Brixworth Bulletin the Village Newspaper of Brixworth, Draughton, Hanging Houghton & Lamport Issue 37, June 2013
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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 [email protected] or boundary review. 01858575274.” -cfw Country Park tops vote for Deserving Cause Brixworth Counrty Park has won the poll for the Bulletin’s ‘Deserving Cause’ for 2013. Particularly well-supported by people voting online, the Country Park racked up almost twice as many votes as the runner-up, the Christian Fellowship’s Family Fun Day. Chief Ranger Chris Howe was delighted. “The support from the Bulletin will allow us to build a nature classroom for the many schoolchildren who come to the park each year to study wildlife up close,” he says. The money will be spent on a chestnut paling fence and a hand gate to fence off an area in the park, so that the wildlife in the area is not disturbed by everyday activities in the park. Rangers will also set up mini habitats for invertebrates and help with activities such as mini-beast hunts. In addition, Chris plans to buy a camouflaged wildlife camera. “This will allow us to capture images of wildlife in the park and on the Brampton Valley Way that people rarely get to see. I look forward to using those images for our Facebook pages, Bulletin articles and a digital photo-frame that we hope to install in the new visitor Sywell Country Park already has an enclosure similar to the one Chris information booth.” Howe is planning for Brixworth Meanwhile we’re happy to report that, thanks to other fundraising activities, Saxon Spires Surgery has already reached and overshot its goal to raise £20,000 for a new mobile ultrasound scanner. The fund raising campaign to pay for the new guttering and downpipes at All Saints Church is starting to gain momentum, and Reverend Chloe and the church wardens are busily preparing for the Family Fun Afternoon on 2 June. Let’s hope the weather is kind to them so that everyone turns out in force, has a fantastic day and in the process helps raise the money for the much-needed repairs! Issue 37, June 2013 BRIXWORTH BULLETIN 1 The Brixworth Spare a thought for the Bulletin are: Claudia Flavell-While, editor 882567; [email protected] hard-revising teenagers! Jacquie Hampton, advertising Fiona Kelsall, invoicing As the tantalising warmth of summer approaches (well, I hope it approaches... says the 881557; [email protected] optimistic teenager whilst looking out at his garden partially shrouded in the remnants of spring George Hammerschmidt, art and design snowfall) a lot of you may be looking forward to the sunshine and BBQs . However, for myself and thousands of other teenagers, spring heralds a time where we just want to curl up and hide 880212; [email protected] until the rain that signals the start of summer arrives. Yes, you’ve guessed it: Exams! Louise Robinson, distribution 883641; [email protected] This is the time of year where teenagers around the country are tucked away in their rooms with their nose in the latest revision guide for useless subjects or, in my case at least, Sheila Jenner, treasurer staring at a single page in my science workbook and resigning myself to a life where none of 881173; [email protected] my elaborate dreams are fulfilled. It’s a thing adults rarely seem to understand. My father is Regular correspondents: constantly reminding me that this is an important time for me, and that I should be excited Jennifer Fitzgerald about the opportunity these exams present, as he would be if he was in my shoes. I wish I Mike Philpott could see it from his point of view; truthfully, I am scared out of my wits. I suppose it’s the fear of the unknown that scares me most: the fact that I don’t know for sure what life is like, and Kate Calnan how it works. Or maybe, it’s a fear of responsibility. Brian Webster Alex Campbell It’s a bit like childhood. You have no real responsibilities when you’re a child, just to have fun. To smile and to laugh. You’re carefree, without the knowledge to comprehend the bad things in Letters to The Old School, Manor Road, the world. However, as you grow, responsibilities are thrust upon you which, at first, you accept Hanging Houghton NN6 9ES or post them without complaint. Finally, you’re being treated as something more than a child! But quickly, in our letterbox at the Community Centre. all too quickly, you lose the ability to be carefree and young, fully realising the expectation you The Brixworth Bulletin is published have from everyone around you, and the responsibility that means you can’t relax all the time, quarterly in March, June, September and you can’t only look out for yourself. December. The deadline for contributions Adolescence is a time where you grow and change, not only physically, but mentally and and advertising for the September 2013 emotionally. Anyone can tell you that. But for me, I see adolescence not only as a mixture issue is 25 July. of confused emotions and thoughts: a howling whirlwind of growing pains and irrelevant For the latest news, visit www. experiences, but as a realisation that the world isn’t about you. However, I suppose it is ironic brixworthbulletin.com, join us on that I started this with the intention of drawing your attention to the plight of myself and others! Facebook or follow @BrixBulletin on In conclusion, have fun over spring and going into summer, but spare a thought for the hard Twitter. work, and hopefully success, of many young adults slaving away revising! – Alex Campbell Carer’s Coffee Morning Do you care for a relative or friend? Why not come along to the Saxon Spires Patient Participation Group’s Coffee Morning at Guilsborough Surgery on Friday 14th June, 10am -12noon. Staff from Northamptonshire Carers will be there to offer advice and support for those who care. To find out more about our group, contact SSPPG Secretary Barbara Hogg on 01604 880552 or email barbara.hogg@ tiscali.co.uk - Barbara Hogg 2 BRIXWORTH BULLETIN Issue 37, June 2013 Issue 37, June 2013 BRIXWORTH BULLETIN 3 Crime statistics The series of burglaries Police Report is reflected in the full-year crime statistics, which are released in April each year. No news on burglaries Brixworth has suffered 225 crimes over the 12 With regards to the recent string of months to April compared with 162 over the burglaries around Froxhill Crescent in same period in 2011/2012. Brixworth, there is little new to report. The increase has been on Burglary The two men who were arrested just as the Dwelling, where we had 30 compared with March issue of the Brixworth Bulletin went to last year’s 11. Burglary Non Dwelling has reduced from 28 to 18. press were released without charge as there Police are keen to identify who is responsible for the graffiti was insufficient evidence to show either was The amount of reported antisocial that has started appearing around the village. involved with the burglaries. Since then there behaviour has dropped, though this does have been no new evidential leads, though tend to increase over the summer months so Brixworth Day Of Action police continue to sift the available evidence do call 101 to report anything that is causing and review past offences. The Daventry District & South you problems or distress. Brixworth is an Northamptonshire Community Safety On the upside, no news also means that alcohol-free zone, which means that no open Partnership held a Day of Action on 24th there were no new burglaries that appeared to alcohol containers are allowed in public within April.