Christmas Tree and Nativity Scene Festival at St. Mary’s Church

This year's Christmas Tree and Nativity Scene Festival will be on display from Sunday the 9th to Saturday the 15th of December in St. Mary’s Church.

2:00pm until 4:30pm.

FREE entry - all donations to St. Mary's Church.

As well as our regular village groups and organisations contributing and decorating their trees, villagers are also invited to lend any nativity scenes they have. The church will be manned throughout the Festival, so your contributions will be safe and secure!

Of course, anyone who has not been approached is welcome to supply and decorate a tree, perhaps in memory of a loved one who loved all the happiness of Christmas.

Please help us give pleasure to all our church visitors this Christmas with a lovely display to which you have contributed.

Thank you

Pat New

Telephone: 01634 374220

Email: upchurchvolunteer@gmail.com

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Upchurch River Valley Golf Course - Poolside Bar Courtyard Presents Debi Haze - Play Something Country

Jenny - Upchurch River Valley Golf Course

Telephone: 01634 360626

Website: www.rivervalleygolf.co.uk
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Upchurch River Valley Golf Course - Poolside Bar Courtyard Presents Gilda Kristian - Vocalist

Jenny - Upchurch River Valley Golf Course

Telephone: 01634 360626

Website: www.rivervalleygolf.co.uk
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Temporary Overnight Road Closures - A2 St Michael’s Road, Sittingbourne

Overnight closures of part of A2 St Michael’s Road, Sittingbourne are planned from Monday 3rd December 2018 for up to 4 weekday nights, from 8.00pm through until approximately 5.00am each night.

A2 St Michael’s Road will be closed between the junctions with Dover Street and Crown Quay Lane, to the extent indicated by signs and barriers on site.

The alternative routes for through traffic are:

Light vehicles only (note 11’ 9” (3.5 M) height restriction) via B2006 Milton Road, Eurolink Way and Crown Quay Lane.

All other vehicles via A2 Dover Street (A2 St Michael’s Road and West Street in opposite direction), Park Road, Albany Road, Avenue of Remembrance and Bell Road.

The closures are to enable highway improvement works to be carried out as part of the ‘Spirit of Sittingbourne’ town centre regeneration project.

Some delays are likely, especially at busier times, so it is recommended that motorists allow extra time for their journeys or consider using alternative routes during these works.

These works are weather dependent, and if adverse conditions prevent works being fully completed within the planned dates given, the duration may need to be extended or some works re-scheduled.

The Kent County Council Highways Helpline is: 03000 418181

For details of roadworks, please see: www.roadworks.org

Kent County Council - Highways, Transportation & Waste

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New Poppy Memorial Seat at the Upchurch Village Sign

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A new Poppy Memorial Seat to the villagers who lost their lives during the WW1 and WW2 conflicts has been added to the base of the Armistice Day - Remembrance Sunday Poppy Memorial Sleeve, currently wrapped around the Upchurch village sign on the corner of Horsham Lane. 

The Memorial Seat was manufactured and fitted by the Boakes family and staff of Boakes Joinery, Upchurch.

The Poppy Seat has written on it:

“They shall grow not old, as we that are

left grow old:

Age shall not weary them,

nor the years condemn.

At the going down of the sun

and in the morning,

We will remember them.”

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Winter Opening Hours at Upchurch Post Office and Costcutter

Beginning Monday the 12th of November 2018 until the end of March 2019, winter opening hours at Upchurch Post Office and Costcutter will be:

Monday to Saturday 6:00am until 6:00pm
Sunday 7:00am until 2:00pm

Upchurch Post Office
1 Oak Lane, Upchurch, Sittingbourne, Kent ME9 7AT
Website: www.postoffice.co.uk

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