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Great Torrington Town Council Honorary Freedom of the Town Great Torrington Town Council is pleased to announce the investiture of Councillor Harold Martin as the Town Mayor for 2013/14. Councillor Mrs Zoe Fordham-Moore was elected as Deputy Mayor. The retiring Mayor’s Good Citizen Award was presented to Mrs Anne Tattersall in recognition of the excellent work she has undertaken in organising events to raise funds for the North Devon Hospice, one of the retiring Mayor’s elected charities for 2012/13 and her continued support of those suffering from cancer within the community of Great Torrington. The Howe Plate was presented to Mr & Mrs John Kimber and family for the excellent work they have undertaken raising money for, and helping run charities, both home and abroad. Great Torrington Town Council Honorary Freedom of The Town and Parish Notice is hereby given that Dr Harry Cramp MBE is to be awarded the Honorary Freedom of the Town and Parish for his outstanding contribution to the Town and its community since he first moved here in 1964. Members of the public are welcome to witness the admission ceremony at: The Plough Arts Centre, Fore Street, Great Torrington on Friday 26th July 2013. It would be appreciated if those attending could be seated by 6.45pm Message from the Mayor This is my first item as your new Mayor. I took up office on 14th May and count it an honour and a privilege to be your Mayor. My Mayoress and I started by having a very enjoyable day at Hatchmoor Nursing Home on the 1st June when we joined them for their summer fete. The Civic/Mayor’s service will be held on 8th September at 3pm in the Parish Church in Great Torrington, and because work has started on the Town Hall refurbishment and the building will be boarded up, the parade will form up in Sidney House car park and march from there. This year invites are being sent to the Mayors of the surrounding Towns so let’s all turn out to show off our great town. The charities I am collecting for this year are; the Farm Community Network (formally the Farm Crisis Network) and the Tarka Valley Railway, situated at the Puffing Billy. I hope to organise various events during the year to raise money for these charities and hope you will give your support when they are made known. If you know of any landmark birthdays or anniversaries coming up in the town please let me know, I can be contacted through my secretary Beki at the Town Council office in Castle Hill. Cllr. Harold Martin Mayor of Great Torrington Great Torrington Heritage Museum and Archive In case anyone has not noticed, Great Torrington Heritage Museum and Archive is open and right in the centre of town, you just cannot miss us! Admission is free. We hope to have all the artefacts unpacked and arranged in groups for everyone to come and look round. If all goes to plan, it should happen by the beginning of July. We look forward to seeing you all and you will be able to let us know, what the important artefacts to you are and which you would like to see prominently displayed in the new museum. Come in and support your town museum and become a member, it is only 25p. Torrington Police News On 21st May 2013 police were called to John Patt’s Fruit & Veg Shop in Torrington after a number of gunshots were heard and some injured pigeons dropped into the rear yard area. (They subsequently died.) This occurred shortly after 3pm – a particularly busy time in the town with lots of people around and school children making their way home. There has been a further similar incident reported since this. It is unbelievable that people seem to think they can just decide they do not like a bird and feel it is within their rights to shoot it. Please be advised that the following offences apply: Kill/take/injure a non-scheduled bird is an offence under The Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 – penalty up to six months’ imprisonment and/or fine. Carry a un/loaded imitation firearm/air weapon in a public place and offences relating to using such in certain locations are offences under the Firearms Act 1968 – penalty up to seven years’ imprisonment and/or a fine. There may also be offences applicable under the Anti-Social Behaviour Act 2003. Any persons involved in this behaviour will be dealt with accordingly. If you have any information please contact: PC 5036 Wilson on 101 or [email protected] Reference: CT/13/278 Summer Garden Party to Celebrate the Amalgamation of Great Torrington Infant and Junior Schools Friends of Torrington Bluecoat (FOTB) are hosting a garden party on Saturday 13th July starting at 2pm on the site of the current Infant and Junior schools. We will be celebrating and remembering the journey so far and looking forward to the future of Great Torrington Bluecoat Church of England Primary School. The two schools will become one from September 2013 and along with the Children’s Centre will cater for children and families from 0-11 years old. The schools have always been a central part of the community and many of us have great memories of the time we spent at these schools in their current location and at their previous sites in the town. We are hoping to put together a display at the garden party so if you have memories, photos or memorabilia you would like to share please contact the school or FOTB. The staff, children and families of both schools have been preparing for this amalgamation for many months, talking through this exciting project. This garden party is an important part of the process of our two schools becoming one. As such, we would like to share this event with the community and you are invited to join us for a fun afternoon of fantastic activities and entertainment. There will be a fun run (open to year groups 3-6), disco, entertainment by Streetz dance crew, games and activities including tombolas, egg throwing and new for 2013 - pig racing (don’t worry it’s not real ones!). You can have your face painted and enjoy splatting your teacher with a wet sponge! Refreshments will be available including a BBQ and bar. Raffle tickets will be on sale during the event with the fantastic first prize of a Kindle. The whole community is warmly invited to join us at the garden party to mark this special occasion on Saturday 13th July from 2pm. Please remember to dig out your old school photos and memories and contact us with these by the 5th July. Please submit copies not originals. Email:: [email protected] Phone: 01805 622333 or 01805 623240 Or please drop in to reception at either school. Britain in Bloom Judges’ Visit Stand by your beds, Torringtonians, be prepared for a full kit inspection by the Britain in Bloom judges, who will be visiting our lovely town on Thursday, 11th July from 11am. We shall be starting the ‘tour’ at RHS Rosemoor and travelling up into town via New Road, New Street and into South Street. Our route will take in the churchyard, 1646, the Secret Garden, Rack Park, the Vicarage Nursery and Father Lawrence’s new allotment garden amongst other places in town. Please would everyone who loves Torrington give the town a bit of TLC ready for the visit, by titivating up your own fronts, large or small, weeding, litter picking and dog mess clearing. The local ‘grime-busting’ team and town handyman will be hard at work, too. Torridge District Council should be planting up the flowerbeds at South Street car park and Windy Corner, plus the Hatchmoor roundabout and troughs there and by Gas Lane. They should also be cutting the grass in the churchyard and Rack Park for us. Spraying and hand-weeding will also be undertaken. Thanks go to RHS Rosemoor for donating plants to fill the containers outside Patt’s greengrocer’s and the maintenance of the S&G and Rack Park flowerbeds, also to Barry at the Vicarage Nursery for his help and advice and his superb planters/hanging baskets which you should see being put in place within the next couple of weeks (weather permitting!). We were very close to achieving Gold standard last year, let’s make that little extra effort needed to climb to the summit this year! Cherry Hammon, Secretary Torrington in Bloom Association 01805 625788 PS: Don’t confuse this date with the Best Garden competition, something entirely different! Farewell from Paul Donner In 1993 I took over from the late Mr. McPhee and opened my Optician’s practice at 2, Well St. Torrington. The premises were on a 20-year lease which expires at the end of September and I shall be closing the practice and transferring all patient records to my South Molton practice at 120 East Street, (01769 572064). I will continue to be available for home examinations for new and existing patients who are housebound. I should like to pay tribute to the memory of Di Allen who was my receptionist for many years and to thank Mrs Linda Tucker for her inspirational window displays and continuing support. I have enjoyed my years working in Torrington and have made many friends here, but after all, South Molton isn’t that far away – is it? Paul Donner Thanks from Hatchmoor Nursing Home Everyone at Hatchmoor Nursing Home would like to thank all who attended the “Celebration of Life” and Summer Fayre on Saturday 1st June.
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