30
Mar 2016
During Lent a number of people came to the Lenten Book Club on Saturday mornings and we managed to read to the end of the book of Numbers. The conversations were informal, informative and enjoyable and those who took part decided that they would like the Book Club to continue. The Saturday Morning Book Club will therefore continue once a month. The dates set for each meeting in 2016 are 30th April, 28th May, and 25th June, with a break for holidays continuing on 17th September, 29th October, and 26th November. The......
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30
Mar 2016
Congratulations and grateful thanks to Alastair I. Smith of Fairfield Court who has recently been awarded a Long Service Certificate for fifty years of dedicated service as an Elder in Greenbank....
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13
Mar 2016
COPY OF TRIBUTE READ IN CHURCH ON 13th MARCH 2016 JOAN STEWART Joan Stewart, one of our elders, died on the 5th of February. Joan was born in Glasgow in November 1936 and was baptised in Greenbank Church on the 6th April 1937 whilst living in her grandparents’ new house in Hillview Drive. Her mother had travelled from the Argentine with Joan’s elder sisters, Peggy and Lillian, to ensure Joan was born in Scotland. Joan’s father, who worked as a quantity surveyor on the Argentine railways, came home on leave when she......
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13
Mar 2016
Jamie was born on Monday 15th December at 6.03am at Calderdale Hospital Halifax. He weighed 8lb 3.5 oz. His parents are Kirsty and Anthony Birks and he has a big sister, Alice. His godparents are Alastair Cowan, Kirsty’s brother, and Kirsteen MacDonald, one of Kirsty’s best friends from school. Everyone had a lovely day apart from perhaps Jamie who, it turned out, had a perforated eardrum! It was especially nice that Alastair came all the way from Australia to be his godfather....
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