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OTHER CHURCHES NEWS BRIANTSPUDDLE COMMUNITY GROUP

BERE REGIS CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
Coffee Shop
Sundays 10.30am Morning Service taken each week by visiting T he Coffee Shop will be closed on Saturday 17 August as the hall and kitchen
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preachers. are booked for a private hiring.
Mondays at 7pm STS (Search the Scriptures) Youth meeting However the Bladen Social Club will be open serving coffee and homemade
cake in aid of a local charity.
Tuesdays at 9.15am (during term time) Chapel Toddlers Group

Tuesdays at 7.30pm Bible Study and Prayer
Lets Lunch

If At First You Don’t Succeed, Try, Try Again! Just a reminder for our regular diners that our cooks are taking a break in July.
Our next lunch will be served on Thursday 29 August. See you all then.
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Herbert Frood? Now there’s a name to stop us in our tracks. He was only a
teenager at the time, living near Manchester. Herbert was worried about a horse.
He had been watching the local drover with his lovely Shire horse. Before they
descended the hill outside, the drayman shoved an old boot against the cart
wheel rim, holding it tight with a pick axe handle, to slow the cart as it descended AFFPUDDLE & TURNERSPUDDLE PARISH
the hill. Sadly, at the steepest part of the hill, the boot burst into flames. The old COUNCIL
chap had to let go. The wagon gathered speed. The mare couldn’t cope, so she
fell, breaking her foreleg. Herbert burst into tears as a local farmer had to shoot
the beast. The drover too, had lost his beloved horse – his only way of making a Southover Farm Slurry Lagoon Planning Application – WD/D/18/001035
living.
The Parish Council has been notified that the above application has been
Filled with determination, in his garden shed determined. The application has been granted with a number of conditions.
beside a stream, Herbert Frood rigged up a One of these is for a Liaison Committee to be established once the application is
water wheel. Around a second wheel inside implemented. The Parish Council will be pressing for the establishment of this
the shed, he wound a metal band. To this Committee as soon as possible and more information will follow on this matter.
he fitted a lever. With this device he could
now put a brake on and stop the water Grants under Section 137 and 133 of the Local Government Act 1972
wheel from turning. But the band Each year the Parish Council sets aside a sum of money which can be applied for
overheated and collapsed. Frood tried by local organisations for projects which will be of benefit to residents within the
many differing materials without success. parish of Affpuddle & Turnerspuddle.
Finally he devised a mixture of asbestos and
brass wire. It worked! It didn’t get too hot. The Policy associated with these grants can be found on Parish Council’s tab on
From this, the first efficient brake shoe, grew his company Ferodo. Continuing the community website www.briantspuddle.info together with details about how
from this early design, his firm still makes brakes for modern vehicles. to apply. Alternatively details can be obtained from the Parish Clerk by emailing
clerk@briantspuddle.info
Jesus told a parable about not giving up, but persevering. You can read it in Luke
18:1-7. He said we should keep on praying and never lose heart, because the The timetable associated with the grant process is as follows:
answer would come, even if it took time.
Applications to be submitted by 31 July 2019
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There are also some verses in the book of James, chapter 1 and verses 2-4, which
talk about not giving up. “Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face

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