Extracts from the May 2001 Edition of the Four All Magazine

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News in Brief 70th Wedding Anniversary Mr and Mrs Forge of Stamford lane celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary in April. Spring Fayre Volunteers from Warmington helped raise £2,732 at the Oundle Care Spring Fayre. Annual Litter Pick 13 villagers took part in the annual village spring clean on 7 April 2001. Footpath Problem The Parish Council has asked ENDC to resolve the lack of an adequate footpath from Nene Pastures to Chapel Street through the Social Club car park. Children's Page Q: When is it dangerous to go in the garden? A: When the buds are shooting!

Warmington School News Comic Relief Day was a great success: the children, along with friends and family did very well in raising £147. The children helped to make cakes to sell and also made jellies which they ate at a lunch time party. They also paid 50p for the privilege of wearing their favourite clothes.Another successful event was the Beetle Drive - about 60 people attended and £44 was raised. The last day of term was tinged with sadness as the children said goodbye to Miss Catherine Ibotson who had been teaching Mrs Matchin's children in her absence. The children performed at the end of term Friends and Family service. The reception class gave a puppet show 'The Three Little Pigs', and the older children showed off their musical skills. Parochial Church Council Elections At the Annual General Meeting for the election of church wardens and the PCC on Wednesday, 4 April, the following were elected. Churchwardens: Mrs June Enfiels and Mrs Dorothy Hinton. The PCC were re-elected with the addition of Mr and Mrs Peck. The vicar, Brian Rogers, thanked Bill Peck, Charles Forrest, Gordon and Sheila Lacey and David Constant for their work for the PCC. He also thanked all the volunteers who help clean and maintain the church, and provide the flowers. Riverside Ramblings The Vicar called for a silent prayer for the farmers. A country church can be a very quiet place indeed so the baaing of the ewes and their lambs just over the wall made those quiet moments all the more poignant. Later I sought out epidemics which would have caused people in a less secular age to pray for deliverance. These epidemics afflicted man rather than beast but they struck as randomly as the current foot and mouth disease. "The great mortality" arrived in the seaports of Dorset in 1348/49 and spread rapidly through Devon, Bristol, Oxford and London. One third of the population perished and whole villages disappeared. Of the four near here, Papley, Elmington, Perio and Hale, the latter best documented. By 1356 it was recorded that "the premises are worth nothing now because no one dwells or has dwelt in Hale since the Pestilence"... ...Are there parallels in this tragic epidemic that is decimating herds and flocks today? Humans, thankfully, are safe - though tuberculosis has struck again. Should we question the wisdom of "globalisation" and transporting animals over such distances? Due to this horrible disease the landscape and pattern of many lives may be about to change again. Juliet Wilson

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