1. Ashley
leading from the front
2. Generation
Green - St Mary’s School Mucklestone
3. HALES CRICKET
CLUB - Gearing up for the 2009 season
4. Nearly New Sale
5. Loggerheads In Bloom Needs help.
6. “Bloom
in Ashley” Fund Raising Auction
7. CAROM – Child
Aid Romania - The Concert at Knighton
8. Save the Children Ashley & Loggerheads
Branch – Forthcoming events
9. New Minister at
Ashley Methodist Church
10. Ashley and Loggerheads
Branch of Save The Children - May Walk and Hearty Lunch
11. Loggerheads
Community Information Shop - What we do:
+ Weekly Surgeries
12. NEW
SERVICE AT THE INFORMATION SHOP - A4
Photocopying
13. THIS IS
NEW - A MOBILE Community Information Shop!
14. Market Drayton National Women's Register
– April/May meetings
15. A stop
smoking group at the Ashley Memorial Hall - Started
18th March, every Wednesday 3pm
16. LOGGERHEADS & DISTRICT VOLUTARY
CAR SCHEME - The service
will be available from 1st June 2009
17. Loggerheads Environmental Group “Tidy
Up” Schedule - “2009 Programme”
18. St Mary’s
Primary School, Mucklestone
19. Woore Cricket
Club - starts its season on April 18th
20. Hugo Meynell
Primary School News
21. SUDOKU puzzle
22. COMMUNITY
NEWS CONTACT DETAILS
23. POPLAR LANE
WINDFARM PUBLIC INQUIRY
24. Closing
date for the next issue: Friday 1st May
Ashley
leading from the front
Historically the parish of Ashley was joined with the parish of Mucklestone,
but when John Williams, our previous vicar, retired, these two parishes
were joined with Broughton and Croxton.
This means there are lots of people in our new larger community that we
don’t know. To overcome this we thought a Festival should be organised
aimed at bringing the whole community together. We have focused on encouraging
flower arrangers from the various churches to help fill the church with
floral art designed to take your breath away!
A Festival of Music and Flowers is being planned for the first weekend
of June this year at St John the Baptist, Ashley’s Parish Church.
Peter Shone, our Director of Music, is planning various musical events.
These will include children and lots of local singers. Peter’s “Sound’s
Good” events are well known. Anybody who wants to come along is
welcome – you don’t have to be able to sing, just to enjoy
trying. We are hoping to fill the church with the voices of our local
people throughout the parishes, watch out for adverts for this.
We also hope to attract visitors from outside our area too. There is a
bus stop outside the church so travel from Newcastle under Lyme and Shrewsbury
etc. could not be easier, tell your friends. It will be a wonderful day
out.
Watch out for the posters that will soon be everywhere. Our local children
are designing them in our poster competition. More details will be forthcoming
shortly.
The dates for the Festival are 5th to the 8th June – put it in your
diary! See you there.
Linda Ellis.
Generation
Green - St Mary’s School Mucklestone
We have joined Generation Green (a project of British
Gas). Green leaves are the currency of
Generation Green. Leaves are earnt by completing activities. They vary
from the simple to the more challenging.
We can convert ‘leaves’ into all sorts of prizes like pencils,
games, recycling bags and lots
more. We are working hard to earn leaves in school by being environmentally
friendly. Parents and friends can earn leaves for us by completing a
simple Energy Savers Report (this places you under NO obligation to
British Gas). Please visit the website and help us to earn
more leaves: www.generationgreen.co.uk
St Mary’s C of E (A) Primary, Mucklestone, TF9 4DN
HALES
CRICKET CLUB - Gearing up for the 2009 season
How many of you are aware that there is a Cricket club right on the
doorstep of Loggerheads? Well if you were to take a stroll along Almington
Road in Hales on a Saturday afternoon during the spring and summer months
then its likely that you may come across two teams enjoying our national
game at the picturesque home of Hales CC.
Formed in 1981 by a group of friends looking for some fun in the sun,
the club has progressed significantly since, whilst retaining the warmth
and friendliness of a small outfit. In fact there is a strong belief
that Hales CC remain one of the smallest cricket clubs in existence
within England, with their very small but spirited squad of players.
For the upcoming 2009 season, there will be 22 league fixtures in Division
5 of the Shropshire Cricket League, a host of Sunday afternoon friendlies
and a number of 20/20 fun games on Wednesday evening during the middle
of the summer. In addition practice night takes place on Wednesday evenings.
Hales CC are on the lookout for some new faces to come along and join
our club. Players of all ages and all abilities will be made most welcome
to the club. There are regular pre-season indoor nets arranged at Tern
Hill should anyone wish to come along and have a go.
If anybody wants any further info, please contact Club Captain Gavin
Brookes on 07817 658755 or Club Secretary Jim Ward on 07795 254664.
In addition visit the website of our popular local clubhouse, www.halesclub.co.uk
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Loggerheads in Bloom  Help needed! Would you like to earn £250 this summer? We are looking for someone to water the 11 baskets in the centre of Loggerheads everyday over the summer from the end of May until October. Alternatively, if you have some spare time over the summer and would like to freely volunteer to help out occasionally, then contact us. If you can help please ring Jane Hughes on 672877 or email hgj710@aol.co.uk |
“Bloom in Ashley” Fund Raising
Auction
Thursday April 23rd at The Peel Arms, 8.30pm
This auction is being held to raise funds to pay for equipment that
is required for our two annual litter picks ie; picking sticks, high
visibility jackets, gloves etc. We would also utilise any money raised
to invest in our planting schemes around Ashley which
started during 2008.
If you have any new or nearly new items that you would wish to donate
to the auction you can drop the goods off at 8 St Johns Road, Ashley,
or telephone us on 01630 673390 to arrange pick up. Alternatively items
can be left at The Peel Arms a few days to a week before the auction.
If anyone wants to offer a promise for the auction this would also be
most welcome.
What’s happened so far…..
Many readers will have heard about, and hopefully noticed, the successful
litter picks in the village during 2008 and many will have also seen
the makeover of the triangle of grass at the bottom of Doctors Bank.
With the ongoing support of The Peel, the volunteers who make up Bloom
in Ashley have been hard at work trying to make our beautiful village
just a little bit better. Actions by the group in 2008 included amongst
many others, two litter picks, with over 50 volunteers and 60 bags of
rubbish collected, landscaping, planting and re-planting of the patch
of grass at the bottom of Doctors Bank sponsored by The Peel public
house, bulb planting across the village, ready for spring 2009, repairs
to footpath stiles in 5+ sites around the village and we got the graffiti
in the bus shelter cleaned up!
What’s happening next…..
In 2009 we hope to: Purchase our own set of litter picking equipment,
hold a spring (25th April, tbc) and an autumn litter pick, re-plant
Doctors Bank, clear the pathway leading from Bell Orchard so work can
start on making over the old playground, secure suitable locations for
dog fouling bins and extra litter bins, make-over the green opposite
The Peel and take environment complaints (drains, footpaths, road surface)
to the Parish council.
We need more help in order to make these things happen. If you feel
you can give up the odd hour here and there over the coming year then
let us know. Send your email address to bloominashley@btinternet.com
and we will contact you when we need people to help. There is no commitment
in this but we will just let you know when things are happening - its
then up to you!
Nic Scott - Bloomin’ Ashley Chair
CAROM
– Child Aid Romania - The Concert at Knighton
Thank you to everyone who supported or contributed to this event at Knighton Village Hall. We had an enjoyable evening whilst raising £650 for CAROM. This is a small local charity, which is committed to the advancement of education and the relief of financial hardship amongst the disadvantaged children of Romania and their families. We were pleased to welcome Cristina Birsan to the concert. She is the director of a Romanian charity: Atelier Sacelean whose work we currently support. Find out more by visiting www.childaidromania.com
New Minister at Ashley Methodist Church
Rev Robert Fisher, the new Minister at Ashley Methodist Church, has kindly
provided a short biography:
I was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, so I can lay claim to be a true ‘Geordie’.
I have very fond memories of Durham Methodism, where my family moved to
in particular I recall the annual ‘Methodist Big Meeting’
when the cathedral was packed with Methodists from all over the county!
When I left school I went on Voluntary Service Overseas, for twelve months,
to teach in the Methodist Secondary School in Sibu, Sarawak. When I returned
to the UK I went to Cliff College, near Sheffield, and during the year
I was there I offered as a candidate for the Methodist Ministry. I was
accepted and spent the next four years at Hartley Victoria Methodist Theological
College in Manchester. During a pre-Easter ‘campaign’ in my
first year at Theological College I met Kath – who came from the
other Newcastle! We were married during my final year in College.
My first appointment as a ‘Circuit’ minister was in Bury St
Edmunds. My second appointment was back in the Manchester area. I then
left ‘Circuit’ ministry to begin a career in teaching as,
what Methodism calls, a ‘Sector’ minister. My first teaching
post was as an RE teacher at the Blue Coat School in Oldham. After three
years there I was appointed as Head of the Religious Education Department
at King Edward VII College in Coalville, Leicestershire.
Six years later I moved as Head of the Religious Education Department
at the Lakes School in Windermere. After seventeen years at the Lakes
School I left the ‘Sectors’ to come back into ‘Circuit’
ministry. In 2001 I was appointed Superintendent Minister of the Blackburn
Methodist Circuit. Four years later I was asked to come to the Newcastle
(Staffs) Methodist Circuit as Superintendent Minister.
For Kath our move to Newcastle was like coming home as she grew up in
our neighbouring Circuit and attended school in Newcastle. We have two
grown-up children, a son who lives in Kendal and a daughter, who lives
in Blackburn. We have a grandson who is now coming to the end of his Primary
education and our daughter presented us with a granddaughter who is now
approaching the ‘terrible twos’!
Ashley
and Loggerheads Branch of Save The Children
Sunday 17th May - May Walk and Hearty Lunch
For tickets tel. Rosie 01630 672061
For Save the Children Week at the end of April the local branch will be
collecting at Trentham Gardens. More information about this and the Ashley
and Loggerheads branch in general are available from Jan on 01630 673413.
Loggerheads
Community Information Shop
Tel no:01630 674365(24hours we will get back to you)
E-mail info@loggerheads.eu
Loggerheads Community Information
Shop - What we do:
• We offer a warm welcome on Monday mornings between 10.00am &
1.00pm to any one looking for help and information or even just a chat
to catch up on the local news.
• Every Monday including most bank holidays our shop is open in
the Loggerheads Library offering a point of call to find out where you
can find that piece of information or contact which has of yet has eluded
you.
• We have local information leaflets available along with many sources
of information to help you find what ever you need.
• With Internet access we normally can find what ever you want and
if we can’t with your details we can and we will get back to you.
• Our current Chairman has an excellent reputation of getting things
done and with a team that have expertise and local knowledge we feel confident
that we can help you.
• Look out for us over the coming months as we will, all being well,
also be going mobile in our rolling Community Information shop unit, giving
us the opportunity to get to those parts of our community that don’t
always find it easy to get into Loggerheads centre on a Monday morning.
So remember if we can help we will and if we can’t we will know
someone who can.
Drop in and see us for a chat.
| Local surgeries for Local
people: Just drop in – Mondays 11am to 1 pm: Mon 6th April - Adult and Community Learning Team Mon 13th April - Local Community Police Officer Mon 20th April - Borough Councillor Brian Tomkins Mon 27th April - Parish Councillor Chris Taylor Mon 4th May - Adult and Community Learning Team Mon 11th May - Local Community Police Officer Mon 18th May - Borough Councillor Brian Tomkins Mon 25th May - Parish Councillor David Loades |
NEW SERVICE AT THE INFORMATION SHOP A4 Photocopying; |
THIS IS NEW  A MOBILE Community Information Shop! We now have a “Mobile” shop (called a caravan !!). It will be taken around the villages. Watch out for dates and times. We will offer a copying service from this “shop”. Just call in, even for a chat. The free coffee (and tea) will be waiting. It has easy access steps. You will easily recognise the caravan, because it will display: ‘LOGGERHEADS COMMUNITY INFORMATION SHOP’ (Thanks to Simone and Colin for letting Tony and I work on the caravan in the dry, especially the offer of a coffee to keep us going). |
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Monday 20th April Metals: |
A stop smoking group at
the Ashley Memorial Hall Started 18th March, every Wednesday 3pm  The
great thing about Roy Castle Fag-Ends is there is no pressure or preaching,
just practical advice about giving up, plus it’s completely
free!Success is four times more likely with our support than if you use will power alone. We’ll be there for you as long as you need us. Our Freephone number is 0800 195 2131 which offers one-to-one support and also gives a list of all the drop–in groups etc  |
Market
Drayton National Women's RegisterLOGGERHEADS & DISTRICT VOLUTARY CAR SCHEME
This is a service for residents in the area of Loggerheads Parish
Council with mobility problems and unable to use public transport
(cars are not adapted for wheelchairs, but it may be possible
to put a folded chair in the car boot). |
COULD YOU BE
A VOLUNTEER DRIVER? HELPING PEOPLE WITH MOBILITY PROBLEMS USE YOUR OWN CAR – MILEAGE ALLOWANCE GIVEN The most important thing you can offer is a volunteering time – as little or as much as you wish |
 For
further information on any aspect of this service please ring
01630 674365 (leaving a message, if necessary, mentioning the
Voluntary Car Scheme and your name and telephone number) or email cars@loggerheads.eu |
Loggerheads Environmental Group “Tidy Up” Schedule - “2009 Programme”
Please help to keep the centre of Loggerheads tidy. Last year the group
did a fantastic job looking after the area.
Please do your bit by not dropping litter.
Here’s the programme for the next few months:
Saturday 25th April - Big Spring Clean –
for 2 hours, the Borough
Council will collect litter collected
Saturday 6th June - Village centre litter
pick
All litter picks start at 10am and last around an hour
For more information, contact Steve on (01630)
672968
St
Mary’s Primary School, Mucklestone
We’ve been working hard since January and it has been such fun.
In art we’ve studied pattern and looked at Aboriginal art; dots
are the thing, in every piece of art there are lots of dots. We’ve
also looked at Islamic and Scandinavian patterns, with many different
colours - gold, blues and reds.
Fun while it lasts
It snowed for half a month and got up to 10cm high. Just for one day
we had the day off school which was great, but we also had lots of fun
at school.
We all helped in some way to make our snow dome – it was enormous!
Unfortunately we didn’t have enough time to build a roof. When
the snow started melting we climbed over the dome and slid down it.
Kaya made a snow seat, it even had a footrest and the outside was shaped
like a crown - it was cool Ha! Ha!
Cool Crystals
In science we made salt and sugar crystals, they looked fantastic. Some
of them didn’t work out too well because we put too much food
colouring in the container. Some were really big and others were just
like dots.
Most days we do Literacy and last term we learnt about newspapers. We
used the computers to make our own news sheet about the new president
of the United States, Barack Obama and the digi blue video cameras to
make films about extreme weather conditions.
Councillors for a Day
On Shrove Tuesday year 5 and 6 went to the Civic Offices in Newcastle.
We went in a council chamber and we had to act like we were real councillors.
We had a budget of £100,000 to share out between safety, leisure
and learning, transport, social care and health and prosperous community.
There was also a cabinet who questioned each group and made the final
decision. The day taught us how to be councillors .
By Year 2 pupil Olivia
Woore
Cricket Club starts its season on April 18th at Falcon Field
(just behind the Falcon Inn, London Road Woore). Lots of opportunities for
cricketers of all ages. We have qualified coaches and excellent facilities
including nets and training. Call Tony Oliver 01630 647708 for any further information.
Hugo Meynell Primary School News The Chinese New Year - year
of the OX was on 26th January. School celebrated with a special
meal. |
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COMMUNITY NEWS
CONTACT DETAILS Telephone 01630 673543 or by email to news@loggerheads.eu, or in writing to Community News, Loggerheads Library, 7 Eccleshall Road, Loggerheads, TF9 4NX |
POPLAR LANE WINDFARM PUBLIC INQUIRY
The Public Inquiry into the planned installation of 7 wind turbines near Bearstone and Knighton begins on May 6th 2009. The Inquiry will be held at Woore Victory Hall and is expected to take place over a 3 week period. Up to 15 local residents will be giving evidence, as well as Legal Counsel and the team of consultants appointed to act on behalf of Vortex and Loggerheads Parish Council. This is the last chance to defeat this threat to our community. Please note the start date in your diary so that you can attend the opening session to support our representatives.
Vortex Fundraising Quiz Supper
Saturday 25th April 2009, 7.00pm, Woore Victory Hall - Prizes, Raffle
& Bar
Tickets: £40 for a team of four, including Pie and Peas Supper.
It’s not University Challenge – all team members eligible!
Windfall Prize Draw
The lucky numbers for February drawn at Woore Village Store were:
1st: Mrs V Milburn, Ticket 12, £126.75.
2nd: Mrs J Roberts, Ticket 107, £63.38
3rd: Mrs K Cliffe, Ticket 93, £40.25.
If you haven’t yet joined the Windfall Prize Draw you could be missing
a great chance to win a monthly cash prize!
For Quiz Supper tickets, Windfall Membership forms and any other information:
Telephone 01630 672925 or email info@vortex.uk.net
or see the website: www.vortex.uk.net
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Who do you contact
for local information? is open every MONDAY from 10 - 1pm at Loggerheads Library |
| Telephone (answer phone
out of hours) 01630 674365 |
email:
info@loggerheads.eu |
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Closing date for the next issue: Friday 1st May
The Newsletter team say a big THANK YOU to everyone involved in production and distribution of its nearly 2000 copies. If you would like to help, please contact us.
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