Brixworth Bulletin The village newspaper of Brixworth, Draughton, Hanging Houghton & Lamport Issue 37, June 2013 Catherine Boardman wins Brixworth seat on County Council In the Council Catherine and her husband Anthony live in Welford, where they have elections on 2 May, farmed for over 30 years and brought up three daughters. “They’re all Catherine Boardman now married, making us happy grandparents,” she says. (Con) was elected to represent the “I am a very practical person and my ethos is grounded on a lifetime Brixworth division in farming and the ‘university of life’. I believe that for every action on Northampton there is a consequence and that what we take out has to be put back County Council. – how we do that shapes the future for all of us. She follows Chris Catherine takes a broad interest in all elements of Council business, Millar, who’d held particularly in the needs of children and young people in our that position for communities. Every year every councillor receives £7,000 to spend in 12 years but stood their area, and in the past pre-school and primary school projects were down at the election the main beneficiaries of Catherine’s Councillor Empowerment Fund. to concentrate on his commitments as “I look forward to working with you to help support projects within leader of Daventry your communities,” she says. “It is always a challenge, particularly District Council (see because the Brixworth Division comprises Brixworth and 22 other also p 6). villages! But the money is there to help and I look forward to hearing from groups who think that they might have a community-driven This does not project that would benefit from some support.” mean that Catherine is new to the County “I look forward to getting to know my new communities and Council; for the attending meetings and events to make that happen.if you need my past six years she help on an issue, have a question or would like to invite me to an represented the Uplands Division, which was abolished in the recent event please contact me on
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