To Pegasus Bridge with Our Veterans • Foods to Boost Your Feel-Good
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
‘Liberation’ To Pegasus Bridge with our veterans • Foods to boost your feel-good factor St Helier closes a GAAP in its accounts • Elections for St Helier deputies Inaugural Halkett Hoedown for Headway • View on St Helier – André Ferrari Delivered by Jersey Post to 19,000 homes and businesses every month. Designed and produced by MailMate Publishing Jersey in partnership with the Parish of St Helier. elcome to the October edition of the Town WCrier which features on its cover a new variety of Contents tulip, called ‘Liberation’. This Parish matters 4 was developed by Dutch growers, Jac. Uittenbogaard & Zonen B.V. at Help make a difference 6 the request of the Dutch government to To Pegasus Bridge with our veterans 8 mark the Liberation of the Netherlands by the Allied Forces and officially launched at a ceremony at Foods to boost your feel-good factor 9 the Dutch Embassy this year. Due to the St Helier Parks and St Helier closes a GAAP in its accounts 10 Gardens Department’s close relationship with the bulb company over the years, it was suggested that the Channel The French Connection 12 Islands should be included in the launch of the new bulb, Elections for St Helier deputies 14 with 1,000 bulbs of the red and yellow ‘Triumph’ tulip 16 being prepared for planting this month. Director of Parks, Inaugural Halkett Hoedown for Headway Tony Andrews, says that it is a great honour for the Parish View on St Helier 18 to be receiving the new tulips. ‘We will be inviting the Historic St Helier by Geraint Jennings 20 primary schools of the Parish to help us to plant them in pots and we will then control the growth by holding them Town Centre news 22 back in coolers, as our warm spring climate would push News from the Parish Homes 23 them to flower before Liberation Day next year.’ The Parish is planning a number of special events to mark Liberation Quarterly Honorary Police report 23 70, and parishioners with ideas of their own or who would From the Polish Community 24 like to be involved in the planning are welcome to contact the Parish on 811811 or by email, [email protected]. St Helier schools 24 October of course sees the first General Election, with Parish Groups 25 electors going to their polling stations on 15th October to 26 take part in elections for 8 Senators, 3 Deputies (or 4 for Organisations in St Helier electors of St Helier No. 3&4 District), 1 Constable and also Dates for your diary 27 to vote in the referendum over whether the Constables Parish Notice Board 28 should retain the automatic right to sit in the States Assembly. St Helier’s Electoral Officer, Eric Blakeley, says, The St Helier Gazette 30 ‘With record numbers of people on the register we hope this will be reflected in a record turnout in St Helier. This is, after all, parishioners’ chance to decide how the Island is run for the next 31/2 years.’ A special feature on the candidates in the St Helier Districts is on pages 14 and 15 of this month’s magazine. The St Helier Town Crier is published by the Parish of St Helier in association with MailMate. Parish of St Helier: Town Hall, PO Box 50, York Street, St Helier, Jersey, JE4 8PA www.sthelier.je Editorial contact: Annie Le Noury T: (01534) 811821 E: [email protected] MailMate: Le Quai Bisson, Le Boulevard, St Aubin, Jersey, JE3 8JT. E: [email protected] If you like the look of our magazine and think it would be the right place for your company to advertise please contact Phil Osborne on 01534 493300 or email The theme of our front cover this month is ‘Sowing for [email protected]. Liberation’. St Helier’s school children will plant a new variety Copyright notice: 2014©Parish of St Helier. The entire content of this magazine of tulip this month as part of Parish plans for Liberation 70. is protected by copyright. All rights are reserved. No part of this magazine may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise with prior written consent of the copyright owner. www.sthelier.je The Parish website is an Reprint details: Reprints of articles can be obtained by contacting the publishers. important way of keeping parishioners informed and Disclaimer: While the Parish of St Helier and their contributors to The St Helier updated. It doesn’t stand alone – we use adverts, Town Crier have provided the information contained in this magazine in good circulars, press releases and of course this Town Crier faith, they accept no responsibility, financial or otherwise, for any action taken by any other party as a result of the information provided. Independent and to try and reach everyone. But the website helps those appropriate advice should always be sought on such matters. The views of us who want to interact with organisations online expressed written in this magazine are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the Parish of St Helier or MailMate. Whilst every and at a time that suits us. Why not take a look at what effort is taken to ensure accuracy, the Parish of St Helier and MailMate accept no www.sthelier.je can offer you? responsibility for errors or omissions that may occur. 3 A round-up of the latest news and events from the Town Hall, Parish departments and our associated clubs and organisations. PARISH DEPOT accommodate the needs of the different environment of diverting recyclable varieties of plants. items from incineration. OPEN DAY The visit continued with a look at the he Depot’s Open Day took place mechanical workshops where a number during St Helier Week on 17th of vehicles and equipment are serviced TJuly and was well attended with and maintained. This section takes care parishioners taking the opportunity to of the full range of vehicles and have a behind the scenes look at what equipment which are in use on a daily happens at the Depot on a daily basis. basis across the Parish – anything from a We were delighted to receive a visit from strimmer to a refuse truck. the Major of Funchal, Dr Paulo Cafôfo, The visit finished with a tour of the and also Ashley and Joan Middleton, building and Roads Maintenance from Middleton Engineering, who Department where manager Rob Gilmore manufactured and supplied the new explained the importance of the Parish recycling baler. The tour then moved on to the road works schemes and the resources The tour started with a walk through viewing gallery in the recycling required to respond to the planning the glasshouses to see how the Parks & processing facility to see the new schedules for maintaining Parish Gardens staff propagate plants for their recycling baler in operation which was buildings. tremendous floral displays around the baling cardboard during the visit. They We received positive comments from Parish. The visitors were impressed by were also able to witness the coloured a number of visitors who did not realise the computerised temperature sensor bags being delivered directly into the that so much went on behind the scenes, equipment which eithers lowers or raises recycling facility before being sorted into and we’d like to extend an invitation to the temperature in the glasshouses by the different commodity types: plastics, any organisation or group, such as automatically operating the vents and steel, aluminium, paper and light card. It Scouts, Brownies, youth groups or shade blinds in the roof. It was explained was explained why the Parish chose the schools to visit the Depot. Please contact that different sections of the glasshouses coloured bag scheme for its kerbside Debra D’Orleans on 811703 or email can be controlled separately to collection and the benefits to the [email protected]. UPDATE ON LE CLOS VAZE Since formally adopting roads, footways and garden areas at Le Clos Vaze in May 2014 the Parish has been active in sweeping, cleaning, litter picking and garden tending those parts for which it is responsible. There is a marked improvement on the neatness and presentation of the garden borders, and the dangerous parking which has blighted the main entrance driveway for a number of years has disappeared. The Parish is pleased that it can now offer residents the same service provision afforded to other public realm areas in St Helier. >> Playing Dead: A Murder Mystery Saturday 18 October 7pm arrival Nick Carver / Event by Design Jersey’s newest amateur drama group is about to present its first production at the Jersey Arts Centre: their interpretation of ‘the Scottish play’. It’s opening night and tempers are flaring; Act II scene IV hasn’t been blocked yet and the witches’ warts still haven’t arrived from Ebay. But worse is yet to come…. Join us for an evening of intrigue, interaction, insults, interrogation and impossible improvisation — to miss it would be criminal! £30 (including 3 course meal) / Members: £25.50 All drinks ordered and paid for separately at the bar Box Office: 700444 www.artscentre.je 5 >> PARISH MATTERS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4 THE RATES ASSESSMENT COMMITTEE is looking for a couple of people who are prepared to devote two mornings a week from mid-February to the end of March and then as needed until the end of June. The work comprises checking all the annual returns and, where changes have been notified, checking that the current assessment is either correct or requires TALON: THE BEST amendment.