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Aylesford’s new vicar starts work inAugust
THE search for a new vicar in Aylesford is now complete with the appointment of the Rev Jonathan Hall. He and his wife Erica have two grown-up sons, Christopher and Richard, and a pet Labrador called Barley. The newswas announced during services at St Peter and St Paul’s Church by the churchwardens Brenda Sladden and Robert Halli- day.
Writing in the parish magazine,
they said: “This is extremely good news with the whole process only taking six months. This could not have been achieved without a lot of hard work and time spent by mem- bers of the parochial church coun- cil.”
Rev Hall was ordained in 1999, having switched to the ministry after working as a personnel officer for Croydon Health Authority and South Somerset District Council. He spent four years as a curate at
Holy Trinity Church, Weymouth, followed by seven years as rector of two parishes on the Isle of Wight, before moving to become senior
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News Working dogs
ATALKon the work of medical de- tection dogs will be given by Sharon Lynn to Aylesford Active Retirement Association at its meet- ing on Thursday, June 30. The group usually meets on the
fourth Thursday of every month at 2pm in the Community Centre, Aylesford, but this meeting has been put back a week because of the hall being used as a polling sta- tion for the EU referendum. Anyone over the age of 50 iswel-
come to attend. For more details, contactWayne on 01622 710734.
Aloe vera talk
KINGS Hill WI meets on Wednes- day, June 22, for a talk on aloe vera by Nikki Clarke. Meetings are on the fourth
Wednesday of each month at Kings Hill Community Centre at 7.30pm. Visitors are alwayswelcome. For more details contact Tina Pat- terson on 01732 844721.
Rev Jonathan Hall with his wife Erica
chaplain at Burrswood Christian Hospital, Groombridge, near Tun- bridge Wells. After leaving college with a degree in geography and re- ligious studies in 1983, he had be- come a warden of an Abbeyfield care home, doing all the cooking, shopping and generally looking after the elderly residents. Follow-
ing that, he co-ordinated voluntary work at a large hospital in Caterham for the mentally handicapped. Hewill be instituted in the church
on Tuesday, August 9 and replaces the Rev Chris van Straaten, who moved with his wife Kathy to a new parish near Hull in east Yorkshire after eight years atAylesford.
Craft and song
AYLESFORD Village Community Centre is holding an indoor market and craft fair on June 26 from 10am to 2pm to raise money to refurbish the kitchen. Singing group Vocademy will be performing at the fair with their principal Dani Baker.
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