September 12th  is Heritage Sunday and the Friends of St Mary's are organising displays and demonstrations at the parish church to show some of the village history and crafts. Amongst them will be photographs and memorabilia from the Scout Group who are celebrating their 50th consecutive year in the village and the Brownies who are nationally celebrating their centenary The event is open from 2.30pm - 5pm and light refreshments will be available throughout the afternoon. 

Everyone was invited to the Longmead Open Day on the 22nd August, the first of its kind to showcase the many facilities on the field, which have been developed in the last few years with the Founball Foundation and the Parish Council. It was helped along by the Bottle Top Skiffle Band who played a good variety of music

South West Highways have sent through the notice of closure for Station Road while they do work to alleviate the flooding on the far side of the bridge.   The closure is from 16th August, aiming to finish on the 27th.

The official routes are from the A38 via Culmstock for the main village and via Symondsburrow for the Millhayes side as normal.  These will be signposted from the A38.

The Forestry Commission intend to fence part of the land behind Culm Davy, which many residents of Hemyock will be familiar with.  They have only allowed us until the 2nd July for consultation, and they seem to have only put up two small notices on the route to the Culmstock Beacon.

Scrabble Club is continuing on the 4th Tuesday in each month at 2.30pm at the Back Room of Hemyock Baptist Church. The dates for June and July are as follows: 22.06.10 and 27.07.10

Once more Hemyock is gearing up to welcome the Tour of Britain, Britain's premier cycle race, and not just for one stage, but for both of the South West stages on 14th and 15th September 2010. At around lunchtime on both days, the Tour will pass through Hemyock.

Many people have expressed their shock, disbelief and even anger on reading in the last issue of the Pump that our four churches will, in time, be served by a half time Priest. Whether you are a regular churchgoer or not you will be aware of the work carried out by those appointed to the position. Just as a teacher works for many more hours than those spent in school it is more so with a Priest who is on call day and night and with us during our darkest hours as well as those of immense joy. As Rev Sherwood said we are in limbo and there we will remain until a higher power decides on our future or David feels called to elsewhere.

Please support our coffee morning at 45 castle park on Saturday June 19th from 10:00am - 12:30am.  Also an evening with Autumn (Jean+Ken), tickets £6 each from 7:00pm - 10:00pm please book tickets asap 01823 681298

We are running some courses for complete beginners to learn how to use computers. We will be having an open afternoon on Thursday the 17th June between 2:30 and 4pm at Lower Millhayes. You are invited to come and have a look round our new training facilities, and discuss with the trainers what is involved.

This event will be held at Park Farm Wellington (just below the Monument) on the 3rd of July. A family day with the emphasis being every thing "woody", there will be chances to "have a go" at things like hurdle & basket making, green wood working, carving, bodging, tree surgery, furniture making, oak frame building, forest school, willow sculptures.