The
JamJar advertisement filmed in Rectory Way last
April, and reported in the May edition of I.C.N. not only caused some nuisance
to residents as well as much entertainment for three days, but brought an
unexpected benefit to Christian Aid.
Everyone‰s patience, and good humour, realised a handsome cheque for £2,000 which has swelled the coffers of this most important charity.
Well done Bernard and Judy!
The doorstep Christian Aid collection went well and we will reveal the amount collected in the July/August edition. In the meantime there is no let up in Christian Aid‰s other campaigns. The collection and sponsored walk are over so :
NOW SPEAK OUT FOR TRADE JUSTICE
Join the Christian Aid‰s biggest ever mass lobby of parliament!
A mass lobby is when a large number of people go to the House of Commons to raise the same concernæ with each of their MPs at the same time. Many people never contact their MP, and just writing a letter can make a big make a big difference. So think how much more of an impact turning up to meet your MP in person can make!
Trade CAN be the means by which poor people can lift themselves out of poverty, not the prison that steals their future.
Trade SHOULD protect the environment for all of us, not destroy it and the lives that depend upon it.
Trade COULD be this positive force - if the international rules that govern it are changed. At the moment, these rules are unfairly biased in favour of the richest nations and global corporations.
It's time to tell
the Government to rewrite them.
June 2002 is a pivotal moment for the world's poor and for all of us. World leaders are gathering for two crucial summits. We know they'll be discussing the future of the developing world. We need to make sure those discussions include the need for trade justice. Come to the Lobby of Parliament on 19 June and experience democracy in action. Make your voice heard where it matters.
We want to make this a huge, fun and powerful event. Please start spreading the word now: the more of us who go, the bigger the impact.
The Trade Justice Movement is organising this mass lobby so that thousands of people like US can convince our MPs to call for Trade Justice. If we can persuade the majority of MPs, the Government will be enabled to take action.
This campaign is a huge challenge. But it is a challenge we have to face and a campaign we have to win. Come to the mass lobby and add your voice to the global chorus for Trade Justice. Together we can make this the biggest mass lobby of Parliament of all time.
For more information phone: Christian Aid 020 7523 2225 or Bernard Pearce 01895 673596
David Edington reports that on 13th May he tried to obtain the June date for the hearing into the plan to demolish his Garden Centre. Much to his delight (and probably most residents of our village) he was informed, by a Planning Department officer, that the offending application had been withdrawn completely and is not to go to an appeal.
EDITOR
Shoppers, shop-keepers and your editor were delighted to stop and talk, during early May, to two uniformed police officers sent from Ruislip station to patrol our village. The ëbeat bobbies‰ were obviously enjoying the enthusiastic welcome they received from passers-by who kept them chatting for ages. Let us all hope that this is the start of a daily, long-term occurrence. Well done to whoever found the funds, and had the wit, to schedule the beat.
EDITOR
Receipt is acknowledged, with
grateful thanks, of the following donations towards the cost of I.C.N.: Mrs. Kelly Ma of Wallasey
Crescent, Brian Davies of Campden Road, very
generous, and anonymous via David Thorpe, Wendy Fray from Cambridge, Rosa Kaye
of Boniface Road, Ickenham Cricket Club. A huge thank you to Ickenham
Village Hall Association Limited for an exceptionally generous donation.
Copy for the July/August edition should be with me by 13th July.
Additional photographs, articles and much more, plus last month's magazine, can be found at ICN Online: www.ickenhamchurchnews.co.uk
SILLY STORIES
One
winter‰s night saw the coldest and hardest frost for fifty years. In the
morning a farmer viewed with horror his field of cows. The poor beasts were
rigid with frost and unable to move. The farmer wondered what he could do when
later that day an elderly lady opened the gate, walked into his field and the
cows miraculously began to move.
Awed of her power the farmer asked the name of the lady.
Thora Hird came the response!
Q. What‰s the difference between Noah‰s Ark and Joan of Arc?
A. One is made from gopher wood and the other is Maid of Orleans!
Q. Who was the wife of Noah?
A. Joan of Arc!
Note. If you happen to have any silly, amusing and appropriate anecdotes please pass them on to the Editor who has run out of them! Church based would be even better.