Community news in pictures


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Community news in pictures
  • Two of the volunteers who smartened up the welcome signs at Norton, Malton and Old Malton.
  • Slingsby Primary School pupils prepare for the annual village scarecrow trail.
  • Volunteer litter pickers gather outside the Methodist church in Pickering before setting off to tidy up the town.
  • Sophie Roger with fellow dance leaders during the dance festival at Norton College.
  • Geoffrey Booth, Eliza Treasure, Ray Shore and Brian Wood with their Maundy money which they received from the Queen at York Minster.
  • Greta Greenfield celebrates her 100th birthday at the Omega Oak Barn, Beadla.,
  • Pupils at West Heslerton Primary School who are making eco bedding for pets, pictured with Flash the gerbil.
  • Ethel Johnson, 91, aided by James Robson, and 82-year-old Derrick Watson plant a field maple at the Millennium Garden, in Kirkbymoorside, to commemorate the marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton, watched by Rev Mark Brosnan and other parishioner
  • Committee member Gary Priestley takes to the air on the dirt jumping skills track as the first phase of work at Newbridge Park in Pickering opened at the weekend.
  • LOCAL groups got together to exchange ideas and information during a Community Showcase Day in Norton. Picture shows Members of 1st Norton Guides with their campfire outside St Peter’s Church.
  • Clare Russell, of the Skipton Building Society in Malton, has been voted top customer advisor of the year.
  • Eileen Searle, left, from Malton, and Margery Addyman, from Norton, have both received an award for their work for Mencap.
  • Pupils from Gillamoor Primary School pay a visit to Thomas The Baker.
  • Janice Gwilliam, left, with Jacqueline Galjaard, from the Kingfisher Cafe, promote Fairtrade fortnight in Malton and Norton.
  • Ava Mollan, who is the new landlady of the Highwayman Inn, in Sheriff Hutton, pictured with colleague Laura Dews.
  • Age UK volunteers, from the left, Elenor Hepburn, Margaret Roberts and Judith Brisby receive certificates and flowers from town mayor Coun Chris Dowie to thank them for their long service.
  • Organiser Anna Lupton with boxing ace Henry Wharton at the Carr House Farm charity breakfast.
  • From the left, David Marshall, of St Catherine’s Hospice, band members Lucy Bird, Louis Hall, Sebastian Bourne, Tom Moody, Mathias Hulskamp and Emily Dore and Tony Clark, of Ryedale Folk Museum preparing for their fundraising concert.
  • Ex-Great Britain rugby league international John Stankevitch during a vist to Lady Lumley's School in Pickering, where he took part in a motivational workshop with pupils.
  • Malton School pupils Ian Mason and Aya Abrahams have secured offers to go Oxford and Cambridge Universities.
  • One hundred children attended the second Snowflake Disco in aid of Ryedale Special Families.
  • Youngsters take part in Stagecoach Malton's have-a-go-day at Norton College.
  • The cast of Malton School's end of term pantomime.
  • June Cook, from Kirkbymoorside, receives an award for her Volunteer community work from Dr David Jolliffe, president of Ryedale Lions Club.
  • Malton District Male Voice Choir are looking for new members. Take a look at their website www.mdmvc.co.uk
  • Students from Sri Lank visit Norton College. Students Shafinaz and Bhanuka are pictured with Norton College pupils Hayley Wharrick and Joe Sails, with teachers Mrs Nandani and Mr Ekanayake from Sri Lanka.
  • Ernest Stear, of Silpho, who has retired after 74 years of playing the organ across Britain.
  • About 40 children from junior schools in Pickering, Thornton-le-Dale and Helmsley took part in a Hallowe'en party staged by Pickering Rotary Club.
  • Carving Hallowe'en lanterns at Beadlam Grange Farmshop and Tearoom.
  • National Apple Day is celebrated at RV Roger Lrd, in Pickering.
  • ALEX and Megan Marshall with the cucumber turtle they entered at Rillington and District Horticultural Society’s 88th annual show in Rillington Village Hall on Saturday.
  • Two young visitors join two of the organisers Liz Cleworth (left) and Pat Elener (right) and town crier David Jackson at the Marie Curie Cancer Care event at Malton Conservative Club
  • Marjorie Murray, Jill Waterson, a member of the Malton branch of the British Heart Foundation, Margaret Cockerill, Cynthia Ford and Yvonne Myers at a fundraising bingo evening at Norton Railway Club.
  • Hostess Eliza Treasure and some of her volunteers who organised a garden party at Castle Walls to raise money for All Saints’ Church, Kirkbymoorside.
  • Two young residents come across Peter Pan and Captain Hook on the Foston scarecrow trail.
  • Angela Smedley and Vicky Lester with their children admire the Superman scarecrow in Foston.
  • William and Kate put in an appearance on the Foston scarecrow trail.
  • Wizard Of Oz characters at the Foston scarecrow trail.
  • Sue Brooke, left, and Dawn Rawlinson outside Hunters of Helmsley with their prizewinning butties, which won the first prize in a competition to mark National Sandwich Week.
  • Talented students from Norton College have been showing off their work at an art exhibition. Students Katy Midgley, Emily Alasfar, Charlotte Chilton, Sophie Woolgar, and Rebecca Reeves with teacher Eugenia Payne.
  • Mrs Dorothy Taylor talks to Terrington Hall pupils about her experiences working in the Women’s Land Army.
  • A charity cycle race through the Yorkshire Wolds weaves its way along a road through the fields near Weaverthorpe.
  • Anna Green, of Norton, has taken over VIPs hair and beauty salon in Castlegate.
  • The Leavers' Prom at Lady Lumley's School in Pickering.
  • The Leavers' Prom at Lady Lumley's School in Pickering.
  • The Leavers' Prom at Lady Lumley's School in Pickering.
  • The Leavers' Prom at Lady Lumley's School in Pickering.
  • The Leavers' Prom at Lady Lumley's School in Pickering.
  • The Leavers' Prom at Lady Lumley's School in Pickering.
  • Joyce Skelton from Malton Methodist church with Malton Flower Club members, from the left, Barbara Adamson, Sally Goodrick, Maggie Tate-Smith and Kay Clyde, preparing to celebrate Malton Methodist Church’s bicentennial.
  • Malton School Year 11 pupils dressed up for their last day at school.
  • Malton School’s new head boy and girl with their deputies. Pictured from the left are head boy Lewis Rawling, head girl Holly Johnson, deputy head boy Joshua Edridge-Smith and deputy head girl Bryony Hall.
  • Staff at Co-operative Travel, in Malton, who are selling second-hand books to raise money for Mencap. From left are Melanie Strangeway, Leanne McElroy and Kirsty Rudd.
  • A seven-strong team of ladies in pink from Ryedale Voluntary Action braved the elements to take part in Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life event on Scarborough seafront.
  • Pupils at St Martin’s Ampleforth Prep School donned sunglasses for a day to support the Teenage Cancer Trust and its Rock Your Shades Day.
  • Norton Primary School pupils take part in the Walk Smart Challenge, a new scheme to encourage walking to school.
  • Pupils from Thornton Dale Primary School show off the new school logo, which symbolises elements of school life and the surrounding countryside.
  • Dr Sue Hawes, Shirley Lloyd and Elaine Hastewell prepare for their charity fish and chips quiz night in aid of Save the Children.
  • Staff and students from Lady Lumley’s School in Pickering have completed the Lyke Wake Walk in less than 12 hours.
  • The Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, visited St Hilds's Church of England Primary School, in Ampleforth, to celebrate 200 years of Church Schools.
  • Ryedale Bridleways group members Anne Blakemore, left, of Great Barugh, and Janis Bright of Snainton, were among those who took part in a Dalby celebratory ramble to mark World Forest Day.
  • The cast of the Norton College production of We Will Rock You.
  • Some of the team at Pickering Surgery who will be taking part in the Wear Red Day, to celebrate National Heart Month, from left, Carol Hunt, Karen Robson, Siobahn Gorman, Viv Barker and Jill Stephenson.
  • Walkers who took part in the Malton branch of the British Heart Foundation annual fundraising walk. They raised just under £ 1,000.
  • A pupil at Settrington School admires some of the pet fish which have been added to the classroom.
  • Students from the Academy, in Norton, gave complimentary hairdressing services to residents at Deansfield Court.
  • Canon Quentin Wilson and churchwarden Eunice Farlam at the charity shop raising funds for St Mary's Priory, Old Malton.
  • GCSE Drama students at Ryedale School have recently performed Bram Stoker’s Dracula to sell-out houses.
  • 18-year-old trainee sailor Megan Tuplin from Weaverthorpe, Malton, has marched out on parade at HMS Raleigh, in Cornwall, to celebrate the successful completion of her basic training.
  • James Kellett and George Harrison as Tweedledum and Tweedledee in Malton School’s sixth form production of Alice In Wonderland.
  • SWEEPING SUCCESS: From left, driver Dave Simpson, Street Scene supervisor Mark Stockhill, the Mayor of Pickering, Joan Lovejoy, the Mayor of Malton, Jason Fitzgerald-Smith and the Mayor of Norton, Paul Farndale.
  • Mohammed Jahid and Lee Nafiz, from Malton Spice, serve some treats to Lucy MacPhee, Poppy Suff, Jack Machen and Amelia MacPhee and Housemartins out-of-school club staff Janet Dale and Joanne Preston
  • Gerry Carter, who is retiring from the North Yorkshire Moors Railway engineering department
  • Desi Spice Club owner Kalum Ali Shah (left) and Ryedale Lion Mike Evans discussing the menu items to be included in the special Indian banquet
  • Joseph and Lola Weatherill get ready for Halloween with the giant pumpkins which they grew from seeds at their dad's allotment.
  • The Harmonia Ladies Choir, which is based in Malton, has made their concert comeback following a six-month break.
  • Lions club member Jerry Scarr, right, exchanges goods with Robin Rawson ahead of their Give And Take day on November 6.
  • Betty and Michael Eddery from Malton who have celebrated their diamond wedding.
  • Chrysanthemum judges David Abbey, left, of Old Malton, and Robin Holmes, of Birdsall, with one of the prizewinning blooms at Kirkbymoorside Horticultural show.

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