With “A Festival of Dogs”, Castle Howard brings you more dog-themed events than you can throw a stick at! Mountain rescue dogs and therapy dogs are there among more conventional canine fare. Take your terrier to the races! Full details here: https://www.castlehoward.co.uk/DB/whats-on-view/a-festival-of-dogs
Saturday 4 May 2019, 10:30am, Hovingham Village Hall
Hovingham Village Market (with local food, rural crafts & community Cafe) will be taking place again this Saturday (4 May) starting at 10.30am and continuing through to 1.30pm.
More details about the market can be found on their website .
Travelling to the area? Just down the road in Slingsby, the Scarecrow weekend gets under way on 4 May. Why not take in both events?
FOSS is running a Bags2School fundraiser and residents should have received a bag, with more bags available at the School office. Collection is on Thursday 9 May. Please drop off any bags at the school by 9am. Find out more about Bags2School at https://bag2school.com/.
Bags have been delivered to houses in the village and we hope people will support FoSS by donating some clothes. Thank you!
Monday 6 May, 11am to 3pm, Slingsby Village Green and Village Hall
The preparations for Slingsby’s Mayday celebration are coming together nicely: dancers and musicians have been practising, scarecrows are being made (in secret), and the many stalls with crafts of all sorts are being made ready. Slingsby is proud to have one of the few remaining maypoles in Ryedale. It has survived the march of modernisation, but not without the odd mishap, as the timeline here shows: https://www.slingsbyvillage.co.uk/our-village/slingsby-maypole/
The Mayday programme looks like this:
11.00 am – Swinton Brass band
12.00 noon – Slingsby school children dancing round the maypole
1.00 pm – Minster Stray dancers
1.30 pm – Charity Brass Band
2.00 pm – Minster Stray dancers
2.30 pm – Charity Brass Band
3.00 pm – Raffle
There will be stalls all around the village green and in the village hall. Refreshments in the Methodist school room. This year there are some fantastic raffle prizes. Full details in the leaflet below:
Throughout the weekend, the Slingsby Scarecrow Trail will be running. Deadline to enter a scarecrow – 9am Wednesday 1 May! Details on the village website HERE.
The village website’s Slingshot feature was launched back in 2014, but it has been a few years now since anyone has been driven to use it to get something off their chest anonymously.…
WILDLIFE HABITAT
DESTROYED IN SLINGSBY
Many residents will know that on the old railway track
between Slingsby and Fryton there used to be a lovely little wildlife habitat
consisting of a pond/reservoir surrounded by trees and shrubs. This was home to many types of birds and
mammals and made a welcome haven amongst acres of featureless fields.
This has now been destroyed in the last couple of weeks by
the felling of most of the trees (leaving a few spindly specimens) and clearing
the undergrowth – just at the time that birds and other animals are
nesting. Whoever is responsible for
this act of wanton destruction should be aware that it is an offence under the
Wildlife and Countryside Act to “take, damage or destroy the nest of any wild
bird while it is in use or being built”.
It may be inconvenient to farmers wishing to extract the water from the
reservoir, but that does not exonerate them from the law.
A concerned Slingsby resident
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