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November 2020 WADS Newsletter also available at http://www.woottondrysandfordshippon.co.uk/newsletter Wootton and Dry Sandford Community Newsletter Published by the Wootton and Dry Sandford Community Centre “Be part of it” November 2020 St Helen Without Parish Council Contents Strategic Review of Parish Highways and Travel The Parish Council has received a number of communications, particularly P 2 Events in the Community from Shippon residents, over the past few weeks with concerns over issues Farewell messages to Duncan relating to congestion, traffic, pedestrians, cyclists and speeding. At the Rand last Parish Council meeting on 14 September 2020 we agreed to undertake P 3 Healthwatch Oxfordshire a comprehensive strategic review of all these issues and consider options. Spy Watch Oxfordshire As Chair of the Highways & Amenities sub-committee I am tasked with P 4 Wootton WI Update taking this forward. We will be supported by our District and County St Peter’s Church Update Councillors. We will engage with all stakeholders including our residents, St Helen’s Without parish local schools, barracks, etc. I expect it will take several months. Clearly we council meetings Waste Not Want Not are operating in a Covid secure environment which adds a burden to all activities. However we are conscious that our area will grow significantly in P 5 & Street tag coming years and these issues are likely to get worse. P6 P 10 Wootton Parish Council Updates Our review will also consider the potential implications on these issues of St Helen’s Church Update future developments in the area, such as the three planning applications at the eastern end of Barrow Rd and the proposed major development on the P 13 Neighbourhood Policing Update airfield. Keep well this winter We have begun this review and are asking residents across the Parish for P 14 Chris’s Crossword their concerns and any ideas on how to tackle these issues. Letters to the Editor Kids Corner If you wish to express your views and contribute to the review please respond by 14 November to the Parish Clerk at [email protected] or There is a donation send to Parish Clerk, 13 Beech Close, Wootton, Abingdon, OX13 6DQ. box at the Wootton Richard Bahu Pharmacy for Duncan Chair, Highways & Amenities sub-Committee, St Helen Without Parish Rand,s retirement." Council Farewell Messages to Wootton Reading Group Duncan Rand who has Do you love to read? We are a retired from the Wootton friendly group of readers who Pharmacy. meet every six weeks on a Tuesday evening from 7.30 – And Best Wishes to Mr CANCELLED UNTIL THE NEW 9pm. We explore a wide Clare who has YEAR variety of genres as we taken over discuss the set book and Calling all Hobby Crafters choose a different book to read and discuss for our next You have been a constant reassurance that our medical Craft club is meeting. If you would like to needs were always available, CANCELLED UNTIL THE NEW join us, and add your enjoy a well deserved retirement, YEAR thoughts and ideas to the Ron is waiving from a cloud above. Ann Webber x group, please contact Rebecca Turner on Laugh and learn [email protected] Thank you for your professional Ballroom and Latin Dance for more details and compassionate service over Classes the years at Wootton Pharmacy - your helpful and quiet demeanour David Douglas International ten when we were ill and in need of dance champion will be prescriptions was much appreciated by our family. R teaching beginners and more Sandleigh Seniors Events Readshaw advanced dancers. Regrettably, all future This will be on a Monday night meetings and activities are Many thanks for all your help, 7.45 until 8.45 for beginners cancelled, until further notice. support and expertise - you'll and 8.45 until 9.45 for other We will be in touch with our be greatly missed and we dancers. You can then put your Members, once the current wish you all the best for the skills and practice on Friday future. Chris, Mike and Andy situation improves, but in the nights. meantime, we wish everyone Tel: 01865 718948 well. Stay safe!! SSC Thank you for having a Flexicare collecting box in your shop over the last 5 years, you have raised many Wednesday Club hundreds of pounds for a very local charity, for which we are very As a precautionary measure, grateful. Team Flexicare. Wednesday Club meetings Many thanks Sara Roy’s Quiz Nights @ WADS will be cancelled until further Community Ctre notice. CANCELLED UNTIL FURTHER Thank you for your help and Eileen Knapp chuckle - enjoy retirement. The Appleton Moorleys Community Coffee Get fit the enjoyable way Mornings Join our friendly groups at one Cancelled until further notice Dear Duncan, yours was the of the following sessions best pharmacy for miles to keep our community safe around and we really Pickleball Mon 2pm to 3pm - appreciated the helpful, wise, WADS CC; Main Hall efficient service you’ve given to people in Wootton and Please check with the beyond so may you enjoy your organisers prior to going to well-earned retirement! - John Please check with the any organised club or event and Karen Magrath, Botley organisers prior to attending in case it has been cancelled an event. 2 Spy Oxfordshire - Opening on Friday 28th October and running until 17th December 2021 Spy Oxfordshire, a major new exhibition, will get visitors thinking critically about the mysterious world of secret intelligence, once described by CIA Director Allen Healthwatch Oxfordshire wants to hear Dulles as “probably the least understood and most misrepresented of the from employed home carers professions”. The exhibition will shine a light on previously unknown but fascinating local Healthwatch Oxfordshire wants to hear connections to the intelligence world. Oxfordshire intelligence officers were at from anyone who works to provide care the heart of the British war effort during the Second World War: from the and support to someone in their own commandos that knew no fear and wreaked havoc behind enemy lines, to the home in Oxfordshire. codebreakers, analysts, and “connectors of the dots” who provided Prime Minister Winston Churchill with unprecedented insights into the Nazi war The county’s independent health and machine. Everyone featured in the exhibition has been chosen to illuminate a social care watchdog is asking people different part of what is called the “Intelligence Cycle”, the process by which employed in home care support - intelligence is collected, analysed, produced, and used by the policymaker in including those who work privately, on a the service of protecting national security. In learning the stories of these self-employed basis or for an agency – to remarkable men and women, visitors will see that the truth of intelligence is share their experiences of what this is like often stranger than the fiction. by completing an anonymous survey at While the exhibition will show that intelligence has a lot more layers to it than www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/Paidcarers/ what we see in spy fiction, there will be plenty to catch the eye of 007 fans eagerly awaiting the release of No Time To Die. Spy Oxfordshire will feature The feedback received will help those some iconic film props and replicas on loan to the museum, such as the Walther who pay for and plan care in the county PPK used by Sean Connery in Dr. No and original concept drawings for the PPK/ understand what is working well and S handgun with dermal sensors - used by Daniel Craig in Skyfall. what could be better. Bond author Ian Fleming features heavily in the exhibition alongside his famous literary creation. Objects include Fleming’s walking stick and an exact replica of Executive Director of Healthwatch the golden typewriter he used at his Goldeneye home in Jamaica, where he Oxfordshire Rosalind Pearce said: wrote the 14 Bond novels. On display will be items from the private collection of “Carers do an extraordinary job, but we Mike Vanblaricum of the Ian Fleming Foundation, which have rarely been seen know this is not always an easy one. If outside the USA, including original storyboards from the film Diamonds are you work as a home carer please do take Forever and Sean Connery’s shoes from the film Never Say Never Again. a few minutes to fill in this survey and tell Artefacts from fictional espionage sit alongside their real-world counterparts, as us what this is like and what support Spy Oxfordshire will also unveil a collection of rare WW2-era gadgetry, including might make it easier. What you tell us will everything from Special Operations Executive (SOE) lapel and sleeve daggers to be treated in confidence - we don’t need dummy pieces of coal used to conceal explosives. SOE parachutists’ to know who you are, but we do want to equipment, tools and weaponry shared with the French resistance, and uniforms hear your views.” and equipment of women in the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY) also feature among historic collections helping to illustrate Oxfordshire’s lesser-known If you’d prefer to talk this through over contribution to the war effort. the phone, or to request a paper copy or Visitors will be encouraged to think about how everyone, even today, has a stake translated version of the survey, please in the intelligence business. It is part of our daily lives, whether we like it or not, call 01865 520520. from what we read in the newspapers and the security measures we undergo at the airport to the use that is made by governments and private corporations To find out more about Healthwatch alike of our internet searches, social media and even shopping habits.
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