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Stow Times Issue 90 • July 2011 Stow timeS Issue 90 • July 2011 An independent paper delivered to homes & businesses in Stow-on-the-Wold, Broadwell, Adlestrop, Oddington, Bledington, Icomb, Church Westcote, Nether Westcote, Wyck & Little Rissington, Maugersbury, Nether Swell, Lower & Upper Swell, Naunton, Donnington, Condicote, Longborough and Temple Guiting Copies go into the GO-STOW Information Centre, Burford Information Centre, and onto the Villager Bus. Copies are also available at centres around Kingham and Guiting Powers. Extra copies are generally available in the Stow Library. Stow timeS From the Editor It’s a few weeks now since we went to the polls to elect our district Inside this edition & local councillors - enough time for the dust to settle and work to begin ‘in earnest’. There was little change in representation in Stow FEATURES and, along with many other folk, I hope that won’t stop things 6 You only have minutes to save a life – the Community Public progressing well in the months to come. Access Defibrillator The Localism Bill, for all the press comment and behind the scenes 7 Working together to make the difference – St Lawrence’s debate, got through its Second Reading this month and, as it opens up new doorways and challenges for local communities, we need to be Church, Wyck Rissington from Andrew Ransom aware of what is involved. For a start - how local is ‘local’? Is CDC 10 STOW’S GOT TALENT - Everyone is welcome! our ‘local’ council, or should they be listening to and working with the residents and business people who know these areas best? If that is 11 The Wrong Case – A Short Story by local author, Nicholas John the preferred model then our Town Plan, initiated and consulted 12 Fostering – Have you got time to spare? upon last year, will be an invaluable guide to where we are wanting to be in, say, five or ten years time – for housing, schools, transport, 35 Hydrotherapy, for your pet parking, hospitals, police, recreation…etc…etc…and some of the responsibility for making sure that the Town Plan is observed rests on us, as well our town and parish councillors. It’s ‘our’ town plan, and complacency is not a good friend in times like these – look at its track REGULARS record! 10 Book Reviews from Cotswold Bookstore CDC are neither a magnanimous and paternal overlord and provider nor a cynical and unresponsive district authority, such as the Sheriff of 13 Robb Eden – on VAT and the importance of our small local businesses. Nottingham would have recognised! Their role is to use their funding (received from us, our businesses and the authorities above them in the chain) and their authority to make the district work at all service 17 The Community ‘Right to Build’ + Conservation and Localism and amenity levels, with care and attention to the plans and ambitions 18 Stow Town Council – Notes from the last Council Meeting; of their communities. 19 Local Authorities, meetings & information In our democratic process we elect our representatives to CDC in order for them to attend the committees to do just that – to 20 Church Services represent our opinions and our plans for the future, and to debate 22, 23 Village Halls; Rural Cinemas and Regular Events Diary. the issues that arise with that in mind. Our representatives are not CDC’s representatives, not ‘the Sheriff’s men’ – and that must surely 27 EVENTS DIARY for July mean that they are not ‘the Party’s men’ either. They aren’t in the Party’s pay, after all – whichever budget their attendance allowance 21- 30 LOCAL EVENTS for July and expenses come from, it was provided by our taxes and our rates. 29 Local Walks in July So, our local meetings, about where the town is headed and how we get there, should be well attended then? 32, 33 Correspondence – The new and the old Hospital – where does Meanwhile, let’s hope that some overdue summer weather will all the equipment go? encourage us back out into our gardens and the amazing countryside that we see from our windows. I hope you will have a very happy July. Debating Fuel prices; and In the Editor’s Opinion… 34 North Cotswold Rotary; Kingham & District Rotary News Best wishes Jenni Turner, Editor 37-40 Reports from some of our local Schools Our Front Cover: 43, 45, 47 News & Reports from some of the Local Sports Clubs, etc.. Common Blue Butterflies – taken and sent in by Liz Lal, Stow. 48 Club News & Reports Copydate for the August edition is 16th July 2011. 49 Clubs, Societies & Associations, etc (this list is updated bi-monthly) (The 16th is our copy date for every month next year) 51 Local Business Directory Thank you to all our contributors, the writers and photographers who have helped produce this edition. This month the team doing research, sub-editing and proof reading was tiny - Jan Marley (who also manages Telephone Stow Times on our deliveries) and Yours Truly. The volunteers helping to deliver the magazines have changed a little too, and we thank everyone for their help, past & present. A lot of our deliverers tell us how much they enjoy 07789 175 002 doing it and, as a deliverer myself, I think it’s because it is a really great (The phone will take your messages too – leave your way to get to know your area…and your neighbours (it does help when name & contact number; we will return your call.) the weather is nice!) email STOW TIMES on Our design team this month was Eagle Design Ltd. [email protected] 0845 230 8955 / www.eagledesign.net www.stowtimes.co.uk Extra copies of Stow Times are generally available at Go-Stow, Stow’s Visitor Information Centre in Talbot Court, Stow, and at Stow Library. P O Box 6, Sheep Street, Copies are also carried on The Villager Bus. Stow on the Wold, GL54 1WD Amazing Art’s Kool produces outstanding work Art’s Kool is a unique new Arts Festival created by artist Jan Harvey to encourage young people aged 8-18 to explore their creativity to the full. The first Festival on 11 June received over 50 entries and the judges were very impressed by the standard of the work. The stunning winning piece was a crinoline dress made of hammered out drinks cans and “fanned” magazine pages created by 15 year old Bryony Parkinson, who received £150 and a specially commissioned glass trophy. Another stunning entry was an intricate and beautiful ‘Little Owl’ made entirely from old jewellery and watch parts by 13 year old Milly Light. On the day, 5 workshops in the morning were transformed into an instant exhibition in the afternoon, with work framed and displayed as soon as it was completed. Eight local companies lead by The Rooflight Company provided the sponsorship to make the event possible. Photographer David Fisher gave his time free of charge and his amazing pictures of the event are online https://rcpt.yousendit.com/1147349759/2b50133d862eb63f3a842e99ff96f4b8 Contact Jan Harvey at Art’s Kool on 01993 832357 or mail [email protected] Our names are Katie Lillywhite and Beth Pudifoot. We are in the sixth form at The Cotswold School and have recently taken up an amazing opportunity to go on an expedition to Zambia and Botswana in 2012! In order to raise funds for this we have set up a t-shirt printing and designing business in association with Phil Bedford of RedMolotov, husband of local florist Vivian Bedford (Stow Roses). On the expedition with 13 other Cotswold school students we will spend 28 days in Zambia and Botswana. We will firstly visit our link school in Ndola, then travel east to complete a 5 day trek in the Mutinondo Wilderness. We will also spend a week in Mwandi building a house for an orphaned member of the community, who is a victim of the HIV pandemic before visiting Victoria Falls and returning home. To be able to do this we have to raise £4000 by next summer! ...so we set up BanKc! We began by designing t-shirts and had Cat Sutton and Dom Sharrock model them for our catalogue, which we put together to promote our designs and company. We also had posters professionally printed as part of our advertising campaign. This was all in the build up for our launch at school on 28th April 2011. We chose students from all year groups to participate in a catwalk to showcase our designs and new catalogue. We had a really good turnout of both students and teachers. Since then we have also produced leaver’s hoodies for Cotswold School year 11’s and t-shirts for trips to Barcelona and France. We are also currently designing and organising kit for Cotswold School Barbados sports tour 2012. Recently we have gone ONLINE! If you would like to have a look then please do; the web address you need is www.redmolo.tv/bankc. As we are in partnership with RedMolotov, there are also loads more designs on this website so take your time and have a good look, you may find the ideal birthday present or the perfect new t-shirt for (a hopefully warm) summer. You can also visit our facebook page where you can suggest ideas for forthcoming t-shirt designs. We hope to gain as much as possible from our Zambian experience but hopefully we’ll also be able make a small difference to the Mwandi community, so we would be very grateful if you could support us. 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