Hothfield News Volume 3 No. 11 November 2012 The Monthly Newsletter by the Community, for the Community Parish Council NOTICE OF CASUAL VACANCY There have been a few changes to the Parish Council recently, and it currently has just six members. HOTHFIELD These are : Larry Krause (Chairman) John Collins Penny Sutcliffe PARISH Peter Howard Liz Turner Diane Hogben. COUNCIL This is a chance for YOU to make a contribution to the life and development of has one vacancy our village. Why not drop a line to the Parish Clerk? for a Parish The address is in the notice on the right. Councillor If you are interested in serving as a Village Hall Parish Councillor please write to the Clerk at the address shown below, giving details of interests, experience Regular Activities and reasons for wishing to serve: Mondays Dance Class 8-10pm Mrs Judith Batt, Parish Clerk to Hothfield Parish Council, Tuesdays Bowls 7-9.30pm. Come and join us! Keg Barn, Hornash Lane, Wednesdays Dog Training 6.30-9.30pm Shadoxhurst, Ashford, Kent TN26 1HX Thursdays Bingo 7.30 to 9./00pm. or Email: [email protected] Fridays Youth Club 6-8.30pm. Saturdays Rugby Tots 9-10.45am. Applicants will be considered by the current Membership and the To book the Village Hall for your Parties, decision made by ballot vote. Date Get-togethers, etc., of meeting at which co-option is to please ring Carol on 01233 610455. be included on the agenda to be advised, following receipt of application(s). The successful candidate will thereafter be co-opted onto the Parish Council. To qualify, a person must be a British subject or citizen of the Irish Republic, over 18 years of age and an elector. Additionally they must reside within the parish of Hothfield, or within 3 miles of it, or occupy as owner or tenant any land or premises therein, or have their principal or only place of work there, and must not be disqualified from holding office as a Councillor. Judith Batt, Clerk to Hothfield Parish Council 19 October 2012 On Sunday 25th November 2012 The Hothfield World Cinema Film Club proudly presents: Jumble Juniors are holding a children's nearly new sale at Hothfield Village Hall, on Saturday 24th November from 10.30am until 1pm. Why not clear out all those toys cluttering up your loft? To book a table, simply visit www.jumblejuniors.co.uk to choose, book and pay for your table online. Or simply come along on the day and pick up some bargains! Many thanks in advance The Charing Guild of Players present Blithe Spirit A comedy by Noel Coward 7.30pm, Charing Church Barn Thursday 15 November – Saturday 17 November Tickets (£8) available on the door or in advance from either THE CHARING STORES (01233 712325) or on-line (www.charingguild.com) All about Recycling Kent recycling? Nul points! b) transfer part of the waste (all of it Autumn’s always a good time to do a wouldn’t fit) from my partner’s van bit of shed clearing before the winter – into my small car, or it’s amazing what tends to accu- c) pay for another tankful of petrol mulate in there! Broken suit- to lug it all the way to Canter- Editor’s reply cases, outdated computer bury again. Besides, there Actually, it’s not as bad as all that, parts, dead umbrellas, old were other things we and KCC tells us it’s going to get better. phones, broken garden wanted to do with the rest For a start, very little of Kent’s rub- tools, cardboard boxes, of our Sunday! So next bish goes to landfill; only the very spent batteries...all poten- time we’ll be taking any bulky stuff. The rest is burnt at the tially recyclable materials. new waste to Canterbury if Allington Quarry site near Maidstone, Having learned from this the centre at Ashford is still where it produces enough electricity Newsletter about the 6 month closed, but this week it’s all going (43 megawatts) to power the whole of closure of Ashford’s recycling centre, out with our regular household rub- Ashford Borough. The plant is one of last Sunday my partner dutifully bish for the bin-men. What would you the most modern in Europe, and emis- headed off to the Canterbury one in have done? sions of all kinds are kept to an abso- his van, and queued up for admission How shameful that Kent council not lute minimum. … only to be told that vans were no only makes it very difficult to recycle Secondly, Ashford residents will longer admitted, only cars. Appar- much (you can’t even put cardboard, soon be able to recycle more at home ently this was not just Canterbury’s jiffy bags or windowed envelopes in with a new and improved waste and policy, but applied to the whole of with your paper for your blue box col- recycling collection service. Kent. Domestic van owners had to lection every 2 weeks, which only The new service means that you will apply for a license and demonstrate takes glass and tins apart from paper), be able to add even more materials to that their van was the only registered but discourages those who take the your regular blue box recycling, such vehicle at their address. Why? Pre- time and effort to do so by penalising as plastics, cardboard and Tetra packs, sumably to stop commercial vans from them according to the car they use to and there will be a new weekly food dumping their waste free of charge take their rubbish (at their own ex- waste collection, under the guise of domestic vehicles, pense, mind!) to the dump. No dis- The new service will be rolled out clearly bringing the emphasis away counts off the council tax bill available from April 2013, and will save around from what a community recycling cen- for those who regularly recycle, either. £500,000 a year of taxpayers‘ money. tre should be about – namely the recy- And how shocking, when most of the On the other hand, Isobel still won’t cling of waste, whether of commercial rest of Europe routinely collects differ- be able to go to the tip in a van with- or domestic origin - and right onto entiated domestic waste directly from out a special voucher. Nor can you creating a profit from commercial ve- households (in Italy for instance dif- take a trailer more than 2.05 metres hicles, who, if cash-strapped, rather ferent types of rubbish are collected (7 ft.) long, or more than 33 bricks or than pay will now probably revert to on different weekdays, and similar 90kg of rubble, and if you want to the ghastly eyesore of fly-tipping in schemes operate in other European dump asbestos or car tyres, there’s a our beautiful countryside. Hardly an countries) that the UK in general, and £5 charge. You can’t win them all. environmentally-aware piece of policy, Kent in particular, should still be stuck HGB is it? in the dark days of undifferentiated And what did we do? Well, having rubbish collecting and the horrors of spent half of Sunday clearing out the landfills. Kent council, environmen- shed and carting it all the way to Can- tally aware? The evidence suggests terbury at our own expense, we were otherwise. not going to: a) put it all back again, Isobel Deeley The temporary recycling centre for Ashford opened on 26 October. It is at the Viridor site, still on the Cobbs Wood Estate, at the end of Brunswick Road, 200 yards past the old site. Allington Quarry Waste Management Facility Hothfield Post Now in its Third Year! Office for all your day-to-day needs October 25th Draw Winners 1st Prize No.19 £24 Watch out for 2nd No.130 £14.40 3rd No.141 £9.60 Special Offers on Beer, Wine and Groceries! The very heart and centre of our village There's always a welcome and a friendly face at Hothfield Post Office Aunt Jemima’s List of Unfortunate Predictions "Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1½ tons." -- Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949 "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." -- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943 "This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us." -- Western Union internal memo, 1876. "Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." -- Lord Kelvin, President of the Royal Society, 1895. "Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy." -- Well-borers whom Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his project to drill for oil in 1859. "Everything that can be invented has been invented." -- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899. "Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction". - - Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872 "The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon". -- Sir John Eric Ericksen, British surgeon, appointed Surgeon-Extraordinary to Queen Victoria 1873. "The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?" -- David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s. "We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." -- Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962.