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St. Helen's Church
The Church is believed to date from
pre-Norman times. It was replaced c1150 by a
cruciform Church, whose outlines may be traced in the outer walls of the
present transepts. The c14 saw a third Church built.
Since then there have been many alterations and refurbishments, the latest
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Honour for
Sandal Rotarian. ONE of David Pickover’s last tasks in his year
as president of Wakefield Rotary Club was to present Roland Mold with a
Paul Harris Fellowship for his ‘remarkable’ level of commitment to the
club and the community it serves. Roland,
who lives in Attlee Crescent, Sandal, set up the club’s annual schools
chess competition, introduced the Rotary Chess
 Initiative
into local schools (including Sandal Magna), was the driving force behind
the mock interviews programme at Kettlethorpe High School, leads a team of
Rotarians in the Literacy in Schools enterprise and is one of the team
involved in pushing patients in wheelchairs to Sunday services at
Pinderfields Hospital chapel. He is now organising the rota for this. In
between he has at various times been chairman of the community service and
vocational committees. “This is a
tremendous record of service,” said David. Thanking David and the club,
Roland said this was his 45th year in Rotary and he had been a
member of six clubs in different parts of the world. “In all honesty,” he
added, “I can say this club does more for Rotary than any other I’ve been
in.”
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CANCER CARE:
Funds for the work done by Macmillan Cancer Care nurses were boosted by
nearly £370 raised by Sandal Community Association at a coffee morning at
the Castle Inn on Wednesday (Sept 23). SCA chairman Gail Stephenson
thanked all those who supported the event and helped make it a success.
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The association’s next social event
is a cheese and wine evening at Sandal Endowed School on Wednesday,
October 14. Tickets are £5 each.
The next
one is inFebruary and there will be a third in April in conjunction with
the now thriving gardening club. There will also be a tea dance on
December 4th in the Brookhouse Club, the Christmas social on Friday
November 27th., and a ceildh in March.
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CHILDREN about to step up from
junior to secondary school have been presented with dictionaries as part
of Wakefield Rotary Club’s reading campaign.
The club arranged the distribution of nearly 500 of the books throughout
schools in the district. In response, many of them were able to make
donations to Rotary funds.
At Sandal Magna Junior School, where he is involved in reading and chess
projects, Rotarian Roland Mold handed out 40 dictionaries at the last
assembly of the academic year.
Roland, who lives in Sandal, is pictured here with six of the recipients.
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KEITH SOUTER who
lives, as he puts it, within arrow-shot of Sandal Castle, has
 used
it as the setting for his tenth novel, a 15th century whodunnit.
The retired doctor, who has also written nine non-fiction books, says he
hopes his latest mystery story will encourage more people to delve into
Wakefield’s and the castle’s rich history. The novel, The Fool’s Folly,
centres around King Richard’s heir, John de la Pole, who was a descendant
of poet Geoffrey Chaucer.
He is chairing a meeting of the Council of the North, which governed this
area, when there is an unexpected death. This is investigated by judge Sir
Giles Beeston who, with his assistant Will Holland, discovers more
sinister fatalities.
Dr Souter, who is working on four other books – including two novels – has
put a copy of The Fool’s Folly, in Sandal library. It is on sale at
Waterstones in The Ridings shopping centre, and can also be bought through
online bookstores.
For more information about Dr Souter and his books, visit his website at
www.keithsouter.co.uk.
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