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JUNE 2016 Parish matters 4 St Helier celebrates May Day 18 Oi, Crowcroft! 7 Town Centre News 20 Acorn Jersey Open is the whole in one 8 Final stitch added to Occupation Tapestry 23 Magic Touch – business of the month 11 The countdown has begun! 24 Made in Normandy 12 Parish Homes and Nurseries 26 Designed and produced each month Scouting across the Island 14 Parish Notice Board 28 by MailMate Publishing Jersey in partnership with the Parish of St Helier A day in the life of Registrars 16 Your handy recycling schedule 30 Clear investment. Pure energy. ELECTRIC HEATING PLEASING CROWDS IN GROWING NUMBERS HOW ABOUT YOU? Hundreds of customers in Jersey are now converting their homes to electric heating. It’s greener, it’s cleaner, it’s sustainable, it’s 100% efficient. Electricity is the energy of the future. Thousands of Islanders are ready for that future. Call 505460 and we’ll take a look at Tel 505460 your existing heating system and help you get ready for that future, too. www.jec.co.uk Connétable: Simon Crowcroft Tel: 811821 Fax: 619146 Email: [email protected] Town Hall: PO Box 50, St Helier, Jersey, JE4 8PA to the June edition of the Town Hall Opening Hours: 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday Town Crier. This month the Parish Meetings: Notices of Parish meeting are published on our website: www.sthelier.je, in The St Helier Town Crier and the Jersey Evening Post. Island’s celebrations of Her Majesty the Queen’s 90th birthday take place, marked in Procureur du Bien Public: Peter Pearce our Parish by a service in the Town Church, Tel: 639533 Email: [email protected] Procureur du Bien Public: Geraint Jennings Military Review in the Royal Square and a tea Tel: 280778 Email: [email protected] Director, Human Resources: Martin Roberts party in Broad Street. The Parish’s new bunting Tel: 811824 Email: [email protected] Director, Parks, Gardens & Open Spaces: Anthony Andrews is up in the main shopping streets, with Tel: 811700 Email: [email protected] images of Her Majesty alongside the flags of Director, Municipal Services: Debra D'Orleans Tel: 811703 Email: [email protected] the United Kingdom, Jersey and the Parish of Director, Technical & Environment Services: John Stievenard Tel: 811845 Email: [email protected] St Helier, while the Parish’s municipal services Director, Finance: Neil Macdonald Tel: 811829 Email: [email protected] teams are working to ensure that our streets, Director and Manager of HR: Alison Sweeney pavements, parks and squares are clean, bright Tel: 811880 Email: [email protected] Director and Town Centre Manager: Daphne East and full of flowers. Our events programme this Tel: 811813 Email:[email protected] month kicks off with the popular motor festival with various races as well as family activities Deputy Judy Martin Tel: 780641 Email: [email protected] and the splendid concourse of cars and Deputy Russell Labey Tel: 481083 Email:[email protected] motorbikes on People’s Park, while the Deputy Scott Wickenden Tel: 07797 717766 Email: [email protected] celebrations around Portugal Day on the 10th Deputy Rod Bryans Tel: 737236 Email: [email protected] of the month and Madeira Day on the 1st of Deputy Geoff Southern Tel: 728231 Email: [email protected] Deputy Sam Mézec Tel: 07797 811130 Email: [email protected] July have both been extended to 3-day festivals. It’s not all fun and games, however, as the Deputy Jackie Hilton Tel: 07797 713293 Email: [email protected] Deputy Mike Higgins Tel: 873956 Email: [email protected] Parish’s Finance Department, Accounts Deputy Richard Rondel Tel: 07797 711537 Email: [email protected] Deputy Andrew Lewis Tel: 862663 Email: [email protected] Committee and Parish auditors scrutinise the Parish accounts from the last financial year Constable’s PA: Annie Bienvenu and prepare their recommendations for the Tel: 811821 Email: [email protected] Customer Services Manager: Daryn Cleworth Rates Assembly next month: 7pm on Tel: 811870 Email: [email protected] Wednesday 13th July is a date to put in the Community Support Helpline: Tel: 811866 RPZ Helpline Tel: 811811 Email: [email protected] diary now if you want to have a say in how Parish Depot: Tel: 811708 Email: [email protected] Duty Centenier: Tel: 07797 722227 your rates are spent – and how much you will Registrar: Tel: 811088 pay in rates this year! Avranches and Westmount Nurseries Nurseries Co-ordinator: Linda Le Marquand Tel: 811719 Email: [email protected] Manager at Avranches: Carole Luce Tel: 811719 Manager at Westmount: Jane Snodgrass Tel: 811718 St Helier House Residential Home: Jacqueline Jolley Tel: 811715 Email: [email protected] St Ewold’s Residential Home: Ann McLean Tel: 811716 Email: [email protected] Nigel Blake Tel: 875339 Email: [email protected] The Very Rev. Bob Key Tel: 720001 Email: [email protected] Bob Le Brocq Tel: 743606 Email: [email protected] Peter Wade Tel: 875663 Email: [email protected] Bernie Manning Tel: 07700 356438 Email: [email protected] 3 David Curtis is the Parish's newest Centenier Formerly a member of the Honorary Police in St John, he has moved into St Helier and is keen to contribute his time and experience to policing in the Parish. He is pictured outside the Royal Court with Chef de Police, Danny Scaife. Band of the Island of Jersey Concert The Band performed in the Town Hall's Assembly Room last month with a retiring collection in aid of Diabetes Jersey. St Helier sponsors lunchtime pétanque league The Parish is continuing to provide sponsorship to enable the popular pétanque competition to go ahead at Weighbridge Place. There are four divisions with over 100 people taking part. Games are played during the lunch hour and modest trophies awarded to the best performing teams in the summer and winter leagues. The Parish's own team, 'Saints and Sinners', is pictured in action. Former Vingtenier honoured Honorary Police colleagues, family and friends of the late Vingtenier Paul Atkinson attended a reception at the St Helier Honorary Police offices in Nelson Street last month. The occasion was the unveiling of a portrait in the main room of the building where the monthly Honorary Police meetings are held. Paul's widow, Terri, is pictured in front of the portrait, together with her son and daughter-in-law and their two children. Paul Atkinson was elected as a Constable’s Officer for St Helier’s Honorary Police on 10th July 1992 and elected as a Vingtenier on 19th January 1996. He remained in post until his passing away on 8th May 2013 when he had almost completed 21 years' service. During his time as a Vingtenier Paul was also in charge of the Parish’s Civil Emergency Team, while his job at Rouge Bouillon School also helped to make him a well-known, respected and popular member of the community. 4 Dale Hector and Marc Adams Parks work in the Parish Aubin le Pennec and David de Ste Croix of our Parks team planted hardy perennials at First Tower Park at the end of April, a display that will bring a boost of colour to the long border from St Andrew’s Church to St Aubin’s Inner Road. Dale Hector and Marc Adams have also been busy in the glasshouses, preparing the plants which will be placed in our town parks and precincts for the coming summer displays. Aubin le Pennec and David de Ste Croix 5 of Jersey’s economy, of how willing the public and private sectors are to invest in the infrastructure of our town. It’s worth adding that some schemes such as the States’ project to alleviate flooding in St Oi, Crowcroft! Helier by providing surface water drainage, the construction of major new retail and motorist stopped on the pedestrian before the summer season gets underway. hospitality developments, and the crossing outside the Town Hall last It’s the same reason that the Parish has an conversion of outworn offices into modern Amonth, wound his window down, embargo period between 1st May and the apartments, can’t be completed outside and, having got my attention, asked me end of September during which the Roads the tourist season, which is why there is a why I had planned the various roadworks Committee won’t allow scaffolding to be continuation of some scaffolding and around town to take place at the same put up in the town centre. So in the roadworks through the summer period. If time. Leaving aside the fact that the months leading up to the summer there the gentleman who hailed me had majority of roadworks are carried out on was certainly an enormous amount of contacted me by ‘phone, letter or email, or States’ main roads and don’t require my both roadworks and scaffolding, causing had stopped somewhere other than on permission (nor indeed the approval of the significant disruption for people trying to the York Street pedestrian crossing, I would Minister of the Department for Infrastructure, go about their business in St Helier. The have explained this to him: none of us at least until the newly-approved Streetworks other side of the coin, however, is that the likes to see roadworks but St Helier’s Law comes into force this autumn), the garish red barriers around the excavations streets are not dug up for the sake of it but answer has a lot to do with the fact that along our streets and the equally garish to improve the quality of our lives.