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Easingwold Christmas Window Trail...

30th January, 2021.

We are very pleased to confirm that the total amount raised for Easingwold Primary School PTA was an amazing £520!! It was so great to see Easingwold really get into the Christmas spirit and put on such a fantastic range of displays! 84 properties too part and we couldn’t have done it without our amazing sponsors. There were 6 winners: Number 21, M E Willis, has received some chocolates from The Easingwold Christmas Window Trail for their detailed business display, including some very fitting ‘Hand Santa-iser’....
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Prestigious award win for Tollerton Surgery team member...

30th January, 2021.

The Extended Practice Team Member Award 2020, is a fantastic achievement and one of the most prestigious awards for a member of a GP practice team who has had a positive impact on improving patient care and practice efficiency. Emma Wilkinson, an Advanced Clinical Practitioner at Tollerton Surgery, North Yorkshire has scooped this award at the national General Practice Awards 2020, announced this week. The General Practice Awards are designed to recognise, highlight and reward the hardwork and innovation that gets carried out every day in surgeries throughout the UK....
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Looks a little like Last Year...

30th January, 2021.

After all the snow and rainfall of the past few weeks the inevitable floods have followed. From Skipton on Swale in the North, to Topcliffe, Dalton, Cundall, Helperby, Linton Locks, Newton on Ouse to Beningbrough in the South of the area, flooding has been slight to severe. Some areas have been hit hard again just like last year’s winter storms which seem to take place every weekend from January through to February....
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Easingwold in Lights 2020...

23rd January, 2021.

With the current pandemic it seemed that everyone was in need of some light and cheer this year and many homes and businesses had “gone the extra mile” to create some beautiful displays which were greatly appreciated by the community. However, it did give our judges a difficult task choosing the winners....
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Easingwold running club...

23rd January, 2021.

Last week you may have read about our club’s annual ‘Awards Evening’ and a summary of the activities we’ve been taking part in over the past, difficult year. One of the awards was that of ‘Outstanding Achievement’. This was jointly won, in fact, by Marie Murtagh and Sam Davies, both having had a wonderful season, despite the restrictions. As mentioned in the previous article, I didn’t want to “tack on” the piece I wanted to add about Marie’s ‘Everest Challenge’, and so here it is now… On December 29th ‘20 at 6 p.m. Marie set off on her ‘Everest Challenge’. Slightly closer to home than Nepal, the location was from the bottom car park of the ‘White Horse Bank’, up to the top car park opposite the airfield. A climb of approx. 160 metres. So, what was this all about? Over to Marie… “My brother-in-law was going to do an Everest challenge on his bike and he challenged me to do one too”. Anyone who knows Marie won’t be surprised to hear that it didn’t take her long to take him up on it, although for her it would be on foot rather than two wheels....
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Burst Water Pipe on Tylers Walk, Easingwold...

23rd January, 2021.

Last week large potholes formed and flooding occurred along Crabmill Lane & Tylers Walk due to a burst watermain. Yorkshire Water have surveyed the damage and closed the road to fix the pipe....
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Easingwold Community Spirit at its best...

16th January, 2021.

Starting 2021 in lockdown number 3 isn’t ideal. But add to that freezing conditions and it makes it really hard to feel upbeat. And for those of us brave enough to face the cold, we were greeted with slippy footpaths that made it dangerous to be out. The responsibility to grit the roads and paths lies with NYCC, however due to presumably budgetary and resource constraints they are not currently able to grit the footpaths in our area. Seeing what trouble it was causing to the locals, especially those not so able bodied, action was taken by a group of volunteers, headed up by Louise Hughes. Over the duration of two days locals had raised nearly £1,000 – quite an achievement I’m sure you will agree. And with this money they purchased pallet loads of grit, along with 3 pallets funded through Easingwold Town Council. Locals were volunteering left right and centre on social media to distribute the grit all over the town. People from the surrounding villages also joined in, showing what Easingwold really means, not just to those in the town, but to all of us from the surrounding villages who use the shops in Easingwold on a regular basis....
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Dr Peter Jones retires: Stillington Surgery...

16th January, 2021.

Dr Peter Jones has retired after 33 years as a partner at Stillington Surgery having spent a total of 41 years with the NHS. He joined Dr Peter Willis in 1987 when the surgery was still based at The Folly. Stillington Village residents said farewell to Dr Jones on Thursday 31 December with a socially distanced presentation in the surgery car park with his staff team also present....
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Easingwold Running Club...

16th January, 2021.

Easingwold Running Club held its annual ‘Awards Evening’ on January 7th. Normally we would have had a shortened social club run between 7 and 7.45 p.m., then congregated in the Galtres with a drink and sandwiches laid on. Sadly, current restrictions obviously meant we couldn’t do this, so the club used ‘Zoom’ as an alternative. Over 50 members logged on at 7.30 p.m. to hear a welcome introduction from our Chairman Mike Bishop, who then handed over to Competition Secretary Colin Fletcher. The ‘Awards Eve’ is always based around the Club Championship (CC) from the past and current year, with our traditional first round being the ‘Sutton 10k’ in September. There are twenty CC rounds with a mix of road/trail/cross country races making up the event fixtures. The best ten rounds from each participant count towards their individual total and each runner must complete at least two races from each of the terrain categories. So, we started well as usual in September 2019 with 33 members taking part and winners in four of the age categories at CC1 in Sutton. CC2 (October 6th) was the new off road race at Grewelthorpe where ERC took 2nd, 3rd, 4th places and the team prize....
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How lockdown affected my art...

16th January, 2021.

If you had asked me in my final year of Easingwold school what I imagined my life to be like when I turned 20, I’m sure like everyone else I could never have predicted this… I celebrated my 20th birthday in 2020. What an age to be alive! A repetition of the wild 1920s parties was the expectation. A sense of freedom of finally leaving my teenage years was ahead of me. But I guess before the roaring 20s, came the devastating Spanish flu influenza pandemic with millions dying. If we are to find optimism in our hard times, we can look towards history. From the desolation and turmoil of the Spanish flu, grew the liberation and exploration of the roaring 20s- and I for one hope that the hardships we are all experiencing is a prediction of the unity, elation and empathy we will feel towards each other . Only 2 days after turning 20 in March my university closed and I was scooted off home for a summer in and out of isolation. And with that my isolation art began....
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Easingwold Primary School newspaper report writing activity...

9th January, 2021.

In the Autumn term, the Year 2/3 children at Easingwold Community Primary were busy working on newspaper report writing. They all had a go at creating their own newspaper report about a 'crown jewels drama' that happened in school....
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Easingwold Community Library...

9th January, 2021.

What a year for us all. 2020 has meant challenges for everyone and your local library is no exception. Despite two lockdowns and a lot of instructions and limitations the volunteers at ECL have kept the library operating and open for books and much, much more. In December plans went ahead to order 1200 wooden butterflies ready for an art installation in the Spring of 2021. Our events organiser, Nick Wadsworth and his team, are talking about how to distribute, collect, varnish and mount these coloured butterflies for the community to enjoy and lift our spirits. In the library books are flying off the shelves as new stock is put out on shelves and older ones taken off. Boxes of children’s library books have been given to local schools before they broke up for Christmas. Fiction and non- fiction will swell their shelves in the New Year as the library add new children’s books to our shelves....
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LIGHTING UP EASINGWOLD...

9th January, 2021.

The best dressed windows and lighting displays for shops and businesses in Easingwold have been found. A competition to find the best displays and enhance the Christmas spirit was organised by Hambleton District Council’s Vibrant Market Town Team in partnership with Easingwold Town Council and the Wold Class Business Network. Carolyn Frank, Business Development Manager for the Federation of Small Businesses who judged the competition said, “What a difficult job I had. There was a number of new entries this year and it was great to see we had some new winners too. The windows especially were incredibly difficult to judge, there were five or six truly excellent efforts who could have all been winners. It is great to see the town is looking so festive and really welcoming to shoppers....
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Marnie’s rainbows spread New Year cheer to Yorkshire village...

9th January, 2021.

A caring youngster has been spreading much needed cheer to residents of a North Yorkshire village with her hand drawn rainbow artwork. Little Marnie Wood (6), from Tollerton, north of York, has been hand delivering individually crafted rainbow pictures through the letterboxes of neighbours and the elderly – all to spread the feeling of hope for those feeling low during the current Covid-19 pandemic. Marnie, who is a pupil at Forest of Galtres Anglican Primary School, in Shipton-by-Beningbrough, said: “I really love drawing and like making rainbows best. I don’t want people to spread Covid, I want to make people happy and spread some cheer instead....
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