Photos of the Months: September and October

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Autumn sowing taken from Fryton towards The Flatts on 13 October. The tractor was
caught in the late afternoon sun. Photograph by Colin Douthwaite

Photo of the Month was missing from the website posts last month (due to a technical failure with the webmaster), but it’s back with a bumper issue with all of these great  images coming from Colin Douthwaite. Many thanks Colin for the photographs.

Do you have a great photograph you’d like to share with us?

If you’d like to submit an image for the photo of the month slot, you can send it to [email protected]

More details about how to submit photographs can be found HERE

More photos taken from Fryton towards Slingsby in early September including the white horse that’s often seen across at Slingsby.

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Hovingham Market: November 2nd

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Hovingham Village Market will be taking place next weekend (Saturday 2nd November) starting at 10.30am and going through to 1.30pm.

More details can be found on their website and also on their Twitter feed too.

Parish Council AGENDA – 18 November

Please note that the next meeting of the Parish Council will now be on 18th November (rather than as originally scheduled on the 14th).

The AGENDA appears further below.

Another snippet: 

The Parish Council are looking for people to give quotes to cut the grass on the village green and cemetery for next summer.

Specs for this will be available following the PC meeting on 18th November.

Your contact as always is Dinah Farley, Clerk to the Parish Council.

Email (which has recently changed): [email protected]

 

SLINGSBY, SOUTH HOLME AND FRYTON PARISH COUNCIL MEETING

To be held in the Village Hall on Monday November 18th 2013 at 7pm.

AGENDA

1. Comments from members of the public.

To take comments from the public.

2. Apologies.

To receive apologies for absence.

3. Minutes.

To agree the minutes of the meeting held on September 9th and planning meeting held on September 23rd 2013.

4. Code of Conduct.

 To remind councillors of the new Code and its disclosure requirements.

5. Reports.

For information only.

I) Chairman’s report.

ii) Clerks report.

iii) Neighbourhood Watch meeting

6. Exchange of information and items for the next agenda.

Questions from councillors and officers ( for information only).

7. Annual Governance.

To receive the external auditors report and to note the posting of the “Notice of conclusion of the audit and right to inspect the Annual Return” was posted on the notice board on September 14th 2013.

8. Grass cutting.

To agree specifications for the grass cutting contract.

9. Parish field.

To agree the advertisement for tenancy of the field for the next three years.

10. Allotments.

To revue the rental for the allotments for the next two years.

11. Streetlights.

To consider the quotes for replacement streetlights.

12. Meeting dates.

To agree the meeting dates for 2013.

13. Trees.

To agree work to trim back the trees on the Green where necessary.

14. Highways.

To discuss the response from NYCC Highways to the issues raised at the last meeting.

15. Planning results

i) Erection of single storey extension to south elevation following demolition of existing attached storage shed.-Approved.

16. Clerks Employment.

To accept the Clerks resignation and agree to advertise the post.

17. Finance.

i)To receive the budget update and bank reconciliation.

ii) To agree payments and sign cheques.

Traffic Lights in Slingsby

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Slingsby will be getting its own set of traffic lights for two weeks starting from the 28th October as construction work takes place in an area starting at the corner leading up to the Balk.

Hopefully the work will be completed on time and the disruption will be minimal.

MamboJambo at Welburn Village Hall

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Saturday, 9 November at 7.30 pm, in Welburn Village Hall

Lively musical duo playing a variety of musical genres. Hear some sample tracks on their website (www.mambojambo.co.uk ). Guaranteed to be a fun evening!

There will be a cash bar available, but take along your own snacks.

Tickets £8.00 from Sylvia Haines (01653 619764 or [email protected])

We love Yews, but it’s time to shape up.

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Our thanks to John Clayton and Margaret Mackinder for this news about the Slingsby Church yews.

Whether you walked between them on your wedding day, or regularly pass through them on your way into church, or simply see them on your daily route to work, or walks around the village, many of you will have a fond association with the avenue of Irish Yews that line the main entrance to Slingsby Church.

Over many years the individual trees have been trimmed into individual cylindrical shapes to create a formal feature.
Unfortunately the trees were planted very close to the footpath and have inevitably grown to a point where they are obstructing passage, especially for weddings and funerals, and, although it would be possible to trim them back to solve the problem in the short-term, the required amount of trimming would cause individuals to be misshapen which would detract from the desired formal appearance.

Rather than taking the radical decision to remove them and start again, it has been decided that they should be retained but formed into a shape that will not affect the footpath in future. The trees are therefore to be shaped into individual pyramids which will allow for sloping sides away from the footpath edge. To achieve this it will be necessary to prune them quite hard to fit them under specially made metal frames with mesh sides which will allow the new shoots to grow through to eventually form the new pyramidal shape. Fortunately yew is one of the few conifer species which regenerates well following hard pruning, therefore, although the trees will look a little unsightly for a period of time after pruning this will only be a temporary appearance. This process is by no means a quick fix, and may take a few growing seasons to achieve the desired result. However the final result should be worth waiting for.

It is intended that work will begin before Christmas.