Children's Christmas Light for 2020
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TARGET DEC JAN 2021_Layout 1 23/11/2020 10:38 Page 1 VOL.56 No6 The Journal of Bourne End (Bucks) Community Association DEC/JAN 2021 £1Suggested price CHILDREN’S CHRISTMAS LIGHT FOR 2020 Bourne End will have a very special new light for the festive season cancellations all around. This light is always the switch-on. But it will be there for shoppers special and an essential part of the festive and everyone to enjoy. season on The Parade – along with the And it has been made possible by the support wonderful display on shop fronts and through of Bourne End Womens Institute who stepped the trees. in with the finance. There was very positive support from local Like everyone involved they were determined schools when the competition for a that Christmas would be as normal as possible Christmas light was announced. Children through this difficult time. Thanks to a great faced with a variety of new arrangements group of people who have been working found the familiar light design challenge very together to make Bourne End’s shopping normal and familiar. They were quick to put parade look as familiar as always and with a ideas on paper and submit them to the judging light that will say Lily 2020. committee. *Read more about the Christmas Light on Nine-year-old Lily Davidson from Claytons page 19. School is the winner with a great design for 2020. Here she is with her competition entry. The finished light will go up on the south side of The Parade, along with many other individual SPECIAL SHOWING OF LIVE lights, which have been designed by local PERFORMANCE OF 42nd STREET. children over the years. Sadly there will be no Determination was the keyword for the One of the glitziest musicals Christmas Light organisers as they planned a celebrity unveiling. new light for The Parade as restrictions meant Crowds won’t be able to count down for of all time! At the community centre in December. See page 19 for details! Enjoy Christmas locally Check through this issue and find details of local pubs and restaurants where you can enjoy the festive season and obey all the rules. It is the season to be enjoyed socially with friends and family. Don’t be daunted by Covid-19. Everything is possible and places to eat and drink have all worked hard to make it safe but enjoyable. Read your Christmas messages to family, friends and local volunteers on page 30 Something to look forward to... The site of the once popular On The Thames Restaurant (followed by Coopers and various pop- ups) above the Bourne End Marina office, has been taken on and will be opening as a tapas restaurant Corazón del Rîo (Heart of the River) in March 2021. The full story will be in our February/March issue. TARGET DEC JAN 2021_Layout 1 23/11/2020 10:38 Page 2 TARGET READER SERVICE Useful telephone numbers DAY CENTRE, Wakeman Road, Bourne End SL8 5SX 01628 527024 and websites WYE VALLEY VOLUNTEERS, Portacabin, Wakeman Road Bourne End SL8 5SX Target magazine is published by Bourne POLICE 101 [email protected] 01628 521027 End (Bucks) Community Association and EMERGENCY 999 distributed free to over 5,000 homes in CRIMESTOPPERS 0800 555 111 BOURNE END LIBRARY the local area. The distribution network www.thamesvalley.police.uk Wakeman Road, Bourne End SL8 5SX 0845 2303232 includes Bourne End and Wooburn Green Sunday & Monday closed. 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The Editor Thames Water Supply Emergencies 0800 714614 www.bea.bucks.sch.uk 01628 819022 reserves the right to select letters and North Thames Gas Emergency (Slough) 0800 111999 reports for publication and to edit for grammar, style and length. TARGET COMPETITION (page 40) Terms and conditions: Entrants must be aged 18 or over, only one entry per person, no cash alternative to this prize, our decision is final, no correspondence can be entered into. The meal must be booked in advance and is subject to availability. Drinks not included. 2 Could you become one of the Target delivery team? TARGET DEC JAN 2021_Layout 1 23/11/2020 10:38 Page 3 doing what you do, I knew you'd already have been on the case. Thanks again and WOOBURN best wishes to you all.” A reminder – If your community RESIDENTS By Margaret Amos organisation would like to display a Secretary to the Association poster on one of the community notice ASSOCIATION and Simon Coles, Chairman boards on Wooburn Green opposite Tesco, you can email it to [email protected] and it will We continue with our aim to help make circulating our members with details of be displayed. living in the Wooburns a positive the application and some thoughts about If you would like to know more about experience for all. how it compared with national and local the association you can follow us on While this usually includes lots of hard policies. facebook.com/wooburnresidents or take work by our members in organising and Members also brought these applications a look, and/or contact us through our contributing to community events, litter and their thoughts to the attention of the website at wooburnresidents.org picks and so on, another area of our work parish council and local Buckinghamshire See our Christmas message on page 30. refers to planning issues. councillors. Sometimes planning applications relate We hope that the right decisions will be to the development of local businesses. made in these cases and that neither will Battle lost on We want to see local businesses do well, result in undue strain on the applicant’s Hollands Farm as long as they give proper consideration business or on Wooburn Green as a Keep Bourne End Green to the impact they have on residents and whole. have lost their battle to save on other local businesses. It is always nice to be appreciated and Hollands Farm from Usually our regular meetings provide a thanked. Around these two planning development.