Week beginning August 18th 2003

Calling all poets …… October 9th 2003 is National Poetry Day (according to my research on the Internet) and I see that entry to the Poetry Society's competition for a "Poem For Britain" is already closed. Local budding poets, however, have no need to worry - they can still enter the East Riding's poetry competition, which is being run in conjunction with the East Riding Literary Festival. The 6th Annual Competition is open to poets of all ages, with a £50 prize for the winner of each age-group : 12 years and under, 13 to 18 years, and over 18 years of age, and is for an original poem of not more than twenty lines. All winning entries and those awarded "highly commended" in their category will also be published in an anthology. Entry forms are available from all East Riding libraries, but if your local branch has run out of forms (as mine had when I called in to get one) they assure me that all you have to do is take your poem to your library and hand it in there and they will see to the rest for you. The closing date for entries is August 30th, so it is time to summon the Muse and get writing!

"New To You" sale in Hedon : St Augustine's Church, Hedon are again holding their Summer Sale in the Church Room in Magdalen Gate in aid of Church running costs. The shop will be open from 19th -22nd August, between 10.00am and 4.00pm each day. There will be clothes, books and bric-a-brac available as usual, but this year, for the first time, there will be a considerable quantity of completely new merchandise for sale, at cost price or less. Come early in the week for the best bargains.

Church Services for Sunday August 24th 2003
Hedon : St. Augustine's Parish Church : Holy Communion at 8.30 a.m., Morning Praise at 10.00 a.m.
Hedon Methodist Church, Church Lane : morning service 10.30 a.m., evening service at 6.30 a.m.
St. Joseph and St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Baxtergate, Hedon : Daily Mass times : Sunday 10.30 a.m., Monday 9.15 a.m., Tuesday 9.15 a.m., Wednesday 7.30 p.m., Thursday 9.15 a.m., Friday 7.30 p.m., Saturday 6 p.m.
Hedon Pentecostal Church meets every Sunday at 10.30 a.m. in the Jubilee Room of the Alexandra Hall, St. Augustine's Gate; a Sunday School is also held at 10.30 a.m. every Sunday.
Paull : St Andrew's Parish Church : Evensong at 6.30 p.m.
Paull Methodist Church, Main Street : no service this week - services alternate Sundays, next one August 31st at 3.00 p.m.
Preston: All Saint's Parish Church : Morning Worship at 11.00 a.m.
Preston Methodist Church : morning service at 10.30 a.m., there is also a Songs of Praise scheduled for the evening but I have not as yet been given the time : see the notice board outside the church for details.