Category: News

 

Get your nominations in for the Pride of Malton & Norton Awards –ENTRIES CLOSE 12^th OCTOBER 2012

Yes, these awards include the surrounding villages such as Slingsby!

DO YOU know a Bright Young Star? Or perhaps a business that delivers excellent service or a teacher who goes beyond the call of duty?

Or maybe there is a member of the public who deserves recognition for their dedication to the community in which they live?

Well, now you have the chance to say a heartfelt thank you and reward them for their effort and dedication in the 2012 Pride of Malton and Norton Awards.

The We Love Malton events group and the Malton & Pickering Mercury have joined forces to organise the community competition, which climaxes with a glittering ceremony at the Milton Rooms, Malton, on October 27th.

There the winners from each of the following categories will be crowned, including

• ·         The Customer Service Award
• ·         Volunteer of the Year
• ·         Business Personality of the Year
• ·         Local Hero
• ·         Teacher of the Year
• ·         Bright Young Star

There will also be an Outstanding Achievement Award which will be presented to local golfer Simon Dyson.

The nominated charity for this year’s awards is The Encephalitis Society and money will be raised on the evening by holding a charity raffle and auction.

Additional Tickets are also available for the Awards Dinner priced at £20 each.

Please contact Mandy West at the Mercury on 07713987006 for further information and to be obtain tickets.

Nomination forms available to download from the RVA website (go to the Rural Voice page) http://www.ryedaleva.org.uk

Towards the end of August, the website team received a very interesting email concerning a collection of old glass negatives featuring Slingsby. The images were from the late Victorian and early Edwardian period,  were large and small glass negatives, and featured Slingsby street scenes and numerous portraits of possible  residents of the parish from that era. In all the collection came to over 120 images and were found at an auction in Saltburn.

Fortunately for the website, we had been contacted by Mr Bob Noble who had purchased the collection, managed to identify the street scenes as Slingsby and has kindly sent a DVD with high quality digital scans of this fragile negative collection. While the Victorian street scenes remain familiar to residents, the portraits contained with the photo collection are more of a mystery. Who are these people? What happened to them?

The website aims to try and find out. Over the coming weeks and  months, we will be adding these images to the Flickr feed with the hope that someone will be able put a name to a face. If you think you can help identify some of these people, keep an eye open for regular updates on the village Flickr feed.

Finally a massive thank you must go to Mr Noble for contacting the website about these images and sending us the DVD.

To see a larger version of the photo and check out the other street scenes, go to the new gallery page HERE

Do you have a great photograph you’d like to share with us?

If you’d like to submit an image for the photo of the month slot, you can send it to [email protected]

More details about how to submit photographs can be found HERE

 

Helmsley Folk Weekend, described as  ‘a long weekend of great music events in the beautiful North York Moors at Helmsley Arts Centre’,  is on THIS weekend with plenty of artists lined up to play.

For the event schedule, details on the bands playing and ticket information go to the Helmsley Folk Weekend website at http://www.helmsleyfolkweekend.co.uk

Can I introduce myself as the new Methodist Minister in Slingsby, following in the footsteps of the much loved Graham Sellers, who tragically died earlier this year.  If you think my name is familiar that is because I was Minister here for 9 years from 1994 until 2003 when we moved to Fleetwood.  I returned to live in Malton upon my retirement in 2009 and now, much to my surprise find myself working again on a part time basis looking after not only the chapel here in Slingsby but the one at Hovingham as well!  I greatly enjoyed the years I was Minister here before and am looking forward to this ‘encore’ which I hope will be equally enjoyable, on both sides.  Whilst most of my time will be spent on the life of the chapel I hope, as well, to be able to involve myself in some other activities within the village.  If anyone wants to contact me, about any matter, my details are below.

Rev Mike Smith,

29 Middlecave Drive, Malton, YO17 7BB

Tel: 01653 692544

 

Ryedale District Council is now publishing Ryedale News as an on-line newspaper.

Ryedale residents and businesses are invited to subscribe to the eNewsletter which will have news items, key event information and consultation on major issues and will be available monthly.

To see the flyer, click on this link: Ryedale flyer_A5

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