Jack Labrador (the real dog) has been nominated as Dog of the Month
on the Walk 4 Life website and we have just recieved notification that he is dog of the month for January. As you would expect, he is completely nonplussed by the whole thing and prefers to concentrate on Bonio's and his comfy cushion.
Our thanks to whoever nominated him.
Visit his entry on Walk 4 Life
Men's Breakfast You are cordially invited to a Christian Men's Breakfast
Saturday 21st January at 8 am
at The Lansdowne Hotel, Calne
Speaker will be Alan Kember Esq. of Corsham.
He will be talking about his recent visit to the Holy Land Full Details....
We have a Calendar Girl in our midst!
Sophie Daw from Manor Farm has been selected to have her picture used on the March page of the LKL Services calendar. Her picture was taken with "Elkington Dewdrop 20th", the Champion Calf in the North Somerset Show 2011
Our congratulations to Sophie, and to Manor Farm!
The picture used in the calendar can be seen by clicking on this link
Finlays Garden at Woodborough School
Finlay Connor was the little boy who was sadly killed after a collision with a bus outside Woodborough school last year. There is an Environmental Garden being created as a lasting memorial to Finlay at the school to this little boy who was taken so soon. Funds are needed to make this happen and Waitrose have nominated this cause as one of their "Community Matters" projects for the month of January. Finlays Mum has asked that anyone going into Waitrose in Marlborough over the next month put their green token into the Finlays Garden box to help provide funds to create somewhere for Finlays friends, his family and for the school to remember him by.
An Appeal on Behalf of Wiltshire Age UK
The Bishop of Salisbury Blesses The Oldbury Benefice Crib
'Twas
a dark, wintry, mid December afternoon, with the cold rain stinging the faces of those foolish enough to brave the world outside their door when there was an almost biblical parting of the clouds. With dark storm clouds, threatening, but staying to the north of us and a slightly lighter yet no less threatening sky to the south with a light blue sky directly overhead the combined parishes of the Oldbury Benefice joined for the first visit of the Bishop of Salisbury, The Right Reverend Nicholas Holtam to bless the crib on the A4. Full story....
Jason Day, the Wiltshire Council Case Officer on the above application, made the following the subject of a Chairman’s Announcement on Tuesday’s Calne Area Board.
A meeting was held on Friday last between Wiltshire Council Officers and representatives of Hills Waste and their advisors to discuss the concerns raised by Wiltshire Highways and Public Protection teams about the Transport Assessment submitted with this application.
The outcome of the meeting was that Hills will revisit the Traffic Assessment and carry out the required “origin to destination” traffic survey. Hills do not expect to be in a position to submit the revised Transport Assessment until the end of February 2012. Consequently, the earliest date the application could go before the Strategic Planning Committee is 16 May 2012 as a further round of publicity and consultation will be required once the revised Transport Assessment is received.
Assurances have been given that any responses your Parish Council or individual residents have already made to the application will not be invalidated, but may wish to be updated in view of the further information contained in the revised Transport Assessment. Some cameras which have been mounted on street furniture in and around Calne are part of an Automatic Number Plate Recognition survey commissioned by Hills to provide traffic data which will contribute to the Transport Assessment.
Speed Watch!!
Speeding motorists through our village is a big problem and although mercifully there have been no serious accidents, the problem shows no signs of going away without some kind of action. A servey was carried out in early August and the results were quite alarming
(Read report). The Police agreed to supply a speed camera to the parish council and train selected volunteers in it's use. Training is now under way prior to operations commencing at several sites within the parish. More volunteers are required and those interested should apply in the first instance to the Parish Clerk whose details can be found in the section on your parish council.
The New Non Emergency Number is now live in our area!
101 is the number to call when you want to contact your local police - when it’s less urgent than a 999 call. 101 is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Older stories can still be found under the tab on the menu village/news
Jack Labrador
Follow the up to date exploits of Jack Labrador, as featured in The Parishes magazine
Other Blogs form the same author The Major's Diary
The post war diaries of The Major recording the exploits of one Corporal Carruthers.
