Staffed Hours at Library Cut by 66% This Year Will See Great Changes in Local Communities
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Your FREE MAGAZINE for Kirkheaton, Upper Heaton, Gawthorpe, Bog Green, Briggate, Houses Hill, Wellhouse ISSUE 14 & Lascelles Hall NEWS SPRING 2016 Staffed hours at library cut by 66% This year will see great changes in local communities. However, as all Kirklees libraries and Kirkheaton ours is a leased building, YT are library will be no exception. By negotiating with them for some September 2016 our staff support contributions to the cost of the will have been slashed from 15 library. It is also anticipated that hours per week to just five. Kirkburton Parish Council will be This means that keeping the library providing some limited financial open for the other ten hours will support for libraries in their area but be reliant on the good will of the much of the costs of running our volunteers. They will operate the library will have to be met by YT. library during these periods with Please support us in our aim to distance support from library keep the library for our community services. A self issuing machine (see p.5 - Library Chatter). will be installed, along with new On a positive note it is heartening this issue computers. WiFi is also due to to know that due to the hard work be installed during the next few of the library staff, volunteers and NEW WALK months. Yetton Together, the number of More volunteers will be needed to visitors to the library has increased MARATHON MAN cover the shortfall [which is being by 43% over the last three years challenged by the volunteers as while all other local libraries have we go to press in January 2016] seen their visitor numbers drop STARGAZING FOR so if you are interested in helping year on year. In fact we are one BEGINNERS contact Pam in the library. of only four libraries in Kirklees to Much of the finances for smaller have bucked the trend of falling libraries is also being withdrawn. visitor numbers! This increase VILLAGE UPDATES From March Kirklees will no longer has helped save the library from pay to rent space for libraries in closure, possibly along with the buildings previously owned by volunteers willingness to support them which have been given to just one member of staff rather than the usual two which saved the council over £10,500 last year. Marathon Man Andy Wright is a member of Kirkheaton Parish Church M & L Whitehouse and a passionate supporter of Kirkwood Hospice Kirkheaton where his wife, Lisa, works. Last year he had a bright POST OFFICE idea - to run 5000 miles (that’s the equivalent of 190 marathons!) over the next five years, 20 miles every 18 St Marys Lane, Kirkheaton Tel 01484 420782 week for 260 weeks - he won’t finish until 2020. Greeting Cards, Stationery, When we spoke to him he was pleased to be slightly All Post Office Services Euro, Dollars & Turkish Lira ahead of schedule, having already run over 330 miles. available on demand Getting a job in London has complicated things All other currencies to order somewhat, so two evenings a week he is running Also now offering motor vehicle licensing around the tourist sites taking selfies to prove that he has been there. That has inspired him with a new project - “to run the whole Monopoly board in real life, taking pictures of every square on the board.” Later this year he will be doing the Sheffield and Leeds half marathons, regularly doing the Huddersfield or Dewsbury park runs, and keeping up the weekly average of 20 miles, with one or two full marathons planned for 2017. Remembering that this is to support the Hospice will you please sponsor him - “Please sponsor me for the time when I come home on a horrible wet Tuesday night after a day at work and run 8 miles before tea. Sponsor me for getting up at 6.30 am on a Saturday morning and doing 12 miles rather than having a lie-in.” To support Andy you can TEXT ‘AWKW50 £5’ to 70777, go to justgiving.com/andy5000 or follow him on Twitter @andy5000miles Photo - Andy with Look North’s Harry Gration and Nicola Rees at the Yorkshire Marathon 2 Dalton Bank Circular Walk approx 3 miles (4.9 km) with views across Huddersfield. Start at the community centre. With your back to the building turn left onto New Road. Cross and turn right. Continue up New Road towards Upper Heaton. At the last house on the left, turn left [sp] and continue along this path onto Dalton Bank. Walk straight ahead to the flatter area and turn right along one of the many paths which merge into one. Continue along this path on the top of the banking towards Upper Heaton as it bends right at the end of a wall into a field. Walk along the field edge onto a rough track. Turn left here and go through a gate onto a green lane. Approx 100m down the lane just before a gate, is a kissing gate on the left. Go through this gate and follow the path and make your way down the road. Just through scrub to another kissing gate into before the road junction take a path left [sp] the plantation. Make your way along the between some houses. Continue up a fairly well defined path above Dalton Bank Road. steep field and turn left onto the path at the Where paths cross (marked by a bench) turn top. Continue on this path. down the hill towards the road. Just before At its junction with the path behind houses the car park turn left onto a path running at Southlands turn right and continue parallel to the road over duckboards and forwards across the road and onto Stoney through scrub. This emerges on open Ford Lane. Where this emerges at New ground near a bend in the road. Turn left Road turn right and cross the road to make and follow a path up to the right around your way back to the start. the hillside to come to the Nature Reserve car park at Well House. Cross the car park [sp – sign post] 3 Calling all budding D.J.’s ennine Ear Care • Are you a ‘bedroom’ D.J. – Great, but no-one sees you! Kirkheaton Based Mobile Ear Wax Removal Service • Wondered how to get into the Industry ONE EAR WAX REMOVAL £30 TWO EARS WAX REMOVAL £50 • How to get the right MICROSUCTION AVAILABLE contacts • Looking for a Career Ralph G. Leach, M.S.H.A.A [email protected] Opportunity 01484 303758 (t) 07776 303308 (m) Then this may be your chance to shine! www.pennineearcare.co.uk Kirkheaton Community Centre is planning a course to give you all the answers. Run by a local D.J. and Agent with years of experience, the course is expected to run for four weekly Kirkheaton Conservative Club 10 Town Road, Kirkheaton sessions – probably around May. No equipment needed just bags of enthusiasm and the will to succeed. Limited places so don’t miss this great opportunity. Young people ages 14 to 23 years of age who want to find out more should contact Lorna by email [email protected]. Sky Sports Bowling (includes Junior Bowling) Darts Entertainment “Kirkheaton Future” 2016 Social During January the group progressed to the next stage of a legal Private Function Room Catering facilities consultation period. After Kirkburton Parish Council had submitted our Neighbourhood Plan to Kirklees Council Planning Department, New Members welcome Tel 01484 425129 it was published in the Huddersfield Examiner and copies of the application, map and explanatory text are available on the Kirklees Council Website kirklees.gov.uk/business/planningPolicy/ neighbourhoodAreas. The Spangled Bull 10 Bankfield Lane, Kirkheaton, HD5 0JG 01484 520982 The Council invited comments on the neighbourhood area from Matthew and Emma 14th Jan to 26th Feb for a Kirklees Cabinet Council Meeting would like to extend a welcome to both regular approval on 8th March. and new customers to come and sample our unique atmosphere at In the interim the group would like volunteers to assist with an audit the Spangled Bull. of existing buildings and urban green spaces. Research will also Opening Times: be required on the village infrastructure e.g. vehicle and pedestrian Monday 4.00 – 11.30pm Tuesday 12.00 – 11.30pm traffic, what impact will the developments have on the roads, Wednesday 12.00 – 11.30pm Thursday 12.00 – 11.30pm pedestrian safety, school places and medical facilities. Friday 12.00 – 12.00pm Saturday 12.00 – 12.00pm A questionnaire will also need to be formulated and circulated to Sunday 12.00 – 11.30pm every resident and business within the boundary. Families / Pets Welcome Enquire within for buffet requirements up to 100 people If you can spare a couple of hours to help with the above, or require Poker night – Thursdays 8pm more information please contact Live sporting events broadcast daily via Sky Sports [email protected] or telephone 07824 499 600. 4 90 years memories appeal This year will see the 90th birthday of HM Queen Elizabeth II. The nation will be celebrating in June [her official birthday month]. Laneside Landfill We would like to commemorate the occasion by publishing any memories Site Update people might like to share of life in Landfill Updates: Kirkheaton during the last 90 years, in our June edition of Yetton News. Richard Hartley [site manager] writes It could be an event – sad or joyful, a The weather has been an obvious hindrance over the past months and most of our time particular character, changes you have has been spent in water management.