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The Church Electoral Roll Just a reminder that the new Electoral Roll is being prepared and completed forms need to be returned to Brian Bassett by 31" March at the latest. 2.6 billion people — that is 40% of the world's population — don't have somewhere safe, clean and hygienic to go to the loo. The human impact of this scandalous statistic is enormous; nearly one in five child deaths each year is due to diarrhoea. The good news is you can help change this by twinning your toilet! Toilet Twinning is a fun but extremely practical way of helping communities in developing countries. For just £60, a latrine can be supplied to a community in Burundi or Cambodia by twinning your toilet at home/ school, work, organisation or church. In the Old Deanery in Exeter Diocese, four toilets have been twinned; it certainly is a conversation starter. Those who twin their toilets receive a photo and GPS coordinate of the toilet they are twinned with to hang in their loo. Here at St Edward's the donations each Sunday for tea and coffee are to be used to `Twin a Loo' to help flush away poverty. WALKING Walking can add minutes to your life. This enables you at 85 years o/d to spend an additional 5 months in a nursing home at £3,000 per month. I am taking up walking so that I can hear heavy breathing again. My grandpa started walking five miles a day when he was 60. Now he's 97 years old and we don't know where he is Annual Parochial Church Meeting — in church at 11.00am on Sunday, 21" April St Edward's Spring Fayre — in the church hall at 2.00pm on Saturday, 18th May Quiet Day with Bishop Richard Hawkins — at the Society of Mary & Martha, Sheldon on Tuesday, 18th June. Cost £18 — further details tel: 01647 252752 St Edward's Christmas Fayre — in church hall at 2.00pm on Saturday, 16th November If you are going to try cross-country skiing, start with a small country 18
100 Years Ago Easter was very early in 1913 – Good Friday falling on 2l" March. Holy Week Services were said to have been well-attended and large numbers "fulfilled their duty of privilege of keeping the Feast in Holy Communion." At the Vestry Meeting (preceding the Annual Parochial Meeting) what was described as "an important discussion" took place concerning the Petition entered in the Bishop's Court by Mr Anderson-Moorshead of Widey Court to appropriate two seats in the Parish Church by Faculty. Formal objection had been made by the Vicar and Churchwardens. At the meeting the following objection was passed: "We the undersigned, being at the same time Ratepayers and Churchmen of the Parish of Eggbuckland, assembled in lawfully convened Vestry, record our emphatic objection to the granting of the Order of Faculty petitioned for in the Citation dated 13 March, 1931, as being - (1) the undoing of a seemly and most necessary work and (2) the reintroducing of one of the worst abuses of the 18``' Century to the prejudice of the common rights of all the parishioners." The Vicar wrote: "We await with much anxiety, but certainly not with fear, the outcome of this attempt to parcel out the House of God into private properties." 75 Years Ago Currently we may well moan about the Welfare State and NHS but there were two articles in the Parish Magazine in 1938 that would suggest that certain things have improved considerably since then: In the first, a letter from the C of E Waifs and Strays Society thanks Eggbuckland Sunday School for a donation of £12.2s.2d and goes on to say, "To give some idea of what kind friends like those from Eggbuckland are helping us to do, the other day we came across a terribly sad case of two little children who were found in a deplorably poor home, with no comfort of any kind, trying to fend for themselves, and, in addition, doing their best to look after their mother who was very ill indeed and needing to be moved to hospital. The father had died several years ago from TB and had been a great invalid, as a result of being gassed in the Great War. As you can imagine, something had to be done at once, and, as there were no relatives to whom this little family could turn, the children have come to us and the mother has been able to go to hospital." The second report is of the Girl Guides having joined the League of Hospital Friends with members each paying at least a shilling a year to help keep the hospitals open. And who said recycling was a modern practice? The Guides appealed for old newspapers, silver paper and used postage stamps which they would collect monthly as part of the hospitals' fund raising activities. 19
Page 1 and 2: EGGBUCKLAND PARISH MAGAZINE INCLUDE
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Page 9 and 10: CHRIST CHURCH, ESTOVER Leypark Walk
Page 11 and 12: Weekly Activities at the ELM Centre
Page 13 and 14: MARCH ROTAS Volunteers are required
Page 15 and 16: Clubs of thirty 5-11 year-olds. The
Page 17: On 17th January, some very excited

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