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SANDFORD LINK
ARCHIVE ISSUE 13 DECEMBER 1982
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The Link Magazine COPYRIGHT © 1982 by The Link Committee. Reproduced with permission.
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SANDFORD LINK
| Issue No. 13. | December 1982. |
Quotation of the month
"Peace on earth - and goodwill to all men."
REMINDER
The Register of
Electors.
Now is the time to
check at your local
P.O. to see if your
name is included on the
Register. Just ask to
see the register. If it is
not included in that list
you must claim to the
local REGISTRAR for South
Oxfordshire at Wallingford.
The final Register will
be published at the end of
February 1983, if you are
not on it - NO Vote. UNLESS
you have just moved to
this district since the 10
Oct. 1982, which was the
qualifying date.
A general Election is possible
in 1983, and local,
Parish, and Rural District
Councils elections will be
held in May 1983.
Letter of Thanks
I would like to thank the
people who expressed
interest in presenting a
local pantomime again this
year. Unfortunately as only
TEN people contacted me, we
shall have to abandon the
idea for this year.
Gwen Absolom.
GREETINGS
The writer and publisher
of this newsheet,
The Village Hall Committee,
Crappers Caravan Residents
Association, will wish to
be included in extending
many thanks tor the support
throughout the year to
Sandford residents, and
Littlemore, Seasons Greetings.
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PARISH NOTICE
Public notices inform us that the
Oxford & Swindon Co-Op. Soc. have again
submitted their plans for a superstore next
door to the Sewage Works, yes next door,
they will share the same boundary fence of
Oxford City Sewage Works.
Of all places to put a general shopping
Centre including food is beyond my under
standing. No doubt the CONSULTANT ARCHITECT
CONSIDERS THIS OF NO IMPORTANCE. It is a
known fact, that in spite of the modern
treatment of sewage, there is still the smell
from the final effluent of the works, which
again I state is right alongside the proposed
site.
If Sandford residents have the opportunity
to vote on this issue, perhaps at the annual
Parish Meeting, it should be remembered, that
plans are agreed for a superstore at Heyford
Hill Littlemore.
COUNCIL HOUSE RENTS
What a time to remind some people
that their house rents are to be increased
yet again for the third time since the
General Election of 1979, BUT THAT IS THE
FACT. In the October Issue of this newsheet
I referred to this matter, hoping for the
sake of some 20 or so Council house tenants
that this PENALTY WOULD NOT BE IMPOSED AGAIN
but regret to state that the increase will
87p by Whitehall plus whatever South Oxfordshire
District Council add to it, but being
an election year for all Councils, do not
think it will be a lot.
These facts have already been announced in
Parliament, and have been reported in the
National; Press, but then, not everybody can
afford a daily newspaper these days.
50 - 50 Auction
In aid of Village Hall Fund,
Date to be announced later.
Any items any description will be collected
by Mrs. Hutton. If you phone - Oxford 779767,
77850, or 771176.
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St. ANDREWS CHURCH.
What are your feelings about Christmas, I wonder. DO you
look forward to it? Do you think it's worth all the extra work it
involves? Let me give you two different people's views on this
subject. Here is the first one. "Merry Christmas. Out upon merry
Christmas. What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills
without money; a time for finding yourself a year older but not
an hour richer: a time for balancing your books and having every
item in 'em through a round dozen of months presented dead against
you? If I could work my will, every idiot who goes about with
'Merry Christmas' on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding
and buried with a stake of holly in his heart".
Now for the second
one. "But I'm sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when
it has come round, - apart from the veneration due to its sacred name
and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that - as
a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only
time I know of in the long calendar of the year when men and women
seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to
think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers
to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other
journeys. And therefore, though it has never put a scrap of gold
or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good and will
do me good: and I say God bless it."
The first was said by Ebenezer
Scrooge and the second by his nephew in "A Christmas Carol" by
Charles Dickens, There's no doubt that the average person at this
time Is much kinder to other people, so that the whole temper and
mood of the country changes... And how much pleasanter a place the
country is as a result. Surely this shows that the Spirit of the
Child who was born in Bethlehem on the first Christmas Day is still
very much alive? What a pity it is that tens of thousands of people
keep Christmas without giving a thought to the real reasons for the
festival. Although they don't realise it they miss an awful
lot, because the highest form of enjoyment and happiness is not
physical but spiritual - and spiritual happiness lasts so much longer,
The spiritual significance of Christmas should give us happiness
because Christmas proves that God does care about us - every one of us.
On the first Christmas Day God sent His Son Jesus Christ to share
this earthly life with us human beings, so that we might be shown the
best way to live this life on earth. Let us by all means have our
feasting and our good times, our decorations and our presents: that
is all very right and as it should be - but let us bear in mind
throughout it all that we are celebrating the birthday of Jesus Christ,
the Son of God, who came to this earth in great humility in order to
show us God's great love for us, collectively and as individuals. That
is the Good News - the Gospel - of Christmas that God cares about us,
and for us, now, in 1982 and always. Let us offer God our worship
in church on Christmas morning and, when we return, open our homes to
that Spirit of God which Dickens showed that he understood so well in
the pages of his 'Christmas Carol'. If we do, we shall then, without
any possible shadow of doubt, have a happy and a joyous Christmas.
Rev. D. Fehrenbach.
NOTICE
It is the purpose of the publisher of this newsheet to deliver it on the
1st. day of the month, but if insufficient material is available to fill
it, the date has to be left open until it is full, this makes it late
being delivered. Would you please keep this in mind for the future, and the
date for items to be included in January issue is 28 DECEMBER.
To 15, Henley Road, Phone No. 779693.
Our sympathy to the family of Mrs. Peggy Kersey on the sad loss
of a very good neighbour, who died during November.
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INDEX - Archive Issue 13. December 1982.
COPYRIGHT © 1982 by The Link Committee.
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