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ICKFORD INFORMER
St Nicholas Church
After the restrictions imposed by I CK F O R D I N F O R M E R
Covid-19, everything at St Nicholas
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is up and running again. The church
has been seriously affected by the
pandemic and we would value your CELEBRATES 30 YEARS
support in getting back on our feet
again through attendance at our
activities, events and services, where
you will find a warm welcome.
– MONTHLY PATTERN OF WORSHIP –
1 Sunday:
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Morning Praise 10:00 am
2 Sunday:
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Morning Worship 10:00 am
3 Sunday:
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Holy Communion 9:00 am
Praise Be! 10:00 am
4 Sunday:
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Holy Communion 10:00 am
– FORTHCOMING DATES –
Lent Lunch: Supporting the
Christian Aid Ukraine Appeal
Saturday 26 March 11:30am-1:30pm
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Mothering Sunday: Family service
followed by Holy Communion.
Sunday 27 March 10:00 am
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Palm Sunday Service:
Followed by the PCC AGM.
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Sunday 10 April 10:00 am
Good Friday Service of Devotions:
15 April 2:40 pm Designs of the Ickford Informer publications from the Pilot copy through to today.
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Church Easter decorations:
Saturday 16 April 10:00 am N 1992 RUTH BAKER AND MY LATE HUSBAND, ROBERT HAYDAY, thought that our
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Easter Day Holy Communion: lovely village needed its own newspaper, something to give villagers a voice, keep
Sunday 17 April 9:00 am Ithem informed, to let them know what would be happening in the village and so
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– A DATE FOR YOUR DIARY – that local businesses and trades could advertise their skills. I don’t think either
THE ICKFORD GARDEN FETE would have thought that their inspiration would still be published 30 years later!
Saturday – Early September
This was a time before the internet was put it together for us. It was then taken
IN THIS ISSUE common, before mobile phones were owned to the County Hall in Aylesbury who
photocopied it at a reasonable price.
by everyone, before Facebook, Twitter, Tic
• Church Matters 2 Tok and Google. After that it was the job of Ruth and
• Fragile Earth Project 2022 2 Robert to split the village in half between
• Ickford Parish Council 3 Ruth and Robert, with the help of Joyce them and visit every house and try to
• Deanfield Park Update 4 Plested and Bridget King, planned to publish sell a copy. I think the first copy was just
• Ickford Pre-School 4 it monthly. It was to feature the results of 35p. The cost was helped by charging
• Friends of St Nicholas Church 5 the 200 club, give information about the advertisers a small amount.
• Open letter to Peter Blades 5 annual Ickford Festival etc. So was born the
• Bells of Ickford Church 6 Ickford Informer. Over time there were many changes;
• Rectory Homes update 6 for a while Barbara Kolbert “took over
• Ickford Village Hall 7 The first few copies were very much, by “and produced a “new look” heading to
• Nature Notes 8 today’s standard, somewhat “cut and paste”, refresh the Informer. News came from
• Book Reviews 9 with very few photos and certainly none village organisations such as Darby
• Queens Platinum Celebrations 10 in colour. Many people helped out; we had & Joan Club, reports from the Parish
someone with Desktop Publishing skills who Council, information about what
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