Youth Club

Despite low takings on the door at our Christian Aid Week Dance, the success of the Draw and refreshments enabled us to give £16 7s. 6d. to the local campaign. We would sincerely like to thank all who helped to prepare the evening, and all who supported it.

Three new members were welcomed last month - Miss Janice Pemble (Hartlip), Miss Kathy Osborne (Stockbury) and Miss Valerie Shears (Bredhurst).

Chris and Pat Mannerings have temporarily moved to London, but we hope they will be back soon: meanwhile there are two vacancies on the Committee.

This month the Club is organising another ramble, a "MANIACS" dance on the 25th and an outing to Margate via R.A.F. Manston on the 19th (Sunday). The coach will leave the Rose and Crown at 1.30 p.m. and the cost will be 3/- for members and, children and 7/6 for anyone else.

D.B.T.

FOR YOUR INFORMATION

The Churchyard

The undermentioned regulations were drawn up recently by the Church Council after considerable discussion and after consultation with the officers of the Methodist Church here. It was, further agreed that they should be published in the magazine and a copy of them kept available in the Parish Church vestry. These directions are, in, fact a summary of those already in force generally in the diocese but not always known, nor always enforced. They are aimed at protecting the beauty of the churchyard and at facilitating its maintenance, not only, now but also in the future.

  1. The strict right of a parishioner in the churchyard is simply the the right of interment. The erection of a tombstone or monument over a grave, though now customary, remains a privilege. The Incumbent has the primary right to refuse this privilege unless sanctioned by a Faculty, i.e. a formal Order of the Archbishop.
  2. No tombstone, or monument, memorial or inscription of any kind may be placed in the churchyard without permission.
  3. In the first instance application for permission should be made to the Incumbent. However, application for a Faculty can be made direct to the Commissary General in the event of disagreement.
  4. Curbs or chippings will not normally be allowed, except by the granting of Faculty by the Commissary General of the diocese.
  5. Neither artificial flowers under glass covers nor artificial plastic flowers may be introduced into the churchyard.

A.L., W.C.M.