone will now become part of the Littleham and Exmouth group of parishes. There will not be a resident priest in Lympstone in future so contacting the church for weddings and funerals will be directed to Exmouth. Details will be placed on the notice boards under the railway arch and in the church porch as soon as they are available.
Services will proceed as normal but with a variety of visiting clergy and an increased workload for Father Geoffrey Wrayford. There will be a notice in the church porch to give the name of the priest at each service.
Plans are advancing for the September Festivities as we celebrate the 600th anniversary of the rebuilding of the church. The tower is the only major part remaining from that rebuild as most of the church is Victorian. However celebrate we will and in some style. Details will be circulated soon but a brief plan is already on the notice board inside the church. There will be something for everyone and it’s not too late for your society to offer to help or run an event with the medieval theme. The service on 20th September is for ‘The People of the Church’ and invites all who have been baptised, confirmed or married in church to attend. One couple have asked to come in their wedding dress and top hat and tails. We are happy that they do this and anyone else, married in Lympstone, may do so too!
The AGM in April saw the election of John Lupton and Mary Blair as church wardens and they will play a large part in guiding the church through the coming year as we integrate with Exmouth...The AGM also approved the first stage of re-ordering which, if all goes to plan, will be completed by September. The design has a new inner porch door in glass and, as you enter the church, the rear will have no pews. This will create a large open space for flexible use. There will be chairs for large services and meetings, a discreet coffee bar and space for exhibitions. It represents the first part of the re-ordering programme.
The newly refurbished memorials in the porch will have been re-dedicated by the time you are reading this. With the help of the Friends of the Church, who paid for the memorial refurbishment, we have published a booklet written by Ian Angus and produced by Don Mildenhall giving details and a guide to all the memorials and tablets in the church. The booklet is available now at the back of the church for just 50p.
Usual events continue with coffee morning on the 4th Tuesday and family services 9.30 on the first Sunday and 4pm on the third Sunday with the worship band.
Bishop Bob will be visiting Lympstone for a couple of hours over lunch on Sat 6th.June before taking the train to Exmouth – all part of his Deanery tour. More details at the back of church.
Do think about joining in the 1100 celebrations at the Cathedral with the Archbishop of Canterbury on Sat 27th.June.
Brian Mather
LYMPSTONE TWINNING ASSOCIATION
During the recent 30-year anniversary visit by two dozen members, LTA was presented with an especially cast bell from the foundry at Villedieu-les-Poêles, a town that we had just visited including a tour of the foundry. Two successive generations of Edmund Jupp, himself a constant champion and early Chairman of LTA, together with Tim Tapscott, partook in the official opening of a new street, named in his honour.
Richard Crisp
SEEN ON THE FORESHORE LAST WEEK
Photograph by Ivan Rood