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Easingwold Town Harriers U11 v Fulford Vikings...

25th March, 2022.

In the penultimate match of the season, Easingwold travelled to Fulford. With both their usual strikers unavailable, a new formation was put into practice with Ava (usually midfield) and Rory (usually central defender) up front.
Despite a number of players being played in new positions it was one of our best performances.
Early pressure from the Harriers saw Ava hit a fine shot which the goalkeeper could only parry.
Rory, following up, beat one player then hit a sweet shot into the bottom left to give Harriers the lead. Minutes later Harriers nearly doubled their lead.
Ava again broke free but was pushed over in the box.........
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Brownies & Guides Weekend of Adventure...

25th March, 2022.

On Friday 18th of March, 40 girls from 1st Sutton on the Forest Brownies & Easingwold Girlguiding embarked on an action packed weekend of adventures at PGL Caythorpe Court which is just south of Newark in Lincolnshire.
I don’t know where to begin when saying how proud I am of these girls we had the pleasure of spending our weekend with.
As leaders, we were apprehensive about taking the girls away, so far from home, for the first time in over to 2 years due to covid.
We had visions of nervous, home sick girls being inconsolable and too far away from home for mum or dad to nip down and collect them.........
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The Town Band contests again in Durham...

25th March, 2022.

On Saturday 19 March the Town Band travelled to Durham to take part in the 2022 North of England regional contest in the National Brass Band Championships.
Our coach left Easingwold at 7 a.m. and by 8.30 we’d arrived at the village of Quebec, near Lanchester, for a final rehearsal, where we were warmly welcomed at the excellent Village Hall with tea and coffee.
Then back into the coach with our instruments by 11 a.m., keyed up for the contest, for the short drive into Durham.
Defending our status as 4th section champions in 2020 (there was no contest last year), we took on six bands from across the region.
This time the gods were against us: the adjudicators at Durham’s Gala Theatre ranked us 5th out of 7 bands, with the title going to Flookburgh Band from South Cumbria.........
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Donations for the Ukraine collected in Easingwold...

25th March, 2022.

Last Wednesday 16th March two vans (including one from our sister company G H Smith & Son Ltd) and a number of volunteers gathered at Easingwold Methodist Church to collect and pack all the donations for the Ukraine gathered up in Easingwold.
Donations came from Easingwold Co-op, Springhill Court and Easingwold Methodist Church from the collection points set up for the local Brownies and Guides.
Claire Harrison local guide leader was supervising the volunteers, as they packed both vans completely, with various donated items that had been boxed ready for despatch to the Ukraine.
A convoy then set off to Thirsk and transported the donations to a lockup at one of Sowerby’s new industrial sites.........
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Millfield Parkrun Easingwold Supports Ukraine...

18th March, 2022.

Millfield parkrun - Stand with Ukraine Day (A Report by one of our regular volunteers). Saturday was a special event at #73 Millfield parkrun. We were supporting the Ukrainian people as they go through unimaginable suffering as their Country is being invaded, either fleeing with their families to safety or staying and fighting to protect their Country and democracy. We are supporting them through the D.E.C (disasters emergency committee) humanitarian appeal. Those of us taking post run coffee or breakfast at the Olive Branch, had an extra incentive as Jordan had generously agreed to donate 10% of any parkrunner/volunteers takings to the appeal.........
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Solar Farms - meeting with George Eustice...

18th March, 2022.

This morning, I met with Environment Secretary, George Eustice, to raise the ongoing issue of planned solar farms on farmland in my constituency at Eden Farm, Old Malton and Peter Hill, Husthwaite. Although supportive of renewable energy and reducing our reliance on imports of fossil fuels, I stressed my very strong concerns about these proposed developments on the landscape, our ability to feed the nation and fair compensation for tenant farmers. Mr. Eustice was sympathetic to the issues I relayed, that of lack of sufficient compensation to tenant farmers and the fact although planning policy is very clear that large scale solar should not be located on best and most versatile land, this condition is potentially being undermined by local councils declaring climate emergencies and making this a material consideration when determining an application.........
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Brandsby WI...

18th March, 2022.

Sara Ellis the owner of Bespoke Cakes by Sara joined us for our March meeting. Sara’s funny and creative talk led us through how she designs and makes the decorations for her cakes. Whilst she talked Sara modelled a sheep out of fondant and showed us other decorations she has used such as flowers and icing replicas of people. As well as making her bespoke cakes, Sara supplies lots of different baked goods for the village shop in Huby.........
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COUCH 2 5K SUCCESS...

18th March, 2022.

Saturday 5th March at Millfield Park Run there were a group of nervous beginners who were attempting the 5K run for the first time. How appropriate that most of the participants were women and doing this on the day the Park Run were celebrating International Women’s Day. The 22 runners had taken part in the new Couch 2 5K programme that started on Saturday 8th January 2022 supported by Easingwold Park Run and Easingwold Running Club. This was the second time the Couch 2 5K programme had run, the last time was in January 2020 before the pandemic began. The objective was to help adults to get healthier and fitter and help them to reach the goal of running a 5K Parkrun.........
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Brownies & Guides Collection for Ukraine...

11th March, 2022.

On Wednesday there was a traffic jam in Chapel Street, Easingwold! The Guides were collecting goods for Ukraine in the Methodist Church and the people of Easingwold and surrounding villages came up trumps. Bags of blankets, clothes and nappies kept arriving. Local businesses freely contributed packaging bags, stackable crates, a bale of 100 new bath towels, 36 big tins of baby milk, industrial torch and boxes of batteries, wound dressings and first aid equipment. We are very grateful to the Guides and Brownies and their relatives and friends – who sorted and packed with enthusiasm. On Thursday morning it was delivered to the collection point in a 10 Ton lorry and a Luton van! It left for Poland on Friday morning.........
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EASINGWOLD AND DISTRICT FLOWER CLUB...

11th March, 2022.

The first Practice Session in 2022 was well attended. Eleven people used their flowers and foliage to depict a design which for them meant "Welcome Home". Welcome to what? A New Home; Spring; Back to the Flower Club; or Back Home After a Holiday? All these ideas and others were pleasing to see and we were especially pleased to see four new members making their first attempts at arranging flowers at the Club. The assessor was Joan McBurney whom we had invited to visit us in 2020 but we know what happened then! She was very impressed with the results of the hour's work and gave detailed comments on each arrangement and said that members should consider entering local Agricultural Shows to gain more experience - each contributor's work was worthy of such an event.........
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Millfield Parkrun support International Woman’s Day...

11th March, 2022.

Millfield Parkrun was pleased to be able to support International Woman’s Day last Saturday, participants were encouraged to bring a friend and wear purple. The volunteers were all female, as were over 60% of the finishers.........
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Disc Parking for Easingwold?...

11th March, 2022.

Woldclass, Easingwold Business Forum (which our sister company G H Smith & Son is a paid-up member) is floating the idea of disc parking in the Market Place. This appeared in the minutes from the February meeting. Why has this re appeared? No one asked our company (or other Easingwold businesses) about disc parking? In fact, why has this made a come-back at all. Easingwold’s unique selling point is that we don’t have to worry about parking and why should we become like every town in the district? The modern high street in the UK is changing rapidly with internet shopping about to deal it a death blow, so restrictive parking does not help the job in hand. I and many others have spent the last twenty-five years or so keeping Easingwold free from the modern curse of parking restrictions, to the benefit of all. Why aren’t Woldclass inquiring about the rumours that the Post Office in the Market Place is to relocate to the Coop on Long Street? Or will Barclays Bank still be open this time next year? How about campaigning to get a petrol station that sells petrol and diesel and may even have fast charging for electric vehicles? All the above would help bring more people to Easingwold and perhaps they would spend their money with the local shops and services. A report from the Hambleton District Council (also in the minutes) confirmed what I have said all along that the people coming to Easingwold are from the local area (YO61 postcodes) so we need to appeal to them more rather than chasing the fabled out of area shoppers who may only visit rarely. Let’s be honest the preservation of the shopping high street is at a critical level in 2022, parking restrictions deter visits to a town like Easingwold not increase them. Pictured is Easingwold Market Place on Tuesday 8th March 2022 at 9.06am with a large number of parking places available.........
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Sutton on the Forest CE Primary School News...

4th March, 2022.

Flora in Year 3/4 has shown fantastic community spirit and worked hard to ensure the post box from the village was returned after it was removed due to rotting. She wrote a letter to the Post Office explaining how important this post box was, not just to her, but the community too. Flora’s hard work paid off with a brand new post box being put up.........
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Pandemics? The Town Band has seen them before...

4th March, 2022.

In 1922 Easingwold Town Band’s conductor and players might well have had plenty to say – if not all of it printable – about the difficulties of keeping the Band going during the 1918-22 Spanish flu pandemic. A century later, Covid has upended normal life once again, and music-making with it. We’ve played very little in public for two years, but our rehearsals have kept going – we took to the countryside when playing indoors wasn’t legal (see photo). We took 'Proms in the Playground' into local schools last summer, and we competed in the Finals of last year's GB Brass Band Championships.........
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Business Briefcase - Clark’s The Bakers...

4th March, 2022.

Long St. in Easingwold is silent and cold, the waning moon in the sky, all windows dark until I reach Clark’s the Bakers where every window is lit up, I open the door and step into the smell and warmth of a busy family bakery, its just 3.15 am. Andrew Wood, the bakery manager was the first to arrive at midnight, to turn on the ovens and starting work on cakes, with Nick Clark arriving with the rest of his team an hour later. The orders for today’s bake were collated last evening, and the printed sheets set out the mornings’ production plan, to be completed by 9.00am. We are not talking small numbers here, each morning Clark’s bake twenty-four different bread products, twenty-two savoury lines, and some two dozen different cakes and buns.........
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Flooding Returns...

4th March, 2022.

After one of the driest January’s on record the rain certainly returned to our region in February. The inevitable flooding has once again returned, but not quite as bad as previous years. The only road closure seemed to be between Tollerton and Newton on Ouse, the bridge over New Parks Beck, situated on York Bridge Road and High Moor Lane (see photos), with tractors only able to get through.........
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