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www.sandridge-pc.gov.uk WINTER 2019 Issue 95 S W E N y d t i n o u o m h m o r c Join your local u e h VOLUNTEER t o n b i GROUP See centre pages e h c i o g NEW BUS SERVICE v i FOR OAKLANDS r SANDRIDGE 10K e u and Family Fun Run GRANGE o th Y 12 September 2020 N DEVELOPMENT Sponsored by Sandridge Parish Council for everyone in Sandridge, Marshalswick and Jersey Farm CHILDREN’S BALLET, TAP, STREET/JAZZ, STREET DANCE AND MUSICAL THEATRE CLASSES MORNINGS Mondays in Jersey Farm FOR AGES Tuesdays in Hatfield Road 18 MONTHS - 5 YRS Fridays in Cottonmill Lane (PAY-ON-DOOR) Saturdays in Jubilee Centre (Catherine Street) Mondays in Cottonmill Lane AFTER SCHOOL Tuesdays in Homewood Road & Highfields Charters YMCA CLASSES FOR Wednesdays in Marshalswick AGES 3-15 YEARS Thursdays in St Stephens, Watling Street (opp King Harry pub) Saturday mornings in Jubilee Centre, Catherine Street, Pilates Workshop at Magenta, Ronsons Way 2 WINTER 2019 www.sandridge-pc.gov.uk Contents WINTER 2019 4 CHAIR’S REPORT Councillor John Hale 24-25 5 HEARTWOOD PLANTS ANOTHER ‘FINAL TREE’! Marking 100 years of the Forestry Commission 6-7 SANDRIDGE 10K AND FAMILY FUN RUN Save the date - 12th September 2020 8-9 MEMORIES OF WWII 38-39 Iris Sugg reminisces about her work at Sandridge Y Station 10-11 VISITING ANGELS (ADVERTISEMENT FEATURE) Providing care in people’s homes for 20 years 12 NOTICEBOARD - WINTER 2019 Listing of contact points throughout the area 13 WHO DO I CONTACT? Useful numbers for many issues that arise 15 FANTASTIC FIREWORKS FOR JERSEY FARM! Annual fireworks party was another huge success 16-20 EDUCATION NEWS 6-7 Find out what’s going on at your local secondary school 21 ALCOHOL - KNOW YOUR UNITS? 33 MARSHALSWICK COMMUNITY CENTRE How drinking alcohol can damage your health A listing of activities and regular hirers 22-23 KEEPING CONNECTED 35 THERMAL IMAGING CAMERAS New bus service for Oaklands Grange development Find out where heat leaks from your home 24-25 VOLUNTEERING IN THE PARISH 36-37 LOCAL CHURCH NEWS Join your local volunteer group Find out what’s going on at your local churches 26 COUNCILLOR PROFILE 38-39 SAINTS AND HEROES HONOURED Councillor John Newton-Davies At St. Leonard’s Harvest Flower Festival 27 RUGBY IN JERSEY FARM! 41 ANGEL TRAIL Encouraging residents to use the open space Churches together in Marshalswick 28 JERSEY FARM COMMUNITY CENTRE 42 PARISH COUNCIL MEETINGS 2019/20 A listing of activities and regular hirers Dates and venues of meetings 29-30 SPENCER HALL 43 SANDPIT THEATRE NEWS A listing of activities and regular hirers Amazing events coming up this season 45 FREE PENSIONERS’ BUS TIMETABLE 31-32 SANDRIDGE VILLAGE HALL A listing of activities and regular hirers Front cover - Enjoying a winter walk Published for and on behalf of Sandridge Parish Council Published by: LOCAL PUBLISHING LTD Tel: 01727 757475 Circulation: Over 4,750 homes in Marshalswick, [email protected] www.localpublishing.co.uk Jersey Farm and Sandridge. This is equivalent to Editor: STEFANIE HAYES [email protected] all of the AL4 9-- postcode area. EDITORIAL DEADLINE Advertising: NICK HAYES [email protected] If you have an article you would like to be Address: Neighbourhood News, c/o Sandridge Parish Council, considered for the SPRING 2020 issue, please Marshalswick Community Centre, The Ridgeway, St. Albans, AL4 9TU email it to the editor by Thursday 13th February 2020 COPYRIGHT - Items in this publication are subject to copyright. Copying in whole or in part without permission is prohibited. Unless specifically stated, views expressed in Neighbourhood News are not necessarily those of the editor or of Sandridge Parish Council. While sponsored by Sandridge Parish Council, Neighbourhood News is an independent publication. The editor reserves the right to shorten, modify or reject submitted material. All advertisements, photographs and artwork supplied to Neighbourhood News are accepted in good faith (free of copyright). Neither Sandridge Parish Council nor the editor can be held responsible for goods or services advertised. Chair’s report Councillor John Hale S we approach the end of the year to provide some spring colour. and the days get shorter, it is time to The County Council is working on a A think back to what has happened this management plan for Jersey Lane, and the year and what the coming year may bring. Parish Council will be working closely with This year’s Summer Event on the Jersey Farm them to ensure the lane continues to provide Woodland Park unfortunately coincided with a pleasant car free route through the parish. one of the hottest days of the year. However, Many of these activities are supported by a despite the heat (and it was very hot), people team of volunteers who meet most months to who came enjoyed themselves. help with projects around the parish - from The Parish Council is considering what hedge laying to tree planting. Thanks to all of events to run next year and would welcome those who have volunteered and, if you are any suggestions from residents. Next year will interested in joining the team, please contact see the 75th anniversary of VE and VJ days the Parish Office. when the second world war ended, first in We are fortunate to live in an area that has Europe, and then in the Far East. As I write, good facilities locally and easy access to plans to commemorate those dates have yet both London and the countryside. We also to be agreed, but I am sure we will do benefit from having many local voluntary something to mark the occasions. groups providing recreational opportunities and working to maintain and improve our Changes neighbourhoods. The Parish Council is able to support such groups through the provision of The Parish Council continues to look at how grants, so if you are involved with a local it can become more sustainable and group and need some additional funding, encourage others to do likewise. You may please contact the Parish Office. have seen the vegetable plot that was planted by the Marshalswick Community Welcome Centre, and we plan to do something similar next year. The number of homes in the parish is The roundabout at the junction of Field increasing as the Oaklands Grange site is Close and Sandringham Crescent is due a built, and we welcome the new residents. refresh, and we plan to replace the current Older residents have seen many changes in pots with a raised bed that will be planted the area as new homes have been built, but with more permanent pollinator friendly I hope that the Parish Council and the many plants. We hope to work on this over the local groups have helped to manage that winter, so it is in place for next summer. We are change in a positive way. also planting some bulbs near the Quadrant One change the new development has brought is the introduction of a new bus VISIT OUR WEBSITE service, the S6, which I hope residents in that www.sandridge-pc.gov.uk part of the parish will find a useful addition as a means of getting into St. Albans without AND FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK using a car. For news and information from the Parish Council and the surrounding areas With best wishes for 2020! 4 WINTER 2019 www.sandridge-pc.gov.uk Heartwood plants another ‘final tree’! N 25th March, Heartwood Forest September 1919 to restore the nation’s woods celebrated the completion of and forests following the First World War, and Oplanting 600,000 trees by planting the the passing of the Forestry Act. It is now “final tree” - or so we thought! However, it was England’s largest land manager looking after hard to resist when the Forest and Woodland over 1,500 forests. Advisory Committee for the East of England The oak planted at Heartwood will, with a said they would like to plant a tree at bit of luck, grow into a majestic tree and live Heartwood to mark 100 years since the for 500 years! Forestry Commission was founded. A sturdy oak sapling was planted by the Brian Legg, Heartwood Volunteer Committee on Thursday 26th September this year, and the event was crowned by a magnificent rainbow! A celebratory plaque has been delivered and will soon be erected by the tree. The Forestry Commission was founded in The tree marks the 100 years since the Forestry Commission was founded 5 Sandridge 10k and Family Fun Run SAVE THE DATE - 12th September 2020 6 AVE the date for the first Sandridge 10K Instead of plastic cups, there will be water and Family Fun Run, which will take pods that are fully edible at water stations Splace on 12th September 2020 in the around the trail, and re-usable cups will be beautiful Heartwood Forest. used at the food and drink festival afterwards. The Family Fun Run at 3.30pm will be In keeping with our woodland theme, there followed by the 10k at 4.15pm - a completely will be wooden medals for all participants. off road trail through the forest. This will We are inviting local businesses to sponsor culminate in a food and drink festival full of and support the event in any way they can. If local suppliers. you believe you can contribute with local food or drink for the festival or support the Fundraising event in any other way, do get in touch. Call Pauline on 07789 390 692 or The inaugural event is being organised by [email protected] Sandridge 10k Committee in co-operation with the Woodland Trust, which owns Pauline O’Brien, Heartwood, and with the support of local Sandridge 10K businesses to raise funds for Sandridge School.