New Team Vicar starts today at St Nics and St Mikes

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New Team Vicar
Revd Paul Smith has taken over as the new team vicar for St Nics and St Mikes. There was an inauguration service at St Helen’s last night. And he led the 9:30 sung mass at St Michael’s and the 11:30 Holy Communion at St Nicolas today. Both churches have been making and are making adjustments in preparation for his arrival to make the churches more accessible.

(The alpha course banners are out again as can be seen at St Nic’s. This annual course, into the meaning of life, is led by a few different churches in Abingdon. It begins with a meal at The Dil Raj Restaurant – Monday 27 Sept – tomorrow – 7:30 pm )

The Ock Valley Flood Group continue to clear stretches of the River Ock

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Ock Valley Flood Group
The Ock Valley Flood Group, launched back in June,  continue to clear stretches of the River Ock and leave piles of rubbish to be picked up by council lorries. I had a photo of an even bigger pile a few weeks ago – which got lost when Facebook blew up my old laptop.
Ock Valley Flood Group

If the material collected by the flood group is not collected quick enough it can become the building blocks for new dams and bridges.

The group have taken a lot of trolleys back to Tesco and been given refreshments for their trouble. I was told that Tesco now even fit immobilisers to one wheel of trolleys – so only the more determined trolley pusher will get as far as the Ock Valley walk.