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Written by Barbara Hamlyn
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Monday, 15 February 2010 17:45 |
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Known to all of us in the Twinning group as ‘Madame la Baronne’, we are sorry to learn of the death in her eighties of this amazing lady.
On our very first visit to Chevilly, when four of us [Jenny Jordan, Jenny Ludgate and the Hamlyns] went for a brief weekend to see if Chevilly would make an appropriate ‘Twin’, we were invited to the Chateau by Madame. She had taken the initiative by inviting representatives from all the Chevilly Associations to meet us to explain their hopes for a link with England. In the kitchen of the Chateau we were served wine and listened in amazement to the speeches from around the room. How could Curry Rivel match this? As events and our deepening friendship links with Chevilly turned out, we need not have been concerned!
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Written by Alison Reed Richards
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Sunday, 07 February 2010 17:51 |
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Here follows a transcript of a bedtime conversation:
“What is God’s mummy called?”…….
… “God doesn’t have a mummy. Jesus had a mummy and she was called Mary.”
“When was God born?”……………..
…”God wasn’t born the way you were.”
“How did He get to be a grown-up then?”……….
.... “God isn’t a grown-up. God isn’t a person in the same way that you are.”
“ What is God if He’s not a grown-up?”……….
... “God is like Love…He’s everywhere.”
“Was He around with the dinosaurs?”…
..“Yes.” ….“Is that okay?”
“Yeah.”
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New Role for Townsend House |
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Written by Laurina Deacon
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Sunday, 07 February 2010 17:42 |
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Thirteen months after its closure as a residential home for the elderly, Townsend House, a large red brick Victorian house on the corner of Stoney Lane is being renovated in readiness to receive ten new residents. Villagers attending the December parish council meeting expressed their concerns over the news that the new residents are to be adults with autism. 
Autism is thought to affect around 535,000 people in the UK; it is a complex developmental disability involving a biological or organic defect in the functioning of the brain. It is a lifelong disability with no cure; a child with autism becomes an adult with autism.
Autism Solutions, the company which has acquired Townsend House already has connections with the village in the form of a house for autistic children in Bawlers Lane. The Curry Rivel News spoke with Kay Clothier, director of the company, and asked her to respond to some of the concerns raised by parishioners, which range from parking, security and the inappropriateness of locating a facility such as this in the village.
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Written by Tony Potter
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Sunday, 07 February 2010 17:30 |
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Parish Personality - Soldier, Barrister and English Gentleman
You have to be up early to see John Watson-Baker in his distinctive red-striped woolly hat, as he collects his newspaper from the Post Office. John is a familiar face around the village, where he has lived for the past thirty years after a varied life as a soldier and a barrister.
He was born in Hertfordshire in 1921 into a well-to-do family that owned a company manufacturing optical instruments in High Holborn in London. Like many of his contemporaries at that time he was sent to boarding school at Aldenham in Hertfordshire where he remembers that he was “beaten regularly. Life was hard.
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Lead thieves target village |
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Written by Tony Potter
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Sunday, 07 February 2010 17:26 |
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In the weeks before Christmas thieves targeted Curry Rivel, stealing quantities of roofing lead throughout the village. Similar thefts have also been reported in Langport, Huish Episcopi, Long Sutton, Somerton and Martock. So far Avon & Somerset Police have failed to make any arrests in connection with these thefts.
Following thefts of lead from houses in Wiltown earlier in the year, the thieves returned to the village in the week before Christmas. Lead was stolen from the Sewers Hall and the school, as well from at least three private houses and a garden. Cllr Derek Yeomans, Chairman of the Sewers Hall Committee said “It is now going to cost us to replace the village hall roof and we have to hope that it will not rain too hard. It is hugely expensive and something like the hall is vital to our community.”
The new roof at the rear of the school near Osmand’s Garage was also stolen. A School Governor said “The thieves must have seen the new lead being fitted, as that roof is not visible from the main road.” And then not satisfied with stealing the new lead, the thieves returned the following week to steal the old roof that had been replaced.
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