March 2018 If All the Many People Will Remember Jim and Formalities with the Charity Commission Kathryn Burt Who Lived in St Mary's Road Are Completed
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Issue 394 Mar 2018 Now reaching 3500 people every month No Signal ? STAND P5 FORTH WHY NOT STAND FOR YOUR PARISH COUNCIL? PAVILION PROGRESS P11 PAVILION FIT-OUT IS UNDERWAY AT LAST SNAP CHAT P14 GET YOUR PICTURES IN THE STILTON CALENDAR BURNING MONEY ? P33 ENERGY SAVING ADVICE FROM CITIZENS ADVICE P7 Whether it’s mobile phone signal or broadband speed, Stilton’s connectivity leaves a lot to be desired. Find out how you can make your complaint heard by the people who matter on p7. INCORPORATING FOLKLORE, FOR READERS IN FOLKSWORTH AND THE SURROUNDING VILLAGES SCAN 394 Mar 2018 SCAN is published by The Stilton Community Association. All articles, original artwork and the SCAN name and logo are copyright. All trade marks recognised. Views of contributors are not necessarily endorsed by The Stilton Community Association. Reprints available from the Editor on request. Editor: Advertising: Production: Distribution: Olive Main 241206 Christine Kime 243336 Kelvin Davis 244140 Hazel James Advertising Rates: Monthly Annual Full page: £30 £330 19 x 12.7 cm Half page: £15 £165 9 x 12.7 cm landscape - 19 x 6 cm portrait 1/3 page: £10 £110 6 x 12.7 cm landscape - 12.5 x 6 cm portrait 1/6 page: £5 £55 6 x 6 cm All advertising copy or instructions to the Advertising Manager by 10th of month prior to publication. Payment in advance to Stilton Community Association - NO PAY, NO DISPLAY! Advertisement orders MUST be accompanied by the advertiser’s name, address and telephone number. You can use the order form on www.stilton.org All other copy to the Editor, 8 Caldecote Road, Stilton Printed by: by 14th of month prior to publication. Digital material in a neutral PC format please. email: [email protected] Index to Advertisers Grey Bin Days: Category Service Page Retail Watch & Clock 46 Mon 12th, 26th March; Food & Drink 9 9th April Charity 45 Furnishings 45 Health & Exercise 37, 48 Garden Bin Days: Fitness Foot care 50, 51 Financial Accountancy / Payroll 51, 52 Fri 9th, 23rd March; Animals Vet, pet care 41, 42, 51 6th April Personal Hair & Beauty 40, 41, 42 Care Services 41 Counselling 40 Recycling Bins: Trades Building services 40, 46, 49 Conservatories 48 Mon 5th, 19th March; Heating / Plumbing 50, 52 2nd April Electrical / TV 50 Computer services 43 Garden services 37, 42, 49 Please put your bins out Recycling 44, 46 Removals 46 after 6pm on the Vehicle services 39 day before collection Travel Community bus 47 Professional Architect / Civils 47 www.huntingdonshire.gov.uk/bins Funeral services 49 Childcare Pre-school 42, 43, 47 Leisure Dance Tuition 41 Arts & Crafts 43, 46 2 Be sure to tell our advertisers you found them in SCAN! SCAN 394 Mar 2018 The Parish Pump Stilton News DECEMBER Diary of Events 16th Keyboard Concert in Pavilion If you have a one-off event fixed in the next MAKE SURE YOU TELL US! few months please contact the editor - 241206 or [email protected] We’ll keep this list up to date with what MARCH people tell us about. So if you find your event double-parked with somebody else’s 11th Keyboard Concert in Pavilion it’ll be because someone didn’t tell SCAN! Lambing Day 21st Broadband Information Evening APRIL A1(M) Maintenance JN 17-16 SOUTHBOUND 15th Keyboard Concert in Pavilion 21st Twinning Race Night Essential repairs must take place this Spring MAY for safety reasons. At the same time other road schemes, such as upgrading safety 3rd Polling Day barriers and routine maintenance, will be 20th Keyboard Concert in Pavilion carried out. Dates have not yet been decided. JUNE To avoid last year's chaos Highways 17th Keyboard Concert in Pavilion England and RMS have consulted local JULY Parish Councils and have promised to keep us fully informed through SCAN. 22nd Keyboard Concert in Pavilion AUGUST Help with SCAN 19th Keyboard Concert in Pavilion SCAN's distribution manager, Hazel James, 25-29th Twinning Visit to St Christol would like an occasional month off and so SEPTEMBER needs someone to volunteer to stand in for her. The job involves counting out the 23rd Keyboard Concert in Pavilion 'rounds' and taking them out in Stilton to OCTOBER the final distributors. 21st Keyboard Concert in Pavilion We also need a short list of people who NOVEMBER would deliver SCAN in an emergency. 18th Keyboard Concert in Pavilion If you could help please contact Olive Main (241206). Be sure to tell our advertisers you found them in SCAN! 3 SCAN 394 Mar 2018 Local Elections Why Not Stand For 3 MAY 2018 Your Parish Council? Following a review of ward boundaries, a The opportunity to offer your services to new schedule of elections comes into force your community arises this year when all on 3rd May when all 52 seats on parish councils in Huntingdonshire hold Huntingdonshire District Council will be up elections. To be eligible you must be: for election. All parish and town council elections will take place at the same time. 1. At least 18 years old. All those elected will serve for four years. HUNTINGDONSHIRE 2. Be an elector, or occupy land/premises DISTRICT COUNCIL (as owner or tenant) or work in the Parish or live within three miles of it. Stilton, Folksworth and Washingley Ward; to elect two members. There is NO necessity to be linked to a POLLING STATIONS political party; in fact most Parish Councillors are not affiliated to a party. ● Stilton Pavilion, High Street, Stilton NOMINATION FORMS ● Folksworth Village Hall Are available by mid-March from Huntingdonshire District Council. (See You need to be registered; you will receive opposite.) Nominations close strictly at 4pm a polling card in April which will show Friday April 6th. which polling station to go to. You do not POLLING need to take the card. Thursday 3rd May 7am-10pm at Stilton All polling stations will be open 7am - 10pm. Pavilion or Folksworth Village Hall. ARE YOU REGISTERED? You must attend the assigned polling station, If not, call 01480 388017 to register over which will be shown on your polling card. the phone, or register on-line or by post; see www.gov.uk/register-to-vote. For security you will need to quote your National Insurance number. POSTAL VOTES Contributors ! We want your material! Available on request as long as you are registered. Return the form to Electoral For SCAN, email Olive Main at Registration Office, Pathfinder House, [email protected] Huntingdon by 5pm 11 working days before or call her on 241206 the election. For Folklore, email to Sarah Abbott at [email protected] or call her on 247275 4 Be sure to tell our advertisers you found them in SCAN! SCAN 394 Mar 2018 Stand as a Local Councillor MAKE A DIFFERENCE TO YOUR PARISH COUNCIL Polling Day Thursday 3rd May Stilton and Folksworth & Washingley Parish Councils ●Get involved… ●Influence… with your community local service delivery ●Have a say… ●Decide how local about the local money is spent… issues people care to improve your about community By becoming a Parish Councillor you Parish Councillors serve for four years and become someone your community will can stand for re-election. But if you find look to for help, guidance and support, it's not for you, or you can no longer meet with the power to influence decisions for the commitment, you can stand down. the benefit of the people you serve. The best way to find out what it's like to Councils meet once a month. Meetings be a Parish Councillor is to talk to someone typically last two or three hours, who's doing it now. So contact your Parish depending on the list of items to discuss. Clerk to find out more. Sub-committees may deal with specific subjects, such as planning matters. FOR NOMINATION PACKS, CONTACT: Electoral Officer Huntingdonshire District Council Pathfinder House St Mary’s Street Huntingdon PE29 3TN Be sure to tell our advertisers you found them in SCAN! 5 SCAN 394 Mar 2018 Tim Alban Writes UPDATES FROM OUR DISTRICT COUNCILLOR LAMP POST SPEED STICKERS ON THE BRIDLEWAY NEAR THE a number of residents as well as officers PAVILION from the District and County Councils. I am keen to continue to do what I can to try I have been thinking more about this and and help resolve the outstanding issues. believe that it will be best to have them POT HOLES showing as 5 mph. My thinking being that if they show 15 or 20 mph drivers might The recent bad weather has exacerbated travel at 25 - 30 mph. some of the existing problems and created LITTER BINS new ones. I reported a number of potholes over the weekend and continue to liaise with I have engaged on Facebook with a couple County Councillor Simon Bywater. of local residents who believe that having CONNECTIVITY more litter bins will help to alleviate the problem of litter and dog fouling. Along Simon Bywater and I have been working with other residents who expressed an with Connecting Cambridgeshire to set up opinion, I have my doubts but I would be an information evening so that local people interested to know what others feel about can ask questions directly about broadband this issue. Incidentally, I did a quick and mobile phone coverage. See advert in litter-pick in North Street recently and this issue. picked up litter and dog-poo bags which were lying within site of two public waste Regards bins! Tim Alban GALA CLOSE District Councillor for Stilton Ward Along with attending the last Parish Council Tel: 07913 101145 meeting I have been in communication with facebook.com/TimAlbanForStiltonWard Help the Foodbank Yaxley Foodbank continues to provide food for local families in need.