Stanwick Lakes Invites Families to Get Active
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29th June 2019 www.nenevalleynews.co.uk facebook.com/NeneValleyNews @NeneValleyNews Telephone: 01522 692542 We want to hear from you, so please submit your news story or event at NeneYour local independent community Valley newspaper for East Northamptonshire news www.nenevalleynews.co.uk Spotlight on Students In Brief Homes & create a Thrapston Gardens safe space Library to open on Tuesdays From 9th July Inside... Page 4 Page 8 hrapston Library, which Twas originally threatened with closure last year, is still open on Stanwick Lakes invites Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. On Wednesdays and Saturdays, the Library is presently manned by families to get active volunteers only and by the end of the year it is hoped The Get Out, Get Active event at Stanwick Lakes on Saturday 13th July is all about around the nature reserve, that the Library will become children’s archery and a Community Library, getting out in the fresh air, being active as a family or individual, and having fun! golf, and family yoga. All of when Northamptonshire the usual Stanwick Lakes County Council hand the activities will be available management of the Library ry a new sporty such as the assault course to the Friends of Thrapston activity for free and traversing wall, but Library volunteers. Tand get active with there will also be an When this happens, the friends or family to improve instructor leading circuit Library will be manned by health and wellbeing, all training sessions at the volunteers only, every day made possible thanks fitness hub and a discount it is open. to funding awarded to for bike hire on the day. The good news for Rockingham Forest Trust All of the activities Thrapston is that as of by Sport England. are free, but the usual Tuesday 9th July, the There will be the chance Stanwick Lakes car parking Library will be open from to try exciting sports charges apply and some 10am until 2pm every including open swimming, activities require booking Tuesday too, just in time kayaking and tai chi and to guarantee a place. To for the Summer Reading even walking netball and book, visit https://www. Challenge for children, football! It’s a perfect event stanwicklakes.org.uk/ which begins on Saturday for all of the family with a 2 whats-on/get-out-get- 13th July. kilometre Family Fun Run active-at-stanwick-lakes/ The Library volunteers also hold a Coffee Morning For more information about this, and other events taking on the 3rd Wednesday place this summer, visit https://www.stanwicklakes.org. morning each month uk/whats-on/, the Stanwick Lakes facebook page or call between 10.30am and the Visitor Centre on 01933 625522. 12noon. Sales | Lettings Land | New Homes Do you know how much your property is worth? Call us today for your free valuation Rushden Office Wellingborough Office Irthlingborough Office Tel: 01933 480480 Tel: 01933 224400 Tel: 01933 651010 02 To submit your news story or event visit www.nenevalleynews.co.uk or call 01522 692542 29/06/19 Choosing the right estate agency n the East of England, with the final (not on similar properties in your area. They may Editor’s notes first) listing price versus the sale agreed also date stamp when the property went he notes for this edition offer an on him to resign. The motion related to two price differing on average by 3.1% in on the market, which will give you some I assortment of jottings. First, a serious case reviews, which criticised the favour of the buyer, choosing the estate additional insight. correction: in our quest to make the county’s children’s services actions around agent that suggests the highest selling price When choosing your estate agent, ask T most of the limited space in the Nene Valley the deaths of two children – in his previous could leave you feeling deflated and without them why they feel that the price they have News, in the last edition we cropped a piece role, Councillor Golby was Cabinet Member a sale. So, if you are serious about moving suggested will result in a quick sale without about the forthcoming Rushden/Higham for children’s services. When it came to the and want to do it quickly, don’t be unrealistic the need to reduce the price at a later date – Ferrers 2019 Heritage Family Fun Day to the vote, Conservative Councillors rallied round about the price at which you market your challenge them. extent that it omitted mention of Higham; their leader. property. Be clear about what you want to achieve as many of you will know the event is a The first meeting of the North Northants Having a keen estate agent once you have before inviting agencies to value your joint venture mounted by the two towns on Joint Committee was held this week, made your decision is essential, but not if property. If you want a sale, haggling over Sunday 15th September from 10am to 4pm with representatives from Corby, East your property is over-priced. Prospective commission rates may mean you end up at Rushden Lakes. Northants, Kettering, Northamptonshire buyers will soon realise that particular with an agency that over-prices in order to Like the other local events which took County and Wellingborough Councils agencies have a tendency to over-price and make more money out of the sale and this place last weekend, the Oundle Food considering what’s needed to create the this will impact on the speed with which may affect your overall objective. Festival was fortunate to enjoy good new North Northants Council. The next you sell and the price that you achieve. Flying the nest or putting down new roots? weather. What was not so fortunate was meeting takes place at Borough Council Therefore, wherever possible, do some Bletsoes estate agents are here to help. the foul language used by a small number of Wellingborough at 6.30pm on Monday, research before inviting estate agencies to Contact: 01832 732188, estateagents@ of those parking cars or otherwise being 16th September 2019 and the minutes of provide a valuation. bletsoes.co.uk, 49-51 High Street, organised by volunteers trying to help the committee meeting will be available at The likes of Rightmove, Zoopla and On Thrapston, Northamptonshire NN14 4JJ. visitors get maximum benefit from the www.kettering.gov.uk/meetings the Market provide sales prices achieved event. During a short period observing the As noted in Wildlife News elsewhere in entrance to the car park at Oundle Wharf, it this edition, we have passed the Summer was possible to hear repeated abuse from Solstice, which is what most people Genealogy jottings impatient members of the public; maybe consider to be the middle of their summer, they were annoyed at stumbling upon an and it’s happened without too much of the am lucky in that most of my ancestors By Jan Pearson event which slowed their progress through good weather we might have hoped for. came from the bottom right-hand corner of Genealogy Specialists, Tracing Our the town but there can be no excuse for The pessimistic view is that from here the IEngland – Suffolk down through Essex and Past, Discovering Our Genes (TOP abusing the volunteers who were giving days get shorter as we tumble into autumn, Kent to Surrey and Sussex. I am doubly lucky DOG) www.genealogy-specialists.com up a part of their Saturday to help the whereas for the optimist there is much more that many lines stayed in the same town or organisers. of the summer to enjoy in July, August and village for a few hundred years. But what if Following up on a piece in the previous even September. Weather forecasters seem your family do not originate from Britain? happened to be stationed at the time. Editor’s notes, Councillor Matt Golby, to be having a hard time predicting what’s in There are a few things that do need to be But, if you can confirm that the family Northamptonshire County Council leader, store for the next few days, let alone further established that might give you some clues as definitely came from abroad, knowing the survived the recent vote on a motion calling ahead and no two forecasts seem to agree. to where to find out more. Has the surname area or town will help enormously. There are been anglicised? Braun could become Brown, many online records of passenger lists and Mailloux could become Mayhew – just a for immigration and you might even be able to couple of examples. Do you know when your track down naturalisation papers held by the family arrived in Blighty? This will help you to National Archives. Have a look in their Discovery identify which immigration records you need catalogue at https://discovery.nationalarchives. to track down. But remember – just because gov.uk/ to see where you need to check. Make a census states that an ancestor was born in sure that you are sitting comfortably and have a a foreign country, does not necessarily mean cuppa at your side first... that it was where the family originated from. Like the UK, many countries have some One family that I was researching recently had records online. It may require you to take out a woman who was born in Bangalore, India. a subscription but there are also family history Outdoor Activity Further investigation found siblings born in forums for the specific countries where you Cork and Longford in Ireland. It transpired that can ask for assistance – both with searching the father was in the Army and so children and with translation if you do not speak the Holiday Clubs were born to him and his wife wherever he language! Book now for this summer at Frontier Centre Want to place an advertisement ROCKUK.ORG or submit an article? If you wish to contribute or have any If you would like to receive this GEORGIA’S FISH BAR comments please email news@ publication as a download, Nene Valley nenevalleynews.co.uk or call 01522 News is available online as a pdf at Higham Ferrers 692542.